As RedState reported earlier, things got off to a lively start Tuesday at the confirmation hearing for President-Elect Donald Trump's Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, with left-wing pro-Hamas agitators disrupting things almost immediately and some Democrat Senators imploding over Hegseth's refusal to be rattled over their woke and at times unhinged questioning and commentary.

One of them in particular, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), yada yada'd for several minutes about how "mean" and "brutal" Hegseth's prior comments on women serving in combat roles allegedly were, also accusing him of making everything "political" even though he's previously criticized the Dept. of Defense for what he sees as their politicization and wokeification of just about everything.

"Everything you’ve said in these public statements is political. 'I don’t want women. I don’t want moms.' What’s wrong with a mom, by the way?" she rhetorically asked. "Once you have babies, you’re no longer able to be lethal? It’s a silly thing to say -- beneath the position you are aspiring to," she proclaimed.

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Things got even wilder when a fed-up Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) took to the mic, absolutely shredding the Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee, calling out their outright hypocrisy on some of the things they're criticizing Hegseth over (including the "drunk" allegations) and in the process spilling the tea (and raising eyebrows in the process) on how often some of them have allegedly shown up for votes on the Senate floor drunk:

“How many Senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked him to step down and resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it because I know you have. And then how many Senators do you know have [gotten] a divorce for cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No. But it’s for show.”

Oh, my my my!

Mullin finished his commentary by thanking Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, for sticking with Hegseth through the mistakes he's made. "The only reason I'm here and not in prison is because my wife loved me, too," Mullin also said, which led to applause from some members of the committee.

Watch:

Senator Mullin just eviscerated left-wing Senators to their faces for being shameless hypocrites 🔥

“How many Senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked him to step down and resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it because I… pic.twitter.com/IkirCOZpyz

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 14, 2025

That, my friends, is what's called a smackdown. We need more of this, please. So much more.

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