That's Pete Hegseth, Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense.🚨NEW: Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on reforming US military leadership:
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ADDED: Here's the NYT article on the appointment, "Trump Picks Pete Hegseth, a Veteran and Fox News Host, for Defense Secretary/The choice of Mr. Hegseth, a dedicated supporter of the president-elect in his first term, is outside the norm of the traditional choice for the post." Excerpt:
Mr. Hegseth’s book, the New York Times best-seller “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free,” was published in June. “Our ‘elites’ are like the feckless drug-addled businessmen at Nakatomi Plaza, looking down on Bruce Willis’s John McClane in ‘Die Hard,’” Mr. Hegseth wrote in the book. “But there will come a day when they realize they need John McClane — that in fact their ability to live in peace and prosperity has always depended on guys like him being honorable, powerful and deadly.”
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Agreed!
Liberals, the Deep State and political Generals are freaking out. Great in your face pick by Trump.
He talks the talk, will he walk the walk? These guys have a sad pattern of being captured by the agencies they administer. Suddenly, they're not representing the POTUS to DOD or whatever, they representing DoD (or whatever) to the POTUS.
But yes, the damage done to the US Military by Bush/Biden/Obama must be undone. Hopefully, this guy wont consider Trannies the "backbone of the US Military" like General Millie Vanilli did. Or break into a joyous dance everytime a female or minority gets two-stars.
Works for me. Vet here. 27 years USAF. I would discourage anyone from serving right now unless they do massive changes.
Esper, Kelly, Maddog Mattis, and Milli vannilli all thought they smarter than Trump and their desires superceded his. They had no intention of obeying the Commander in Chief when it suited them. They were only loyal to themselves. Hopefully, this new DoD Chief will be on the lookout for these types and exclude them.
I wanna hear Thank you for your service. Now… a lot…
Pete is fully qualified for this job and he will be great.
The purpose of the military is to be ready at all times to kill folks and break stuff, and to do it quickly and efficiently when asked by the President and Congress.
This guy gets that; no senior leader in the current administration does.
As I told a friend, "I've been really enjoying the rapid-fire announcements of cabinet nominees. The Trump transition team is organized and ready for this. They won't get rolled again like last time."
As for Pete Hegseth, I didn't have him on my bingo card, but I like the pick. He will have the right priorities about what the U.S. Armed Forces are supposed to be and get us back to peace through strength by getting rid of the woke nonsense.
Running the entire DoD requires more than just being a great personal and charismatic leader. They have to be able to manage an $800 BILLION dollar budget and all of the complications of an worldwide organization with the most critical mission in the entire world. Hegseth would be a fantastic leader of an armored division or a fighter wing in combat. Of that I have no doubt. Does he have the managerial and political skill to direct the massive bureaucracy that is the DoD? That's not clear. I do assume he is smart enough to surround himself with those who do have those skills.
The US military is for one thing and one thing only- fighting and winning wars. Keep our nation safe! -
The Cheney-Biden-Kerry-Hillary-War machine left do not care if our service men and women are killed. They care about money laundering and turning our military into a woke joke shit show.
The left made our military a Rachel Levine joke. Enough is enough.
Did mattis or esper manage anything
The military has been an awesome means of producing competent citizenry whose previous service has trained them to get things done. The military has also been an awesome means of seeding social changes into society through enforced changes under orders during service. These social changes range from great ideas such as eliminating race & gender as a factor in employment where those things have no bearing, to idiocy such as differential outcome DEI quotas based exactly on race and gender. And yet the people pushing race & gender quotas are calling themselves progressive.
The federal government should be color blind and ignore gender except where there are scientific race & gender differences, such as studying sickle cell disease or improving pregnancy outcomes. The military should define job roles and fill them based on the job's requirements and not on racial or gender quotas.
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The worst people on earth are mad, which means this is the best possible pick for America.
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‘Who the f--k is this guy?’: Defense world reacts to Trump’s surprise Pentagon pick http://ow.ly/Iq9R105OLhw
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Members of the SES will help, I'm sure. /s
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The featured quote in this Politico article is from “a defense industry lobbyist who was granted anonymity to offer candid views” and wow gee we all know how much everyone trusts & values the opinions of anonymous defense industry lobbyists.
Did you know Robert McNamara's middle name was Strange?
"I served with Robert McNamara. I knew Robert McNamara. Robert McNamara was a friend of mine... you're no Robert Strange McNamara."
Mattis was a four star, and managed the Central Command. So, yes, he had relevant experience. Quite the contrast with a reserve major. But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that having the experience will make a good secretary. McNamara is the obvious example there... did a great job as CEO of Ford. Terrible at the DoD.
He clearly understands the mission. I hope he has the executive skills to pull it off.
The Senate hearings will be must see TV.
Good question. Time will tell.
He does have a BA from Princeton in political science and a Masters from Harvard in Public Policy. He worked for Bear Sterns as an equity capital markets analyst. He has some other significant related management experience.
I will leave this here as it is a pretty good summary:
"For anyone thinking Pete Hegseth is an “unserious candidate” for Secretary of Defense, they’re wrong. Here are some reasons why:
First, let's talk about the establishment “Serious” candidate: Secretary Lloyd Austin
1. Immediately upon assuming the office, Lloyd Austin purged the defense policy boards and service academy boards of any Trump appointees removing any continuity or diversity of thought
2. Meanwhile, he shoved DEI and CRT down the throats of the services as his very first priority, immediately impacting readiness and recruiting in a negative way
3. Soon thereafter, Lloyd Austin and his team handed us the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle while they were on vacation in August 2021
a. This was the single largest military policy failure in American history other than perhaps the invasion of Iraq, led by Dick Cheney
b. The “serious” Lloyd Austin couldn’t answer a question during the first press conference of Afghanistan and deferred to General Milley
c. Austin held *no one* accountable in the military or DoD for this failure
4. The Afghanistan failure led directly to Putin seizing the opportunity to invade Ukraine costing the U.S. and NATO billions in defense spending.
5. Meanwhile, Austin didn’t inform POTUS he was not present for duty during a multiple day illness, while his Deputy was vacationing in the Caribbean. Essentially AWOL.
6. Austin participated in removing the Houthis from the terrorist watch list in Feb 2021, the easing of sanctions on Iran, and elimination of the Abraham Accords
7. Those actions set the stage for unprecedented instability in the Middle East and the actual training of Hamas by Iran prior to Oct 7 attacks
8. Meanwhile, under Austin’s DoD most services missed recruiting goals every year precisely because of the disaster it had become.
9. Under his watch, Austin’s DoD has made the USA and world less secure and the military less ready.
Now, the anti-establishment “Unserious” Candidate:
10. Pete Hegseth has a stellar career in the military as a combat veteran (Austin had this, too, to be fair; I served with him three times) and is highly decorated for his combat service.
11. Pete led veterans’ organizations as he continued to serve and became an outspoken advocate for all military service members; a grassroots in the trenches view of the warfighter.
12. That platform led to him being chosen as a Fox News co-host, a byproduct of his service, where he thinks and talks daily about military, defense, foreign policy, and veteran issues.
12. He is a thought leader on military, defense, and veteran issues as evidenced by his continuous conversations and his many books, including the most recent: The War on Warriors
13. The disaster that is DoD today needs significant repair and precisely because Pete is not a retired flag officer, former big defense board member, or silver spoon think tank genius, he is the right man for the job.
14. Any good leader knows that you must genuinely care about the people you lead if you want to have an organization be successful. Pete cares deeply about the men and women in uniform and their families.
Pick your version of "serious." I'll go with Pete."
--Anthony J. Tata@ajtata
Trump, you magnificent bastard!
I don't know anything about him, but he comes across as a bullsh*tter. I've got some reading up to do.
The Top Gun guy, Tony Scott, died in 2012 (suicide). Maybe Pete means the Top Gun: Maverick guy, Joseph Kosinski, or maybe he means Jerry Bruckheimer, or Tom Cruise, or all three. That’s going to cost way more than $1 million.
Had some email exchanges with him after my college alumni magazine featured him--always very gracious, and didn't seem to mind that his life got upended when his MN National Guard unit got called up (unlike Tim "Twinkle Toes" Walz. Met him more than a decade later in person when our son was in the Best Ranger Competition at Ft. Benning, and he remembered our email correspondence while he was in Afghanistan. Our son deploys as a Green Beret next week, and I have confidence in Pete to ensure efforts and safety are in proper focus.
What no recruiting ads targeted at the vital drag queen segment?
Drago, I agree that Austin was a terrible pick and awful in just about every way. But that's not the question at hand... Can Hesgeth manage the DoD? I hope so, but he's going to need some experienced Fortune 500 CEO types or very senior commanders to help him. I hope has Musk on speed dial. :)
Esper per Wiki: "A West Point graduate, Esper joined the United States Army and saw combat during the Gulf War as an infantry officer with the 101st Airborne Division. Esper subsequently served in the 82nd Airborne Division and the Army National Guard. After leaving military service, he served as chief of staff at the Heritage Foundation; a senior congressional staffer; a deputy assistant secretary of defense; and a senior executive for the Aerospace Industries Association, the Global Intellectual Property Center, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Immediately before joining the Trump administration, Esper worked as a senior leader at defense contractor Raytheon as its vice president of government relations."
So, aside from deputy assistant SecDef, his entire post military resume was networking and Nonprofit. Not exactly a titan of industry.
He may be less susceptible to institutional capture because his future career prospects do not depend upon lobbying.
Someone on X said the ratio of general officers to enlisted personnel in the Biden military exceeds the ratio during WWII. (That's not the wording he used, it's mine, but the meanings are the same.) That can't be good. I suspect most Biden promotions were entirely DEI nonsense. Unfortunately most of those officers who must be fired will be women because they lack the essentials of command, which consists of many elements that cannot be learned in a classroom. It's the same everywhere in gov't. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians.
Hegseth is willing to address the question: did we (the generals, not the soldiers) make mistakes? That’s job qualification #1. He has administrative and military and policy experience. What he needs to overcome is twofold: the entrenched bureaucracy that probably secretly appreciates a Trump win because the Democrats were hurting their recruiting numbers so badly, and a couple generations of disillusioned young men who risked their lives without support from within or without the military, most often for illogical causes. Just as police families are telling their sons not to become police, military families are warning off their sons too. Can that broken string be reconnected? Only with massive realignment and massive reassurances that they won’t be hated and won’t be duped into stupid foreign engagements, only protective, necessary action.
It’s a tall order. This time, beware the generals who welcome Trump back as much as those who try to destroy him.
Yes he knows of what he speaks. Two bronze stars for leading platoons. After that he ran a charity that helped Vets, raising only private money for it. He has written and spoken on how we are in danger of not even being able to mobilize for a war if we had to.
He didn't say anything about getting rid of the women. He's toast.
True, but only if the military academies can escape DEI’s academic mission creep.
Reestablishing CIVILIAN leadership of the DOD is a high priority. We have a bunch of affirmative action and Obama-approved 4-stars incapable of doing the basic job of readiness. Just look at the Afghan Withdrawal as executed by Milley et al. These idiots actually though using trannies to attract recruits would work. Who among us has ANY confidence in the current leadership of the Armed Forces?
The filters are gone!
Doesn't it feel like a pack of mobster pedophile billionaires were the real puppet masters in charge these last 4 years? No - not kidding.
Look again Jupiter. He's on record saying "America should not have women in combat roles."
These people should leave the military, and the country, now and save us all the trouble. They won't ... but they should.
Trump will find out real quick how many Vindman's there are inside the US Military. Barack Obama has has 16 years to do his dirty work.
Trump and his team need to do exactly to the corrupt left - what the corrupt left did to us.
Austin = AWOL should have been enough to cashier him.
All that, but especially #13.
The same thing applies to female fighter pilots. Piloting is a learnable skill, but being a successful fighter pilot in combat requires the drive to kill the enemy that exceeds the drive to preserve one's own life -- call it killer instinct.
I remember that Navy boat crew who were captured by the Iranians in the Persian Gulf. Two or three were women. They were filmed bawling like infants in fear.
And while he's at it, I hope he'll be arresting all the Presidents and former President's who have been FUNDING Iranian terrorists.
News breaking today that our own CIA has been funneling details to Iran about Israeli attacks. Our military is CHOCK FULL of traitors up and down the chain of command, including the current Commander in Chief.
Back in the 80's, my last assignment was at HQ, Military Airlift Command. The majority of the Staff Officers were Major and Lt Col, with a sprinkling of Captains here and there, with most of them being in the Command Post. Each command post typically had a Lt Col in charge, with the Wing DO, a Col or BG depending on the base maintaining close contact in the event of a crisis. One day, there is a issue with a 130 or 141 in some country that wasn't real friendly to the US, and as the situation evolved, more and more Lt Cols and Cols were getting on the net putting in their words of wisdom. Finally, the Deputy at AMC got on and instructed, "Everyone above the rank of Lt Col is to get off the net. Majors and Captains - figure it out." And they did, quickly.
File under Minnesota national guardsman and elite ivy League graduates we like. That said, I like the pic. The guy has a wide variety of skills at all ends of the spear. Hopefully he will undo all of the damage created by the neocons and the neoliberal corporate pentagon douchebags
CEOs rarely get involved in 'managing' their orgs. They set policy, and hire VPs to execute that policy. The correct question to ask is "what policy will he set?" followed by "who will he hire and fire?" I think we have a pretty good idea of what his policy will be - warfighting as opposed to wokefighting. We'll see who he can attract to the subordinate roles; I have no doubt that they'll be as good or better than the copperheads we have running things now.
Did you know Robert McNamara's middle name was Strange?
No, what was it?
The part of the SecDef job for which Hegseth will have the steepest learning curve is procurement. He will need lots of help there.
Someone on X said the ratio of general officers to enlisted personnel in the Biden military exceeds the ratio during WWII.
One would expect that ratio to go down in times of massive mobilization for war. Perhaps what was actually said is that we have a larger absolute number of generals than we did during the war, when our forces were ten or fifteen times larger than today. I would certainly believe it.
The Navy now has more admirals than ships for the first time ever, for what it's worth.
Can he clear out the baizuo snowflakes and lesuo compromised members of the service,
Duty, honor, loyalty, tradition, these are the types of values that our military should emphasize, promote, and look for in recruits and career troops at all levels. On a related note these were also the values that motivated most troops in the South during the civil war to take up arms. This is why it was and is a good idea that we had monuments honoring those values exhibited those men even if the overall cause was wrong.
According to a 2017 article in the National Defense University Press, we had 900 flag rank officers that year, and 1.3 million service members. Ratio 1:1400.
In World War II we had just over 2000 flag officers commanding 12 million men under arms. Ratio 1:6000.
We don't need a DoD secretary who can "make the trains run on time". Being able to Adminster a large organization on a day to day basis is overrated. That was Trump's mistake in his first term. He kept appointing "pragmatic" "talented" people with "great experience" and great resumes. And they were disloyal to him, and had zero desire to implement his agenda. And many of them sabotaged him.
Hegseth can get a deputy who can administer the Department. His job his to get rid of the deadwood at DoD, change its culture, and implement trump's agenda. We don't need a Jerry Ford at DoD, we need a Ronald Reagan.
Princess Fauxcahontas understandably upset. Senator Warren did not like the Hegseth pick. She said she was the Senator involved with military personnel and three of her brothers had served in uniform. She did not say whether their uniform was eagle feathers, face paint and a loin cloth.
Oh like the Ford guy that ran it few years back?
Great point, they are the NCOs of the officer corps
I don't give a crap about this radical leftist woman's opinion.
Recent dem administrations have tried to make the military more "diverse," more broadly representative of American society, and in particular less dominated by white southerners. What I think Hegseth is about is the idea that the military ISN'T (ideally) comprised of a regular cross-section of American society, but rather should consist of brave, fighting men who want to kick ass. All others should become teachers, lawyers, etc. -- we need those too, just not in the military.
I hope he directs a lot of attention to our Navy fleet. For those that don't know, the surface fleet and support infrastructure is in horrible, horrible condition due mainly to poor decisions made over the years by the usual suspects.
he has a lot of heart, but running DoD is a huge mgt problem. He'll need to select the right deputies.
CEOs set the vision, mission and goals of the organization and oversee the progress/performance as it proceeds. The COO and/or the Executive VPs actually manage operations, so they're handpicked by the CEO for their expertise and experience in their respective functions. Hegseth can do just fine applying this model to DoD.
Crap. It's happening again.
My fav is:
"Gentle folk sleep peacefully in their beds because Rough Men stand ready to do violence on their behalf..."
for the record, Levine wears a uniform, BUT IS NOT IN THE MILITARY!
and the adjacent skill: Defense budgeting...
It's not just the military. Right now Russia graduates as many engineers as we do on an annual basis, and those Russian engineers are not wasting the most important years of their education in indoctrination on gender politics. China is graduating far more.
Yes Red Squaw has been about appropriating identities and committing academic fraud,
Red Squaw at morning,
Hegseth take warning.
You know who had a great resume and knew about managing big organizations? Bob MacNamera.
Yeah - I knew that - but she looks like she is.
We have voted in at least five former junior combat officers to be CINC of the whole thing: TR, JFK, Truman, Nixon, Ford (ok not elected). A bunch of the 19th century presidents were also militia officers with combat experience rather than career soldiers. Perhaps the best war leader of any country was Winston Churchill, with a bellyful of combat as a junior officer and a healthy dose of skepticism against the careerists.
If the formula works for the guy at the very top, why not for the guy one level down?
Hegseth will have to bring in his own DepSecs, DepAsstSecs, etc, to make sure his word gets down farther in the organization. I hope he picks the blogger Commander Salamander, for example, to be some kind of senior Navy civilian. And he will have to do a series of Marshall-style retirements of flag officers to force the system to bring up some better leaders.
If you have watched any of Hegseth's shows on Fox Nation, he has a pretty clear Vivek-like plan to rejuvenate the defense establishment.
JSM
but stick with promoting him for his job performance, not his character
Sure, I want him and any other cabinet level office-holder to be chosen primarily by their ability to get the job done. But one of those jobs is to promote and instill duty, honor, loyalty, and tradition as institutional values throughout the military. When these are institutional values they help protect against things like, treating the military as their own personal piggy bank, using the military to defend countries with tenuous links to American interests, and taking our military men and dollars for granted.
Well, he specifically said Maverick, so maybe you should try listening. Or not - he's clearly just talking about making recruiting ads that actually work, and threw that out as an example of what actually works. But you do you.
Critical Racists' Theory falls under the umbrella dogmatic doctrine of Diversity (e.g. racism, sexism, ageism) of the Pro-Choice religion observed in progressive sects with liberal license wielded by Democratic ideologues. #HateLovesAbortion
Remember this criticism is coming from a woman on the Senate Finance Committee who ran around squealing GE doesn’t pay taxes!!! because she doesn’t understand what a tax loss carryfoward is…
The host of Fox and Friends Weekend will now be facing America's largest bureaucracy.
Tragic that Jeffrey Epstein didn't stick around long enough, I'm sure Trump would have found him a role streamlining US childcare.
another haberman byline, what she doesn't know fills multitudes,
Here's the NYT article on the appointment, "Trump Picks Pete Hegseth, a Veteran and Fox News Host, for Defense Secretary/The choice of Mr. Hegseth, a dedicated supporter of the president-elect in his first term, is outside the norm of the traditional choice for the post."
My God, the NYT actually managed a reasonable headline!
Their only real failure is not understanding that "outside the norm of the traditional choice for the post" is a feature, and a requirement, not a bug
Gravel, %100, but reading for meaning is tough for some.
Got a source for that claim, Derve?
Hegseth’s combat experience may well be limited to accidentally hitting a West Point drummer with an axe while filming Flag Day in 2015.
The drummer sustained only light injuries
"She said she was the Senator involved with military personnel"
And hasn't she done a bang-up job of it?
liberals seem to think their priorities matter, thats why they had a zampolit in bishop garrison steering policy under austin, thats why they tried to purge the military, went all 'green enegy' all in on pronouns, the Russians and the Chinese have two pronouns, they are very clear about this,
Enjoyed the Die Hard analogy.
Enjoyed the Die Hard analogy.
Hegseth has a Combat Infantry Badge which is awarded to asoldier personally present and under fire while serving in an assigned infantry or Special Forces primary duty, in a unit engaged in active ground combat, to close with and destroy the enemy with direct fires.
Same age as Robert McNamara upon appointment. At Bear Stearns too short a time for the practices that led to its collapse to rub off on him. Happy to see he's not an ex general for a change. Hope he picks a male personal assistant.
Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq War veteran and founder of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Association, commented: "I first met Hegseth when he started running Vets for Freedom around 2007. He is a highly effective and ferocious media, culture and political warrior for MAGA. And beyond loyal to and trusted by Trump.
"I figured Trump would pick probably pick him for Chief of Staff or Press Secretary. But this...
"Hegseth is undoubtedly the least qualified nominee for SecDef in American history. And the most overtly political. Brace yourself, America."
The confirmation process should be interesting.
The problem with DEI and CRT is that they took it way too far. It would have been fine if they had said that we need to be constantly on guard to make sure that we are not unfairly discriminating against people. It also would have been fine to set up programs to help people meet standards who may have had some cultural issues that prevented that. What wasn't fine was lowering the standards and advancing people into positions that they were ready for to meet quotas. In New Zealand, they have four women who are ship captains in their navy. Three of them have already been involved in serious accidents. The latest one ran her $100 million USD ship aground where it caught fire and sank. She had only been in the New Zealand navy for two years before they gave her command of a ship. (And after the accident, they didn't punish her, they gave her a commendation because no one was killed when the ship sank.) And, of course, the government says this has nothing to do with the sex and sexual orientation of the captain. (But they never said that it might have had something to do with her lack of experience.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/07/world/new-zealand-navy-ship-sinks-intl-hnk/index.html
Hopefully he doesn’t clear the Senate.
The rubber always meets the road, when the pink slips have to go out. We will see.
Now that's pretty funny. Unless the senate backpedals on recess appointments, Trump will get all of his people in. But I also do not expect the senate to be nearly as antogonistic as they were, after getting beaten up so bad.
He has angered all the right weasels
All that's well and good , Dan, but we simply must have someone who can turn around the absurd transition of our military into an experiment in political correctness and who understands the critical importance of that mission.
Management experience, assuming a basic level of competence, is a secondary consideration right now.
If Rich doesn't like him, that's good enough for me.
Another serious challenge will be reforming the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation System (DFARS). This has given the military such massive wastes of spending as: The M247 Sergeant York AA system, the Little Crappy Ship (LCS) program, the A-12 Avenger II attack plane, the multiple development challenges on the USS Ford (CVN-78), and innumerable other bonfires that we have pitched our national treasure into. I have heard that the nominee is aware of this, and will fight for change. Let us hope so.
It's often been said that you get your first Field Grade lobotomy at O4, but I think it really takes hold at O6. (I retired at O5. Still have the scar.)
I don't know... running a shoddy non profit, paying your bio bro big bucks to run it... I think he kinda met the vets cause his pet piggy bank. And men who keep failing at marraige says a lot about "loyalty" esp, like with Ahnold, you have a baby with another woman while you're married...
Sure give him a shot and see if he can live up to his words. But discipline, loyalty and working hard for his dollar... I'm not seeing it in that background sketch. He is a connected guy, and an Ivy Leaguer at that. I smell something suspicious... let's see how he performs.
What these people are upset about, is the fact that Hegseth is not of The Swamp. He's not a bomb-seller, and the death industry doesn't have control over him.
Suddenly, they're not representing the POTUS to DOD or whatever, they representing DoD (or whatever) to the POTUS.
An ideal manager does both. One of the ways Lloyd Austin failed the troops on the ground was in not pushing their concerns in the face of Biden and Blinken demanding the impossible (giving up Bagram, relying on false promises from the Taliban). Mattis failed in the other direction, not ordering Austin and the other generals to prepare plans to disengage and bug out th minimal risk to the troops and including plans to help our allies get out safely.
Wow. Tulsi Gabbard just named as Director of National Intelligence!
So, I guess she's no longer going to be on that bogus terrorist watch list? And everyone who was involved in putting her on that list should start checking the Want Ads?
@RCOCEAN, some of them were right. For that matter I was smarter technically than my old CEO and I worked with people who were smarter that I was. The CEO had his job to do and mine was making it happen.
This guy gets that; no senior leader in the current administration does.
Bingo, and bingo again! Our military is manifestly not there to try out new, odd-the-wall social theories and it absolutely is not for making combat troops walk a mile in high heels.
Elections have consequences, or so I was told.
Bitch and moan all you want.
I don’t know much about the guy, but it sure seems like he’s the right pick.
As a they say, when you’re taking flak you know you’re right over the target.
With the amount of shit they’re taking from the leftists, I figure he must be over the target.
More bad news for Bich: Tulsi will be king of all intelligence (DNI) and Matt Gatz as AG. Any G-men still hanging around hoping to survive should just put their retirement papers in now. So much for "Quiet Skies" eh Kamala?
From MacArthur West Point speech: …Your mission remains fixed, determined, unchanging. It is to win our wars. Everything else in your
professional career is but a corollary to this vital dedication. All other public purpose, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishments; but you are the ones who are trained to fight.
Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country.
Amen.. can’t happen soon enough
Hear hear.
“Does he have the managerial and political skill to direct the massive bureaucracy that is the DoD?”
Considering that the past dod management cant even explain what huge amounts of the funding has been spent on, i would not automatically assume that he will do a worse job.
If Rich doesn't like him, that's good enough for me.
Yeah, me too. High praise.
Double wow Matt Gaetz as AG. TEAR UP all short lists. What is the former Speaker saying?
DEI derived from Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry) is not a viable or legal doctrine or policy, respectively. Abort and sequester this relic of a progressive past and liberal present.
It's looking like there's a theme developing in Trump's cabinet picks. Take no shit. Take no prisoner's.
If we had wanted more waste, continued corruption, and a declining America, the voters would have voted for someone to promote business as usual and to manage the decline. We didn't so I assume the majority of Americans want to Make America Great Again. To reach that goal, you can't have the usual appointees basically being moved around like the chairs on the Titanic.
Now we have,
Tulsi Gabbard as DNI
Matt Gaetz as AG
I'm liking it. I'm liking it a lot.
The Aegean Stables.
LLR-democratical Rich lings for the days of obambi's self-declared "wingman" Eric Holdet.
Forget Thune? (After Scott eliminated on first ballot)
“They love a shim in a uniform”
h/t Gang of Four
Guys signed up for some strange and they got it big time in Vietnam.
These pre-announced nominations are Trump’s opening offer. He doesn’t expect to get all of them.
Exactly. That's Trump's style.
Hercules cleaned the Augean stables. I don’t doubt the Aegean stables need a good scrubbing too
That's why we have Elon and Vivek for DOGE, which the lefties are counterintuitively snarking about taking two people to inefficiently command. Given the amount of bullcrap in the Augean stables that is Washington, we need two Herculeses (Herculi?) to shovel it out.
Aegean stables: where they keep Trojan horses.
I bet Gaetz draws the most fire, while the rest get through. Gaetz must be the Deep State nightmare
God I hope he goes full Roman on the Service Academies. For the last 5 or so years I’ve wanted.nothing to do with my alma mater (USAFA, ‘76). No more woke stuff. Champion merit, teach the classics that guided the Founders, impose stress that builds resilience, willingness to sacrifice, and teamwork, demand physical fitness and make them ready to face the burgeoning threat that cares little for their feelings, their pronouns or their culture.
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