Pete Hagueseth's latest: "For your Christmas wish list..."

[demmiblue]

Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T05:42:45.534Z

War-mongering psychopath. 🖕

[C_U_L8R]

1. Scholastic should take him to court

No one fucks with their IP to promote murder.

[allegorical oracle]

4. It will be interesting to see if that happens. Unless the DOW got permission, it's at least

copyright infringement. The fact that its use could be considered defamatory, adds another aspect. The author, illustrator, and publisher could claim reputational injury.

[demmiblue]

2. ...

Starting //// going

— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T02:58:39.791Z

War crimes but with beloved childhood cartoons

— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T12:20:21.746Z

[LymphocyteLover]

3. these sick fucks love to troll... it's what they are best at

[Red Mountain]

5. Franklin is about as bright as Hegseth

back blast area is not clear.

[demmiblue]

6. Just look at how Hegseth responded to these latest revelations with the adolescent smirking of a schoolyard bully...

Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges

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Just look at how Hegseth responded to these latest revelations with the adolescent smirking of a schoolyard bully squashing fireflies or pulling the legs off of a spider:

This sort of snickering, vacuous sadism is something Democrats can leverage to their advantage. Hegseth famously has urged the armed forces to get more serious about their “warfighting.” But as Tom Nichols explains at The Atlantic, everything that Hegseth concretely does to further this idea, from his “Department of War” renaming stunt to his absurd demands for more “lethality,” signals an obvious lust for killing that the actual “warfighters” will see as unserious and venal to its core.

The saga of the two men killed at sea illustrates this vividly. Again, even if this account isn’t precisely accurate, the execution appears to have happened.

As the Post notes:

If the video of the blast that killed the two survivors on Sept. 2 were made public, people would be horrified, said one person who watched the live feed.

https://newrepublic.com/article/203789/trump-boat-bombings-hegseth-legal

[struggle4progress]

7. Lullaby

... Weary the prairies
And littered with dead
I’ll leave her locket
Right here on your bed
Troubles and marks and sakes to keep
Blow out the candle and go to sleep ...

[mr715]

8. You can tell he's feeling pressure

because he's leaning in.

This is really ugly. Shame on him. How do you shame the shameless?