Nika Kovacs

Like we keep asking 19 year olds to go fight in South Asia and North Africa and the Middle East.

So what?

So that these people can get drunk and Jesse Waters can have a laugh about it, you know?

So I don't know.

I don't know.

I feel I don't want to be like a...

It's actually not their fault.

It's their parents, their politicians, all of us.

It's actually not their fault.

Now, this is a total swerve and we can come back.

But like there is a longer conversation we had about the systematic dismantling of public education in this country since Ronald Reagan was president.

The systematic delegitimizing of being smart, you know, like elites or intellectuals or, you know, the starving of funds for, you know, state university systems in some cases, you

If I'm cynical, I would say some of that is by design because like autocratic right-wing parties would like to have dumber populations so that they're easier to control.

And that's not even getting into what social media has done, unregulated social media has done too.

So I truly, truly, truly don't blame young people.

I blame the last...

40 years of post Reagan policies that have starved public education and deregulated the kind of technology platforms that kind of lock people into, you know.

A war like this could not have happened 30 years ago.

A lot of prep work had to be done to make Americans like be able to tolerate this.

Hegseth is better suited to be the idiot interviewing those kids on the beach.