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For those Americans eho did vote for him, brace yourselves.

“Hegseth is undoubtedly the least qualified nominee for SecDef in American history,” Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Independent Veterans of America, said on X. “And the most overtly political. Brace yourself, America.”

And the threat of — to use Donald Trump's own favorite word, "retribution" — looms so heavily over us we can only brace for what comes after November 5 or January 20, “whether the women like it or not.”

So when Donald Trump warns us that if things don’t break his way on Nov. 5, 2024, we should brace for violent reprisals, he is of course signaling to his Jan. 6 reenactors that they may need to take matters into their own hands in the coming days if the rule of law, and majority rule, break down.

Since the escalation of the war between Israel and the Shia Muslim Hezbollah, the men and women of the CDF see little rest, and brace themselves for a mass casualty incident every day.