US ‘secretary of war’ Pete Hegseth has self-owned – and self-humiliated – in an abject, whining rant at the US press corps.

Hegseth’s frustration has clearly been growing at the failure of the US to subdue the Iranian government or prevent its heavy retaliation on US bases and Israeli military and intelligence installations. So he lashed out at the media, claiming that criticising him and his boss is the same as insulting US military service people.

The man often called ‘Kegseth’ for his alleged public inebriation, a torture fan who bears a white supremacist tattoo, did spend time in the US military before becoming a TV presenter and then ‘war’ dude. However, it’s very doubtful that he knows anything about flying a jet for 36 hours, beyond hoping to use it to beat reporters with.

If he wasn’t sending soldiers, sailors and air personnel to mass murder schoolgirls, risk death themselves and put the whole world in danger on behalf of the Epstein cartel, his performance would be funny:

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But his boss is targeting journalists too. Trump has suggested that media reports of US failure and Iranian resistance are treason and should be punishable by death. Meanwhile the CIA is reportedly preparing a criminal case against right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson for daring to speak to Iranians before Trump’s “Operation Epstein Distraction“.

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