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Bulwark Takes

Snowflake Pete Hegseth’s War on Dad Bods

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Andrew Egger take on Pete Hegseth’s strange, insecure reign over the Department of Defense.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:01.5

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0:04.0

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0:25.1

over the Department of Defense where the big, tough warlike warrior warfighters are feeling

0:32.0

a little sensitive and really just want people to be nicer to them. And Andrew, do you remember when the Texas National Guard showed up in Illinois last week?

0:42.7

Boy, do I?

0:43.8

Yeah.

0:44.4

Big moment.

0:45.6

We had the governor of Texas tweeting about it and pounded his chest with how Butch his elite war fighters were.

0:53.8

And then we got the pictures of the gentleman from the Texas National Guard Deplaining in Illinois. And some of them were a little husky. A little big-boned. That's okay. Big bone. I'll be in the National Guard and be ready to throw your weight around a little bit. Are you old enough to remember Silence of the Lambs?

1:12.2

I've seen Silence of the Lambs.

1:16.5

Jane Gum, the great Ted Levine going, oh, was she a big fat person?

1:18.0

Was she a big fat girl?

1:20.7

A little bit of that going on.

1:29.8

And people out on social media clowned on Pete Hegseth over this because he had just a few days before,

1:36.4

given his big like, I want you all doing pushups and chinups and shaving off your body hair and get all oily and super not gay.

1:40.0

And anyway, over the weekend, Ben and Gon announced that they had gone and replaced some of those Husky, Texas National Guard soldiers with people who are more physically fit.

1:53.7

And the defense secretary was onto the Twitter's beating his chest about.

1:58.7

Standards are back.

2:00.0

Yeah.

2:03.5

Have you ever seen anything like this it's really good it's really funny on a cup i mean basically this is a story on that's taking

2:08.5

place on two levels right you have um the deployment of the national guard that's going in you have

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