Having Hegseth bragging about praying for death in Iran is ironic.

[Swede]

[Historic NY]

1. Especially one that can turn Trump

to enter the codes

[Hope22]

2. It's almost like our Iraq war came home

And ate our brains out! This man is sick! A civilized society does not advocate in This manner!

[Passages]

3. Talk about a terrorist. The irony is rich.

[ms liberty]

4. He may get exactly what he's praying for. Hubris. It's a thing.

[AverageOldGuy]

5. The next quote from Hogsbreath:

DEATH TO THE INFIDELS !!!

[sop]

6. Sounds like one of those theatrical promos for a pay-per-view WWE NXT personal grudge tag team match.

[democrank]

7. Hegseth's messages are chilling.

A bragging, dangerous, bloodthirsty bully leads the Department of Defense.

Frightening!

[Farmer-Rick]

8. He's probably drunk.

He sounds crazy and had way too much to drink that morning. Or maybe he switched to RFKJr favorite drug, heroine, or pedo Trump's Adderall.

[llmart]

17. Or maybe all three.

[Farmer-Rick]

20. That made me laugh

Yeah, maybe.

[multigraincracker]

9. If he were to trip on the steps and break out all of his teeth today, I'd believe in a God.

[Marcuse]

10. Who does Hegseth expect to hear his death prayers?

[GiqueCee]

11. What a repulsively vile...

... excuse for a human being Kegsbreath really is.

[orleans]

12. i don't know when that rw thing was where hegseth said that crap

but i'm just wondering if it was before or after pope leo said what he said:

"This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war," Leo said during Mass in St. Peter's Square. "He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them."

[Ray Bruns]

13. Not ironic. Sick.

[Volaris]

19. I wanna see his psych evaluation.

[patphil]

14. All I can say is that if God heard his prayer, Hegseth would already be dead.

He's the embodiment of what he prays to have God punish.

[aeromanKC]

15. Odd that he's using prayer to advocate for his own demise.

But then again, it's projection. It's always projection with Trump and his MAGAt's.

[Drum]

16. He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind

Or something like that

[Seinan Sensei]

18. Hegseth easily could have been reciting Mark Twain

See “The War Prayer.”
Twain reportedly lost his publisher over this parable.

Excerpt:
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter …

[Ol Janx Spirit]

23. I can't help but hear the Holy hand grenade bit from Monty Python when he pulls this crap....

"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits. in thy mercy' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats..."
...

"And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'"

-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Ol Janx Spirit]

21. We cannot discount that the twisted minds now in control actually want to usher in the battle of Armageddon.

To the ear and mind of us purely secular-folk it sounds as insane as it actually is, but to people like Hegseth and a vast majority of the Republican conference it seems to be a real goal to aspire to.

Having spent their entire lives thinking it would happen naturally, they are coming to the conclusion that they are the ones that will have to start the battle or it won't ever come. Jesus did his job a little too well apparently.

Sure, it goes against all of the teachings, but for these Reich-wing "Christians", if you want something done right....

Separation of Church and State is for losers that want to live in peace or something....

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

22. It's looking like Project 2025 might actually be Project 2025 BCE. Long before Frick-ism became Frack-ianity.

[Initech]

24. Hey Pete, our government is not your church!

Get your fake megachurch bullshit nonsense out of here!