Your 2024 Presidential Election Thread

I'm not sure exactly what your point is, but I agree with that quote and with Hegseth. I know it's an old way of thinking but I don't care. Sticks and stones and all that.

My point is that I hope Hegseth makes a lot of the changes he says he would, now that he can, and that he wasn't just talking out his ass.
I didn't mean you, specifically, in anything I said. I used the quote because Hegseth has used it as an axiom as to why he has rejected women in combat roles before.

My point, specifically, is that Hegseth is a great choice for the role. I hope he burns it to the ground. Some people will not like many of these appointments because they're beholden to old ways of thinking.

I hope all the sacred cows are slaughtered. I hope the wailing and gnashing of teeth in DC and political circles can be heard from space. Or the firmament, or whatever.
 
For SECDEF we've had four-star FOGOs, men with military experience, leaders of industry and CEOs, some were good, some were awful.

Hegseth is smart (Princeton, Harvard), knows policy, just lacks some of that big management experience. I'm ok with it, but not ecstatic. Let's say "cautiously optimistic."
 
From a strategic standpoint, I like the way he is spreading out the division of labor between loyalists, former presidential contenders, and conservative-leaning mavericks.

Gabbard for ODNI is a solid pick for him as well, if only for her being the least politically hardline of his picks (she went D->I->R) to run intel.
 
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