A priceless pre-second world war globe coveted by the US defence secretary Pete Hegseth for his office in the Pentagon was damaged by his staff in a botched attempt to relocate it, army officials have admitted.
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What is it with this guy and big balls?
Interesting this leaked now. It happened months ago.
They can’t even move a stationary globe while not being fired upon. I wonder how they’ll do in war? /s
Way too many of you are assuming it’s actually broken and not stolen.
My theory is that Pete Kegsbreath drunkenly stumbled into it and knocked it down, and now he’s blaming his staff as cover.
Nothing is sacred and nothing is safe from the looting.
sacred
The military globe. Sacred. Lmao.
An irreplaceable piece of US history. Next they’ll be bulldozing parts of the whiteh… nevermind.
What’s the word for when metaphors become reality?
MAGA
womp womp
Look, I’m the last person to judge them breaking something. I am clumsy and careless and break shit all the time.
But it’s just so perfectly emblematic of Republicans. They look at this old globe of the world how it was 80 years ago and think it’s so nice and they should have it for themselves… and then they break it out of carelessness.
There’s actually a department in charge of moving historical stuff like this, precisely so it doesn’t get broken, but no, he just sent his thugs over to grab it …
I soooo hope this was some “OK Boss” military malicious compliance kind of shit.
The first paragraph dismisses the context though.
They were told by historians that it required special care to move, not some jackass, that they called down from maintenance.
So he broke it and blamed the intern.
He probably tried to crack it open to see if there were any historic bottles of booze inside
probably could smell the whiskey and old cigars.
Look, he may not be good at much but if he smells booze in an old globe then by God I believe there’s booze in that globe.
Pretty sure by the time Eisenhower got done with that globe, the fumes kinda just seeped in. he smells booze, alright, but it’s the residue of a different time.
“An accident occurred while staff were transporting a replica of the Eisenhower globe as part of its relocation,” the official’s statement said.
“Accidents happen, we are grateful no one was harmed, and the globe is being repaired. It is unsurprising that the Washington Post is once again dedicating time to another inconsequential non-story.”
(Emphasis mine). Wow, just wow. It’d be an accident and non-story if they broke the copy machine or dropped a TV, but the whole point of historical artifacts is that they can’t just be replaced. I’d say it makes my blood boil, but let’s be real, it was already boiling, this is just fuel to the fire.
If you go to the original source of the story, wash Post, it’s not a replica, it’s one of three total Eisenhower globes. No where in there is the word replica.
So are they lying about it being a replica, or is the replica priceless?
They lie compulsively. They lie when it doesn’t even benefit them. There is really no reason to ever assume that they are not lying.
while staff were transporting a replica of the Eisenhower globe
So like, is it a replica of an Eisenhower globe or is it an Eisenhower globe? I feel like that is a pretty significant asterisk here, and kind of significantly changes the narrative. Someone’s lying, and as a matter of principle I’m inclined to believe it’s Hegseth, but I’d like to know what’s actually broken. I don’t give a shit if Hegseth breaks his own toys, and if he broke a replica that can be replaced. But he seems to be the only one claiming this is a “replica”, as far as anyone else seems to know, including plaques installed at the globe’s original location this appears to be an actual globe used by Eisenhower, not a replica.
It is either a replica or it is the Eisenhower globe. The article reports that it is the priceless globe that was dropped onto its base and shattered. Kegsbreath’s spokesman is trying to claim that it was only a replica. Typical bullshit lie to try and hide their incompetence.
It’s just another rare thing they’re destroying like the memorials, the US military, the social cohesion.
That’s a good point! I saw the bit about a moving company being qualified to move the globe and totally missed the (alleged) replica part. I agree though, the current administration doesn’t strike me as the type to “settle” for a replica, not when they could say the word and have the original 1 of 1 thing.
What it’s supposed to look like:
What it now looks like:
He definitely thought he could store booze inside that thing.
The camera angles there make it look like it got a foot shorter too lol!
It’s not just a camera angle, the globe isn’t sitting in the cradle like it should be.
The metal band that runs the circumference of the sphere is supposed to fill the grooves in the base and rest on the nub by the floor. In the new picture you can see the band sitting lower and sitting in the groove and running in front of the nub on the base. I’d almost put money on the band getting bent and working out of its intended track causing the wood nub to get mashed into the plaster-like surface (guessing by the debris on the floor) of the globe.
Ya it looks like part of Antarctica got trashed.
So it’s more true to reality?
This perfectly describes the current government, everything they touch they break or everything they touch falls apart kinda sounds better.
Not even that. They had people to do it right, but they had fired them so they did a rush job themselves and fucked it up.
If it were fiction you’d call the author a hack.
A bit too on the nose there
The writers are really phoning it in this season.
These stupid monkeys wreck everything.
Like something straight out of The Great Dictator. But that’s just life in the Clown’s Age.
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