US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday travelled to Normandy to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.
But after making a speech at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, he conspicuously skipped afternoon’s main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the Allied landings, which helped herald the end of World War II.
His presence was not missed by some residents of the village hosting the ceremony, Langrune-sur-Mer, who said the US official was not welcome there.
“He has very warlike views and it seems to us that this man does not share our democratic values,” Sylvie Lamy Thepaut, a member of the municipal association Langrune en commun, told BFM TV.
That fucking drunk wouldn’t have lasted two seconds on D-Day.
He would have been shaking and throwing up in bootcamp from the alcohol withdrawals.
Hey! Hey! Drunks have been at the backbone of the imperialist war machine for centuries!
You think Westmoreland was sober after the last helicopter left Saigon? You think MacArthur was sober when he fled the Philippines? You think Seal Team Six was sober when they crashed those helicopters over Abadabad?
Substance abuse is the grease between the wheels of the grinding gears of global Holocaust. It’s how the brave men stormed Fallujah. It’s why drone operators can sleep at night after obliterating another wedding party in Yemen or Afghanistan. It’s what keeps guards at the human slave markets in Libya and the torture camps in Abu Gharab and Guantanamo Bay.
Do you want the Terrorists to win? Do you want China to take every island from Taiwan to Cuba?! Do you want America TO LOSE?!
Then keep that whiskey coming. Wars aren’t won on seltzer water
Be that as it may, Hegseth is not one of the drunks who would have helped us toward victory.
He might have soaked up a bullet or 6 for his betters. Thats not exactly nothing, although its close.
I get so angry about all the better men we’ve lost
The normal GI’s would have thrown his worthless ass overboard into the La Manche (English Channel) before the landings.
Most bullies don’t.
He has very war like views
Someone pointed out he doesn’t call soldiers soldiers. He calls them war fighters. He’s on a crusade and sees them as fighters for his cause.
Warfighter is a US military term.
I believe the original intention was to avoid differentiating between a sailor, soldier, marine or airman. I think it was supposed to be a generic term.
But he for sure thinks of them as crusaders in his fucking lunatic holy war.
The generic term is “service member”
A service member covers everyone, a warfighter is in particular supposed to be for combat roles.
Combat arms is a perfectly fine term that doesn’t ooze with larper pretentiousness.
Weird considering we haven’t declared “war” since 1942.
“War fighters” is something a functionally illiterate middle school child would come up with because the word “warrior” just doesn’t drive home the chud point.
I believe the original term would have been soldiers or some shit.
Apparently he has a “deus vult” tattoo.
God, if real, would have nothing to do with this asshole…
The abrahamic god is a legit asshole in some iterations. Just look at the book of Job
He’s not. He’s cosplaying. That’s all.
I am all for a crusade to liberate Jerusalem.
Hegseth may not understand what D-Day was about
In a perplexing speech Saturday commemorating the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy, France, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for European leaders to combat what he implied was a second, modern D-Day—in which European countries were being “stormed by different dangerous ideologies” accompanied by “boats and men.”
The original D-Day was the Allied invasion to liberate France from Nazi German domination: the defenders were Hitler’s National Socialists and their army, and the “dangerous ideology” was anti-fascism.
Hegseth may have been confused—or, then again, we might be at the stage where our government explicitly aligns us with Nazism. After all, every single refugee we admitted to the US this year was supposedly fleeing anti-white persecution.
The way he put it (that “Europe should combat a second D-Day”) is a pretty strong indication that he sees things from the NAZI perspective rather than the Allied one.
Men? Boats? Dangerous ideologies?
That’s like three of his favorite things.
A lethal combination of both malice and stupidity. The US education system is a complete failure.
A personal anecdote, I grew up in NY and was barely taught about the War of 1812. It wasn’t until I moved to Canada that I learned the details about it, at which point it became very obvious why we weren’t taught jack shit.
A lethal combination of both malice and stupidity. The US education system is a complete failure.
A personal anecdote, I grew up in NY and was barely taught about the War of 1812. It wasn’t until I moved to Canada that I learned the details about it, at which point it became very obvious why we weren’t taught jack shit.
As an American, I visited Normandy and the people there were very kind and welcoming to Americans. You’ve gotta be a huge fuck up for the people there not to like you.
Hegseth drinks his own piss.
Well it is 80 proof.
Not in the Bear Grylls type way, for fun.
Because he likes it. And it’s sterile.
Yeah, let’s invite fascists to celebrate the victory over fascism. That should go well
they could do a demonstration of what they did back then. just sayin’
Surrender?
Hegseth should ditch the security detail and enjoy a nice French vacation. They’re peaceful surrender people.
Bravo to the residents of Langrune-sur-Mer. Who the fuck would want a racist Christian Nationalist sack of shit at a D-Day ceremony?
In every single photo of that warmonger, he looks like an absolute douchebag.
That’s because he is
Good luck un-seeing this:
Olyphant doesn’t deserve the comparison. He’s a goddamned American Jedi.
If Pete was a character on Deadwood, Sherriff Bullock would knock his drunk ass out and throw him in a house trough
I confirm he’s not welcome other days too
Yeah, well, having one of the biggest warmongering supporters of the present day equivalent of the NAZIs as their Genocide, on a D-Day celebration, would be a little wierd.
Ils sont fous ces Romains.
Hat tip, France. You’ve earned my respect once again.
Pound sand, SHITGET.
I got a good chuckle at this, thanks Op.
Good thing France isn’t rich in oil because they certainly couldn’t resist any military action from hostile nations.
France has nukes
That could be a problem in a generation or three the way things in France are going.
As opposed to those unproblematic nuclear countries
What are we in the bush era again?
The US President has said, “Drill baby drill!!” a sufficient number of times that I feel comfortable saying Yes.
