Monday, March 16, 2026

OMG! Screaming Hegseth Let’s Truth Slip After More Troops Die

 

OMG! Screaming Hegseth Let’s Truth Slip After More Troops Die             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM6sgOde-po



Pete Hegseth walked into a Pentagon press conference this week and didn't say one name. Four American crew members confirmed dead in Iraq — and the Secretary of Defense spent his time telling reporters CNN should change their banners. Then he let something slip that tells you everything about who's actually calling the shots on this war and why the coverage keeps getting worse.


Pete Hgse walked into a Pentagon press conference today and did not say one single name. Not one. Four Americans are

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dead. A military aircraft went down in Iraq. And the Secretary of Defense's response, his prepared on camera, at the

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podium response, was to walk up to the most powerful military podium on the planet and tell reporters that CNN is writing the wrong headlines. No grief,

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no acknowledgement, no explanation for why American service members are dying or what we get in return. Just CNN

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should say Iran increasingly desperate instead of M East war intensifies.

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That is your secretary of defense this week. And while Hegsth is doing his unsolicited media consulting routine at

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the Pentagon, Republicans back on Capitol Hill are quietly looking at each other wondering how much worse this gets

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before someone actually says something out loud. Gas prices are up. The regime that was supposedly being dismantled is

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still standing. And at least one member of Congress, it's willing to ask the question that nobody in the administration will answer.

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As you know, Thomas Massie and I led the Iran War Powers Act. We had led the absolute transparency act. We didn't get many Republicans. There were about 15 Republicans who were concerned and their

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biggest concern is that we don't put ground troops there. We don't get involved in a regime change war and now of course gas prices. So the what have

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we achieved? I mean we've taken Commune who's 86 and so far we've replaced him with his son KA Jr. who's even a bigger hardliner. The regime is still in power.

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Gas prices are up. Our service members are dying. I just hope the president stops this war. I don't care about the politics. I just want the war to end.

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What have we achieved? That is Ro Conor's question and there is no rhetorical flourish in it. He genuinely

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wants an answer. We all should. This is a Democrat who actually put legislation on the floor. He teamed up with Thomas

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Massie, a Republican, to push the Iran War Powers Act. They got 15 Republicans to formally co-sign concerns about this

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war. 15 out of a full House Republican caucus that otherwise lines up behind whatever this White House wants, no

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questions asked. And those 15 are not worried about politics. They're worried

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about the actual numbers. Ground troops getting deployed, a regime change war with no defined end point, gas prices climbing, American debts accumulating,

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real things getting visibly worse, not better. Here's what Connor said that is not getting enough attention. KA senior

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is 86 years old. His son by multiple accounts a harder ideologue more extreme

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than his father is positioned to take over. Sit with what that means for a second. We launched a war to degrade and

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destabilize the Iranian regime. And the most visible outcome we're building toward is a younger, more radicalized

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version of the exact same regime run by a man who watched his father get bombed and who has every political reason to be

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angrier and more aggressive because of it. That's not a democratic Iran.

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That's not a reformed government. That's a harder Iran led by someone with a personal grudge and an ideological base

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that just watched their country get attacked. And we paid for that outcome in dollars and in lives. Gas up, troops

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dying, regimes standing, harder leadership waving. That is the balance sheet right now. Trump posts on Truth

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Social about unlimited ammunition and plenty of time. Ro Kana is on television saying we replaced one bad actor with a

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potentially worse one. And what exactly did we achieve?

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Those two things cannot both be accurate. And while Kana was saying this, this happened. Four confirmed dead

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after US military aircraft goes down in Iraq. Host the US Central Command said Friday four crew members were killed

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when a refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq. If you are not subscribed yet right now, hit it. We cover this

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every single day. We're pushing toward 100K. Subscribe bell. Let's go. Some

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crew in the press just can't stop. Allow me to make a few suggestions.

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People look up at the TV and they see banners. They see headlines. I I used to be in that business and I know that everything is written intentionally. For

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example, a banner or a headline, M East war intensifies, splashing on the screen the last couple of days alongside

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visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because that's what they do. What should the banner read

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instead? How about Iran increasingly desperate? Because they are. They know it and so do you, if it can be admitted.

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or more fake news from CNN.

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Reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Straight of Hormuz.

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Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do. Hold the Strait hostage.

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CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unserious report.

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The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

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Another example of a fake headline that I saw yesterday. War widening.

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Here's a real headline for you for an actual patriotic press. How about Iran shrinking, going underground? See, you

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see Iran's leaders are hiding in bunkers and moving into civilian areas. The only thing that is widening is our advantage.

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Okay, stop right there. Four Americans are dead. A refueling aircraft is down in Western Iraq. Gas prices are climbing

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because this war is squeezing the oil markets. Republicans are scared in private and silent in public. And Pete

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Hegath's response, his prepared on camera, in front of reporters response was to pitch alternative headlines for a

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network he hates. Iran increasingly desperate. Iran shrinking, going underground. That's what he came to the

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podium with. Not the names of the four crew members who died. Not a coherent answer to what victory looks like. Not

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even a token acknowledgement that Americans lost their lives this week under his command. He had headlines to workshop. He had banner critiques to

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deliver. The Secretary of Defense apparently moonlighting as a media consultant. And then he says it right at

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the end almost casual. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better. He said that out loud. Pentagon

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podium, cameras rolling, reporters in the room. The Secretary of Defense of the United States told you openly on the

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record exactly who he wants controlling American news coverage and why. And the reason why is sitting right there in the

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subtext. Because once that happens, the war gets better coverage. His problems go away. Nobody writes the headlines he

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doesn't like anymore. That is not a media complaint. That is a plan. That is a man who knows the war isn't going well, knows the coverage reflects that,

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and whose solution is not to improve the war. It's to fix the story. Don't win. control the narrative around losing.

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Now, who is David Ellison? He's the son of Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, one of

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the wealthiest individuals on the planet, who runs Sky Dance Media, which completed its merger with Paramount. And

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Larry Ellison has been publicly reported as one of the most significant private donors to Israeli military causes. That

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is not a rumor. That is documented. That is public record. So Pete Hgsth, the Secretary of Defense, stood at the

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Pentagon and told the American press corps, "I cannot wait for the son of one of the biggest private IDF donors in the

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world to take over CNN." That's what he said, not in code, not between the lines. He said it to the cameras. What

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does that mean? It means Hegath isn't just trying to fight a war in Iran. He's trying to manage the information

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landscape around that war so that the people funding and directing American foreign policy. The people who have deep

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documented financial stakes in Israeli military success also control what Americans see and hear about the

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conflict their money helped start. That is not spin. That is heg's own admission. He laid it out himself. Now,

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CNN, whatever you think about CNN, bias left, tilted this way or that, is currently running footage of what's

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actually happening. They're headlining M East War intensifies.

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They reported the administration may have underestimated Iran's ability to disrupt the Straight of Hormuz. Hegs

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called that patently ridiculous. He said CNN doesn't think we thought about the Strait. Okay, but let's talk about the

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straight of Hormuz for a minute because this is not a manufactured concern.

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Roughly 20% of global oil supply passes through that waterway. Iran has used it

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as a pressure point since at least the tanker war in the 1980s.

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Every defense analyst, every oil market strategist, every geopolitical risk desk on the planet watches that straight. It

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is not an obscure threat. It is the most well-known choke point in global energy.

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And whatever the administration claimed to have planned for, gas prices are rising. Oil markets are reacting.

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American families are paying more at the pump right now in real time because this war is unsettling the energy supply that

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flows through that passage. So either the administration planned for exactly these price increases, accepted them as

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the cost of going to war, and deliberately never told the American public what they were signing up for, or

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they underestimated the impact. One of those two things is true, and neither one of them is the good option. Either

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they lied to you about the cost going in, or they didn't plan well enough. Hef can be furious at CNN all he wants. The price at the pump is not a CNN headline.

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It's a real number that real families are dealing with. Patently ridiculous.

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That's what he called the straight of Hormuz reporting. You know what's patently ridiculous? Going to a Pentagon press conference the week four Americans

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die and using your time to audit cable news graphics. Back to the Ellison comment because I am not letting this

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go. Think about the full scope of what's being described. The Paramount acquisition under Sky Dance is a massive

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umbrella and there is a broader pattern here. Media consolidation accelerating under this administration. Major news

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infrastructure moving into the hands of people who are aligned with the White House's interests and the interests of those funding it. Hegs is not describing

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this as a concern. He's describing it as a solution. Once the right owners are in the right seats, the coverage gets

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right. That's his logic. And understand what the coverage getting right means from Hegset's perspective. It means no

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more me war intensifies. It means no more reporting that the administration underestimated anything. It means no

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more asking where the four dead crew members names are in the press conference. It means Iran going underground. It means banners that match

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the talking points coming out of the Pentagon. That is propaganda. By the Secretary of Defense's own description,

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that is what he wants. State aligned billionaires owning the newsrooms.

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Newsrooms running the frames the administration prefers. Critical coverage disappearing, not because the facts changed, but because the ownership did. And while that process is underway,

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while Hegsth is publicly cheerleading it, let's get back to what Congress is doing, which is mostly nothing. The Iran War Powers Act got 15 Republican votes.

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15. Every other Republican in that caucus has quietly allowed this war to continue without ever formally voting on it, without putting their names on it,

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without taking ownership. That's the design. If it goes well, they take the credit. If it goes badly, and right now

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by every measurable indicator, it is going badly. Nobody voted for it. Nobody owns it. And the bodies come home on Fridays when the news cycle is softest.

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And the Secretary of Defense is busy workshopping headlines. Four confirmed dead aircraft down in Western Iraq. US

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Central Command confirming it on a Friday afternoon. That timing is not an accident. Friday confirmation means it

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gets less weekend coverage. It gets buried in the churn. And then Hegathth is at the podium Monday complaining that

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CNN's banners are wrong. That's how you handle dead Americans when you don't want to account for them. You don't name

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them. You don't acknowledge the families. You blame the coverage. And you advocate for friendlier ownership of

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the network covering it. And here is the most important thing about this whole press conference. The thing that cuts

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through all of it. Hegsth is not acting like someone who thinks they're winning.

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He's acting like someone who knows the numbers don't support the victory narrative and needs the story managed before people start doing the math. You know what someone who's winning does?

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They show you the evidence. They show you the specific measurable progress.

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They talk about what the endgame looks like. and how close they are to it. They answer Roana's question, "What have we achieved?" Heft didn't do any of that.

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He suggested new banners. He said the war is widening in America's favor while a refueling aircraft is literally down

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in Iraq. He said Iran is desperate and going underground while Kam's son is reportedly being groomed to take over

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and run the regime longer and harder than his father did. None of those things go together. You cannot have

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total military dominance and a downed aircraft in the same week. You cannot have Iran going underground and Iran

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producing a harder successor leadership at the same time. You cannot have unlimited time and unlimited ammunition

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and also have Roana's 15 Republicans privately scared and publicly silent about where this ends. Something doesn't

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add up. And Hegac's answer to the math not adding up is change the newspaper.

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That's it. That's the strategy. Control the press. Own the network. Change the banners. And if four Americans die on a

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Friday, hope nobody adds it to the running total before the weekend is over. And let me be specific about something that keeps getting glossed

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over in the broader conversation about this war. the Iran War Powers Act that Ro Kana mentioned, that is a formal

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congressional mechanism to force a vote on whether this war continues. The fact that it got 15 Republican votes tells

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you something. The fact that it got only 15 tells you something else. Most of these members know what this war is.

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They see the same intelligence briefings. They hear the same reports coming back from the region. They know

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the regime is not collapsing. They know the successor leadership is not moderate. They know gas prices are a

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political liability back home. And they are choosing to stay quiet anyway. Not because they believe in this war,

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because they believe in their own careers. That is the actual scandal running underneath all the HEGs press

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conference noise. Not just that the administration is spinning. Every administration spins. Not just that the Pentagon wants friendlier coverage.

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Every Pentagon wants friendlier coverage. The actual scandal is that the legislative branch of the United States government has completely abdicated its

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responsibility to decide whether this country goes to war and keeps going to war. They handed that authority to one

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person. And that one person is posting on Truth Social about unlimited ammunition and how he personally he

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Donald Trump is now killing school girls as the 47th president. That is a truth social post that went out. Those are his

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words. He's bragging about it. And Congress said nothing. Republicans said nothing. 15 of them quietly raised a hand. The rest stayed in their seats.

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So when Hegsets stands up and does what he did today, when he ignores the dead and lectures the press corps about their

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graphic design choices, he can do that because nobody is making him do anything else. There is no check. There is no

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vote coming. There is no formal accountability mechanism being activated. The 15 Republicans who signed Kana's bill are not holding press

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conferences demanding answers. They're hoping it goes away. And the media consolidation project is the insurance

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policy. If it goes away because the war eventually winds down on its own, great.

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But if it doesn't, if this drags into next year and the year after, if the costs keep climbing, if more aircraft go

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down, the answer is to own the newsrooms that would cover it critically. Not to win the war, to win the coverage. That

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is not a conspiracy theory. That is the Secretary of Defense telling you his plan on a Wednesday morning in front of

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cameras. Let's talk about what happens to the media if this consolidation goes through the way heth wants. You take CNN

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and you put it under the control of a family that has financially backed the Israeli military, that is ideologically

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aligned with this administration and that has every business incentive to maintain access to the Pentagon by

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running coverage the Pentagon likes. And then you replicate that structure across however many other properties come along in the broader media consolidation wave.

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And then one day there is no more M East war intensifies banner. There is only Iran increasingly desperate. There is only Iran shrinking, going underground.

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There is only the version of this war that Pete Hgsef pitched to you from a podium while four families are waiting for their sons and daughters to come

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home. That is the future Hegse is publicly rooting for. Not a future where the war ends well. Not a future where

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gas prices come down because the conflict resolves. Not a future where Roana's question gets a real answer. A

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future where nobody asks the question at all because the people who own the microphone don't want it asked. And that should make you angry. Regardless of whether you support this war, oppose it,

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have complicated feelings about Iran, have complicated feelings about Israel,

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have complicated feelings about any of it. Because the question of who owns the infrastructure of information is not a

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partisan question. It is the question underneath every other question. If you can't trust the information you're receiving, you can't make a real

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judgment about anything else. Not about the war, not about the gas prices, not about whether four crew members died in vain or in service of something real.

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Hegsth knows that. And his answer is,

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make sure you can only get the information we want you to have. We're adding it up every day on this channel.

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without a billionaire anywhere in the chain, without a Pentagon press secretary reviewing the script, without anyone connected to a foreign military's

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donor network deciding which questions get asked. That is why this show exists.

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That is what independent media is supposed to do. And if you want to support that, if you think that the question, "What have we achieved?"

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deserves a real answer and not a headline suggestion, subscribe, hit the bell. We are at 100K and every

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subscriber is a statement that you want the actual count, not the version Pete Hegsth is pitching from a podium the

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same week four Americans came home in boxes. There you have it, folks. Four dead Americans. A war that can't account

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for itself. A Secretary of Defense who is visibly angrier at CNN than at the conditions killing the troops under his

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command. Drop a comment below. Do you think this ends before more Americans die? Because the numbers right now are

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not pointing toward yes. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 100K. And if you've been watching

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this war play out and something feels off, if the math between total military dominance and refueling aircraft down in

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Iraq doesn't add up for you, trust that feeling because it doesn't add up. And the people responsible for it don't want you to keep counting.
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