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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(13,761 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:05 PM 13 hrs ago

Hegseth cuts military ties with elite universties, will steer soldiers to Christian Universities, Liberty. Hillsdale

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2675438207/

2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who earned his master's degree from Harvard University in 2013, has launched a sweeping campaign to cut military ties with the very elite universities where he was educated, denouncing them as bastions of "wokeness" and "wicked ideologies," The New York Times reported Saturday.


In a video posted to social media on Friday, Hegseth lambasted the prestigious institutions as politically liberal schools engaged in indoctrinating U.S. service members, announcing that beginning in September, the Defense Department would ban military personnel from attending graduate programs and fellowships at nearly two dozen universities.

The blacklist includes not only Harvard, which was banned earlier this month, but also MIT, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and countless others. The Pentagon also announced it would sever ties with seven high-profile Washington think tanks known for defense and national security analysis.


In a memo detailing the cuts, the Pentagon said it would replace these elite academic programs with courses offered by state universities and conservative Christian schools, specifically naming Liberty University and Hillsdale College as preferred alternatives.
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Hegseth cuts military ties with elite universties, will steer soldiers to Christian Universities, Liberty. Hillsdale (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 13 hrs ago OP
What a dumb kacekwl 13 hrs ago #1
Insanity pfitz59 13 hrs ago #2
So Liberty U and Hillsdale don't indoctrinate their students ? jls4561 12 hrs ago #3
Rape is allowed because it is the woman's fault nakocal 12 hrs ago #5
Hillsdale College, conservative Christian school. multigraincracker 12 hrs ago #4
And Fallwell Jr left Liberty after various episodes of sexual misconduct and nepotism. jls4561 12 hrs ago #6
Sexual misconduct doesnt bother Hegseth...including POC and women, that bothers him BlueWaveNeverEnd 4 hrs ago #7
Dumber soldiers are a little easier to rally for fascism SamuelTheThird 3 hrs ago #8
Oh god damn these assholes. Initech 3 hrs ago #9

jls4561

(3,035 posts)
3. So Liberty U and Hillsdale don't indoctrinate their students ?
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:29 PM
12 hrs ago

Liberty U is an alcohol free campus. Pete wouldn’t have lasted half a semester. Also, public displays of affection are prohibited, so I guess rape is out.

nakocal

(625 posts)
5. Rape is allowed because it is the woman's fault
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 04:00 PM
12 hrs ago

And they will just cover it up while expelling the woman if she was a student.

multigraincracker

(37,336 posts)
4. Hillsdale College, conservative Christian school.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:31 PM
12 hrs ago

George Roche III
George Charles Roche III was the 11th president of Hillsdale College, serving from 1971 to 1999. He was led to resign after a scandal surrounding an alleged sexual affair between him and his daughter-in-law, Lissa Jackson Roche, and her subsequent suicide. Roche received his bachelor's degree from Regis College in 1956. He later received a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Before becoming president of Hillsdale College, Roche was a professor at the Colorado School of Mines Continued in Wikipedia

Initech

(108,364 posts)
9. Oh god damn these assholes.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 01:03 AM
3 hrs ago

They can go shove their fake pretend Christian cult shit straight up their worthless asses. This pathetic charade has gone on way too long now.

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