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Five@slrpnk.net to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 个月前

Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis

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Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis

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Concerns are mounting over Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth. CBS News reports that Hegseth was one of 12 National Guard members who were removed as guards for President Biden’s 2021 inauguration over possible extremist ties. Hegseth has tattoos associated with the white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, including what’s known as a Jerusalem cross, a symbol used by Christian nationalists. In related news, the government watchdog Accountable.US announced it’s launching a “Trump Accountability War Room” to monitor Trump’s appointments and executive actions as he takes up his second term.
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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    Trump, picking a Fox news host to run the military

    “How could this be any worse?”

    That motherfucker: takes off shirt

    Narrator: “It got worse.”

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      Wait until he opens his mouth and starts talking

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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        Wait until he uses the military to do something even more nefarious than what they usually do around the world

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    I’m a gun nut. I have an AR-15 and love it. Finest multi-purpose rifle on Earth.

    Forget the rest of the tats. Having a tattoo of an AR-15 is so goddamned toxic I want to puke. FWIW, I’d punch him for the Iron Cross tats before I noticed the others.

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      Get an ak. Ar is jam city

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        I have an AR it has never jammed. I also have an AK that has also never jammed.

        • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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          Sounds like you don’t know how to jam.

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            I also have a Gibson, it has never jammed.

            • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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              Hesitate to share some absolutely terrible news about my Smuckers

              • xpinchx@lemmy.world
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                Did it jam?

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          Cleaning and maintaining your weapons regularly leads to reliability. FWIW, the AK series are peasants weapons. Which isn’t bad.

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        The M-16 is a jam factory, the M-4 was built to not do that. Slap any nato mag in that bad boy and pew pew

        • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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          The M-16 did jam however it was due to shitty mags, cheaping out on the barrel, not issuing the grunts proper cleaning kits, and not giving them a manual of arms for handling the new weapon in a jungle environment.

          Also Mr. president of the universe you’re wanted in the galactic council rooms.

          • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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            Don’t go Beeblebrox, it’s a trap!

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        Mine is cheap as hell and will cycle anything, including steel case ammo of dubious origin and quality. If you have one that is jamming, there might be a defect that requires your attention.

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    The entire cabinet is something from a comic book. These guys are all cartoonishly evil.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      It literally seems like he’s just picking a mix of Republicans who are most notorious on social media and people who would make Putin the most happy, so you’re not wrong but I don’t think it’s the actual criterion he’s using.

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      my theory is that this is all one big power move from trump, to show people what he can get away with. i don’t think he cares that much about the individual people he’s nominating, he more so cares about showing people that he can pick literally anyone he wants and no one will stop him.

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      And Trump is bypassing all background checks by the FBI.

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    Of course he does. These are all complete garbage human beings. Can’t wait to hear the moronic defense of this is somehow not racist.

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      “It’s all just a joke.”

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        Who doesn’t tattoo jokes onto their body?

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          My wife is a tattoo artist, and lots of people do.

          But, he isn’t one of those people.

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          emo kids with dotted lines on their wrists sweating right now

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            Same for us guys with “Your Name” on our asses

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              The chungus I have poking out of my butt cleavage is gonna get me put on a list isn’t it

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                Just did. “People With Tattoos I Wanna See”

                • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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                  My butt cleavage is pretty uneventful. I got that put there to give the colonoscopy techs a laugh.

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      “It’s going to be a maze.”

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        “As soon as I get my next check and pay off my payday loan and pill guy”

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    When does Russia invade to de-nazify the US?

    (They already have, comrade. And your citizens voted it in)

    Here’s another question:

    If Russia launched a nuke at the US, would puppet trump use the launch codes?

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      Probably not because he would probably tell Putin to target a major Democratic city center

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        Dearborn, MI would probably be high on the list.

        High Muslim population. Heavy Democratic leaning (except this year. Lol)

        One obvious one NYC, but he wouldn’t want to hurt his property value.

        So, pretty much the entire pacific coast.

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      The launch codes are 00000 anyway, so…

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      • hissing meerkat@sh.itjust.works
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        You’re missing three zeros.

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      more like that insane fuck would nuke some place as final middle finger before he dies to old age

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      The reason republicans were able to take over is because liberals brains have been turned into soup

      look at this shit

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    It was pretty obvious a decade ago

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      I had to check if this was a bad freeze frame or what and nope she fires that hand out straight as a goddamn arrow and leaves it like that. She wasn’t caught mid-wave, just straight up doing the ol’ nazi salute.

      It’s wild that these people are using the same imagery as the nazis. You’d think that they’d have their own brand as most people aren’t knowingly the bad guys and the ones that are are generally smarter than that but they just can’t fuckin’ help larp as the poster children for worst thing the modern world has dealt with(though more recent times are making it look kinda normal).

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    If this person gets clearance and is not open about the hate group ties, that can be grounds for prosecution. The big question will be whether or not anyone cares.

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      deleted by creator

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
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      The big question will be whether or not anyone cares who has the ability to do anything about it.

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        Yeah, I’m sure AG Gaetz will get right on that

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      Oh, yeah, that will happen with Matt “baby-rapin’” Gaetz as AG. Hell it wouldn’t happen with Milquetoast Merrick Garland because that would be “political”.

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      Anybody in the trump cabinet who does not present video proof of them raping a child or committing hate crimes while doing nazi salutes is going to be prosecuted for disloyalty.

      It’s the trump white house resume.

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    Yeah, the news-media is salivating on all the clicks it’s receiving right now.

    Almost if it’s benefiting them that Trump was elected. Hmm.

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      Couldn’t possibly be gaslighting the country about a mentally incapacitated incumbent until 2 months from the election

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      Might as well make the most of it before they get censored lol.

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    Trump nominating a Literal Nazi to lead our Military is PROOF that DEMOCRATS were Overreacting!

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    Some of those that work forces…

    • errer@lemmy.world
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      Some?

      • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
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        Rage Against the Machine lyrics.

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          I’m aware.

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      Starting to change from some to most to all.

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      The original lyric was:

      “Some of those that hold office are the same that burn crosses.”

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    “Trump Accountability War Room”. Because suddenly presidential accountability is VERY important.

    …wait, what?

    Also, using the term “war room” for everything. Peak USA.

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      what’s the point of a room if you can’t have a war in it

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      The war room was a joke in Dr. Strangelove, so of fucking course it became a real thing.

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        It’s important to me that y’all realize war rooms are a real thing, have been for centuries if not millennia, and weren’t invented for movies or news.

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      Well calling it a Revenge Room would have been too obvious.

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      Just copied Alberta Canada. We have had a war room for years now. A war room can’t climate activists I think it is.

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        Gotta admit, that’s pretty damn cool, for Canada, anyway.

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      deleted by creator

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        If that’s what you got out of his comment, maybe you should stick to the meme communities, then at least you can pretend your not understanding is just a bit you’re doing.

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        Yeah I think you missed my point there, scooter. I’m questioning the reasoning. As in, "after hundreds of years, you are saying that ONLY NOW do we need an “Office of Accountability”? Boggles my mind. Where was this 200 FUCKING YEARS AGO? Oh, “BUT ITS TRUMP, SOMEONE NEEDS TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIM” Holy fuck. Everyone is just

        So

        Stupid

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    People shouldn’t fear governments. Governments should fear their people.

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      I love this.

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        V for Vendetta is going to absolutely melt your mind, as it should.

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    You know what, I’m starting to think you guys really should start building that wall around you.

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    Allies kill Nazis, Allies have babies, babies become assholes, assholes have baby Nazis.

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      Nazis eat man, woman inherits the earth.

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    Are we surprised?

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      No.

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      HELL no.

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