I lived this pain while my son served in Afghanistan. He, thankfully, came home. I still grieve with mothers everywhere when their children arrive in coffins.
Pete Hegseth is the poster monster for race, gender and ideology based hires - what happens when merit no longer matters and diversity and inclusion are scorned.
He belongs back at Fox, an ugly, soulless, dumb war cheerleader who can barely read what’s in the script.
Even brilliant humorists who parody the self-unaware banality of Hegseth’s evil can’t capture this embodiment of where white “Christian” nationalism will continue to bring us if MAGA is not defeated.
fuck you Pete Hegseth, you vainglorious, oleaginous, war-drunk propagandist, and the horse you rode in on.
I have no problem cursing so yeah. This essay today is my heart: the knock on the door. The son, father, mother, husband, brother, sister, uncle, favorite aunt, the one not coming home. For what? Let us count the whats:
Mo money for oil conglomerates
Munitions manufacturer's stocks up
Peter Hegseth got on TV (Hi! Mom!)
That's it. That's what this war is for. Something about Israel and revenge, I suppose could be put on the list but I don't care about Israel. Not any more.
But those that do come home from battle, what of them? The ones who spend years in their room. The lost limbs. The f'd up lives. Those who never leave a hospital, who never walk again, who pee into a bag attached to their body, whose minds cannot get right, who lost their lust for life, their love for anyone, their will to go on. The suicides.
War is personal even when it is thousands of miles away because we are women and we would never send our kids to war, not a war that meant nothing: no honor, no glory, no freedom, no end.
Hagueseth is not saying 'hi' to his mom 😀In a 2018 email, Penelope Hegseth accused her son, Pete Hegseth, of mistreating women and having poor character
Yeah, I didn't do much research before I made my list of whats. I now recall the letter in which his mother lambasted him for his misogynistic and all-round gross behavior. She did a take-it-back at some point when he got cozy with Twump.
Mary, you are absolutely correct. As the mother of a retired Marine, I know exactly what you are talking about. My son made it home safely, but he will never be the same.
I pray for all the soldiers involved in this travesty. 🙏🏼
Poignant, heartfelt, and spot on, Mary. Like his master, Hegseth is an abomination cosplaying as a tough guy. He is one of the leading examples of this kakistocratic administration, and also like his master he well deserves to be impeached & removed.
Your words stand as descriptions of the way the majority of Americans feel about this Secretary of WAR and the chosen WAR the trump administration have brought us into with their lies and reckless behaviors. They are traitors, all of them, and should face punishment by us and the world.
Hegseth and his fellow travellers are, shamefully, also using Iranian dead to sanctify their choice. With the same family and generational trauma, multiplied many times over. The sins and guilt and shame of the Iranian regime aside.
I wish we could send your thoughts, feelings, comments in this newsletter directly to Pete Hegseth & force him to read it.
I am reminded of Clockwork Orange when the bad guy was forced to watch violent, sick images without being able to close his eyes. Would something like that cure all the rotten people that surround Dumptruck (you-know-who)?
Over and over again I find myself wanting 'an eye for an eye'. I'm now past just wanting them 'out' ... I want those sociopaths to experience what they're inflicting on others. And I'm normally an extremely peaceful person. But I'm so angry at this administration and those backing them for giving us a new horror to digest every single day ... literally every day!! I want them in prison, I want them dropped onto a ship stranded in the Strait of Hormuz that has run out of food and water, I want their homes to be levelled by bombs, I want their money to evaporate ... you get my drift. I feel anger, fear and horror that the human race can contain such evil people. My trust and hope have been eroded. Damn them! Thanks to all of you though ... it helps to have Mary's reporting and I so appreciate her style. Today is the first day of spring after a hard winter. Spring is the season of rebirth and open windows and deep breaths. Happy Spring!!! Hugs to Marz!!!
The cosplay puffed up buffoonery is going to get everyone killed. I'm so disgusted and disheartened by the casual "sacrifice" that this administration and its goons are willing to make. This on top of Trump using the caskets of the soldiers who died as a fund raiser. NOTHING is so disgusting.
I lived this pain while my son served in Afghanistan. He, thankfully, came home. I still grieve with mothers everywhere when their children arrive in coffins.
Pete Hegseth is the poster monster for race, gender and ideology based hires - what happens when merit no longer matters and diversity and inclusion are scorned.
He belongs back at Fox, an ugly, soulless, dumb war cheerleader who can barely read what’s in the script.
Even brilliant humorists who parody the self-unaware banality of Hegseth’s evil can’t capture this embodiment of where white “Christian” nationalism will continue to bring us if MAGA is not defeated.
THIS:
fuck you Pete Hegseth, you vainglorious, oleaginous, war-drunk propagandist, and the horse you rode in on.
I have no problem cursing so yeah. This essay today is my heart: the knock on the door. The son, father, mother, husband, brother, sister, uncle, favorite aunt, the one not coming home. For what? Let us count the whats:
Mo money for oil conglomerates
Munitions manufacturer's stocks up
Peter Hegseth got on TV (Hi! Mom!)
That's it. That's what this war is for. Something about Israel and revenge, I suppose could be put on the list but I don't care about Israel. Not any more.
But those that do come home from battle, what of them? The ones who spend years in their room. The lost limbs. The f'd up lives. Those who never leave a hospital, who never walk again, who pee into a bag attached to their body, whose minds cannot get right, who lost their lust for life, their love for anyone, their will to go on. The suicides.
War is personal even when it is thousands of miles away because we are women and we would never send our kids to war, not a war that meant nothing: no honor, no glory, no freedom, no end.
Hagueseth is not saying 'hi' to his mom 😀In a 2018 email, Penelope Hegseth accused her son, Pete Hegseth, of mistreating women and having poor character
Yeah, I didn't do much research before I made my list of whats. I now recall the letter in which his mother lambasted him for his misogynistic and all-round gross behavior. She did a take-it-back at some point when he got cozy with Twump.
Yours is one of the most powerful antiwar statements I’ve read since Vietnam. THIS!!
Smug and sanctimonious does not speak for me, nor does it serve me
“…or they will have died in vain” shows Hegseth doesn’t understand the sunk cost fallacy, nor its military equivalent
“Don’t reinforce failure”
Best writing on the current situation. More.
Mary, you are absolutely correct. As the mother of a retired Marine, I know exactly what you are talking about. My son made it home safely, but he will never be the same.
I pray for all the soldiers involved in this travesty. 🙏🏼
This is heartbreaking❤️💔❤️
To Pete Kegsbreath: you, sir, are no Lloyd Austin. Fuck you and your simpy little self.
Poignant, heartfelt, and spot on, Mary. Like his master, Hegseth is an abomination cosplaying as a tough guy. He is one of the leading examples of this kakistocratic administration, and also like his master he well deserves to be impeached & removed.
Your words stand as descriptions of the way the majority of Americans feel about this Secretary of WAR and the chosen WAR the trump administration have brought us into with their lies and reckless behaviors. They are traitors, all of them, and should face punishment by us and the world.
Hegseth and his fellow travellers are, shamefully, also using Iranian dead to sanctify their choice. With the same family and generational trauma, multiplied many times over. The sins and guilt and shame of the Iranian regime aside.
I wish we could send your thoughts, feelings, comments in this newsletter directly to Pete Hegseth & force him to read it.
I am reminded of Clockwork Orange when the bad guy was forced to watch violent, sick images without being able to close his eyes. Would something like that cure all the rotten people that surround Dumptruck (you-know-who)?
Over and over again I find myself wanting 'an eye for an eye'. I'm now past just wanting them 'out' ... I want those sociopaths to experience what they're inflicting on others. And I'm normally an extremely peaceful person. But I'm so angry at this administration and those backing them for giving us a new horror to digest every single day ... literally every day!! I want them in prison, I want them dropped onto a ship stranded in the Strait of Hormuz that has run out of food and water, I want their homes to be levelled by bombs, I want their money to evaporate ... you get my drift. I feel anger, fear and horror that the human race can contain such evil people. My trust and hope have been eroded. Damn them! Thanks to all of you though ... it helps to have Mary's reporting and I so appreciate her style. Today is the first day of spring after a hard winter. Spring is the season of rebirth and open windows and deep breaths. Happy Spring!!! Hugs to Marz!!!
The cosplay puffed up buffoonery is going to get everyone killed. I'm so disgusted and disheartened by the casual "sacrifice" that this administration and its goons are willing to make. This on top of Trump using the caskets of the soldiers who died as a fund raiser. NOTHING is so disgusting.