After threatening to sever ties with Scouting America and kick the youth group off military bases worldwide, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday gave a six-month reprieve to the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America.
Hegseth made the announcement in a video posted to X, framing it as an ultimatum to Scouting to conform to the Trump administration’s anti-DEI agenda. He detailed his many criticisms of the group, saying Scouts had “lost their way” by changing the organization’s name and “watering down” what he called “the focus on God as the ruler of the universe.”
He accused the Scouts of promoting “an insidious, radical, woke ideology that is anti-America and anti-American.”
The DOD focusing on the important things while it is currently bombing the civilians of another country I see. /s
this is not a serious country
Everything reads like something from The Onion.
I can’t even tell what’s real anymore? Did Trump really forget that Quuen Elizabeth is dead and say she should pardon her son? Did he really say we don’t know where the sun goes at night? I honestly can’t tell if these are real quotes or rumours started by satirical news sites
This is a deadly serious country. As in, they will kill you if you fail to live by their hate-filled ideology.
Yep. These people squealed and continue to squeal about things like “political correctness”. It turns out they want everyone to bow to THEIR political correctness.
This is something that was glaringly obvious even back in the 90s when they first started Karening out over everything that was “PC”.
One other note - I’ve been reminded of this scene so many times in my lifetime. It’s probably one of the most true things said about American culture. Even if so many wingers and reactionary centrists have taken issue with me pointing them at this scene. Jack’s character really sees America here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exgxarrxpX0
‘Course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free ‘cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom, but they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare 'em.
i’ll recognize this alternative truth
I wonder if this stupid Faux News host has ever even bothered to learn anything at all about the Scouts and their principles.
I have received information from our sponsors that the Scouts’ rules have changed. We now have one rule, and one rule only! Absolute and unquestioning loyalty to Donald J Trump! This goes double when he summons you to Mar a Lago for an interview.
There wasn’t any alcohol involved so of course not
Shitler Youth incoming
Hegseth has the most fragile ego I’ve ever seen. He’s a baby. He has the smallest dick energy I’ve ever seen, it’s the human equivalent of a chihuahua.
Probably has a lot to do with why he’s on his third wife and drinks.
It’s really too bad they haven’t found a way to safely augment penises. This might solve so many problems with people like this…
There is no one I’d rather see be beaten within an inch of his life on live television
thats a tough call.
Really? Have you not seen Stephen Miller? Ok, maybe for him we should go that final inch too.
I do believe that for him, the beating will continue post-mortem. You know, double tap and all that.
within an inch of his life
Fuckin tease.
Oh man you should see Gym Jordan on the daily. All he does is yap yap yap like a tiny mutt.
The most fragile ego? There’s not someone you can think of with an even more fragile car of man baby syndrome?
Too busy blowing up schools and fishermen targeting countries that aren’t protected by nukes to provide equality
Hegseth had demanded that the organization change its name back to Boy Scouts and remove some 200,000 young girls from its membership.
Claiming that “boys rule and girls drool,” Hegseth, the petulant man-baby that he is, explained that “since girls have cooties, it’s a travesty to allow gender mixing in the BOY Scouts!”
The kind of article you’d expect to read about dictatorships cut off from the rest of the world. This sort of talk sounds crazy even with North Korea’s standards.
dictatorships cut off from the rest of the world
Trump’s people are working hard on that.
He then slapped the reporter, yelled “No tagbacks!”, and ran up the ladder to his tree house. When the reporter tried to ask followup questions, Kegsbreath pulled the ladder up after himself and plugged his ears, screaming “No girls allowed!” until his mom brought him some dino nuggies.
Leave our adolescent friends & neighbours alone!
E Pluribus Unum!
‘One from many’
Scouting America is a private, non-profit organization.
They want to treat them like a government contractor and put them on
super secret double probation, oops, I mean, they want to stop them from doing sooper dooper totally unlegal “DEI”, which, in Orwellian fashion, they call “discrimination”.From reading other articles and pieces from people associated with Scouts, while they don’t get any money from the government, that isn’t to say they don’t get perks.
$1/yr leases for public land, access to property/equipment, logistical support/medical staffing for the Jamboree, jet flyovers, etc that help them stretch their funds or provide things they would t be able to access without the government’s support.
The Jamboree is a 10 day event this July, so all that staffing provided by the gov is probably a huge expense, and if Hegseth pulled all that now or in the future, they’d be screwed. So essentially, this is coercion to get what they want.
I think Scouting America should reverse any kind of concessions they made immediately after the Jamboree, and tell these monsters that they’ll just wait them out, thank you very much, because the next Jamboree is in 2030.
I’d say anyone not planning to get screwed by this administration is doing their people a disservice.
I am happy to see the Scouts give some push back. It frankly seems more than some leaders/countries are willing to do.
That doesn’t mean anything to the people that want the entire government to be privately held
My point was that Hegseth is threatening private organizations.
Yes. And my point was that it doesn’t mean anything to the people that want the entire government to be privately held
You’re kind of being a dick about it now.
About what? What’re we discussing now?
Nazi Pete what a snowflake
He just really does not like girls, and likes to play dress-up. He has the mental development age of a 8 year old. He’d probably be happiest with a sandbox and a couple of tonka trucks-- and he’d play in it dressed up in a little smart looking suit.
Aww, must get rid of the evileist of things, girls. /s
He just wants them to go back to their roots. And align with the current administration. Allow the pedos back. Those kids are just there for the taking.
the focus on God as the ruler of the universe
I don’t know what it is about this line or the mood I’m in, but… I’d like to buy some shiny bright red size 12 pumps so I can stomp my giant scary disgusting transfem foot on his idiot throat in style and teach him who really rules his universe.
It’s such a “nu-huh you didn’t get me, I use a shield!” Type of energy. Like oh your god is the ruler? I guess I should bend down then.
Fucking hate it. Especially from heg. He’s a cunt, and if there is a god I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t want heg any where near him.
So, speaking as a former boy scout, I never thought it was a great idea to take a bunch of co-ed potentially horny teenagers out camping in the woods, but shut the fuck up, Pete. This is not your job. Yes, historically boy scouts and girl scouts have been quite different and girls should get to do the things that boy scouts do, but I was a pretty horny teenager back in my boy scout days.
