# Hegseth & beardo thread - reopen? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 29, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-beardo-thread-reopen/1024401 "2025-10-29T20:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-beardo-thread-reopen/1024401/1 "2025-10-29T20:18:01Z")
Can the thread about Hegseth and beardos be re-opened? Chronos closed it saying that “I think we’ve covered all the factual ground that’s available in this thread, and there are already other threads in the more political forums on this”, but this thread is pretty specific to the beard topic, and there’s more in the news today about it. Maybe move it to a different category if it’s no longer just FQ territory. > [@Where are all the "beardos" referred to by Pete Hegseth in his speech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-beardos-referred-to-by-pete-hegseth-in-his-speech/1024265): > > On 30 September, US Secretary of War and Donald Trump crony Pete Hegseth gave [an address to a massive summoned party of Generals and Flag Officers at Quantico, Virginia,](https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4318689/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-addresses-general-and-flag-officers-at-quantico-v/)where he gave his vision for re-branding the US military as a force of tough warriors. A large part of his message was a claim that “woke” management had lowered standards and that this was going to be reversed, including making female service personnel conform to the highest male physical standards and requiring all personnel to… ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-beardo-thread-reopen/1024401/2 "2025-10-29T20:32:55Z")
Considering how limited the FQ thread is, if there is news to discuss then you are probably better off creating a new MPSIMS thread and linking back to the FQ thread if there is something there that you wish to continue discussing. Also, depending on exactly what you want to discuss, there are several existing threads that you might want to use instead: > [@What's wrong about a lethal military?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-about-a-lethal-military/1023584/95): > > Y’know, if the YouTube algorithm is any sort of sample, a whole damn lot of the 2A Bros and “alphamales” and “protector warrior poet” and “sigma” macho types out there ARE a bunch of “beardos”. Right, the hood over the top of the head was to protect from contact contamination but the air seal was around the exposed forehead. As others have said, modern protective gear can handle a certain level of neatly trimmed facial hair. (But TBF knowing people I am not hopeful a large part of the formati… > [@Hegseth calls all of the top military brass together for an in person meeting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-calls-all-of-the-top-military-brass-together-for-an-in-person-meeting/1023409/144): > > Bleh, I haven’t had time lately to read much. So I’m going to post this then read the thread. So. Is it just me, or does kegstand seem to have some insecurities regarding his manhood, ‘lethality’, and whatever? He sure seems pretty sensitive about how other men look and behave. What’s up with that? Women? People of color? They can’t posibly be ‘manly’ enough for kegstads ‘lethal’ warfighting depatment of war. Don’t even get me started about all the, “ beardos.” Why, he might look all icky gi… > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/8441): > > [Who had “ADL are the real extremist hate group” on their Bullshit Bingo card?](https://www.aol.com/articles/fbi-cuts-ties-anti-defamation-201329051.html) Of course the real reason for this bonkers nonsense is quite transparant. (The bolding is mine.) [Come see the Felon’s Revenge on Shutdown! Shutdown! Shutdown!](https://www.aol.com/articles/white-house-freezes-funds-democratic-220545679.html) (The bolding is mine.) [The felon’s too cheap to pay an American to do a job in America for America.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/everyone-pointing-1-lazy-thing-162032466.html)[Co-conspirator Vance says he’ll stop being racist if a Black man ends the government shutdown.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vance-promises-hakeem-jeffries-180450143.html) And why has he been posting the racist videos in the first… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-beardo-thread-reopen/1024401/3 "2025-10-29T20:38:54Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Considering how limited the FQ thread is, if there is news to discuss then you are probably better off creating a new MPSIMS thread and linking back to the FQ thread if there is something there that you wish to continue discussing. What I was going to add is _only_ about [Hegseth and beardos](https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/28/pete-hegseth-no-beards-soldiers-south-korea/). It wouldn’t fit in any of the other threads, and it’s not worth a new thread. Idk why Chronos even felt the need to close the other thread in the first place, since there was interesting discussion taking place after the question had been answered. Can you move the thread to MPSIMS or IMHO? ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-beardo-thread-reopen/1024401/4 "2025-10-29T22:08:34Z")
Good idea. How about re-opening it and moving either to the boards already mentioned or to the politics board? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hegseth-beardo-thread-reopen/1024401/5 "2025-10-30T00:26:16Z")
I re-opened the thread and moved it to MPSIMS for now. If it gets too political we can move it to P&E but I think MPSIMS is a good place to start. > [@needscoffee](#): > > Idk why Chronos even felt the need to close the other thread in the first place, since there was interesting discussion taking place after the question had been answered. I can’t speak for @Chronos but in my opinion the thread was barely a factual discussion to start with and wasn’t staying anywhere near within the bounds of FQ. Since the topic was being discussed in the other threads I linked to above, closing it made a lot of sense. But it’s re-opened now, so we’ll give it a shot in MPSIMS and see what happens.