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Zorro

(18,882 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 12:53 PM Oct 2025

Here Are Your Clips Of Late Night Audiences Laughing At Loser Pete Hegseth

F-A-F-O what happens when you're such a fucking dork.

What happened yesterday, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump gathering all the nation’s generals and admirals in one room so they could lecture them about how it’s time to do crunches and shave (Hegseth) before we start launching wars against the American people (Trump), was awful.

But it’s also a teachable moment about how to respond to where we are right now. You defeat tyrants through constant mockery and derision, ridicule and truth-telling. When they threaten the jokesters and the truth-tellers, that’s when you turn up the heat. This is why people like Jimmy Kimmel are so threatening to authoritarians and Nazis and fascists. Nothing pierces an authoritarian’s sense of his own importance and power like the cacophony of voices pointing and laughing at them.

Speaking of Kimmel, when we watched Secretary Shitfaced yesterday, there was one moment that we, as a Professional Of The Hilarious Laughing Arts, were hoping the late night moments would seize on, not because we particularly cared what specific jokes they told about it, but because we wanted the clips out there of Hegseth speaking these certain words, and then immediately having to endure Americans laughing at him.

We are of course talking about that prissy hysterical loser moment when Hegseth pulled his camouflage Pull-Ups all the way up around his nipples, struck his most threatening pose, affected the greatest swagger he could affect — and we know about his swagger, because we saw him trying to do the griddy the other night LOLOL what a fucking loser — and he looked at the camera and he issued this warning to any American adversaries who might think of messing with the American department of WAR!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/here-are-your-clips-of-late-night

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Here Are Your Clips Of Late Night Audiences Laughing At Loser Pete Hegseth (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2025 OP
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The Roux Comes First

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I cannot watch this crap, personally. I've only recently been finding the courage to watch Jerry Lewis, back when all of France adored him!

Of course he was consciously and purposefully being a buffoon!

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