Post

🤙🤙🤙

never mess with a fucking Hawaii lady 🤙

Only in a Trump Administration would a question like this be perceived by the nominee as a "gotcha" question. He's scared to answer yes/no whether he'd commit a Kent State! Reminiscent of then-DOJ lawyer John "Torture Memo" Yoo refusing to answer whether burying a POW alive would constitute torture

@atrupar.com Can you please look at this clip again? To me it seems like he nods affirmatively and says YES. Which seems really really bad.

It sounded like he didn't dodge that at all and said "yes"... Or similar while nodding in the affirmative "yeaos"

So what happens after all these questions? There will be a vote to confirm?

...he will carry out the order...they will shoot

Silence is acquiescence. That should have been an easy “no.” He’s baiting her.

And you can see how pleased he is at the prospect.

Hegseth is there for one reason .... he won't hesitate to turn our military against us.

Well, he is neck deep in Christian nationalism, and there is that commandment about not killing folks. So, hell yes he would have troops shoot people in the legs.

he wouldn't have them only shot in the legs

Shooting unarmed American Citizens is the dream of all the nazi maga wife beaters in stinky’s dream cabinet.

Damn

She is 🔥🔥👍

He would probably shoot to kill.

The nice thing for Pete is he's already going to be at the leg level when Trump gives that order.

As a god Christian he would turn the other cheek and refuse that order,unless he is deep down inside a Nazi.

He dodged because he would not shoot them in the legs, he would aim to kill protesters. Any Republican voting for this is voting for trump to be able to murder Americans for protesting.

It’s amazing the power Maizy has over people. With just her spoken word every IQ within earshot drops 10-30 points.

Well that’s something. I guess.

China all over again

The value of human life is shrinking, day by day 😭

Hegseth does excel at dodging Yes/No questions.

JFC!

It was a great loss to our country that Tim Kaine did not serve as our vice president.

This guy is going to be confirmed and people will die because of it. People are going to die.

That is the only reason. He is the lowest of the low in the military who will give orders to shoot American citizen and the GOP senators have no problem with it!

That's my senator. Great question from her.

Sleazeball belongs in hustler magazine not in cabinet of USA

About what I expect from a raging far-right winger only too happy to rim his diaper-wearing would-be king-emperor for the opportunity to open fire on innocent civilians who don’t obey his extreme ideological agenda.

Why would they stop there?

I agree. Along these lines, many developed nations have outlawed use of "rubber bullets" a.k.a. #batonrounds which are touted as nonlethal but actually also dangerous: wp.me/p1pDBL-Do

I\3 chose 1\3 opposed and rest couldn't be bothered so the billionaire Bond villains just had to buy enough to sway margins...👹👹👹

Thank you for laying into Hegseth. Please turn that same energy on your senate colleagues. Shame them into doing the right thing.

takes sip of water/vodka/gin and wonders if he can shoot female Democrats in the legs

Real question. Does Hegseth have a single redeeming quality?

Shooting in the legs is not good. Not even with so-called "rubber bullets," as I wrote in 2015. wp.me/p1pDBL-Do Many nations have prohibited their use, but some US states allow them.

Trump's Himmler.

…do not mistake my tolerance for weakness…

He didn't deny it.

Pretty much, if Trump tells him to.

Yeah... "legs".

Wow. Not only will he give the order to shoot at Americans, he wil lie & make up a story about why they deserve it. Well, that's an answer.

Right now, somewhere in our country, there are two people…the soldier who will be among those ordered into the streets of one of our cities, and the protester that soldier will shoot. They are both going about their lives, unaware what is in their futures. I weep for our country and am furious.

Defend the Constitution by shooting citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. Naturally.

Not if we shoot him first #OrganizeAndFight #Resist

I imagine what's going through Hegseth's head rn: "This question was so much easier to answer when I was drinking diet cokes with my boss buddy."

💙💙💙👊👊👊👺👺

His non-answers are answers. He doesn't want to answer them because the answers are highly unpopular. The proper response from the Senator should be "since you refuse to deny you will order the military to shoot civilians then I'll take your answer to be you will order civilians to be shot."

Excellent job, Senator Hirono!

Why don't Senators, just like the media, say " answer the question yes or no" and repeat it over and over??

Aaassshooole!

that's definitely a yes

Every last Dem should defer their time to Hirono!! She’s on the takedown today!!! THAT’S how you do it!! 👏👏

He's just making it easier to not trust him, but the maga cultists will do everything possible to make the orange skidmark happy

Who cares what he says? He’s lying. All of them do.

this what racist misogynist white americans wanted. have our military shoot citizens.

Are we missing the point that, according to SCOTUS, there is no longer such a thing as an illegal act by a president?

He dodged the question, then he said “Yes”.

When they dodge,deflect,ignore,avoid or otherwise refuse to give a valid answer to a ?, the Senator must say words to the effect of: Please let the official record show that nominee refused to answer my question fully&honestly. Stop the weasels at their own game! Accountability & Responsibility

He’d carry out an order to shoot them in the HEADS if Trump told them to. Let’s be honest.

Well shit, you have a point.

What an absolute moron/monster this sorry excuse for humanity is.

Well, since he's talking about the election, ask him: WHO WON THE 2020 ELECTION? If he's going to dodge any questions, he's going to dodge this sacred tenet of MAGA catechism. It's a waste of time, but good to get him on the record. (He did want to talk elections.)

She was on fire.

Shit weasel

...please pay attention to this!

Yep, we’re gonna built our way through

It’s trumps excuse.

This is terrifying.

He's been coached to stay on those talking points. One shot for ever right answer.

We’re so fucked

Sorry. He's too radical. Case closed.

That's a yes

230 million people. 75 million votes

Deflection at its best!

Ask if Putin invaded the USA and trump ordered our military to stand down, would you allow a Russian invasion?

Just a Trump lapdog So a Putin lapdog

Christ. This is scary.

Not unlike Christian apologists, he will not answer the question because he knows he’ll get painted into a corner. Par for the course for these liars.

oh but we are talking about the election. Everything comes down to politics and the republicans correctly intuit that they have an iron grip on all of media and a population too stupid to question the narrative

Sen Hirono is EXCELLENT!!! Hegseth is unqualified!

After I stop swearing I’m calling my Congressman. 😡. Thing is, they all know Pete is a drunken loser. They’re just too far up Trump’s backside to care.

About 2 sneers in!!

There's that. 🤬

UNQUALIFIED.

And far less predictable.

Me too. I expected criminals who were masterminds, not overly-inflated sad drunks who were still mad they weren't more popular in college, and prone to *accidental* sexual assaulting.

I'd settle for cool cyberpunk implants.

Even sentient robots enslaving us because we're inferior beings is cooler than what they're cooking up these days.

So, yes