This article goes a long way towards explaining why SecDef Hegseth so appeals to the cartoonish, juvenile MAGA

[artemisia1]

crowd:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran

[artemisia1]

1. This is why Trump likes him:

In 2018 Hegseth’s mother, Penelope, sent him an email that said: “You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”

[Goonch]

2. ;-{)

[superpatriotman]

3. The whole magat bunch

Are insecure, unqualified, unemployable half-men

[appmanga]

4. What you need to know...

Janessa Goldbeck, chief executive of Vet Voice Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy organisation, said: “Pete Hegseth is a very dangerous person. He’s a white Christian nationalist and has the arsenal of the United States government at his disposal and a permission slip from President Trump to deploy carnage wherever he wishes against whomever he wishes.”

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. These cartoons made me smile

[AStern]

7. I'm still trying to figure out how he got into Princeton and Harvard