Showing his lack of awareness, ignorance, and semi-illiteracy for the world to see and laugh out loud, GQP Senator Eric Schmitt (Idiot-MO) used a placard that misspelled “military” to slam diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the U.S. military.
An AP photographer snapped a photo of a board sitting just behind Republican Senator Eric Schmitt and Republican Senator Ted Budd with the title “DEI in our Miltary.”
From the MarKODA Files: “Military,” not “Miltary.” Derp!
One issue front and center at Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing focused on the GQP’s bogeyman, DEI, which Hegseth has promised to expunge at the Department of Defense. Republicans say that casting a wider net to ensure a more diverse workforce has led to unreadiness in the military, which they claim is run by “woke” generals. Anyone who has even the slightest clue knows the Pentagon is not run by a bunch of woke generals.
During the hearing, Schmitt thanked Hegseth for his service before launching into a diatribe against DEI and the incompetence it has allegedly wrought.
“I also want to thank you for your clarity in articulating the vision you have for the Department of Defense and restoring an ethos, a warrior ethos, which is in stark contrast to the ethos we’ve seen in the last four years, which is of weakness and wokeness,” the senator said. “DEI, there’s been a little bit of discussion about this. But for those watching at home, DEI is not about giving everybody opportunity. It is rooted in cultural Marxism. The idea that you pit the room, any room with oppressor versus oppressed, it’s race essentialism, and it is poison.”
The oversight was likely just a lack of quality control on the part of a senatorial staffer and hardly the most important issue of the hearing but still funny, nonetheless.
