D’j’ever notice how people who really want to be seen as something they aren’t overplay the role?
Look at Pete Hegseth. In every picture, on every tape, there he is, looking like he could just scowl your whiskers right off your face. Because that is what manly men do. They scowl. And then, what’s next is Hegseth’s directive to the armed forces that facial hair will not be tolerated or allowed because manly men do not wear facial hair.
Evidently, the scowl was not enough (memo to self: gotta work on it). A directive was necessary. Gotta get the facial hair off the troops because as everyone knows, facial hair lessens the “warrior ethic” and that is what Pete, the Secretary of Defense (Secretary of War? Secretary of The Scowl?), is all about, extolling the “warrior ethic,” and looking like the total tough guy, because being in charge of the world’s largest military isn’t enough; you gotta look the part; you gotta project. And that is why Steven Miller or Robert Kennedy Jr. are not Secretary of Defense.
It has been reported by those close to Pete, and willing to gossip, that he practices every morning for 10 minutes in front of a mirror in his office: “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the toughest of them all?”
And what he sees is a clean-shaven scowler pointing back at him. Boo yea! We now are secure knowing we are being watched over by caricatures. Stand down.
Josh Joswick
Bayfield
