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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 â who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach â is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will ânever forgetâ the veterans there.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-06-07T16:22:03.944Z
What an unbelievable asshole.
Diamond_Dog
(39,770 posts)it burns.
Attilatheblond
(8,305 posts)Deep inside, they know there is something essential missing from them, deep inside.
D. Spaulding
(455 posts)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
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,506 posts)Docreed2003
(18,709 posts)As is removing Medgar Evers name from the ship
Delmette2.0
(4,470 posts)sop
(17,448 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,470 posts)Docreed2003
(18,709 posts)It's just a term used for things like running and working out
Delmette2.0
(4,470 posts)generalbetrayus
(1,503 posts)If brains were dynamite, he couldn't blow his own nose.
DonCoquixote
(13,943 posts)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)But I'm still pretty sure he is dumb as a rock, and, as a geologist, I know something about rocks.
Beck23
(409 posts)BattleRow
(2,090 posts)So theyve got a good head ,or should I say "heartless",start?
dchill
(42,660 posts)BattleRow
(2,090 posts)ShazzieB
(22,220 posts)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.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)lastlib
(27,557 posts)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.
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Puppyjive
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The Hegseth.
COL Mustard
(7,994 posts)The white veterans. Them other men, well, they shoulda stayed home and kept in their place.
(Obvious sarcasm, but added if needed.)
LetMyPeopleVote
(175,007 posts)orangecrush
(28,420 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,990 posts)Kegsbreath is a traitor, like Trump.
Iamscrewed
(486 posts)Beyond believable fucking stupidity.
Ping Tung
(4,141 posts)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
Beck23
(409 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(175,007 posts)It was no accident that Hegseth did this at the start of Pride Month
Harvey Milk Navy Ship To Be RenamedâVets 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
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 honorerased 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.
