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demmiblue

(39,045 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 07:27 AM Monday

Pete Hagueseth's latest: "For your Christmas wish list..."

Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.

Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T05:42:45.534Z


War-mongering psychopath. 🖕
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Pete Hagueseth's latest: "For your Christmas wish list..." (Original Post) demmiblue Monday OP
Scholastic should take him to court C_U_L8R Monday #1
It will be interesting to see if that happens. Unless the DOW got permission, it's at least allegorical oracle Monday #4
... demmiblue Monday #2
these sick fucks love to troll... it's what they are best at LymphocyteLover Monday #3
Franklin is about as bright as Hegseth Red Mountain Monday #5
Just look at how Hegseth responded to these latest revelations with the adolescent smirking of a schoolyard bully... demmiblue Monday #6
Lullaby struggle4progress Monday #7
You can tell he's feeling pressure mr715 Monday #8

allegorical oracle

(6,074 posts)
4. It will be interesting to see if that happens. Unless the DOW got permission, it's at least
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 10:40 AM
Monday

copyright infringement. The fact that its use could be considered defamatory, adds another aspect. The author, illustrator, and publisher could claim reputational injury.

demmiblue

(39,045 posts)
6. Just look at how Hegseth responded to these latest revelations with the adolescent smirking of a schoolyard bully...
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 05:51 PM
Monday
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges



Just look at how Hegseth responded to these latest revelations with the adolescent smirking of a schoolyard bully squashing fireflies or pulling the legs off of a spider:

This sort of snickering, vacuous sadism is something Democrats can leverage to their advantage. Hegseth famously has urged the armed forces to get more serious about their “warfighting.” But as Tom Nichols explains at The Atlantic, everything that Hegseth concretely does to further this idea, from his “Department of War” renaming stunt to his absurd demands for more “lethality,” signals an obvious lust for killing that the actual “warfighters” will see as unserious and venal to its core.

The saga of the two men killed at sea illustrates this vividly. Again, even if this account isn’t precisely accurate, the execution appears to have happened.

As the Post notes:

If the video of the blast that killed the two survivors on Sept. 2 were made public, people would be horrified, said one person who watched the live feed.


https://newrepublic.com/article/203789/trump-boat-bombings-hegseth-legal

struggle4progress

(125,244 posts)
7. Lullaby
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 10:42 PM
Monday
... Weary the prairies
And littered with dead
I’ll leave her locket
Right here on your bed
Troubles and marks and sakes to keep
Blow out the candle and go to sleep ...


mr715

(2,475 posts)
8. You can tell he's feeling pressure
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 10:43 PM
Monday

because he's leaning in.

This is really ugly. Shame on him. How do you shame the shameless?

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