Nika Kovacs

It's whiter.

It's more ideologically in line with Trump's agenda.

Not being transparent.

I hate to say this.

I wish I could just pick on Hegseth, but usually there'd be these kind of professional briefings by uniformed military about everything that are factual.

And we'd see much less of that too.

And something like 40% of the military is not white.

And so this isn't like some crazy, you know, DEI initiative.

It's just the point that like it's something deeply fucked up about saying we're only gonna have a bunch of white men run an institution that looks like America and that should look like America.

I mean, it's just pure racism and misogyny.

Like, there's no other explanation for why Pete Exeth is reaching down and denying people a promotion to a one-star general.

Well, I mean, how would you feel if you were black?

Like, how would you feel if you're a woman?

How would you feel if you're Jewish?

Like, the message being sent to what is really the majority, if you add up the people in the military that are not white Christian men, it's probably a majority of the military.

How do they feel?

So this will harm the cohesion of the military.

It will harm the way recruitment works.

Because do you want to sign up for that kind of military?

So this could have long-lasting impacts.