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This was fun to watch

Damien Lehfeldt, the head of USA Fencing went before a Congressional committee last week. And it was a masterclass in the art of bringing receipts on the part of the Congressmen and women.

Via Warren Smith:

He apparently has a propensity of sock-puppeting his own social media accounts, by ginning up questions and comments from people so that he can spew his responses. IMO, that goes beyond weird and into mental illness. Here’s another example of his oddness:

Ahead of the hearing, Lehfeldt appeared to throw up a middle finger on social media, captioning the post “Game time,” but later clarified that he cropped his other finger out of the photo. The uncropped photo shared with Fox News showed Lehfeldt holding up two fingers.

So he’s a coward as well. If you’re gonna flip someone off, stand by it. But judging by the rest of his answers, he’s incapable of standing by anything he’s said.

Looks like USA Fencing is going to be changing up their rules as well. But they are hedging as much as he did.

“In the event that USA Fencing is guided to change its current stance in accordance with oversight bodies or federal legislation, the new policy states athletes competing in USA Fencing-sanctioned tournaments must compete according to their biological sex,” the organization said in a statement.

“The policy will be implemented only if and when one or more governing bodies require these updates,” USA Fencing added.



6 responses to “This was fun to watch”

  1. did they bother to ask what was the original reason he allows men to compete as women? or was it just a big f you to the rest of us?

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  2. Seppuku time!

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  3. Too slimy to answer questions with integrity. Too dumb to be embarrassed. Too cowardly to stand behind any decision he has made. Spineless puke in the wild- Too bad they are not endangered: unfortunately, they are FAR from endangered.

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  4. This is going to KEEP blowing up in their faces…LOL

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  5. I am not the kind that likes that kind of thing (a sport of attacking). however I can see an army is important and even my dad volunteered for the USAF, but I prefer things like baseball or swimming

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  6. wildman–I think they asked. He dodged the answer. I think he’s a ‘True Believer’ (and a plain weirdo with that sock puppet thing) which means he is ideologically unfit for his position.

    Gerry–I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have the guts… (get it? guts? LOL)

    TRoy–If we were in the wild, he would have been driven out and eaten by coyotes by now.

    NFO–Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

    avraham–I get it. But it is a sport of strategy as well. Chess with swords.

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