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4. Hegseth is a sexist asshole
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:41 PM
Nov 2025



BREAKING: Pete Hegseth stabs a female Navy officer in the back and derails her promotion to become the first woman to oversee the Navy SEALs — just because she's a woman.

This drunken sexual predator is destroying the careers of actual American heroes left and right...

“They want to keep it the brotherhood and don’t like that she’s coming in and challenging the status quo,” a Navy special operations said.

CNN, which did not name the female Navy captain in their reporting, revealed that she was "ranked the top officer for promotion in her cohort" and had received a Purple Heart after being injured by an improvised explosive device during a combat tour in Iraq. She had met every physical standard required of her in addition to maintaining a sterling record.

She went on to become the first woman to serve with SEAL Team Six as a troop commander and "everything was set" for her to take on her new role. A formal ceremony had even been planned for July and invitations were sent out.....

CNN also spoke to over a dozen active-duty women in the military and they all shared a "deep and growing alarm" that Hegseth's blatantly misogynist worldview could result in U.S. armed forces hemorrhaging valuable and experienced soldiers, while also discouraging future enlistment. Several knew of other female military members who were denied promotions that were due.

Many of the women voiced concerns that the process of anonymously reporting sexual assault could be negatively impacted — an unfortunately all too predictable outcome given the fact that the commander-in-chief is an adjudicated rapist and Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault.

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A drunken woman hater...perfect choice travelingthrulife Nov 2025 #1
... with an adolescent view of soldiers and war, who wants to attack Venezuela William Seger Nov 2025 #8
She should publicly challenge him to a cage match CanonRay Nov 2025 #2
That's exactly what I was gonna suggest, FoxNewsSucks Nov 2025 #6
EXACTLY what I was thinking! nt Trueblue Texan Nov 2025 #9
Oh... 2naSalit Nov 2025 #11
Congress ought to intervene, but I'm sure they won't. This is disgraceful. hlthe2b Nov 2025 #3
Hegseth is a sexist asshole LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2025 #4
The only person unfit to lead any military unit, nevermind the military itself, is Whiskey Pete...n/t the nelm Nov 2025 #5
Whiskey Pete The Wizard Nov 2025 #7
Damn! StoolPigeon Nov 2025 #10
That misogynistic asshole fired two top-ranking women right after he was appointed. llmart Nov 2025 #12
Admirals Lisa Franchetti and Linda Fagan were the two highest-ranking women in U.S. military history LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2025 #16
If it's only because she's female, then Hegseth lied about his new "neutral standards" gulliver Nov 2025 #13
Hegseth couldn't cut the mustard Puppyjive Nov 2025 #14
Simply ask orther SEALs, anonymously, of course... 3825-87867 Nov 2025 #15
MotherFUCK this shit. Paladin Nov 2025 #17
Hegseth: "I don't want my son serving .... in combat units with females..... LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2025 #18
When I was in shape, I wouldn't want to serve in combat next to him... haele Nov 2025 #19
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