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( Ullyot )“President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account,” he wrote. “Given that, it’s hard to see Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer.”
That line was near the end of the article and puts the whole thing into absolute hogwash territory
I'm pretty sure this is just how people try to manipulate Trump. He responds to flattery, and this almost makes it sound like Trump would be weak to do nothing.
It's worth noting that what you said is the only way this guy is going to get fired. Trump has literally zero intrinsic understanding of the issue. He doesn't use computers or smartphones, probably has only a vague grasp of what an app or end-to-end encryption are, and no understanding of app security vs device security. He has literally no basis on which to understand any of this, and crucially, he won't care to learn if someone explains it to him.
So yeah I have no doubt that he's completely baffled by all of this and doesn't really see how it affects him.
He's trying to stroke his ego
He called himself a “strong backer” of Hegseth
If Ullyot backs Hegseth then I don’t give a shit about anything else he has to say. Hegseth’s end nearing at this point isn’t a bombshell or surprise.
First cunt is out and it's been under 100 days. The amount of infighting drama will only increase, and I wonder whether Trump will push Elona under the bus, too.
Gearing up to drop the DOGE, possibly. Caught a ton of messages from the RNC in my organization’s email filter today with a survey asking if people still support DOGE. Sounds like a narrative change, but who knows could just be a dumb newsletter.
If you don't support doge, then you will be the next to go
I tried reading the original opinion piece by John Ullyot, and god damn what a sad lackey. It was hard to read.
“President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account,” he wrote
Sorry, what?
It means he fires them if they disagree with him. It checks out.
Exactly. They are being held accountable for being sycophants, nothing else.
He means he doesn't want trump to fire him
When it's not working, it's working. The destruction of American military might was the objective from the start. Just look at who benefits the most by this.
It's Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.
All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.
Pigler! It's right there!
If what they’re doing is trying to destroy the American military apparatus, then that is just objectively good for the world.
But they aren’t. Last year’s military budget was 850,000,000,000. This year’s budget is $1,000,000,000,000. Do you destroy something by giving it more money?
Tbf not that hard to increase waste by 25%. Just think of how a new staff takes a long time to do easy work, causes rework, and generally sucks up the time of the people around them until they get the experience and skills they need to do that job.
That's the micro scale, but in a macro scale it's the same. Cause more waste, and not only will the money matter less, the public interest will be deteriorated and the entire foundation compromised.
Actually just check out the history of CIA ops around in foreign countries. Consider how many of those countries end up with a high inflation rate and that currency becomes more worthless in a deathspiral.
I think it's not a single factor like "it's orchestrated by state nation x" but I fully believe if the US is going to make itself weak then those countries like potentially Russia or China will take full advantage of it and offer a helping push. They'll do it subtly. So it's hard to see. But it's just standard politics, and it would be insane to think they won't take full advantage of a situation.
At least he didn’t wear a tan suit whilst eating grey poupon.
Well, you see, one person is black and has a D next to their name, so therefore eating mustard is bad or something, whereas Trump is white, rich, and has an R next to his name, therefore he can commit infinite amounts of crimes and hold no accountability.
God remember when he invited the man who was wrongfully arrested for breaking into his own home, over to the Whitehouse for a beer???
Were they even wearing suits?
Didn’t even say thank you.
Better still, he invited the home owner and the arresting officer over:
On July 24, Obama invited both parties to the White House to discuss the issue over a beer, and on July 30, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined Crowley and Gates in a private, cordial meeting in a courtyard near the White House Rose Garden; this became known colloquially as the "Beer Summit".
and don’t even START on the DIJON mustard
He has to bring his wife.
He needs her to blow into the ignition interlock.
This dude's hair always reminds me of Max Headroom.
I legit would feel a lot more comfortable about the national security of my country if the Pentagon were to require mandatory breathalyzer checks throughout the day for the leadership team.
I wish I had a thing that could make me feel better about the leadership of the country.
How about guillotines?
This Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth can't even name a single country in ASEAN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I21TEL_ArPY
I still have not made up my mind....
Is all of this because all of them are incredibly stupid OR is this by design, is all of this intentional.
Both. They’re fucking morons, manipulated according to the design of smarter men who wish us ill.
It's all intentionally incredibly stupid by design!
Yes.
Honestly, I wonder what these bombshells are supposed to be. The current administration goes with the worst possible scenario every single time.
It also doesn’t help, that they get away with it all the time.
Probably that he shared confidential details with family members in another Signal chat.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department
I wonder what these bombshells are supposed to be
Eventually enough people will get angry enough at Trump's (mis)adminiatration to take some effective action to stop it.
This just adds to the pile of things to be angry about.
TBH, of all the unqualified and under qualified members of this cabinet, Hegseth has the be the most unqualified. I don’t know if Vegas has odds on which cabinet member goes first, but Drunk Pete has to have something close to 1:1.
You forgot that he is also one of the most loyal to Trump. In this admin, loyalty is above all else. It doesn't matter how incompetent you are as long as you're loyal.
That’s a fair point, but if he messes up enough, and more importantly embarrassingly enough, the loyalty won’t matter. Can’t make the King(s) look bad.
You can actually see the future take on Hegseth in this op-ed. One third of the article is how great a leader Trump is, and Hegseth could’ve been. One third is stale Biden-bashing talking points, and the last third is how fucked up things are at the Pentagon. In it he says Trump demands results (unlike “some other administrations”), and then lists a number of former secretaries he’s fired for “not meeting his expectations.” Completely overlooking that many of them resigned over some scandal, at least one left because he said Trump was an “fucking idiot,” and the rest were fired for telling him what he didn’t want to hear. This is the history the party has decided on, and Hegseth will become another name on that list.
It's like a mob full of pussies.
of all the unqualified and under qualified members of this cabinet, Hegseth has the be the most unqualified
I dunno. RFK is also a strong contender for that title.
Fair point. I feel like RFK can do more damage. At least with the military, generals and admirals can refuse unlawful orders.
the list is just so fucking long
can we just try and name the most qualified, agree that they’re unqualified, label the rest as more than unqualified and call it a day?
Trump's selection method was to find out who's the absolute worst candidate for each job, then to hire them. It's the dregs of the dregs.
"Draining the swamp" into the cabinet.
As expected.
It’s all part of the plan by the stable genius playing 23 dimensional chess