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tblue37

(68,141 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:13 AM Oct 2025

This line from PeeWee Hegseth's speech is really disgusting:

You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong always in polite society.”
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This line from PeeWee Hegseth's speech is really disgusting: (Original Post) tblue37 Oct 2025 OP
Pete Hogshit will end up in prison some day. oasis Oct 2025 #1
please . . . evilhime Oct 2025 #14
If there is any justice Mad_Machine76 Oct 2025 #27
I call him Pig Hogsbreath nuxvomica Oct 2025 #28
He's definitely a pig. 🐷 oasis Oct 2025 #31
Tradition or no tradition, if I were one of the senior officers in attendance I'd be flying up onto the stage generalbetrayus Oct 2025 #2
Pete is an F'ing scum bag. Biophilic Oct 2025 #3
Add to that goebbles statement go LEOs "You are unleashed" in Memphis SheltieLover Oct 2025 #4
I am an USAF kid and the Air Force is the most polite group you will ever see. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #5
"we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were." It was on full display at Escurumbele Oct 2025 #9
The GOP is turning the US into a nation of monsters. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #12
I blame Rush "I'm in Hell" Limbaugh BaronChocula Oct 2025 #24
Yes he was a big part of the hate filled training program. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #25
Yeah that can of worms has been open for 10 years already FakeNoose Oct 2025 #19
HEAR, HEAR Skittles Oct 2025 #34
Well, some people certainly don't PatSeg Oct 2025 #6
That line describes him and him only, most of the rest will be disgusted Arazi Oct 2025 #7
If he had been "Secretary of War" back in WWII, when there was actually a SoW, Aristus Oct 2025 #8
That POS would call how we treated German POWs "woke". bluesbassman Oct 2025 #35
Yes he's projecting for sure. Hope22 Oct 2025 #10
Arrested development: emotionally, he's twelve years old (nt) William Seger Oct 2025 #11
Describes pretty much all of trump's administration... Wounded Bear Oct 2025 #21
Not that I am the thread Enforcer or anything, but... GopherGal Oct 2025 #26
He certainly seems to admire people who "break things and kill people". Ping Tung Oct 2025 #13
I'm inclined to believe those words of Einstein. oasis Oct 2025 #32
I can hear him whispering Mblaze Oct 2025 #15
So much for Charmin One Oct 2025 #16
Dude's a pure asshole. n/t SpankMe Oct 2025 #17
His speech surfered Oct 2025 #18
Or fragged. MLWR Oct 2025 #20
Whiskey Pete is a real wannabe. NoMoreRepugs Oct 2025 #22
Sounds more like ICE than our military. Marie Marie Oct 2025 #23
Hegseth didn't make up the line. mn9driver Oct 2025 #29
Maybe they shouldn't drink and if thats their attitude maybe they shouldn't be wearing a uniform. Boomerproud Oct 2025 #33
This was the most awful thing he said, imo: intheflow Oct 2025 #30

nuxvomica

(13,888 posts)
28. I call him Pig Hogsbreath
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:22 PM
Oct 2025

That just came out unplanned when I was talking about him to someone. It's not clever but it's easy to say.

generalbetrayus

(1,497 posts)
2. Tradition or no tradition, if I were one of the senior officers in attendance I'd be flying up onto the stage
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:28 AM
Oct 2025

to throttle Drunky McFuckstick for that horrible insult, insinuating that I was every bit the psychopath that he is.

Biophilic

(6,402 posts)
3. Pete is an F'ing scum bag.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:29 AM
Oct 2025

How utterly and deeply insulting. How did he think these gentlemen would take something like that? Trump’s people continue to amaze me with their sheer ineptitude and downright stupidity. How on earth can they imagine that they represent the superior race? They are so embarrassing and infuriating.

SheltieLover

(76,721 posts)
4. Add to that goebbles statement go LEOs "You are unleashed" in Memphis
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:34 AM
Oct 2025

and the likelihood for problems multiplies exponsntially.

Memphis. The police force that murdered Tyre Nichols. .

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
5. I am an USAF kid and the Air Force is the most polite group you will ever see.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:35 AM
Oct 2025

USAF Active duty, retired, families are polite and well mannered.

When we returned to the US after serving overseas we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were.

Even today if I meet an Air Force family I immediately totally relax.
They have my back.

Escurumbele

(4,019 posts)
9. "we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were." It was on full display at
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:24 AM
Oct 2025

the Golf tournament the "Ryder Cup". That was more appalling than what I have ever seen at a sports tournament. And the response from the president of the PGA, and the USA team captain was worst.

It is appalling because it had never happened before at this level, Rory McIlroy's wife was hit in the head with a beer bottle, she had a hat that seemed to protect her, but the slurs that were targeted at her were despicable. And the president of the PGA answered that "he could understand the abuse to Rory because Rory is so good, but the abuse to other European players was uncalled for." (I am paraphrasing), so it is OK to abuse Rory and his wife, but the others? they are not as good, so spare them. Of course the guy went to retract his words, at least he didn't say "they took my words out of context", but the public apology was as bad, and then he went on a "save my self" act by apologizing directly to Rory and his wife.

What I am getting at is that trump opened a can of worms, and now the worms are "unleashed".

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
12. The GOP is turning the US into a nation of monsters.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:36 AM
Oct 2025

Yes unleashing the dark underbelly of human nature.

BaronChocula

(4,022 posts)
24. I blame Rush "I'm in Hell" Limbaugh
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:06 PM
Oct 2025

He spent hours every day on the radio setting the table for the behavior we see from those people. He had the largest right-wing audience and for all followers in RW media to get a share of that audience, they had to dive down into scum to appeal.

Before him, republicans were already good at condescending to everyone else and scapegoating minorities, but for Limbaugh and his ilk, that wasn't ugly enough.

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
25. Yes he was a big part of the hate filled training program.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:11 PM
Oct 2025

Setting the stage for the darkest time in US history.

FakeNoose

(40,138 posts)
19. Yeah that can of worms has been open for 10 years already
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:20 PM
Oct 2025

We're all getting mighty sick of it. Chump's rude behavior has set the tone for rudeness all over the country, and also many other parts of the world. Wherever Americans (I'm talking about Repukes here) go, rudeness and bad behavior follow.

PatSeg

(52,109 posts)
6. Well, some people certainly don't
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:37 AM
Oct 2025

belong in polite society, starting with the two clowns on that stage.

Aristus

(71,635 posts)
8. If he had been "Secretary of War" back in WWII, when there was actually a SoW,
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:44 AM
Oct 2025

We would have lost. It was due to the relative compassion, our adherence to the Geneva Convention articles regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that so many German soldiers surrendered rather than fighting to the death. Rumors (which were true) spread among German soldiers in the field that POW's were fed and treated better by the Americans than by their own officers.

Can't expect that drunken shitstain to know that.

bluesbassman

(20,372 posts)
35. That POS would call how we treated German POWs "woke".
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 12:43 AM
Oct 2025

It’s his catchall phrase for anything that he doesn’t understand or doesn’t align with his sick and twisted beliefs, ideologies, and worldview. He’s a profoundly unstable individual and should at the bare minimum be institutionalized and best case scenario incarcerated. Oh, did I also mention he’s a POS.

Hope22

(4,467 posts)
10. Yes he's projecting for sure.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:24 AM
Oct 2025

He and his buds dream up the evil and pass out the orders. Very ill!!

GopherGal

(2,788 posts)
26. Not that I am the thread Enforcer or anything, but...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:19 PM
Oct 2025

I think you owe an apology to twelve-yeari-olds for that one.

Ping Tung

(4,137 posts)
13. He certainly seems to admire people who "break things and kill people".
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:46 AM
Oct 2025
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Mblaze

(924 posts)
15. I can hear him whispering
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:51 AM
Oct 2025

This to his GI Joe action figures as a child. Of course, he's still a child.

mn9driver

(4,821 posts)
29. Hegseth didn't make up the line.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:27 PM
Oct 2025

It s been around for a long time as gallows humor among military bunkmates after a couple beers. Emphasis on the junior enlisted cannon fodder who think this is witty.

By using it in a serious, senior officer context, Hegseth just shows everyone how completely unfit he is for his office, and how poorly he understood his audience. He is a brain damaged clown.

Boomerproud

(9,149 posts)
33. Maybe they shouldn't drink and if thats their attitude maybe they shouldn't be wearing a uniform.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:57 PM
Oct 2025

nt

intheflow

(29,986 posts)
30. This was the most awful thing he said, imo:
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:27 PM
Oct 2025
War is something you do sparingly, on our own terms, and with clear aims. We fight to win. We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality, and authority for warfighters. That’s all I ever wanted as a platoon leader, and it’s all my E-6 squad leaders ever wanted.


intimidate,
demoralize,
hunt,
and kill enemies.

And then Trump adds - "Hey! We're gonna let you try out those strategies against your fellow citizens in American cities!"
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