Pete Hegseth wants us to call him the Secretary of War.

One problem with that idea is that it’s not up to him. The name of the Department he is screwing up to a fare-thee-well every single damn day is established by statute and only Congress can change it.

Another problem, however, is that if he really wanted an accurate title it would probably be Secretary of White Supremacist Christian Nationalist Compensation for Having a Tiny D--k. Which is too long for a standard business card.

Besides, there is another title he has earned and deserves: that of Former Secretary of Defense.

Now, yet again, our Secretary of Brain Dead Racist, Sexist Bro-osity has demonstrated his extraordinary unfitness for the job to which he was appointed and, perhaps even more astonishingly, confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

It is an ugly, ugly story that is typical for the Fox News Ken doll that addled-serial-draft-dodger Donald Trump thinks looks like a warrior leader but who actually more resembles one of the male escorts favored by the elderly rich women guests found poolside at Mar-a-Lago.

In the middle of a war, he fired the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Randy George.

Let me repeat that. In the middle of a war, he fired the Chief of Staff of the Army. And he did it to quell an incipient mutiny among an ever growing group of top brass who are fed up with Hegseth.

He fired him because Gen. George reportedly resisted going along with Hegseth’s striking of the names of two Black and two women officers from a general officer promotion list. Those who Hegseth blocked were just the latest among a growing number of lack and female senior officers whose careers were cut short because of the Secretary’s virulent racism and repugnant sexism.

The impact of the Secretary’s actions has been, according to one former general with whom I spoke, “to rob the military of experienced leaders at a time of war while also demoralizing it and producing division and dissent at the worst possible moment. It is both a gigantic failure of leadership and of judgment.”

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