I was born and grew up in the shadow of WWII. There were still movies being made about it (and not ironically), and lots of TV shows about it (not all of them comedies), so playing “war” was not the unimaginably anachronistic act it might seem to younger generations.Nutty.
— EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check (@emptywheel) June 5, 2026
Whiskey @PeteHegseth claims he has been fighting to win.
So...
Why hasn't he? https://t.co/AQIWRAHcqj
I’m not praising it or remembering it fondly. I was a little kid, we did dumb things to entertain ourselves and burn off our energy. We had to play outside (it was a different world), so we ran around a lot. So it’s not nostalgia, it’s pattern recognition.
These boobs have less idea what they are doing than we did then, exercising our imaginations and running around aimlessly, as small children will do. And we only had sticks and wooden or plastic “guns.” We just imagined doing something. So do these idiots, but their weapons are real. And still they use them less effectively.
It should be driving us all to the point of absolute disgust.
I went through a "war" phase earlier in life- too early to understand how essentially juvenile (which is not to downplay the dangers) fascism is- the Trump era has made that more clear to me. Hegseth apparently went over to Normandy and gave a D-Day speechmore or less saying the wrong side won WW2. He comes across like a mean-spirited Nazi from "Hogan's Heroes"- someone who would never have played a meaningful part in George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower's plans. I think on some level he *knows* that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I read a few Twitter comments that didn’t include specifics. That was enough. Life’s too short to waste it being annoyed by assholes. I don’t need the details. I know what he is.
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