The Washington Post reported yesterday that back in February, SecDef Pete Hegseth took a hankering to a globe that was allegedly used by Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. Because there’s nothing Whiskey Pete loves more than the trappings of glory.
Well, maybe also borrowed military success. He’d probably
like that, too.
(Kegsbreath apparently has a jones for WWII. It's a subject of jokes and memes within the Pentagon. I honestly don't know which side he roots for.)
Plus—booze. I don’t know whether he’s fulfilled his promise
while undergoing Senate confirmation that, if appointed, he would stop
drinking, but it’s really astonishing that a nominee for Cabinet office had to
make the problem in the first place. And that he would be confirmed afterward.
Anyhow—this being the kleptocratic administration, Hegseth
couldn’t wait for historians and curator-level movers to relocate the antique artifact,
so Pentagon schlubs—I don’t know—picked it up to carry it wherever, and they
dropped it. And it was damaged.
Naturally the Pentagon is keeping shtum about the debacle and Hegseth isn’t responding to requests for comment. But, really, the metaphor for this entire administration and every Republican in office could not be more clear.
So my earworm for today is one of the all-time favorites of
WWII, on both sides of the conflict, “Lili Marlene”. And here’s Marlene
Dietrich singing it. (Dietrich had more courage and steelier cojones than every Republican in office.)
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