U.S. Senator-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) claimed that getting rid of DEI policies from the military is “politicizing.”
Slotkin made the remark on Sunday during an appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” when co-host Martha Raddatz when asked about President-elect Donald Trump’s choosing Pete Hegseth as the incoming defense secretary.
“Hegseth has also said that any general that was involved in any of the DEI woke crap has got to go,” Raddatz remarked.
“Do you expect Donald Trump to fire top generals who he considers woke or those close to former Chairman Mark Milley?”
During an interview on the “The Shawn Ryan Show” podcast, the 44-year-old Fox News host said that “any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI, woke s–t has got to go.”
According to Slotkin, Democrats don’t need to speculate about what the Department of Defense’s agenda will be under Hegseth’s leadership.
“Yeah, I don’t think you have to interpret anything,” the incoming senator remarked.
“I think they’ve been very clear that they’re putting together some sort of panel that’s going to look at generals,” she insisted.
Slotkin’s response to Hegseth’s view that generals who pushed DEI/woke bullshit should be fired: “We’re really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can’t put the genie back.”
But… it’s the DEI/woke nonsense that politicized the military!pic.twitter.com/jOkCHt0cUp
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) November 17, 2024
“People who have served their nation their entire lives over multiple administrations Democrat and Republican in combat, they are now openly talking about dismissing them like some sort of kangaroo court,” Slotkin added.
During the podcast, Hegseth said he would immediately fire chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., over his “woke” agenda.
He also does not believe that female soldiers should be fighting on the front lines.
“I’m straight up just saying that we should not have women in combat roles,” Hegseth commented.
“It hasn’t made us more effective, hasn’t made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.”
Slotkin is worried that Hegseth’s agenda will irrevocably alter the military.
“You can imagine the stress in the Pentagon about that, but also on the future of who we are as a military, right?” she questioned.
“Our military and the role of the military is in the Constitution for a reason and I think we’re really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can’t put the genie back in the bottle.”
Hegseth also want to change the rules of war to allow the U.S. to bomb cultural sites of opposing nations.
“If we’re going to fight to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, this regime, then we need to rewrite the rules that are advantageous to us,” he stated.
“I don’t want to hit cultural sites on purpose, but if you’re using one to harbor your most dangerous weapons, then that should be on the target list, too.”
It was my understanding that obama did a massive purging of all the top brass that were not woke enough, did not see eye to eye with him.; but no one ever mentions that. Hegseth seems the ideal guy to right the ship.
You are absolutely correct about OBOZZO. He fired 102 high level Flag Officers. The reason they don’t tell the public was these officers refused to sign on to OBOZZOS demand to be able to use the U.S. military domestically against U.S. citizens. Those that were left in the Pentagon were the WOKESTERS that signed the order. The MSM of course covered the reason up for obvious reasons.
DIM speak with forked tongue, as usual. They’re the ones who politicized with their woke DEI BS and they can’t stand the idea of removing their politics from the military control.
And this is one of the reasons Pres. Trump was re-elected in a landslide! The Democrat Party is made up overwhelmingly of woke morons.
The military’s job is to kill people and break things. We need to be the best in the world at that. Any distraction (DEI) reduces our effectiveness.
Right you are. I am hoping that Trump, as Commander-In-Chief , takes action against former Gen. Mark Milley for bragging how he contacted his counterpart in the CCP military telling him he would contact and warn the CCP official if Trump decided to attack China. That admission by Milley was an act of extreme insubordination deserving of being “hanged for treason”.
And this is what happens when you elect airheads. They want a soft emotionally weak military. Can you imagine how hard it’s been for the unwoke soldiers to accomplish their jobs and having to put up with the DEI ineptitude…
We have a better use for our military, protect our borders and deport criminal illegal aliens. Ya know, protect our country from threats, foreign and domestic. The American people will take care of the left lunacy and child abuse.
NO your side did
Maybe like the democrat party has been doing for the last four years? And the Department of Justice. And any other organization they have touched? Except the Republicans are not “politicizing” anything, they are operating according to the law.
There the Dems go again. Accusing the GOP of doing what they have been doing {DEI garbage} and trying to do more of the last 16 years.