I learned today what a madman Hegseth is...

[mysteryowl]

NPR did a show today about Hegseth and I caught part of it.

Hegseth has christian-crusades tats, a lot of them. He is an extremist RW religious nut.
He has fired many military chaplains, they were not extreme enough for him.

He has said stuff like, "the military is fighting for Jesus."
Ahhh....hey you fool. No! What the hell is that?


Anyway, I have ignored him for the most part until today. He is a lunatic!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. He belongs to a xhurch that thinks only males should vote

He has written that he thinks white makes are discriminated against in the military. Deep resentment of blacks and women

He is a rapist

[mysteryowl]

4. "He is a rapist"

I suppose all in the name of Jesus.

[OMGWTF]

19. His own mother said he was an abuser.

[mysteryowl]

32. I don't understand how people like this make it through a confirmation process.

The confirmation process is folly!

[AverageOldGuy]

26. There is a branch of Christian Nationalists . . .

. . . who believe "The 19th Amendment was a mistake." Women should not vote. These people believe in and preach "family voting." The man is the head of the household. He directs the family how to vote.

Read all about it here:

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-19th-amendment-was-a-bad-idea-the-far-rights-wish-list-for-extreme-voter-suppression/

President Donald Trump and the GOP are attacking voting rights through executive orders to roll back mail-in voting and the SAVE America Act, which would impose strict ID requirements.

But to some far-right Christian influencers, that’s small potatoes.

They’re pushing for even harsher voting restrictions. Among them: revoking women’s right to vote, instituting “family voting,” and only allowing property owners the right to vote.

These ideas haven’t made it into legislation — yet. But they’re growing in popularity among far-right Christian nationalists, many of whom are motivated by a belief that women should have no role at all in public affairs.

Kai Schwemmer — an influential conservative influencer who was recently appointed as political director for the College Republicans of America — said in an online debate last year that women shouldn’t be able to vote, according to The Guardian.

. . .

In August 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a CNN interview with Doug Wilson, Hegseth’s Christian nationalist pastor, who doesn’t believe women should vote.

“Women are the kind of people that people come out of,” Wilson told CNN. “The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls.”

These people are for real. They are organized. They have lots of money. Trump loves them. He issues executive orders or members of his cabinet make decisions to support these people. This is not a joke.

[Joinfortmill]

33. Been there. Not going back. Not now, not never.

Midterms are going to be a reckoning. And when these fucks lose, all hell is gonna break loose. Hold on tight. We're in for some scary moments. This Nazi Fuck is already trying to purge the Generals.

[hedda_foil]

31. He's Opus Dei.

[Joinfortmill]

34. Jeezus.

[hlthe2b]

2. I thought you were inferring Hegseth said this about Trump, given the subject line...

Yes, Hegseth is a false, religiously insane idiot, but...

[efhmc]

3. Yeah, but he is the pedopresident's lunatic. Perfect match,

[mysteryowl]

5. found under a rock.

All these lunatics need to go back under their rocks and stay there!

[dickthegrouch]

8. No, even their rocks need to be disappeared.

We cannot allow them to hide beneath anything.
The human race will continue to decline as long as we continue to ignore the sources and nurturing mechansims of hatred, greed, and dominance.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

6. He looks like a meth addicted alcoholic.

[belpejic]

7. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck,

Then it probably is a duck. Time for Secretary Shitfaced to resign.

[wnylib]

22. I read that he was an actively drinking alcoholic before

he discovered Jesus Now he is a sober alcoholic who still acts as if he's on a crazy drinking spree, drunk on religious zeal.

[mwmisses4289]

38. He hasn't stopped drinking.

Plenty of scuttlebutt from Pentagon insiders that he drinks on the job, shows up drunk, and gets into drunken fights (mostly verbal, but still) with top brass.

[ShazzieB]

23. He's definitely addicted to alcohol.

I'd bet setious money on that. I don't know enough about what meth addiction looks like to form an opinion on that, but alcoholism has destroyed plenty of lives without help from another substance.

[irisblue]

9. What happens when religious fundamentalists come to power? (Part Two)

From On Point radio program

On Christian Nationalism
👇

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/04/07/religious-fundamentalists-christian-extremism-trump

37 minute audio

Part 1 of the 2 part series
👇
What happens when religious fundamentalists come to power? (Part One)

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/04/06/religious-fundamentalists-iran-middle-east

[mysteryowl]

12. Oh fantastic! Is this what I heard today, I wonder.

[Javaman]

10. he needs a straitjacket. nt

[mysteryowl]

11. I found a video about his crusades tats...

He should NOT have been confirmed by congress!

[ornotna]

13. Considering the crusaders were Catholic

He is nuts. It’s all about the violence for him.

[Blue Owl]

14. He's a homicidal maniac

[mysteryowl]

16. He has rifle tattoos mixed with his god ones.

Nope...nope....nope....

He should not be part of the AMERICAN government!

[louis-t]

15. I call it "Bombing for Jesus".

[Norrrm]

17. He cheapened the Crucifixion/Resurrection of Jesus by comparing it to the recent pilot rescue.

[Martin Eden]

18. Killers carrying a cross is nothing new.

And it needs to be relegated to the ash heap of history.

[Cheezoholic]

20. He's a Flynn puppet 100%. He pumped Flynn constantly when he was a stupid talk show maggot n/t

[King_Klonopin]

21. Striking resemblance

"little horn" Antichrist from Daniel 7:8


actual antichrist raging madman

[spike jones]

24. The Air Force Academy has been turning out Christian soldiers for decades.

[Joinfortmill]

36. I didn't know that. Scary.

[slightlv]

25. Hegseth may be a lunatic,

but he's on the same side of the lunatics who are determined to take over control of this country after trump is gone. trump was never anything to them but a stepping stone... a bigger foot in the door that they couldn't get with GW. These RW Dominionists will have us all living in our own version of Iran by the next election if we don't take proper precautions, electorally. Theocracy, here we come! /snark

[paleotn]

27. A religious nut, and booze hound and sexual deviant.

That sounds about right. He's almost as fucked up in the head as Shitler.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Trump and Hegseth's religious fervor is 'playing into Iran's hands': experts

Hegseth is a religious nut case and trump appears to be buying the concept that he is chosen by G-d. These idiots are dangerous and Iran is going to use their fervor against them

According to two former diplomats, the injection of religious fervor by Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into the Iran war is a gift to the mullahs of the embattled country that will only make things worse.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-04-07T18:21:07Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-religious-war/

According to two former diplomats, the injection of religious fervor by Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth into the Iran war is a gift to the mullahs of the embattled country that will only make things worse.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” contributor Sam Stein noted that Hegseth made a strained comparison between a downed US airman emerging from a cave to be saved and Jesus over the Easter weekend, which has the effect of making the US attacks less about Middle Eastern geopolitics and more like a Christian crusade.

Speaking with former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Stein asked, “When you frame war in matters of theology, when you have the president mocking Islam in his tweets or Truth Social posts, how does that play with the leadership in Iran? How will they view this war? When you have the defense secretary talking like that?”

“Well, it does two things,” Sullivan began. “First, in a way, it plays into their hands because these guys are theocrats themselves. And so the idea of having a holy war against the Great Satan, the United States and the Little Satan, Israel, is core to their identity and core to their argument, to their own people who they were just mowing down. You got to back us in this holy war. So it really plays on the turf of the Iranian mullahs and clerics.”

[Joinfortmill]

29. Yup. It ain't good out there.

[IcyPeas]

30. I posted this the other day. Worth a read for the details.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221146608

A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.

By Jane Mayer
December 1, 2024

[struggle4progress]

35. Perhaps an icepick lobotomy, with jolts and volts of electroshock, and heavy doses of psychotropics would be in order

[madamesilverspurs]

37. Baptized in booze.

Repeatedly.


.

[marble falls]

39. Just learned it today?!?!?