Michael Cohen - Commander Clueless Strikes Again
It’s becoming a weekly ritual in Washington: wake up, pour the coffee, check the news, and discover that Pete Hegseth has once again done something that isn’t just dumb, but aggressively, flamboyantly illegal. Not questionable, not sloppy; illegal. This isn’t your routine bureaucratic blunder. This is full-contact stupidity with a side of federal criminal exposure. And just when you think Hegseth has reached his personal ceiling of recklessness, he somehow finds a trapdoor, opens it, and swan-dives into a new subterranean chamber of idiocy.
The man’s résumé of disasters is already longer than an aircraft carrier, starting with Signalgate 1: when he treated encrypted military communications like they were Instagram DMs and sent classified operational chatter over unsecured channels because, in his words, it was “faster.” Fast isn’t the word the Pentagon used. They preferred terms like “reckless,” “dangerous,” and my personal favorite, “catastrophically unacceptable.” Then came Signalgate 2, the sequel nobody wanted, where he essentially committed the same offense but with even greater confidence, as though the lesson he took from the first investigation was that he hadn’t gone big enough.
There was also the unforgettable episode where he lectured admirals and generals—people who’ve commanded fleets, earned medals, and lived through things that would send Pete into a fainting spell—on how to run military operations. Imagine a guy who once spilled nacho cheese on his uniform at a tailgate telling Admiral Nimitz how the Pacific campaign “should’ve been done.” The Joint Chiefs have endured a lot in their careers, but being talked down to by a man whose strategic lens comes from cable news hits a special kind of nerve.
But all of that was merely the prelude to Hegseth’s latest and most alarming spectacle: ordering a missile strike so lethal, so sloppy, and so bizarrely vindictive that even members of his own party are choking on the details. A Venezuelan vessel suspected of drug trafficking? Fine; that’s what interdiction forces exist for. But blowing up the ship and then, according to multiple reports, allegedly green-lighting a second strike to eliminate two survivors clinging to debris? That’s not defense policy. That’s a deleted scene from a D-movie where the villain goes too far and the director mutters, “Yeah… we can’t release that.”
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