"Kids wake up one morning to find they're running the world, while adults act like children. The kids take over the jobs, make the laws, and enforce the rules. At one point, one of my favorite actors from the 1980s, the late Dick Van Patten, gets arrested by a group of pint-sized cops for running into a stop sign. It's absurd, of course, and a silly inversion meant to make kids' dream come true of being in charge for a day."
"The difference, of course, is instead of a small town run by kids, we've got the U.S. military being run by one big, peevish imp of a boy, Petey Hegseth. The pubescent Donald Trump's juvenile Defense secretary (sorry, I'm not calling it "war") has been playing soldier, showing off as big boy pants boss, and getting all dolled up in his own playhouse, i.e. his private makeup shack."
Opposite Day (2009) featured children suddenly running a town while adults acted like kids, with scenes such as Dick Van Patten arrested by pint-sized cops for running a stop sign. The present situation is described as a prolonged, farcical Opposite Day in which the U.S. military is effectively run by Petey Hegseth. Hegseth is characterized as a pubescent, attention-seeking Defense secretary who plays soldier, parades as a "big boy pants" boss, and maintains a private makeup shack. A viral clip of him failing to flip a skateboard is cited as emblematic of his desperate, foolish, and immature attempts to appear cool.
Read at Advocate.com
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