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Puppyjive

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14. Hegseth couldn't cut the mustard

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:09 PM

16 hrs ago

He clearly is in retaliation mode. I'm sure he got rejected for flight school. I was an aviator (not a pilot) and they do some serous weeding out processes. He most likely got rejected and some women were accepted. It's hard for some men to accept the fact that women are capable.

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SEALs flatten 'weak' Hegseth as elite captain's career ruined because she's female: report [View all] LetMyPeopleVote 19 hrs ago OP

A drunken woman hater...perfect choice travelingthrulife 19 hrs ago #1

... with an adolescent view of soldiers and war, who wants to attack Venezuela William Seger 16 hrs ago #8

She should publicly challenge him to a cage match CanonRay 19 hrs ago #2

That's exactly what I was gonna suggest, FoxNewsSucks 17 hrs ago #6

EXACTLY what I was thinking! nt Trueblue Texan 16 hrs ago #9

Oh... 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #11

Congress ought to intervene, but I'm sure they won't. This is disgraceful. hlthe2b 18 hrs ago #3

Hegseth is a sexist asshole LetMyPeopleVote 17 hrs ago #4

The only person unfit to lead any military unit, nevermind the military itself, is Whiskey Pete...n/t the nelm 17 hrs ago #5

Whiskey Pete The Wizard 17 hrs ago #7

Damn! StoolPigeon 16 hrs ago #10

That misogynistic asshole fired two top-ranking women right after he was appointed. llmart 16 hrs ago #12

Admirals Lisa Franchetti and Linda Fagan were the two highest-ranking women in U.S. military history LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #16

If it's only because she's female, then Hegseth lied about his new "neutral standards" gulliver 16 hrs ago #13

Hegseth couldn't cut the mustard Puppyjive 16 hrs ago #14

Simply ask orther SEALs, anonymously, of course... 3825-87867 16 hrs ago #15

MotherFUCK this shit. Paladin 15 hrs ago #17

Hegseth: "I don't want my son serving .... in combat units with females..... LetMyPeopleVote 10 hrs ago #18

When I was in shape, I wouldn't want to serve in combat next to him... haele 8 hrs ago #19