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highplainsdem

(63,428 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:47 PM 21 hrs ago

Pete Hegseth, persona non grata in Normandy

I don’t speak French, but I think this means the people in Normandy didn’t like Hegseth’s speech. You have be be a pretty colossal dipshit to screw up a D-Day commemoration ceremony.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T23:35:05.620Z



The headline translates to: "He has no place": Pete Hegseth, persona non grata in Normandy for the 82nd anniversary of the Landings.

Comfortably 《Numb》 (@snafu58.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T23:38:24.722Z



English Newspapers be like...

AgonyFlips (@agonyflips.bsky.social) 2026-06-07T23:43:19.691Z




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Pete Hegseth, persona non grata in Normandy (Original Post) highplainsdem 21 hrs ago OP
There's just no bottom to these people and it's beyond embarrassing Deuxcents 21 hrs ago #1
Alcohol abuse can really do long-term damage to a poor guy's neurons struggle4progress 21 hrs ago #2
He's also another grifter. Beacool 20 hrs ago #3
Thanks to the sane people in Europe for calling out this BS.. Permanut 20 hrs ago #4
Like his infamous leader popsdenver 20 hrs ago #5
It's not his place -- I think that is a more accurate translation Sanity Claws 20 hrs ago #6
Voila peppertree 19 hrs ago #8
The failed infantry officer and tabless beyotch Aviation Pro 20 hrs ago #7
Why is he alive ? dave99 18 hrs ago #9

struggle4progress

(126,912 posts)
2. Alcohol abuse can really do long-term damage to a poor guy's neurons
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:59 PM
21 hrs ago

so, y'know, maybe folk with limited brains might wannabe kinda careful

Looking sideways at you as I say this, Pete ...

Beacool

(30,531 posts)
3. He's also another grifter.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:48 PM
20 hrs ago

He took his wife and six kids on an official visit, on our dime.


Permanut

(8,645 posts)
4. Thanks to the sane people in Europe for calling out this BS..
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:49 PM
20 hrs ago

and thanks for the OP on this, highplainsdem.

This vet, who is the son of a vet, the son-in-law of a vet who came within inches of losing his life in a kamikaze attack, and the nephew of several uncles who fought in all theaters, condems this grandstanding excuse for a pimple on Mango Mussolini's behind.

popsdenver

(2,729 posts)
5. Like his infamous leader
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:57 PM
20 hrs ago

Hegseth truly has........"Shit For Brains"...........wonder how you say that in a way he can understand?........Pig Latin??????

Sanity Claws

(22,453 posts)
6. It's not his place -- I think that is a more accurate translation
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:02 PM
20 hrs ago

He has no business talking about things like that. It's not place.

peppertree

(23,514 posts)
8. Voila
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:33 PM
19 hrs ago

He also, no doubt, reminds the elderly French who still remember those days of the very Nazis that brutalized their country (with the blessing of many in the French upper class).

And save for the fact that he doesn't speak a word of German, Hogshit must remind them of said Nazis physically, ideologically, and in any number of other ways.

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