“To our enemies: FAFO,” Hegseth said, using an acronym that translates to “fuck around and find out.”

Hegseth ordered hundreds of U.S. military officials around the globe to meet him at a spontaneous assembly in Virginia, keeping the details of the gathering extremely hush-hush.

The message shocked members of the U.S. military, who could not recall another instance in which a defense secretary summoned so many commanders for a sudden in-person meeting—especially without a clear rationale. Some warned that having so many integral military leaders in one place could pose a national security risk.

As it turns out, the rationale was to rail against the culture wars. Hegseth, pacing back and forth onstage, also leveraged his time in front of America’s military to criticize “woke” ideology. He ordered the armed forces to reset its combat requirements to the “highest male standard only,” a decision that would effectively force women out of the military.

“If women can make it, excellent. If not, it is what it is,” Hegseth said.

The Pentagon chief also nixed medical beard waivers, a decision that will disproportionately affect Black service members due to the curl pattern of the hair on their face.

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    Trump is also talking about an “invasion from within.” This is “obey when we tell you to kill American civilians.”

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    The guy who installed a make-up room in the Pentagon lecturing other men about manliness.

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      Letting another man define your manhood is the such a childish move. It’s clear hegseth never matured into a full grown man

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    Yes, that age-old strategy of getting rid people regardless of competence at their job or importance to the mission that worked so well for the Germans in WWII. What could possibly go wrong?

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      That always works so well in every organization.

      If you’re not with us (us being a handful of individuals holding zero experience but screeching orders down the chain of command), you’re against us, regardless of what you bring to the table.

      Easily replaceable bc we’re the hottest country and everybody wants to join up with our military. A year ago we were dead, and now we’re the hottest country, that’s what Putin told me. Then he sent a bunch of drones into Ukraine, but that’s just one of those things.

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    Why do I feel like Hegseth masturbated to Master Chief and Cortana posters as a teen?

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      as a teen? 5 mins before taking stage?

      He did the honorable thing. Can you imagine if he’d gone out there fully loaded? What a mess.

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    The shit that these physically and mentally unfit people spout and cling to is so hilarious. Who the fuck can take seriously a drunk racist who can’t be trusted with messaging apps… who was appointed by a career pedo-felon in a vegetative state?

    “Warrior ethos” lmao

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    Aaaand once again a huge gathering of people who are oath-bound to defend the constitution from domestic threats just sat and listened to a domestic threat prancing about a stage, adding to a mountain of failures in their duty to this country.

    Cowards and traitors.

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      Lmao did we watch the same “rally”?

      I’m not sure if you were hoping to see a mutiny/uprising? But compare what we did see to a Bush rally circa late 2001. The lack of fucks to give from that audience was palpable.

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        Hoping, yes. Definitely not expecting, but hoping.

        We don’t need them to not give a fuck, we need them to do their job.

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    “The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos.”

    “If we can’t control everything about you then you might not fight for us when we tell you to do crimes”

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    After Hegs is done saying that little saying that he was just so proud to say, as surprising as it is, you can clearly hear an eastern screech-owl!