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Pete Hegseth decried out gay troops in US military as part of Marxist agenda

Policies allowing out gay people to serve in the US military have been denounced as part of a “Marxist” agenda aimed at prioritising social justice above combat-readiness by Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled defence secretary pick.

The assertion was among many contentious “anti-woke” views expressed in Hegseth’s latest book, The War on Warriors, published this year, in which he lambasted a previous policy – known as don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) – that tolerated gay service members as long as they did not disclose their sexual orientation, while also excoriating its repeal.

DADT was introduced as a compromise during Bill Clinton’s presidency in 1993 to allow lesbians and gay men to serve in the military in the face of opposition from senior commanders. The policy overturned a previous blanket ban that had been in place since the second world war.

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by Anonymousreply 38December 19, 2024 10:18 PM

Rapist

by Anonymousreply 1December 12, 2024 9:54 PM

He’s complained in the past about the military being “feminized” by women and transgender people. I guess he also thinks openly gay men are too “girly” for the military, and need to be deeply closeted to serve.

by Anonymousreply 2December 12, 2024 10:02 PM

Hope the Log Cabin fags are happy.

by Anonymousreply 3December 12, 2024 10:03 PM

I do find all the trans in the military brass a bit peculiar.

by Anonymousreply 4December 12, 2024 10:11 PM

R3, Hegseth is only doing this to save all the young boys from having trannies forcing them to take female hormones before they reach puberty. It's call gay erasure. Read about it, learn about it. It's an epidemic.

by Anonymousreply 5December 12, 2024 10:14 PM

They also let negros sit at the Woolworths lunch counter, r4. What is this world coming to.

by Anonymousreply 6December 12, 2024 10:16 PM

Why shouldn't they, R6? The fact remains, all those men pretending they are women in military dresses is comical and peculiar.

by Anonymousreply 7December 12, 2024 10:23 PM

You would really benefit from taking a gender studies 101 class at your local community college, r7. It sounds like you don't understand trans people as a concept. You need to catch up to the rest of society or you're going to be that weird old guy with the hideous and outdated beliefs about gender.

by Anonymousreply 8December 12, 2024 10:53 PM

R8, intelligent, rational people do not share your delusions or the delusions of the trans community and the gender studies teaching assistants at community colleges.

by Anonymousreply 9December 12, 2024 11:19 PM

If all the gays left the military, there'd be no one left.

by Anonymousreply 10December 12, 2024 11:23 PM

"intelligent, rational people."

Well, that automatically excludes you, R7/R9. You're neither so you won't have to worry about it. You're just a plain old, deranged troll with a hardon for trannies.

by Anonymousreply 11December 12, 2024 11:33 PM

Good luck, dude. No one wants to be in the military anyway, so keep screening out women, gays, trans, brown-eyed people. You’ll end up gutting what’s left of our military. Maybe you can fill the troops with former Fox hosts! We’re talking to you General Jeanine Pirro!

by Anonymousreply 12December 12, 2024 11:38 PM

So, the only current 'Marxist armies' would be those of Russia, China, North Korea, and maybe Cuba. The first three for sure don't have a single 'out' armed forces troop, and also generally have sex-segregated military forces. (I've seen those videos of the magnificent military parades and Grand Reviews of North Korea, and am mesmerized by the regiments of women precision marching.) I very much doubt Cuba has any 'officially out' troops, and I have no idea what their military capabilities are.

However, over in Israel they have young women serving alongside young men, on the battlefield, and I don't believe that they have rules to exclude The Gays. Also, abortion is legal in Israel.

by Anonymousreply 13December 13, 2024 12:04 AM

Who knew that allowing gays to serve openly in the military is part of a not so secret plan to capture the means of production and hand it over to the proletariat!

by Anonymousreply 14December 13, 2024 12:32 AM

Pete has entered stage 1 of wet brain from decades of binge drinking.

by Anonymousreply 15December 13, 2024 2:27 AM

I would certainly suck his dick, he's a nasty hottie and I think has a great bod, splatter my face Pete!

by Anonymousreply 16December 13, 2024 2:44 AM

Alkies usually have a hard time getting it up and keeping it up, much less cumming.

You're setting yourself up for a big let down, R16.

by Anonymousreply 17December 13, 2024 3:04 AM

The alkies I have been with have been very accommodating and quite hard, perhaps you're just ugly? Or smell?

by Anonymousreply 18December 13, 2024 4:30 AM

🖕⬆️

by Anonymousreply 19December 13, 2024 5:57 AM

He's walking back on his comments lol.

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by Anonymousreply 20December 13, 2024 3:31 PM

R7 shows how much you know about trans people you ignorant hateful cow

by Anonymousreply 21December 13, 2024 3:32 PM

He needs to take 12 steps…. into the ocean.

by Anonymousreply 22December 13, 2024 3:52 PM

stupid christo-fascist

by Anonymousreply 23December 13, 2024 3:57 PM

Donald doesn't care about Pete's drinking, ineptitude and bigotry, but this is going to bother him:

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by Anonymousreply 24December 13, 2024 8:16 PM

Is it because of his tattoos? They ruin his fine body.

by Anonymousreply 25December 14, 2024 12:56 AM

I'm surprised that Hegseth has low approval ratings on the survey at R24. You would think there would plenty of MAGAts who are fine with homophobia and anti-Muslim attitudes.

by Anonymousreply 26December 14, 2024 3:04 AM

That's all they've got when they don't like something - COMMUNIST! MARXIST! SOCIALIST!

Oh you mean those commie countries like UK, Canada, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Albania, Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Ireland

The list goes on and on. I hope this guy gets his just desserts and is laughed out of every room he enters.

Why is he even in his position in the first place? What the hell has he ever done in his life?

His own mother called him an abuser - although she's been forced to walk that back. She's saying now she sent a follow-up email 2 hours later taking it back - you don't call your son a serial abuser of women and tell him to get help by accident.

by Anonymousreply 27December 14, 2024 3:28 AM

I can’t find the AVERAGE cost of filling a dunk tank with champagne? Clearly many factors involved and in the end the dirty champagne would only appeal to the most desperate of drunks. CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION-Fox and friends.

by Anonymousreply 28December 19, 2024 3:47 PM

But we welcome falling-down drunks and rapists!

by Anonymousreply 29December 19, 2024 4:31 PM

So pathetic that, although his book came out just this year and he has been repeating constantly that gays and women should be out of the military, all of a sudden, he has a change of heart.

Wonder why?

by Anonymousreply 30December 19, 2024 5:03 PM

[quote] That's all they've got when they don't like something - COMMUNIST! MARXIST! SOCIALIST!

Yes, Trump puts it at the end of any statement decrying the Dems.

Do these words actually scare anyone under age 80 at this point? Does anyone actually know what the words mean and their relationship to who owns the means of production?

by Anonymousreply 31December 19, 2024 5:04 PM

He is toast. Gay men are the one group I have never heard Trump disrespect. Trump doesn’t belittle his cash flow.

by Anonymousreply 32December 19, 2024 5:05 PM

[quote] The fact remains, all those men pretending they are women in military dresses is comical and peculiar.

Yet they are putting their lives on the line. and you....? I guess you haven't gotten drafted into the Russian military yet.

by Anonymousreply 33December 19, 2024 5:07 PM

Having trans in the military is common throughout developed countries. They fight with distinction.

The opposition in the US is coming from Evangelicals who hate all things trans. They are creating GOP policy.

by Anonymousreply 34December 19, 2024 7:56 PM

Let them fire gay men. They already can’t make their recruiting numbers as is. I’m sure this will look really good on him.

by Anonymousreply 35December 19, 2024 7:59 PM

R34, there are more gay men than trannies. Get off the tranny shit already.

by Anonymousreply 36December 19, 2024 7:59 PM

Funny to watch if Hegseth tries to fire women, gays, and trans. We tried that before and the military discharged thousands upon thousands of people and couldn't make it up with other recruits

Those discharged were highly trained. It takes years to get to that state. Just firing someone because you have some odd view against them only hurts our military readiness

by Anonymousreply 37December 19, 2024 8:21 PM

Last year, I read Randy Shilts' book Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians and Gays in the U.S. Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War. I think it was Shilts' last book before he died. Anyway, it was well detailed and he talked a good amount of military doctors, nurses, and medics were gay and a few told him that without them the medical section of the military would be screwed up.

by Anonymousreply 38December 19, 2024 10:18 PM
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