Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly attempting to block four Army officers, two women and two Black men, from a military promotion list to become one-star generals – though his motivations are unclear.

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    We want military leaders who are critical thinkers, who have studied the principles on which our founding fathers established this republic, and they are educated and prepared to win wars.

    Which is why we need to protect them from wokism, not focus too much on any of the personal libraries of our founding fathers who were well read on both Islam and Roman history, and ensure they are brainwashed in the way we need them to be. I know, I know, we know what he is, he knows what he is, it’s just maddening to listen to someone be so earnestly disingenuous.

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    16 hours ago

    to me, DEI was never about hiring women or people of color over others, but rather to ensure unqualified white men don’t end up in charge.

    looks like we’re back to the status quo.

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    Gotta love Sleepy Don in the corner of that photo.

    One of these days, he’ll fall asleep and won’t wake up. And it’ll be caught on camera, and it’ll be glorious.

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      If Crown Prince Couchfucker had a fart’s chance in hell they’d have already put the the orange shitstain down for his longest nap. He’s only still there because the hate-filled incompetents surrounding him are terrified of when he’s not.

      As an aside, one lesson I learned from growing up with and around hard-core racists: there’s always more where that came from. The hatred is not just limited to people of color; that’s only the superficial form. When you dig a little deeper you realize they just hate, hating is what they do, and the racism is only a matter of direction. That’s always just the lily-white tip of the racist iceberg, which is made of loathing through and through. There’s always more where that came from.

      And his inner circle are ALL absolutely hard-core racists. They would dirt-nap him in a heartbeat if it served them to do so.

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      Makes you wonder how long it’ll be before anyone notices.

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        Whevever Trump nods off, he always perks up when he hears his sychophants praising him. Anything else - that pesky President stuff that takes up the time between having his ego stroked - is nothing but an opportunity for a nap.

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      You just gave me something to hope for

      ETA: think he’ll be hot mic’d one of these meetings and we’ll hear him snore?

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    Sounds like hegseth likes DEI after all, just for different skin tones and reproductive arrangements.

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    Good. Get out of the military. Two women and two black men that can say they were on the right side of history and were not a part of the suicidal war machine.

    Seriously. This is the system giving them a chance to reflect as they get directly impacted by it. It’s giving them just a fraction of the treatment that the US military has to the global South for decades.

    Also, Bill Hicks still relevant in 2026.

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    19 hours ago

    Well considering his predisposition i would say his motivations are pretty clear, two don’t have a penis and two are the wrong colour, it’s like that episode from Family Guy where entry is based on colour and another example is Space King NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!!

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    17 hours ago

    Gee, I wonder why he blocked the promotions for these 4 officers in particular…I guess we can never know