Idiot Wind

 Today in the United States of Insanity that rabid shaved poodle and raging drunk former Fox chat show couch sitter, who was somehow made the head of the Defense Department, has had the Navy’s ship, the Harvey Milk, stripped of its name. Within maritime tradition renaming a ship is considered bad luck. You've brought down the wrath of Poseidon BUT you've eased your fear of gay men just a tiny bit. Good job Kegstand!

By the by, Harvey Milk (the person versus the ship) was a lieutenant in the Navy (serving as a diving officer aboard the USS Kittiwake during the Korean War), he was also a civil rights activist, a businessman, and an elected member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. 

Milk was assassinated by a dude named Dan White – a former cop who’d gone on to hold a supervisor job alongside Harvey. Dan quit though because it didn’t pay enough. It’s unclear to me as to why he murdered Milk (and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone) but White’s lawyer’s got the charges reduced to involuntary manslaughter by employing the ultra imaginative “Twinkie defense.” 

The term "Twinkie defense" is an umbrella term that, in the most general sense, refers to an unconventional defensive argument. The term originated from the 1979 trial of Dan White, a San Francisco politician, who was charged with first-degree murder . A testifying psychiatrist pointed out that White's consumption of sugary foods, such as Twinkies, could lead to diminished capacity . Using this testimony, White's lawyer was successfully able to persuade the jury that White lacked the premeditation and deliberation elements necessary to establish first-degree murder. As a result, White was ultimately convicted of a lighter offense of involuntary manslaughter . (source) 

Ultimately, White only served five years of his seven-year sentence (for murdering TWO people!) but, he did self-death sentence himself (the old car exhaust in the closed garage trick) a couple years post release. So, that’s something.

Back to Pissdrunk Pete’s demand to rename the Harvey Milk. The ship will now be the Oscar Peterson – named for the late GREAT Canadian jazz pianist who was nicknamed the “Maharaja of the Keyboard” by Duke Ellington himself!

Okay no, no. The ship’s named for Oscar V. Peterson, a white guy (because of course – Kegseth can’t let down his Klan!) who served in the Pacific during World War II. Presumably this Oscar Peterson was straight but we don’t actually know that for certain and Kegstand most assuredly does not. Dude’s NOT known for intellectual rigor or, really, anything besides alcoholism, extreme sus fear of gay people, white supremacy, misogyny, sexual assault, excessive vanity, perpetual drunkenness and lying.

Other Navy vessels  he’s, of fucking course, looking to have renamed?

The ones named after Thurgood Marshall (Black Supreme Court judge), Ruth Bader Ginsberg, (Jewish female Supreme Court Judge), Harriet Tubman (Black woman warrior, Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist, suffragist, human rights activist), Dolores Huerta (Hispanic-American female, labor leader and feminist activist), Cesar Chavez (Hispanic-American labor leader and civil rights activist), Lucy Stone (female suffragist and abolitionist), and Medgar Evers (Black civil rights activist, soldier, first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi).

You can take his name off a ship, but Milk is still far more of a "warrior" than the petty Pete Hegseth.
~ John Casey 

All of these people are a zillion times superior to that sad excuse of a human. He’s a walking, talking mental disorder. To paraphrase Dylan, You're an idiot, Petey. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.