The Wall Street Journal reported on the defense secretary’s hissy fit amid growing chaos.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly teed off on a high-ranking official he suspected of a leak, lewdly threatening him with a lie detector test.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday divulged the alleged details of the embattled Hegseth’s tantrum. When word got out Hegseth was setting up a classified briefing for Elon Musk on China last month, Donald Trump got angry amid Pentagon concerns over the DOGE leader’s business connections to China, the Journal wrote.
That’s when Hegseth lost it.
“I’ll hook you up to a fucking polygraph!” Hegseth blared at Navy Admiral Christopher Grady, two people familiar with the exchange told WSJ.
Lewdly? I wouldn’t call threatening to, hook someone up to a “fucking” polygraph, lewd. I mean, unless they have some really freaky polygraphs at the pentagon made for really hardcore games of Truth of Dare.
Yeah, I spotted that, too. It was stupid, but “lewd?” Who writes this stuff? Is it ALL AI these days?
It’s lewd because it’s dirty, in the sense that it has no scientific basis whatsoever.
What could be dirtier than the intelligence head threatening staff with a fake test that can be easily doctored to portrait whatever you want about them?
It isn’t wrong, it’s just the less common usage in 2025 which is why it reeks of AI.
I’m arguing for no huffpo links. this is another reason why.
It’s a fucking polygraph. They hook you up, then you have to get it on. For the baseline.
You’ve clearly never been treated to a polygraph by me. It’s a sensual polygraph experience and baby girl, you’ll be telling me everything like the orca I tend to at the San Antonio SeaWorld.
I got lectured about not using the sarcasm tag the other day. So, /completely serious
/s
*Looks down at beard and moobs, shrugs*
Okay, let’s do this. I think I can role-play an orca. Sounds fun.
“lewd” describes behavior, speech, or material that is sexually crude, obscene, or indecent. It works perfectly here unless you have online porn brain, then it sticks out.