Trump's Second Term

[Vixen]

Pete Hegseth's 'F.A.F.O.' catch phrase - for which he obviously expected a resounding response but got crickets - reminds me of the corny business model slogans that go down a storm at business conferences. For example, business guru, Michael Porter, bringing the house down with his 'Adapt or Die!" speech, or his 'Five Forces Model', I mean us business guys love all this stuff: complex ideas crammed into a three-letter acronym (preferably, no more than three!) or a three-word catchphrase (e.g., JIT, FIFO, ROI, ROCE). But imagine a former alcoholic adulterer ex-Fox News host addressing highly educated military guys with, '◊◊◊◊ About, Find Out!" when military training is about putting ideas and strategy into practice and motivating your troops, which takes years of talent-spotting and leadership training for those motivating leadership roles. This also means self-restraint and not immediately beating up someone who shouts, '◊◊◊◊ Trump' in your face. But here's Hegseth telling US Generals it's OK to get into brawls with the public, or rough up callow new recruits, like drunken football hooligans or sadistic bullies. Hegseth scoffs disparagingly about 'beardos' and 'Nordic pagan warriors' yet, Segeth's own entire body is covered in Nordic/Germanic rune-like tattoos.

How very embarrassing!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1973093414162817275

 

[Darat]

If it is to do with the Dems, it's pretty impressive given that Trump has a majority in both houses.

Sadly in the UK we saw how the big lie works so well when you can get it repeated everywhere, remember the 2008 worldwide financial meltdown was Labour's fault..

 

[Darat]

Hegseth is a liberal pussy, probably a fairy, since he didn't call to weed out all gays in the military.

Only once all US soldiers are strong, tall, handsome, muscular. well-groomed and perfectly straight will the US military be able to win wars again.

And white.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Kash Patel thought it was a great idea to gift New Zealand officials 3D printed guns - illegal to make or own.
The officials, knowing more about the law than the Director of the FBI destroyed them straight away.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/world/fbi-kash-patel-gave-new-zealand-officials-3d-printed-guns-intl-hnk

Ha!
Get some perspective New Zealand.
Such a fus over toy guns.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats

Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say

www.theguardian.com

my bad if this was already posted, but stephen miller reported to have played a prominent role and overruled rubio in sinking of venezuelan boats.

I think their Venezuelan killing spree might yet come back to haunt them and it's interesting if 'sources' are starting to point fingers at Miller.

 

[Andy_Ross]

The Top Brass showed us exactly how to deal with Trump: give him nothing. No reaction. Don't laugh, don't clap, don't shout.
Just silence.

Trump needs audience feedback to do anything, without it, he's feels intensely powerless and invisible, the worst thing you can do to a narcissist.

The Media should just stop reporting on anything Trump says or does that doesn't come in the form of an official Executive Order or anything with some legal force.

According to the usual MAGA posters on Twitter the generals clapped and cheered all the way through.
It's just the radical left MSM that deceptively cut and edit the coverage to remove it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

If it is to do with the Dems, it's pretty impressive given that Trump has a majority in both houses.

But the Repubs have 53 seats in the Senate and need 60 votes to pass.

 

[jimbob]

He wants Battleships like in his favourite 75 year old movie.

<Confused face>

I thought "The Triumph of the Will" was older

 

[Andy_Ross]

It has to be taken serioulsy because of the position of power he is in.
Nazi is not quite the right word, it is more like a Latin American dictatorship. But the problem is too many people have a "It can't Happen Here" attitude.

Plus, I am sure there will be a number among the the 'Brass' that agree with everything they want to do.

I expect a round of resignations and removals to 'weed out' the ones that disagree.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

I think most generals, especially the older ones, have seen so many administrations come and go, so they know that this, too, shall pass.
For all their bluster and propaganda, Trumpers don't really have much of a connection to the armed forces, or they wouldn't put a lame clown like Hegseth in the Pentagon.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Those Deranged Dems!

Karoline Leavitt
@PressSec

Democrats are shutting down the federal government because President Trump won’t force taxpayers to pay for free health care for illegal aliens.

Just think about that…

Democrat elected representatives are punishing their own constituents to fight for illegals.

Deranged

 

[steenkh]

His top brass must despise him.

I hope they won't resign. We need them in charge rather than the fascists that Hegseth will replace them with.

 

[Vixen]

Those Deranged Dems!

Hello, USA?! Are you OK? Is everything alright, or did someone drop a load of acid in your water supply, and now everything is stark staring mad over there; your leaders and representatives unable to string a coherent sentence together?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Hours before the government shutdown, Donald Trump posted another racist AI video mocking Hakeem Jeffries.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1973189592993202219

 

[angrysoba]

I think most generals, especially the older ones, have seen so many administrations come and go, so they know that this, too, shall pass.
For all their bluster and propaganda, Trumpers don't really have much of a connection to the armed forces, or they wouldn't put a lame clown like Hegseth in the Pentagon.

Yes, but the Trump administration is full of such misfits and weirdoes.

The reason could be that they are more pliable. No one else is going to hire these people for the jobs they are in.

Who in their right mind thinks that RFK Jr, an anti-vaxxer FFS!, would be the man to put in charge of health and human services?

Who would put Tulsi Gabbard in charge of national intelligence when she is considered a compromised Russian asset?

Who would want a Nosferatu-like ghoul such as Stephen Miller creeping around the house where you sleep? Nobody!

These people know they will not get to these positions with anybody else so they will obviously do everything and anything to stick with their corpulent benefactor.

Trump doesn't ask for competence or appearing half-way human. All he wants in return is slavish loyalty.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Why does he think Jeffries is Mexican?

 

[Shepherd]

Maybe you should pay attention to your own posts. The criticism was that Democrats are looking out for the interests of our illegal aliens, most of whom are from south of our border of course, than those of American citizens.

Maybe you folks forgot to inoculate yourselves against the leftist woke brain virus. Thankfully, I seem to be naturally immune.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Remarkable

 

[arthwollipot]

Ha!
Get some perspective New Zealand.
Such a fus over toy guns.

Kash literally trafficked illegal guns into the country. What "perspective" excuses that?

 

[Aridas]

Hegseth is a liberal pussy, probably a fairy, since he didn't call to weed out all gays in the military.

Only once all US soldiers are strong, tall, handsome, muscular. well-groomed and perfectly straight will the US military be able to win wars again.

Meanwhile, Trump will keep being peacemaker and stopping eleventy bazillion wars?

Maybe you should pay attention to your own posts. The criticism was that Democrats are looking out for the interests of our illegal aliens, most of whom are from south of our border of course, than those of American citizens.

Maybe you folks forgot to inoculate yourselves against the leftist woke brain virus. Thankfully, I seem to be naturally immune.

Naturally immune to the reality that those Republicans are lying to you like crazy, especially about what Democrats are actually doing and who they're actually looking out for as well as what Republicans are actually doing and who they're actually looking out for? Trump's lying and stupidity deserves the mockery it gets and much more.