A Secret Spoken Is A Secret No More

This maladministration doesn’t know how to keep its yap shut. They don’t know how to think before they speak. They don’t try, even when shown what happens when someone else blurts something out. It’s very rarely good. Sometimes it gets up into the range of catastrophic. Mostly it’s less than that. This one is somewhere in the middle because not all of it was said. Thank you, Raw Story:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have inadvertently exposed one of MAGA’s biggest secrets with his new masculinity initiative, according to one political analyst. Last week, Hegseth announced that all military troops 30 years and older would undergo annual testosterone screening and that those with testosterone levels that are deemed too low would receive hormone therapy. Hegseth claimed in an announcement that the initiative was aimed at “restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity, and ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain the fight.”

Oh please. Testosterone testing? Sounds like an invasion of privacy to me. And then there’s the whole HIPAA thing. That also keeps your medical records protected. It’s a fine line, and this is something intensely personal for men. The guys are going to *love* the hormone replacement therapy. Fake Warrior Hegseth does not need to be making these decisions, but he is going to do so anyhow. He has an image of a super GI Joe or some other excessive model in mind and keeps “forgetting” that all this should apply to him too. Insert my usual crabbiness here.

Jennifer Welch, co-host of the popular political podcast “I’ve Had It,” said on a new episode of “The Daily Beast Podcast” that Hegseth’s focus on testosterone levels revealed a level of insecurity that seems at odds with Hegseth’s machismo. “The Band-Aid just keeps getting ripped off, and they’re revealing more about themselves as they feel more emboldened in their fascist regime,” Welch said. One of MAGA’s secrets that Hegseth inadvertently revealed is how often movement fans think about men.

“I think when the history books are written about all of this and all the tell all memoirs, after you know who kicks the bucket, it’s going to be revealed that all of these broken men have caused a ripple effect by their uniting and trying to keep their secrets covered up when I think we know a lot of them are in the closet, a lot of them are probably bisexual,” Welch said.

Hegseth, a closet bisexual? Ohhh, we can laugh about that idea for *years*! I wonder how *his* machismo, manly man testosterone is. Of course he’s not going to do anything of the sort to women because he thinks they shouldn’t be in the military. Arrogant prick. They have to work twice as hard to be recognized, so when they achieve General or Admiral, you know bloody damn well they *earned* it. So the military is now supposedly all about testosterone. Thanks, Petey Boy. We really didn’t need this.

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