Whiskey Pete, we hardly knew ya

[Anonymous]

It's a testament to the failure of education in the US that 45% of voters still approve of this administration. Heather Cox Richardson on Hegseth:

The idea that the right sort of men can do a better job than the government officers who have spent decades learning how to do their jobs is on view as well in the appointment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who previously worked as a Fox News Channel weekend host. Hegseth vowed to champion strong “warfighters” at the Pentagon, but he has had no experience running an entity as large and complicated as the Defense Department, with its annual budget of $850 billion and its almost 3.5 million employees.

The results of his appointment have been disastrous. Under Hegseth, department officials are openly feuding. Paul McLeary and Jack Detsch reported today in Politico that Hegseth is using just his wife, his lawyer, and two lower-level officials as advisors, meaning he is operating without anyone who has significant expertise in the department.

Tuesday, we learned that in the unsecure second Signal chat—the one with his wife and brother and other personal friends—Hegseth posted from his personal phone information he had just received from Army General Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, the command responsible for operations in the Middle East.

That got even worse today when Tara Copp of the Associated Press reported that Hegseth directed staffers to install Signal on his desktop computer so he could use Signal in a secure area where his own cell phone was not allowed. The computer was connected to the internet on an unsecured commercial line, making it highly susceptible to hacking.

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Anonymous wrote:“A rattled Pete Hegseth has chastised top military officers and threatened them with polygraph tests as he seeks to quiet a storm at the Pentagon.”

https://on.wsj.com/3EClr7O

2 million troops around the globe should be worried about SecDef being more concerned his “court intrigues” than about their mission and safety:

“On his end, Hegseth has become increasingly concerned about how Trump is perceiving the situation and the possibility of being fired, according to defense officials and people familiar with the Pentagon’s leadership. He has spent hours on the phone shoring up support outside the Pentagon and was late to multiple meetings during his first trip to the Asia-Pacific region.”

He hasn't figured out that he will be fired sooner rather than later? None of Trump's people last forever, few last long, and most are fired quickly. He's in the "most" category right now.

He’s not going to be fired—He’s the ultimate Trump yes man…that is the ONLY qualification.

The only way he gets fired is a defense department lapse that leads to a significant number of troop deaths.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good looking. Physically fit. Top soldier. And yet, despite all his positives, the guy is fish on a bicycle. And I think he knows it because he is lashing out at his top brass instead of honing the American fighting machine. And make-up? If this is true then what else needs to be said? Quit looking in the mirror pretty boy and start working with your commanders. How good you look in an Easter suit on the White House lawn is not the measure any of your soldiers care about

He is not good looking. He looks oily, like a car salesman.

Perhaps. But Trump chooses people like he’s shooting a movie. Hegseth looks the part of a Hollywood Sec of Defense.

Not at all! Central casting would be someone resembling George C. Scott.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, this guy attended both Princeton AND Harvard?

He completed special forces training as well.

Please enlighten us about Pete Hegseth's Special Forces training? Hegseth never went to Ranger school. He didn't do air assault. He didn't do Airborne. He didn't do any of the hard schools. Usually someone in infantry will do at least one. Instead, Hegseth did civil affairs, which is generally where low performing mediocrity ends up. His time in the Minnesota National Guard was completely undistinguished.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good looking. Physically fit. Top soldier. And yet, despite all his positives, the guy is fish on a bicycle. And I think he knows it because he is lashing out at his top brass instead of honing the American fighting machine. And make-up? If this is true then what else needs to be said? Quit looking in the mirror pretty boy and start working with your commanders. How good you look in an Easter suit on the White House lawn is not the measure any of your soldiers care about

He is not good looking. He looks oily, like a car salesman.

Perhaps. But Trump chooses people like he’s shooting a movie. Hegseth looks the part of a Hollywood Sec of Defense.

Not at all! Central casting would be someone resembling George C. Scott.

Trump thinks Hegseth looks the part.

[Anonymous]

What’s the deal with his wife and lawyer being his advisors? Why isn’t this getting more attention?

[Anonymous]

Kudos for Pete eliminating all DEI hires from the pentagon and putting real generals with combat experience for once.

National security is not an area where social engineering should conduct DEI experiments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kudos for Pete eliminating all DEI hires from the pentagon and putting real generals with combat experience for once.

National security is not an area where social engineering should conduct DEI experiments.

Russian bot or middle school troll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kudos for Pete eliminating all DEI hires from the pentagon and putting real generals with combat experience for once.

National security is not an area where social engineering should conduct DEI experiments.

We have replaced DEI with MWMO--Mediocre White Males Only.

[Anonymous]

The latest news stories on Pretty Boy Hegseth.

*Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a "dirty" internet line set up in the Pentagon so he could use Signal on a computer and avoid the Pentagon’s security protocols.
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d
[Why isn't this bigger news?]

*Hegseth became agitated by leaks about a planned classified briefing for Elon Musk and threatened his subordinates with polygraph tests. "Pentagon officials said this week that they were no longer sure who they should be working with inside Hegseth’s team because of what one described as the ‘revolving door’ of staffers."
(WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-pentagon-fired-aides-cfa9e0d5?st=2DDS8u

*Hegseth’s former chief of staff, Joe Kasper, "who played a central role in a power struggle that gripped the Pentagon," has left.
(Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

"The circle of top advisers in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orbit has shrunk in recent days to little more than his wife, lawyer, and two lower-level officials."
(Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-pentagon-leadership-vacuum-00308620

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Anonymous wrote:He’s drunk as a skunk in this WH Easter egg roll video. His poor kids look mortified.

They are out to sink him:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/VGaNVuZLl9

For non Reddit people

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I thought that his DEI hire was based on skin color, but it might be because he is mentally challenged.

To hear him talk, you'd never know he's a Princeton grad (athletic scholarship). He talks like a parody of himself, and a dumb one at that.

You don't have to be smart to go to Princton on an athletic scholarship.

Hegseth was valedictorian of his public HS in Minnesota and a very good athlete. That's good enough for Princeton.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Pete is one great defense secretary we had in decades of mediocre defense contractors' mouthpieces pretending to serve as public employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the deal with his wife and lawyer being his advisors? Why isn’t this getting more attention?

Because he works for a president who had his daughter and son-in-law as senior advisors. We're numb to this sort of thing by now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“A rattled Pete Hegseth has chastised top military officers and threatened them with polygraph tests as he seeks to quiet a storm at the Pentagon.”

https://on.wsj.com/3EClr7O

2 million troops around the globe should be worried about SecDef being more concerned his “court intrigues” than about their mission and safety:

“On his end, Hegseth has become increasingly concerned about how Trump is perceiving the situation and the possibility of being fired, according to defense officials and people familiar with the Pentagon’s leadership. He has spent hours on the phone shoring up support outside the Pentagon and was late to multiple meetings during his first trip to the Asia-Pacific region.”

He hasn't figured out that he will be fired sooner rather than later? None of Trump's people last forever, few last long, and most are fired quickly. He's in the "most" category right now.

He’s not going to be fired—He’s the ultimate Trump yes man…that is the ONLY qualification.

The only way he gets fired is a defense department lapse that leads to a significant number of troop deaths.

At this rate we’re not far from that. Pete is out here exposing plans and talking way too freely on insecure channels all while being ignorant of the operations of the organization he is supposed to be leading and is instead failing. Meanwhile, we’re losing connection with our allie. peace and stability in the Middle East is becoming more precarious and the Israel/Gaza ceasefire is dead. Russian and Ukraine are still at war and any peace deal Trump folks thought they had had long since been shown to be a sham with Putin running circles around them. Oh, and so much for defending a Americans domestically since we seem to be trafficking folks to El Salvador and attempting to build a concentration camp in Gitmo.