Current Events > Hegseth speech is live streaming

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https://www.youtube.com/live/YSkNiVVTm-Y?feature=shared

Lol what an egotistical dumbass

Holy smokes.

He's attacking Biden and the "Woke Department"

He literally said that his job is to determine who was just executing orders of an elected officials, and which are truly committed to the "woke Department" and who need to be removed because they won't execute new lawful orders

He said if his words make hearts sink then you should just resign.

These dudes all thought they were heading to righteous kegger and now they have to listen to this loser.

He sounds like he's about to fire all the women and brown people in the military.

Ask the stupid fuck to define "woke". I'm sick of them throwing the word around like it's their boogeyman under the bed.

But we're talking about people who celebrate having no empathy, so...

This dude is just a fucking Major and has never had to command anything or make tough decisions.

It's clear they just want the troops to be mindless mercenaries and not have any considerations outside of killing peolle

Omfg

"You need to focus on the M, not the D or the E or the I".

If you don't know it's the four instruments of government power - Diplomacy, Informational, Economic.

And actually all four are supposed to work collaboratively to achieve IS national policy. So it's ridiculous he's trying to build a barrier between the DoD and other parts of the government.

And you know... Bullshit that he's using it to mean DEI too.

I hate this guy

Is "profession of arms" a common expression in the military? I've never heard it and it sounds so gross.

He talks about being a political and it's all 100% political

Seems like another Trump playbook move, a bunch of talking about drastically changing things but none of it has any substance except the one discriminating minorities

He also said we serve at the pleasure of the president.

No, I serve the Constitution and my paycheck comes from my fellow Americans

This could have been an email

The Gulf War was a success?

So why the fuck did we have to go back 10 years later?

No more politically correct rules of engagement? Does that mean ignoring the Geneva convention? War crimes are back on the table?

"Maximum Lethality is all I ever wanted"

Jesus fucking Christ

"you break things and kill people for a living"

How fucking demoralizing must it be that this lunatic is degrading military service to just murdering people

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I would hope they are all fuming at having to listen to this imbecile

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He talks like a brand new E-5 tbh

I've only seen one media outlet ever critique the military as inept, and it once employed Hegseth

I love the panning to the audience. So many crossed arms, people picking lint off their sleeves, yawning.

Is there more to this shit or did they really make all these military leaders fly from around the country to hear that speech?

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Deng they took Jeb's "please clap"?

Not watching but from what I'm reading itt, it sounds like a straight-up supervillain speech >_>

Sounds like Pete wanted to cosplay as a tough guy.

playing the Monty Python theme is on point

Ivynn posted...

Not watching but from what I'm reading itt, it sounds like a straight-up supervillain speech >_>

DEI bad
Soldiers are soulless killing machines

About sums it up

Hexenherz posted...

I love the panning to the audience. So many crossed arms, people picking lint off their sleeves, yawning.

Them clearly not wanting to be there seems like a good sign they won't follow whatever weird fanaticism Hegseth and Trump are on.

Didn't Trump say he was going to talk too?

Btw it was like an hour long maybe less. I caught the last half of it.

I wouldn't wanna hear this shit from a dude who just flipped a skateboard up into his nuts on live TV the day before.

Ivynn posted...

Them clearly not wanting to be there seems like a good sign they won't follow whatever weird fanaticism Hegseth and Trump are on.

Which gives me hope. That's even less manpower for whatever those 2 want to do and they already had a manpower issue to begin with.

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It was definitely a warning to anyone who doesn't drink the Kool aid to get out.

Except that only works if you've got enough time in service to push the paperwork or your contract is up soon. RIP

Keep hearing it could cost millions getting all these generals there for.... THAT?

Like obviously such an unhinged speech, but that totally could have just been an email.

Also sounds like we are about to get into some shit

He talked about how the US purged military leaders before WW2 to get rid of underperormers and that's how we won WW2

He talked a lot about fighting lethally and killing indiscriminately

And he talked about how he and the president "have your backs" at least twice if not three times.

Really like he's driving the point home that something is about to go down.

On the other hand the guy talks like someone who got dropped from boot camp in the final week but thinks they're a Special Warfare Operator. So it's hard to tell if he's warning of a big conflict coming around the bend or if he legitimately doesn't understand anything beyond "military kill hooah"

So essentially, the goal is to turn the US military into an organization that shows up in random countries blows them to shit and then leaves

I'm having a real hard time discerning that from a terrorist organization

lilORANG posted...

DEI bad
Soldiers are soulless killing machines

About sums it up

WTF
Never in my life had i ever imagined that I am gonna see a coup d'etat from the US military. This sounds like the making of one. Gather all military leaders. Divide the military...

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I really wish I still had hope.

Dictatorship incoming or mass firing?

I wonder if mass firing/purges would be the point where "enough is enough" for the military and start doing the coup thing. Every good little fascist knows you need the military on your side and these clowns just keep disrespecting them lol

What a pathetic little man Hegseth is.

Da military leaders are probably itching for war tbh

Vegy posted...

Da military leaders are probably itching for war tbh

Dude, if nothing else, this's showing many of them hold Hegseth in absolute contempt

Also the more I think about it the more I am angered by the double speak and admission of failure as a leader that will go unchallenged.

Like, he said, "Diversity isn't our greatest strength. Unity is." Great. It's an OK sentiment on its own, they can both be great and that's the one time he mentioned diversity without calling it a liberal woke sham.

But how will he achieve unity? By forcing everyone to adopt the same bullshit political beliefs as him and Donald. That's not creating unity that's just punishing and scaring people out who don't subscribe to your flavor of bullshit.

I've never seen such a divisive secdef before. Or someone so open to attacking serving Americans because they see the world differently.