This is notably after news broke that he denied yet again another slate of worthy female candidates the promotions they'd earned, and also in the context of having stopped mandatory flu vaccines a few months back, only to have to backtrack when the obvious result resulted. And let's not even get into the whole, y'know, war performance.

I'm back to Tim Walz's original observation that these guys are all just plain weird.

Hegseth disgusts and horrifies me.  The statement that made me the angriest was when they were going to do another military action ... somewhere, and Hegseth said, "We're going to kill some bad guys!"

It's all a damn game.  He's still playing cowboys and Indians in the backyard. 

There's (of course) a logical hole a mile wide in his thinking that building the armed forces around raging 'roid cases who can beat up other people in hand-to-hand; war is a game of strategy, and physically weaker people who have managed to advance in a system that's been stacked against them are the smart ones with the greatest capacity for long-term strategic thinking. In the Trump administration alone, it's why Vought and Miller are terrifyingly successful while Hegseth is a tattooed train wreck.

The Iran War was their 'gift to the world', but he bitches about no one else joining in

He says the US has been at war with Iran for 47 years and Trump is the only one with the guts and moral clarity to do something about it. His mission is crystal clear... but this is more Europe's fight than theirs.

Operation Epic Fury is laser focused... but the US blockade is 'going global', from the Gulf of Oman 'to the open oceans.'

'We are in control'... But we are deterring them from laying mines in the strait.

And two days ago he claimed the US military should win the peace prize every year.