Standards have been lowered to the floor. They have a bunch of unqualified misfits and unhinged weirdos they are rushing through an abbreviated academy so they can get them weapons and gear and out onto the streets ASAP. What could go wrong?

Pete Hegseth seems to be so damaged by alcohol consumption that he has the mental state of a 13 year old who thinks it is “fun and exciting to kill bad guys” without considering the real world consequences adults have to deal with. Why was someone like this put in charge of the Pentagon?

Parts of the federal gov't that most people never think about -- research orgs, safety regs, low-income programs, etc. -- are being degraded & destroyed, with no one to notice or mourn them. But every bit of it erodes the foundations of US power & prosperity, carefully laid over decades.