To understand Pete Hegseth, go beyond superficial judgments about his carefully curated image. Beneath the tattooed and testosterone-obsessed public persona there lurks altruism. He aspires to be America’s tutor. Understand this: The secretary of war wants to improve us.
Hegseth says, earnestly if ungrammatically, that Hasan’s killing should be public “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” Who are the people whose understanding Hegseth deems unsatisfactory? Surely not terrorists of Hasan’s ilk, for whom “these types of things” (mass murder) are a religious vocation — a calling. Perhaps Hegseth thinks the other 340 million Americans need to be instructed not to commit massacres.
If Hasan’s live-streamed execution is supposed to be statecraft as soulcraft, perhaps the government should sell the television rights to this spectacle. It could be a Netflix special. Or a pay-per-view moneymaker for the government. Public instruction by death in prime time could also be a deficit-reduction measure, financed voluntarily by Americans snacking on bowls of popcorn while viewing.
So when the Democrats are in power and they engage in social engineering because they know "what's best for us" then that's okay?
ReplyDeleteHegseth wants people to see a terrible murderer killed. Okay, I won't be tuning in.
Deomcrats want to tell me that people with penises can be women and that men can get pregnant. They want that taught in schools and they want laws o punish people who protest. I think that's way worse.
"Democrats want to tell me that people with penises can be women and that men can get pregnant." OK Garnel, you found somebody on Reddit that said that, but that doesn't make it 'Democrats'. When you exaggerate to the point of lying, you're only lying to yourself - who everyone else then views as a liar.
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