WATCH: Pete Hegseth Effortlessly Smacks Down Dem Senator Mazie Hirono After She Asks a Disgusting Question About Trump and the Leftist Riots Across the Country

The person many regard as the dumbest senator in America ended up red-faced after trying to humiliate the nation’s secretary of defense with an inane question at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

As NBC News reported, Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the Pentagon’s budget request.

During the hearing, he was hit with multiple questions regarding the Iran-Israel conflict and military deployments in Los Angeles. The latter became particularly fiery once dim-witted Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) got her chance to interrogate the defense secretary.

Hirono decided to try to humiliate Hegseth with a sick question designed to paint Trump as a tyrannical dictator, implying that he wanted protesters to get shot for exercising their First Amendment rights.

Of course, force would be justifiable if said agitators decided to assault law enforcement, which has consistently happened in riots all over the country.

“If ordered by the President to shoot peaceful protesters in the legs, would you carry out such an order?” Hirono inquired.

“Senator, as I have said before, of course, I reject the premise of your question,” Hegseth replied. “And the characterization that I would be given unlawful orders, it’s all meant to smear the commander in chief, and I won’t fall for it.

Hegseth also left Hirono dismayed after she demanded to know whether he would follow a court ruling that said sending federal troops (Marines, for example) into America’s cities was illegal.

After Hegseth pointed out that the ruling was still pending, he stated that district courts should not determine national security policy and that the administration would decide once it reached the Supreme Court.

Why are all your examples of why women shouldn’t be involved in leadership positions involve psychical strength?

Because there are always some people who are so brainwashed by the propaganda of the last 60+ years that they refuse to believe that differences between men and women exist. Examples of GENETIC physical differences are the easiest way to demonstrate that there ARE, in fact, innate differences between men and women. That's the starting point for the deprogramming.

Of course, because the programming is so strong, the next step is when the brainwashee says "Well, that's just physical differences. But there is no reason to believe they are different mentally." So then you have to bring up the concept of sexual dimorphism, which is too hard for some people, but point out that a simple demonstrable genetic mental difference between men and women is the dominance of left brain (logic) and right brain (verbal). Men have the logic one and women the verbal one. There are oodles and oodles of scientific evidence to show that women dominate in the right brain stuff, and men the left, but the easiest real life example is the amount of speaking women do versus men, and what they speak about. Anyone who has lived in the real world long enough knows that women tend to talk a LOT more, and about different subjects than men. This is across races and cultures.

So, we can show that there are, indeed, genetic mental and physical differences between men and women quite easily, and thus that it is perfectly logical to infer that there are even more genetic psychological differences that we can't as easily point to, but that manifest themselves in ways that clearly affect positive leadership abilities. But that sort of thinking would require male left brain dominance, so...

You know...I saw that marching out of step, and was greatly irritated by it.

I am going to describe my views on this in detail, to help explain my point of view when I watched the parade last week on One America News Network (OAN), so...bear with me for the length of it!

One of my things, having grown up in a military family and served myself, was the importance and significance of military bearing. I used to so admire my father, who put on his uniform with such obvious attention to military bearing that it was not something I could ever ignore or unsee.

His "plumb line" (the lining up of the shirt button line with the trouser zipper line) was always spot on. His belt buckles were always centered and shining, as if he had polished them with Brasso that morning. His tie was perfectly knotted. His insignias and ribbons were meticulously placed and neat. His shoes were always meticulously clean and shining. His cover was always spotless and worn in the most military configuration that was achievable. He was always clean shaven. Nails clipped. Hair cut into a flat top crew cut and waxed into shape, and never in need of a haircut.

He walked erect, his shoulders back. No slouch. His head up, his chin out. When he saluted, it was so crisp, to the corner of the eye, his hand angled perfectly, and when he finished the salute, it was equally as crisp.

When I was growing up, I hero-worshiped my dad. I remember going to where he worked on occasion as a young boy, and when I followed him in the hallway, I tried to walk exactly like him, and even tried to make my foot-falls sound like his, with that military "clack-clack-clack-clack". I even tried to emulate his handwriting, a neat and precise block printing, never cursive. An my signature even resembles his to a degree.

Here you can see him getting an award while he was in Korea that demonstrates my dad's military bearing:

Then, when I was a teenager, I became involved in marching bands and drum and bugle corps, which at that time in the Seventies, placed a huge emphasis on military bearing, and all those things described above came into play, and they all came naturally to me and I enjoyed them. Before each competition, our whole unit would be lined up in preparation for going on the field to perform, and a judge would come by and visually inspect each and every member of the unit.

They would come up the line, stop in front of each member and eyeball them as was done in boot camp in the military. They looked up and down on each person, then moved on to the next person, and did the same inspection. They looked for any stains, loose threads, unbuttoned blouses, shoes not prepared or whitened to a uniform shade and the soles not blackened, and any defect in the configuration of the uniform that was not in accordance with standards of the unit.

And God help you if you got a "Tic" (a tenth of a point shaved off the overall score of the unit for the entire performance) for something. You heard about it from the staff and from your fellow members of the unit, and everyone in line could visibly see you getting the "Tic" (out of the corners of your unmoving, staring straight ahead eyes, of course-moving your head or your eyes could result in a Tic if seen)

I loved all of that. It was ingrained in me, and I was good at it. I would often spend the night before a competition addressing all these things, ironing, cleaning, etc.

And when I performed, though I was not especially talented, I assumed the proper military bearing, face set, marching crisply, knees up to the appropriate height, steps in line and...never, Ever, EVER out of step. Being out of step, hitting the wrong note or a flaw in the uniform when inspected resulted in a "Tic".

This was very important, because winning or losing was quite often a matter of one or two Tics. It was not uncommon to see first and second place separated by two or three Tics.

Then, when I went into the Navy through boot camp and my time in the Fleet, this was all natural to me, and in my tour of duty, I was always meticulous and careful in all these same respects of military bearing.

Now, at the age of 68, this behavior has followed me through my entire life and career. Every day of my career, I wore a tie and lab coat, and always, every day would observe these same standards of cleanliness, order, and posture.

I have taken considerable good natured ribbing from my wife on this, and she says she can spot me in a crowd from a mile away because of the way I walk.

All this, of course, is a prelude to my watching the parade last week. Obviously, I was so impressed with the musical units, they were crisp, perfectly in step, erect and possessed superior "military bearing" as would be expected.

When I watched the non-musical units march by, I paid careful attention to them, keeping in mind they would obviously not be up to the military bearing standards of the musical units.

And as many of them (likely units with high cohesion and morale) marched by, even if they weren't as rigid or erect, they marched with very good uniformity (nearly a swagger) arms swinging, feet in step, heads all level with each other, which in regular units, I highly admire and appreciate.

But I saw several units go by, and with my perspective and background, one of the key tells is heads bobbing up and down out of unison. I can spot it a mile away. And when I saw it, one or two I could understand and didn't give it much thought.

But I saw a few units that appeared to be no better than a bunch of Little League players or politicians marching in a local parade.

I have to say I was SERIOUSLY appalled by that. I hated it. I had to rewind several times to re-watch, and then analyze it to see if people were really out of step, or if it was just less crisp marching. Where you could really see it was after they had passed, and the camera was looking at the back of their heads in a large block, I was disappointed and shocked by the lack of unity and apparent attention to military bearing.

Heads were bobbing up and down, and from the side, I could see people out of step.

When I came onto Free Republic, I was tempted to point this sloppiness in some units out, but...I didn't. I thought most people wouldn't get the criticism (without the detailed explanation above about why I had noticed and disliked it) and thought I would get some blowback from Freepers who thought I was picking nits. And that might be fair criticism of me, I thought.

But I had NO idea, no conception, not in any reality, that this was deliberate sloppiness. Never entered my mind. So, yeah. When I read your comment on this today, I was disturbed and appalled.

I am now curious to rewatch, and see if I can find out what kind of units those were that were so damned sloppy. I am officially disgusted and repulsed to find out this may have been deliberate. Do you have any links? Has there been any discussion on Free Republic about this aspect?

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“The Trump Parade army was NOT marching in step.

For Donald Trump, the men deliberately broke stride. They sauntered along.

This was nothing like their practice drills the day before, which involved crisp stepping and razor-sharp uniforms.
Observers call this “desertion in place”.

For those who think the parade shambling is a legitimate form of marching – “route step” - I have this reference:

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The mis-stepping was not accidental. When you have been drilled, it takes concentration to mis-step.

Another blurted: “I was unaware of this ‘practice’, but it immediately sprang to my mind when I saw them mis-stepping!!! That they were doing it on purpose to signal their dissent!!”

The parade was called “the lowest moment in the history of the USA,” by one observer.”
I hang out at Substack where I learned the term ‘FU Shuffle’ from the ‘progressives’. I find it helpful to hear where they’re at too. My Conclusioin: We’re in real trouble.
My family was military too. When Abu Gharib happened, my dad (1922-2010) was sick over the intentional undermining of this countries’ decline. It just keeps happening.

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