Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Hakeem wants bipartisanship with this, remember. Worthless moderate centrism

A record number of Americans are living on the streets, roughly a quarter with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other severe mental illness. The overwhelming majority pose no public danger, and research links only 3% to 5% of violent acts to those with serious mental illness.

Black people actually did call all of this, so did Indigenous people. White people just thought we were exaggerating because you were fine with the violence toward communities that you thought wouldn't include you. But the thru line from eugenics, bleach, and Ivermectin to here was incredibly clear

#JOLTS 🇺🇸

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Impeachable goddamn behavior.

Trump: “Fake news CNN, oh, their camera just went off. You know, their camera, every time I mention them, they turn their camera off.” CNN did not turn its camera off.

Every clip I have seen of this Hegseth speech is crazier than the last one and for the first time in my life makes me consider that we may be in a simulation because good God this cannot be real

"Arrest all the undocumented construction workers you can find and you'll open up plenty of jobs for native-born labor" doesn't seem to be working out as planned.

Trump appears to really be struggling with the lack of audience reaction. What a low energy, meandering, incoherent dumpster fire of a speech this is

Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.” Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights!

This is an evergreen, but if Joe Biden had given a speech like this, every reporter in America would’ve had their head exploded. Instead, we get shrugs.

1. Yesterday Jared Kushner partnered with the Saudis on the $55 billion purchase of Electronic Arts AND attended the White House meeting between Bibi and Trump as a foreign policy advisor It's an insane conflict of interest

So my prediction is that after this dumb speech Trump is going to be furious bc he wants a rally response and it isn’t happening. Then he’ll look for someone to blame. So it’ll either be a bunch of random generals or maybe Hegseth? (🙏🏽)

a government run by internet trolls, for internet trolls.

America’s military leadership has more important things to do than listen to lectures on character from an unqualified drunk who assaults women. Any soldier who was as careless as Hegseth was with war plans would be fired if not prosecuted. And everyone in that room knows it.

As he refuses to negotiate and his own administration is openly saying they want a shutdown — Trump is now using official government sites to say this: www.hud.gov

Trump on his way to Quantico: “I'm going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm going to fire them right on the spot." Getting closer to the return of fragging with every minute.

Pete Hegseth is a cartoon of a man’s man — performative clown who represents the worst of the gender.

Wrote this almost two years ago — about what would need to change in order to subvert the military — and it sadly appears to have been prescient open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Trump is now saying (and I am not making this up) that the U.S. should build more battleships because of a black-and-white movie he likes.

The silent reaction to Hegseth speaks volumes

He is really talking about “kids with C averages getting into the best colleges”?? Would love to see the high school transcripts of Trump and all his kids

Pete Hegseth: only clean-shaven men can win wars U.S. Grant:

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

🧑‍🌾 Wow— Rep. @rustygrills & @tnhousegop Tennessee Republicans write Trump begging for a farmer bailout… blaming China & Biden and NOT EVEN MENTIONING THE TARIFFS doing the damage— and in fact still supporting them🤔 Holy mental gymnastics!🤸🙃 post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BL1...

General and flag officers’ thought right now as they listen to President Trump: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

“war is very strange, you never know what’s going to happen with war” - President Trump literally just said this to the assembled generals

It’s really funny that Hegseth’s little GI Joe fantasy league speech was met with… silence.

To understand Hegseth’s announcement of impunity for misconduct, you must understand that Eddie Gallagher is the model. This is what he means by “warrior ethos.” Trump may have even selected Hegseth because of his similar appearance to Gallagher. Remember? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...

Donald Trump is an embarrassment.

all the clips I've seen of Hegseth and Trump have been instructive because they leave 'hold for applause' moments in their remarks that are filled by silence, like watching a standup comic dropping bricks on stage

Well… the whole world can now see that the emperor is naked. How embarrassing.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

I’m so ashamed that the lives of good people are being destroyed daily

Not crazy at all.

You're in a cult, America.

So he's fully expecting them to kiss his ass and make him feel special? I don't know why I'm asking, of course he is.

It's not if he doesn't like'em, it's more if he doesn't see obedience!

So the politicization of the military is out in the open now.

Orange Cosplay D-Bag Felon

So,...what? Now he thinks he's Kim Jong Un, or something, right? Just completely out of his fucking mind

It's unacceptable to see drunks in the Pentagon

Nothing says respect for our military leaders like “I’ll fire you if I don’t like you, or how you look, and if don’t debase yourself and your rank after years of dedication and service and you refuse to kiss my ring.”

And the generals, apparently, call him "the major."

If true, it’s now the MAGA military.

How is this remotely acceptable?

It's a purge, please call it what it is.