Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Hegseth Threatens Another Civil War to Defend 'Proud' Confederate History [View all]EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)62. He's the Secretary of Defense
and this is what he says:
Our job is to ensure our enemies know exactly what we will do to them if they threaten us up to and including total war, he said.
So, now we are the enemy. Okay, I accept that. He and his ilk are my enemy. Two can play the game. I think he should realize that there are far more of us than them, and the ONLY way he can win the game is by calling out the military and ordering them to kill us. He doesn't have enough trained soldiers to take anybody down. The same complaints they had which elected rump (maybe) will be their downfall in a straight up armed conflict. They only want someone else to deliver the work of the nation.
He's not exactly mincing words here. He is telling us that we are the enemy. His enemy. An enemy worthy of being shot because we are not proud of our slave history. He, apparently, is proud of the history. He's proud of it. Well, I'm not his damned slave, and neither are any of you. We the People will fight for our country. WE WILL FIGHT.
It's easy to see that the Orange Pedo has lost control of his cabinet. These people are putting words in his mouth that he can't live up to, for sure. Does rumpy deserve the Nobel Peace Prize when he is setting up for an armed conflict in his own country? I hardly think so.
Stick together, People. We will fight off fascism, and a lot of these people will be in a jail cell.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
Recommendations
1 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
98 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Hegseth Threatens Another Civil War to Defend 'Proud' Confederate History [View all]
Zorro
Aug 2025
OP
Seldom post, but I still hang around and check in often as a silent observer, just to keep up.
icnorth
Aug 2025
#79
"We recognize our history. We don't erase it... " yeah, unless it involves brown people, women, gay people, etc.
kysrsoze
Aug 2025
#2
As far back as high school, before the RW decided the whole country needed "protecting" from truth...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#89
Albert Pike. Indian recruiter. Charged with Treason by the CSA. Klan's "Chief Judicial Officer"
underpants
Aug 2025
#6
A racst, drunkard rapist threatens civil war to keep monuments to traitor losers.
brush
Aug 2025
#10
He's "proud" of our history of conquest, theft, slavery, misogyny, aggression. genocide.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#11
Republicans, totally for the "Free Market", except when it came to buying/selling White folks!
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Aug 2025
#12
These people erase parts of history they don't like, from books and schools
IronLionZion
Aug 2025
#16
Wouldn't it be easier to just give these lunatics a one way trip to Mars on a Space X rocket?
Initech
Aug 2025
#17
Hitler tried 'total war.' Didn't work for him or for Germany or for the 60 million killed over the course of WWII. n/t
PatrickforB
Aug 2025
#21
"white race, and that race alone, shall govern this country. It is the only one that is fit to govern, and it is the onl
Demovictory9
Aug 2025
#22
Let's hear what he's got to say in 2029. When he goes to work at whatever it is Blackwater is calling itself.
marble falls
Aug 2025
#34
He is the ignorant Trump Base. I'd expect nothing less even if he was a German defending Hitler. nt
Exp
Aug 2025
#41
No wonder that idolizes the confederacy. They are traitor to their own country, and are willing to fight a second civil
Martin68
Aug 2025
#42
"We're proud of our Confederate history..but also the Confederates were Democrats"
LeftinOH
Aug 2025
#43
Sounds like that's the trajectory for ICE to be their heavily armed militia...
FoggyLake
Aug 2025
#47
Just get the fuck out of our country. You lost. Suck it up. You were the bad guys. Losers. Traitors.
twodogsbarking
Aug 2025
#49
The "woke" lemmings have more right to define the future of America than
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2025
#51
Guess they want to proudly lose another war. GREAT mentality. Making it again.
appleannie1
Aug 2025
#63
Never, in my life did have any thoughts of fighting the civil war, and WW2 again.
bluestarone
Aug 2025
#72
"Ours enemies," as far as KKKegsbreath is concerned, include practically half of the American population...
AntiFascist
Aug 2025
#81
Remind me again what they're "proud" of? Being racists? Traitors? Losers? n/t
TygrBright
Aug 2025
#83
Could someone please inform Pete Hegseth that he works for the UNION government,
Jack Valentino
Aug 2025
#90