Hegseth rants about 'woke military' and 'political correctness' during fiery West Point graduation speech

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his West Point commencement address to criticize former leaders, accusing them of turning the armed forces into a “woke Princeton” and weakening the American spirit through DEI policies.

In the rain on Saturday at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York, Hegseth told graduating cadets that past leadership and reforms had weakened the military, accusing previous officials of turning the academy into what he described as a misguided academic environment.

“We saw woke and weak leaders trying to make West Point look like woke Princeton, which happens to be my long-lost and lost alma mater,” Hegseth said.

“They tried to introduce diversity and inclusion studies. They hire professors who advocated for anti-American ideologies right here in these halls, but no more,” he said to a muted response from the crowd, arguing that West Point is “special” and “above politics.”

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Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/hegseth-west-point-graduation-speech-b2982557.html

[Lovie777]

1. This guy is a psychopath.....

enough said.

[lonely bird]

10. And stupid on top of that.

[MarcoZandrini]

18. And...

…drunk on top of that.

[Beartracks]

2. "West Point is above politics," he ranted, politically.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Hegseth badmouthing officers with high GPA's who were qualified to

teach at West Point.

Does he expect the graduates to turn against their role models who helped them achieve their goals?

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. Bah, some of them would.

I'd say around 12-18% of them would do just that, if it meant being seen as 'pro-Cheetolini'.

[walkingman]

4. The punk is sick. He is a total pussy with a big mouth (not offense to pussies intended). ☮

[niyad]

29. Could we PLEASE stop using using a sexual slur for female genitalia

as a synonym for weakness/cowardice?

[walkingman]

31. So sorry, you are right, it was something that popped into my mind without even thinking....

maybe a wimp or coward which is unquestionably not a female trait. ☮

[niyad]

32. Thank you. I have many names/descriptors for him, some of which

I can even use in public! Jeff Tiedrich has quite a few as well.

[Mysterian]

5. A sad day in West Point history

I'm sure most of the cadets were disgusted by cowardly braggart Hegseth.

[3catwoman3]

12. I hope you are right about that.

[chowder66]

6. Bring back barbarism!!! Valhallah!!!

[AverageOldGuy]

7. No comment

Kegbreath was thrown out of the National Guard as a major because his fitness reports all stated that he was not fit for further promotion.

I retired from the Army at a rank several grades about Kegbreath. I has to end the career of one young, incompetent major who could not operate above that level. He was right at home as a lieutenant who had been promoted to captain then major when he should have been sent packing, so, it fell to me to get rid of him.

I can imagine what was going through the heads of the West Point grads, all of whom are far more competent than Kegbreath -- having to sit through his bullshit.

[nuxvomica]

8. That the response was muted is comforting

He went on to criticize the slogan "Diversity is our strength", saying that, instead, "Unity is our strength." The incompetent sleazebag doesn't have enough remaining brain cells to understand that the two slogans are not mutually exclusive but are, in fact, mutually dependent. They mean the same effing thing!

[William Seger]

20. Diversity and unity are complete opposites to racists and Nazis

The minorities in that graduation class now know that equality with white officers isn't in their future.

[Grins]

9. First Wharton, now Princeton...

They must be so proud….

[Harker]

11. Trying to poison hearts and minds.

[Norrrm]

13. Generals, admirals, and other high-ranking officers must feel let down to toe the line to this drunken minor major.

[Figarosmom]

14. A muted audience.

Sounds like he was received well.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I have 2 cousins who graduated from West Point (1 female) - I'm sure glad that they're not graduating now...

[Cha]

16. Woke! AS opposed to Hegs GD

fucking asleep, Nazi Make America Grotesque AGAIN.

[JT45242]

17. How the fuck did this moron get into an ivy league school

Just looked it up...to play on the basketball team.

I hope the coach that recruited him thinks before recruiting Nazi dirt bags in the future.

[King_Klonopin]

23. Funny how these pretend common-man hypocrits demean "Ivy League" colleges, like Harvard and Princeton

when they themselves are alumni, and they have benefitted enormously from these institutions.
How many republicans have attended one of those prestigious, expensive, parochial institutions -- especially Harvard Law?
Ted Cruz graduated from Princeton
Even that dufus Ron Desantis graduated from Harvard Law School.

And who was the moron at West Point who invited him to speak at their commencement?
Alex Jones would have been better!!!!

[belpejic]

30. Meatball DeSantis

Also went to Yale undergrad. Captain of the baseball team. I know for a fact that elite schools like this give exemptions from the academic standards that most applicants are held to in order to recruit for athletics. I'm not saying that Meatball is stupid, but I wonder whether he would have gotten in without athletics.

Rafael probably was a diversity admit--Latino and Canadian. Also went to Harvard Law School.

Hegseth was probably an athletics admit.

Couchfucker (Yale Law School) probably also was a diversity admit. Military (though in PR, not combat), and from hillbilly country. These schools also try to hold open slots for white people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Big Bird (Tom Cotton, Harvard BA, JD)--military and hillbilly admit, though Cotton saw combat (which he then exaggerated).

Anyway, who really cares? They do--you can bet on it. Probably have their degrees framed and hanging on a wall somewhere.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Go home Hegseth

You're drunk again

[tblue37]

22. Troglodyte

[LudwigPastorius]

24. "You will learn what we tell you to learn, and think what we tell you to think, until...

you are ready to be thrown into a pointless perma-war that only benefits us."

"Hail Trump!"

[twodogsbarking]

25. Congratulations to the grads. Don't listen to him. You are smarter than that.

[CurtEastPoint]

26. He also quoted that fucking Charlie Whatsisfuckface

[Dave Bowman]

27. The moronic butt-kisser is drunk again.

[eringer]

28. He must be pleased...

… to see less and less women, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, in the graduating class. He is way too ignorant to realize that his vision is what doomed Hitlers regime when he ran off the Jewish scientists that would have given him the atomic weapons he could have used to rule the world. Diversity, not ignorance, strengthens our military.

[Skittles]

33. this INCOMPETENT POS, whining about "DEI"

JFC

I asked a WP grad and he said Hegseth likely "invited himself"

[GenThePerservering]

34. I can't even imagine sitting through the drivel

from that jumping monkey.