Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defence who cannot remember his own title, is having One Of Those Weekends. He's had to pose and try to look intelligent while the press pool covers the "situation room"-type clubhouse meeting at Shangri-La In The Swamp, had to talk about bombing and attacking a place half a world away that he couldn't find on a fully-labelled globe, and had difficulty understanding when it was explained to him that "Iranese" is not actually a real language.

And now, this announcement:

> The Pentagon is holding a news conference on the US’ operation
> in Iran at 8 a.m. ET Monday, the Department of Defense posted
> on social media.

Monday morning meetings are the worst, but having to give a presentation while hungover or still hammered really takes it up to hell-on-earth.

#Hegseth #PeteHegseth #Kegbreath #PeteKegbreath #drunk #OnlyTheBest #cabinet #Trump #EmptySuit #Iran #Bomb #WarCrimes #ICC #TheHague #hammered #unqualified #USPol #war

#SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCEducation #SchoolVoucher #Unqualified #Untrustworthy

https://scdailygazette.com/2026/02/19/a-real-trust-problem-senators-question-sc-superintendents-judgment-giving-homeschoolers-vouchers

#SenatorMarkKelly: “Over 25 years in the #USNavy, 39 combat missions, and 4 missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our #Constitution - including the #FirstAmendment rights of every American to speak out.

I never expected that the #President of the #UnitedStates and the #SecretaryOfDefense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my #service and #sacrifice for this country. got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head-all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder.

Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

#PeteHegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or #Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's #outrageous and it is #wrong.

There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most #unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country's history, thinks he can #intimidate me with a censure or #threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn't get it.

I will fight this with everything I've got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don't get to decide what #Americans in this country get to say about their government. #uspol #auspol #TrumpRegime #MilitaryVeterans #MilitaryVeteran

hegseth moves to demote sen. mark kelly and cut pension over video on illegal orders
hegseth moves to demote sen. mark kelly and cut pension over video on illegal orders https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-mark-kelly-demotion-censure-pension-pentagon/

#PeteHegseth #NationalSecurityJoke #DUIHIRE #Incompetence #Unqualified