Pete Hegseth

My background isn't perfect.

So if I ruffle feathers, they're going to pull some clip on me and call me this or call me that.

So I'm just going to go.

So it becomes a race to the bottom.

You and I have an opportunity to have a platform to speak our mind.

And

People can watch and they can say, oh, Pete, that guy's great, or Pete, that guy, he's the worst.

And they're afforded that possibility.

Most people...

And that's why our job is to speak as loudly, boldly, and unafraid as possible, exactly what you think, without filter.

Because most people can't do that.

If you're a nurse or you're a police officer or you're a line worker or whatever, if you speak up on the wrong side of an issue, people will come after you.

Your employer might come after you, might be deemed as something.

It's even worse, I would say, at some level for Democrats if they wanted to speak honestly.

If you want to really cut against the grain, are you really going to start saying, you know what, we shouldn't, those books that are in the libraries about the trans kids or gay sex, maybe we just leave that out for the third graders.

How about we don't do that?

The machine comes down on you and says, you're not a Democrat, you're a fake.

It's just like the issue of abortion or something.

You're not a real Democrat if you believe that.

You can't believe that.