No way someone is this dimwitted. This is fake, right?

"Iran is run by theocratic psychopaths who only understand the language of violence!"

This is nonsense.

Potatoes have an INCREDIBLE amount of self-awareness for something without a nervous system.

No, he just doesn’t count you as people.

Coulda funded the healthcare subsidies twice over for the 200b they're asking for

Iran has healthcare, you don't

For anyone wanting verification.

While the quote is paraphrased but he absolutely said this.

https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/secretary-hegseth-and-joint-chiefs-chair-hold-briefing-amid-iran-conflict/675871

Tbf it's not exactly same as US. Iran is using those weapons in self-defense instead of invading random countries an ocean + sea + two geographic regions away.

I'm not fron usa but did he literally said that?

I would love it if Iran asked Pete Hegseth to check with the 2006 Time Magazine person of the year with who does that to their country/citizens.

From the creator of:

"We're fighting religious fanatics who seek a nuclear capability in order for some religious Armageddon"

Does this dipshit realize he'll never be safe in public again? Probably anywhere on Earth.

And I don't think he gets lifetime tax payer funded Secret Service protection like America is prepared to give a felon rapist pedophile.

Does he hear himself? Like I feel like we're living in a sketch show.

Tell me this motherfucker did not actually say this with a straight face

Edit: He did.

No way he actually said that xD

Surely this is not real?

Fucking moron.

It’s mockery. He knows there are no consequences for him, these press briefings are just going through the motions.

islamic republic of iran, is largely ther because of USA/UK when they installed the shah.

They truly have reached the same point that Putin has, where you can invert any statement of theirs to get the actual truth

Why he gotta speak ill of the potato

Every time I see Hegseths face I am glad it is not Matthew Miller

"Do you have an irony deficiency?"- Joseph in The Handmaid's Tale

Who is "he" and what did he say?

This feels like a post that should include a link or an image...

To be fair, US spending money on weapons isn't the reason you don't have the social services the rest of us have.

It's due to malice and corruption.

Remember, you're paying (in both Tax contributions AND private insurance) DOUBLE the amount for your not public, not universal healthcare than the rest of us do.

I swear the whole 'if we didn't make bombs we could afford healthcare' and the conservative obverse of 'if we weren't paying for NATO we could afford healthcare' dual shticks are designed to keep you from actually questioning why the hell you're paying DOUBLE what everyone else does on Healthcare for less service.

Yeah, that comment hit me in the nuts too.

The US is about to hit 20 years of the federal minimum wage being $7 an hour and change. 2/3 of the US states still adhere to it as their standard, and several states have laws against local municipalities enacting their own local wage laws.

Meanwhile the war budget (and let's be honest, calling it a 'defense' budget is bullshit) has increased by a few percentage points every single year since 2001.

The poverty here is by design, same as it's always been.

Bless his heart. His self awareness was surgically removed when he was a baby.

"Do you have an irony deficiency?"- Joseph in the Handmaid's Tale

EVERY single republican "argument:"