National security served up by a dry drunk -- Sabrina Haake

[erronis]

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/national-security-served-up-by-a

I grew up with a raving alcoholic. To call his behavior erratic is to engage in understatement for dramatic effect.

My dad was in the Navy, assigned to one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet in Oahu Hawaii, which meant long periods of welcomed absence. But whenever the submarine was docked, he was home, where he vacillated between two states of drunk: wet drunk and dry.

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Pete Hegseth’s seething anger feels familiar

“Angry lack of personal growth” should be tattooed on dry drunk Pete Hegseth’s forehead. Following the Signal fiasco, when Hegseth got off the plane at the Pearl Harbor-Hickam base in Honolulu, (coincidentally where my dad was stationed), a reporter asked him about the Signal breach, specifically, how an editor from The Atlantic was on an unsecure chat about attacking Houthis in Yemen.

Hegseth spewed outsize rage in response, as if concern for servicemembers whose lives he’d just put at risk infringed his right to breathe.

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Here’s hoping, for US service members, democracy itself, and all the singing bluebirds of the world, that Hegseth gets some professional help.

Thanks to bumbles for passing this on.

[marble falls]

1. Assuming he IS dry.

[erronis]

2. I know - I would bet his airplane and cars are stocked.

[marble falls]

7. In any space the press can't look into.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I don't believe he gave up drinking.

Alcoholics will lie about not drinking. They even lie during AA and to themselves.

My friend's son is an alcoholic. Goes to AA and church programs. His father finds the "airplane" bottles of liquor spewn around his bedroom. And worse, he's a driver for UPS and driving a vehicle registered to his father.

[Bumbles]

4. One wonders how many others in this administration are addicted to something, other than power.

Perhaps they began self-medicating after becoming a member of this cult as a form of self-preservation, to numb their conscience and get through another day of self-delusion.

[erronis]

5. Guessing they didn't have any conscience - or they wouldn't have joined the cult.

[Bumbles]

6. True! I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt.