Would Vlad the Impaler and Chairman Xi like to know more?

 

Ronny's not even the pond's favourite Daily Show host, but it's such a slam dunk, who could resist?

Let's see the bromancer deal with this one ...

Show your stuff Pete ...

At every level, from the Joint Chiefs to everyone in this room to the youngest private, leaders set the standard. And so many of you do this already, active, guard and reserve. This also means grooming standards. No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression.

Yeah, enough of your nancy boy, pussy cat, wuss, softie, weakling, milksop superficial individual expressions ...

We're going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards.

Because it's like the broken windows theory in policing. It's like you let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes, so you have to address the small stuff. This is on duty, in the field and in the rear. If you want a beard, you can join Special Forces. If not, then shave.

We don't have a military full of Nordic pagans. 

Right on, we have Crusaders ...

Hegseth, 44, has a litany of ink that points to his military service and penchant for patriotism, including the U.S. Constitution's famous opening phrase “We the People,” a “Join, or Die” snake from the American Revolution, an American flag with an AR-15 rifle and a patch of his regiment, the 187th Infantry.

Other tattoos are religious in nature — and raising eyebrows over their potential implications. 

One of his most prominent tattoos is a large Jerusalem cross on his chest, a symbol featuring a large cross potent with smaller Greek crosses in each of its four quadrants. The symbol was used in the Crusades and represented the Kingdom of Jerusalem that the crusaders established.

Crusader symbols have also grown popular on the far-right, which sees the imagery as a nod to an era of European Christian wars against Muslims and Jews. The shooter who committed the 2019 New Zealand mosque massacre had adopted symbols of the Crusades, and a crusader symbol also appeared at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the U.S. Capitol as well as at the 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Hegseth has said his tattoo kept him away from President Joe Biden's inauguration just two weeks after Jan. 6.

“I was in the National Guard during the inauguration of Joe Biden, so I served under Bush, served under Obama, served under Trump, and now was going to guard the inauguration because I was in the D.C. guard,” he told Fox News in June. “Ultimately, members of my unit in leadership deemed that I was an extremist or a white nationalist because of a tattoo I have, which is a religious tattoo. It's a Jerusalem cross. Everybody can look it up, but it was used as a premise to revoke my orders to guard the inauguration.”

Hegseth also has “Deus Vult,” Latin for "God wills it," tattooed on his bicep. The phrase was used as a rallying cry for the First Crusade in 1096. It is also the closing sentence of Hegseth's 2020 book, aptly titled “American Crusade.”

The slogan has also been used by members of far-right, white supremacist and Christian nationalist groups. The perpetrator of the 2023 Allen, Texas, mall shooting had it tattooed alongside neo-Nazi tattoos, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which said elsewhere that the phrase had been “adopted by some white supremacists.” 

Hegseth also has a cross and sword tattooed on his arm, which he says represents a New Testament verse. The verse, Matthew 10:34, reads, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” 

He later added “Yeshua,” or Jesus in Hebrew, under the sword. Hegseth told the site Media Ink in a 2020 interview that the tattoo was Jesus' Hebrew name, which he mistakenly said was “Yehweh,” a Biblical spelling of God's name. (here)

But unfortunately, we have had leaders who either refuse to call BS and enforce standards, or leaders who felt like they were not allowed to enforce standards. Both are unacceptable. And that's why today, at my direction, the era of unprofessional appearance is over.

No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done. Simply put, if you do not meet the male level physical standards for combat positions, cannot pass a PT test or don't want to shave and look professional, it's time for a new position or a new profession.

But remember, there's nothing wrong with the odd drink, or a manly falling down dead drunk, or maybe going the grope ...

Join the show King Donald ...

Thank you very much, Pete. And great job you're doing too, fantastic job. I've never walked into a room so silent before. This is very -- oh, don't laugh, don't laugh. You're not allowed to do that. You know what, just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want -- you can do anything you want.

And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you just feel nice and loose, OK, because we're all on the same team. And I was told that, sir, you won't hear -- you won't hear a murmur in the room. I said, we got to loosen these guys up a little bit. 

...I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city, with an incompetent governor, stupid governor, stupid.

...they need the military desperately. How about Portland?

Sir, know it well sir, terrifying town, the pond was only there for a moment before fleeing into the darkness ...

..Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone. And I get a call from the liberal governor, sir, please don't come in, we don't need you. I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding. Sir, we have it under control.

I said, you don't have it under control, governor, but I'll check it and I'll call you back. I called him back, I said, you -- this place is a nightmare. It's probably -- it's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst. It's brutal. They go after our ICE people, who are great patriots and -- tough job too, but they love it. They love it because they're cleaning up our country.

The Governor of Oregon, after his very recent sex change ...

And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle. They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle. Think of that. You remember that. That was a while ago. And I sent in the troops and they were gone as soon as I sent them in. Oh, when we send in the troops, if you have a real leader that says you're going to do what you have to do. I put that out the other day, you got to do what you got to do, because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by. I was watching -- during Biden, they had troops standing up like this, brave, standing up at attention, the way I should stand all the time, and -- like this.

And people are standing there. Their mouth is this far away from their mouth and they're spitting at them and they're screaming at them. And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything. So they just stand there and they get abused. And a woman was this far away from his face and she starts spitting in his face and he's not allowed to do anything.

...Everybody knows friends, many friends probably, that you lost a child or adults too, but you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border. And we're making it very hard -- oh, and we haven't even started yet. Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. (Transcript here)

And so on, and endlessly on - read the transcripts for the full flavour - and no wonder Russian state media is in a state of wild-eyed excitement in a daily state of disbelief, while Chairman Xi stares across the Taiwan Strait at Taiwan, like Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr,. eyeing off Tweety bird ... while back home, the war is on, and only Bad Bunny stands in its way ...

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