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Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

So what Kegsbreath et al are hoping for is, in effect, total annihilation of the human race, never mind if you’re not a straight white male christian nationalist, right? They’re telling the troops that they’re all going to die and it’s god’s will and their duty. Got it!

Dian Allison's avatar

YES!! And this is HORRIFIC! I was raised in a Bible-thumpin' home, and these people mean this LITERALLY! This should have been the HEADER of Reese's essay this morning. Melania is just another vacuous Barbie, but Turmp's KEN, aka Pete Hegseth, wants to bring about the LITERAL "End of the World"!!!!!

Anne Fletcher-Jones's avatar

Horrific and frightening?

Mike Hammer's avatar

It’s all coming together now with the apocalypse and the rapture. They’re don’t want to take us back to the 1950’s, they want a holy war or Crusades 2.0. And throw in a race war while they’re at it.

Lynne de Lacy's avatar

Just came across a brilliant Churchill quote.

‘You can always rely on America to do the right thing, but only after they’ve exhausted all the other possibilities.’

The other possibilities have slapped us all in the face Now it’s time to do the right thing

Dian Allison's avatar

But the urgent RIGHT THING is "fire HEGSETH!"

Frederica Huxley's avatar

Dr Strangelove and The Keystone Cops

Dian Allison's avatar

But FOR REAL!! This needs to be shouted from the ROOFTOPS! If Hegseth gets his way (and realistically, WHAT is stopping him? Congress is inert!) we are ALL GOING TO BE TOAST! I was raised in this Bible-thumpin' world, and Hegseth is THRILLED to be "doing God's Will!" The man is a religious fanatic!

Katy Bolger's avatar

The admin needs one slight reason to round up all Muslims in America, demonize them as terrorists and send them to concentration camps. The day is nigh, y'all.

Jacquelyn Wolverton's avatar

They are trying to get the warehouses ready as we speak.

Jim Fritzen's avatar

Is there any difference between what Hegseth is doing and a Jihad? Donald J. Trump is Jim Jones on a global scale. His loyalists consume gallons of Kool-Aid everyday and then say, "sir, can I have some more?"

Deb Glasheen's avatar

tRump is the Antichrist.

I hope Talarico doesn’t become another Fetterman. I hope we can find a way to get Jasmine back in Washington, cause she scares the hell out of them with her intelligence and quick mind.

Jacquelyn Wolverton's avatar

It’s why they want her out. The party needs to expel Fetterman. Now.

Jacquelyn Wolverton's avatar

God knows I could be wrong (because no one knows what the hell is going on anymore) but I don’t peg Talarico as being anything as twisted as John Fetterman.

I am not an expert, however I have experience with stroke victims and it can exponentially alter their mental status. Then Fetterman went down to Mar a Lago and bent the knee to the Cheeseburger King.

Talarico seems very intelligent and, although talks about his belief, does not throw it out there in the way the current Administration does.

Hoping for the best here. And very sorry to see Crockett defeated. She will find another way.

Lynne de Lacy's avatar

Thank you once again for your clarity

I’m so sorry for the loss and injury of your brave military

Nothing good comes of dragging God into the war to try and justify the unjustifiable

It’s happened through history - the original Crusades come to mind

Nor with inflated lies as happened with Bush and Blair pulling us into war in the search for non existent weapons of mass destruction

I am extremely heartened by the determination of the people of Texas voting in their thousands to try and put the USA back on the right path

I hope and have confidence that this will be replicated across the country

Janet's avatar

Thank you, Heather. We are living a nightmare none of us could ever fathom. Your sane, accurate and intelligent reporting is much appreciated in this time of lies and misdirection. I agree that the Hegseth situation needs a lot of exposure. We have always been accused of indoctrination, yet what he is doing to our military is the very definition of that. I have just subscribed because I appreciate your tenacity and honesty and we need your voice more than ever. Thank you so much.

Larry O’Connor's avatar

American Exceptionalism is showing its dark side … from Melania presiding before the esteemed Security Council, to Hegseth steaming us toward warrior martyrdom. Exceptionalism, indeed. No other country on earth is so “exceptional.” Thanks for your vigilance in sharing all, Heather! Texas, of all places, offers beams of hooe ❤️

Dian Allison's avatar

Yes! The Dark Side, and if HEGSETH has his way, we'll all be dark TOAST! I was raised in that "Armageddon must come" world, and he is HOPING to bring about NUCLEAR ANNIHLATION. This needs to be shouted from the ROIFTOPS, not buried halfway through an (otherwise excellent) essay in Substack!!!

Katy Bolger's avatar

What was that old poster from the 1960s? Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye?

Re: Barbie UN: Would someone please get that nasty woman out of our sight? Give her something to do that doesn't insult our country and intelligence? She has no friends and Barron is too old to play with anymore. Get her gone! I can't wait until she realizes under that taut skin is an old foolish woman who wasted her life with a stinky man incapable of fealty or true love.

Re Ken War Man: God, what a fucking joke. I am sorry my dad died but I am happy the Colonel (USAF), did not have to witness this man destroying the armed forces with his religious hysteria and stupidity. FIRE HIM, IMPEACH HIM, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET RID OF HIM.

Julie's avatar

Living in the twilight zone now. Great job Heather 🇺🇸✌🏻👍🏻

Dian Allison's avatar

Ms. Reese! You've got way too much info crammed into one essay here. Melania is just another "Trump Barbie", hardly worthy of our time, and the vote in Texas is unfolding, but the MEAT of this essay is HORRIFIC: a religious fanatic, Turmp's "Ken" in charge of the effing PENTAGON, believes he is leading us into ARMAGEDDON?? WT actual F??

This deserves an essay of its own! I cut my teeth on my Dad's Bible, have forgotten more of it than most people ever learn, and I'm here to tell you that this is HORRIFIC. NO ONE who believes in "Armageddon" has any business leading us "INTO Armageddon"!

You need to write another essay with THIS TOPIC as the leader! So many people are unfamiliar with the Bible today, and have zero IDEA of the gravity of what Hegseth believes! He literally believes that GOD wants him to bring about "The. End Of. The. World." Literally! Like, nuclear war.

Kate Foster's avatar

Thank you for your willingness to not only say this out loud, but say it so eloquently.

Pamela S.'s avatar

I’m surprised Hegaloon allows anyone to serve who hasn’t declared themselves Christian. Or hasn’t actively tried to convert those who don’t.

Dian Allison's avatar

Hegseth WANTS to bring about the END OF THE WORLD. At this point, he figures all non-"christians", along with most of the rest of us, will be nuclear TOAST, anyway! 😱

Sandra Diesel's avatar

Unbelievable hubris of these “christians” to think Jesus needs their help.

jane's avatar

Thank you, Ms. Reese.

Joy Foster's avatar

While all this is taking place, there is a solution built into the constitution ...impeachment.