Whether it was due to the early hour of the day or just to the blood-thirsty nature of the moment, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared particularly unhinged during the first official news …
Rules of engagement are literally how you define the difference between a civilian and an enemy combatant.
“No rules of engagement” is military lingo for “yes to all the war crimes.”
I dunno, maybe putting an alcoholic psychopath in charge of the armed forces wasn’t a great idea.
No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars.
No democracy, no nation building. So what is the actual goal here? Just to shoot stuff for its own sake?
Now I’m hearing that the commanders all gave their troops a speech about doing this for God and Christianity, etc., so it seems like the primary motivation was to kick off the End Times for the religious freaks.
So we’re in it until The Rapture. Our entire world has to burn down to satisfy the fantasies of delusional religious weirdos, so the Sociopathic Oligarchs can comb through the rubble for treasure.
How about we just Rapture the entire MAGA leadership, and move on?
I am an atheist, but if heaven and hell exist, they should know, there is enough space in hell for them.
No god worth worshipping would condone their actions. I stand by the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, that I will live a moral life and reject any god that has a problem with it. Killing to kill is the mandate of an evil god.
I understand. Whenever one of these psychopaths assume room temperature, I’m always slightly sad that I don’t believe in their mythology.
When Dick Cheney croaked, I remember thinking that it would be really nice to be able to smile at the thought of him having his Welcome Orientation in Hell. Instead, I was just sad for the person who didn’t get a heart because Cheney took it.
He just wasn’t getting that same high exploding South American fishermen anymore.
Tolerance is a hell of a drug.
Also, bold move to more or less openly defy the American ideals. The moral justification for a lot of what we’ve done is to further the cause of democracy. I don’t think starting a war to bring democracy is necessarily the right decision, but starting a war and not even trying to spread democracy with it is un-American (derogatory)
Blow shit up so Iran can’t attack back for the next generation.
Balkanization I think, but I don’t think that will happen because Iran has been a pretty cohesive country for thousands of years. So I suspect Trump will back down, or there will be a multi decade regional war, or there will be a world war.
“real man” cosplay.
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He’s a child
no nation-building quagmire
Surely this is how you build the next generation of aggrieved suicide bombers?
Oh, and create an absolutely massive migrant problem.
For whom?
Europe most probably. This will strenghten right wing parties and weaken thr union… win-win. While the majority of EU is licking US boots after they started a war of agression against a sovereign nation with little to no justification of any kind… I’m tired Boss.
with little to no justification of any kind
I mean Hegseth said that it was pre-emptive retaliatory action for what the Iranians were surely going to do after the Israelis attacked them. Is that not good enough for you?
I’m surprised this idiot isn’t calling himself “war secretary”.
I have therefore determined that this Department should once again be known as the Department of War and the Secretary should be known as the Secretary of War.
There we go.
only if he wears tasteful pumps.
Nah he’s the type to show up in 6" stilettos he can’t walk in and fishnets thinking that’s what the sexy secretary look is, all while unable to touch type.
I’m surprised he doesn’t consider the title ‘secretary’ to be to feminine
My favorite was “no more politically correct wars”… So I guess the only option moving forward is politically incorrect wars? I don’t think I can keep up with the Machiavellian minds of this 4d chess administration.
Macciavellian? Are you serious? Macchiavelli said you can be a cruel asshole, but the one thing you cannot be is unpredictable. Old Mac would have given this US government a 2/10 score.
The media will soon turn public opinion in favor of the war.
I have seen video of so called “counter protestors” wearing MIGA hats, which I assume is Make Iran Great Again. I’m not sure how representative of the Iranian immigrant population this is, but it’s starting to remind me of why so many Cuban immigrants vote Republican because of their relationship with their original country.
They already have. I met a new neighbor last week, he asked what I did for a living and I mentioned my military background, and the guy said explicitly “I hope we go over there and destroy the whole place, nuke it even.”
Of course it was a 60+ year old white guy with a high-school education that worked blue-collar his entire life.
Those people have been around decades though. I had a classmate in high school in the early 10s demanding we nuke Iran despite us not being at war with them and us actively being involved in the wildly unpopular Afghanistan war.
The difference between the two types of dumbass is that at least one of them has some semblance of real-world experience, so you’d expect better from them.
“No stupid rules of engagement”?
Too late.
No stupid rules of engagement
This sounds like a great way to get your planes shot down by allies!
Let’s see if it happens three times, just to be sure.
friendly fire ain’t gonna fire itself
People dunk on Pete about alcohol because he’s been drunk at inappropriate times in the past, but I think they basically ignore the fact that he probably does a ton of blow too.
Why do these assholes get to do all the good drugs?
At what point do you suspect he’s going to switch to meth like his idols?
Definitely. He has to be sharp and focused while making terrible decisions.
I thought he was using claude for that?
They kicked Claude out because Anthropic doesn’t want it to be used to kill people. They use chatGPT now
Even worse, it’s because Anthropic didn’t want it used for mass surveillance on US citizens. They were fine with the military using it for military things.
While both are shit, it’s a true example of the grass being greener on both sides.
Gotta ride that cocaethylene train
Whether it was due to the early hour of the day or just to the blood-thirsty nature of the moment, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared particularly unhinged during the first official news briefing about President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran.
are they implying he was still drunk from the night before? 🤫
I think a big part no one talks about, is all these old men are on gender affirming hormone care because their physical identity doesn’t match their mental identity.
They want to be 20 again, so they’re shooting up enough testorone that they have the logic and critical thinking of a 20 year old.
The alcoholism isn’t helping, but that’s not where the bloodlust is coming from.
I’ve had a couple friends try, and I honestly don’t know why anyone over 40 would ever want to feel 20 again. They all love if for like 6-12 months, before they realize acting like they’re 20 again isn’t a good thing and it’s fucking their lives up.
When the people running the country are on it, they’re fucking all our lives up, the alcoholism is why Hegsworth can’t come that realization on his own, or listen to anyone telling him.
T shouldn’t impact their logic or critical thinking, but it will impact their emotional regulation and impulse control. At least based on my experience with trans guys. And anecdotally when I started E I had about a year or so of getting into stupid fights with my mom despite knowing better before my body adjusted. Getting back to the right amount would probably calm them down, but these guys are more juiced up than a bodybuilder who can’t do math. They’re probably also being tilted by their grapes turning to raisins from that.
But yeah it’s a drunken roid rage by a man who simply refused to mature or develop logic or critical thinking since their teens. And I think that’s a bigger component to his inability to see than the T or the hooch. These men never grew the fuck up, and as such rather than living a good life at each stage, seeking to grow and mature until it is time to return to the earth, they strive to live a life eternally young and foolish, unable to even see that their unhappiness stems from this lifestyle.
And yeah, don’t get me wrong, I miss feeling young, but hormonal instability wasn’t fun either time. I like having stable emotions that can be reasonably controlled.
Fun fact: the last head of state who launched a war without rules of engagement was Adolf Hitler.
Ha. “Fun”.
F is for fire that burns down the whole town!
U is for uranium… bombs!
N is for no survivors
Planktonnn! That’s not what fun is about!
people who should be spending decades in prison are instead starting wars with the rest of the world
Ergh these plebs trying tell hegseth how to fight wars, he was totally great at wars which is why his whole career was totally in the military, except for that time he left for a while because all those stupid generals wouldn’t listen to his great ideas, well now look who has to listen to who huh?!
