Marine Corps General Eric Smith’s reaction during Hegseth’s speech.

    by UgliestDisability

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    1. That’s the classic, “Can you believe this fucking guy?” look. Really common in America the last few years.

    2. soon enough…. those officers who aren’t loyalists will be terminated and they’ll be replaced with paper tigers who won’t stop the coup as trump supporters

    3. Rockin_freakapotamus on

      Stop posting pictures of generals and admirals having negative reactions to Trump and Hegseth. This makes them targets.

    4. Serious question.

      Can you imagine any of them actually respecting Hegseth? I’m not going to downplay Pete’s military career, **anyone** that serves deserves that acknowledgement, but it has to be clear to them all that he’s a DEI hire right?

    5. Imagine dedicating your whole life to military service only to have some asshole come in and tell you how the military should be run.

    6. Would love to know if the military brass would consider removing Trump and gang to protect the constitution.

    7. Pinksamuraiiiii on

      This country is in trouble. Hegseth sounds like he wants war within America, which is very crazy.

    8. I_Am_Dad_Inside on

      Generals gathered in their masses.

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      Hearing bullshit from fat asses.
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      In their minds they plot destruction.
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      While the generals think “WTF son?”

    9. Formal-Try-2779 on

      You guys probably just got him sacked. He’ll be replaced by one of the Proud boys next week.

    10. ImurderREALITY on

      This is just a picture of a person. You have no idea what this person is thinking right now.

    11. Imagine dedicating your life to military service, making important decisions for years, climbing the ranks to get the ranking of General then all of the sudden your new “boss” is an alcoholic TV host with no real military experience.

      I guarantee that face is made a lot

    12. yeah, they’re making faces, but in the end they’re gonna take it without complaining, instead of acting like the power they’re supposed to be.

    13. TheInfiniteSlash on

      Well if there is one thing that makes me smile, its knowing that the military doesn’t like Hegseth either. Imagine if they were all in for this nonsense.

    14. Imagine a whole room of decorated career military officers, having to sit and listen to an alcoholic DEI hire, who leaked a top secret combat operation on a messaging app, tell them about standards…

    15. I mean if you’ve worked your ass off your whole life to garner all of those medals, you’d probably be pissed too when a guy who was way below your rank is now telling you what to do

    16. Back in the control room, “Row 5, seat 10, we have a scowling general. Row 2, seat 3, guy just frowned. Noticeable uptick in yawning throughout the room during mein Führer’s speech. Have them pay a visit to Kegsbreath’s office SOFORT!”

    17. juiceboxedhero on

      These posts outing generals and their names are extremely dangerous. Please don’t do this.

    18. These men have crawled up the ranks for years to reach the highest levels of the military. They are cosumate professionals at the top of their game. And they just got scolded by a drunk, unqualified white supremacist, T.V. host.

      His reaction is probably not a 10th of what he was feeling inside.

    19. All these important military generals and others (I don’t know the correct name of officers made to attend) how to fly from Asia, and wherever they were stationed, to hear this very partisan speech. In the military is supposed to be non-partisan.

      They got to hear how women shouldn’t be in the military, according to Hegseth. I’m guessing these generals and other military officers have seen some bad ass women, probably trained some of them or they were in their command , and those women have done well. Positions aren’t handed out in the military just because. You have to be qualified.

      But all of this could’ve been done in an email or a memo. What was so important that they had to drop everything at last minute, get here at a great cost to the taxpayer, all to hear what amounted to a Trump rally???

      I would be like WTAF??? they are trying to keep us safe and they were yanked back to DC for no good valid reason. This should be an embarrassment to he Seth and Trump.

      Trump and his administration has wasted so much money, we would be all struck if we knew the true number. Because yesterday was a waste of a ton of money too.

      I’m glad that Jim‘s finally grew some balls and didn’t back down to a very non-partisan bill. Time and time again, Dems have swallowed their pride and let them get away with a continuing resolution. They finally decided enough was enough. Oh I agree, I hate the people are working without getting paid or not working at all, but they all will get backpay, once the government opens back up. And many functions of the government do still go on.

      The right has to learn that they have to work across the aisle. We have done it for decades, centuries, but yet we can’t when Trump is in office because he makes everything partisan and everything is the Democrats fault. Even though he’s the one that needs to cut cut cut cut cut from the budget and raise the debt ceiling at the same damn time.

      As I keep saying, when his term is over, he will leave as we are all left behind, metaphorically burning. But hey, we got some slabs of concrete where they used to be a beautiful rose garden and some bougie ballroom. Yay for the USA.

    20. I feel this whole fitness focus is to eliminate generals and higher ups who don’t fall in line.

      Most of the generals are older and not as physically fit as a 20 year old. But it’s really easy to get rid of them with this excuse.

    21. The fact that the president and Secretary of Defense are using this bellicose rhetoric in front of a room full of generals is a bad sign historically. It’s the last resort of a failing republic or empire to rattle their sabers and start threatening their neighbors as well as their own citizens.

      They’re falling back on military power as the unilateral justifier for aggression to achieve political and economic goals. The economy is in terrible shape as Trump engineers the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history. Tariffs aren’t going so well and inflation is through the roof.

      Trump knows that in a democracy, political parties live or die by the economy at the ballot box, so he wants to terrorize cities where most democratic voters live and seize military control of the upcoming elections.

      Meanwhile Hegseth’s job is to sound like a rabid attack dog to other countries. The US still has the most powerful military in the world and they’re declaring an active and instigating stance — hence “War Dept” as opposed to “Defense.”

    22. Trump is firing people for less than that. STOP putting pictures of public servants online.

    23. If there were patriots, they would organize a munity and put the plan to remove Trump and Hegseth for treason in motion.

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