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"It’s yet another example of Trump being undone by his even more chaotic minions – RFK Jr. and vaccines , Peter Navarro and his 'Liberation Day' tariffs, Bill Pulte’s scurrilous use of private mortgage information (which implicated his own family) and Brendan Carr’s own-goal from going after Jimmy Kimmel. I could go on, but I think the point is made."
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia #WarriorEthos #stupidity #incompetence
/15
"It confirmed publicly what is being whispered within the military, and presumably among our allies and enemies: that Hegseth is an abject incompetent who isn’t remotely up to the job. And this toe-curling performance is a reflection of his underlying panic."
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia #WarriorEthos #stupidity #incompetence
/14
"If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency. ...
It’s clear that the decision to summon top officers from around the world to receive a lecture about 'warrior ethos' from a man who installed a makeup studio at the Pentagon was made by Pete Hegseth."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #dementia #WarriorEthos #stupidity #incompetence
/13
Commenting on the Trump-Hegseth performance yesterday, Kristin Du Mez points to a passage in her book Jesus and John Wayne in which she discussewd retired colonel David Antoon's commentary on the infusion of warrior rhetoric in the military in the 2000s.
She wrote,
"Antoon identified a source of this inflitration."
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
/30
"He’d seen cadets and families at the Cadet Chapel welcomed by 'a phalanx of enthusiastic pastors' and recruited to Monday night Bible studies taught by members of New Life Church and Focus on the Family staff bused in for that purpose. The academy, Antoon realized, had become 'a giant Trojan horse for evangelicals to get inside the military.'”
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
/31
"Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey called the gathering 'one of the strangest, most incoherent national security events' he has ever encountered, describing it as 'a bitter partisan sort-of "savage tone" address.' He described the idea that the military would train to operate within U.S. cities 'deeply unsettling.'”
Commenting on the Trump-Hegseth performance yesterday, Kristin Du Mez points to a passage in her book Jesus and John Wayne in which she discussewd retired colonel David Antoon's commentary on the infusion of warrior rhetoric in the military in the 2000s.
She wrote,
"Antoon identified a source of this inflitration."
#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
/30
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