This is the most powerful 17 second speech ever given by a Secretary of Defense.

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May 07, 2025, 07:50 AM

Biker_dude

This is the most powerful 17 second speech ever given by a Secretary of Defense.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1919926126584955084

This is why do they want to destroy @PeteHegseth so badly. This is it…

SECDEF HEGSETH:
No more pronouns.
No more climate change obsession.
No more emergency vaccine mandates.
No more dudes in dresses.
We’re done with that shit.

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"When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!"

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

May 07, 2025, 07:00 PM

amals

quote:
Originally posted by Calif Phil:
A warfighter leading our warfighters, what a novel concept.

Yeah, how about that?

May 07, 2025, 09:37 PM

sjtill

The U.S. military had to go through this at the start of WW II. Bypass the yes-men, the climbers, and promote their best warriors. North Africa was the proving ground for the U.S. Army. Fredendahl shunted aside, Patton sent to the fore.

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“Remember, remember the fifth of November!"

May 08, 2025, 08:44 AM

92fstech

Honestly, I think they're going to go a lot farther than this in making things better, but even if fixing this list is all that they are to accomplish in the next four years, my vote for DJT will have been well spent. I love how this administration is making good on their campaign promises...it's like nothing else in politics that I've witnessed in my lifetime.

May 08, 2025, 10:47 AM

egregore

This could just as easily go in the "LGBTQ Insanity" thread.

Who would want to serve with any of those, especially the one in the foreground? No wonder recruitment was down (except for the USMC) the last 4 years.

May 08, 2025, 11:28 AM

ElToro

quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
"We're done with that shit."

Amen.

Put it on a shirt and sell it and they could cover the defense department budget for the year.

May 08, 2025, 12:48 PM

ibanda

quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
"We're done with that shit."

Amen.

17 seconds! This made my day!

_{I have a few SIGs.}

May 08, 2025, 12:59 PM

Russ59

quote:
Originally posted by CPD SIG:
At 54, is it too old to re-enlist?

At 53 and a repaired hernia, can I enlist for the first time?