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As if the election last week weren’t traumatic enough for Democrats, they are now being triggered anew by President-elect Donald Trump’s outside-the-box choices for posts in his incoming administration, including the likes of Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, and perhaps especially Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth, 44, is a decorated veteran, bestselling author, and Fox News co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. Trump is backing him for Secretary of Defense, where Hegseth would oversee a budget of more than $800 billion, with about 1.3 million active-duty troops and another 1.4 million in the National Guard, Reserves, and civilian employees based worldwide.
“With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice — Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down,” Trump said in a statement. “Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our ‘Peace through Strength’ policy.”
Democrat politicos are going apoplectic over the unorthodox selection. Wednesday on CNN’s Newsroom, regular commentator Van Jones, for example, called Trump’s pick of Hegseth “very alarming,” since the military is fine just the way it is:
I think if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. There’s the fiction that there’s something wrong with America’s military. What problem are you trying to solve? We have the most lethal, respected, the most feared military in the history of the world. There’s not even a number two. So the idea that our military, there’s something wrong with it, our generals are terrible, this is fiction. So when you start trying to solve nonexistent problems with the best fighting force in the world, you actually create problems.
The U.S. military today is shot through with diversity hires and LGBTQ advocates at the highest levels of leadership, who assert that the greatest existential threats to America are “white rage” and “climate change.” They have introduced DEI initiatives to try to instill racial division among the troops. They have sought to push conservatives – the biggest supporters of the military and the Constitution – out of service altogether. So of course Van Jones doesn’t think that a military shaped by progressive ideology needs fixing. But American patriots like Trump and Hegseth know better.
Jones went on to say disingenuously that there’s no “data or evidence that shows that having women involved in the military has made the military worse.” Women in the military isn’t the issue, and Jones knows it; the issue for conservatives is women on the front lines, in combat positions. Hegseth is firmly opposed to that – “Everything about men and women serving together makes the situation more complicated, and complication in combat, that means casualties are worse,” he said on The Shawn Ryan Show podcast. But the Left can’t admit it’s a problem because they can’t acknowledge there are differences between men and women. If they do, their entire gender-ideology house of cards will collapse.
Van Jones concluded, “I mean, this is a Fox News host who used to be in the military. If that’s the standard we’re going to be going with, I think it’s very alarming.”
Sure, it’s alarming for the Democrats because Trump’s choice of Hegseth signals 1) that Trump doesn’t trust anyone in the current military leadership, and 2) that he intends to bring a disrupter onboard who will clean house and take things in a different direction.
New York Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman shares Van Jones’ alarm; in fact, he was “shocked, truly” to hear of Trump’s SecDef nod. Goldman ranted on CNN,
This is exactly what we worry about and warned about Donald Trump, which is that he is going to appoint unqualified loyalists to shape this government into his own personal fiefdom and get revenge on generals and put essentially really unqualified people.
He went on to condescend that being Trump’s “biggest cheerleader on Fox News, the biggest cheerleading network” doesn’t make one qualified to be Secretary of Defense. It’s “very dangerous,” he added, to “have a Fox News host who has got his finger on the nuclear weapons.” More dangerous than having a warmongering Democrat’s finger on our nuclear weapons?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren too huffed about Hegseth, on social media:
A Fox & Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.
Does this fraud who exploited a fake Native American heritage really think that having siblings who served makes her more qualified than Hegseth, who earned two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman Badge as an officer in Iraq and Afghanistan? Note how his jealous critics like Fauxcahontas try to diminish decorated veteran and Princeton graduate Hegseth as nothing more accomplished than a Fox News co-host.
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, frets that Hegseth “is not a person who is a serious enough policymaker, serious enough policy implementer, to do a successful job.” This begs the question: who ever said policymakers like Smith were doing a successful job? Maybe we need fewer career “policymakers” in D.C. and more young warriors with a fresh perspective.
Among the left-dominated media, the radicals at the failing New Republic came right out with a childish headline that reveals their desperation to drive the narrative about Hegseth: “Everyone Hates Trump’s New Defense Secretary.”
Not everyone hates Trump’s new Defense Secretary, but the Left sure does, and the reason is, they fear him. They fear his commitment to the everyday American soldier and to Trump’s dreaded America First agenda. They don’t fear that he will bungle the job because of a lack of qualifications; they fear he will shake up the Deep State status quo and undo all their work to subvert the military.
Last June at a rally in Las Vegas, Trump encouraged his supporters to buy Hegseth’s book and vowed that if he won the Presidency, “The woke stuff will be gone within a period of 24 hours. I can tell you.”
That’s why the Left fears the idea of Pete Hegseth as SecDef. He is a warrior and a leader – not a soft D.C. bureaucrat – and an existential threat to a woke military, and that is why he is the right man for the job.
Check out Mark Tapson’s interview with Pete Hegseth at The Right Take podcast.
Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior
If it ain’t woke, don’t fix it.
“A manly man as the SecDef? Oh, dear me. what are we going to do? Call my therapist! I need a herbal colon poop bag!”
Ha Haw! The schadenfreude I get from watching the lefties shit themselves is bliss. Eat it, scumbags. America hates you.
Act 1: Return retired Gen. Mark Milley to active duty, charge him with treason, place it before a Courts Martial, send him to Leavenworth for the next 30 years. No pension; no burial honors. Make his coffin a dumpster and his hearse a garbage truck.
Or, just have have him and his rainbow cadre placed on a chain gang at a national cemetery straightening and aligning the marble headstones…. forever, begin.
I’d much prefer that he faced a firing squad. Why should taxpayers money be spent on his upkeep in prison? We’re trying to reduce government spending by cutting costs and pinch pennies whenever and where ever we can!
Why should Milley get 3 hots and a cot and lay around on his fat lazy ass at tax payers expense? Screw that! Smoke him! Next!
Waste of time, fix problems instead of that stuff.
He is a problem who should be gotten rid of
The ‘new sheriff’ is going to have his every step attacked, betrayed, and misrepresented. I don’t envy his administration, but I do pray for his success and confusion on the deep state slugs that fear him.
As long as he acts like a man and doesn’t get wobbly in the knees and go soft and squishy and timid, who cares? A real man is not intimidated by a bunch of cackling hens and limp wrist snot-nose punks who couldn’t beat their way out of a wet paper bag.
It’s about time someone wet to the pentagon and started kicking ass and taking names. It’s time to force out the feckless bureaucrat class and put the warrior class back in charge of the military.
Another idiot who backed the Iraq war. Trump is filling the swamp with the same old stinky sludge.
Either that, or you’re wrong.
Damn you’re stupid
Aye yi yi! Here we go again! The peanut gallery offering their opinions about who Trump should fill his administration with. As if Trump didn’t learn anything from his first go around as president.
Moreover, it’s unrealistic to think that the swamp will ever be completely drained. For many practical reasons, it can’t and it won’t. The very thought is at best wishful thinking.
And by your own logic, you should hate and despise Trump because he was once a democrat. As was Ronald Reagan.
Trump couldn’t find a transfreak that steals luggage from airports, so he settled for someone of merit instead.
dumbfvck slamdunk is a “rear” admiral in the leftnut, woketard army.
He was serving in uniform during that war.
Most all Liberal leftists ruined their Minds years ago on Booze and Drugs and therefore have No Minds at all why else would they fall for all this Global Warming/Climate Change nonsense
Oh, since Warren was an Indian first, she feels qualified to comment? Maybe she should have applied for the position, but she didn’t, so it’s too late for her. Van was an Obama Green Jobs advisor, then a CNN reporter, but, again, too late for him too. Oh, wait!…Trump didn’t offer either of these two the position! In what capacity is Adam Smith to render an opinion on what It’s like in combat, particularly since he didn’t get the offer, either?
Senators are historically terrible at these hearings and investigations. They go in with a biased view, but worse, they ask terrible questions that don’t extract any useful information-not for them or the people who voted in the President to ultimately make these decisions.
P.S. Like their pick and confirmation for their Secretary of Defense has done so well…
Mr. Tapson:
Well said. The “woke” and feminazi agenda is nothhing more than a full on actack on the American male.
May they die in their “toxic feminity” bias. They need to be exposed constantly.
A PFC right out of AIT could have made a better plan of withdrawal from,Afghanistan than what we witnessed.. Munition shortages, recruitment shortages, Chinese balloons floating free, Chinese soldiers entering our borders to wander into our bases and buy up land nearby and a pier right out of keystone cops. Right, these career DC cocktail cadres are doing a bang up job defending our country.
Trump has two years to do his MAGA thing against the leftoxenomorph marabunta.
Two years to go straight to the jugular of the poisonous leftoxenomorph maggots and destroy them.
Hegseth has two years to fix a military that is putrid with woke and set to lose the next war and cover itself with ignominy and ruin us.
Otherwise . . . . . . . .
If it’s not broken?????
When was the last time America won a war? 1944?
You might be strong but the strength needs to be used to end wars not get involved with endless foreign battles.
President Trump before his re-election touted Major Pete Hegseth’s
best-selling book ‘The War on Warriors-Behind the betrayal of the
men who keep us free’ – about how the woke culture for example
DEI has weakened the United States militarily.
Hegseth is a decorated combat veteran who also has a Master of
Public Policy degree from Harvard – meaning he is educated in
setting or re-setting policy in a government agency such as the DOD.
He sounds like exactly what our country needs to help Make America
Great (and safe and strong) Again.
Annie. Get your gun. ~
Allan Goldstein
😊🇺🇸
And he’s very handsome! That matters. I admire good looking guys because I am one. There are too many old and ugly guys in politics. We need more young and handsome patriots, especially in our military organizations. No more trannies.
Couldn’t hoit. It is part showbiz, after all.
Strikingly handsome, yet strangely modest… the latter being my best quality.
Lots of Trumps picks in their 40’s!
Ditto! I have several neighbors who are retired USN and USMC officers and they are ecstatic over Hegseth’s nomination because Hegseth is a warrior; not some ass kissing, PC, pencil pushing bureaucrat.
Over at Slay.com there is an article where Whoppie Goldberg and Fauxcahontas sit there and pout about how Hegseth “knows nothing of the Military” in spite of Hegseth’s experience and decorations
What a pair of bitter idiots. And so I say to the fat leftist balloon AKA Floppsie Goldberg, and her idiot compatriot Fauxcahontas, please continue with the incredibly bitter and stupid remarks. Personally I wish you guys would cut your hair and vow no sex anymore.
After all two bronze stars for valor in the field and a Combat Infantryman Badge count for nothing in the world of these vacuous female(?) non-entities.
Really? Me thinks that Whoopsie Goldturd and Fauxcahontas are confused and can’t tell the difference between a Hollyweird movie and reality.
And no Whoopsie (you dumb b*tch), watching Hollyweird war movies does not make you an expert on the military or war! Just saying….!
Some of the very best officers I knew left the military around the ranks of Major to Colonel, mostly because of the political smoozing that was involved in getting higher.
Often when they get out of that sort of rank band they lose sight of what the military is about and become far too focused on getting those stars, no matter what.
And the ones who are most accomplished at playing that political game are the ones who very rapidly show up severely wanting the the excreta hits the rotary air moving device.
Senate confirmation? Both sides will have an incredible opportunity in the coming days, to actually learn something about our Armed Forces, by watching the myriad YouTube and online podcasts from our SEAL and Special Forces community.
Arbiters to look for…. Jocko, Mike Ritland, Shawn Ryan, (SOB) Sheriff of Baghdad, The Fat Electrician, Andrew Bustamante, and many others will invariably weigh-in.
Bureaucrats have very little “skin in the game”, while our combat Veterans have decades of actual blood and treasure lost, and a perspective that few Americans have the stomach to understand.
As I’ve said quite often. ANY elected official, who has the power to send our men and women into “harm’s way” should be REQUIRED, to attend and graduate, the Navy’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School (SERE). aka. Prisoner of War school.
But beware, also out there lurking on YouTube are podcasts from a handful of former military members, with “all the right challenge coins” on their bookshelf, but are actual Marxist subterfuge operatives. They can be easily identified by reviewing their pre-election pro-Kamala drivel and whimpering.
Thanks, Hardball.
Hiring a cable news host for Sec of Defense over a political whore? Genius! Why wait for them to leave government service to become a cable news talking head-pick one who just happens to be a cable news host.
One thing that President Trump is avoiding is career politicians and those appointed who are left over from the Obama-Biden regime.
President Trump was a novice politician the first time around and he had more Judas-Brutus’s with knives out and palms out for their 30 pieces of silver.
President Trump defeated each and everyone of them that spilled over into the last 4 years with lawless treasonous LawFare with their corrupt judges rigging the juries, and President Trump defeated each and everyone of them!
This time around, the swamp will be dredged and if they refuse to leave siting they are a federal employee, they can be reassigned and relocated out of Washington, DC to some janitor’s closet in a desolate part of USA!
This will be the most amusing part of the hard fought and won 2024 election! MAGA MAGA MAGA
the most lethal, respected, the most feared military in the history of the world. There’s not even a number two.
Perhaps IDF come close, and even beat our military on many points.
Recent in-combat performance is impressive and I have found myself seriously doubting whether our current military could perform in the long haul as have IDF.
This guy for SecDef sounds like just what the doctor ordered to return OUR military to such a condition. Let the harpies squeal and moan, and swoon. We KNOW of what they are made. If I were offered a free dinner in a posh restaurant but had to share a table with the likes of these TeeVee charlatans, I’d go hungry.
For far too long the Pentagon has been run by politicians. They may have been wearing a uniform, but they were politicians nonetheless. At least with Hegseth we will have someone with a warrior mentality instead of the political suck ups we’ve had lately.
who exactly cares what Van Jones or Lieawatha say about it? Pete’s a great choice.
Cry baby soy boy should mind his own business and worry about who’s going to change his diapers and where to find a new hind teat to suck on now that the Biden regime is coming to an end. Lieawatha needs to sit down and STFU and mind her own business. If she wants to make herself useful she can go change Van Jones diaper!
so my comment is awaiting moderation? for what exactly?? for Lieawatha?
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
“who exactly cares what Van Jones or Lieawatha say about it? Pete’s a great choice.”
There’s nothing wrong with your comment! C’mon FP, don’t go PC on your readers!! Shempus could’ve called Lieawatha a fat ugly lying b*tch which would be true but he didn’t (I did)!
The OIC needs to finance the UN it has a grip on, since it’s basically serving them, the Islamic lobby interests above all.
https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-oic-needs-to-finance-un-it-has-grip.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20241114175323/https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-oic-needs-to-finance-un-it-has-grip.html
GENOCIDE/S?
What has the UN ever done to prevent REAL genocides?
* Uganda under Islamic Idi Amin 1971/79: 500,000;
* Bangladesh Genocide of 1971 by Islamic Pakistan: 3,000,000;
* Rwanda 1994: 500,000 to 800,000;
*Supremacist Arab racist genocide in Darfur: 2003-5: 200,000;
* Iraq under Arab tyrant Saddam Hussein since the ’70s: 500,000;
* Arab Islamic Syria as of Mar 2024: 617,910;
* Or on Arab Islamist attempted genocide (since 1920s with al Husseini coining “itbakh [Adbakh] al yahud” and intensified in 1947), while everyone knows the tactics of “Palestinian” or Hezbollah to bring about their civilian deaths – beginning with Arafat’s methods in early 1980s.
The Rwanda genocide stands out because it wasn’t a case of industrial scale use of modern weaponry. Rather, it was individuals using machetes, mostly, to chop up men and women and children and elderly, face to face.
Todau, the UN expects the relatives and survivors to sit on their thumbs and hold their tongues as they are forced into the same rooms as the killers and theIR families to make nicey-nice.and sing Kum-Ba-Ya.
This one in particular makes me sick.
The Left Loses its Mind……..
There fixed it for ya.
I would suggest that for the most part, leftists don’t have a mind to lose. Put another way, when it comes to leftists, “a waste is a terrible thing to mind” (re: former VPOTUS Dan Quayle).
Tell me, when a person has scrambled sh*t for brains, what is there for them to lose?
As you may recall, Biden’s Secretary of Defense went AWOL for a couple of weeks before anyone noticed he wasn’t coming to work (he was hospitalized). None of these leftard politicians, celebrities and pundits were critical of Biden’s pick for that breech of professional conduct (in even the most loose-y-goosey work environments one informs others of absences). Certainly in a hierarchal military environment one does. But then Biden favored a work environment in which bags of cocaine were carelessly lying around.
LOL. Good one, Steve. .
Can the response from the sordid America hating left be any better proof that he is the absolute best choice?
The very first words out of his mouth, once confirmed, is Milley you’re FIRED. Then, the DOJ needs to serve Milley with a Treason indictment. How the worthless GOP has let this happen – even without majority – is mind boggling. He said he would inform China (who he allowed to surveil all of our key Air Force installations with the coast to coast Balloon cameras!) if Trump ever considered some military aggression against them – even if we were attacked presumably. And, he has been Chair for all this time.
Under present leadership, the traditional spine of US military, white men have been pushed out as “white supremacists” or “vaccine deniers”. Predictably, recruitment has since fallen short as the diversity crowd has not stepped up to make up the deficit, not that confused trans people, Muslims with questionable loyalties or pregnant ladies can ever compensate for what has been lost.
As for performance, let’s settle the issue for even the dumbest of DIE pushers. Let a platoon of female recruits compete against an all male platoon and let’s see who would do better on the front lines. What never gets mentioned is that female combat troops run the additional risk of rape if captured by the enemy. They also increase risk for their male peers when they cannot keep up under onerous circumstances of war, their fellow soldiers tending to be more chivalrous than the average male. Unlike TV fiction, most women cannot outfight even a smaller man, let alone one the same size or larger. There are plenty of roles for women behind combat lines where they are not second best.
“…they fear he will shake up the Deep State status quo and undo all their work to subvert the military…” Just when the All Wuss army was in their grasp!
“Many Appalled That New Trump Appointee Has Zero Experience Being A Useless Government Bureaucrat”
-Babylon Bee
I don’t have to be a woke retard to know this hefßhit guy is not qualified. Oh got a 🥇 or two? Big deal. He was a grunt not th administrator of tens of thousands as he would be as Secretary.
Beto? More like an omega.
For those on the Left who are talking about leaving the country:
“Don’t let the Statue of Liberty kick you in the ass on the way out.”
I think the radicals are using wok-mess to tear down society and replace it with a communist hellhole government. “Tear it all down man” is an unforgettable slogan from the 60s. Everything about being woke is insane. General Milley is a disgrace who should be dealt with ASAP.