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Reed: "All of your public comments don't talk meritocracy. They talk about liberal democratic efforts that are destroying the military, 'those people are our enemies.' That's not meritocracy. That's a political view. Your goal as I see it emerging is to politicize the military"
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@atrupar.com does an incredibly valuable public service, but tbh, I couldn’t get through all his Hegseth posts yesterday. Too sickening and disheartening.
A non answer answer. The people he defended did violate the UCMJ and the laws of war.
Oh. “Their priorities” being the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Got it. Thus, “warfighters” who’ve BROKEN THE LAW. A.k.a. war criminals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justice
Is calling him out on this lie too pedantic? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagoff
I guess Desantis was a jagoff. “While at Harvard, he (Desantis) earned a commission in the U.S. Navy as a JAG officer.” dos.fl.gov/florida-fact...
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