Trump And Hegseth Scream 'DEI!' To Hide What Total Losers They Really Are

Also, people who scream 'DEI!' are just screaming the 'N'-word and anti-LGBT slurs.

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Let’s make a couple things clear:

First, only people who are inferior garbage blame things on “DEI.” Only people who do not measure up in any way blame things on “DEI.” Only people who aren’t good enough at their jobs or at life to garner respect without coercion blame things on “DEI.” Only people who are extremely insecure about their place in the world, who fear — probably rightly — that they can’t hack it on a level playing field blame things on “DEI.”

Only extremely weak and small people yell “DEI.”

Only cowards and losers and pigs yell “DEI.”

It’s not something that’s spoken from a place of strength, even if the people saying it technically possess the trappings of power and money. That just means they’re too small to inhabit the spaces they’ve managed to beg, borrow and/or steal their way into, like toddlers trying on Daddy’s big business guy suit.

Maybe it was cute when they were three. Maybe nobody ever told them their whining wasn’t cute.

Second, please remember that people who scream “DEI!” are just yelling the “N”-word, just like they are when they scream “CRT!” It’s no different from when they say the Civil War was about “state’s rights” or “heritage,” and it’s no different from when Dead Rush Limbaugh’s followers bitched and moaned about welfare queens. It’s just the latest incarnation of Lee Atwater’s Southern Strategy. Shall we copy/paste that quote in case anybody out there hasn’t heard that 1981 interview with one of the vilest anal fistulas ever to work in Republican politics?

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

There is nothing new under the sun.

However, “DEI” is a handy euphemism for today’s confederates, Nazis and white supremacists — AKA Donald Trump and MAGA — as it also serves as code for the “C”-word and any anti-LGBT slur you can think of. It’s an all-purpose stand-in they use to refer to literally anyone who isn’t a white conservative Christian nationalist Nazi piece of shit.

It’s their version of “Smurf,” I guess.

So when you take that all together, you see that yelling “DEI!” is, at its very core, a way for white conservative MAGA men to shirk responsibility, to paper over their grave insecurities, and to distract the rest of us from just how fucking worthless and extraneous every single one of them is.

And of course, they’re following the most worthless human zero of them all: Donald Trump.

Look at men like Trump and Secretary Shitfaced (Allegedly!) AKA Pete Hegseth, whose bad skin now runs the Department of Defense, one of the most laughable white Republican fascist affirmative action hires in human history.

And look at how they’re reacting to the heartbreaking and horrific collision between an American Airlines jet and a Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac that killed 67 people just seconds away from Reagan National Airport.

Look At These Motherfuckers

Yesterday at the White House Pete Hegseth, looking a bit thrown together and sleepy, came out and used the occasion of the plane crash to whine that the “era of DEI is gone at the Defense Department” and “we will have the best and brightest in every position,” as if that was to blame for the crash, as if it’s supposed to comfort us that actual mediocrity hires like Hegseth are in charge now.

As Rachel Maddow pointed out on her show last night, Hegseth also skullfucked extremely basic military protocol in that press conference by babbling identifying information about who was on the helicopter, long before the customary amount of time had passed for revealing information about fallen servicemembers. Maybe he didn’t know, though. He’s never really held an important position in the military.

Last night, sometime near the time when the plane crash happened, Hegseth was on Fox News, trying to sound like a tough guy as he rambled that “diversity is not our strength.”

I don’t know if Hegseth had time to tie one on between the two public appearances, but he wasn’t visible during late-night press conferences the night of the crash. Considering his record, it would be irresponsible not to wonder.

Meanwhile, at the White House, Donald Trump was in rare form, by which we mean he was the same brain-addled dumbfucking Nazi bigot he is every time he opens his shithole of a mouth. He didn’t suggest pouring bleach in the Potomac to bring the victims back to life, but give him time. He did however, babble for 20 minutes about how diversity was probably to blame. Why? “Because I have common sense,” he said. I guess “common sense” is how past-their-sell-by-date white supremacist Nazis refer to their racism.

He babbled about how it was former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s fault — you know, a gay guy — and Buttigieg smacked the shit out of him on Twitter in response:

Elsewhere Trump scoffed at the idea of visiting the site, because he’s scared of getting his hair wet in the river. “What’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?”

You’ll remember that’s also why he didn’t want to go to that American veterans cemetery in France the first time he was president, because he was scared of getting his hair wet. (Plus the thing about how he thinks American troops who die in combat are suckers and losers.)

By the way ,if you’re not familiar with DC, please check on Google Maps how close the crash site is to the White House. He could hop over there in the same amount of time he usually takes to consume his daily lunch of trans fats and wall ketchup.

In response to Trump’s tirade (which the media is already hard at work sanewashing) Captain Arthur “Sully” Sullenberger — an actual hero the likes of which Secretary Shitfaced and Trump could never be — told Lawrence O’Donnell last night that he was “Not surprised. Disgusted.”

By The Way, Whose Fault Is This?

Well, let’s see.

As Maddow also detailed last night, the FAA administrator had to resign on inauguration day because he keeps making Elon Musk mad, most recently by suggesting Elon’s shitty fucking SpaceX rockets shouldn’t be allowed to rain their crash debris all over everyone — including many commercial flights that SURFUCKINGPRISE don’t like getting hit by shit in the air. That FAA administration grounded Elon’s penis-substitute rockets just two weeks ago after a crash.

So yesterday when a reporter asked new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy — also a Fox News White Mediocrity Hire — if there was an acting FAA director, the answer is no, there wasn’t. Trump finally lifted a tiny finger to make that happen yesterday. (Duffy’s other major contribution to this discourse has been to let us know that planes aren’t actually supposed to crash into each other in the sky.)

There’s also been the Trump hiring freeze, which reportedly affected air traffic controllers, and Trump firing the head of the TSA and Trump disbanding the Aviation Security Advisory Committee and Trump offering a (most likely illegal) buyout to all federal employees to retire (anybody who takes this will get paid as soon as Trump pays his contractors and lawyers) and so much more!

Did any of that cause the crash? We don’t know, but we reckon it’s more likely than the culprit being all the minorities whose very existence so upsets these limp-dicked losers.

Also, Donald Trump loves to brand things so much? Let’s brand the son of a bitch:

Welcome to the Trump Plane Crash, the Trump Air Disaster on the Potomac.

They Do This To Distract Us From What Losers They Really Are

Another thing Rachel Maddow ably demonstrated on her show last night is that Pete Hegseth is particularly a zero of a man when you compare him to his direct predecessor Lloyd Austin. That guy actually matters, and has done something in his life besides whine. As Maddow joked, Austin ran CENTCOM before he ran the Pentagon. Hegseth ran one-third of the weekend couch on “Fox & Friends.” (Sometimes drunk, according to lots of sources.)

Now, in that context, consider what I am quite sure Pete Hegseth really thinks about his predecessor, who is Black. How Pete Hegseth very likely cannot handle the truth that he is beneath Lloyd Austin in every way.

The fact that Hegseth has the platform he has to say what he said is deeply humiliating for the United States of America. He should be personally humiliated, if he’s even coherent enough to experience such a feeling.

(There’s another reason Hegseth screams “woke!” and “DEI!” — a military-specific reason that relates to his emotional and mental inability to confront the real reasons the United States hasn’t won a war since the last time we had to defeat the Nazis. His obsession with “woke” is the deflection of a man too cowardly to be entrusted with stewardship of the military. That link is a good start, we’ll talk about it more in the future.)

As for Trump?

Well, as Jimmy Kimmel explained last night, Trump said what he said because “he’s callous, he’s racist, he’s sexist, and most of all he’s stupid. He’s a deeply stupid man.” So there’s that. Trump said what he said not because he had information to back it up, but because he’s a worthless bigot, America’s Least Valuable Player (LVP), a Stupid Hitler figure who can’t interpret anything outside the lens of his racism, hate and stupidity.

He’s not an impressive man, or an impressive president. His margin of victory was so weak, his mandate is nonexistent, and Americans already hate him by historic percentages compared to all other newly inaugurated presidents. He’s not an attractive man. He’s not a guy who could ever reasonably look in the mirror and think from an objective point of view that he’s superior to anyone.

But then again, most racists aren’t particularly impressive. Bigotry doesn’t come out of confidence, it comes out of deep, deep fears and feelings — often fully founded feelings! — of inferiority.

There is a lot of literature that confirms that white conservatives’ — especially the men’s — obsessions with “DEI” and all the other euphemisms they put on it stems from serious feelings of inadequacy. (Again, those feelings are probably correct!)

Jamelle Bouie posted this article from the Wall Street Journal, which brings to mind the question, “What are these fucking white conservative male losers going to do when Trump takes away all the DEI and they still aren’t anybody’s first, second or ninth choice?”

During the height of the Los Angeles wildfire crisis a couple weeks ago — which obviously featured losers like this screaming “DEI!” a whole fuckin’ bunch — Adam Carolla, nobody’s idea of a winner, hilariously claimed that he was rejected from being an LA fireman because he was white. He swore they told him at the fire station, “‘No, because you’re not black, Hispanic or a woman and we’ll see you in about 7 years.’"

Did we mention he had graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA?

Scumbags Blaming Los Angeles Fires On DEI Just Reminding Us Who They Really Are

They do this because they’re racists and because they’re extremely fucking stupid. But they also do it because of deep fears that their really, truly are less than, and because their fragile emotions can’t bear to confront that.

Again, these are not impressive people. I make the joke all the time, but these are people who have been told their whole lives that "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” and they took that too literally.

So they lash out every time anything happens. They fantasize about what would have happened if they had been in charge, and they fantasize that they would have been in charge, if it only hadn’t been for DEI or whatever their current euphemism is for making themselves feel superior, the Orajel they use to calm the screaming exposed nerve that threatens to force them to face the fact that actually, they’re fucking losers.

And now that they’re in charge, we will all watch them bumblefuck themselves — and the entire country — into their, and the country’s, most pathetic failures to date.

And even then, they won’t admit that it was their fault, that it happened because they’re not good enough or smart enough and actually people just generally can’t stand them and don’t want to be around them. They’ll blame themselves.

But it won’t change the fact that they are the failures. It’s literally the only thing they’re capable of being number one at.

Truth hurts, don’t it?

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