Not so fun fact about Hegseth, he never washes his hands because he thinks it makes you weak. The man walks around with shit covered hands everywhere he goes.

Demarchy. Random selection is good enough as long as the pool is big and fresh people get cycled in regularly. It sidesteps a whole host of problems, and the new problems it introduces are relatively minor in my view.

Extremely unprofessional. Acting like an asshole is only appropriate in certain contexts, and a rando calling about open positions is definitely not one of them.

No, it was several years before that.