"The president who received five draft deferments—four for college, one for bad feet—continued to a room full of career officers....
For the next 70 minutes, he spoke slowly, slurring words, delivering to the hundreds of professionals who had rushed from around the world to attend this meeting a rambling, incoherent stream of words that jumped from what appeared to be prepared remarks to his own improvisation."
"America’s toxic masculinity crisis was on full display today when Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense or, as he likes to say, Secretary of War, stood up in front of a room full of generals, admirals, and other senior military brass and lectured them about what it meant to be a real man."
"There was no hooting, no hollering, no one applauded. They just sat like this. Like, it was emasculating in a way that this man who desperately tries to cosplay as an alpha was seen as a beta cuck by U.S. military leaders. Like, that was, I thought literally, and them televising this, I think it was even worse."