Unbelievable. Only the best...yeah, right. DON'T FEED THE OLIGARCHS

He sounds like the most-fun guy to work with. No wonder Fox were so unwilling to let him go...

They are all deplorable. Every single one.

Think about the most obnoxious boys in your 8th-grade class. That’s who’s running the government now. Not those boys all grown up. But those boys still at their 8th-grade level of maturity and self-awareness. DoD must reek of gym socks and Axe body spray.

100 percent true

Facts!!

It's an administration full of ass clowns and "bros." Hegseth can't help showing off his new "toys" & and power, and the ass clowns he brought with him can't help from doing the drunken frat bro bullshit.

💯

These people are the "DEI hires" that they falsely claim DEI hires are. Every accusation is a confession. Every damn time.

Please use the acronym DEI for what it stands for - "diversity, equity, and inclusion" @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social has the acronym you want, which is "WEI" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAhu...

WEI is a great term though, I just want to make sure you recognize that I understand what DEI is and that I was making a point about what these "lovely" individuals are saying and doing.

I feel like maybe you didn't realize the point of my comment.

Perhaps explain it again a different way if you a) feel like that and b) feel that strongly about it that you thought it was essential to say that

And it's absolutely necessary in the modern military. We face asymetic threats from a variety of nations and non-state actors. Every perspective & insight needs to be at the at the table.

The late Senator Bob Graham wrote about the state of the US intelligence community being run by a bunch of uncultured, cookie-cutter white folks. They don't speak foreign languages or know anything about the areas they should keep an eye on because of the lack of diversity.

Do you have a link to the book - or piece - he wrote?

Check out his book Intelligence Matters. I wanted to work in the intelligence community myself at one time.

Correct.

Or, their white maleness.

I love that they bothered to get input from his friends who don't hear about his shits

Or do, and think that’s “fun and charming”.

Only the best people

Unbelievable. Another of fotus’s best people.

I just realized, he'd be one of those nepo-baby bar managers that just drinks all the product, gives it away to his buddies, and sexually harasses both his female staff and customers, all of it before Jon Taffer walks in and tears him a new asshole because he [Hesgeth] is in debt for over $300,000.

"he [Hesgeth] is in debt for over $300,000." Please say more about this. This is one of the things the Senators are supposed to vet for at the confirmation hearings. @warren.senate.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social

…yep, these people hate DEI because they just don’t measure up to the competition

The D.E.I. we need to be rid of starts with Opus.

www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

In addition to being racist and sexist etc, most of these guys never matured past middle school. They are not adults

Ugh. It’s like Take a Frat Boy to Work day every day with this administration.

Truer words were never spoken. They are scared of DEI.

“Calling military officials by a lower rank on purpose” is peak “relying on others self-discipline to abide by social norms rather than beat you to death in front of everyone in the office”.

god yes. I say let those beatings commence…

In this case, I wish they’d have less self-discipline. My philosophy is if you act like a giant man-baby/teenager, then I am going to treat you like one. Everyone in the room should have gotten up and walked out. “When you behave like a professional, then we’ll resume the meeting.” My tolerance 🟰🙅🏻‍♀️

PEAK

It’s their MO for everything.

He sounds like a self-indulgent idiot mesmerized by revolting irrelevancies.

DEI is not the opposite of meritocracy. DEI ***IS*** meritocracy!

Sounds like unkie MAGA at Thanksgiving. Mean, stupid, and proud of it.

He should have put it on PowerPoint.

I guess crass is the new business model at the highest levels.

Should have strangled his ass, and if we ever have an election again will get a normie president to pardon. Being a veteran, I do believe this is a pardoning offense.

The Trump administration is affirmative action for incompetent White men with physical/substance abuse issues who are even less intelligent than Trump

I was right there with you until the last line He holds dominion over all three of these characteristics but his lack of knowledge, intellect & class put him in first (last) place overall

Trump can't stand having people who are smarter than him around.

Hence the most dangerous & evil man in the world

Trump? Intelligent? Errr…

Hogseth is an incompetent, uneducated baffoon. So he's perfect for Trump. But make no mistake, he "is" still drinking because he's an untreated alcoholic. But he still claims he is not drinking. Then he is definitely a dry drunk, which is no different.

Again, we could’ve never imagined the extreme depths of stupidity we would be faced. I just can’t…

Stupidity, lack of any and all experience, and ability to embarrass an entire nation, are the requirements for any and all jobs in this horrendous administration. It’s as if Putin was in charge of hiring them and not TFG. I truly believe Putin is telling TFG who to put where.

Exactly. We are now the USSR.

Too bad no one has the self esteem to walk out.

Nail on head!!! 🎯

Fits right in with Donnie calling PM Trudeau "Governor". These guys are acting like petulant children.

I was told these guys were being forced out as part of a deep state coup because they weren’t hawkish on Iran

i take it his descriptions are more graphic than walking back into the room and saying "that was epic"?

He sounds very "charming". Maybe he can get a gig advertising "Ultra Soft Charmin TP".

that's the fucking truth

Reading this literally made me sick. Not figuratively. Literally.

Spot on 👌

The only qualification for these incompetent white men is sexual assault & abuse.

Disgusting

The original D E I

Sweet learned a new word today thank you Jamelle! nepotism /nĕp′ə-tĭz″əm/ noun Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business. Undue attachment to relations

These guys are just weird.

Jamelle, you are so right!

Truth!!!

Unspeakable. MAGA culture.

The same type of man that claims DEI hire if a minority gets a job he applied for.

Dang! Got me. OK, white male privileged did me well in my lifetime, if not nepotism. OK, dads 40 years in the foundry got me a summer job at Caterpillar cleaning weld slag in 120 temperatures. Blessed!

‘Only the best.’ Ugh

Completely unemployable and/or an HR nightmare for their terrible privileged white dude behavior!

"Some say he was fun and charming". No, he was a jerk; he just wasn't a jerk to you (the "some" from this story). I wonder why.

Omg so true! This scenario has played out too many times. Like what is wrong with folks?!

Nobody ever asks "WHICH PEOPLE are your 'SOME PEOPLE'?"

A lot of the time I wish I & those of the rest of us who were talking about it weren't right about this stuff bsky.app/profile/digi...

Outrageous.

Because DEI PREVENTS unqualified white men from being hired when there is a qualified POC available. See how that works?

Race to the bottom.

It’s the same reason why the far right prefers arranged marriages.

Right you are jamelle!

Precisely this.

Seriously, if you acted like this in any company with more than... 50 people, you'd be fired.

Disgusting.

😖😖😖

They really aren’t normal, are they?

Precisely. They'd never get jobs otherwise.

Knuckle draggers

Honestly. These people sound like they are in middle school.

No such thing as maga classiness. Disgustingly Deplorable, every one of ‘em.

Facts.

Our military is being run by a bunch of juvenile men who are cosplaying soldiers

1000%

Mmmm Scum

All the best people...all geniuses and "real men."🤢😡🤢😡🤢

Wow. They sure recruited from the bottom of the barrel.

This entire administration is like...middle school.

Only the best

💯

This is their brightest and best? 🤨

The only good thing about all this stuff is the more they act like asshats the less likely any of the rank & file will ever take any orders from these imbeciles if it came down to it Especially keep calling the higher ups the wrong *lower* rank & see how far you get They just love jerk civilians

True

They’re terrified!

Gross

This is what’s keeping us safe?

New meaning to shit show!

Weird because the entire cult is rabidly FULL of sh*t.

This is true of EVERY Donnie appointment

Be white males is their superpower and they’d be lost without it.

So gross

I love the words vs the letters: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. I understand they wish it to mean hiring while placing other factors over merit. But opposing DEI means disliking THOSE components. Which to me sounds like racism, white nationalism, and Christofascism.

JFC - these people are just crude horrible humans.

Well, that's true and they are - but the problem is that they are hired IN PLACE OF qualified (most often over-qualified) minorities and women who are not going to act like animals in the workplace because if they did they'd be fired on the spot. DEI is essentially an anti-corruption initiative.

Big Balls would never behave in this manner.

Didn't republicans have a lot to say about 'free markets' and competition, once upon a time?

My god. Just ... just ... my god. Is there anyone at all in this administration who isn't severely mentally ill? It's an administration entirely of people who aren't just vile as hell but also ostentatiously deranged.

That appears to be a prerequisite for hiring. It reminds me of 6th graders, desperately seeking attention, who define their importance by mimicking the most stupid antisocial actions of their clique leader. No reasoning involved, whatsoever.🤷🙄

Exactly! A bunch of posturing middle schoolers trying to stay "in" with the playground bully DJT.

Bingo.

Some else quipped on this site that the lawyers in the admin, like Vought behind Project 2025, would be unemployable as lawyers because their ideas and policies basically break everything. I think about that a lot.

Then there's Brooke Rollins sec of agricultur who is also founder of AFPI the Heritage Foundation's alter ego acting for the administration. So much negativity equals bullies looking for attention; to impress the main playground bully. They equate power with acceptance and popularity.

Potty talk? Most people give that up by the time they are 5. Except for boys, they tend to hold onto immature rhetoric.

It's frankly terrifying how many men all have the same favorite scene in Blazing Saddles.

Good point! 😂

💯. Thank you for talking about it. It’s a critically important learning moment for (white) Americans to understand why this was one of the first attacks of this Administration, why it works so effectively to proclaim that marginalized communities do not belong and why that is so dangerous.

Yeah, and merit is a word with many meanings

Jesus Christ

this x1000

No lies spoken

Honestly these ppl aren’t mentally stable imo. This behavior is inappropriate no matter your age, we would tell our children this isn’t the way we act

There are a lot of country club types who cluck their tongues about "protected classes" while living on inherited wealth.

He’s disgusting. He and Hegseth…low class. Please make this end!

So true

Absolutely. These people are the worst. Hegseth will be gone by summer. I bet RFK jr doesn’t last long either. In way over their heads.

Bingo! That's their definition of "merit." Family connections and favors.

At best, it is hard to keep the world's largest bureaucracy running smoothly. And when there's a touch of resistance, it could look very very bad for leaders that everyone hates.

Any American who has had a totally inept boss has seen this "How on Earth did this frikken idiot become HEAD OF DEPARTMENT?!"

Dumb Evil and Incompetent is the new DEI for Trumpers

Please use the acronym DEI for what it stands for - "diversity, equity, and inclusion" @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social has the acronym you want, which is "WEI" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAhu...

Only the "best" people.

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

Pure mediocrity! This is what happens when you take away DEI! Proves that these nincompoops fail to understand how DEI widens the pool instead of narrowing it!

Don't want a level playing field. Don't want to compete!

The Golden Age. Riiiight.

And the color of their skin and the fact that they have a penis. Dumb arse ignorants.

🎯

1000% I have met so many white men in my career who are related to the CEO and have sabotaged my work product bc they were worried someone might show them up in front of their Uncle or whatever and ruin their chances of taking over the company one day. Merit just means ‘white’ to these fucking 🤡s

Yup!

@jimmykimmellive.bsky.social The FDA situation is 1000x more important than DEI. Project 2025 in action, how to kill Americans without firing a shot: youtu.be/q9OBVsNhzKQ?...

Anyone else ever ask themselves, WTF happened in their childhood, and are their parents proud of them.

Everyone on that Signal chat deserved to be fired a month ago. The Vice President should be impeached over his participation. It's sad we've fallen this far this fast. We fired competent and experienced high ranking military officers to give trash like Hegseth so much power

everyone on that signal chat never deserved to have jobs in the first place. any jobs!

Anti-DEI is DEI for mediocre (or worse) White people.

Since every cabinet appointment was intentionally filled with someone slavish, incompetent, AND hostile to the function of the agency, it's hard to see how their plan is going awry.

I can’t believe how awful the people in this administration are. Truly the worst. Not a quality individual among them. I wonder what future historians will say about this time?

In their minds these assholes never left the frat house.

And it’s taken them all the years since they “graduated” to brew up their very clever bon mots and har-dee-hars — all the fine phrases they couldn’t quite muster back then have finally found an appreciative MAGAudience. 🤮

🤣🤣🤣

At my most juvenile, I was never that clueless. People who behave like that, are usually weak and stupid.

It's also baffling. They're plenty old enough to know what is and isn't professional workplace behavior. It's just... I can't even. I'm tempted to say "why are men" except I know the vast majority of men are giving them the side eye and would probably pitch them out a window given the chance.

Juveniles at the helm of a sinking ship.

I guess enough airplanes have fallen out of the sky! Next are the ships…

This is so painfully true

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

100% they have no respect for skill or talent or leadership, because they've never had or worked towards any of those things.

Pete Kegsbreth strikes again!

None of this surprises me. I hate to say it, but you can just look at this guy's face and see that kind of behavior simmering at the surface. Even with DEI processes in place, I've seen places cheat--more of a reason to have/keep/strengthen these initiatives.

Kick them to the curb!!!

DEI made the color blind be able to see the truth. It made employers hire people they normally wouldn’t because of race etc, & then realizing that most of the time the individual was far smarter than they were. As an employer, I’ve never had to worry about DEI because we always complied naturally.

Wow....

He's the quality of folks Trump likes. AH and ignorant

Truth. THIS is the crux. 🔥🔥🔥tHiS🔥🔥🔥

When you're right you're right. These jag off idiots make me embarrassed to be white or American or straight. Not sure which but these mofo's need to crawl back into the cave & under the rock they crawled out of. They won't be missed

😳

did he pull up his bigboi pants 👖 all on his own after the potty 🚽 training session too!?. wild the adults in the room are showing so much constraint when dealing with unqualified petulant toddlers still discovering their basic biological functions for excreting waste.

While you're at it did he wipe his own stinking ass too!

no that'd be gay according to these chuds

They also seem to be racist as well! The entire bunch of them.

Congratulations, America. You’ve become the total farce I always knew you could be🤡🇺🇸🤡

They’re all so stupid

Only the best people… 😡🙄

Truth!

www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/23/p...

Do you ever get the feeling that Trump's frat boys never matured after leaving college? That they're still making racist jokes in the men's room and loitering at the bottom of stairwells to look up young women's skirts. www-indiatoday-in.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.indi...

WTAF? This country is being run by idiots.

Yep, trash!

Only the best people???

Respectfully disagree. These people maybe? DEI has been co-opted and essentially means didn’t earn it - at this point. Objective example - graduate admissions test scores (MCAT, LSAT, GMAT) and admittance Facts not feelings. Asian’s were the first target. Then the movement came for the whites.

They are unemployeable unless they have a good friend in place to hire them 🤬🖕

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Politico wrote on 4/18 Kasper is leaving for a new role in the DOD but no info about what that role would entail maybe. DOD Bowel Movement Inspector? www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Yet, MAGA got mad when they were described as a basket of deplorables but support some of the most deplorable people on Earth.

Any black or brown person who worked in corporate amerikkka experienced this . Now they are emboldened.

That’s meritocracy for ya!

These people are sick MOFOs

They have NEVER had to compete for anything but their parents’ love apparently. These men are pathetic empty shells.

Whole lotta truth bombs in this

Trump land

But they wanna call Black Men thugs & criminals . I'm guessing this is acceptable behavior from White thugs & criminals.

What do they like to call themselves? Warfighters? I can’t believe people voted for this.

Hahaha

They've been told their whole life that they were special, and society treated them as such. They're average if not below.

100%

Trump sure knows how to pick the best people.

Juvenile. This entire administration is juvenile and emotionally immature.

All. Of. This.

Mm not really. That argument hinges on these people knowing they are unqualified, mediocre, stupid. They don't. Quite the opposite, in fact. These trust fundies who have never heard no truly believe they are elite, gifted, DESERVE these things.

Truth.

A slap in the face to us all. This is rump’s best?

Exactly

Especially the Rump

Ooohhh mmmyyy goodness!!! WTA?

They’ve all spent years failing up. I’ve seen it a million times.

Preach.

Bullish behavior cuz “they can”

Two people were present when he took an enormous dump? What is the world coming to?

You gotcha them. Rev Al

Exactly

Only the best!

In their eyes.

💯

💯

I am just surprised his chief of staff instead didn't say, "I just took a huge meritorious shit before this meeting"

He must have been in one of the white, racist fraternities in college.

100%

That’s why. That is exactly why they don’t want black people/latinos/immigrants to get an even playing field. They’d rather work to be racist than actually work. God forbid people with different backgrounds help us all have a better country.

Base, crass and infantile. The hallmarks of this admin. What a colossal embarrassment this government is.

Is this brown journalism? 😂

It is now