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BumRushDaShow

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Mon Apr 14, 2025, 02:52 PM Apr 14

Hakeem Jeffries Shreds Pete Hegseth With Blistering DEI Burn

Source: Huff Post

Apr 14, 2025, 04:08 AM EDT


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took aim at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the weekend, delivering a blistering critique of the Trump appointee’s latest stance on diversity, equity and inclusion. He also offered a fiery new take on the DEI acronym.

In a video shared on X (formerly Twitter), Jeffries slammed Hegseth and other Trump officials who are anti-DEI as “dumb effing individuals.”

Jeffries’ comments came as he denounced the reported removal of books from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis — including works on slavery, the civil rights movement and the Holocaust.

“The outrageous Naval Academy book ban targets Maya Angelou and the Holocaust, but excludes Adolf Hitler,” Jeffries wrote alongside the video. “This must be reversed immediately.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-hakeem-jeffries-dei_n_67fca800e4b0afe00ba911fb



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The outrageous Naval Academy book ban targets Maya Angelou and the Holocaust, but excludes Adolf Hitler.

This must be reversed immediately.
12:58 PM · Apr 12, 2025




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Hakeem Jeffries Shreds Pete Hegseth With Blistering DEI Burn (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 14 OP
"Naval Academy book ban targets Maya Angelou and the Holocaust, but excludes Adolf Hitler." sop Apr 14 #1
Hegseth is an actor in Trump's TV show. Klarkashton Apr 14 #2
Oh, no, he's been "slammed" with a "burn" maxsolomon Apr 14 #3
I'm absolutely fed up with... luxmatic Apr 14 #4
Agreed k_buddy762 Apr 16 #8
I would've preferred "idiots" instead of "individuals" IcyPeas Apr 14 #5
Donald's effing idiots chowder66 Apr 14 #6
This is a rant AverageOldGuy Apr 14 #7

sop

(13,796 posts)
1. "Naval Academy book ban targets Maya Angelou and the Holocaust, but excludes Adolf Hitler."
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 03:15 PM
Apr 14

Incredible!

luxmatic

(40 posts)
4. I'm absolutely fed up with...
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 04:01 PM
Apr 14

...this sort of "reporting". I don't give a rat's ass about someone getting "burned". What is this, junior high school lunch period? I heard Lisa uses 2nd hand hair brushes that have lice! Sick burn!!! This would have moved the needle 25 years ago, but we are light years from that now.

k_buddy762

(67 posts)
8. Agreed
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 07:54 AM
Apr 16

The click-bait titles get the views, but are annoying. I avoid said articles on principle alone.

IcyPeas

(23,466 posts)
5. I would've preferred "idiots" instead of "individuals"
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 04:05 PM
Apr 14

C'mon. Be meaner. Be pissed. Be angry !!!!!!!!

AverageOldGuy

(2,541 posts)
7. This is a rant
Mon Apr 14, 2025, 10:25 PM
Apr 14

Hegseth loves to use the word "warrior." He is not a warrior. He's a fucking rear echelon motherfucker who spent a year in Iraq in the rear with the beer. Then he got himself tattooed all over to prove what a warrior he is.

I'm 80. I -- as did many other DUers -- spent a year in the bush in Vietnam humping a 60-pound rucksack, an M-16, and a Kabar. Don't know what a Kabar is? Look it up. Most of us brought our Kabars home with us. Mine has blood stains on the leather grip.

Hegseth does three sets of 50 pushups daily . . . at least that's what he says. I do three sets of 40 daily, so, shove your girlie pushups up your ass, Pete.

Hegseth was a National Guard platoon leader in Iraq -- his platoon was responsible for base security -- they stayed inside the wire, standing guard in bunkers and smoking weed. He reached the minimal rank of major. I won't tell anyone the rank at which I retired but suffice it to say I would never initiate a salute with him.

Pete Hogsbreath is a worthless turd. Which is why Trump appointed him. Birds of a feather . . . .

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