Ben Rhodes

Right.

The dismantling of DEI means also taking out like rewriting history.

All of that is connected.

Yeah.

I couldn't agree with you more.

And it's just it's so deeply upsetting and frustrating because it's also it's what happens in other countries.

When they try to just erase dirty history so that you have an uneducated population and then you just.

All right.

Well, let's let's segue into, you know, the products of 40 years of post Reagan policy and our secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, when it comes to poor education.

By the way, actually, I was thinking about that while I wrote this because I was like, oh, am I going to have to say secretary of war?

The writing was on the wall when they changed it from Department of Defense to, you know, Department of War last September.

We all should have known some shit was coming down.

On that note, I'm actually not bringing up Hegseth to talk about Iran, but just because you said that there was a CNN report today that was talking about how Pete Hegseth is apparently like was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the war in Iran with the Trump cabinet.

And according to one source familiar with Hegseth's current mindset, told CNN, he's very trigger happy.

He believes blowing shit up is the best way for him to for him to keep his job.

All right.

But so I want to talk to him about a different talk about him for a different reason, though.

We've spoken before on the show about how he's undergone this firing spree at the Pentagon.

Right.

He fired the Joint Chiefs Chairman C.Q.