I wonder if Pete Hegseth’s speechwriter is . . . Pete Hegseth. According to his Wikipedia page, “Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he was the publisher of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper,” a sentence that screams to be followed by “where he learned to murder the English language while perfecting his brand of mind-numbing douchebaggery.”
Given how fundamentally unqualified he is to actually contribute to operational or policy planning--and how little the White House cares about the inter-agency process anyway--it wouldn't surprise me if he has plenty of spare time to write these things himself.
At the time Hegseth was at Princeton, all the fancy universities had a real student paper that everyone gunned to get on, and then a side-piece conservative rag, handsomely funded by [insert Koch Bros-type funder here] where anyone could write provided you wrote something snarky and anti-lib. They all imagined their papers to be the Dartmouth Review but were just janky sad little broadsheets that no one read.
It has been said, take your work seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. This is not a bad way to go about living.
Somehow, everyone in this admin seems to do the exact opposite; they take their public image and self perception as limitlessly important, and take the details of their actual work as afterthoughts to be massaged as needed.
It's as if a writer were talking about himself like he wrote Catch-22 or To Kill a Mockingbird, when he actually punched up the worst seasons of Two and a Half Men.
Hegseth sounds like a reasonably confident but over-confident (Hegsethian rhyme there) high school speech competitor who thinks he's going to win Nationals but then gets wiped out in the Middle Tennessee District's qualifier. Wamp-wamp.
Hey Jeff and everyone else...my idea for all thinking liberals, like yourself, costs just $12 per year (only 3.3 cents a day) at EthicalGovtNow.org. We are, continually clustering thinking Americans in a single online home in order to aggregate a membership large enough to bend the arc of future history toward greater justice and better societal and political outcomes, pluralism and inclusivity. May I ask whether you will support positive activism and join our online "ark"?
Pete Hegseth wasn’t just overpowered by this takedown, he was over-MAURERed
Thanks Matt but let’s do that drug test.
I wonder if Pete Hegseth’s speechwriter is . . . Pete Hegseth. According to his Wikipedia page, “Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he was the publisher of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper,” a sentence that screams to be followed by “where he learned to murder the English language while perfecting his brand of mind-numbing douchebaggery.”
I think that’s entirely likely and if true will serve as a living advertisement for hiring professional speechwriters.
Given how fundamentally unqualified he is to actually contribute to operational or policy planning--and how little the White House cares about the inter-agency process anyway--it wouldn't surprise me if he has plenty of spare time to write these things himself.
At the time Hegseth was at Princeton, all the fancy universities had a real student paper that everyone gunned to get on, and then a side-piece conservative rag, handsomely funded by [insert Koch Bros-type funder here] where anyone could write provided you wrote something snarky and anti-lib. They all imagined their papers to be the Dartmouth Review but were just janky sad little broadsheets that no one read.
It has been said, take your work seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. This is not a bad way to go about living.
Somehow, everyone in this admin seems to do the exact opposite; they take their public image and self perception as limitlessly important, and take the details of their actual work as afterthoughts to be massaged as needed.
It's as if a writer were talking about himself like he wrote Catch-22 or To Kill a Mockingbird, when he actually punched up the worst seasons of Two and a Half Men.
Drum solos out of style? No, they are still awesome.
I liked the solo at the end of Whiplash that proved that psychological torture is good and totally works.
Hegseth sounds like a reasonably confident but over-confident (Hegsethian rhyme there) high school speech competitor who thinks he's going to win Nationals but then gets wiped out in the Middle Tennessee District's qualifier. Wamp-wamp.
Hey Jeff and everyone else...my idea for all thinking liberals, like yourself, costs just $12 per year (only 3.3 cents a day) at EthicalGovtNow.org. We are, continually clustering thinking Americans in a single online home in order to aggregate a membership large enough to bend the arc of future history toward greater justice and better societal and political outcomes, pluralism and inclusivity. May I ask whether you will support positive activism and join our online "ark"?