Not many people are aware of this, but apparently not everything you read on the Internet is true. No, really!

That is why when I read things like this, I assume it's just clickbait, maybe some selective editing, or perhaps some game is being played with context:

Posobiec took a bit of license with the headline, but not much. General Michael Hayden, card-carrying member of perma-Washington with over 300,000 followers, tweeted this.

Now, I don't THINK he's serious in the sense he'd support rounding up unvaxxed Trump supporters and dropping them off in downtown Kabul (although these days...) but here you have a genuine security state VIP saying "good idea" to what should be fringe nonsense unworthy of even a passing glance.

You could say he's just trolling Trump supporters, and I believe that may be part of it, but that would make him, what? A security state VIP with the emotional maturity of a high school sophomore?

There's also the matter of it being very on-brand. This is his shtick. In fact, a quick scan of his Twitter feed reveals that Trump and the vaccines are obsessions with this guy.

First, Trump.

He loves retweeting things about Trump almost as much as he loves retweeting positive statements about himself.

Why does someone do that?

Speaking of which, he also loves retweeting varying versions of "Trump is stupid." In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you commented "Trump is stupid" on one of his retweets about the attendance at one of his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers' games, I'm pretty sure you'll get a retweet.

As for the vaccines, he likes to retweet items like this.

Remember, this guy is well-respected. People value his counsel. This is from his biography at The Chertoff Group, a strategic advisory firm.

• Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2006 – 2009)
• First Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2005 – 2006)
• Director, National Security Agency (1999 – 2005)

Quite the storied career, which also happens to span two of the ten greatest intelligence failures in American history, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the Iraq War/weapons of mass destruction debacle.

And yet he is considered a reliable oracle of national intelligence.

How does that happen? The lefty "The Nation," following the publication of Hayden's memoirs in 2016, detailed his rise.

Michael Hayden Played Right Up to the Edge of Legality—and Then Took a Big Leap Off

In his new memoir, the former director of the NSA and the CIA shows how his many failures were followed, one after the next, by promotions.

The writer is not wholly objective, having had his own run-ins with Hayden, however his analysis is sound.

It's hard not to like Michael Hayden. He looks like your favorite uncle, and the twinkle in his eyes makes his explanations of complex topics, often filled with irrelevant sports metaphors and analogies, sound believable.

Style over substance. Welcome to modern America.

Like most Bush administration officials, Hayden never apologizes in the book for the monumental error that ended up costing the lives of thousands of Americans, over 100,000 Iraqis, and opened the door for the emergence of ISIS. He simply adds, as if speaking of a lost baseball game, "We just got it wrong. It was a clean swing and a miss."

His disturbing insouciance over death and disaster was also reflected in a New Yorker piece that came out the same year.

When it comes to detainee deaths, innocent men wrongfully held in brutal conditions, and other abuses, Hayden barely glances over his shoulder: "There were occasional mistakes."

This is the left's new darling, one of their champions against the big bad orange man and those fascists who want some control over what substances are injected into their bodies.

In his last days in government, at the start of the Obama Administration, Hayden fought bitterly against the release of the Bush Justice Department's torture memos, insisting that the revelations constituted a betrayal and would damage C.I.A. officers' morale beyond repair. In 2014, when the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report, which singled out Hayden for misleading the committee in many instances, he lashed out even more furiously. The report is a damning document on the brutality of the C.I.A.'s practices, the shoddiness of its management, and the mendacity of its leaders. Hayden's case against the report comes down to the fact that it was written by the committee's "Democrat" members and staff.

Yes, his defense was that it was written by partisan Democrats.

We truly do live in strange times.

Hayden is a perfect example of why no one trusts their leaders or the institutions they lead anymore. They lie, they obfuscate, and they view the citizenry as their subjects (expendable ones at that), not their ultimate rulers. They are pompous puffed-up bureaucratic buffoons whose self-regard is inversely proportional to their competence.

And they spend their days engaging in juvenile Twitter gotchas for the dopamine rush when the adulation pours in.

Simply put, these are unserious people. Unfortunately, we live in very serious times.