# Pete Hegseth Confirmation hearing **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 14, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964 "2025-01-14T15:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/1 "2025-01-14T15:05:56Z")
I didn’t see a thread for this yet. I’m listening in. The Republican chair pretty much announced that he was going to ignore all the negative reports about him, and believe everything positive. [I proposed the unit “Gaetz” as a measure of how awful a person has to be for the Republican Senators to refuse to confirm them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-the-first-trump-cabinet-member-to-leave-after-hes-inaugurated/1011122/11). I’m making the prediction now: Hegseth will end up with a rating of 0 (zero) Gaetz. Every Republican will vote in favor of his nomination. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/2 "2025-01-14T15:06:30Z")
Oh God, now Hegseth is going on about god and jebus! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/3 "2025-01-14T15:08:27Z")
Thanks for taking one for the team and listening to this. 👍🏼 Gift link: > **[Hegseth’s Drinking, Once ‘Self-Medication,’ Could Prompt Questions at His...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/pete-hegseth-drinking-alcohol.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE4.Kx0l.LgGVBDbUIyQ3&smid=url-share)** > > President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary has spoken candidly about his alcohol use in interviews over the past few years. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/4 "2025-01-14T15:10:01Z")
There’s been two interruptions to Hegseth’s opening remarks already, both ejected quite quickly. Couldn’t make out what they were saying, but the second one looked like they were wearing all pink clothes. And a third as I was typing! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/5 "2025-01-14T15:11:42Z")
He literally just said “Peace through strength” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/6 "2025-01-14T15:18:17Z")
“It was all a liberal smear!” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/7 "2025-01-14T15:22:32Z")
“Oh, by the way, I’ll need more money.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/8 "2025-01-14T15:30:52Z")
And now he dodges the very first real question. He was asked about threatening emails sent to current members of the military, and he complains about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and then complains about DEI. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/9 "2025-01-14T15:33:03Z")
“You can’t win the fight without war crimes!” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/10 "2025-01-14T15:33:43Z")
Why do they even bother with confirmation hearings? Virtually no Republican senators have any principles. If they can confirm a credibly accused rapist to the Supreme Court and support a convicted felon as their president, they should just arrange to rubber-stamp the confirmation of whatever unqualified degenerate asshole is put in front of them. Imagine what the hearings would look like with appointees to a Democratic administration! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/11 "2025-01-14T15:34:35Z")
“Some of them were acquitted!” “We were talking about the guilty ones.” Now he’s defining “Jag-off”, reluctantly. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/12 "2025-01-14T15:52:32Z")
When did “warfighter” become a word? Did something happen to “soldier”? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/13 "2025-01-14T15:58:14Z")
Tom Cotton (R) has put those interrupting protestors on the record, but of course they’re just silly liberals, so they don’t matter. Code Pink is a Commie front! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/14 "2025-01-14T15:59:08Z")
Wow, Kirsten Gillibrand coming hard on the issue of women in combat. Get 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/15 "2025-01-14T16:08:46Z")
Apparently, “Vegetarian” is a political position. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/16 "2025-01-14T16:15:13Z")
I’m following here also: [LIVE: Pretty Early In The Morning For A Confirmation Hearing! Is Pete Hegseth Sober?](https://www.wonkette.com/p/live-pretty-early-in-the-morning) Just keep refreshing the page. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/17 "2025-01-14T16:16:42Z")
“You bankrupted your charity” “I’m very proud of the work we did there.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/18 "2025-01-14T16:17:12Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Why do they even bother with confirmation hearings? > > Virtually no Republican senators have any principles. If they can confirm a credibly accused rapist to the Supreme Court and support a convicted felon as their president, they should just arrange to rubber-stamp the confirmation of whatever unqualified degenerate asshole is put in front of them. > > Imagine what the hearings would look like with appointees to a Democratic administration! Shows you how bad Matt Gaetz is. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/19 "2025-01-14T16:18:05Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “You can’t win the fight without war crimes!” Hmmm… I see this on t-shirts in the next four years. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964/20 "2025-01-14T16:27:45Z")
I hate the fact that the Senators are having to talk about their role with “DOGE.” Like seriously, I am over the US government now. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Original_Doge_meme.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Original_Doge_meme.jpg) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/1012964.md?page=2)