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Fox Anchor Pete Hegseth Humiliates Himself at CPAC When He Claims Normal Americans Sit Around Talking About the ’10th Amendment’

They should hold CPAC every other week. Or, instead of a three-day showcase, just hold it weekly on Saturday night, do it live, so that it can compete against Saturday night live. We have already seen the entrance of the golden Trump, we have seen Junior go OFF on The Muppets, we saw Ted Cruz bomb in his comedy routine, we’ve seen Kimberly shake that thing (who hasn’t?) and all kinds of other stuff that we’re sure flew under the radar but was just as precious.

But they saved some of the best for the finale speakers of the night, all in the run-up to Trump tomorrow. Tonight, Pete Hegseth spoke. We don’t know much about Pete, but knowing that he was invited to give the Saturday evening address at CPAC says quite a bit about him. After all, we were available and no one asked us, but they did ask Pete. We suspect we know the difference.

Pete has his finger on the pulse of regular Americans. You remember “regular Americans” right? Regular Americans are white, of course, regular Americans don’t live in any city bigger than Omaha. You might be a white American that lives in Minneapolis, but you are not a regular American. Regular Americans don’t have college degrees. They may have “some” college, but not degrees. Regular Americans eat at diners, none of the fancy McDonald’s lattes for them, and Hegseth knows these people so well he knows what’s on their minds. (Hegseth has two Ivy League degrees, by the way).

Regular Americans care about the Bible, they care about standing for the national anthem, and they care about the 10th Amendment. You heard that right, they don’t care about their wages, they don’t care about healthcare, they don’t care about putting their kids through college, no they care about the Bible (fine, whatever, what does that have to do with conservatism? Maybe they could read it sometime.). They care about standing for the fcking national anthem! (Which is to say that they don’t like black people that aren’t afraid to be black). And they care about the 10th Amendment even if they can’t spell “10.”

We are a bit pissed off because some of us have very elite educations – worked fairly hard for it – and our elite concerns don’t matter because we didn’t attend actual Ivy League schools? One of the things we find ironic is that the people who have gone to elite schools (let’s leave the Ivy league thing out) are often the ones most looking to put money into the pocket of Greg’s viewers. And therein may lay the problem. Hegseth might be wanting to take money out of their pockets. Hard to tell.

This made the net roll:

We think you get the point here.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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