Ass Clown Special Award

Today, September 30th, 2025, the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States delivered back-to-back speeches to a hastily-convened meeting of the nation's generals, admirals, and senior enlisted personnel. These speeches were so awful ... so insulting to active duty military personnel and veterans and so frightening to our fellow Americans and to the rest of the world ... that I am compelled to present this out-of-cycle

Ass Clown Special Award

to

Der Furor*

and

Secretary of Defense

Pete Hegseth**

The stage was set by Mr Hegseth - styling himself the Secretary of War, rather than Defense, when he said,

"From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting, preparing for war and preparing to win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit not because we want war, no one here wants war, but it's because we love peace. We love peace for our fellow citizens. They deserve peace, and they rightfully expect us to deliver."

His pious invocation of "peace for our fellow citizens" was undercut by the rambling, brutal, and despicable speech later delivered by Der Furor, who said that, 

"I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous [American] cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but military — because we’re going into Chicago very soon."

The President of the United States has just told his Secretary of Defense that the armed forces of the United States should be trained for war by being unleashed on American cities to combat "the enemy within."

Think about that.

A President of the United States who has never served a day in the military is recommending to his Secretary of Defense - who served in the military but never achieved the level of leadership, command, and management of those he now professes to direct - the use of the military against American citizens in American cities.

I read an interesting piece on the Internet a few minutes ago that is worth paraphrasing here. If we assume that the average time in service of a general or flag officer or their senior enlisted advisors is about 25 years, and that roughly 800 such individuals were in attendance at Mr Hegseth's and Der Furor's Brass-o-Rama, it follows that the audience represented twenty thousand years of military experience at every level of command. These professional military officers and their senior enlisted advisors spent a morning being harangued by a President with zero years of military experience and a Defense Secretary with about 15 ... none of them in positions of senior leadership and command.

It's hardly a wonder that such an audience sat stonily while men unfit to carry their luggage lectured them on perceived deficiencies in their leadership skills and military professionalism, and threatened to unleash them on their fellow citizens. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, this Ass Clown Special Award is presented to Der Furor and to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ... two men whose towering egotism, arrogance, and incompetence should frighten every American citizen.

Have a good day, and think very clearly about how you vote in the coming elections. Your sitting president wants to unleash the world's deadliest military force against you if you don't bend the knee.

More thoughts coming.

Bilbo

* Der Furor has now received 19 Ass Clown Awards: 11 individual, 7 shared, and Ass Clown of the Year for 2015.

** This is Mr Hegseth's second award, having previously been the Right-Cheek Ass Clown in April of 2025.