This line from PeeWee Hegseth's speech is really disgusting:

[tblue37]

You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong always in polite society.”

[oasis]

1. Pete Hogshit will end up in prison some day.

Not soon enough for me.

[evilhime]

14. please . . .

[Mad_Machine76]

27. If there is any justice

left in this world

[nuxvomica]

28. I call him Pig Hogsbreath

That just came out unplanned when I was talking about him to someone. It's not clever but it's easy to say.

[oasis]

31. He's definitely a pig. 🐷

[generalbetrayus]

2. Tradition or no tradition, if I were one of the senior officers in attendance I'd be flying up onto the stage

to throttle Drunky McFuckstick for that horrible insult, insinuating that I was every bit the psychopath that he is.

[Biophilic]

3. Pete is an F'ing scum bag.

How utterly and deeply insulting. How did he think these gentlemen would take something like that? Trump’s people continue to amaze me with their sheer ineptitude and downright stupidity. How on earth can they imagine that they represent the superior race? They are so embarrassing and infuriating.

[SheltieLover]

4. Add to that goebbles statement go LEOs "You are unleashed" in Memphis

and the likelihood for problems multiplies exponsntially.

Memphis. The police force that murdered Tyre Nichols. .

[Irish_Dem]

5. I am an USAF kid and the Air Force is the most polite group you will ever see.

USAF Active duty, retired, families are polite and well mannered.

When we returned to the US after serving overseas we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were.

Even today if I meet an Air Force family I immediately totally relax.
They have my back.

[Escurumbele]

9. "we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were." It was on full display at

the Golf tournament the "Ryder Cup". That was more appalling than what I have ever seen at a sports tournament. And the response from the president of the PGA, and the USA team captain was worst.

It is appalling because it had never happened before at this level, Rory McIlroy's wife was hit in the head with a beer bottle, she had a hat that seemed to protect her, but the slurs that were targeted at her were despicable. And the president of the PGA answered that "he could understand the abuse to Rory because Rory is so good, but the abuse to other European players was uncalled for." (I am paraphrasing), so it is OK to abuse Rory and his wife, but the others? they are not as good, so spare them. Of course the guy went to retract his words, at least he didn't say "they took my words out of context", but the public apology was as bad, and then he went on a "save my self" act by apologizing directly to Rory and his wife.

What I am getting at is that trump opened a can of worms, and now the worms are "unleashed".

[Irish_Dem]

12. The GOP is turning the US into a nation of monsters.

Yes unleashing the dark underbelly of human nature.

[BaronChocula]

24. I blame Rush "I'm in Hell" Limbaugh

He spent hours every day on the radio setting the table for the behavior we see from those people. He had the largest right-wing audience and for all followers in RW media to get a share of that audience, they had to dive down into scum to appeal.

Before him, republicans were already good at condescending to everyone else and scapegoating minorities, but for Limbaugh and his ilk, that wasn't ugly enough.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Yes he was a big part of the hate filled training program.

Setting the stage for the darkest time in US history.

[FakeNoose]

19. Yeah that can of worms has been open for 10 years already

We're all getting mighty sick of it. Chump's rude behavior has set the tone for rudeness all over the country, and also many other parts of the world. Wherever Americans (I'm talking about Repukes here) go, rudeness and bad behavior follow.

[Skittles]

34. HEAR, HEAR

USAF BRAT AND VET AND I AGREE

[PatSeg]

6. Well, some people certainly don't

belong in polite society, starting with the two clowns on that stage.

[Arazi]

7. That line describes him and him only, most of the rest will be disgusted

[Aristus]

8. If he had been "Secretary of War" back in WWII, when there was actually a SoW,

We would have lost. It was due to the relative compassion, our adherence to the Geneva Convention articles regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that so many German soldiers surrendered rather than fighting to the death. Rumors (which were true) spread among German soldiers in the field that POW's were fed and treated better by the Americans than by their own officers.

Can't expect that drunken shitstain to know that.

[bluesbassman]

35. That POS would call how we treated German POWs "woke".

It’s his catchall phrase for anything that he doesn’t understand or doesn’t align with his sick and twisted beliefs, ideologies, and worldview. He’s a profoundly unstable individual and should at the bare minimum be institutionalized and best case scenario incarcerated. Oh, did I also mention he’s a POS.

[Hope22]

10. Yes he's projecting for sure.

He and his buds dream up the evil and pass out the orders. Very ill!!

[William Seger]

11. Arrested development: emotionally, he's twelve years old (nt)

[Wounded Bear]

21. Describes pretty much all of trump's administration...

[GopherGal]

26. Not that I am the thread Enforcer or anything, but...

I think you owe an apology to twelve-yeari-olds for that one.

[Ping Tung]

13. He certainly seems to admire people who "break things and kill people".

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

[oasis]

32. I'm inclined to believe those words of Einstein.

[Mblaze]

15. I can hear him whispering

This to his GI Joe action figures as a child. Of course, he's still a child.

[Charmin One]

16. So much for

An officer and A Gentleman

[SpankMe]

17. Dude's a pure asshole. n/t

[surfered]

18. His speech

Glad he wasn’t my CO, blabbing our plans on insecure platforms

[MLWR]

20. Or fragged.

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. Whiskey Pete is a real wannabe.

[Marie Marie]

23. Sounds more like ICE than our military.

[mn9driver]

29. Hegseth didn't make up the line.

It s been around for a long time as gallows humor among military bunkmates after a couple beers. Emphasis on the junior enlisted cannon fodder who think this is witty.

By using it in a serious, senior officer context, Hegseth just shows everyone how completely unfit he is for his office, and how poorly he understood his audience. He is a brain damaged clown.

[Boomerproud]

33. Maybe they shouldn't drink and if thats their attitude maybe they shouldn't be wearing a uniform.

nt

[intheflow]

30. This was the most awful thing he said, imo:

War is something you do sparingly, on our own terms, and with clear aims. We fight to win. 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, just common sense, maximum lethality, and authority for warfighters. That’s all I ever wanted as a platoon leader, and it’s all my E-6 squad leaders ever wanted.

intimidate,
demoralize,
hunt,
and kill enemies.

And then Trump adds - "Hey! We're gonna let you try out those strategies against your fellow citizens in American cities!"