Archive article: https://archive.is/EfZkV “We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans,” he said. “No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression,” he added. “We’re going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.”
I’m convinced that the real purpose of this meeting was to gauge the willingness of top military officers to support a coup. I would be surprised if their private conversations in response to this spectacle were not spied on.
Fortunately, at least in public appearance, they don’t seem thrilled with this administration.
I think you’re crediting them with more foresight, shrewdness and competency than has ever been demonstrated by this admin.
“We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans,”
Lol, there are a shit ton of those in the Navy so many Valknut and Vesgir tattoos
This is the most fascist speech in a while, and there’s competition
hundreds of senior officers most of which are probably keenly aware that America will possibly be at war with China in the next 5 years, and with Russia uncomfortably sooner. And this cokehead carted them all to Virginia basically just to do hyper conservative virtue signaling like it was an election campaign.
**They declared war on America.
Encouraged war crimes (against American citizens)**
Enacted a bunch of racist and sexist shit (beard thing)
Announced they were planning on starting wars as soon as they feel like it
Rejected and alienated large portions of the American population from serving on the brink of WW3
Dementia Don rambled incoherently for a long time
Threatened the generals if they didn’t show fealty to the pedo king
Said the generals aren’t sexy enough for Pete
What he did is he proved to everyone he didn’t know a thing about the military.
Did you see all that winning in that room? So much winning. Shave. Don’t be fat. And then the orange man rambled about fucking nonsense for like an hour. I mean he said literally nothing coherent or relevant to the meeting. I was so fucking inspired and filled with warrior ethos I shit myself. It was awesome!
troops to Portland because TV.
That was the most closeted TedTalk I’ve ever seen.
No beards on generals? Must be the cope from having this handsome gentleman beat their asses all the way to Dixie and back!
Tsar Peter the Great banned beards in the Russian military and civil service.
This is where this wanker got it from.
He literally gave an example of a good reason to have a beard (special forces). This shit is racism. Full stop. Everyone I knew in the military who had a shaving chit was a dark green Marine.
It’s so thinly veiled that it’s raising my blood pressure. Those guys (with the shaving chits) were damn fine Marines. Fuck this administration!
His comment about beards is iterally the least problematic/newsworthy part of his speech. Why the fuck would you focus on this and not, I don’t know, his straight outta 1984 “war is peace” statement? Extreme journalistic malpractice.
I agree they literally declared war on American citizens
An outsized portion of African American soldiers get beard waivers because if they shave they suffer from “razor bumps” (Pseudofolliculitis Barbae); which is not just razor burn that goes away but a painful skin condition with unsightly pustules.
Basically Pete’s trying to be like “oh, can’t be professional if you’re black, sorry you don’t meet our stringent requirements”
I know about razor bumps and I don’t mean to make it out to be a total non-issue; my problem is with the headline and byline, which seem to make light of what was actually a deeply disturbing speech. “Look at this idiot, ranting about beards, much ado about nothing, don’t even bother reading about what he said, it was just stupid fluff, shoulda been an email lol!” is not the message that the media needs to tell the public when both Hegseth and Trump made several horrifying, fascism-escalating statements today. (And let’s be real, most people don’t actually read the articles, so burying the lede like this is functionally similar to not reporting on it at all.)
The media isn’t going to start being honest now because the moment they do, Trump’s going to pull their licenses/sue them for “defaming the government”/jail them/whatever.
People keep wondering why the news won’t report on what is actually going on? Why they keep capitulating to Trump.
The reason is that even when they want to, they have a gun to their heads.
“Military leaders will need to pass height and weight tests each year.”
Each year? Height tests? How many ppl losing height year to year?
The Army tests Height and Weight every year. Those rucks will take an inch or two off you as your vertebrae get crushed.
But, yeah, army already does annual height and weight.
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Trump took the stage after him, noting that: “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before.”
The president, who famously avoided the military draft multiple time, then gave a far more subdued address, talking about everything from Joe Biden’s autopen, his love of the word “tariffs”, and the threat of nuclear weapons.
“I call it the N word. There are two N words and you can’t use either of them,” Trump said to an awkwardly silent audience.
“I call it the N word. There are two N words and you cant use either of them” Trump said to an awkwardly silent audience
This timeline has truly jumped the shark. Like on the one hand we are so fucked, but on the other hand reality has become something straight off the cutting room floor of a mockumentary series
That’ll happen when your “Predisent” is a demented rapist fraud with face paint and unfortunate tendencies toward sociopathy.
Is he ranting because he doesn’t have enough testosterone to grow one? 🤷♂️
Another common misconception is that those with thicker beards have more testosterone than people with thinner beards. Even though testosterone does play a role in the growth of facial hair, low testosterone is rarely the cause of sparse facial hair growth.2
Thia myth has been wandering around for too long. The two people I know with extreme testasterone levels have no beard growth
That’s exactly what I was thinking. He’s probably extremely insecure that he can’t grow a beard.
Hegseth complained that as leader of this department he is constantly surrounded by unattractive, hairy, bear types. He wants to see nice smooth skin that is easy on the eyes and the military will require a more metrosexual look! He also wants to see more exercise and he needs hard bodies out there. The harder. The better.
Unleash the tactical twinks!
Ah yes, the male version of Totally Spies
Thanks I love it
If we can channel nationalism into a question of who has the best gay people that would be great
Jesus. It’s like if Mac from Always Sunny was the defence secretary.
That was made up by me btw. Just mentioning just in case. I mean he wanted no beards and more excersise I just filled in the rest.
Oh yeah, I know, it’s just not much of a stretch haha.
Again, nothing sexual.
Which is weird because I thought he wanted more civil war confederate beards.
