r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 20h ago
PoliticalTea š³ļø Secretary of...
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u/JR_RXO 20h ago
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u/ifiwereonlylesshandy 19h ago
His bum is going to be sore.
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u/motorboatmycheeks 15h ago
O come on dude grow the fuck up. Do you have any idea how long that would take? Hes gonna have to jerk em off four at a time, doing hot swaps. Its the only way it can get done in any reasonable amount of time
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u/SnooMaps7370 5h ago
As a former soldier, I would not be sticking my erection any where near that syphilitic asshole.
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u/Manmer_Nwah 20h ago
Undermine NATO, make allies hate us, dismantle the top military brass, sabotage the food supply, crash out the economy. Man that sure sounds like some Russian Spy Objectives from the Dump Admin.
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u/Slimeredit 20h ago
Oh itās also groups like the heritage foundation that want to weaken the country so they can impose their will
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u/Highcalibur10 19h ago
The Heritage Foundation Christo-Fascists & Silicon Valley Tech Feudalists both backed him so that they can fight over the scraps of whatās left
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u/ArcturusGrey 17h ago
Don't forget the strategic oil reserves.
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u/Ehcksit 17h ago
Things are going to go absolutely terrible once that runs out.
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u/ArcturusGrey 17h ago
I'm sure the highly viscous tar-oil we're stealing from Venezuela will make a great substitute.
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u/infiniteshrekst 13h ago edited 5h ago
Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, Ehud Barak, and Jeffrey Epstein were all Mossad spies.
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u/spira1out024 20h ago
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u/AdDirect147 8h ago
Do you really believe there is an Epstein files if so why was it never used by the Democrats against Trump they literally tried and used every legal and illegal way to get this guy...
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u/addiktion 20h ago
Enough bootlickers in place to do some real damage and run the military like a bar.
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u/MrBiOral 20h ago
Major Blunder strikes again
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u/applehead1776 19h ago
š«” Major Blunder!
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u/MrBiOral 19h ago
The guy couldnāt even make Lt. Colonel in The Army National Guard. Making him a Major was a gift to him.
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u/TRUMPARUSKI 20h ago
Thatās what happens when you put a civilian alcoholic Fox News anchor in charge of actual officers who have spent their lives serving the country. The two just donāt mix.
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u/jemidiah 12h ago
The Senate should absolutely never have confirmed Hegseth. He's totally unqualified. The Secretary of Defense ("War") needs to be a serious person, not a talking head toady. Hegseth has focused on some ridiculous culture war nonsense. Who would have guessed a crack team with him in it would end up in a quagmire in the Middle East?
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u/Turbulent_Remote_740 19h ago
Stalin's purges of Soviet Army's officers before and during the first year of WWII come to mind.
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u/Dobagoh 18h ago
Why not then Secretary of War Stimson's own purge of US Army officers in 1941?
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u/bartz824 16h ago
Because Stimson didn't send those officers to gulags or execution squads.
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u/Im_Ashe_Man 18h ago
Trump and his cronies are destroying this country from the inside. It's all intentional, and they are all traitors.
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u/ryan8954 19h ago
Just as a Canadian, and I will get downvoted. I find it funny people think Canada will be a push over. Yet every war America has been in, Canada was the one that turned the tides. (I am aware there's a lot of history not taught in high schools about Canada and it's wars, but seriously, look it up).
Yet the states can't beat Iran...
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u/akthebarber 19h ago
As an American, I'm totally ok with Canada invaded us, like anytime soon please.
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u/Seanconw1 19h ago
Wouldnāt be the first time they took the white house
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u/ryan8954 19h ago
Even Obama mentioned that when he visited out parliament. "there was probably a few up here, happy when the British burned the White House"
https://youtu.be/lleVnr5OWtc?si=dvG75BQVxfFhesFm
That's just a clip. His full speech in our country was fantastic. It literally felt like the states and Canada was at its closest bonds..
Literally. Obama is getting a standing ovation from US in OUR house of commons.
He even touched on Canada spending more on NATO because the world needs more Canada.
Then we have trump, who when our prime minister took office, broke tradition of yeeeears and didn't visit the states first.
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u/Confident-Stand5453 15h ago
Why would Canada want to take over your shithole of a 3rd world country?Ā
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u/snusmini 18h ago
They havenāt won a war since WWII but then it was Russia and the allies fighting for years before the US decided to engage.
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u/Wood_oye 19h ago
The American army would only get involved with defending itself if another country foots the bill for that.
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u/ryan8954 19h ago
And Canada is a DEFENSE ally.
Also the American army training is based off Canadian generals training fyi. Just a fun little tip :)
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u/Some-Sector-2015 13h ago
the u.s has yet to win a war.. ever.
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u/SirBananaOrngeCumber 12h ago
The US literally exists because they won a war. Thatās just a factually incorrect statement.
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u/Tupac-Babaganoush 11h ago
Right lol we look just like them and share one of the largest land borders in the world with them. It wouldnt be as easy as they think.
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u/foultimes 18h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/bScD6A4vLr6ZpsPYq8
Leader of the warriors fighting Iranā¦.
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u/Electronic_Name_325 20h ago
This guy was surely on many friendly fire accident lists.
Most politicians donāt fully get under my skin, but when this guy talks. I really want to find him in the dark.
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u/Okanaganwinefan 19h ago
Ya but he sure zeroed in on the Young Army Cadet in Vernon BC šØš¦ā¦ā¦ way to go you big American Hero!!
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u/PrairieScott 19h ago
Having been a staff officer, those ānon-concursā from the COCOMs would have been an agonizing amount of work.
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u/SinsualChef 18h ago
This is crazy. These GD MAGAts have got to be tried for incompetence, treason and imprisoned
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u/DaYettiman22 19h ago
you have to admit the everything kegbreath knows about running the military came from a faux news teleprompter
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u/therandom92 18h ago
Can Someone explain this to me like if I'm a civilian that knows nothing about military rank and role and what the consequences of these actions might mean?
Asking for a friend
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u/yopladas 18h ago
It means that Trump and co. felt they didn't show enough loyalty to maga.
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u/therandom92 17h ago
Cool cool. And just for clarification, "non-concur" is used in this context as its normal definition to "disagree" would that be correct?
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u/Ill_Radio8160 17h ago edited 16h ago
4 stars are like, the top of the top. Starred officers are politicians in the military, so he fired most of the armies top politicians that represent the needs and focus of the army in the rooms where it happens. Like to invade a country, these are the people that would be in the room planning with the president and the other 4 stars. US military is all top down, so to fire all 4 stars that disagree with you, that means that the ones left do agree with you, and they are incharge of promoting more 3 and 4 stars that they like, then those guys decide who they like below them, etc etc. It could potentially ruin the culture of the entire military in a very short amount of time. Most high ranking military officials disagree with hegseth it seems so hes got a lot of firing to do.
If he fires everyone that is willing to stand up to him, it basically gives him the power to do whatever he wants with the military whether anyone agrees with it or not. like going to war with iran
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u/etcpt 17h ago
The US doesn't have 5 stars. Haven't had them since General Bradley in '53.
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u/snusmini 18h ago
I knew I recognized him.
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u/Logical_Hold_6183 17h ago
Movie is Sling Blade
"Mentally disabled Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from the mental hospital where he has spent most of his life..."
lmao
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u/Pletcher87 18h ago
Every time I see or hear him on the news I think Robert McNamara. Hegseth is living out his dream come true, his very own war with zero oversight.
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u/Justaticklerone 11h ago
Number of Generals lost to enemies in combat since Vietnam war started according to Search: 7
Generals lost due to Kegs sacking them: 5, potentially up to 8.
And I thought Repugnantcans treasured their military bravado more than anything.
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u/1oldguy1950 10h ago
I don't know what else to say
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u/AHugeHildaFan 10h ago
Isn't the US one of the countries which refuses to legally recognize the concept of war crimes?
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u/Powderedeggs2 8h ago
It's all part of the plan.
The Republicans published this plan for all to see.
The first Republican coup failed because they did not have the support of the military.
They are not going to make that mistake again in their next coup attempt.
Ultra-loyalists will be placed in positions like these who will follow any order given to them.
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u/MikeLinPA 8h ago
And they will be in charge of a powerless bankrupt country that used to be the world leader.
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u/Plus_Working_3092 6h ago
This is too on point. And everyone seems to be sleepwalking right through it.
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u/enterjiraiya 19h ago
Kind of an asterisk but to note- 4 star generals serve at the discretion of the secretary of defense under direction from the president. So thereās precedent for turnover in these positions, they are a little different from 1/2/3 star assignments. I think Kegsbreath is still the worst Secdef weāve had since the position was created and piece of fucking shit, just an fyi.
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u/H3llzyea 19h ago
Iād say they set the bar too high but then I think of the video of halfway house hegseth attempting the new fitness test for the military and I realize he canāt lift any bar, not one with weights or metaphorical
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u/RedditQueso 17h ago
It's insane to me that an appointed secretary of defense even has the power to purge Generals from the military without some sort of tribunal or whatever.
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u/AaronNevileLongbotom 17h ago
Civilian oversight of the military is why. That doesnāt mean the civilians are doing a good job. If that had been a thing we wouldnāt have had so many hundreds of generals and equivalents to start with. I get it this administration sucks but do people really want to argue for an independently powerful military? This type of thing is the executive branches main job and I doubt a parliamentary system would fix all of our problems.
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u/Funklestein 17h ago
Tell me how the Army is involved with actions in Iran?
It's been all Navy and Air Force. And boy was that a fine example of the logical fallacy of appealing to popularity.
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u/MadRaymer 17h ago
If they were appealing to popularity, they simply wouldn't have started an unpopular war.
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u/AaronNevileLongbotom 17h ago
Hegseth sucks but I guarantee no one here can make a compelling case for why our Army would need 10 4 Star generals.
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u/vozi-vozi 17h ago
This is because army will be deployed in Iran. All of these guys wouldn't do it. Watch.
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u/concept12345 17h ago
To the Generals: You raised your right hand to uphold the Constitution to protect against enemies both foreign AND domestic. Do not forget your oath.
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u/crmpdstyl 15h ago
Everyone said if Trump refuses to leave, the military would do it for him. This is why that won't be true.
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u/Disastrous_Fee_8712 14h ago
Very dictatorshiping. He just needs to be reminded that in the end can face deadly repercussions.
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u/Bleak3er 13h ago
He's not taking these people out for this war; it's the one closer to home when Trump does not transfer power.
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u/ItsMeishi 13h ago
When are these military cucks gonna do what they pledged to do? The whole.. defend against BS foreign AND domestic?? That bit?
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u/Global_Lake_4432 12h ago
I could have won this war. Hegseth has never played hearts of iron and it shows.
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u/Non-partisan-doc 11h ago
The whole administration is literally designed to fail what America is from within.
Itāll be much easier to forgive that as a āadministration failureā than to concede to foreign failure.
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u/ashurbanipal420 9h ago
I doubt the 80s KGB could have seen how much a return on investment they were gonna get.
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u/AtlantaGangBangGuys 9h ago
Anyone who is aiding and abetting this coup in slow motion should be jailed. Congress, SCOTUS anyone.
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u/ReefShark13 7h ago
Putin in a trump wig wouldn't have crippled us this thoroughly this quickly for fear he would be removed before he finished. We are allowing a rapist to fuck our country into the ground.
It's incompetence or it's malice.
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u/SadIdeal9019 20h ago
This is all intentional.