Pete Hegseth Is Gutting the Military, and America’s Enemies Are Watching

Ultimize. Is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a sleeper agent for the Iranians or for Vladimir Putin? I'm not saying there's any evidence of that. I can tell you based on recent actions that if they were to install a sleeper agent, I can't imagine him doing anything different than what Pete Hegseth is doing. Let's look at the facts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed much of America's senior military leadership, typically without explanation, leaving the Army without a permanent chief and dangerously short of experienced commanders during active wars. Now, if you were an enemy of America's, wouldn't that be a great thing? Wouldn't you think, wow, this is fantastic? Imagine we're trying to crash a major airliner. And we didn't want to directly explode it. What if we just forced the person on board in charge to say, fire all the pilots, and now let's make the airline stewardess who was a beauty pageant contestant 2 weeks ago, let's make her the captain of the plane. You have pretty much the same result, right? You can more or less make the sense, the case, that that is what has happened to United States military. Let's look at the facts. He is getting rid of— he's sacking generals, uh, almost as casually and as quickly as he used to get rid of his wives, his ex-wives. I mean, he's just throwing them out the door at a rate we've never seen before. So there are only 2 members of the Joint Chiefs serving With Hegseth, uh, who are still there from when he started way back in 2026. He's only been there a little more than a year. The Army had 10 active-duty 4-star generals when he arrived. Now it has 5. It's the fewest in decades. There's been no permanent chief of staff since April. He's fired or forced out at least 6 senior Army officers. He's removed at least three plausible successors to the Army Chief of Staff position, and morale is horrible. He removed General Randy George with a 15-second telephone call. No, it's not normal. I mean, the list of people he's fired. So here's what's fascinating: it's allegedly all because of grievances. Hexet claims. That when he was in the military, he was forced out because some general didn't like his tattoos. Now, turns out there's no factual evidence that he was removed from the Guard, but that's what is driving this. Now, if you're interested, what is this tattoo that Pete Hegseth had? It is something called a Geval. Which is, I guess, Latin for God wills it. It was a Crusader rallying cry and has been appropriated by some modern far-right extremists. By the way, this guy has allegedly about a dozen tattoos, and yet his motto is no beardos in the military. Pete Hegseth, Just trying to imagine a staff meeting with Pete Hegseth, and he's telling people, okay, we got to get rid of weirdos in the military. No beardos. We don't want anyone with beards. Dozens of tattoos, great, but no beards whatsoever. So if you want to make it in the current U.S. military, here's what you need to keep in mind. You need to, first of all, Be smart. Be a white male Christian. So if you're not a white male Christian, not very bright if you want a career in the military. So there's this whole DEI anti-DEI campaign. Let me tell you what that really means. It means, hey everybody, it's time for DEI for white male conservatives. If you look at the people he's fired. And unceremoniously dismissed. It's an amazingly high percentage of people who are women, are gay, or were rumored to be transsexual, or even worse, someone who voted for a Democrat. And let's face it, you know Pete's a savvy guy. He went to Princeton. He can read between the lines if he sees some black soldier. He can put 2 and 2 together, and he can probably think maybe this guy didn't think Barack Obama was the worst thing ever since Fidel Castro. So that alone is reason to not escalate or promote or keep any Black soldier in a high position. If you're a woman, if you're a woman soldier, which to Pete Hegseth is kind of an oxymoron, He's probably thinking, well, that person probably doesn't hate Hillary Clinton as much as I do. Therefore, that makes them suspicious. That makes them absurd. That makes them anti-American. We can't have them defending America. So this is what it all comes down to. If you want to make it in Pete Hegseth's military, what you need to do is 40 great strictly constructed push-ups. And under 30 seconds. You need to look like Ward Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver as far as perfectly, perfectly manicured hair. And you need to swear your devotion to Donald Trump and be able to recite all the facts about how Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him. If that's what you can do, Well, let me tell you, young man, you have a bright career in the United States military today because that seems to be the criteria for making it in this military. I just imagine the poobahs of Iran having a conference call with Vladimir Putin and rubbing their hands together, saying, we can't believe our good fortune. We don't even have to have better drones. We don't even have to have a stronger military to beat the Great Satan US because our guy, our boy Trump, is doing it for us. Having him in the White House and appointing Hegseth to run their military is the greatest thing that ever happened to us because this guy couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. This guy is so incompetent. It's it's like going to surgery to a hospital one day and finding out every surgeon's been fired because they secretly gave a five dollar donation to a Jesse Jackson political campaign thirty years ago. So they've all been dismissed. So we've now appointed the orderlies that we like. To conduct all the surgery. How does that make you feel about surgery? So the Poubazi in Iran, Putin in Russia are chortling. They are absolutely chortling over what's going on because they realize not only can we beat the U.S., we can do anything we want, and we can laugh at the U.S. because they have so destroyed their military. The idea that you're just going to get rid of all your top soldiers—that's better than what the Israelis did with the exploding pagers. It's cleaner. It's neater. Our fingerprints aren't on it. This is fantastic. Just destroy from within. Now, to be fair, conservatives for the last fifty years have been telling me that there is a deep state of. People who secretly hate America, and they've wormed their way into the federal government, and because of that, they are in fact destroying America. Well, it turns out they were right. It turns out they were in fact right, that that is what's happening. I don't think it was happening 4 years ago, 6 years ago, but But certainly right now, you can absolutely make the case. Here's my theory about Hegseth. He's so fascinated by attacking the beardos, these, these weirdos who have beards, because they're not normal in the Ward Cleaver Father Knows Best model. They tend not to have as much pomade in their hair. And the real reason it bothers him is I don't think Pete Hegseth can grow a beard. It may be, and I'm just hypothesizing, I have no evidence. It may be he is so low on the testosterone spectrum, he can't grow a beard. I mean, he looks awfully smooth. All the time on his face. And yeah, I don't actively seek it out, but every once in a while you're forced to look at some picture of Pete Hegseth shirtless with 10,000 tattoos, not a hair on his body. So that leads me to conclude one of two things: he has no testosterone and has— is unable to grow hair anywhere other than his head. Well, there's 3 possibilities. He's not able to grow hair on his body anywhere other than his head is one option. Number 2, may— I'm not saying he was a transsexual. Maybe he's one of those people born of mixed gender, and there's simply not the so-called normal aspects of hair growing. And, or 3, he shaves his body constantly. He gets up and shaves it or nairs it away, which is, is very common among certain subcultures in America. A little more common today across the spectrum, but very, very common certainly in my youth and 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago. Shaving your body to be hairless. To look more like a young girl was a lot more common in, shall we say, certain subculture niches in America. So there's a possibility he's a part of that niche. There's also the possibility that he simply had transplanted every single hair from his body to his head, and is unable to grow a beard, and he's jealous of people who can. So these are the possibilities of why he's so anti— he's so against anyone with a beard. But this guy, again, if you're not familiar with Pete Hegseth, here's why he is the perfect, perfect Trump appointee. He's basically a mini Donald Trump with one big exception. Trump famously— his brother died of alcoholism. Trump doesn't drink. Hegseth has more than made up for it. Hegseth has had all the drinks he needs, plus all the alcohol Donald Trump ever could have consumed. Hegseth does it all. He's been seen publicly drunk numerous occasions throughout his career, not since he's been Secretary of Defense. I guess they keep him under wraps inside the Pentagon. But he's been repeatedly intoxicated professionally. It's been well documented. He's been carried out of events. Now, I've had a drink or two too many. No one's ever carried me out of an event. But he's had to be carried out. He's passed out backstage. He's passed out on party buses. He's been caught urinating outside of hotels. He has had to be restrained at strip clubs. He's pursued stage dancers. He has allegedly chanted anti-Muslim words, chanting people. His colleagues at Fox News said he reeked of alcohol, and this is like at 7:30 in the morning when he comes in for this morning shift. But you're saying, well, okay, that's that, but surely he had an impressive career to justify this position. Well, Here's his big management record. At Veterans for Freedom, he had under $1,000 in cash when he left, $435,000 in unpaid bills, $75,000 in credit card debt. Total unmitigated mess. Other organizations he was with accused of financial mismanagement. Intoxication at events. But maybe he's just a military genius. Maybe he's really, really good at conducting military affairs. Well, the main thing he's known for is sharing sensitive information over Signal. That's something like Snapchat, basically. That's like posting our war— our war plans on a Facebook group. It's something that if Any other person in his position had ever done, they would have been marched out the door. If they'd been in the military, they would have been court-martialed, maybe given the death penalty. But Trump sees this guy and says, "Look, this guy will do anything I want. He would be lucky, lucky to be the manager of a strip joint somewhere making $49,000 a year if it weren't for me. So I know he's not ever going to betray me." He's gonna do anything I say because this guy's such a raging incompetent. There's no way he could run a— be on a corporate board with his horrible shady record. He's gonna have to do what I say. So he's not gonna be fired by Trump anytime soon. Trump loves raging incompetence because it gives him more power. So What would you do if you had a son or a daughter in the military, or if you were in the military? That's a tough one. I don't know, because it's one thing to say, I'm going to risk my life for my country— a noble, noble sentiment. It's quite another to say, my country doesn't want me in this war. 90 Maybe if you put the entire country under sodium pentothal, 99.9% of this country does not want us fighting in Iran. So if you're a soldier, what do you say if the whole world doesn't want me here, that my whole country doesn't want me here? There's absolutely nothing I'm fighting for that in any way protects America, but there's one deranged lunatic and his henchmen telling me to come blow up people, risk my life. What do you do if you stay? Is it— and I'm not casting aspersions on the patriotism of American soldiers, but I wouldn't define it exactly as patriotism, saying I'm going to just march off a cliff For no discernible reason, because a lunatic who is my boss is telling me to do that. And I understand military people are not put in the position where they're supposed to ask every challenge, every single directive. Otherwise, you wouldn't have much of a military. But morale's gotta be low, which I guess is why people are jumping off of aircraft carriers. Because they can't take it anymore. Human beings have to have some internal logic to what they're doing. It could be based on belief in a crazy religion or superstition or mythology, but humans have to have something that gives their life purpose and meaning and sense. I don't know how anyone in the military Can be jerked around in a million different directions by the likes of a Pete Hegseth, especially when he wastes so much time. Oh, General, you're too fat. Who cares if you could maybe save the lives of 100,000 soldiers? Ah, you don't look good in a bathing suit. And let's get right down to it. I'm not the first one to notice this, but this idea that Pete Hegseth. Is so super macho, macho, macho, and yet seems so concerned about how generals might look, their appearance, how macho they are, how slim they are. Leads you to wonder, is he wondering what they would look like in a bathing suit? Is he wondering what they would look like naked? I'm just asking, why the obsession over a general who perhaps lost a leg fighting in Vietnam? Why the obsession— or a more recent war, I should say, some Middle Eastern war— a general who has lost a leg can no longer run? Spends long hours planning military strategy, and yeah, maybe eats an occasional extra burger more than he needs to support a normal healthy weight and is a few pounds overweight. Why the obsession with kicking this guy out of the military, which does seem to be what Pete Hegseth is focused on? Is it because he's wondering what that general looks like? Shirtless? Does Pete want to count his tattoos? You know, Pete Hegseth doesn't like men with beards. Should he perhaps kick people out of the military if they have a hairy chest? Because we know Pete Hegseth doesn't seem to. There's some very weird, strange, bizarre stuff going on at the head of the Pentagon. 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