Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jokingly said any surge in takeout deliveries to the Pentagon — a phenomenon that has accurately predicted the start of major geopolitical events — could be him ordering pizza “just to throw everybody off.”

Asked about the “Pentagon Pizza Report,” an account on X that tracks activity at local pizza joints near the U.S. military hub, Hegseth said he was aware of the account.

“I’ve thought of just ordering lots of pizza on random nights just to throw everybody off,” he said Sunday on Fox News. “Some Friday night when you see a bunch of Dominos orders, it might just be me on an app, throwing the whole system off so we keep everybody off balance. We look at every indicator.”

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      They have like an extra 150 billion last year they are spending as we speak, with no guidelines on it, so they have plenty. This year they want to give them 1.5 trillion even, just incredible fiscal restraint form the responsible party of fiscal discipline!

      What a joke, extracting money from the federal government is like the main reason for being of almost all of these lawmakers. Get in, sell out, extract all you can, accrue favors and bribes and what have you, get out. Then when out if they sell out well they can lobby, or run an institute, or any number of other corrupt positions that are part of paying off lawmakers to pay off monied interests.

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      To be fair probably not a bad op sec idea. I’m sure if they made it a formal security idea, they would get funding for it. As long as the pizza doesn’t go to waste.

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    I’m always surprised the pizza index works. There are over 20 restaurants inside the Pentagon, including a pizza place. It should be easy to make everyone order from those when something is happening

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    A real military mobilization is about as easy to conceal as a sunrise. And you’re not going to fool anyone by ordering a few extra pizzas.

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    All I hear is that the pizza index works, he is too fucking dumb to do anything about it, and is clearly rattled about it. If he was serious he would have kept his mouth shut, which he can’t, and it’s all bullshit.

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        Tbf, they’re not sending anyone to where they haven’t been before. 🤷‍♂️

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            The Grindr server crashed on two separate Republican conventions and I’ve been seeing closeted republican men on Craigslist trolling for cock since the beginning of time. Do you need more evidence?

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              Do you think the same people have anonymous hook ups are publicly attending gay bars?

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                Do you think the same people have anonymous hook ups are publicly attending gay bars?

                Tell me you’ve never been to a bar without telling me.

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    “Thought about” and “might just” are two phrases middle aged white guys use when we want to talk big and then never follow through. I’d be shocked if he puts in one “fake” order, and highly doubt he’ll be able to be consistent enough to throw off the tracker.

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      Or maybe they’ll do one fake order the day before the real one and keep doing it like that, and the half-assing just means the pizza index predicts it one day earlier.

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      Right. He’s too fucking dumb to pull off even random pizza orders. In any case, everyone knows that to really throw people off the scent you tell them about your plans, right? What a fucking muppet.

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    We look at every indicator.

    After it’s become widespread international news meaning our allies and enemies have known for at least a decade…

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        The 90s needed actual spooks casing out pizza places… That was a real thing, Russians casing take out joints in DC, even before pizza was a big deal.

        But it was easier just to keep an eye on the parking lots and how many lights stayed on overnight.

        For at least the last decade, there have been electronic means of surveillance allowing every country who gives a shit to monitor 24/7. Which sounds stupid, but that monitoring is essentially free and just one of 100s if not thousands of individual flags.

        Pizza flag may go off a lot, but if x, y, and z are all also happening…

        Then everyone knows something is gonna happen.

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    Okay, fuck, he got me, that’s really funny. Good job. Now please submit to The Hague, confess everything, and spend the rest of your life in prison.

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      A decade ago I was like, “FOX hosts are vile, disgusting, fucking goblins, but at least they’re not in government”.

      I refuse to accept this is the reality I exist in.