The Dope Who Slandered Monterey Now Wants to be Undersecretary of the Navy
We're still waiting for Hung Cao's apology
Faithful readers of Monterey Neighbors & Friends might recall that some craven weirdo from Virginia last year publicly besmirched the good name of Monterey by claiming that our fair city is crawling with necromancers and black magic.
And so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this particular weirdo, a nutjob named Hung Cao, has been appointed to be the next Undersecretary of the U.S. Navy. In fact, the Senate Committee on Armed Services is scheduled to consider Hung Cao’s nomination when it convenes at 6:30 a.m. (PT) on Thursday. If you’re at all interested, you can livestream the hearing here.
I may be speaking for myself, but it's disconcerting that a nominee for such a high-ranking position in the Navy has a demonstrated public record for botching up basic geography. This is a guy who apparently spent quality time at the Naval Postgraduate School — who lived among us for a couple of years — and yet still doesn’t know the difference between Monterey and Pacific Grove.
Cao was the U.S. Senate candidate who tried and failed to defeat Sen. Tim Kaine last year. Along the way, he did an interview with another wingnut Christian nationalist to declare that Lovers Point is in Monterey, that the place was once called “Lovers of Christ Point,” that the heathen Wiccans who run Monterey have removed “Christ” from the name and that, as a result, Monterey is a suflurous hellhole populated by the worst sub-strata humans on earth.
“There’s a lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over,” he declared.
As I’ve mentioned before, normal people who aren’t weirdos would dismiss his remarks as simply the frantic raving of an imbecile. After all, Hung Cao is such a comical nincompoop that he couldn’t even get what he thinks is wrong right. Lovers of Christ? Where in hell did that come from?
Thankfully, Hung Cao got his ass handed to him by the voters of Virginia last year. But that didn’t keep him from becoming a MAGA darling who yammered a bunch of blather as a featured speaker at the 2024 Republican National Convention. To make matters worse, Hung Cao’s careless defamation of Monterey was featured on John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” on HBO as an example of the kooks and nuts who were running for U.S. Senate seats last year.
Readers will recall that I demanded an apology from Hung Cao, but Hung Cao has ignored my request.
Instead, the guy who doesn’t know Monterey from Pacific Grove, who can’t get the name of Lovers Point correct, and who publicly spews stupid nonsense about the good people of Monterey is now a Trump appointee to the Undersecretary of the Navy. Given the clown-level dipshittery around Washington D.C. these days, I’m sure the Hung Cao appointment will be affirmed in short order on Thursday
In which case, I can only pray that Hung Cao doesn’t accidentally use U.S. warships to bombard Iraq while thinking he’s attacking Iran.
Related links:
* The Honorable Weirdo from Virginia owes Monterey an apology
* The Myth of Jesus at Lovers Point
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Understated criticism as usual. "Apology"is a lot of syllables for a Navy guy of his ilk, so I would not hold my breath on that. Main question for me is does he have a cool nickname like Whiskey Pete Hegseth who has a Secret Service Code name of Operation Noon Hammered?? I hope so or he won't fit into the warrior culture there