Discussion Thread: Nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Testifies Before the Senate Armed Services Committee

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1. Reminder: this is a man who has openly talked about inflicting a civil war on his own country.

   When people like him get positions like secretary of defense, that’s how civil wars break out.

2. Name 5 women

3. Could this dweeb carry anything over 100 lbs?

4. If Hegseth thinks that Cotton is being a little rough on him, he’s not ready for Ernst.

5. A woman can run that far if they can train plenty of female marathon runners chucklefuck

6. So how is this asshat doing

7. “ruck on your back”

   “jag-off”

   So I guess we are getting the “regular guy” SecDef with “mud on his boots”, who doesn’t drink, womanize or mis-manage miniscule budgets anymore, and who is redeemed in God’s eyes.

8. I mean, so much for supporting women in the military. And this was questioning from a Republican.

9. I would like to see Tom cotton carry 120 lb of gear across this hall

10. Focusing on the abject misogyny of this bell-end is not a winning strategy. The competence of women should not be the focus. The incompetence of this empty suit should be.

11. Cotton is such a POS.

12. Dude does know miles from minutes.

13. Oh Jesus christ…..

14. 22 min for 2 miles is 5.5 mph…there is no way that is a fast walk.

15. Our smaller dudes in my units weren’t the guys holding machine guns but it was never an issue.. normally your beefier dudes were carrying them.

    You won’t make SF if you can’t ruck..

16. Yep. 

    Those protesters just made him look better. Like I said, paid actors. This was all planned. 

17. Is being a Zionist a pre-requisite to lead the US military now?

18. more shoutouts & applause for Jack Reed

19. Cotton is just supplying the Fox News sound bites for the Five at 5. Lap it up!

20. These people are insufferable. Any chance they get to do left vs right.

21. Tom Cotton reminds me of the guy David Schwimmer portrayed in Band of Brothers

22. “Patriotic Supporters, and Liberal Critics”

    Saying that being Liberal is inherently unpatriotic

    “Only the liberal critics have interrupted”

    Fucking duh? Why would the people that want something ever interrupt it?

23. Damn, Gillibrand *really* doesn’t like Hegseth’s bullshit

24. Gillibrand is not for the foolishness.  lol

25. Have heard nothing about the sexual assault allegation, I guess they couldn’t get the woman to testify?

26. Oh shit is she burning Tom Cotton too?! Hell yes

27. How can someone so disgistingly under qualified keep emphasizing meritocracy for others? He would expose the country to extensive risk for the dake of ego. While I’m a woman, I’d like to focus on the fact he has no experience in any of it!

28. Hegseth needs to weaponize Tom Cotton’s ears somehow.

29. He looks uncomfortable being questioned by Gillibrand. Will he have problems working with strong women?

30. Pete is doubling down on his idiocy.

31. He got called the fuck out.

32. Women have been in combat since ww2. Ludmilla Pavlichenko ventilated hundreds of nazis. Women are fighting today in Kurdistan and Myanmar. This is all,such fucking nonsense.

33. Lmao I forgot he wrote a book. Dude told on himself and put it in print.

34. Come on America, we can at least do this right??

35. “you would have to completely change the way you view women and I don’t think you can do that” Sen Gillibrand

36. She is kicking his butt

37. I’m not sure how the US system works, is there a chance that he won’t actually be confirmed or is this just a show to say that “we’ve done the confirmation hearing”

38. “You will have to change how you see women to do this job well, and I don’t know if you are capable of that.”

    Senator Gillibrand 

39. I love her.

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