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Pete Hegseth. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The deep state effectively weakened Trump during his first term by surrounding him with swamp creatures who undermined his America First agenda. Trump is obviously wiser this time, as indicated by the ire his cabinet picks are drawing. Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination due to this pressure, although I am thankful that rather than disappearing he seems to be plotting his next move. Perhaps this was part of an elaborate manoeuvre. But whether in war or in politics, one should not love manoeuvre for manoeuvre’s sake. Sometimes its better to do a direct assault or cut through a Gordian knot.
Trump cannot afford to have another cabinet pick fold under pressure, for that will establish a dangerous pattern. It will prove that bimbo eruptions, faux moral outrage, and journalist smears work, thereby encouraging more of them. Thus, we will wind up with cabinet picks who are either approved by and thus loyal to the deep state, or who are goody two shoe Ned Flanders types who are useless for standing up to pressure.
Whether we start a pattern of folding or of resisting will most likely depend on Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. This is true even if his substitute were a strong candidate like DeSantis. DeSantis would just have some bimbo from twenty years ago mouth off about him. Then the cycle would continue until we get someone whom the war criminal John Bolton approves of.
A man with this defiance is exactly who we need. Hegseth isn’t auditioning for choir boy. Most of the criticisms of Hegseth are due to his womanizing and drinking, specifically an incident involving a married woman.
We are told that Pete Hegseth should be disqualified because he has been married three times and may have cheated on all his wives. Be real. We just elected a thrice-married serial adulterer as President for the third time.
Sorry not sorry, but the ship of decency sailed with Monica Lewinsky and smashed into the rocks with Hunter Biden. This is no longer the 1990s, much less the 1950s. The same people that pushed degeneracy through rap music, pop culture, hick hop, MTV, drag queen story hour, and no fault divorce are now clutching their pearls at Hegseth being a hard partying stud. This is transparently hypocritical and just another example of the Left demanding that we stand by principles that they wholly lack. They can’t have it both ways. At least not anymore.
The specific incident which the losers and haters are focusing on involves Hegseth allegedly banging a married woman at a hotel while her husband and kids were also on site. There is simply no way this story can be told without making the woman look even worse than Hegseth. Did Hegseth even know she was married, or that her husband and family were in the same hotel? She certainly did. Exactly who, then, was being reckless and depraved?
When the woman’s cucked husband inquired why she didn’t come back to their room, she didn’t own up to being a slut. Instead, she lied to transform herself from a slut into a victim. She claimed that Hegseth drugged and raped her.
Yeah, but did he grab her by the pussy?
Let’s be real, Hegseth is not the type of guy who needs to drug a woman to have sex. The police heard her out and declined to press charges. That should be the end of it. We don’t need to go full “manosphere” to dismiss the entire situation as ludicrous.
Just as Matt Gaetz being a victim of lawfare made him highly qualified to lead the DOJ, these allegations actually make Hegseth even more qualified to be Secretary of Defense, because in the military today, there is an epidemic of false rape accusations. In fact, there’s a problem with women in the military in general. Given that Hegseth has first-hand knowledge of the situation, maybe he can get this problem under control.
Another accusation is that Hegseth has or had a drinking problem. He admitted as much after his first tour of duty. This is a common problem for veterans, who also deal with stress, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. If Hegseth has faced such struggles and overcome them, he’s actually more qualified to lead.
In the old Air Force, it was thought ideal for Chiefs (E-9s) to have had DUIs or other disciplinary infractions because it gave them legitimacy when they had to dish out discipline for such infractions. It also gave them compassion, respect, and most importantly insight in how to help the junior enlisted overcome those problems. The root word of “discipline” is the Latin word for “teach” for good reason. They could better help wayward troops turn over a new leaf because they had done so themselves.
Hegseth really needs to play the veteran card here. Lindsay Graham needs to thank him for his service, shut up, and vote for confirmation. They all do.
Basically, the objections to Hegseth—his drinking, his womanizing, his based grunt tattoos—all revolve around the fact that he is a highly masculine, thumotic man. He’s everything that yesterday’s military discouraged. Which is why he is everything that today’s military needs. Under normal circumstances, Hegseth might be a bit too high thumos for Secretary of Defense. But given our feminized, trannified, thoroughly longhoused military, it makes sense to over correct. It’s the only way to get back to a healthy mean.
There are too many careerists and pencil-pushers in today’s military. This does not qualify them to lead men. Only men can lead men.
Besides, Rachel Levine’s colorful past didn’t get in the way of his career. And are we to believe Pete Buttigieg wasn’t a hoe? People who frequent glass bathhouses shouldn’t throw stones.
We just need to ignore this drama. People like Pete Hegseth, who have faced death in battle, have no trouble standing up to screeching women and RINOs. Trump needs to follow his example.
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“Besides, Rachel Levine’s colorful past didn’t get in the way of his career. And are we to believe Pete Buttigieg wasn’t a hoe? People who frequent glass bathhouses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Instead of those tabloid level critiques people should focus on his retarded zionism.
And then even Rachel Levine might look good again in comparisson.
“Richard Levine”, but then I’m a jerk…
I am using tabloid critiques to lampoon tabloid critiques so that they will lose their power.
Zionism is unfortunately not at play in Trump’s cabinet picks. That’s something to change long term by changing the culture. What is at play is whether we get swamp creatures or not. Also, for all of his Zionism, Hegseth is drawing flak from the Zionists who lied about Iraqi WMD and allowed Sept 11 to happen so they could wage the forever wars.
Damn right. I’ll be sorely disappointed if Trump actually drops Hegseth over the bimbo eruption (which always seems to be so conveniently timed). Whatever man Trump nominates, some woman will claim without evidence or consequence (for her) that he abused her 20 years ago.
My bigger fear is that it doesn’t bode well for the inevitable media blitz to make enforcing immigration law out to be cruel and heartless. Trump was cowed by the shaming routine to the point that he backed off effective policies the first time around. When they reopen the spigot of outrage around “kids in cages!” (which they close whenever a Democrat is doing it), can Trump withstand the pressure or will he buckle yet again? The way he handles the current media outrage is an important bellwether.
As long as White men are not convince the military is ‘back on track’ and start joining again, Whites will gain. Let the Darkies fight the jew’s wars.
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Fidelity: Not only Hegseth and Trump. Kamala had an affair with married Willie Brown and her husband an prior affair with his kid’s nanny.
Nothing against Hegseth per se, but Trump has nominated too many ex-Fox news hosts. The military has no mainstream guys with minimal baggage (assuming their bags haven’t been purloined by Sam Brinton)?
We are in deep trouble if we need to root for this Shabaz goy. I couldn’t care less about his womanizing in this day and age.
At least someone here has his head on straight. Trump has, unsurprisingly, loaded his admin with virulent Zionists with Hegseth being one of the worse and there isn’t one word about it in the article. Instead it’s all military idolatry of the most MAGA kind. I guess we can look forward to the author’s ringing endorsement of the future draft for young men to die for Israel because it will at least grow a generation of Spartans.
Everyone is Washington today is a “Zionist.” And we all know that here. Pointing that out doesn’t make you radical or insightful. It just makes you another wignat bore who wants to change the conversation back to his favorite topic.
Sorry, you can’t comment on how stupid the attacks on Hegseth are. A wignat wants to bloviate some more on Zionism.
If you can’t distinguish Trump and his people from the neocons who loathe them, then your ideology might be a source of blindness, not insight.
The same is true with the fixed idea that Trump is more likely to start a war with Iran, or that any improvement in the military is just a trap to get white men to die for Jews (as opposed to simply being the sort of reform you’d expect from a serious country).
There’s a certain dogmatism here that springs from the axioms that Jews are omnipotent and anyone outside wignat echo chambers is stupid or dishonest. There’s an element of beautiful loserism to that perspective. But any more analysis than that is a waste of my time.
Great, another maniacal zionist in AIPAC’s pocket I’m supposed to root for because allegedly “based”.
Gee, hearing all that I’m not sure I want hegpeth. The basic message here is that if you support the neocon agenda, doesn’t matter what else about you.
It just seems in general the quality of people in American life is going south. I realize I have zero room to talk, but I expect more of others.
Certainly we should expect more from our leaders. It is shameful that these are the people our system produces – and not just our political system but all of society. The weak men of today (myself included) aren’t their forefathers, but they’re what we have to work with. We need to make best use of the men we have while trying to make the next generation better.
I stand before you a weak, broken man, nothing like our forefathers….😓
Essentially every successful pastor has had to overcome their own problems. How better to gain the support of the troops than to have overcome the same problems? It adds credibility and empathy. Don’t cave in to the pressure. Stick to your guns, pun intended.
This is a great comment. I have become deeply suspicious of the “perfect” person. Look no further than that steaming pile Mike Pence. We heard all the time that he was never alone in a room with any woman other than his wife, etc. etc.
I would hate to tell y’all the sins I’ve committed and the person I once was. I’m not out of the woods yet, either. So when people bash Trump for his foul mouth, womanizing, or whatever, I really want to ask them where they get off trying to sound so above it all. I’ve noticed the people most offended by the sins of the man who appears to be working hard to try to save this country are the biggest assholes.
I appreciate the compliment. I suspect we’ve all done many things we hope never see the light of day. The ability to recognize our mistakes and to learn from them is far more valuable than to have sheltered yourself from risk. I grew up with a point guard mentality and as a team captain. Leading by action rather than words. I don’t think I’m alone in preferring men of action rather than pontificators. Mistakes are going to happen and we learn from them. Hegseth has and his men respect him for it. So do I.
This is not just a problem of the American opposition. Pretty much everywhere, populists or White nationalists have the same problem with the personal moral profiles of their politicians. For someone to endure the extreme level of ostracization and attacks, the impossibility of a normal career, existential angst, criminal prosecution, etc. you have to have an incredibly thick skin like a hippopotamus. Normal people can’t stand that kind of treatment. That leaves us with guys who are slightly anti-social psychopaths, narcissists, or even downright criminal types, including various grifters.
Yes we all know that no one gets close to political power in the greater anglosphere because Semitism is the creedo of the system and one must be at least a sycophant to gain positions of power within the system. My concern and perhaps the author can elaborate in another article, is how a well led, well functioning USA military would benefit White Nationalism considering the USA military has been opposed to and used deadly force to suppress Nationalism, White or otherwise world wide for over a hundred years, including when the USA was overwhelmingly White in racial background.
Also can he elaborate on who “We” is when he writes that this uber Chad is the man “We” need?
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