Pete Hegseth Pledges to Restore Warrior Ethos in U.S. Military

[Walker88]

12 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I hope he gets to do that. The US military has been degraded in the past 4 years, IMO.

Degraded? Really? And you know that how, Rambo?

 

Fake Alpha males like Hegseth and his (possibly) future boss have a Colonial/Imperialist mentality, where they fancy themselves superior to "s-hole" countries and cultures. Show me someone who calls himself a "warrior" and I'll put money down on a new war. To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. A guy who fancies himself a warrior is wont to send someone, perhaps himself (though not for the guy with bone spurs), into a conflict.

 

The US will go to war with Iran in the next 4 years. Also, Hamas lost its leadership, but has as many of its own "warriors" as before 7 October, perhaps more. As former DCI and SecDef Robert Gates used to say when he was informed some terrorists had been taken out, "How many more did we create today?". More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war. Likely that has led to the creation of tens of thousands more Hamas warriors.

 

Does the new Administration have a plan to address that? To address Iran, which re-started it U235 enrichment and nuke program after 45 abrogated the JCPOA?

 

Oh, and let's not forget Panama and Greenland. The soon-to-be POTUS never says anything he doesn't actually intend to do. Last time he had some sane and rational guardrails around him, such a Gen Mattis, SecDef Esper, Gen Milley and a few others who got in the way of his insanity. With Hegseth, Patel and others, he will not have any guardrails this time.

 

Also, as soon as the Repubs halt assistance to Ukraine, Putin wins and his eyes will shift to Estonia, and maybe eastern Poland. China will see lack of US resolve and---as economic problems cause unrest in the Middle Kingdom---will move on Taiwan.

 

By the way, anybody out there think Repubs like Lankford, Thune, Rubio, even McConnell and Graham, believe Hegseth is actually qualified to run an $840 billion entity with 3 million employees? Hegseth is an armchair warrior's view of a leader, besides being a drunk.

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, Walker88 said:

Degraded? Really? And you know that how, Rambo?

 

Fake Alphas males like Hegseth and his (possibly) future boss have a Colonial/Imperialist mentality, where they fancy themselves superior to "s-hole" countries and cultures. Show me someone who calls himself a "warrior" and I'll put money down on a new war. To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. A guy who fancies himself a warrior is wont to send someone, perhaps himself (though not for the guy with bone spurs), into a conflict.

 

The US will go to war with Iran in the next 4 years. Hamas lost its leadership, but has as many of its own "warriors" as before 7 October, perhaps more. As former DCI and SecDef Robert Gates used to say when he was informed some terrorists had been taken out, "How many more did we create today?". More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war. Likely that has led to the creation of tens of thousands more Hamas warriors.

 

Does the new Administration have a plan to address that? To address Iran, which re-started it U235 enrichment and nuke program after 45 abrogated the JCPOA.

 

Oh, and let's not forget Panama and Greenland. The soon-to-be POTUS never says anything he doesn't actually intend to do. Last time he had some sane and rational guardrails around him, such a Gen Mattis, SecDef Esper, Gen Milley and a few others who got in the way of his insanity. With Hegseth, Patel and others, he will not have any guardrails this time.

 

Also, as soon as the Repubs halt assistance to Ukraine, Putin wins and his eyes will shift to Estonia, and maybe eastern Poland. China will see lack of US resolve and---as economic problems cause unrest in the Middle Kingdom---will move on Taiwan.

 

By the way, anybody out there think Repubs like Lankford, Thune, Rubio, even McConnell and Graham, believe Hegseth is actually qualified to run an $840 billion entity with 3 million employees? Hegseth is an armchair warrior's view of a leader, besides being a drunk.

Bla bla bla. You know he'll be confirmed, yes? 

[SunnyinBangrak]

16 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

So he runs around on his wife, his mother finds out and says he's abuses women in a personal email that that left got ahold of.

 

That all you got? 

 

 

I must have heard it a billion times. Hacked or unathorized material may not be published ever. Remember that lefty narrative which was thrust down our throats when the 1st sons laptop was abandoned at a computer store?

 

Yet here we go. It's often said, if the left didn't have double standards they would have no standards at all.

 

This whole storm in a teacup reminds me alot of when they just made up vile accusations against Brett Kavanaugh and got themselves wirked up into a proper tizzy. 

 

[Yellowtail]

6 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

I must have heard it a billion times. Hacked or unathorized material may not be published ever. Remember that lefty narrative which was thrust down our throats when the 1st sons laptop was abandoned at a computer store?

 

Yet here we go. It's often said, if the left didn't have double standards they would have no standards at all.

 

This whole storm in a teacup reminds me alot of when they just made up vile accusations against Brett Kavanaugh and got themselves wirked up into a proper tizzy. 

 

Monday...

[WDSmart]

45 minutes ago, 0james0 said:

9 hours ago, WDSmart said:

I'll take "wokeness" over a "warrior ethos" everywhere. 

No you won’t. Wokeness is being driven into oblivion. A word of advice-let go before you get taken out by the warrior ethos.

Yes, I will. Wokeness will never now be driven into oblivion as long as I'm around. And, I will never be "taken out" by the warrior ethos. That just won't happen, although I admit that there are a lot of my fellow citizens (USA) that have been taken in by that ethos. I hope that will change after they see what happens during the next four years. 

[Yagoda]

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

A lot of these people that you mentioned have great flaws, have made huge mistakes, and have a lot to answer for.

 

However the same can be said of Trump and nearly all of his nominee pics. I don't see you applying names to them, your juvenile partisan name calling is just pure ridiculousness, and the act of a relatively undeveloped emotional nature, and a hateful heart. 

Got it. So Im accurate again.

[Yagoda]

6 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

There's whataboutism and there's Yagoda whataboutism - in a league of it's own.

 

And he's not more qualified than 99% of the folks in the world as qualifications for this role SHOULD be as demanding as the office itself. So lets compare him to the current defence secretary Lloyd James Austin III - 'Before retiring from the military in 2016, Austin served as the 12th commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM). Prior to that he served as the 33rd vice chief of staff of the Army from January 2012 to March 2013, and as commander of United States Forces – Iraq from September 2010 to December 2011. He is the first African American to hold each of these positions. After retiring from the armed services, Austin joined the boards of Raytheon Technologies, Nucor, Tenet Healthcare, and Auburn University. Austin holds the unique distinction of having commanded in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan at the one-, two-, three- and four-star levels, and was the first African American to command a division, corps, and field army in combat. He is a recipient of the Silver Star, the nation's third highest award for valor, for his actions during the Iraq invasion, as well as five Defense Distinguished Service Medals.'   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense

 

Better than this?

Depends who you ask: Rear echelon Pogues or war fighters.

[Yellowtail]

25 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Yes, I will. Wokeness will never now be driven into oblivion as long as I'm around. And, I will never be "taken out" by the warrior ethos. That just won't happen, although I admit that there are a lot of my fellow citizens (USA) that have been taken in by that ethos. I hope that will change after they see what happens during the next four years. 

sorry, bad taste

[riclag]

Pete reminds me of James Garner in the old  movie Darby’s Rangers! 
 

 

 

We are in good hands with him watching over the Uniparty generals and the unelected bureaucrats in the Military complex. America needs more 

Trump loyalists!

[jvs]

13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I hope he gets to do that. The US military has been degraded in the past 4 years, IMO.

Do you have examples of this or is this just inside your head like other things?

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

Bla bla bla. You know he'll be confirmed, yes? 

Typical yellowtail answer to a post he doesn't agree with. Ignore the content, be rude and deflect.

[Yellowtail]

8 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Typical yellowtail answer to a post he doesn't agree with. Ignore the content, be rude and deflect.

Sorry, I thought the topic was Pete Hegseth. 

 

Did you want to talk about Pam Bondi? I thought she was great. 

[Yellowtail]

I think it a fair bet that most of the guys going on about Hegseth see something in him they do not like about themselves. 

 

 

[SiSePuede419]

11 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Back in reality, it was caused by empty reservoirs, unmaintanied forests and a fire department that had it's budget cut, whose remaining staff had been selected on their immutable characteristics rather than their ability to do the job.

Reality?  You act like an unproven racist accusation is a fact.

Do you have any proof DEI hires didn't "do their job".

Of course not.

It's called Bearing False Witness Against Your Neighbor.

It's a sin.

Real Christians don't do that. 

Only fake ones.

Of course many things caused the fire including a mistake of not repairing a reservoir more quickly.

But even with that reservoir online 100% there still would mismanaged forest areas.

That's because Republican Real Estate developers in LA have a long history of building homes close to the forested hills that were made of wood and weren't fireproof.  Don't blame that on Democrats. 😀

Are Republicans proposing any actual solutions?

Nope.

Just like in New Orleans or Houston they didn't rebuild in flood prone areas with elevated homes.

And Republicans won't rebuild with fireproof concrete homes in California either.

 

"How to Build Fire-Proof Homes"

 

Republicans hate solutions to problems because they can't bitch and moan for political reasons.

 

Oh, you're so superior. 😄

 

[cdnvic]

Please stick to the topic. This isn't about LA fires.

[Yellowtail]

What the left hates about Hegseth has nothing to do with him fooling around on his wife, it's only that he will attempt to implement the Commander in Chief's policies. 

[stevenl]

20 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

What the left hates about Hegseth has nothing to do with him fooling around on his wife, it's only that he will attempt to implement the Commander in Chief's policies. 

It's about the man being unsuitable for the job.

[Yellowtail]

6 minutes ago, stevenl said:

It's about the man being unsuitable for the job.

He only unsuitable to the anti-Trumpers. He seems suitable to me, but then I'm not a leftist that thinks white men are the problem and that DEI and electric tanks are going to protect the free world.