Pete Hegseth’s Speech to Generals Was a Joke - Error Code Show

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Something that we pride ourselves on this show

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is not getting sucked into political talk at

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all So you would not have to worry about us covering

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topics such as like Hegseth and stating that

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quote the era of politically correct Overly sensitive

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don't hurt anyone's feelings leadership ends

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right now End quote new quote no more division

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distraction or gender delusions, you know, we

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wouldn't cover stuff like Him issuing new directives

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that will raise physical standards for everyone

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in uniform to a quote male level We wouldn't

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cover the talk of toughening grooming standards

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Him saying that he doesn't want to see quote

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no more fat generals around Pentagon Which is

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great and like this is like the quality that

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you can really expect from this show Like, you

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know, we're not going to cover, you know Stuff

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where he would say stuff, you know, quote, no

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more beardos, right? The era of unacceptable

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appearance is over. So these are things that

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you don't have to worry about us covering it

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because everyone covers that. And also, you know,

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him saying, quote, simply put, if you do not

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meet the male. level physical standards for combat

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positions cannot passive PT tests or don't want

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to shave and look professional. It's time for

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a new position or a new profession. So like we

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wouldn't cover stuff like that. But if that was

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something that we would cover, Alex, what are

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your thoughts on those? So as someone who used

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to be in the military There's a lot here that

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was said for anybody who's watching this on YouTube

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later anybody who's new to the show I spent 23

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years in the army Okay, I am retired. I am a

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retired senior non -commissioned officer from

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the army now generally speaking On social media

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and places like this I I and I not in the facetious

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way that jay just said about us not talking about

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politics because we do talk about politics on

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this show a lot Why because we fucking can uh,

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it's our show. We get to talk about what we want.

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Um That being said I generally try and stay out

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of this. I I did watch chunks of of secretary

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hake says speech um and And it's it's a joke.

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It's a joke. Okay, he's a joke It's a joke Okay,

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um And we're gonna we're gonna address a couple

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things that we send the chat here in a minute

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Let's kind of go through this the arrow of politically

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correct overly sensitive Don't hurt anyone's

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feelings leadership ends now the only people

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who've had to worry about that for the last 15

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years are assholes Okay You can be a leader and

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you can make your fucking point without insulting

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people It's not necessary. I spent the majority

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of my career as a non -commissioned officer.

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Do you know how many times I had to call someone

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a derogatory slur? Never. Never. You don't need

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to do it. The only people who've been griping

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about this are the ones that use that as part

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of their leadership style. Pete Hegseth, you

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can tell by looking at the motherfucker that

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he is the type of officer who needs to put people

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down to make his point. Okay? That is not a valid

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method of leadership in my opinion. I would say

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in my learned opinion. And again, the only people

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who were worried about this were people who were

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assholes. If you're an asshole, people got upset

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with you for being an asshole. Okay? But let's

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start there. No more division, distraction, and

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gender delusions, please. The division and distraction,

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fuck you. That's all you've been since you got

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put in your position as secretary. Okay? It is

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a distraction that is constantly division in

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the ranks. Gender delusion, look. I don't even

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know where to go with that, Jay. Like... This

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is part of the overarching kind of war on trans

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people that this whole administration is going

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through. I quite frankly think that if you're

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a trans person and you feel like putting on a

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uniform and signing a fucking contract, we should

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let you. Your thoughts on that? Yeah, I was also

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thinking about like the females that serve in

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the military because he kind of keeps going back

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and saying, like, very specifically male level.

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And so I was kind of thinking, like, is he target

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targeting now, like females in the military,

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specifically females within combat arms? And

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I went through that transition when I started

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my career in combat arms. There were no women

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in combat arms. It just didn't exist. It was

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against the law. OK, there was a law. we did

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not have women in combat arms positions. They

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changed the law during the Obama administration

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and it took a few years of implementation. Now

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I will be the first one to admit when they first

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talked about it I was a junior NCO and because

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I had been brought up in combat arms and because

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I'd been brought up in all male units I didn't

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know how I felt about it initially, okay. I was

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very nervous as a young leader in my 20s when

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this all happened. I got over it. Okay, there's

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a quote and I'm going to try and bring it up

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from the West Wing. That he has. That that I

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I absolutely love. That really kind of That really

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kind of fixes it Okay, and we'll talk about that

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in a second. Let's kind of run through this Actually,

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no, we're gonna do this now because this is good.

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Hang on. I'm saying I'm gonna skip ahead to the

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part. So they're having this debate This is before

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we this show was made before we started allowing

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gays in the military. So in the show they're

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talking about taking care you're letting Homosexual

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people serve openly in the military, right? So

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then the big admiral guy who's a main character

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writes played by John Amis. He comes in right

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Sir Stand easy fellas Just Danish for anybody.

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Oh, yes, sir Thank you. We're discussing gays

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in the military, huh? Yes, sir What do you think

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I? Said what do you think? Sir, we're here to

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help the White House form a policy plan. I know.

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I'm asking you what you think. Sir, we're not

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prejudiced toward homosexuals. You just don't

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want to see them serving in the armed forces.

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No, sir, I don't. Because they pose a threat

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to unit discipline and cohesion. Yes, sir. That's

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what I think, too. I also think the military

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wasn't designed to be an instrument of social

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change. Yes, sir. The problem with that is that's

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what they were saying about me 50 years ago.

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Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would

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disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt

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the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed.

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I'm an admiral in the U .S. Navy and chairman

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of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with

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a stick. So that's that's kind of my my my view

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on this, right? Oh, it's going to disrupt the

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unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit.

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The unit got over it. And I think largely with

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with putting females in common terms, the units

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got over it and it's fine. You can make an argument

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that you should have a gender neutral physical

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fitness test. For combat arms I don't have a

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specific argument against that, right? If you

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want a gender neutral physical fitness training

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test for for combat arms units i'm That's the

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one area where i'm like, okay sure You know what

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you should be able to do 60 push -ups or whatever,

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right? Uh, that's fine do gender neutral pt test

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but beyond that stop it The beardos thingy, there's

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a lot of people that have taken advantage of

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the religious dispensation improperly. That's

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true. It has happened. I'm Norse pagan. Are you,

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or do you just want a beard? Right? They're still

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going to allow religious dispensation for beards

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for, like I served under a first sergeant who

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was an Orthodox Jewish person. Right? and under

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his cover he wore a yarmulke and he wore a beard

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because he was an Orthodox Jew. Seek people.

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Serve in the military. That's fine. He's talking

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about a lot of the guys that get long -term profiles,

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especially people who are of African -American

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descent, who get the shaving bumps, which are

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very, very painful. This is what you're worried

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about? Honestly, soldiers have been begging for

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them to just allow beards for years. This is

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a constant argument with the Army is why can't

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we just have beards? Can we just have beards?

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Like everybody can have a beard. So the fact

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that he's making this a big point, again, he's

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a former major. He's got the good idea, Ferry.

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He can shut up. The Fat Generals, again, he can't

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make himself feel better without putting other

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people down. That's his deal, right? He's just

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an asshole. OK. Yeah, it's it's this. You've

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got this one last note in here, so go ahead and

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make your last note. We can talk about this this

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next piece. Yeah. Which is Trump's Trump's thing

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that he said when he talked to the generals.

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Yeah. And something that we talked in pre shows

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something that, you know, again, we don't cover

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on this podcast because we don't cover political

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stuff at all. I mean, so like we wouldn't cover

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the fact that like, you know, Trump kind of floated

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the idea that the National Guard should use.

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and cities that are controlled by the Democrats

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as training grounds in this war against quote

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the enemy from within, which I. I don't know

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every so everything about Trump's address me

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as a civilian. I was just like, what the fuck?

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Like I'm. Even the whole fact that he was like,

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okay, like this is a super quiet room like you

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guys can clap like right like come on like clap

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if you don't want to clap like please leave and

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you'll lose your rank and everything and even

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I was able as a civilian able to really quickly

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understand that there is a military code of conduct.

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Maybe that's not the correct term here, but like

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that prohibits them from actually clapping or

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you know. causing any sort of reaction or noise

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when being addressed in this manner. Is that

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the correct term, Alex, like code of conduct?

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Yes, there's a code of conduct because so this

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is the thing that we get confused. Like the military

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is supposed to be a military is not supposed

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to be a political. It's a political body. It

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has to be. The military is supposed to be nonpartisan,

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right? That's the thing. Right. The reason you're

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not allowed to go to partisan political events

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in uniform is that as a service, the United States

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military is not a partisan thing. Okay. We, they're

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supposed to be nonpartisan. Um, it's, it's, it's

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just, that's again, it's hey, the reason Trump

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likes Hagseth is Trump sees Hagseth in himself,

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like himself and Hagseth. Right. I have to put

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people down to make myself feel better. I have

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to be the thing. It drives me absolutely nuts

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and that's why. The code of conduct dictates

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it. They're not supposed to do that. Let's go

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back. I'm going to end this portion for the YouTube

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show on this. Hegseth is just doing what Hegseth

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do. He's focused in all the wrong areas. And

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what he's really doing is showing his lack of

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experience and his lack of qualification. Because

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if this nitpicky bullshit is what you're focused

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on as Secretary of Defense, you don't understand

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your fucking job.