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The supposition by some that Trump is a Russian agent might be wrong.
Maybe he’s a Chinese agent.
lawtig02
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Shut the fuck up, heathen! Secretary Hegseth is returning our military to its war-fighting roots!
Hegseth Starts Evangelical Prayer Services at Pentagon with His Tennessee Church Pastor
The defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for male-led Christian authority over society.
In a move that pushes the boundaries of Constitutional prohibition against a state religion, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted an evangelical prayer service in the middle of the day at the Pentagon in which a pastor praised President Donald Trump as "sovereignly appointed."
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While Hegseth made an opening prayer, the majority of the service was run by the defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for male-led Christian authority over society.
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Meanwhile, the pastor, Brooks Potteiger, prayed for the Pentagon to "become a place where Christians come together to do just this, and we see you move in power, not just through the Pentagon, but through our nation's capital and down throughout this great nation."
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Meanwhile, Trump has a long track record of pushing to blur America's long-standing traditions that separate church and state. Shortly after taking office for his second term, he established a White House Faith Office and signed an executive order banning "anti-Christian bias" and to "end the anti-Christian weaponization of government."
Hegseth's pastor, who came from Tennessee for the service at the Pentagon, runs the Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship -- a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
The group's governing documents reserve church leadership roles for men and prohibit women from being "mustered for combat."
Hegseth has long been an opponent of women in military combat roles and argued in his last book that the achievements of female service members were inflated or the result of diversity efforts.
"They don't care how many battles we lose as long as our dead are diverse," he wrote, without specifying who "they" were. "We can see this in how the woke PR machine has spun stories of female service members."
Potteiger's sermon featured several references to the Pentagon and military.
"If our Lord is sovereign, even over the sparrows' fallings, you can be assured that he is sovereign over everything else that falls in this world, including Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles, including strategy meetings and war room debriefings. Jesus has the final say over all of it," he said.
The church documents also call being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender a "perversion."
"We pray for our leaders who you have sovereignly appointed -- for President Trump, thank you for the way that you have used him to bring stability and moral clarity to our land," Potteiger said in the sermon. "We pray that you would surround him with faithful counselors who fear your name and love your priesthoods."
Ahead of Hegseth's confirmation to lead the Pentagon, USA Today reported that a podcast run by Potteiger and Joshua Haymes, another member of the leadership at Pilgrim Hill, often features the concept of the "sphere sovereignty" in which "Christian men are over three equally powerful spheres -- the government, church and family -- to maintain order and submissiveness through different forms of discipline."
When Hegseth introduced Potteiger on Wednesday, he said that the pastor had "long been a mentor of mine, of my wife and I, of our family" and that he had participated in Bible studies with him "long before anything like this seemed possible."
"And now here we are," he added.
The good news is that any good properties this Trumplican abomination has will be bought by people who likely know what they’re doing.
Pete Hegseth has been married his THIRD wife since 2019; he and his SECOND wife divorced in 2017.Shut the fuck up, heathen! Secretary Hegseth is returning our military to its war-fighting roots!
Hegseth Starts Evangelical Prayer Services at Pentagon with His Tennessee Church Pastor
The defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for male-led Christian authority over society.www.military.com
In a move that pushes the boundaries of Constitutional prohibition against a state religion, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted an evangelical prayer service in the middle of the day at the Pentagon in which a pastor praised President Donald Trump as "sovereignly appointed."
* * *
While Hegseth made an opening prayer, the majority of the service was run by the defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for male-led Christian authority over society.
* * *
Meanwhile, the pastor, Brooks Potteiger, prayed for the Pentagon to "become a place where Christians come together to do just this, and we see you move in power, not just through the Pentagon, but through our nation's capital and down throughout this great nation."
* * *
Meanwhile, Trump has a long track record of pushing to blur America's long-standing traditions that separate church and state. Shortly after taking office for his second term, he established a White House Faith Office and signed an executive order banning "anti-Christian bias" and to "end the anti-Christian weaponization of government."
Hegseth's pastor, who came from Tennessee for the service at the Pentagon, runs the Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship -- a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
The group's governing documents reserve church leadership roles for men and prohibit women from being "mustered for combat."
Hegseth has long been an opponent of women in military combat roles and argued in his last book that the achievements of female service members were inflated or the result of diversity efforts.
"They don't care how many battles we lose as long as our dead are diverse," he wrote, without specifying who "they" were. "We can see this in how the woke PR machine has spun stories of female service members."
Potteiger's sermon featured several references to the Pentagon and military.
"If our Lord is sovereign, even over the sparrows' fallings, you can be assured that he is sovereign over everything else that falls in this world, including Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles, including strategy meetings and war room debriefings. Jesus has the final say over all of it," he said.
The church documents also call being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender a "perversion."
"We pray for our leaders who you have sovereignly appointed -- for President Trump, thank you for the way that you have used him to bring stability and moral clarity to our land," Potteiger said in the sermon. "We pray that you would surround him with faithful counselors who fear your name and love your priesthoods."
Ahead of Hegseth's confirmation to lead the Pentagon, USA Today reported that a podcast run by Potteiger and Joshua Haymes, another member of the leadership at Pilgrim Hill, often features the concept of the "sphere sovereignty" in which "Christian men are over three equally powerful spheres -- the government, church and family -- to maintain order and submissiveness through different forms of discipline."
When Hegseth introduced Potteiger on Wednesday, he said that the pastor had "long been a mentor of mine, of my wife and I, of our family" and that he had participated in Bible studies with him "long before anything like this seemed possible."
"And now here we are," he added.
How long has this grifting “minister” been mentoring Hegseth’s wife?
Aren’t they publicly in Illinois?
I like the term kook-aid!
US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.apnews.com
This is beyond disgusting and despicable. As a Veteran this sickens me and pisses me off that Airmen who have served honorably are being treated like second class citizens. FUCK the MAGA ass hats and all who voted for Taco Cheese. What's next? Are they going to force out those of us who don't drink the kook-aid?
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I'd limit it to post WWII. Andrew Mellon was a doozy, and the Gilded Age was full of corruption and long-forgotten cabinet members, some of whom might also be doozies.
But certainly in our lifetime, we've had few rivals except for Trump 1.0 (e.g. Ben Carson, Matt "Toilet" Whitaker, whoever the fuck was leading DoD by the end, etc)
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If the Texas Democrats really want to disappear, they should hide wherever the Epstein files are. Nobody will ever find them.
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Has anyone checked the Mar-a-Lago shitters?
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As Ramrouser knows, the Jesus man loves him some Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles. But he insists that during Pentagon debriefings, there will be no fighting in the War Room!
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Fair. I do not have a full list of all cabinet secretaries. But I think we'd be hard-pressed to find worse ones than these --
- Vance
- Zeldin
- Loeffler
- Bondi (although, if it's possible, a VAST improvement over Gaetz)
- Gabbard
- Vaught
- Rollins
- Lutnick
- Hegseth
- Kennedy
- Noem
- Duffy
- Greer
And that's leaving a LOT of meat on the bone.
I think we have normalized the shitfuckery of Trump 2.0's cabinet. These are the worst of us. I've always said I would rather have a random draw of the 343 million Americans over Trump. I'm now confident I'd take the same gamble for any of the 13 cabinet-level officials listed above. Maybe we have a crackhead or two. That still wouldn't be worse that what calla and Ram have enabled.
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How would the United States be “of no further force and effect”? That’s a phrase we use frequently in contracts when we terminate (or contemplate termination of) legal documents. Trump likely sees it regularly, has a general gist of the impact must think it sounds official or something.
Anyway, funny how he pivots from attacking the globalists at the WSJ to attacking judges.
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Republicans like the power the US military provides us. They've not actually supported the troops in my lifetime and I'm nearly 50.
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Yeah, I was being generous and still found 13 incomparably unqualified cabinet secretaries.
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There have been about 50 killed in skirmishes since 2021, but nearly 8,000 died in the border co flick during the first Trump term, so good for him on trying to get a signed agreement between the parties.
The weakening of Iran probably made this possible as they have been an important supporter of Azerbaijan (though Iran has claimed neutrality for decades). But with Iran out of the picture, Turkey is Azerbaijan’s primary source of support and so there really is an opportunity to use Turkey’s ties to the west here for good effect. Plus the U.S. gets a chance to exploit energy opportunities that could benefit Turkey as well.
As with everything Trump says, we should wait to see the details, but credit to his Administration for pursing a deal here.
[I don’t know Russia’s posture here but they have been a key supporter of Armenia in the past.]
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