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oh right it was very non-racist! www.wonkette.com/p/surely-pet...

COUP Question: what would an authoritarian-bent administration do with the military leadership if wanted to remove ahead of time pro-Constitutional military leaders who would properly refuse anti-Constitutional orders? You empower a FOX Fratboy Hegeth! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Initiating bureaucratic trench warfare with the US Army seems like a low-odds proposition. Kind of like his stupid war.

Curious how admissions to military service academies are being influenced by Hegseth.

Stale, male, and pale

Our once pride worthy military is becoming a fly by for Kid Rock.

and men-only.

worst than that - he wants a crusader army - look at the last 14 months - 90% of senior leadership including 80% of joint chiefs replaced with loyalist who would tow the line. Add in the reported 'christian warrior' indoctrination bsky.app/profile/5nar...

Why would black people or any woman join the military knowing their prospects of promotion are basically nil? He's sending the message that they are not wanted.

They even say it out loud! The shit Trump says about Somalis and immigrants in general is plainly racist and everyone around him is just like “lol that wacky Trump”

So fucking obvious. Tiny-dicked drunken knock-off GI Joe.

white Christian male-only

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The crusade against DEI has nothing to do with merit and never has. It's just an assault on the existence of non-white or non-cis male people in any position of power and in some spaces entirely.

I think that's probably behind the decision to send ICE to Marine Corps boot camp graduation, too: bsky.app/profile/adri...

Just another case of CWB

That the college educated top brass in the American military aren't on board for cowboy fascism is an apparent compete mystery to Hegseth and the rest of the Trump lickspittle class.

C'mon, Jamelle. What is the harm in telling us who it was?

"their careers are based on their appeal to Andrew Sullivan and editors of the Atlantic, official publication of the donor class. And that's who all the "free speech" culture stuff is aimed at. look at Conor Friedersdorf or Thomas Chatterton Williams. look at Bari Weiss" bsky.app/profile/orig...

Pretty sure it was Yglesias

Way past that

It disrupts the comforting narrative that racism is a thing we solved and people are just whining now.

This is the most polite thing you can say about them while still being truthful.

You are correct! They don’t even hide their racism.

Trump's at least a "racial essentialist" - different races have certain things they're genetically disposed to be "good at" - so blacks are strong/athletic, Jews are good with money, Asians are good at math. But whites are better overall, and should (in this country at least) be in charge of things.

Myself, the term "white supremacists" comes immediately to mind -- not that there's a distinction. These people are doomed over the longer run. They are totally out of step with the USA.

Too many people in the country are not impacted by segregationists behavior and thus it is easy for these people to deny and/or ignore the behavior.

Damn

Do tell

I am rarely disappointed in my cynicism.

I’m not saying it’s Cillizza, but I’ll always assume it’s him whenever someone lives in complete denial about the ugliness of this administration.

I'm going to enjoy the livestream when he's found and captured hiding out in Argentina

He’s so deeply f-ed up.

Names! Names!

It’s clear as day!

Deity-created segregation: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. ... The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix" -Judge Bazile Loving v Virginia

Yeah, the only questions are how the re-segregation of the military will happen, and how the legacy media will whitewash it.

The Confederacy of the mind.

“How can we know what’s really in their hearts” I’m sure was spoken

Don't put up with him. ☎️ 202 224 3121 Congressional Switchboard resist.bot/petitions/PW...

White straight men only. He’s such a racist, sexist creep

shouldn't the DOJ's civil rights division be investigating or something??? oh, yeah... they only investigate now when white people are quote unquote discriminated against

You know Hegseth can't stand a race traitor.

Yeah, a white males only military, He's also fired highly qualified women officers white and black. Just disgusting and illegal.

So first they kill off the whites with covid, then they kill off the whites with war?

They want only white males only in upper leadership. People of color (and poor whites) are perfectly fine on the front lines. After all, they're not sending their children to fight and die.

I did Nazi that coming. 😒

Well, he's not a woman, so i'm going to have to with answer #2.

I’m sad Gen. George was fired, but so grateful our military leadership is growing hostile towards these fascists.

At least in leadership. That moron is probably happy to send people of color to fight on the ground

And male-only

I believe this. That whole waiting-outside-Marine-basic-graduation-to-pick-up-the-undocumented-relatives is just another way to discourage minority enlistments.

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this shit is so *pathetic* man

Or at least a whites-only officer corps. Someone has to be the first into the breach.

MAGA Confederate Christianity conservatism's "deeply/sincerely-held beliefs and convictions" garbage The belief that some people are naturally inferior and their private beliefs justifies public discriminatory actions.

They attempted to criminally prosecute lawmakers who said members of the military have a right and obligation to disobey illegal orders - a factually true statement. Why? What is it we don't know or see that makes such a seemingly extreme, over the top reaction make sense?

If Whiskey Pete Kegseth really wanted a meritocracy - the first person he'd fire would be Peter Hegseth.

Yep.

And male only

...and those white men better have hoods in their closets.

So how are Black, Brown, immigrants and women feeling about this? Are they willing to be sacrificed for these people who can't stand that they exist? How can we ask them to?

Their 19th century values = historical failure. How their ethos has lingered, ebbed, and flowed… pickled brains, sour hearts. Blood & stupidity.

Fascism and Racism

Hegseth fires a top-notch general, denies promotions to female and black officers, ecxcuses flyovers for Kid Rock and leads a prayer meeting for servicemen that is condemned by the Pope. When is it time to fire him, Mr Prez? Yesterday…

White male only as high ranking officers. I’m certain that Hegseth has no problem with POC being cannon fodder.

It also explains why he’s allowing ICE at the Marine Corps graduation event.

We know why he was fired. But the timing is another distraction subtraction (subtract eyeballs from here to over there). He was fired at this moment in time to distract from Trump's daycare vs war comment IMO.

Was it because of his glasses?? 🤓

Thank you for this clear & concise explanation.

He needs to be removed.

How about civil rights discrimination law suits?

Wondering in unnecessary. Everyone knows why.

It must be "coincidence" "...Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

all that banner needs to be complete is "ONE COLOR"

I can’t imagine getting fired by this guy 🤦‍♀️

He’s not a white Christian nationalist perhaps. Who knows.

Because he did something as Jesus would do? I mean it couldn't possibly be because he's darker than a Klan sheet, right?

in addition to that 👆 not all ecclesiastical endorsing agents are good. Hegseth needs an extremist from an extremist agent/ sect/church-I’d be willing to bet this guy wasn’t extreme enough for pete. i bet they will start going after religious minorities soon if they haven’t already

Aside from the obvious he probably quoted Jesus

The Revolution will start eating its children next.

Kegsbreath has a bad case of Cranious Anus

Well! Isn’t that rich!? Yes! no doubt color played a part (sick)…But Hegseth continuously references Jesus in his war rationale… Not all service folk worship Jesus, & chaplaincy is typically non-denominational…Major Gen. Green, fine man, is in the way of advancing Christian nationalism-for SHAME!

Preaching the actual gospel of Jesus is enough to be courtmartialed these days in the Age of Hegseth.

Pete will continue to seethe about this part.

In Russia, they call them purges.

How can he fire these people for no reason like this? Dont you need a valid reason?

There's only room at the Inn for White Christian Nationalists.

Is this some sort decapitation plan?

This and the stories about ICE showing up to marine corp graduations seem like means to the same end (all white military)

Mmm. Gee, I wonder why.

So was it about the glasses?

Not a Christofascist

For Hegseth, Christianity is white supremacy. They are the same thing so that man cannot be a chaplain.

Hegseth: a white christofascist by any other name would stink as bad.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨‼️‼️‼️‼️. W.T.F. was the rationale behind this…. Besides RACISM ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

There could be another reason though the chaplain was fired in Hegseth's case and that is the chaplain may have advised Hegseth to tone down his blow hearted white Christian nationalist blubbering.

The chaplains reportedly generally find Hegseth's version of "Christianity" appalling. I'm sure he's ready to sack a lot of them.

Pure ignorance, pure racist, pure stupidity and finally hatred.

i wonder if that segregationist has stopped a single white guy's promotion

Hmmm🤔

It's not Hegseth's "kind of religion."

The relentless nature of their hatred is mono-to-nous

Shave isn’t close enough. No beardos.

Balding? Glasses? Otherwise I've got nothin

It emanates from the keeper of the cesspool!

I don't think you'll need 3 guesses. I still can't believe what's going on in the USA since tRump got elected.

Not in the military. Not even in the US. And yet. I have loved this man’s deep sense of spirituality and outrage during difficult times. This is a loss on so many levels.

We are about to have a national conversation about what counts as a “Christian” in this so-called “Christian Nation”. I don’t think it’s gonna go the way the Christian nationalists think it will.

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Because the preacher won't espouse onward Christian soldiers and bring Jesus back.

Byron Donalds sees no issues…

Too many bars?