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'Captain Calamity': There’s a name for the buffoon crushing Trump’s world. Trump hired an ass kissing, half a drunk pretty boy to run the Department of Defense and American soldiers are paying the price for his incompetence. (Eighteen gave their lives and hundreds injured even though Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury took a page from the President’s playbook and lied when he said no one was killed.) Neither one of these glory seeking amateurs took the time to consult with any experienced military expert, they just jumped in well over their well-coifed heads and watched Americans die. Would you put a shoemaker in charge of your machine shop, a baker in charge of your engineering department, a truck driver in charge of your surgical unit – a stumbling, bungling, failed newscaster in charge of your military? Trump did and now a two-bit nation with no army, a destroyed navy, and a wrecked air force is kicking their -- and by extension, our -- asses with little more than a canoe and some firecrackers. Any schoolboy would have been wise enough to rely on the advice of seasoned professionals with in the military, instead Hegseth, knowing they would make him look like the abject fool he is, fired hundreds if not a thousand generals and replaced them with junior officers loyal only to him and Doofus Donny, and the hell with America. To make matters all the worse, a handful of scraggly looking Iranian engineers are holed up in a shack somewhere in the desert and wreaking havoc on our infrastructure with an old iMac and a hand cranked telephone. (We had a thousand engineers of our own to protect us against such an assault, but Trump and Musk fired all of them. The war is ‘Small potatoes” Trump said, let him tell that to the families of the fallen. See this – Boldface mine: 'Captain Calamity': There’s a name for the buffoon crushing Trump’s world. Story by Adam Lynch • 3h • 3 min read © provided by AlterNet Denials that the Pentagon is not a flaming mess under President Donald Trump are likely premature, reports the Guadian, because that’s not what officials from inside are saying in private. “While the Pentagon insists that any suggestion the defense department is in disarray under Hegseth is “completely baseless,” alarm over [Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s] conduct in the role – and the implications – has not merely been expressed by Hegseth’s political opponents,” reports the Guardian. “The secretary of defense is a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States and the world,” said Randy Manner, a retired major general in the US national guard and member of National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A), a group of former military leaders. “He has done more harm to the national security of the United States than any secretary of defense since the country was created.” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who is abandoning the U.S. Senate after relentless clashes with Trump, urged the president this week to outright fire his defense secretary. “I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country,” Tillis wrote on social media. “He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and wellbeing of our fighting force.” - Last week sources directly inside the White House claimed Trump was catching the consequences of surrounding himself with yes-men and “good news” maidens while Iran beat the president to pieces, according to Daily Mail. Furious to finally see the truth of his failure, Trump whipped into his bootlicks and sidelined at least one, according to sources. “One is a sledgehammer and the other is a scalpel,” an anonymous source told Daily Mail, comparing Hegseth to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — who was allegedly crawling over Hegseth’s bloody back to direct Iran War policy. But retired major general Paul Eaton told the Guardian that even Donald Rumsfeld’s failings paled in comparison to Trump and his “secretary of war.” “… [T]his is infinitely worse because we had a lot of other very smart people to corral the bad ideas coming out of Rumsfeld. [This time] we’ve had the whole removal of seasoned men and women who have learned things the hard way most of the time in combat,” said Eaton. Michael O’Hanlon, a defense and strategy expert at the Brookings Institution, similarly, told the Guardian that Trump will not easily survive the peril his department leaders have put him in with their incompetence. Hegseth, he said, was “not going to wind up leaving a major mark. He’s going to wind up being known as the guy who fought Trump’s culture wars for him – and maybe failed to help Trump stay out of trouble in the Iran war, depending on how bad that gets.” I search out anti Trump/Republicans you may have missed and with some biting commentary present them on Substack, It costs nothing to receive these articles almost daily and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed. Give it a shot, you can always unsubscribe: https://mcdermottm.substack.com/p/beyond-the-pale-pentagon-caught-trying