US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday once again suggested the international community should show gratitude for President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran, which has led to a global oil supply shock and created the potential for food shortages in the coming months.
Speaking with reporters at the Pentagon, Hegseth defended the president’s decision to launch a war of choice with Iran that so far has cost US taxpayers an estimated $60 billion.
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Soulphite@reddthat.com · 87 pts · 120d
Peter Hegseth is a failed human being. A stain in modern time. He is part of a greater calamity this timeline has witnessed called the MAGA movement and the Trump Administration. They are the destroyer of worlds, the Anti-Christ. The pestilence. The plague. The apocalypse. The four horsemen all wrapped up into one package.
PoastRotato@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 120d
I agree with the sentiment, but can we please quit it with the Christian eschatology analogies? There are enough nutbags out there drawing the same comparisons as it is, except they take them literally and find them encouraging.
Plus, in my opinion, the more we equate these people with mythological figures of doom and dread, the harder it becomes to feel like we can actually do anything about them.
snooggums@piefed.world · 9 pts · 119d
Drunk Uncle Pete is promoting it as a holy war.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
Democratically elected by the people!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 120d
that's very well put
violentfart@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 120d
This is the guy that breaks into your home, steals your stuff, shoots your dog, then sues you because he twisted his ankle climbing out the window.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 120d
No hate like Christian love
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 119d
It's absolutely wild how delusional the Rump administration is. Like they have to truly know how bad they fucked up....right?
fodor@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 119d
No. Trump is a strong narcissist. He only believes things that make himself feel good. It really is that weird.
But his supporters know what they're doing, unless they're drunk or stoned, which is often.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d
Most of his supporters that I have met are methheads or into other hard drugs. Although several were into alcohol as well and didn't do any other drugs.
But hey don't bring the stoners into this! Lol
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 120d
Did it come with a gift receipt?
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 119d
Alternate title:
Drunken idiotic cunt says cuntish things due to being one of the world's biggest cunts in recent history. Then cowards parrot his cunt words instead of being reporters or doing any real journalism.
urandom@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 120d
I didn’t know this stooge spoke German
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d
Came here to make this joke.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 120d
Hegseth and Trump's one gift to the world is their gross incompetence showing us that relying solely on oil and gas any longer is a folly, in a way that no environmentalist ever could.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 119d
The only good thing is the push this will give to renewable energy
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 119d
The secretary of war crimes everyone
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 119d
The ridiculous shit Russian officials say for internal political consumption make a bit more sense now. Just like Hegseth is really only talking to Trump and the Maga base.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 120d
He wants us to say thank you
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
Pity none of us can afford suits
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 120d
Kegsbreath dying would be a gift to the world.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d
A very small gift, try all Republicans or at least all MAGA republicans, then you may be onto something.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 120d
Facts
Floon@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 119d
We're a gnat's eyelash away from zero consensus reality, no agreed facts, and a permanent upper class filled with twats like Hegseth.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 120d
[someone in the trump administration] + [says] = bullshit. Ignore.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 120d
We have to keep track of the horse in the hospital, unfortunately...
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d
What the fuck is he on about.
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 120d
What a piece of shit.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 119d
A gift from Dimitri Rascalov.
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 119d
Cunt
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 119d
did we even say thank you?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 119d
Haven't you seen the Dow, everyone?
Let's all hold hands and pray to thank American, white billionaire Jesus now.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 119d
Amen
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 120d
In this particular case, I don't get what's in it for them. Of course they generally want more power and wealth, while ignoring everything else. But is this also really about that? If so, how? Also they are alienating even a big portion of their stupid base with stunts like this. It doesn't seem useful, any way I look at it. It doesn't seem lawful evil or neutral evil like they usually are. It seems chaotic evil.
notabot@piefed.social · 8 pts · 120d
It mostly seems to have been a setup for certain people to make a lot of money insider trading, to distract people from the epstein files, distract people from israel's attrocities in Gaza, and because trump is desperate to be seen as big, tough, and above all, successful, when he is none of those things.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 120d
And also it enabled Russia to sell a lot of oil.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 120d
We should be thankful for the US continuing the fight to undo the problems the US caused when they illegally invaded Iran?
Thanks a lot
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -3 pts · 120d
Well
The problems existed before
And it might never be undone in our lifetimes
But Trump definitely made everything worse
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
If you go back to the 50's Iran was a democracy, USA destroyed that, and ever since USA has prevented Iran from achieving normal international relations. Despite that Iran was NOT pursuing nuclear weapons, and have agreed to being controlled to not be building up weapons grade uranium. An Agreement USA abandoned one-sidedly and illegally for no reason but that Trump, the current president at the time disagreed with a previous president Obama that made the agreement.
Even before the current war, Iran agreed to an even stricter control than the one Obama negotiated. Despite that USA chose to bomb Iran, just like John McCain joked about. Because to American politicians bombing a foreign country is no big deal.
So what exactly do you mean by "The problems"?
Seems to me "The Problem" here is USA.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -2 pts · 119d
IDK where you've been reading about this but Iran supposedly shuttered a Nuclear Weapons development program in 2003 according to international watchdogs IAEA but continued to produce enriched uranium and have refused to allow them to inspect at least three facilities and routinely attempted to hide them. They were part of a nuclear disarmament treaty under Obama which Trump pulled out of in his first term and has failed to renegotiate.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d
You clearly don't understand the issue, enriched uranium have other purposes, and has no bearing on whether they made weapons grade enriched Uranium.
You can make low grade enriched Uranium in a matter of a couple of weeks, but weapons grade takes much longer to make.
Even if Iran made a nuclear bomb, what right does USA have to bomb Iran and freeze their assets when Iran hasn't done anything to USA?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -2 pts · 119d
So then why didn't Iran reveal all their enrichment sites? Why allow them to inspect 13 but hide the others? Why refuse to negotiate a new disarmament treaty?
Also, Iran has funded and armed extremists across the region which constantly clash with the USA and US Allies, such as them starting the Gaza Genocide by arming the Hamas attack on the music festival. "Done nothing to them" is bullshit.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 119d
But they did when they agreed to it with the Obama agreement. Consensus is that Iran never had anything near weapons grade Uranium after they agreed not to.
The ayatollah Trump killed, was even against Nuclear weapons from a religious perspective!!
But I honestly don't give a shit about you bullshit whataboutism, because the 2 most dangerous countries to have nuclear weapons are clearly Russia and USA.
Both are politically unstable with clearly unhinged leaders. And I can almost guarantee you that now that USA has started this war, Iran WILL pursue nuclear weapons, because now Iran has a leader where USA killed his entire family, and he has NOT expressed the same aversion to nuclear weapons as the previous leader did.
So again USA created a problem much much worse than the original problem.
USA has created the problem with Iran from the start, when they destroyed Iranian democracy to insert a puppet to control the oil.
Since the Iranian people removed that puppet, USA has never really tried to resolve issues, but have been bullying Iran ever since. No wonder if Iran now wants nuclear weapons, and to be honest I hope they get them. Because maybe THAT can create some stability in the gulf area.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 120d
The strait was open before.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -4 pts · 120d
And Iran was still a petty dictatorship executing civillians, creating millitant groups in neighboring countries, and holding the strait hostage.
To be real clear on this I place human life and aversion to suffering far far far above oil prices. I realize that there are casualties in costs of goods and global diplomacy with the trade stopping, but there are also upsides to lower fossil fuel use.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 119d
Those things haven't changed. Iran is still a petty dictatorship executing civilians. I don't know what your point is here.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -3 pts · 119d
That was my point. That's literally what I said in the first comment. The problems haven't changed.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 120d
Potted palm says what, now?
devolution@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d
Pete is such a shit stain even his own mama thinks he's shit. The Mexican cartels don't target the right people.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 120d
in all the times the us has broad freedom. never has the freedom been rougher and more extreme. Anyone else want some freedom. Do ya. DO YA!
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 119d
No, this is pretty much how they have always been. Ask Hawaii. Difference is now a small number of Americans are becoming sentient.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 120d
The Trump admin definitely ain't the party of freedoms. Hes the party of backsliding constitutional rights like birthright citizenship, suffrage, bodily autonomy, freedom of speech, right to bare arms, etc.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 119d
I wonder when American and Israeli embassies around the world will be attacked?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · -1 pts · 120d
It could have been if Trump hadn't fucked everything up for the rebels.