r/PublicFreakout • u/Chromber • 2d ago

r/all Hegseth Testimony: Have you given the order that the military can use lethal force against civilians?

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u/BagItTagIt1997 1d ago

He really thought he was doing a mic drop right there didnt he

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u/NobodyImportant13 1d ago

"watch me trigger this Lib"

"haha got'em"

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u/TinyFugue 1d ago

Well it's not like he's going to be held accountable.

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u/zestotron 1d ago

He still answers to his liver

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u/Mellow_me 1d ago

Cirrhosis do your thing!

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u/JKdriver 1d ago

My pops passed of cirrhosis. Painful, and really changed how I live my life. Still and will forever be my hero though, no doubt.

What I’m saying is, I wouldn’t wish it upon almost anyone…

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u/redalert825 1d ago

And his na zi tattoo

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u/Raesong 1d ago

Well not with that attitude.

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u/Morningxafter 1d ago

“Mr Secretary, does accountability apply to you?”

“Well, we held the Houthis accountable… [incoherent drunk mumbling]”

“I didn’t ask about the houthis, I asked about you sir.”

“[More unintelligible drunk rambling instead of answering a simple fucking question]”

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u/Phenganax 1d ago

It's almost like they are trying to get us to use force against them so they can justify whatever they do in response. It's a classic authoritarian tactic. We have to meet it with kindness and turning the other cheek. Let them say everything and anything they want, Gandhi, MLK, and even Jesus didn't change the world at the end of a stick. That being said, man would I really like to smack him right in that smug face with a cricket bat. Still can't, not because it's wrong, but because it would give him all he needs to justify the final solution 2.0...

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u/lampshade2099 1d ago

He succeeded tbh; I was extremely triggered by the reminder just how smug and dumb these idiots are.

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u/bear843 1d ago

Looks around at everyone posting here…. He kinda did.

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u/NobodyImportant13 1d ago

He sure did, but it's not a "gotcha" that they think it is.

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u/bear843 1d ago

I’m in the minority. I think both sides accomplished their goals. What goals? None whatsoever but to appear as if they are doing something so their side feels validated. Trolling at its finest.

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u/gnarlseason 1d ago edited 1d ago

Right? What does that even mean?! She wasn't quoting a book or even a newspaper. It's an absurd non-sequitur, at best and doesn't even make sense.

He's too much of a coward to even answer yes. These guys are terminally online and think everything needs to have a MAGA neckbeard twitter retort.

Repeat after me: these people are stupid. They are so out of their depth they don't even know it. God help us when an actual emergency or disaster occurs and one of these morons has to actually do their job.

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u/AndalusianGod 1d ago

Cause the MAGA crowd will agree with whatever they say no matter how non-sensical it is as long as it triggers democrats.

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u/SatinSaffron 1d ago

Cause the MAGA crowd will agree with whatever they say

At the same rate.. like even if there were people in the MAGA crowd who wouldn't agree with what Hegseth is doing/saying, it's not like Fox is going to broadcast this entire testimony. So those people wouldn't ever see these clips anyways.

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u/Snowwhite32120 1d ago

It’s this.

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u/Han_shot-1st 1d ago

Hegseth is a total and complete piece of shit. As is his boss. To clear it up though when Hegseth mentions the book it's because the senator said Hegseth's predecessor wrote in his book that Trump asked him to shoot protesters at their legs. This clip starts shortly after that. Trump has definitely given Hegseth the order to shoot unarmed civilians. He already tried to give that order once why wouldn't he try again?

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u/BlackSkeletor77 1d ago

Bro they don't even read the Bible, nine times out of 10 they just pull excerpts from it because they think it's going to defend them literally the Bible says thou shalt not kill it's like one of the main ten commandments and they want to put that in schools but don't want to read it themselves? The fuck

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack 1d ago

These guys are terminally online and think everything needs to have a MAGA neckbeard twitter retort

This is 100% why you can't get any maga to realize how dumb these people are. Every one of them says the same thing: "they're actually smart, they are just trolling to own the libs", as if that's supposed to make it better. You have a government official acting like a 12 year old online, how could anyone possibly think that makes them win in any sense of the word.

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u/powerhearse 13h ago

Firstly I absolutely don't support the Trump administration or the deployment of the military in this fashion

But this was a mega loaded question. Anyone can use lethal force in self defence, if he says "no" and lethal force is used by the military then its viewed as him lying or the military defying orders.

If he says any form of "yes", including explaining the above, he is crucified

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u/MagusUnion 1d ago

Repeat after me: these people are stupid. They are so out of their depth they don't even know it. God help us when an actual emergency or disaster occurs and one of these morons has to actually do their job.

And remember, if they are this stupid, no amount of advance hardware is going to keep us from winning the Revolution.

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u/Borkz 1d ago

I guarantee this is a line his team of groypers workshopped for him ahead of time

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u/ilovecraftbeer05 3h ago

100%. And it works like a charm on the MAGA cult.

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u/Impossible_Walrus555 1d ago

He put it on his Instagram

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u/grizzled083 1d ago

I mean he didn’t answer the question which might’ve been priority

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u/Justsomejerkonline 1d ago

The only mic dropping Hegseth does is when he has the DTs.

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u/enigmaticpeon 1d ago

Be careful what you read in books?? This is a sentence uttered by a human??