The title of this post is from an old business partner’s term for the average corporate meeting, which is Pete Hegseth just called for all the top brass, in spades. Hegseth pledged to stop DEI, get women out of the service, purge anyone who’s fat, give people do-overs on terrible behavior, and generally stood there looking like the second-rate person he is. I mean, he’s an alleged wife-beater, a perhaps recovering drunk, and his current wife needs to go to meetings in the Pentagon to make sure that this guy stays on task. It’s the classic “tough guy” marriage where he’s too much of a dingus numbskull to get along in life, so his wife needs to wipe his ass, all the while pretending to let him run the household.

I’m sure this was very popular with the generals:

Apparently the audience was pretty much silent as Hegseth pranced around.

Then Trump got up and told this bunch of highly-educated, career-oriented, rule-following leaders that they’re gonna have to unleash their warfighting on US citizens:

Cheryl Rofer thinks that the audience (general officers) was 20% MAGA. Perhaps. But how many of them were “at least I didn’t vote for a Democrat” Republican? I’m guessing that was 50% or more.

Is the right response to this disgust? Derision? Both? Who knows, but I think this is true: