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Pete Hegseth Sec'y DoD Senate Confirmation Hearing Live 0930 EST
PBS ^ | 14 January 2025 | PBS

Posted on 01/14/2025 6:08:54 AM PST by NautiNurse

An Army veteran who rose to the rank of major and served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hegseth, 44, says he believes that standards have declined and that efforts to expand diversity, equity and inclusion have driven white men away.

He complains in his latest book that “woke” generals and the leaders of the elite service academies have left the military dangerously weak and “effeminate” by promoting DEI. He says, “the next commander in chief will need to clean house.”

“Turns out, all the ‘diversity’ recruiting messages made certain kids — white kids — feel like they’re not wanted,” he said in his book.

If confirmed, he has said there will be no more “social justice, politically correct approaches to how we fight and conduct wars.” Instead, he said, “this is about lethality, meritocracy, readiness.”

And he has vowed to fire generals involved in “woke” programs.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: confirmation; dei; dod; effeminate; hearing; hegseth; senate
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Expect Dems to pull Kavanaugh-like stunts. Former FOX News host Gretchen Carlson is working to assist in a surprise witness.
1 posted on 01/14/2025 6:08:54 AM PST by NautiNurse
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To: NautiNurse

Give yourself 10 lashes for linking to PBS.

Thank you.


2 posted on 01/14/2025 6:18:59 AM PST by trotskylvalia (where nose meets the grindstone)
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Maybe, maybe not...Dems really have to be careful..it's not like they have even have one piece of the process...House, Senate, WH...

In other words...play nice...

3 posted on 01/14/2025 6:19:12 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Counting RINOs, they have two out of three.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 6:19:55 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: NautiNurse
Expect Dems to pull Kavanaugh-like stunts.

Not this time.

5 posted on 01/14/2025 6:21:07 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: trotskylvalia

Reviewed six articles, all with hard bias against Hegseth. This one had a feed to the hearing. There you go.


6 posted on 01/14/2025 6:25:30 AM PST by NautiNurse (With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Re: 5 - Agree.

There’s enough of a fact pattern for which Dems to question Hegseth.


7 posted on 01/14/2025 6:28:12 AM PST by Fury
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To: MinorityRepublican

You underestimate the guile of wounded animals in a corner.


8 posted on 01/14/2025 6:28:41 AM PST by NautiNurse (With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
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To: NautiNurse

Be in prayers for Pete!


9 posted on 01/14/2025 6:32:24 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: NautiNurse
Here it is on youtube. Don't give PBS any traffic.

WATCH LIVE: Pete Hegseth testifies at Senate confirmation hearing

10 posted on 01/14/2025 6:34:04 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

Fox News is airing it now.


11 posted on 01/14/2025 6:41:39 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: NautiNurse

Reed already pouncing.


12 posted on 01/14/2025 6:46:12 AM PST by peggybac (“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand)
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To: NautiNurse

For an old coot, Reed sure is a big prick. One of Chucky Schumer’s butt boyz.


13 posted on 01/14/2025 6:46:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Florida Felons "convicted" in New Yawk Kangaroo Courts by bozos make the best presidents!!!)
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To: NautiNurse

Jack Reed, Minority Chairman is addressing now. He is presenting the usual and debunked BS...Rhode Island’s favorite son..


14 posted on 01/14/2025 6:47:37 AM PST by Eli Kopter (Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
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To: peggybac

Such warm introductory comments, then he started right in with the smears. Lord help me, I hate these wretched bastards, I really do


15 posted on 01/14/2025 6:48:13 AM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: NautiNurse

the enemies within that continue to destroy our country


16 posted on 01/14/2025 6:48:50 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: FlingWingFlyer; peggybac

Yep. Not wasting any time. Defending DEI, affirmative action, whatever flavor of non-white hetero males you prefer to call it.


17 posted on 01/14/2025 6:49:12 AM PST by NautiNurse (With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think they will. Sen. Reed is already coming with guns blazing. They’re not going to roll over on this one. They intend to damage him as much as possible.


18 posted on 01/14/2025 6:52:07 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim (S)
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To: peggybac

Reed is first order gasbag.


19 posted on 01/14/2025 6:53:08 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: peggybac

That Reed is a real prick.


20 posted on 01/14/2025 6:57:23 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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