Hegseth's 'gesture' this morning:

[applegrove]

here's a photo of Hegseth's gesture (Saul Loeb/Getty)

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-09T00:41:13.175Z

[dgauss]

1. Not sure that was even intentional. Just something he absorbed and identified with.

[applegrove]

2. Could be.

[dgauss]

3. Kind of an accidental reflex

[applegrove]

4. Yes. It could be that. Makes you wonder if they are using

that Hitler move in private quite often or did he just overly sympathize with Musk and the like.

[carpetbagger]

6. The movie was funnier.

[dgauss]

8. Perfect, and with Hegseth it's the really stupid version of bold curiosity.

[usonian]

10. Ya beat me to it.

Given Kegbreath's history, a new character.

DOCTOR Strangebrew.

The McKenzie brothers with a bomb.

[progressoid]

11. One of the best scenes in that movie

And there are a bunch of great scenes.

[AZJonnie]

13. Could be, but I lean towards purposeful dog whistle

He planned ahead to do it when he said "far flung places", knowing the left-leaning media/podcast world would focus on this for Monday, instead of the many other things that are going to straight shit for this regime, such as the stock market falling and crude (and petrol) prices rising. This way he and the RW media can make hay whining about how our side imagines nazi's everywhere, how he "clearly" was gesturing to 'far flung places' when he did it, etc.

The problem is, he obviously is a fucking Nazi, and people SHOULD be calling out him out for it. So it's a bit of a Catch-22 for us.

[mwmisses4289]

5. Did t fall asleep standing up?

[applegrove]

7. I tried to gage Trump's reaction to Hegseth's gesture but

it seemed to me Trump was either asleep or bored out of his skull so he didn't see it. One or the other.

[murielm99]

9. He was asleep on his feet.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

12. Piggy looks like a wax dummy

Asleep, as usual.