Look, he is a POS but this take is lacking context. Every year,the Navy Seals Foundation holds a race that includes a swim across the Hudson and then a run to the 9/11 memorial. He (and the others) are in swimsuits, not underwear. - ThreadSky

pinktweets.bsky.social • 40 days ago

Look, he is a POS but this take is lacking context. Every year,the Navy Seals Foundation holds a race that includes a swim across the Hudson and then a run to the 9/11 memorial. He (and the others) are in swimsuits, not underwear.

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northernrednekk.bsky.social•40 days ago

Show up later in your dress uniform. That is how you show respect.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

Anyone can participate, not just military personnel. So...no uniform.

And you are missing the point. The point is that facts matter and posting this photo without context is misleading.

northernrednekk.bsky.social•40 days ago

I was never in the military. But here is one for you. If I was working on my mother's old Cadillac and got it running. I would not drive over in my greasy coveralls to the family plot to tell her. I would clean up and be dignified.

nursejungabel.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you for the context!!

sleepyhollyvt.bsky.social•40 days ago

The context doesn't make it better.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

Write to the event organizer about it.
https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/

sleepyhollyvt.bsky.social•40 days ago

Oh, I definitely will.

pennyflynn.bsky.social•40 days ago

By all means take part in the race, but put some clothes on at the memorial!

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

they should but they don't - but that's all of them, not just him

pennyflynn.bsky.social•40 days ago

Bizarre. Like sitting in your swimsuit in church. Weird.

essh12.bsky.social•40 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏼

jossloves.bsky.social•40 days ago

Okay. Thank you. He is still and unqualified sexist man but that IS important context.

lpwoods.bsky.social•40 days ago

Why do I feel like it should say, "Not pictured: Maverick, Goose, Iceman"?

hm-queenthicctoria.bsky.social•39 days ago

Was Hegseth a navy seal?

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

Is this swim only for SEALs?
Is this swim only for SEALs?
No. This swim is open to all. The swim is made up of Active Duty, Reservist, Veteran, First Responders, Patriots and Civilians. https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/event/2024-nyc-seal-swim/e559597

hm-queenthicctoria.bsky.social•39 days ago

Thank you for more context. I appreciate it.

lrvelaa.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's a bit...gay🫣

tracklayer.bsky.social•39 days ago

You surely have to ask yourself why?

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

Why they hold the event?

It is a fundraiser.

https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/event/2024-nyc-seal-swim/e559597

mrsbettybowers.bsky.social•40 days ago

Yes, a swimsuit at a memorial honoring the dead is *so* much more respectful.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

It is not respectful at all. But that's on the organizers for not having them change their clothes before running to the memorial.

It is also besides the point. The point is that FACTS MATTER. True - he was in a swimsuit at the 9/11 memorial. Whole truth -

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

because he was a participant in an event that is unfortunately organized that way.

sebastianmaki.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thanks for the integrity

jimbeauh.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thanks for the context.

the92.bsky.social•40 days ago

Would Republicans be okay with that if it was a democratic nominee?

cjseahorsemom.bsky.social•40 days ago

No, they would be screeching and preaching about fidelity and substance use disorder.

michaelblurry.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thanks for the fact-check. Yes, maga lies constantly, but they already lost credibility (for sane people). Dems and the left twisting things will not win over all those Biden voters that voted for Trump this time around or those that didn’t bother to vote. Honesty will.

ricksevensix.bsky.social•40 days ago

And he didn't question the way it was organized.
He didn't say, "i'm not showing up at the memorial mostly naked." He was okay with it.

You may not be trying to put it that way, but your excuse seems to be that he was just following orders.

oliveowl6.bsky.social•40 days ago

So he had no choice? They held a gun to his head?

None of them could even think to say “let me take FIVE MINUTES to change into something more respectful?”

chocvader.bsky.social•39 days ago

Thanks for the factcheck.

pauldorfman.bsky.social•39 days ago

There is a difference tho. And if we ignore facts we are no better than MAGA. He was in a swim suit as part of a charity swim event. Was it tacky? I think so.

jackofalltech-ks.bsky.social•40 days ago

C'mon, Betty. Be better.

Context matters; lies of omission are still lies and the truth of who this man is is far more than enough to condemn him without making shit up.

lizonline011.bsky.social•40 days ago

NOT!!!

2laughingpoodles.bsky.social•40 days ago

That much nudity at a memorial for people who died tragically and violently is still pretty weird.

harlanbelle.bsky.social•39 days ago

He isn’t a Navy Seal. He was a major in the National Guard

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

Is this swim only for SEALs?
No. This swim is open to all. The swim is made up of Active Duty, Reservist, Veteran, First Responders, Patriots and Civilians.
https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/event/2024-nyc-seal-swim/e559597

janiemb.bsky.social•40 days ago

It certainly appears his swimwear doesn't match the other; he's not former Navy Seal, so there's that, and he's only done this once, in 2019.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

Those guys are a team.In the photos here you can see all kinds of swimsuits including skimpy ones.

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0b56932f38dcd16b&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS978US978&sxsrf=ADLYWILqk0rVynsdZdKUHeeJkaS_JDliNA:1736901837329&q=navy+seals+swim+across+the+hudson+2024&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWtG_mNb-HwafvV8cKK_h1a0WYAF4mXQP8CuyQXqW6TNwFzFqSIycQx-vLTqHkOqpNhrLbGpbmYO7haDIQqofTBhXBS1VUbecMWQtcizTKBQCYppBzO4WifCOk_aCubNYTQpDdccmcLY_rreNN08ZjuYMr1mxECRJxuJ6iAMxJs84cqp3RzolSoZ9u2MqlrfLp5m-oUw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw8ZfIv_aKAxVrLVkFHZNCBOEQtKgLegQIGBAB&cshid=1736901948954470&biw=1305&bih=694&dpr=2

What difference does it make when he did it? If you look at the photos online, you will see that this is how they do it every year.

janiemb.bsky.social•40 days ago

To be honest... I don't really care about his being a weirdo.

I expect it. He's a poser and pretender.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

the-1-and-only.bsky.social•40 days ago

Context matters in the misinformation age

kcvoteblue1970.bsky.social•40 days ago

Still weird. 😳

ohhhjeff.bsky.social•39 days ago

thanks for the context, but he’s still such a poser

bobbinponytail.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thanks for the clarification. Something seemed off.

ashprotogen.bsky.social•40 days ago

Idnk if that makes it any more uniformly better though like it still feels slightly like disrespecting the dead to me to be walking in a memorial with nothing but a swimsuit. Idnk maybe I’m wrong to some people to say that. Just how it seems to me.🤷‍♀️

prairienights.bsky.social•40 days ago

They all appear to have matching swim trunks that do not match his.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

That's apparently a team. If you look at the many images online you will see all kinds of swimtrunks, some of them very skimpy.

prairienights.bsky.social•40 days ago

Since when is he a Navy Seal?

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

prairienights.bsky.social•40 days ago

I just looked it up but thank you. Now I am looking to see if others are at the memorial in swim trunks. No way is that excusable.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

I posted two photos of groups of participants at the memorial, all wearing swim trunks.

katsygrace.bsky.social•40 days ago

Still not qualified…

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

100% unqualified.

But facts matter.

moochcalucci.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you. If we on the Left cannot hold ourselves to a higher moral standard than that of those on the far Right, it weakens our own moral position. It leaves us open to the same criticism and accusations that we have rightfully imposed on them. And that includes spreading misinformation.

nelagirl.bsky.social•39 days ago

More like a cos play w/flags by some buff self admiring disrespectful immature man boys.

tinyhouse.bsky.social•40 days ago

Kids, don’t run with flagpoles. You’ll put your eye out!

txblueberry.bsky.social•40 days ago

Yes, thank you for context.

mortimersnodgrass.bsky.social•40 days ago

Just because they do it, doesn’t make it okay. The Navy Seals Foundation supports something pretty damn distasteful. It’s just disrespectful. Read the room, boys.

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

Event Director Bill Brown. Email Bill at [email protected]

blocksabadass.bsky.social•40 days ago

I’m so not a fan of Hegseth, but I than you for putting it all into context.

6thof8.bsky.social•40 days ago

So, every year the Navy Seals Foundation uses a sacred memorial as a fundraiser. Hmm.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

Yes, but that's on them.

6thof8.bsky.social•40 days ago

If he cared for the fallen, not for the photo op, he would not have participated. That’s on him.

6thof8.bsky.social•40 days ago

Mandatory $2,000 fundraising goal. With the Memorial as a photo op. https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/event/2024-nyc-seal-swim/e559597?

sleepyhollyvt.bsky.social•40 days ago

So gross.

9/11 families already have to deal with so much.

anxiouspepper.bsky.social•40 days ago

Context matters indeed

idiocracywatch.bsky.social•40 days ago

Notice how THESE photos don't show just one dunning-kruger effect poster boy, modeling a creepy "look at patriotic MEEEE" photo for his OWN egotistical purposes. THESE photos look different, don't they? That's because they are. I wish I knew who took his photo.

arconiat.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yeah but his skivvies look nothing like the swim shorts they are wearing in the pictures you shared.

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

There are dozens of photos of event online.If you bother to look, you will see a wide variety of swim trunks, some of them very skimpy.

arconiat.bsky.social•39 days ago

It looks like he was on a bender and got caught up in the race.

bethannnnnn.bsky.social•40 days ago

Imagine going to Auschwitz in a bikini to raise $ for a charity
Nothing excuses this behavior

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

Event Director Bill Brown. Email Bill at [email protected]

bethannnnnn.bsky.social•39 days ago

Appreciate what you're saying but these "types" don't care

pinktweets.bsky.social•39 days ago

Probably not but the choices are:

1. Curse the darkness
2. Light a candle

#1 achieves nothing. If enough people write to the Foundation, they might re-think this.

bethannnnnn.bsky.social•39 days ago

You give them too much credit

jonathanudlock.bsky.social•39 days ago

Thank you for the context. Truth matters, even if it makes Hegseth look ever so slightly less awful

jacksprat39.bsky.social•40 days ago

Context: he was in the National Guard. I doubt he ever was able to swim from NJ to NY without a stop at a saloon.

beegirl9.bsky.social•39 days ago

Truth matters. Otherwise, we’re just like them.

fastkidpunk.bsky.social•39 days ago

Performative libs doing performative shit. This is why we lost.

nateturner.bsky.social•39 days ago

This looks more like a Queer Pride event.

rosellestchez.bsky.social•40 days ago

Oh, that explains it.

yazzyyee.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thanks for context

faithwilson.bsky.social•40 days ago

Not sure that helps lol!!

aholdofme.bsky.social•40 days ago

🤣

boomerfmk.bsky.social•40 days ago

I agree. Yeah, they COULD be underwear, but they could just as easily be a pair of shorts or a swimsuit

ickisthemeatfairy.bsky.social•40 days ago

I mean, that just makes the whole organization gross. It doesn't make him better, just that he belongs to an organization using a memorial to thirst trap people for money. Might as well do a naked calendar shoot in a cemetery.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

Write to them and tell them.
https://www.navysealfoundation.org/

ickisthemeatfairy.bsky.social•40 days ago

Done

susieblacksheep.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you. I still despise him.

patricjreynolds.bsky.social•40 days ago

We should really pace ourselves. There are going to be plenty of things to be outraged about during these next four years, but I don’t think that this is one of them. Again, thanks for providing context.

auntie-social.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you, context matters!

ninas368.bsky.social•40 days ago

Hegseth wasn’t a Navy Seal and Hegseth wasn’t in the Navy, Hegseth was in the Army National Guard, yet he chooses this day to align himself with the Navy Seals Foundation. Interesting.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

stonesfan23.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you for the context.

khelden.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you for this!

flyingnone.bsky.social•40 days ago

It doesn't matter, putting him in that position is like sitting my cat down at the CAD system and telling him to start designing. He has no idea how it works and we need someone with experience.

generalburkhalter.bsky.social•40 days ago

Well said- I was trying to find a suitable analogy and now I have one. I will give you full attribution when I use it. 😎

flyingnone.bsky.social•40 days ago

It's okay I don't require your attribution, it's fine, say it as much as you want. A cat at a CAD system either knocks the mouse off the desk, falls asleep drunk or walks off. Pretty short attention span. 🤔

marti1969.bsky.social•39 days ago

I had heard about this before and was surprised to see the original post about it. There is so much wrong with this man, but we don't need to use that event and photo to show he's a raging alcoholic misogynist pig. Just watch clips of his Fox weekend show.

7thkkid.bsky.social•40 days ago

Thank you for this. I googled and found this context as well. To @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social, I'm not a fan of Hegseth, but every time people I follow post misleading info it makes me not trust them and not want to follow them. Do better!!

nyc34.bsky.social•40 days ago

The other guys appear to be in camouflage grey swimsuits , he seems to be wearing what appears to be grey underwear designed to accentuate his junk and he is the only one holding a flag over the names of those that perished - so, I’m not getting the swim for 9/11 thing- he’s not NYPD or FDNY

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

It is not a swim for 9/11. https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/event/2024-nyc-seal-swim/e559597

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

There are lots of photos of this event online, showing all kinds of swim trunks, including lots of very skimpy suits. The guys in that one photo were apparently a team.

nyc34.bsky.social•40 days ago

I’m confused. I was trying to understand your explanation but at the end of the day all I see is a guy posing in skimpy briefs using the flag as a prop. Let’s end this here.

nyc34.bsky.social•40 days ago

Ahhh but still that flag he’s carrying while earnestly gazing at the engraved names. I was in 9/11- I wasn’t aware that there were these swimathons going on- for me it’s just a very somber day Do you know if he has a particular connection to that day?

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

I have no idea if he does or doesn't. It wasn't held on 9/11.
https://impact.navysealfoundation.org/event/2024-nyc-seal-swim/e559597

rubymcrae.bsky.social•40 days ago

It's still inappropriate and attention seeking at a solemn event.

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

Write to them and tell them.

https://www.navysealfoundation.org/

pinktweets.bsky.social•40 days ago

That's on the Navy Seals Foundation.

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