Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono had quite the moment yesterday during a Senate hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel, and it wasn’t the kind of moment she’ll want to replay on CSPAN. Hirono, who has a history of asking some of the least intelligent questions in Washington, actually managed to stumble into an accidental truth: men and women are biologically different.
The exchange started when Senator Hirono pressed Director Patel about the FBI’s new physical fitness standard — a single pull-up. Not 20 pull-ups. Not Marine Corps bootcamp level training. One. And not just any pull-up, either. The rule requires applicants to grip the bar with their hands no more than two widths outside their shoulders, then pull themselves until their chin clears the bar. Pretty basic stuff for anyone hoping to carry a gun, chase down fugitives, and slap cuffs on violent criminals.
But Hirono wasn’t having it. She claimed the requirement would unfairly impact women. Her reasoning? “Physiological differences.” Yes, you read that right. A Democratic senator just admitted out loud what her party has spent decades denying: men and women are not the same. You can’t make this up.
Patel, staying calm, reminded her that FBI agents aren’t office temps. They’re supposed to be physically capable of catching bad guys. “If you want to chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs, you better be able to do a pull-up,” he said flatly. That’s not harsh, it’s common sense. Watch the exchange here:
What’s really rich is Hirono trying to paint Patel as sexist for expecting FBI agents to have the upper-body strength of, well, FBI agents. This is the same party that insists men can be women if they say so, and gender is nothing more than a “social construct.” Then, in a rare moment of honesty, Hirono herself admitted those pesky “physiological differences” exist.
It’s almost poetic: in her effort to score woke points, Hirono became the first Democrat in years to publicly concede that biology is real. Too bad she did it while arguing that America’s top law enforcement agency should lower the bar — literally — to keep unqualified applicants in the mix.