Trump has appointed something like 23 Fox News personalities to his government. I did not know that there were 23 Fox News personalities in total.
However, when you think it about, this all makes sense. The egregious incompetence of a Pete Hegseth makes perfect sense, if your main job qualification is to go in the TeeVee and rant about the libtards so that the senile old fool watching from the Oval Office can get the slightest tingle in his withered loins.
The whole cruelty is the point schtick is about what plays on Fox. Fox is about punching down, about "no war but the culture war." The performative nature of so many of these illegal acts is partly about Project 2025's "move fast, break things" tactics, but it's also about playing well on Fox. Picking fights with Canada and Denmark/Greenland is about the bullying climate of NewsCorp.
If you can shitpost or play "right wing grievance MadLibs" then you, too, could be the Undersecretary of State for South Asia or something similar.
Why are they stupid? Why are they cruel? Because it's all about how it plays on a network dedicated to stupid cruelty.
(Somewhat off topic, this Atlantic piece on the Murdochs is just...woof. What a moral sewer. Still, hopefully Rupert dies soon.)
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