People are dying in Iran, and Hegseth is talking like a teen on a ‘Call of Duty’ bender
1d 3h ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in politics from www.bostonglobe.com
There appears to be no clear objective, beyond perhaps maximizing death and destruction.
Nobody who is waging this war seems to be able to explain why they’re doing it. There appears to be no clear objective, beyond perhaps maximizing death and destruction, and no plan for whatever comes after, if there is an after. No preparation for evacuating stranded Americans or for supplying munitions for a protracted conflict.
Most of Trump’s lackeys refuse to call it a war at all, despite the fact that the commander in chief keeps saying it is exactly that. Because admitting it is a war would mean this whole thing is unconstitutional. It would mean Trump was lying when he promised on the campaign trail to be the candidate of peace. Iran started it, they have tried to argue, we are just defending ourselves.
It’s hard to seem reasonable and measured when the secretary of defense — er, war — talks like a 13-year-old on hour five of a “Call of Duty” bender. Pete Hegseth has boasted of “Death and destruction from the sky all day. We’re playing for keeps. … Our rules of engagement are … designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down."
IMO, one of the most notable things about Trump and his minions and cronies is that they're all emotionally immature.
Trump himself is for all intents and purposes a toddler.
The vast majority of his minions and cronies, including but by no means limited to Hegseth, Vance, Musk, Noem, Bondi, Kennedy and Miller, are all adolescents.
I presume the problem is that adults tell him no, and toddler that he is, he can't stand that, so he surrounds himself with what are effectively children.
Full Metal Diaper
This guy reminds me of every negative stereotype about jocks/frat bros.
PEDOnald always talks about "central casting"; Petey looks and acts exactly like some douchebro character designed to be loathed in some 80s movie.
That's because Hegseth is a teenager, mentally. Literally everything about the guy screams "I peaked in high school and made that my entire persona".
Dude didn't even peak, he sputtered out.
i was going to ask what the word for people who peaked in the womb was but you got it in one