I got a lot of badges when I was a scout. Didn’t have to use my penis for any of them.
Sure, when you were a kid, yeah. They got a badge now for safe cylinder extraction.
… wait, what? Next are you gonna tell me that the “cocksucking” badge I got from that one scoutmaster is fake?
Maybe.
Come over to this hotel room. Show me what you learned, and I’ll assess your skills. Then I can tell you if it was fake.
They said they didn’t have to use THEIR penis… (I’m so sorry)
Doesn’t the SecDef have more important things to do right now? Like fight a war no one but his boss wanted?
Doesn’t the SecDef have more important things to do right now?
More important than thinking about children’s genitals?
He’s in the GOP. So no.
Hey! Whoa! That’s not true…
…everyone implicated in the Epstein files wanted this war.
On the one hand, yes, but on the other, he doesn’t exactly have the skillset to run any department let alone the DoD(W)
Looks like the DoD / DoW will be cutting its ties with Scouting America then, if what that weirdo said was true.
Maybe they’ll start a new organization, not only for Trump fans, but specifically for the Youth. Where have I heard that idea before?
You mean just the Youth that are partial to Trump? His Youth?
That’s it…the Scouts have just declared war on MAGA! Time to bomb the shit out of them! /s
They will all be together at one place at the Jamboree.
This is what I was saying last Friday when the memo dropped. The memo was a nothing burger. Functionally nothing changed about the program. Hegseth got nothing he wanted.
People online just can’t help themselves from losing their minds. Literally anything can make people lose their minds. A headline could be “Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male” and y’all would lose your minds like clockwork.
“Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male”
Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that. That is a bonkers thing to say as a public official and should invoke some kind of mental health check.
I’m aware Hegseth is just posturing for brownie points with this Scouts thing, but this kind of behavior should not be normalized. I still remember when Howard Dean lost his bid to be a presidential candidate because he got too excited during a speech.
Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that.
Yeah. He knows that. That’s exactly why he does it. How do y’all not know their playbook by now? There are only two plays.
- Do evil Nazi shit.
- Say stupid shit online to keep the press and liberal Internet circles distracted from the evil Nazi shit.
That’s the whole playbook.
Except there’s the whole “military leader threatens a private organization” thing.
They didn’t change much, but there were changes made and not insignificant ones, and theyre using some really weasely words to mask that.
They have done away with the Citizenship in Society merit badge, which was a relatively new badge, but was also a required badge to earn eagle. This was a badge that basically focused on the importance of DEI.
They’ve also agreed to add a “military service” merit badge. Not a whole lot of details yet about what exactly that will entail or if it will be a required badge or not.
It also sounds like they’ll be making youths register accordingly to their biological gender as opposed to the one they actually identify as, and will need to use facilities like bathrooms and share tents and such with other scouts that corresponds to that.
It’s not massive changes, but it’s certainly enough that you should be pissed about them. And hegseth has indicated he wants to reevaluate in a few months and likely will be pushing for even more changes.
I’m an eagle scout, I’m fucking pissed about this, it goes against all of the good values I learned from scouts for them to give into this pressure, and I’m sure that when kegsbreath comes back around in 6 months or so they’ll cave even more.
I’m sending my eagle medal back in protest.
Hi, venturing silver here (sending that shit back, too). Do you have a handy link to all of these changes that I can send to my old scout buddies?
Also thank you for showing real scout spirit and taking this seriously.
I’ve been talking to a lot of other eagles and other former scouts, and so far none of them have been happy about this. I have a couple other people also planning to return their medals, and a few who can’t find their medals or who are (understandably) reluctant to do so but are at least planning to write some letters and make some noise over this.
I don’t have a specific link to share, I’ve been following this whole situation for a few weeks now since it was all first announced. There’s a lot of articles being written about it now, your best bet is probably just to see what your favorite trusted news sources are saying.
They did away with one merit badge and added one elective. “DEI” is baked throughout the scout program and basically all the topics covered in that one merit badge are covered in lots of other parts the program. Including the whole point of the scout law.
You are losing your mind over nothing. Get a grip.
“DEI” is baked throughout the scout program
And do you really think that they’re not going to try to come after that too? They’re already leaving the door open for them to come back and put more pressure on scouting in a few months, and Drinky Pete has pretty clearly said that he hopes the organization will go back to being the boy scouts.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Also really convenient of you to just ignore the concerns about trans youths. I’m sure you’re not pushing an agenda here /s
Yes, I do think they are dropping this issue. I think Hegseth realized that he wasn’t going to get the traction on this he wanted so he agreed a nothing burger and declared victory for himself.
I’m not ignoring the concerns of the Trans youth, it’s just that the “demands” won’t actually change them. The BSA has already issued a statement that trans youth are still welcome in scouting. No one is going to be checking anyone’s birth certificates. Literally nothing changed.
Get a grip.
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