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The title of this post is from an old business partner’s term for the average corporate meeting, which is Pete Hegseth just called for all the top brass, in spades. Hegseth pledged to stop DEI, get women out of the service, purge anyone who’s fat, give people do-overs on terrible behavior, and generally stood there looking like the second-rate person he is. I mean, he’s an alleged wife-beater, a perhaps recovering drunk, and his current wife needs to go to meetings in the Pentagon to make sure that this guy stays on task. It’s the classic “tough guy” marriage where he’s too much of a dingus numbskull to get along in life, so his wife needs to wipe his ass, all the while pretending to let him run the household.
I’m sure this was very popular with the generals:
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)2025-09-30T13:06:31.204Z
Apparently the audience was pretty much silent as Hegseth pranced around.
Then Trump got up and told this bunch of highly-educated, career-oriented, rule-following leaders that they’re gonna have to unleash their warfighting on US citizens:
Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)2025-09-30T15:25:50.003Z
Cheryl Rofer thinks that the audience (general officers) was 20% MAGA. Perhaps. But how many of them were “at least I didn’t vote for a Democrat” Republican? I’m guessing that was 50% or more.
Is the right response to this disgust? Derision? Both? Who knows, but I think this is true:
The only thing I got from that bizarre speech is that I think Hegseth jerks it to dudes.
— Lyndon Baines Johnson (@lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social)2025-09-30T16:16:57.762Z
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