Summary
Female veterans and service members are condemning Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s comments opposing women in combat roles, calling them outdated and harmful.
Hegseth claimed women in combat complicate military effectiveness, despite decades of evidence proving their competence, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan, where over 300,000 women served, with 179 killed and over 1,000 wounded.
Critics, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient, argue Hegseth’s views ignore the realities of modern warfare.
His nomination has sparked backlash, further amplified by past allegations of sexual misconduct.
Most people agree with him and nothing will ever change their minds. We are not living in a world of evidence based beliefs.
So. The secretary of defense is not an elected position. Most people in the country don’t even know who currently holds the role.
The opinion of those he leads and works with is much more important.
The opinion of who leads the country and his voters are more important. It’s like the west trying to install democracy and progress in afghanistan. The locals aren’t having it.
If Americans wanted Women to have Rights and Respect they WOULDNT have Voted for a Convicted Rapist!
53% of white women voted for Trump in 2024.
I thought you were supposed to be satirical. This is just a fact.
A fact apart from the millions and millions of women who did not vote for him.
You know what? I’m starting to think that a nazi might not be a good pick for Defense Secretary if he can’t respect women.
I’m starting to think that nazi is short for bad.
Naw this guy has literal white supremacist and Nazi tattoos
I guess I’m confused but your need to qualify that statement at all.
Maybe we went wrong somewhere…
Sexual misconduct is a prerequisite for the trump administration
to be fair the army has historically been quite fond of it as well
You misspelled requirement
What do you think a prerequisite is? If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right…
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A prerequisite is basically a pre-requirement.
Oh nice, I didn’t think to type exactly that earlier.
Trump is throwing out rapid fire unqualified pics to force votes against him in the Senate. This isn’t usual politics. He’s just throwing grenades because he can.
I saw some bonkers rumor about Trump adjourning cogress allowing him to make recess appointments.
So he throws out shit nominees to force the Senate to not approve someone, looking at you RFK, Trump says he cant work with this Senate and adjourns them. Makes even worse appointmemts and bingo bango we have an american despot.
No, he’s throwing out horrible picks so that the slightly less horrible picks that come after them seem reasonable.
That is my theory too. I don’t think people understand how much the Republicans controlling Trump have been planning for this.
Nah, he isn’t playing chess, he’s just the pigeon shitting all over the board.
He isn’t playing chess because he’s not the one doing the chess playing. He’s a puppet. Do you think he came up with any of Project 2025?
That’s exactly what this is. It’s easier to loot the country when everything is burning and your corruption isn’t the biggest problem.
What does he gain from Senate voting against him?
Chaos? A distraction from whatever else he’s up to that night be worse? Idk.
Maybe, or open revolt from them to block anything he tries to do after. I’m hoping the gop splits at this point and nothing gets done for 4 years.
