This is so much more than whether the President Elect has his ego invested in ramming Hegseth through. After what #FelonDon did about reports to the FBI about Kavanagh before he got confirmed to #SCOTUS, some of the public is rightly outraged that the Adjudicated rapist and unabashed sex predator keeps trying to name other rapists to high office. The military already has huge problems with military sexual trauma. the public needs to see Hegseth's background report NOW. Even Wikipedia helps. Hegseth went to Princeton on an ROTC scholarship and graduated in 2003. While there he was the publisher of a long surviving conservative publication called the Princeton Tory. I have not waded through the archives from Hegseth's time there but the paper has a long anti #DEI record.
As an aside, job interview question 101 "please describe your leadership experience and the size of the organization you led." The Princeton Tory has NOWHERE NEAR the personnel of the Deprment of Defense.
I find endless ranting from some quarters against #DEI in the military really offensive. Hello! Which demographics are overrepresented in the US military. Why SHOULDN'T command staff look like the troops they are leading. It makes me mad to think of an African American student also on an ROTC scholarship when I was at Princeton a few years earlier than Hegseth would have to live with all the nonsense that Hegseth represents.
Further rant: the DoD serves all of the US, not just drunk white Christians screaming "Kill all Muslims."
Hegseth is also a perfect example of why the US should not send troops into forever wars without planning for the costs of the veteran services they will need when they come home. Hegseth has said in interviews he is self-medicating after all his military service and he needs to GET HELP. There should be no stigma in that but he should never be confirmed
in his present state.
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