Pete Hegseth actually tells people, in all seriousness, that he banned his kids from watching Fox News for a year “because they were so ungrateful.” Just picture it: a grown man who believes gratitude is measured by how often his children cheer him on while he watches a propaganda channel. And then he tops it off with his pedagogical masterpiece: “You’re meant to be seen and not heard.”
Pete Hegseth said he banned his kids from Fox News for a year “because they were so ungrateful.” Hegseth: “You’re meant to be seen and not heard.”
That should officially settle why Hegseth’s media literacy is roughly on the level of a broken toaster. Someone who tries to turn his children into silent monks because they refuse to swing incense at his daily Fox ritual does not have a parenting problem but an acute leak in reality. The man sits in his war ministry, shares responsibility for violations of international law, preaches freedom, patriotism and the great American spirit - and at home the regime is “Dad speaks, you stay quiet.”
If it were not already tragic in its irony, one could almost laugh: a man who raises his children like a bad extra in a historical dictator documentary - but as long as they learn early whom they must thank. Him. Always him, and no pills will help with that anymore …
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…ja, das kann man so sagen …
Die schwarze Pädagogik in Reingestalt, präsentiert mit der lächelnden Fratze der Heuchlerei.
…schon der wahnsinn, was sich tagtäglich abspielt
Ja, so waren unsere Väter zu der Zeit auch drauf. Das hatte nichts mit den Nazis zu tun, aber es hat dazu beigetragen, durch Kadavergehorsam den Nazi zu Formen.