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riversedge

(80,462 posts) Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:41 PM 14 hrs ago

Hegseth: "I only speak American"

Hegseth is as dumb as a door nail.

Drunk American? American is not a language. Bet you didn't know that. Right?
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Hegseth: "I only speak American"

Drunk American? American is not a language. Bet you didn't know that. Right?
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Hegseth: "I only speak American" (Original Post) riversedge 14 hrs ago OP

To quote Moe Howard, he is "umbday" in any language. City Lights 14 hrs ago #1

Damn Solly Mack 14 hrs ago #2

True, In The Sense Of "Not Literally." But False, In The Sense Of.... ColoringFool 14 hrs ago #3

Remember he posted that no one understood what Bad Bunny was singing. underpants 14 hrs ago #4

He speaks Trumpese mvd 14 hrs ago #5

So this Cocky/drunkard little man named Pete Miami Blue 14 hrs ago #6

I think he meant Native American. usedtobedemgurl 13 hrs ago #7

Of Course. He's a PROUD American, see. MineralMan 13 hrs ago #8

Once again a MAGA celebration of ignorance Blue Owl 13 hrs ago #9

The things these people laugh at. LuckyCharms 13 hrs ago #10

Your tattoos beg to differ, Petey Pete. tanyev 13 hrs ago #11

City Lights

(25,675 posts)

1. To quote Moe Howard, he is "umbday" in any language.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:46 PM

14 hrs ago

What an embarrassing fool.

Solly Mack

(96,809 posts)

2. Damn

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:48 PM

14 hrs ago

ColoringFool

(573 posts)

3. True, In The Sense Of "Not Literally." But False, In The Sense Of....

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:56 PM

14 hrs ago

"Attitude."

"American" to this Administration is a belligerent, aggrieved, aggressive, violent, demanding, sociopathic language.

A language of disdain, superiority, misogyny, xenophobia, cruelty, sadism, ignorance, and psychopathy.

A language imbued with Pride, Wrath, Envy, Avarice, Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth.

"American" is the language of SMUG AMORALITY.

underpants

(196,022 posts)

4. Remember he posted that no one understood what Bad Bunny was singing.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:57 PM

14 hrs ago

No one. 🙄

mvd

(65,898 posts)

5. He speaks Trumpese

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 01:19 PM

14 hrs ago

And in a juvenile teenage way.

Miami Blue

(372 posts)

6. So this Cocky/drunkard little man named Pete

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 01:23 PM

14 hrs ago

His jargon is bombastic, and, of course, his trash talk comes across as pure BS / caca de vaca.
The same applies to his ignoramus psycho boss
PedoTraitorTrump.
🖕🏻
They are both an embarrassment to the U.S.
Armed Forces.

usedtobedemgurl

(2,004 posts)

7. I think he meant Native American.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 01:28 PM

13 hrs ago

Though I do not think he speaks the language of any NA tribe.

MineralMan

(151,079 posts)

8. Of Course. He's a PROUD American, see.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 01:43 PM

13 hrs ago

That attitude is really, really common among Republicans. They don't have to learn any other languages. Everyone who has anything worthwhile to say will say it in English.

Now that he's Secretary of Defense, I wonder what he would think of the total immersion Russian language school I attended while serving in the USAF in the mid 1960s.. Apparently, the military had some need for people who understood Russian. What surprise, eh?

Many Americans take great pride in their ignorance of any language other then English. When they travel, they expect everyone they encounter to understand what they say. Thank goodness people in other countries learn English, or American would starve to death when they traveled.

When many Americans hear people conversing in a non-English language, they take it as an insult or assume they're talking about them in negative terms.

THIS IS AMERICA! SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT!

Blue Owl

(58,880 posts)

9. Once again a MAGA celebration of ignorance

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 02:08 PM

13 hrs ago

Please make it stop….

LuckyCharms

(22,456 posts)

10. The things these people laugh at.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 02:16 PM

13 hrs ago

I don't think I've ever met a truly funny Repub.

tanyev

(49,095 posts)

11. Your tattoos beg to differ, Petey Pete.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 02:17 PM

13 hrs ago

This is the Jerusalem cross, also known as the Crusader cross: square (unlike the more usual elongated versions of the Christian symbol), and with a smaller square cross in each of the four quadrants.

This very same cross has been in the limelight recently, emblazoned — far, far larger than King Edward VII’s version — on Pete Hegseth’s chest. Hegseth, a Fox News anchor and former member of the National Guard, is Trump’s pick for secretary of defense. It’s by no means his only tattoo. He also has a “Chi-Rho,” the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ and one of the earliest forms of a so-called Christogram (letters formed into a monogram expressing the essence of the religion). Perhaps the most contentious is the Christian expression on his bicep: “Deus Vult,” meaning “God Wills It,” believed to be a Crusader battle cry. Τhere is another cross with a sword, referencing a verse in the Gospel of Matthew reporting the following words of Jesus: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” “Yeshua,” Jesus’ name in Hebrew, can be read across his elbow. All these Christian-related symbols, words and letters are accompanied by others that draw on American history and identity: the U.S. Constitution’s famous opening phrase “We the People,” the year “1775” in Roman numerals (the year the American War of Independence started), a “Join, or Die” snake from the American Revolution (from a cartoon attributed to Benjamin Franklin, urging the then-colonies to unite), an American flag with an AR-15 rifle, a pair of crossed muskets, a circle of stars and a patch of his regiment, the 187th Infantry.

https://newlinesmag.com/essays/pete-hegseths-tattoos-and-the-crusading-obsession-of-the-far-right/

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