Saturday, April 19, 2025

Pickled Pete’s Pentagon Turmoil Deepens

Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon. Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, were placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe. All three were terminated on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter, who, like others, were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

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The ----- lush is running a tight ship over at the pentagon.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-19 07:01 AM

#1: He sure is. Pete Hogsbreath has made working in the DOD the envy of the world. You wonder what this man would be thinking today: i0.wp.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-19 07:18 AM

How many Clowns can fit in this Republican Clown Car, they just keep coming out!

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-19 09:03 AM

Hegseth's alcoholism has a lot to do with this mess. He's either drinking or recovering from being drunk. Like Trump, he needs treatment, not power.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-19 09:43 AM

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

A man like Eisenhower threatens Trump and MAGA to the core.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-19 09:44 AM

#5: HST ordered General Eisenhower to rid the US Army of lesbians, so he asked Nell Louise "Johnnie" Phelps, a reliable WAC NCO, to "ferret out" the offenders. Ike's secretary said "Sir, my name would be on the top of that list." The SHAPE commander immediately told everyone to "forget the order." www.lgbtqnation.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-19 10:11 AM

"Shaken, not stirred."
If I told those losers once I told them literally hundreds of times: "Shaken, not stirred."
How can we build the right jackbooted, slack-jawed grrrr-grrrr komando force if they can't get that right?
And, yes, baby, uh, colonel, I will take my to-go thermos shaken, not stirred.
Over and ... out.
~ Peter Hegseth
Grrrr-Grrrr Hubba-Hubba

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-19 11:49 AM

If this keeps up, my guess is that the term "going postal" will sometime in the near future be superseded in usage by the term "going DOD"

#8 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-04-19 01:16 PM

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