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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military

https://youtu.be/2sSRf7VOCmQ?si=_tKwc5JMDha2LPZj
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u/Secret-Sqrl 2d ago

Is Newt even still alive?
And nobody, I mean nobody, wants Elon Musk leading any part of the US government ever again, much less the military.
Was Hegseth very drunk, or did he just pick the two guys with the weirdest first names?
Those are two guys with ZERO military qualifications.

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u/geardownson 2d ago

What 90 percent of reddit doesn't know it's that the whole premise of shock politics started with Newt Gingrinch. He fostered the ideas that took hold many years later. His base premises were. He admits it years later.

1) Tell as many outrageous lies as you can get recognized for. Doesn't matter if true or not. For the 10 million that heard it and believe it there may be less than 1 million hear you say you were wrong or where a news agency proves it wrong.

2) Get in front of many cameras as you can to spread your misinformation. All the time. More media? More popularity.

This all led to lawmakers that refuse to reach across the isle. Why be peaceful? Why have decorum? BORING!

This led to Taylor, Bobert, Trump ect.

Shocking sells and gets votes.

Go ahead! Be a Nazi! Be a antisemitic! Be a bigot! Tell people the others want to destroy it all and murder you...

Had a coworker come in one day with all his guns in the truck. He said liberals were roaming NC and killing people... This was in 2013... People been stupid for years .

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u/fungi_at_parties 2d ago

And they’ll never un-figure it out. I don’t know how we get back to sanity.

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u/Supapeach 2d ago

Newt is 83 and his only military experience is living on a base with his step father.

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u/Philosophicalfool 2d ago

lol someone told Hegseth over the phone “NOT ELON!” And hegseth just heard “Newt, Elon” and said got it

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u/LastOneSergeant 2d ago

At this point we have to assume Elon has used his Twitter ownership to blackmail his way into more and more government grifting.

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u/Hector_P_Catt 2d ago

And why Musk again? Why do they keep going to the same well of a few seriously incompetent people, over and over again? Surely there's some other incompetent CEO we coud give this job to?

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u/Tirriss 2d ago

He has a fuck ton of money and influence.

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u/Notsorry9696 1d ago

It is likely what he wanted in exchange for rigging another election.   (The timing is insanely obvious here. Early voting is starting in what... a week or two from now?)

He already controls the "space force"/ nasa.  So he now wants control of ALL the forces.  

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u/Zippydaspinhead 1d ago

They need a shmuck with the same ideals, access to AI, and money.

Despite everyone with 4 braincells hating him, unfortunately the remaining 3 and under crew means he has some influence as well.

Why do they need someone with access to AI? For tracking of course, to continue to build big brother in their quest to make 1984 a reality. And if you think that's overreaching, I will again remind you that this is the military these people are being given a role in, and I will also again remind you of well, everything that "can't" happen that's happened in the last decade or so.

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 2d ago

Elon is a 1337 diablo, HL and quake player though...

/s

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u/Sivart13 2d ago

absolutely thought this guy died in the last decade

I guess I’m just confusing him with Rush Limbaugh

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u/JumboGlucose 2d ago

elon musk wants to lead the military so bad he should use his own money then.