President-Elect Trump has every right to make his cabinet picks, but do we really want an attempted axe murderer as SecDef?
Of all the trump picks so far this one is the one I don’t agree with.
I’m curious. Why?
He doesn’t have near the experience. Hell I have more then him but don’t think I am qualified.
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Trump found a guy with no axe to grind.
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Wild pick.
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That drummer hit was no doubt a secret sting operation.
From Politico:
. . . Late in his first term, Trump also ordered the pullout of thousands of U.S. troops from Germany, something the Pentagon was unable to accomplish in the short amount of time he had left in office.
Hegseth’s selection drew immediate backlash from veterans group leaders who opposed him when he was floated for Veterans Affairs secretary during Trump’s first term. He is a former executive director for Vets for Freedom and former CEO of Concerned Veterans for America — a group advocating for outsourcing of health care for veterans that was funded by the Koch brothers.
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During the first Trump administration, Hegseth played a pivotal role in several episodes in which Trump inserted himself in the military justice system in order to grant clemency to troops convicted of war crimes. . . .
“The dumbest phrase on planet earth in the military is our diversity is our strength,” Hegseth said on a podcast this month.
Amid fears Trump may use his powers as commander-in-chief to purge the top generals or civil servants, politicizing the Defense Department, Trump’s pick to be Pentagon chief has explicitly confirmed that he could target military leaders, including Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown, in an effort to remove diversity and inclusion programs at the agency. . . .
Hegseth graduated from Princeton and then joined the Army National Guard. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan and earned two Bronze Stars. . . .
“First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” Hegseth said when prompted by podcast host Shawn Ryan about reforming the military. “Any general that was involved, any general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI/woke ■■■■has got to go.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/12/defense-world-reacts-to-trump-pick-pete-hegseth-00189221
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Note also:
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs.
Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness.
Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can’t save the meritocracy of our military, we’re definitely going to lose everywhere else.
The War on Warriors uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction—a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty. The only kind of men prepared to face the danÂgers that the Left pretends don’t exist. Unlike issues of education or taxes or crime, this problem doesn’t have a zip code solution. We can’t move away from it. We can’t avoid it. We have only one Pentagon. Either we take it back or surrender it altogether.
Combining his own war experiences, tales of outrage, and an incisive look at how the chain of comÂmand got so kinked, this book is the key to saving our warriors—and winning future wars. The War on WarÂriors must be won by the good guys, because when the shooting really starts, they’re the only ones who can save us.
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it’s a good thing that drummer wasn’t in Spinal Tap
He’s 100% right about that.
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Can’t be any worse than Lloyd Austin 
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Your rank and military experience are?
I’m retired military.
Last time I checked, the military left axes as weapons in the dark ages, so he should be fine. 
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Higher then his, longer then him, had been deployed (13 times) to every conflict since first gulf war. Not to mention a contractor in both Iraq and Afghanistan for a couple of years after retirement.
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Btw after receiving his Bachelor’s from Princeton Hegseth went on to earn a masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
He later “sent it back” in some sort of televised stunt so that credential does not always appear on his CV.
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He is also the author of five books, three of which were NYTimes Bestsellers. (I doubt most of the people who are decrying him as unqualified have READ five books in recent years, yet alone written five.)
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The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free
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Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes
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Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
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American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free
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In the Arena: Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America
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So my one and only concern about Hegseth is…
His management level experience.
This is a massive undertaking.
He’s smart, he’s passionate about the military, I like his ideas about getting the woke out…
I’m just curious about him learning on the job to run an organization this big…
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This is fine.
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I’ll reserve judgement on this one. I do not have enough information to determine the quality of the appointment, I’ll have to wait and determine the quality of his performance.
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