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Residents of French village say US defense chief Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit
(www.france24.com)
That fucking drunk wouldn't have lasted two seconds on D-Day.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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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.
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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.
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He's a neo-nazi. He's a fucking disgrace to all the soldiers that landed on that beach to destroy the very movement he's so proud to be a part of.
I can't believe my great grandparents fought, suffered immensely, and died in that war for pieces of shit like him to still be squirming around like he's welcome.
And they're more emboldened than ever. They're making their faces public without shame. They rallying everywhere. Even up here in Canada. There was a demonstration in Shawinigan, Québec last week. They're creating these underground "active clubs" where they work out and train in hand to hand combat. Some are enrolling in the army to get weapons training.
This shit is getting out of hand. We need to be creating associations like the Black Panthers against these freaks.
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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.
Warfighter is a US military term.
It wasn't until 1.5 years ago
Simply not true.
Document from 2002 used it 26 times.
https://media.defense.gov/2002/Jun/14/2001712445/-1/-1/1/02-107.pdf
2006
31 times
9 times
I remember hearing the term when I was serving in the late 90s. It's not a recent thing.
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"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.
He’s not. He’s cosplaying. That’s all.
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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.
Hooooly....
Who controls the past now, controls the future.
Who controls the present now, controls the past.
Rewriting history to align with their ideologies with mind-blowing mental gymnastics.
WHY HAS EVERY JOURNALIST COMPLETELY ABDICATED THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES?!
For fuck sake he's not fucking confused, he's a fucking racist Nazi. Openly.
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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.
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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'
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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.
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?
I confirm he's not welcome other days too
In every single photo of that warmonger, he looks like an absolute douchebag.
That's because he is
Good luck un-seeing this:
That's an insult to Timothy Olyphant.
Olyphant doesn’t deserve the comparison. He’s a goddamned American Jedi.
Timmy O. doesn't deserve this slander
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Ils sont fous ces Romains.
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.
Hat tip, France. You've earned my respect once again.
Pound sand, SHITGET.
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