Let’s get right to the heart of the Pete Hegseth fake controversy. This isn’t about some Signal chat. This isn’t about some bullSchiff newfound interest in sensitive materials-handling that didn’t manifest until it became useful as a political weapon. This is about one thing: Taking down President Donald J. Trump. This is about wounding him, belittling him, humiliating him by taking the scalp of a marquee guy he appointed, and neutering him so he can’t reform the broken Pentagon.
Hell no.
They can only pull it off if Trump lets them. Their only power is the ability to whine, complain, and cry. But Donald Trump is not going to play that, and more importantly, we, the base, are not going to play it either. Pete Hegseth can be the hill the Democrats can die on right after they finish having margaritas with that wife-beating MS-13 scumbag.
If you were reading The New York Times this weekend instead of getting right with Jesus, you probably saw that the stupid Signalgate nonsense had been resurrected as well. They tried it once, and now they are trying it again. It was lame the first time. It is to scandals as David French is to raw, smoldering sensuality.
It’s no scandal; it’s a joke, a fraud, a scam, and a lie like everything else they push. This imbroglio is not about rules or regulations or military security. These guys don’t care about classified material. If they did, Hillary Clinton would be in Leavenworth, finally finding someone who loves her.
This is about politics, and we need to respond politically. Our political response needs to be an extended middle finger.
Their onanistic festival of phony outrage is a weapon, a weapon designed to take out SecDef Pete Hegseth, but of course, Hegseth is not the target. As always, the guy in the crosshairs is President Donald J. Trump. Why? Desperation. They need this win. Trump has been winning and winning and winning, plus more winning, since he got inaugurated, and the Democrats, the regime media, and the Fredocons haven’t been able to lay a soft, girlish finger on him. They can only win if Donald Trump bends to their will. Of course, even if the president was inclined to be a sissy, it would just embolden and empower them, and Trump would spend the rest of the next nearly four years bent over.
But President Trump doesn’t bend over for anybody. And neither do we, his supporters.
Pete Hegseth is a high-value target because he is a twofer; nuking him not only hurts Trump but they get rid of the guy who is messing with their grift. Pete Hegseth is a man and a soldier, two things the Democrats, regime media, and Soft Republicans hate, loathe, and fear. In this retired colonel’s opinion, he’s already done the most important thing that a new SecDef could do: reestablish military culture. Sometimes you need a number-cruncher like Donald Rumsfeld. Other times, you need an ass-kicker like Pete Hegseth. He has hewn the deadwood, fired the half-steppers, and gone out there and said that we will be a military organization once again. The troops get the message when he does PT with Mongo the Camouflage Sasquatch. This is a guy who wants the military to be what the troops signed up for. Real warriors want to be part of this organization. Enlistments are up massively, and the word is out. This is going to be a warfighting organization that’s dedicated to killing our enemies instead of talking about privilege, systemic racism, and how some men can get pregnant.
He’s replacing DEI with DIE, and it’s the bad guys who are doing the dying. Being a retired colonel on Twitter, and therefore harmless, servicemembers talk to me. They’re finally in a military organization again, and they dig it. They love Pete Hegseth, and getting rid of Pete Hegseth would be a betrayal of the people who put their lives on the line for our country. And it would also be a betrayal of the people who support the president.
To his credit, Hegseth has made some powerful enemies. He’s upset a lot of apple carts and kicked over a lot of rice bowls. There are many people who are used to doing business the old way, getting rich while the military gets weaker, and they don’t like him. Nor do they like President Trump’s agenda of not getting into useless wars and closing down some of the stupid ones. Trump is pulling us out of Syria – the last time he tried, the generals outright lied to him, but that will not play now that Hegseth is on board. That makes Hegseth dangerous – he’s not beholden to anyone but Trump and us. If they can pressure Trump into firing Hegseth, we’ll get some Raytheon executive who did a tour as a quartermaster lieutenant back in 1979 who they can use as a puppet to keep the grift rolling.
Nope. Trump’s not doing that.
Another reason they hate him is that Pete Hegseth is alleged to be part of the faction of Trump’s Cabinet that opposes striking Iran. Now, if I was chief of staff to Pete Hegseth – and I’m never going to work for anybody again – I would advise him to advise the Commander-in-Chief to blow the living snot out of those seventh-century semi-humans. Take out their nuclear program, take out their Islamic Gestapo, and send the mullahs to meet their 72 virgins with their tiny manhoods in their hands. But I’m not making policy, and Pete Hegseth is not making policy. President Trump is making policy, and he’s going to make the decision based on the best advice of the people around him, advice that I might not agree with. But the last thing Trump needs is some establishment Pentagon cheerleader whispering in his ear, trying to keep its 30-year unbroken track record of total failure alive.
Is everything going perfectly in the Pentagon? No, it’s not because it’s a human endeavor, and things never always go perfectly. Are there some personnel upsets? Did some people get asked to leave for reasons that we don’t really understand? Yep, and I’ve heard that some of those are good guys. Regardless, Hegseth is the boss and Pete decided to go in a different direction, so that’s how it goes. I don’t care anything about Pentagon in-fighting. I just want Hegseth to break the will of the people standing in his way, send home the folks who won’t get on the train, and get this organization moving again.
That’s what President Trump hired him to do. That’s what he’s doing. The Democrats and their minions in the regime media and deep state are deploying their nonsense to pull an okey-doke on our president and get him to screw himself over by firing Pete Hegseth. But while the media is whining, it is all an illusion. Most normal people neither know nor care about Pentagon drama, and his base backs Hegseth 100%. Trump’s not going to fold. He’s not going to embarrass himself by rolling over. President Trump does not care what the Democrats, the regime media, or the Republican Tofu Spine Caucus think. Pete Hegseth, besides being a great SecDef, will be a monument to Trump’s power, and to his enemies’ pathetic weakness.
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