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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:25 AM Jun 2025

Pete Hegseth -- who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach ...

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Pete [Hegseth] — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.

What an unbelievable asshole.

June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.

What an unbelievable asshole.

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-06-07T16:22:03.944Z
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Pete Hegseth -- who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 OP
He is so odious and reprehensible Diamond_Dog Jun 2025 #1
And FRAGILE. Do not forget how fragile these white supremacists are Attilatheblond Jun 2025 #6
Why does the clown think that doing push ups somewhere D. Spaulding Jun 2025 #2
It's disgusting... fuck Pete Hogsbreath!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2025 #3
Sorry but doing PT at Omaha beach is disgusting Docreed2003 Jun 2025 #4
Civilian here. What is PT? Delmette2.0 Jun 2025 #26
Physical Training sop Jun 2025 #27
Thank you. Delmette2.0 Jun 2025 #29
"Physical Training" Docreed2003 Jun 2025 #28
Thank you. Delmette2.0 Jun 2025 #30
Hegseth is obviously too ignorant to know that Medgar Evers landed on Omaha Beach. generalbetrayus Jun 2025 #5
it's not ignorance DonCoquixote Jun 2025 #7
That is a good point you made. generalbetrayus Jun 2025 #8
Don't insult rocks. Beck23 Jun 2025 #23
They've had a lot of practice making women ,of any color, feel worthless for years. BattleRow Jun 2025 #12
That seems pretty ignorant to me. dchill Jun 2025 #24
@5 Just spit out my coffee! BattleRow Jun 2025 #9
Absolutely. ShazzieB Jun 2025 #22
What's the proposed new name, USS Byron de la Beckwith? Silent Type Jun 2025 #10
Shitty (of course) how he made it about HIM--- lastlib Jun 2025 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Midnight Writer Jun 2025 #13
Renamed my toilet Puppyjive Jun 2025 #14
Well...we'll never forget COL Mustard Jun 2025 #15
Hegseth is a racist asshole LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #16
POS orangecrush Jun 2025 #17
Thanks, Putin! Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #18
Ignorance Iamscrewed Jun 2025 #19
Is he determined to name it the "Bone Spur" in honor of his master's distinguished military service? Ping Tung Jun 2025 #20
Hegseth is a racist asshole Beck23 Jun 2025 #21
Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed--Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops' LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #25

Attilatheblond

(8,305 posts)
6. And FRAGILE. Do not forget how fragile these white supremacists are
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jun 2025

Deep inside, they know there is something essential missing from them, deep inside.

D. Spaulding

(455 posts)
2. Why does the clown think that doing push ups somewhere
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:31 AM
Jun 2025

gives his actions any particular meaning or validation? And I say that as a veteran with close to 30 years of military service. He was an absolute horrible choice for that position

generalbetrayus

(1,503 posts)
5. Hegseth is obviously too ignorant to know that Medgar Evers landed on Omaha Beach.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:39 AM
Jun 2025

If brains were dynamite, he couldn't blow his own nose.

DonCoquixote

(13,943 posts)
7. it's not ignorance
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:41 AM
Jun 2025

it is the goal to make every person not white feel worthless, and make every abusive white dude feel more worthy than a hero.

generalbetrayus

(1,503 posts)
8. That is a good point you made.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:48 AM
Jun 2025

But I'm still pretty sure he is dumb as a rock, and, as a geologist, I know something about rocks.

BattleRow

(2,090 posts)
12. They've had a lot of practice making women ,of any color, feel worthless for years.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jun 2025

So theyve got a good head ,or should I say "heartless",start?

ShazzieB

(22,220 posts)
22. Absolutely.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jun 2025

He not only doesn't know that Medgar Evers landed on Omaha Beach, he doesn't care. He couldn't care less what Evers, Harvey Milk, or any of the others who had ships named after them that he wants to rename did or who they are.

In the Hegseth-Trump universe, there is only one criterion for greatness: being a straight white male. Those people are not straight, white males, which to Schlump and Hegseth means they can't possibly have done anything to deserve having a ship named after them.

It's a warped, sick, twisted way of looking at these outstanding people and their remarkable lives, but the drunk and his overgrown toddler boss have, tragically, been given the power to do this. There are no words for how wrong this is.

lastlib

(27,557 posts)
11. Shitty (of course) how he made it about HIM---
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jun 2025

NOT so much those who shed their blood there. I think he really couldn't give a rat's wazzoo about them, just using them as a prop for his crap--the way his deplorable boss does.

I have a SEEETHING hatred for this crowd.

Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

COL Mustard

(7,994 posts)
15. Well...we'll never forget
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 12:23 PM
Jun 2025

The white veterans. Them other men, well, they shoulda stayed home and kept in their place.



(Obvious sarcasm, but added if needed.)

Ping Tung

(4,141 posts)
20. Is he determined to name it the "Bone Spur" in honor of his master's distinguished military service?
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 01:34 PM
Jun 2025

The only people more disgusting than them are the nincompoops who voted for him.

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." Mark Twain

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,007 posts)
25. Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed--Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops'
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 02:31 PM
Jun 2025

It was no accident that Hegseth did this at the start of Pride Month

Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be Renamed—Vets Call It 'Insult to LGBTQ Troops' www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...

UncoverTheNews (@uncoverthenews.bsky.social) 2025-06-04T11:23:18.459Z


https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-renaming-harvey-milk-navy-ship-sparks-fury-veterans-group-2080673

A veterans group has accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of a "deliberate insult to LGBTQ" troops by renaming a ship carrying the name of the prominent gay rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk.

The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a replenishment oiler, was issued in a memorandum from the office of the Secretary of the Navy, according to CBS News.

"At the start of Pride Month, Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy to strip Harvey Milk's name from a ship," VoteVotes, a progressive veterans activist group, posted to X, formerly Twitter.

"A man who served with honor—erased to send a message. This is a deliberate insult to LGBTQ Troops and Americans that weakens our force and shreds the values we fight for."....

The renaming of the ship marks the latest move by Hegseth and the wider Trump administration to purge departments of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

The documents also show that other Navy vessels named after prominent American figures are on a "recommended list" to be renamed. These include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

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