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tblue37

(67,216 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:13 AM 2 hrs ago

This line from PeeWee Hegseth's speech is really disgusting:

You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong always in polite society.”
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This line from PeeWee Hegseth's speech is really disgusting: (Original Post) tblue37 2 hrs ago OP
Pete Hogshit will end up in prison some day. oasis 2 hrs ago #1
please . . . evilhime 1 hr ago #14
Tradition or no tradition, if I were one of the senior officers in attendance I'd be flying up onto the stage generalbetrayus 2 hrs ago #2
Pete is an F'ing scum bag. Biophilic 2 hrs ago #3
Add to that goebbles statement go LEOs "You are unleashed" in Memphis SheltieLover 2 hrs ago #4
I am an USAF kid and the Air Force is the most polite group you will ever see. Irish_Dem 2 hrs ago #5
"we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were." It was on full display at Escurumbele 1 hr ago #9
The GOP is turning the US into a nation of monsters. Irish_Dem 1 hr ago #12
I blame Rush "I'm in Hell" Limbaugh BaronChocula 1 min ago #24
Yeah that can of worms has been open for 10 years already FakeNoose 47 min ago #19
Well, some people certainly don't PatSeg 2 hrs ago #6
That line describes him and him only, most of the rest will be disgusted Arazi 2 hrs ago #7
If he had been "Secretary of War" back in WWII, when there was actually a SoW, Aristus 2 hrs ago #8
Yes he's projecting for sure. Hope22 1 hr ago #10
Arrested development: emotionally, he's twelve years old (nt) William Seger 1 hr ago #11
Describes pretty much all of trump's administration... Wounded Bear 42 min ago #21
He certainly seems to admire people who "break things and kill people". Ping Tung 1 hr ago #13
I can hear him whispering Mblaze 1 hr ago #15
So much for Charmin One 1 hr ago #16
Dude's a pure asshole. n/t SpankMe 1 hr ago #17
His speech surfered 53 min ago #18
Or fragged. MLWR 42 min ago #20
Whiskey Pete is a real wannabe. NoMoreRepugs 1 min ago #22
Sounds more like ICE than our military. Marie Marie 1 min ago #23

generalbetrayus

(1,257 posts)
2. Tradition or no tradition, if I were one of the senior officers in attendance I'd be flying up onto the stage
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:28 AM
2 hrs ago

to throttle Drunky McFuckstick for that horrible insult, insinuating that I was every bit the psychopath that he is.

Biophilic

(6,110 posts)
3. Pete is an F'ing scum bag.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:29 AM
2 hrs ago

How utterly and deeply insulting. How did he think these gentlemen would take something like that? Trump’s people continue to amaze me with their sheer ineptitude and downright stupidity. How on earth can they imagine that they represent the superior race? They are so embarrassing and infuriating.

SheltieLover

(74,173 posts)
4. Add to that goebbles statement go LEOs "You are unleashed" in Memphis
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:34 AM
2 hrs ago

and the likelihood for problems multiplies exponsntially.

Memphis. The police force that murdered Tyre Nichols. .

Irish_Dem

(75,668 posts)
5. I am an USAF kid and the Air Force is the most polite group you will ever see.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:35 AM
2 hrs ago

USAF Active duty, retired, families are polite and well mannered.

When we returned to the US after serving overseas we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were.

Even today if I meet an Air Force family I immediately totally relax.
They have my back.

Escurumbele

(3,917 posts)
9. "we could not get over how rude, ill mannered, and racist American civilians were." It was on full display at
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:24 PM
1 hr ago

the Golf tournament the "Ryder Cup". That was more appalling than what I have ever seen at a sports tournament. And the response from the president of the PGA, and the USA team captain was worst.

It is appalling because it had never happened before at this level, Rory McIlroy's wife was hit in the head with a beer bottle, she had a hat that seemed to protect her, but the slurs that were targeted at her were despicable. And the president of the PGA answered that "he could understand the abuse to Rory because Rory is so good, but the abuse to other European players was uncalled for." (I am paraphrasing), so it is OK to abuse Rory and his wife, but the others? they are not as good, so spare them. Of course the guy went to retract his words, at least he didn't say "they took my words out of context", but the public apology was as bad, and then he went on a "save my self" act by apologizing directly to Rory and his wife.

What I am getting at is that trump opened a can of worms, and now the worms are "unleashed".

Irish_Dem

(75,668 posts)
12. The GOP is turning the US into a nation of monsters.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:36 PM
1 hr ago

Yes unleashing the dark underbelly of human nature.

BaronChocula

(3,452 posts)
24. I blame Rush "I'm in Hell" Limbaugh
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:06 PM
1 min ago

He spent hours every day on the radio setting the table for the behavior we see from those people. He had the largest right-wing audience and for all followers in RW media to get a share of that audience, they had to dive down into scum to appeal.

Before him, republicans were already good at condescending to everyone else and scapegoating minorities, but for Limbaugh and his ilk, that wasn't ugly enough.

FakeNoose

(38,848 posts)
19. Yeah that can of worms has been open for 10 years already
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:20 PM
47 min ago

We're all getting mighty sick of it. Chump's rude behavior has set the tone for rudeness all over the country, and also many other parts of the world. Wherever Americans (I'm talking about Repukes here) go, rudeness and bad behavior follow.

PatSeg

(51,044 posts)
6. Well, some people certainly don't
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:37 AM
2 hrs ago

belong in polite society, starting with the two clowns on that stage.

Aristus

(71,007 posts)
8. If he had been "Secretary of War" back in WWII, when there was actually a SoW,
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:44 AM
2 hrs ago

We would have lost. It was due to the relative compassion, our adherence to the Geneva Convention articles regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that so many German soldiers surrendered rather than fighting to the death. Rumors (which were true) spread among German soldiers in the field that POW's were fed and treated better by the Americans than by their own officers.

Can't expect that drunken shitstain to know that.

Hope22

(4,190 posts)
10. Yes he's projecting for sure.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:24 PM
1 hr ago

He and his buds dream up the evil and pass out the orders. Very ill!!

Ping Tung

(3,779 posts)
13. He certainly seems to admire people who "break things and kill people".
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:46 PM
1 hr ago
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Mblaze

(796 posts)
15. I can hear him whispering
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:51 PM
1 hr ago

This to his GI Joe action figures as a child. Of course, he's still a child.

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