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    He’s an unqualified, paychopathic piece of shit and a fucking war criminal and the best the US media can do is speculate that maybe the deranged toddler-in-chief might maybe not support him quite as much as he used to because maybe a few of the brazenly traitorous Republican scumbags in Congress might actually take issue with him.

    2025 is going to go down in history as the year that the US dropped all pretense of being rational or legitimate and went full bug-eyed insane.

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      and the best the US media can do is speculate that maybe the deranged toddler-in-chief might maybe not support him quite as much as he used to because maybe a few of the brazenly traitorous Republican scumbags in Congress might actually take issue with him

      While also doing some drive by racism on Native Americans with a stupidly written racist ass headline

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        Every continent with people had some culture that took scalps.

        If you expand that to any trophy taking… Well, the game knuckle bones might have started with sheep bones, but soldiers throughout the ages have played it with bones from humans.

        All that said, the European Colonizers did pay bounties on scalps of anyone with native seeming hair and skin color.

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              It’s not unique to Japan but the whole thing still causes some pretty reasonable animosity between China and Japan and Korea and Japan and that’s sorta sidestepping the horrors of Japanese occupation of Korea.

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                Yeah, the newly formed CIA of the postwar era actually pulled the man who signed the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor out of prison, to put him in charge of Japan’s conservative party, and with a heavy hand on the scales the leader of the country. All to fight off a group that wanted to unionize Japan’s workers so that they didn’t have to work themselves to death.

                Basically everyone begged the CIA not to do this, and yet they did. Because the first leader of the CIA had been personal friends with several prominent Nazis, and had reportedly cried when America entered WW2 against the Nazis. The other Dulles brother wasn’t any better of a person.

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    “The people around the president have always sensed that Hegseth isn’t really qualified for the job,” this person added. “But he’s redeemed himself in the eyes of the president because he is truly devoted to Trump. That goes a long way.”

    What a wonderful world we live in.

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      His primary qualification is that he was an officer (eventually reaching the rank of Major) in the Army National Guard, via ROTC, and volunteered to serve in Guantanamo and Iraq during the War on Terror.

      I highly encourage people to compare and contrast his service record with that of Jim Mattis, or any other appointee to the same office in recent history, for additional context.

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        He was a Major. That’s not a rank with much in the way of responsibility. And he only served two years of weekends at that rank. The rest of the time at that rank was as an inactive reserve.

        So his actual command experience was as a captain. That’s command of between 50 and 200 people.

        Except that’s not true either, because Hegseth’s entire time as Captain was as a teacher in the counter insurgency school in Kabul.

        So his only experience leading people seems to have been as a lieutenant, and I can tell you, no one respects a lieutenant.

        So yeah, his entire reason for being picked for that role was his loyalty to Trump.

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          Trump uses the technique of employing people who are vastly under qualified, because their selfishness in wanting to keep their position requires their loyalty to the guy who saved them from being a low subscriber podcaster or ambulance chasing attorney.

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            Mob boss mentality.

            Smart dictators try to breed both competence and loyalty. I’m glad that Trump and his handlers are not smart.