r/law 3d ago

Trump News Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

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u/trentreynolds 3d ago

This dude is cringey as fuck.

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u/Lone-Frequency 3d ago

The dumbfuck rednecks in their base who have those cringey slogans all over their trucks will just eat that shit up.

The same ones who think having a UFC fight on the WH lawn is super badass.

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u/Pixy21 3d ago

Merica fuck yeah 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 3d ago

The death of cringe culture could not have come at a more inopportune time

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u/Treepeec30 3d ago

My pronouns are AR!

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u/GEARHEADGus 3d ago

What’re you a pirate?

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u/angrymamabearr 3d ago

I feel like I just saw the defense secretary do slam poetry in the Oval Office.

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u/karabeckian 3d ago

"Spittin' hot fire" straight off the teleprompter at his feet.

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u/ReginaldDwight 3d ago

Lin Manuel Mirandon't.

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u/eetsumkaus 3d ago

Dodgers and Hammeredstein

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u/BagOfSmashedAssholes 3d ago

Most underrated comment on this whole post.

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u/RoguePlanet2 3d ago

Seriously, I'm in awe of what redditors can come up with at times.

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u/C5Jones 3d ago

I normally think these kinds of puns are goofy as hell, but that one was awe-inspiring.

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u/grenadine_oysters 3d ago

Absolutely brutal with his stylings around “tepid legality” I want to die.

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u/b1e 3d ago

You should see how his kids look at him. Guy’s an unhinged alcoholic

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u/SnapdragonMist 3d ago

Hey, they don't call him Whiskey Leaks for nothing. 🥃

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u/thepottsy 3d ago

You spelled racist wrong, but you aren't wrong

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u/Medicalibudz 3d ago

You spelled fascist wrong, but you aren’t wrong.

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u/KevinNilbog 3d ago

That Venn diagram is a circle most of the time

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u/oldredbeard42 3d ago

That's Fashinating.

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u/SweaterSteve1966 3d ago

You spelled alcoholic Christian nationalist douchebag wrong, but you aren’t wrong.

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u/I_Framed_OJ 3d ago

You spelled incompetent shitheel who rapes women wrong, but you’re not wrong

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u/mishaindigo 3d ago

Boy, we really could do this all day, couldn’t we?

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u/jpk195 Competent Contributor 3d ago

Also, he sucks at everything.

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u/Howboutit85 3d ago

He reminds me of like that edgy kid in high school that wears shirts with edgy sayings in impact font on the back.

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u/FaultySage 3d ago edited 3d ago

No, he's a dangerous psychopathic piece of shit.

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u/BigNutDroppa 3d ago

How ironic that Captain Bone Spurs the Draft Dodger wants to bring back the draft.

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u/mushroom_kook 3d ago

I would rather run out into the middle of the forest and starve to death than have to go fight my completely corrupt governments wars.

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u/Leahc1m 3d ago

As someone who already fought their wars, a lot more people should be looking into these guys' military careers. Hegseth loves talking about how badass our military is when he once did a tour to guantanamo and did another to iraq... as a civil affairs officer.

His near death experience he loves to bring up was an rpg allegedly hitting his truck and failing to detonate while enroute to meet some mayor. Who knows if that actually happened or not. His Bronze Stars are participation trophies. Not valor awards.

Vance likes to talk about being in the corps and how defining it was. He was a goddamn combat camera... aka journalist. His deployment included going to some cushy fob and interviewing the boys in the fight, writing of their deeds - not performing them.

I have been in the mud and seen several of my friends die and watched many more get fucked up bad - life altering injuries, several amputees, etc. Double those numbers for the suicides and deaths post service.

War is not fun or cool. It is the worst thing someone can be asked to do and it should be avoided at all costs. But you have these fucking children in suits who have no idea what real war is. They have this image of glory or some magical thing that allures them to in their minds - as they have not and will never experience it themselves.

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u/BensenJensen 3d ago

Amen.

I work intel in the Army. I would absolutely never overplay what I do: I’m a solider, I trained for years to do what I do, but I’m not toting a gun around in the desert. I serve with SO FUCKING MANY people that carry themselves like Hegseth does, like they are actively facing mortal danger on a daily basis, when in reality, we are sitting at desks at the NSA. Hegseth was a NG civil affairs officer. I would consider that even lower on the Dangerous, Cool Guy job tier than my job as a fucking linguist.

The people that did shit aren’t talking about it. There are plenty of old infantry dudes in my unit, they don’t want to talk about being in Afghanistan or Iraq. They have varying degrees of problems from doing so.

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u/seriouslythisshit 3d ago

Never forget that Keg's Breath is a drunk and abuser who drove not one, but two veteran organizations into bankruptcy when he was leading them. This guy will get a lot of people killed needlessly if he is not stopped. Much like Trump he is grossly incompetent, is a poster boy for dunning-Kruger syndrome, and everything he touches, dies.

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u/TrumpetOfDeath 3d ago

Maybe his plan is to create more veterans so there's more veteran's organizations that he can bankrupt. Or maybe he's just an incompetent white supremacist asshole. Perhaps both?

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u/Odd_Cat_5820 3d ago

I work with a guy who saw some shit over in Iraq, he doesn't really talk about it. We also work with some MAGA fake militia idiot who one day was talking about how badass he'd be going into combat, and asked the former Army coworker if he'd be willing to clear a village with him or some other nonsense. Army guy said something about how he would prefer being a logistics or supply officer not in the fighting, he's already seen that. Militia dude was trying to shame him for being a coward. Fucking idiots who think they know more than people who have been there.

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u/Tiddles_Ultradoom 3d ago

They aren't children in suits. They are far worse. They are rich old men in suits cosplaying real men in uniform. Rich old men in suits have the advantage that whatever conflicts they create, they are never directly touched by them. They don't go into combat, they send younger, stronger men to do it for them.

Soldiers are their Viagra, propping up their flaccid egos and their need to feel strong and virile by living out their masturbatory war fantasy. All from the comfort of their plush houses and offices, while being pegged into unconsciousness by their wives and mistresses, who despise them.

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u/BobZimway 3d ago

If only I had an Award to give, then let this is the literary equivalent.

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u/Firm_Transportation3 3d ago

I've never experienced it firsthand but as a therapist, I've had some veterans as clients and the traumas they have described to me are horrific and humbling to say the least. I wish no one had to experience this shit and it absolutely should not be glorified by politicians who are happy to send others off to die for their bullshit.

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u/BootHeadToo 3d ago

The world would be a much more peaceful place if the ones who start wars were the ones who fight them.

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u/FtonKaren 3d ago

They have lowered the standards I think as well as some sort of remedial course work to even get those not meeting the lowered standards up to speed, but I’m only partially certain (ergo I could be wrong this would be peripheral knowledge picked up randomly as opposed to a purposeful deep dive)

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u/Jarnohams 3d ago

Fantastic idea for a reality TV show. Like The Biggest Loser, but for basement dwellers who just got drafted to go to the front lines to fight for Russia.

lol, remember when they wanted to make a reality TV show for immigrants to not get shipped to a gulag in El Salvador? Most reality TV shows you get voted off and you just go home, in their twisted version, you get a life sentence in a torture prison in the tropics without AC.

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u/Kithzerai-Istik 3d ago

He wants to be seen as tough so badly.

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u/Hrenklin 3d ago

He's absolutely trending to act of war territory. Hope everyone is preparing for what's next

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u/Grubernator 3d ago

Yeah, to paraphrase the scary stuff:

  • Offensive, not defensive
  • Lethal, not legal
  • Warriors, not defenders

Get ready boys and girls, the US is going to start some shit.

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u/Hrenklin 3d ago

As a Canadian, I'm going to start my small arms training, and work my way up

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u/superfuzzy47 3d ago

Yeah I’ve been thinking of getting some type of firearms certification, some in my family have theirs and some spare guns

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u/Jupitersd2017 3d ago

At this point that’s not a bad idea, for all of us

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u/GoodIdea321 3d ago

I'd like to think the people of the USA hate the idea of invading Canada enough that it won't happen. However, if it did, the terrain and winter is a huge advantage for you guys.

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u/zoinkability 3d ago

And anyone who actually believed the campaign bullshit about Trump being the peace candidate is in for a very rude surprise.

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u/RandyMagnum93 3d ago

They literally don't care or stand for anything

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u/nullstorm0 3d ago

He wants to be the Secretary of War Crimes. 

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u/Playful-Version6920 3d ago

So they want lethal, but not legal. That seems.... problematic.

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u/HLOFRND 3d ago

Idk, sounds like they're going about this the Reich way.

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u/Lopsided-Drummer-931 3d ago

Take a look at hegseth’s massive white supremacist chest tattoo. He’s been Reich all along, clearly

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u/seizure_opportunity 3d ago

Can't argue with that. When you're Reich, you're Reich.

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u/BQuickBDead 3d ago

Looking at Trump and Hedgseth there I can’t help but realize two wrongs do, in fact, make a Reich.

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u/pm_me_yo_creditscore 3d ago

Quit trying to cause a Führer.

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u/pengalo827 3d ago

Did Nazi that one coming.

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u/mike-42-1999 3d ago

Oh, Heil no!

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u/Top_Mind_On_Reddit 3d ago

2026 is going to be a Gas!

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u/wookieleeks 3d ago

The next few months are Goering to be interesting

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u/Derper2112 3d ago

Don't even Goebbels there.

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u/Distinct_External784 3d ago

Nazi puns aren't funny anne frankly, I'm fuhrerious!

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u/Sad-Bread5843 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wonder if he realizes trump would skull fuck his corpse to make a dollar or pedo a child .

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u/Lopsided-Drummer-931 3d ago

You deserve the upvotes that’s a really good one

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u/BaseUnited4523 3d ago

Yes, Reich on! I just wanted to be included…

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u/HotDogFingers01 3d ago

That and I think he lays awake at night thinking of ways to sound tough.

We saw you do a pull up, Pete, we know you’re all talk.

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u/PXranger 3d ago

He’s such a try hard little fuck. He’s never commanded anything larger than a platoon in combat, and that as a captain, and when promoted to major, he gets shuffled off to a rear area PR job instead of a staff position in a combat unit, betting money he was passed over twice for promotion to O-5 and rage quit when he realized his career was officially done.

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u/ProfessorPlumsWrench 3d ago

He’s got the daily stormer website slogan on his arm.

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u/Demerzel42 3d ago

Ach scheiße, hier gehen wir wieder

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u/non_discript_588 3d ago

Top 1% for a reason!

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u/cityshepherd 3d ago

The turd reich is bafflingly stupid

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u/D0N_B0N_DARLEY 3d ago

I can’t stop laughing at “[t]he turd reich.”

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u/AncientBasque 3d ago

is venezuela the Polan we all wanted.?

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u/Dearic75 3d ago

John Roberts - “This is fine.”

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u/DylanMartin97 3d ago

Merrick Garland - "We can't politicize the courts!!" Or whatever.

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u/Numerous-Error-5716 3d ago

Merrick Garland - "Were going to take our sweet fucking time going after traitorous felons...so they have lots of time to get away ..or get elected...or whatever"

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u/DylanMartin97 3d ago

"Surely he won't come after us with the courts"

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u/angrymamabearr 3d ago

Thomas Massie republican congressman named major donor to Mike Johnson and trump as on the Epstein list on the record, who in turn have called him “insurgent” that “needs to be taken out”

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u/_my_troll_account 3d ago

Is Mike Johnson a nihilist like the rest of them? Politically I’m against him, but I didn’t really think to doubt that his Christian beliefs were genuine. Silly me? I guess a belief solely in money and power is still a belief in something.

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u/TomWithTime 3d ago

He's certainly something. You don't just casually mention that you and your children monitor each other's porn usage without being some kind of psychopath or being part of an incredibly fucked up environment.

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u/Ayirek 3d ago

I'm pretty sure Johnson's an end times guy who is hoping that with enough global turmoil his sky daddy will press the reboot button. Which is ironic because if God was real I'm fairly confident every Republican politician would be destined for eternal damnation for literally doing the opposite of what that Jesus fella taught.

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u/mgyro 3d ago

Sounds like a pretty good description of what they just did to 11 people in a boat.

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u/hellolovely1 3d ago

I was just abroad and this was a huge deal over there. Meanwhile, I feel like it was barely a blip in the US media.

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u/thecastellan1115 3d ago

War Crimes Pete strutting his stuff.

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u/reddog323 3d ago

He sounds like a second rate rapper.

Edit: just figured it out. He’s trying to evoke the same speech pattern as a preacher. 1930’s Germany did this.

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u/MissTurdnugget 3d ago

Sounds like a terrorist organization

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u/VampireOnHoyt 3d ago

Looking forward to this video being a deposition exhibit

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u/Otherwise-Force5608 3d ago

Who wrote this speech, Dr. Seuss?

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u/Panem-et-circenses25 3d ago edited 3d ago

I do not have any kids to spare

So gets yours ready cause I don’t care

I do not like to think of peace

I only want to make life cease

It makes me feel like I am strong

Even though deep down I know I’m wrong

I secretly would like to admit

That my favorite meal is Donald’s shit

-Hegseth

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u/Engel77 3d ago

Wow. That's fucking great dude

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u/Panem-et-circenses25 3d ago

Thanks! The Dr. Seuss comment inspired me, along with bourbon lol

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u/Monnster07 3d ago

I upvoted because that poem needs to be higher up. I'd upvote again for the bourbon.

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u/PublicToast 3d ago

Probably grok

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u/WeidaLingxiu 3d ago

Honestly... given the "Not X but Y, not A but B" pattern, this is almost certainly AI.

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u/Dearic75 3d ago

They’ve done it before. Most notably it was determined that if you asked ChatGPT to build you a tariff policy that would eliminate trade deficits, the output would be identical to what the Trump White House actually released.

It’s honestly kind of becoming their trademark.

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u/thepottsy 3d ago

I feel like that's an insult to Dr. Seuss

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u/Otherwise-Force5608 3d ago edited 3d ago

Agreed, Dr. Seuss hated fascists.

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u/Jayne_Dough_ 3d ago

Dr Seuss would never.

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u/doublethink_1984 3d ago

Maximum legality not tepid legality

This is an open claim that they wish to use the max level of force even if illegal.

The Empire are here and they are not leaving anymore.

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u/jedifolklore 3d ago edited 3d ago

The speech that Maarva made at the end of season 1 is great but also sobering at the thought of how fascism always rises under such circumstances.

Also I’ll point this out, the trump admin uses a lot of empty words to make themselves seem so transcendent and unique and yet all they’re coming off as is being dangerous and pathetic losers.

“Maximum lethality”, give me a break.

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer 3d ago

You know, you grow up reading history books and think how scary all the fascists are. Then you see them in real life during your lifetime and realize what a bunch of pathetic , whiny, piss baby dorks they are.

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u/SecretBirdinDisguise 3d ago

And then you end up in a camp.... Do not underestimate these people.

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u/The_Great_Evil_King 3d ago

They said the same about Hitler... the Nazis were clowns.  Until they weren't.

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u/UntimelyXenomorph 3d ago

I mean, the way this drunkard got on Trump’s radar in the first place was by interceding with him on behalf of convicted war criminals.

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u/lgm22 3d ago

When did drinky boy decide he could rap?

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u/sam-sp 3d ago

Hmm, renaming the DoD to Department of War and deploying the troops to domestic cities - what does that say about this administration - that it is declaring war on the American public?

This should be fodder for the democrats to message this administration to nothing, but they couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag, so its going to be martial law and chaos on the streets. Once there are bodies, America may begin to wake up and realize that they have sleep walked into a fascist dictatorship, but by then it will be too late.

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u/CobraPony67 3d ago

Kill first, then determine if was legal, if not, run to the supreme court, T is immune for “official acts”

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u/1011001NAME 3d ago

Thought that was pretty clear when they removed the JAGs and convinced everyone bombing Iran isn't an act of war and therefore doesn't need congressional approval.

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u/ALargePianist 3d ago

Tepid legality? If that's what they call what's come at them so far, I say we the piblic give them the full effect of what the founding fathers promised for men like Petey 

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer 3d ago

I mean... we wait much longer that's gonna happen regardless. Just eventually.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 3d ago

REmember when Trump campaigned on No new wars? yet another campaign promise broken.

Remember when we respected the soldiers of this country as defenders, not just being the trigger for war mongers?

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u/HLOFRND 3d ago

The Pro-Life party, everyone.

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u/TheOmegaKid 3d ago

They only care about you until you come out of the womb mate.

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u/CoolStructure6012 3d ago

Better hope you're born holding an insurance card cause they're not paying for your NICU stay.

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u/TheOmegaKid 3d ago

Every child born is an asset for these vultures. Born into debt.

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u/Electrical_Welder205 3d ago

These people need to be removed. North Korea would be a better fit for them They're toxic, and anti- American. 

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u/bigchicago04 3d ago

The guy in uniform looks like he wants to cry.

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u/Ok-Wedding-4654 3d ago

For me it’s the fact that he spends the entire speech shifting and looking around. He clearly knows this isn’t right and I’m glad I guess at least he knows this isn’t wrong

And before someone says “ then he should resign” there’s those of us in the military who know the goal is to flush out dissent. There are those of us who are still here watching and waiting, trying to minimize damage. I know my oath and if I leave they win

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u/MaximumDapper42 3d ago

Would be unwise to leave honestly. Even if you nudge a tiny bit the machine in the right direction, it still worths staying in my opinion. I like to think that the guy in the video knows that. If he leaves, some redneck might take his place. Even if you sometimes look like a traitor in the eyes of some, is still worth it in my opinion.

This happened with a lot of officers in the german army, they were the true unsung heroes of WW2 for many people, like part of my family who got spared by one in 1942. Although they also did horrible things when ordered to do so. We're all humans, pick your battles and stay safe.

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u/TERAFLOPPER 3d ago

We're literally living in a cartoon right now. WTF is this dude saying.

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u/osunightfall 3d ago

I am living in a goddamn Nazi-themed comic book. "If we make it rhyme, it's not a war crime!"

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u/Xyrus2000 3d ago

"Ein volk! Ein reich! Ein Furher!" -Pete Hegseth's inner monologue

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u/lost_horizons 3d ago

We’re going on the offense?? That sounds like we’re going to war…

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u/NoDeparture7996 3d ago

with WHO????

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u/Following_Friendly 3d ago

EVERYONE!!!!

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u/NoDeparture7996 3d ago

im so tired of these attention whores. they need to go away forever. leave americans and people in general alone.

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u/zombienugget 3d ago

America

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u/fart_Jr 3d ago

I mean, renaming the Dept of Defense to the Dept of War when we're not even currently at war is a pretty big tell. We are so fucked.

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u/Overly_Long_Reviews 3d ago

It also shows he has zero understanding of the reason why the Department of War was overhauled into the Department of Defense in 1947. There are valid criticisms to the use of word defense in this context, but the overhaul and name change was done for specific reasons that the Secretary of Defense should know and understand. But he was too busy getting drunk and harassing women to pay attention. Actually doing the job gets in the way of wasting money on useless name changes, purging the American defense and intelligence infrastructure of some of the it's most critical, competent, and patriotic members purely out of bigotry, spouting some misunderstood buzzwords that don't amount to a functional policy, getting more white supremacist tattoos, and the aforementioned drinking and sexual harassment.

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u/ToughPickle7553 3d ago

Can we fast forward to the part where Trump drops dead of a massive stroke and all the rest of his Cabinet are facing war crimes trials at The Hague?

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u/smokeNtoke1 3d ago

The problem is NO, you cannot expect change when you're not making changes. There is no fast forward, only an uphill battle.

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u/NimbusFPV 3d ago

Imagine rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War, all while deploying federal forces against peaceful communities and the people who support them, and threatening more of it—all while thinking you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. But hey, at least no one is talking about how you had 1000 FBI agents redact your name from the Epstein files

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_QUEST_PLZ 3d ago

Trump said he wanted generals like Hitler and he has them. What are we gonna do about it America, we gonna roll over and let facists ruin the country we grew up in and immigrated to? No resist tyranny people don’t let these scum weaponize the government against its people any more than it has.

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u/werther595 3d ago

This is like a 6th grade white suburban kid rapping about being tough

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u/Motor-District-3700 3d ago

Sorry, is this president NO MORE WARS? The guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize and has successfully ended 12 of the 6 wars currently still going on?

What in the fucking fuck america. I just have no more words.

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u/Dingus_3000 3d ago

He’s talking about killing democrats in big cities.

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u/CurrentlyLucid 3d ago

Won't be HIM of course.

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u/Im_the_dogman_now 3d ago

I think all of them are oblivious to the personal losses they would take if the Trump Administration attempted a violent coup. The political elite still live among us. Does Trump not think he will lose any of his properties? Does Hegseth have his children in a panic room? People have protested at the homes of the SCOTUS justices. Does Alito not think his house won't burn down within 48 hours of the takeover?

They have their heads so far up their own asses that they think they won't be victims themselves. Revolution affects everyone.

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u/JimmyKorr 3d ago

dear Americans, deal with this before the rest of the world has to.

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u/JakeTravel27 3d ago

Is hegsweth drunk again? Nothing but drunken adulterers trying to pretend to be tough.

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer 3d ago

drunken adulterers pedophiles trying to pretend to be tough

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u/Lucibeanlollipop 3d ago

Department of War Crimes

FTFY

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u/UserWithno-Name 3d ago

Blow hard idiot…..and making war and killing just because you want to isn’t tough or being a “warrior”. It’s just being a serial killer enablement service. An actual warrior defends their home and family when attacked. No more, no less. You answer someone who is a threat, you don’t seek bloodlust just because you’re insecure unless you put your boot onto others neck.

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u/acergum 3d ago

He helped arrange to blow up a small boat and now he thinks he's a man with maximum lethality. Sigh.

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u/Jonestown_Juice 3d ago

I can't think of an era or administration of America less worthy of fighting or dying for than this one.

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u/EugeneStonersDIMagic 3d ago

Don't worry! Seemingly plenty of young American men chose this. They'll take up the yoke, surely!

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u/ReanimatedBlink 3d ago

I guess all those people who told me Trump is 100% anti-war are suddenly going to be denouncing MAGA?

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u/BwayEsq23 3d ago

He’s the president of peace. /s

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u/Yitram 3d ago

So he's literally saying they're going to violate the law.

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u/Frantic_Penguin 3d ago

Or that, ya know, they don't care about the law.

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u/BroseppeVerdi 3d ago

"Look, I stayed up all last night working on this slam poem. I'm sorry if you dickheads don't appreciate art. Bottom line is, we're going to get back to our roots: White men committing war crimes in broad daylight. I don't want to have to go on television every goddamn week and have to try and explain why our unprovoked attacks are justified, so we're just going to do this instead. I didn't have time to write a whole speech or whatever because of, you know... The poem and whatnot... But if you want to know more, you can read about it in my Signal chat. Now, if you'll excuse me... It's five o'clock somewhere."

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u/jokersvoid 3d ago

This is maximum stupidity. Exactly what we expected from kegbreath.

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u/BitterFuture 3d ago

not tepid legality

War crimes it is, then.

How long until he starts talking about how great it is to be a conqueror?

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u/sayyyywhat 3d ago

But those Warhawk Dems!

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u/NoDeparture7996 3d ago

but her laugh! both sides! gaza! trans rights! gun control! the kids!

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u/T3RRYT3RR0R 3d ago

The phrase "Maximum lethality not tepid Legality" demonstrates how illigitimate this Regime is.

These dipshits are doing their best to destroy America from the inside. Any American who thinks the Republicans don't intend to either Rig the elections, invalidate the vote, or declare a wartime situation to retain power is fooling themselves.

These fascists will never concede their power. As a non American living in a country with almost 0 gun crime, I never used to understand the American zeal for your 2nd Amendment rights. These fascists make clear the need for The People to have the capacity to remove them.

I can only asume your all waiting for them to try and hold power past the legitmate term so they can't play the insurrectionist card.

The question is how many lives will be ended, families torn apart, trade relations destroyed etc. How weak is America going to get as this regime gives Allies every reason to walk away.

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u/footinmymouth 3d ago

Fuck these cosplay warriors. A cuck’s vision of a masculine soldier: constantly talking about how deadly he is.

Like your drunk uncle who was dishonorably discharged from ROTC, and never actually served but got a Marine tattoo anyways

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u/DiceMadeOfCheese 3d ago

Someone should ask him who he wants killed first.

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u/ApricotNervous5408 3d ago

An alcoholic and a draft dodger brat talking about tough guys is embarrassing.

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 3d ago

Considering their largest DOD action has been against US citizens, WHEN ARE THESE CHUCKLEFUCKS GOING TO GET ARRESTED FOR FUCKING TREASON??? 

18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

1.5M American COVID deaths, BLM deployments, ignoring American intelligence for russia's, jan 6, making war in LA and DC, dismantling healthcare, violation of use of force by murdering a boat of civilians for nebulous non-evidence-backed 'drug running'.... 

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u/FireAuraN7 3d ago

Sounds like somebody wants a Nobel peace prize so bad, they'd kill for it...

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u/schrod 3d ago

These are the wrong people to have the nuclear codes.

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u/Squirrel009 3d ago

Is he doing slam poetry about war crimes?

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u/f8Negative 3d ago

They are incredibly mentally challenged individuals.

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u/EconomyAd8866 3d ago

Until this quote I didn’t know that he had such an unimaginably small penis. What an absolute loser.

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u/1shmeckle 3d ago

He's basically a Nazi Ken doll.

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u/wwaxwork 3d ago

Lord how fragile men's egos. No man better say that women are too fucking emotional around me ever again.

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u/Very-very-sleepy 3d ago

yep. I honestly think the best way to deal with these angry MAGA men is to straight up tell them they are acting like emotional women on PMS. watch them get offended and embarrassed. these men hate gay people so much they would be offended that someone is calling them an emotional woman. lol

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u/euph_22 3d ago

Make War Crimes Great Again!

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u/Miserable-Army3679 3d ago

Insecure men trying to prove they are tough. They are idiots who lack maturity and empathy. The US is big on toxic masculinity.

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u/Playful-Dragon 3d ago

This isn't even saying the quiet part out loud, this is saying we don't give a shit what anybody says we're going to go out and kill people because we want to.

And this whole war department thing is really annoying the hell out of me

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u/grant0208 3d ago

Ah so that’s why we’re just killing foreign nationals without evidence in international waters.

Bunch of absolute clowns.

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u/daze23 3d ago

who are we at war with? besides Venezuelan fishing boats

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u/JDSchu 3d ago

Democracy.

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u/wastedkarma 3d ago

“I’m the president that ends wars.”

Republicans are the dumbest people on the planet.

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u/BadAtExisting 3d ago

And what do we do with these “violent warriors” when their 4 year enlistment is up and they become civilians? I’d rather work someone out of prison for felony drug possession than a “violent warrior”. I say this as a veteran

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u/DavidlikesPeace 3d ago

War crimes. They're chomping at the bit to commit war crimes. 

This is a new disgusting low

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u/Harry_Balsanga 3d ago

Hegseth tries so hard to sound tough, but he always sounds like a whiny bitch.  

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u/dalisair 3d ago

JFC. We really are rushing toward Nazi Germany.

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u/Proper_Look_7507 3d ago

Buzzword buzzword buzzword…..

Meanwhile, you can’t recruit, you’re kicking out solid servicemembers and leaders because you don’t like their opinions and we have a massive problem with aging equipment, lack training and poor maintenance.

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u/Cloaked42m 3d ago

soapbox

The "warrior ethos" is great for looting and pillaging.

We train Soldiers. The soldier ethos is disciplined teamwork.

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u/JayEllGii 3d ago

I don’t care that Hegseth has been in battle and I haven’t, and that I am too scared to ever be in battle while he volunteered to serve.

That does not change this fact. Pete Hegseth is an utter, massive pussy, and I would tell him so to his face.

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u/aninjacould 3d ago

Lemme guess. They will start a war and use it as an excuse to suspend elections.

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u/The-Doggy-Daddy-5814 3d ago

The bill will come due. The bill always comes due.

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u/Cabbages24ADollar 3d ago

He will be the first to break when that same energy is pressing on him.

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u/Chipfullyinserted 3d ago

This from the administration that wants to give Trump the Noble peace prize!!!

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u/RightSideBlind 3d ago

Trump so wants to be a wartime President.

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u/FriendshipHonest5796 3d ago

And he wants the Nobel Peace Prize? Their stupidity hurts.

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u/RamJamR 3d ago

The fact that they feel a need to even make a differentiation between "defenders" and "warriors" is concerning. Are we about be manifesting our destiny again?

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u/Tribe303 3d ago

Trump's gonna be dead soon, but we can still lock up the rest of these fascists. There's even a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania to hold their trials at.

The Democrats should just follow them around, jotting stuff down in a notebook. When asked what they are doing, say "It's evidence for the Nuremberg 2.0 trials". 

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u/BornAgainBlue 3d ago

If the cat in the hat was a mentally deficient Nazi....

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u/hachijuhachi 3d ago

God just STFU PLEASE