>> Is your mom gonna be mad?
>> Very mad.
I don't think my wife's gonna like this either.
It says veritas.
What is veritas mean, truth.
You see these three books here in the motto, Old testament,
New testament, Future testament to come when Christ returns.
This is what we're talking about with Harvard University by the way.
Harvard University, let's see, let's do that.
>> My God.
>> I think we go with Critical Theory- >> [LAUGH] I think Will is having
a harder time than your mom.
>> [LAUGH] >> I think it should be renamed
Critical Theory University, because if you look it up right now,
every single department has a Critical Theory department all over.
>> And you know what, I don't like this sharpie.
It's not very good.
I need a stronger sharpie than that, [CROSSTALK] Because it does say
Peter Brian Hegseth, Degree of Master in Public Policy.
So I think we're gonna scratch that out.
>> And John F Kennedy, he was a democrat, but
he would have been a republican in today's Republican party.
>> Absolutely.
>> I mean he was a tax-cutting, pro-life anti communist.
But not anymore in the democrat party.
And then I think we finished it off by saying,
return to sender right here,
and then I'll just sign it for good.
>> [LAUGH] >> You
write return to sender on the envelope, you moron.
You don't just put a piece of paper in the mail.
And when you put that in an envelope, they're not gonna see what you wrote.
Anyway, that's Peter Hegseth, in what I hope we can all acknowledge is one of
the saddest, most pathetic things we've ever seen on the news.
That is Pete Hegseth, who against all odds went to Harvard I suppose.
>> [LAUGH] >> And now because he gets that his party
has this fake thing of being against the elites, even though every single one of
them went to schools like Harvard, every one of them is rich,
every one of them lives on the coast, every one of them has a massive mansion,
they have to pretend that they're against that.
>> And so that man, I'm giving him the credit to assume that that's his actual
diploma live on air sharp eat it, because of how much he's against
the education that he got and I'm sure has been proud of his entire life,
because that's the anti intellectual point.
He doesn't want to be thrown to the wolves, so he has to pretend to hate that
part of himself that he got an education at Harvard.
>> Which, I mean, a little bit of kudos there.
Because most republicans, and pundits, and people who make their living
crapping on intellectualism, and yet have gone to Ivy league elite schools just
sort of keep that under wraps and hope we don't look at their Wikipedia pages.
Like they just, you know?
And so he took it one step further.
I mean he is obviously on the phone right now trying to get a new diploma, and
will not be sending that back to Harvard.
It is just the most beautiful,
privileged fail son moment encapsulated right there.
I'm gonna write on my Harvard degree that I should be so
lucky that circumstance and money or maybe a family member,
who the hell knows in Peter's case, got me into Harvard, right?
Cuz yeah, I know it was all the grades, no word.
It was totally his grades 100%.
Definitely wasn't money or legacy.
>> I have no idea.
>> We will see, who knows?
>> All I know is, he was so proud of that,
that he had them set up a special camera in advance from the do it,
lest anyone believe that, that was a spontaneous thing that he actually meant.
>> They had a camera set up to do that angle that they would never.
I assume he doesn't have a crotch camera normally from over the shoulder.
>> That is a perfect distillation of privilege of the ways that people who have
been given things or achieve things in their life will then throw it back in
the faces of everybody else, and sort of crap all over it.
And because they can, because he's got $1 million dollar job as is,
because he's completely fine and so why not crap all over higher learning, and
Harvard, and whatever.
And like honestly, screw Harvard, I have no real love.
Although, I'm sure their cafeteria's amazing.
>> Probably,
also many people are wondering what the hell critical theory is supposed to be.
>> [LAUGH] >> Again, this guy got to Harvard,
he doesn't even know the thing he's supposed to demonize.
He doesn't know the thing that the writer is obsessed with is critical race theory,
not critical theory.
He doesn't know right wing media is so lazy.
And why shouldn't that be that the people watching have no critical thinking
apparatus whatsoever.
They're so easy to delude, they're so easy to read, God,
they're so easy to just corral.
Anyway, look, Pete Hegseth is not responsible for America at large or
specifically American conservatism becoming so anti-intellectual.
That is something that the right wing has been working on for decades.
I mean look, they were starting off with pretty fertile ground for
that movement in America,
because America has never really respected intellectuals or experts of any kind.
But now we're at a point where they don't they don't trust the doctors anymore.
They don't trust literally anyone, let alone PhDs, they don't trust that for
a very long time.
Now they're doing this performative stuff of sending back their degrees,
it's just so sad.
I don't know, in the obituary of America,
this deserves at least one little footnote I think.
>> It it definitely does.
>> Well, I think anti-intellectualism more broadly is more than a footnote.
The anti-intellectualism and the ways that, that is used by the far right and
fascist nationalist movements, even though those people benefited
from that exact system, are used to then dupe working folks into
never achieving higher education, and also to never lowering the price.
Or let's say, eliminating student debt when it comes to higher education.
It's easier to manipulate people, easier to make them worker bees for
Amazon to burn through.