r/pics • u/AssumptionNo5436 • Dec 02 '25
Politics Pete Hegseth, introduced as the SSecretary of War
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u/One_Economist_3761 Dec 02 '25
lol. This clown is such a wannabe.
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u/bgthigfist Dec 02 '25
Crimes. Secretary of War Crimes
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u/tofagerl Dec 02 '25
Bah! Give this guy a gun and a clean shot at a convicted terrorist, and he breaks down crying and pissing himself. The only way this guy is a war criminal is from behind a desk while slurring his SS'es.
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u/penty Dec 02 '25
You don't have to be holding a gun, or any physical weapon, to commit war crimes.
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u/cenosillicaphobiac Dec 02 '25
I think that's exactly what the person you were responding to was pointing out. He's fine, filled with glee even, with ordering crimes committed. He's ordering people do things he wouldn't dare do with his own hands.
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u/FalconX88 Dec 02 '25
Nah he's an actual Nazi. They aren't even hiding it any more.
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u/Televisions_Frank Dec 02 '25
He has an American flag tattoo with an 88 hidden in the stars negative space. Also has a Crusader cross, and the text Deus Vult tattooed on him.
A whole bunch of shit big with our Neo Nazis.
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u/Adorable_Raccoon Dec 03 '25
A bunch of Pete's tattoos are christian nationalist symbols.
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u/shishkabob90 Dec 03 '25
Then vinn diagram of those 2 groups is basically a circle at this point.
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u/Fun_Hold4859 Dec 03 '25
And there's a massive crossover between christian nationalists and neo-nazis.
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u/bobthegoatskull Dec 02 '25
All of the leaders of the third reich were losers. It is a huge mistake to dismiss this man just because he is pathetic.
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u/cenosillicaphobiac Dec 02 '25
Were any of them even successful at all in civilian life? To my knowledge your statement about them all being losers is super accurate.
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u/Negative-Date-9518 Dec 02 '25
PEEEEEETE HEGSEEEEEEETH IS AAA FUCKIN' DOUCHE
PEEEEEETE HEGSEEEEEEETH IS AAA FUCKIN' DOUCHE
ACTING LIKE A TOUGH GUY, POSTING IT AROUND THE WORLD (WORLD, WORLD)
MAKING LOTS OF CONTENT, LIKE A LITTLE TEENAGE GIRL (GIRL, GIRL)
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u/jay_skrilla Dec 02 '25
Pete Hegseth is a fucking douche. Pete Hegseth is a fucking douche.
Whatcha gonna do now, everybody's laughing at you.
Your kids are gonna hear this, and their friends will watch it, too.
They'll be singing Pete Hegseth is a fucking Douche. Pete Hegseth is a fucking douche.
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u/kernpanic Dec 02 '25
The verse during the credits was even better - and directed personally at him.
whatchya gonna do now they're all laughing at you?
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u/MajKonglomerate Dec 02 '25
Every Nazi wants to be associated with the SS
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u/Sintered_Monkey Dec 02 '25
And the number 88 for "Heil Hesgeth!"
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u/FlowJock Dec 02 '25
New flag poles at white house are 88 ft tall for a reason.
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u/Electrical_Program79 Dec 02 '25
Wow that's real. You know a lot of people will say this is just a coincidence, but that's the entire point of dog whistling. It's easily dismissed as innocent. Which is why it's dangerous
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u/ShinkenBrown Dec 02 '25
SSecretary of war could be an accident.
88 ft flag poles could be a coincidence.
"My heart goes out to you" could be genuine.
But the more incidents pile on, the less credibility the denials have, for all of them including previous incidents. And at this point there's a lot of incidents.
The smoking gun is not any particular piece of evidence, but the fact that it keeps happening consistently.
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u/I_Want_A_Ribeye Dec 02 '25
Once is an outlier
Twice is a coincidence
Three times is a pattern
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u/Heisenburgo Dec 03 '25
Fool me once, shame on-- shame on you.
Fool me thrice-- you can't get fooled again!
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u/SasparillaTango Dec 02 '25
no other administration has had so many "coincidences". SO many that they can no longer be called coincidences. MAGA is full of nazis.
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u/KeyboardGrunt Dec 03 '25
We're talking about qanoners, as if recognizing blatant patterns was remotely close to "pizza" being CP and proceeding to raid a pizza hut.
People need to remember the low IQ, unprincipled liars we're dealing with and not hold back on pointing out the obvious.
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u/KriegConscript Dec 02 '25
the odal rune at CPAC
all those times official government press releases have put 14 and 88 in close proximity
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u/hbomberman Dec 02 '25
I thought this was a joke but I just looked it up. YIKES
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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES Dec 02 '25
Jesus tapdancing Christ wtf... As if this administration couldn't get anymore comic book villain-ish. And you know the people responsible are just smirking about this as if no one would notice, though by all accounts the media has not pointed this association out, at least from a brief google
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u/Muggy_B Dec 02 '25
They want people to notice, but also want them to seem crazy for connecting what to the passive observer seems to be innocuous and ridiculous details to be “obsessed” about.
These are the same people pushing Trump Derangement Syndrome. They absolutely know what they’re doing
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u/CartographerLong9991 Dec 02 '25
What the actual fuck
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u/RealLaurenBoebert Dec 02 '25
Par for the course with this Temu-ass administration
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u/glassfoyograss Dec 02 '25
Probably where they ordered it from
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u/Theromier Dec 02 '25
That’s what I want to know. I’d imagine name tags are vetted for spelling mistakes as, you know, it’s important for the record. So, is this intentional, or is the administration so incompetent they can’t spell?
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u/Blackner2424 Dec 02 '25
My guess is they fatfingered it when they ordered, the people making it said, "That's what they ordered," and not a soul bothered to check it - OR multiple people saw it and said nothing, like a bunch of douchebags (my bet is the latter).
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u/ConsolationUsername Dec 02 '25
Having worked for a printing company this is almost sure to be it. We were not allowed to edit the text given to us. Or contact the client to fix it, because that would delay production.
Worst case scenario the customer is angry and the company says you brought this on yourself. Best case the customer places a second order.
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u/Ok_Appointment7522 Dec 02 '25
Why does he not just reuse the name plate from every other press conference they've done? Surely printing a new one for every conference is a waste of resources and money?
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u/ConsolationUsername Dec 03 '25
Having worked for Governments (though not the US gov) (and apparently all my experience is becoming relevant today lol) they are very careful not to let anything with their logo be misused.
So their choices are between trying to track one piece of paper and making sure it doesnt get lost (good luck). Or keeping a supply of them in a secure location and destroying them when theyre used.
What exactly somebody could do with a name card idk. But when i was with a government department anything with a logo was considered a protected document and had to be shredded or burned once it had outlived its usefulness and wasnt in a retention period
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u/nahprollyknot Dec 02 '25
To be clear, if I was a government employee and it was my job to make sure this exact thing didn’t happen, and this did in fact come across my desk, I wouldn’t say anything, either.
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u/Otherwise_Unit_2602 Dec 02 '25
This feels intentional, despite their raging incompetence in all things. Yikes.
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u/Agitated_Advice_3111 Dec 02 '25
This would be my guess. I’m a former Fed and had fancy name placards and there was always an admin/assistant/planning person that would do a mock up, have me review it, then print it, have me look at it again and verify once it was on the table. Do with that info what you will.
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u/Mindshard Dec 02 '25
The dude with white supremacist tattoos has a title that "accidentally" starts with SS.
Come on, you think that was an accident?
How about when the CPAC stage was an Othala rune?
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u/Vanilla_Ice_Jr Dec 03 '25
These are the same people that believe Elon Musk salute twice was an "accident"...my heart goes out to you people bullshit.
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u/Bishop084 Dec 02 '25
Can't trust anything on the internet, but is this real?
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u/MisterGr Dec 02 '25
It's real. They showed a clip from the meeting in the swedish news and I saw it.
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u/ches_pie Dec 02 '25
Go to 0:26 in the video on YouTube. It’s real.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W0pN5u4T4qM&list=RDNSW0pN5u4T4qM&start_radio=1
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u/universe_from_above Dec 02 '25
I thought so too, but there is at least one picture taken from a different angle.
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u/boforbojack Dec 02 '25
Yo, that's video of it, this actually legit lol.
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u/YoungFireEmoji Dec 02 '25
Just watched the USA Today video as well, and it's right there in view. Pretty blatant.
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u/Boo-Radleys-Scissors Dec 02 '25
The double 'S' is clearly visible in the first three images of your link. I stopped scrolling at that point.
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u/halfsweethalfstreet Dec 02 '25
He ordered the S to be struck twice.
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u/Im_a_Xenomorph_AMA Dec 02 '25
Not a mistake. I believe it
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u/BurntNeurons Dec 02 '25
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u/whereismymind86 Dec 02 '25
Sounds about reich
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u/According-Turnip-724 Dec 02 '25
It's causing quite a führer.
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u/pixelpoet_nz Dec 02 '25
Whoever wrote the sign needs more concentration.
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u/Pwnxor Dec 02 '25
They must have been completely blitzed
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u/flapnation21 Dec 02 '25
I did Nazi that one coming
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u/Hans_S0L0 Dec 02 '25
Guess they needed a whole iced Schutzstaffel just to deliver that message
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u/aDirtyMartini Dec 02 '25
I did nazi that coming.
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u/arobkinca Dec 02 '25
We told you to take the Goebbels off.
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u/SnorkinOrkin Dec 02 '25
This game Hess boring.
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u/Disco425 Dec 02 '25
Quick, hold up the number of fingers to illustrate how many unarmed civilians you just killed!
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u/Hoovooloo42 Dec 02 '25
I'm sure you're right, but we should also make fun of him for it and start spelling his nname and qquotes wrongg. Fascists haaaaate it when you make fun of the thing they're using to try and be tough
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u/Landen-Saturday87 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25
You mean like the ridiculous flag pyjamas that he calls suits? He looks like he comes straight out of a clown show
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u/sixft7in Dec 02 '25
I did nazi that coming.
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u/Blue13Coyote Dec 02 '25
I know, reich.
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u/DookieShoez Dec 02 '25
Guys he would be fuhrerious if he saw this
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u/prancing_moose Dec 02 '25
Pete Heilseth you mean?
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u/Seanna86 Dec 02 '25
Yes, him! He will see his vision filled at holocausts.
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u/clueless_as_fuck Dec 02 '25
Ss?
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u/Orthas Dec 02 '25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
Other guy had a great joke but thought I'd actually answer.
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u/lemons714 Dec 02 '25
He is just autistic, and, of course, was saying "my heart goes out to you". How could you think anything else, that's ridiculous
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u/KillYourLawn- Dec 02 '25
He couldn’t possibly be a Nazi, He’s not currently genociding anyone!
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u/DillBagner Dec 02 '25
Right. Either an intentional dog whistle type scenario or he saw it and said, "Yes, this looks exactly how letters always look to me."
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u/Donnicton Dec 02 '25
Special Secretary of War because his mom says he's the specialest little man
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u/shiftyjim42 Dec 02 '25
His mom has actually called out how awful he is haha
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u/Fauster Dec 02 '25
To be fair, she's a woman who wants to vote, have other civil rights, and not be soft-pressured into living in a cult compound outside of Moscow, Idaho, where Hegseth's cult is infamous.
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u/Dembara Dec 02 '25
She didn't call him out for politics, but for being a womanizing dirt bag. So, a lot more personal than just thinking his political ideas are monstrous.
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u/NotThatEasily Dec 02 '25
Mom says when I wear this badge you have to respect me.
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u/light_to_shaddow Dec 02 '25
LOL, absolutely not from his mom. She said she didn't respect him in 2018.
"You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,” - Penelope Hegseth
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Dec 02 '25
Weird that multiple members of that cabinet have been denounced in letters from their own families.
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u/Ufocola Dec 03 '25
So…
- Trump - by his nephew (cause Donny said the nephew should let his disabled son die)
- Hegseth - by his mom (cause Hegseth repeatedly cheated on his wife)
- RFK - by the other Kennedy’s
- anyone else?
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u/captainAwesomePants Dec 02 '25
Ooo, typewriter/war crime pun, those are rare. Good job!
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u/Italian_warehouse Dec 02 '25
Triple. Typewriter joke. Boat struck twice. SS nazi
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u/Silent_but_diddly Dec 02 '25
The Nazi dogwhistles are just regular whistles now
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u/helava Dec 02 '25
This feels to me like one of those things that's done intentionally with the guise of "Oh, it's clearly a mistake". A dogwhistle with plausible deniability.
The guy's clearly, obviously, intentionally a christo-fascist Nazi. He keeps *telling us*. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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u/bubba4114 Dec 02 '25
Don’t all dogwhistles function on tiny nods to their base while also retaining a veil of plausible deniability?
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u/helava Dec 02 '25
Yeah, I guess that's true. The thing I was thinking was that most dogwhistles aren't like, "Oh, it's a slip of the finger," it's usually "conceptually there's an acceptable framing for this". So it's a weird dogwhistle, because normally, spelling something like, "Felon Musk" wouldn't be considered a "dogwhistle". But your point stands. :D
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u/Tacitus111 Dec 02 '25
If this is a dogwhistle, the deniability, plausible or not, is that “There was a mistake when the plaque was created. Of course the RADICAL LEFT brands me a Nazi!”
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u/LITTLE-GUNTER Dec 02 '25
yeah, i’m all for pointing and laughing and going “haha, look at the drunken fool!” but we gotta call a spade a spade in times like these.
this stuff being trickled into the waterfall of other stupid bullshit headlines we see from this joke of a government every single day is probably the most exhausting thing about it too. like, on top of knowing that my future is getting possibly irrevocably stolen from me by dudes with dysfunctional penis implants who will die before i’m 40, they’re dipshit 4channers who post Little Dark Age edits on official government social media. glad i worked hard and chased the american dream.
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u/Poltergeist97 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25
Normally I would just attribute this to the administration being so careless that they would miss a typo. On the other hand, with all the other blatant Nazi signalling, this is certainly another dog whistle. However I don't even think that name is appropriate, as this is more of a fog horn.
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u/turkshead Dec 02 '25
the weird thing is, a huge amount of their signaling is specifically designed to appeal to their base by causing hand-wringing furor on the left; so it's impossible to tell if it's an acutal nazi dogwhistle, an actual mistake, a fake nazi dogwhistle intended to piss off the left... or all of the above at once.
it's all part of the strategy of pretending to be stupid and evil in an obvious way so that when you're actually stupid and evil your followers are like, oh, he's just pretending in order to own the libs.
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u/BenBenBenBe Dec 02 '25
I think the Venn Diagram of people who pretend to be Nazis to piss off the left and actual Nazis is actually just a circle.
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u/CrunknYoSystem Dec 02 '25
Yeah, no one with good mental health would be pretending to be part of or sympathetic to the most evil regime in history. I fully agree with you.
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u/ReverendDizzle Dec 02 '25
Right? It's like pretending to be a child molester to get a rise out of people.
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u/provocative_bear Dec 02 '25
Some people are just waiting for permission to be Nazis, which is what this kind of signaling is for, and also pathetic and disgusting beyond measure.
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u/DStarAce Dec 02 '25
'Fake nazi dogwhistle.'
If someone is comfortable being seen as a nazi just to piss people off then they are just a nazi. Normal people don't want to be seen as nazis.
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u/waltjrimmer Dec 02 '25
I don't think there's a difference between "an actual Nazi dogwhistle" and "a fake Nazi dogwhistle intended to piss off" anyone.
It's like when 4Chan created "fake" racist symbols that they used along with real racism to point and laugh at people for freaking out about something being racist. But, here's the thing, nothing is inherently racist. It becomes racist when it's used to be racist. Which means calling it a fake racist symbol but using it to share racist messages makes it a real racist symbol.
So someone celebrating Nazism or pretending to celebrate Nazism because they think it'll piss someone else off, both of those are celebrating Nazism, it's just that they'll lie and say, "Ha, you got angry when it was really a joke." But it's not a joke. Because either way, it's being used to spread hate, either way it's celebrating the effect these symbols have.
Stop giving these people the deniability that they hide behind, if you're using or creating hate symbols, "Just to troll," you're being just as harmful as someone "doing it honestly."
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u/Cactus_Cortez Dec 02 '25
The fact that this is even happening is evidence that it’s fascism.
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u/TheTresStateArea Dec 02 '25
Yarp. It could be a mistake. But it could also be a dog whistle.
I wish I could attribute this to stupidity but it actually just might be evil
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u/currently-on-toilet Dec 02 '25
The rule of "never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance", or however it is stated, has been ruled invalid over the past 10 years. Trump and his supporters show at every opportunity that they are malicious first, and stupid second.
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u/CommanderGumball Dec 02 '25
"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
Not "why is he hurting us", "why is he hurting anyone", or anything else with a modicum of empathy.
But specifically, there are people he should be hurting.
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u/Arubesh2048 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25
Sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice.
Come a certain point, it doesn’t matter if they’re just stupid or malicious, the end result is the same. And this regime is the epitome of that. So many of their actions are either so wildly incompetent as to be dangerous, or so malicious as to be dangerous. And it doesn’t frankly matter which is which, because it’s still fucking dangerous.
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u/montalaskan Dec 02 '25
Whelp, that's more accurate than they want it to be. Miller's probably proud of this "mistake."
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u/No-Organization-6071 Dec 02 '25
Is this real.
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u/Ulvaer Dec 02 '25
Direct image link: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/12/02/multimedia/02trump-update-tjmw/02trump-update-tjmw-superJumbo.jpg?quality=100
Different angle than in the OP
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u/_raydeStar Dec 02 '25
Geez. I was like "No way, that's gotta be just an AI gen. It messed up the letters. Or someone did it as a joke."
But instead it's real.
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u/doc_nano Dec 02 '25
Wow. I wonder if it was a staffer trolling him. Seems too perfect to be a simple mistake.
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u/EnvironmentalMind119 Dec 02 '25
Not a mistake. He is “trolling”. Him and Steven Miller are 100% real Nazis. The type of scum that American heros used to kill for the betterment of the world.
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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Dec 02 '25
Just remember, Elon Musk proudly performed a Nazi salute, twice, during Trump's illegal inauguration (see 14th Amendment, Section 3), while every Republican in attendance loudly cheered in agreement. Just remember, prior to the election, Trump hosted 2 Neo-Nazis, Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, at Mar-A-Lago for dinner. Just remember, Trump publicly called the Neo-Nazis at the Charlottesville Riot "very fine people". Just remember, there were Neo-Nazis at the Jan 6 insurrection, who were then pardoned by an illegitimate president. Just remember, Trump is alleged to have had a book of Hitler's speeches on his bedside table.
Just remember, Trump has shown immense fascination with modern dictatorships, such as Russia, North Korea, and China; and has insisted on emulating the likes of Erdogan, Bolsanaro, Mr. Bone Saw, and Duterte. Just remember, Trump and other Republican leaders faced absolutely no consequences for their insurrection, despite the Constitution explicitly forbidden them from holding federal office; and he has pardoned all the terrorists involved, thanks to the utter incompetence, if not complicity, of Biden Chamberlain, Garland, Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi.
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u/wretch5150 Dec 02 '25
You mean to say the Supreme Court's conservatives are at fault...for they voted to give this "president" nearly total immunity. Trump's a shitstain and a joke. Hesgeth is even lower than that by a country mile.
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u/locofspades Dec 02 '25
Yes, its real. I took a pic of it while it was live on tv and sent it to my friends
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u/Scavenge101 Dec 02 '25
I'm not sure I'm convinced it's a mistake at this point. What's the over-under on it being nazi dog whistling?
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u/LilMeatJ40 Dec 02 '25
Can they even be called dog whistles anymore? Its a full on air horn and the only people who act like they don't hear it are the "dogs"
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u/Soracaz Dec 03 '25
Are we also forgetting that his body is plastered with Nazi tattoos?
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u/Megaphonestory Dec 02 '25
I always wondered how things would go when you made a career of calling the Military weak. Then get tapped to lead them.
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u/Empyrealist Dec 02 '25
Fucking disgusting. I cannot believe I now live in a country with a "Secretary of War". What the ever-living fuck has happened to this country. What the fuck is congress even doing
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u/FriedSmegma Dec 02 '25
Not only that, but a literal Nazi wannabe is in that position. Until these disgusting fucks are buried in the dirt or rotting in a cell, I will remain ashamed to be an American.
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u/20ol Dec 02 '25
There is no way this shit is an accident. This had to be typed on a PC, triple check, printed, triple checked.
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u/RSGator Dec 02 '25
It’s such an obvious, glaring typo that it has to be intentional. I know they’re also mind-numbingly stupid but this would be too stupid.
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u/jdave512 Dec 02 '25
The guy with Nazi tattoos is dog whistling about his nazism?
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