Posted on 09/12/2025 7:07:25 PM PDT by Morgana
Pete Hegseth is putting military members on notice after a Marine was fired for making shock comments about the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
Captain Jacoby Williamson, who has worked in multiple positions with the Marines since 2013, sent out an Instagram snap showing an interview segment Kirk was doing called 'DEI in the cockpit.'
'Another racist man popped,' Williamson captioned the post, adding the emoji of someone raising two beers for a toast.
The post was brought to the attention of the LibsOfTikTok account, who asked: 'Hi @PeteHegseth, can you please fire this lunatic?'
Later, Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed the firing in a statement to X.
'It is unacceptable for military personnel and Department of War civilians to celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American. The Department of War has zero tolerance for it.'
Hegseth quote-tweeted Parnell's statement and said that he'd be keeping an eye on any further incendiary comments.
'We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable,' he wrote.
'We are aware of a social media post that does not align with our core values,' Lt. Col. Joshua Benson, lead spokesman for the Marines, told USA Today.
'The Marine in question has been relieved of his recruiting duties, and the matter is currently under investigation.'
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I met Larry Flynt when he and his brother first came to Cincinnati.....when he walked thru the door, I KNEW he was PURE EVIL 50 or so years ago.
When Madeline Murray O’Hare first came on the Phil Donohue show, I thought....NO ONE IS GOING TO BUY THIS CRAP!! Boy was I wrong on that EVIL WITCH!
Don’t know how they handle this these days...but in 1990s...it would have taken five days to assess and discharge a guy. At Spangdahlem...some event on Saturday with a problem-airman....Monday meeting to agree he goes....papers signed on Thursday, and he was taken to the Frankfurt airport by Friday morning to exit. Barb-wire incident....remember it well.
@SecWar
Behavior unbecoming of an office is grounds for discharge. Sounds like a perfect example to me.
Bad Conduct discharge is only proper solution.
There's nothing harmless about you, and you look like a freak in that dress.
Good. Glad to see that turd was flushed.
I said from the start that they needed to go through the military with a fine toothed comb - especially the officer corps - and fire tens of thousands of leftists. They still haven’t done that. They’ve only fired a few here and there. We need a massive all-out purge to make the military healthy again.
Well good riddance, he was SAF any, having issues with DEI does not make you a racist. This person seems to be an idiot that doesn’t even know why he disliked some, but definitely lacked the grace to keep his ignorant pie hole shut after a person was assassinated and their children left fatherless and wife deprived of her husband.
Officers are different. As others posted to me, it appears a court marshal would also need to happen. But from his conduct, that appears to be an easy thing to achieve, just will take a little time.
A long deceased friend of mine was the #3 guy at Fred Meyer. He had, for years, tried to get the company to stop selling Playboy magazine. Told the board of directors selling it was immoral and not appropriate for a family-oriented business. The board refused because of the profits from selling Playboy magazine.
When a Christian based organization organized a boycott of their stores, the board had change of mind.
Johnston Atoll is closed to the public. Someone needs to guard it.
Send them to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Jefferson_(Florida)
On 24 July 1865 four special civilian prisoners arrived. These were (Dr) Samuel Mudd, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlen, who had been convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
I am. You are, by your own statement, someone who hate the first amendment.
There's nothing harmless about you, and you look like a freak in that dress.
I am totally harmless until you try to touch my family or my rights. But you are correct about the dress. Big mistake. Never wear white after Labor Day.
“Send them to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas
Legend says there was a shark patrolling the moat.
Eareckson Air Station on Shemya Island would be another salubrious posting. It’s inactive but should have a guard.
An Office Depot employee in Michigan was terminated after refusing to print posters for a vigil honoring conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, according to a report.
https://x.com/NEWSMAX/status/1967121140595536284?t=jyMZ0UOnZow4V4sRvqA2DA&s=19
BREAKING: Professor Lisa Greenlee at Guilford Technical Community College is NO LONGER EMPLOYED after she praised the shooter and mocked Charlie's ass*ssination in class
Good!!!
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1966586436997501301?t=YbpIc3uNpwKkTR4YT9ogSQ&s=19
There was no violation of First Amendment rights. The government did not bar him from speaking it just held him accountable for what he said.
Nothing will happen beyond a possible letter of reprimand...that can later be removed from his file. The captain possesses the golden race card. He’s immune from negative consequences.
Maybe under previous “leadership”.
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