MRFF Exposes the Dangerous, Christian Supremacist Agenda in SECDEF Pick Pete Hegseth’s Book “American Crusade”
Pete Hegseth, poised to be the next Secretary of Defense, believes a “holy war” is “required” in America, led by “crusader in chief, Donald Trump.”
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- June 11, 2025 | 2 comments
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love it.
I loved it when he was discharged from the military which means he wouldn’t get a military pension because he hasn’t got enough time in service to qualified for one not to mention not meeting the age requirement.
His net worth is 17M… pretty sure hes ok with that.
Yeah, we get it Oscar – you hate religious freedom and the US constitution. You’re a real great example of people wherever you live.
I know that a lot of people posting on MRFF’s website have, like me, spent much of their lives dedicated to serving America and Americans, supporting the freedoms our forebears fought for time and again. My father fought in World War Two. My oldest brother volunteered for service in the US Army and fought in Vietnam. We believe in the ideals handed down to us by prior generations of Americans who have answered the call of service — not always in violent conflict, but always by honoring those ideals.
I’ve already read enough about the disgraced President-elect’s nominee for Secretary of Defense to know that his ideas of what the United States is and should be would put the American people on the wrong side of history. Reading this first installment appearing in The Daily Kos convinces me that this man must NEVER be Secretary of Defense!
I will not be reading the rest: I’m afraid that, having read the first installment, I may be too nauseous to sleep tonight. I can’t afford that often.
But I will insist that when the Senate actually receives this abomination of a nomination, they reject it quickly, resoundingly, and if necessarily, repeatedly. The disgraced President-elect fooled the American people twice now, and almost ruined the network of alliances we depend upon for our freedoms. We cannot allow that to happen again.
No worries, Shittsinpants will fire all of them the first time they refuse to change his diaper! His entire cabinet will change – many times over! LMAO!
Going to be a bumpy ride, 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck!
Pitch for airspeed, power for altitude! Some rules are cardinal!
Listen for the “Mayday.” Won’t take long, the “impossible turn” playing out in real time!
Yeah sure, Oscar until he gets sue for what he has done or will do in the future and then like Trump and Rudy Giuliani, he will lose that 17 million dollars.
Doesn’t change the fact about him not getting his military pension plus being discharged. If Trump gets his way, none of the military people will be getting a military pension, medical care and anything else.
I hope they kick out ALL non-right-flavor-of-Christianity out of the military! Get rid of them! Have your MAGA Christian military! On you boo! YOU go fight the wars you start!
Let the COCOMs struggle with that one! Laughing my ass off! Too fucking funny!
The Christians can’t complain when a war starts about other groups not joining the military. We shouldn’t be funding them with our tax dollars either at the state and federal levels.
Fucked Around – now they ’bout to Find Out! Hilarious!
Highest Google search: “How do I change my vote!” Too late MAGA! You done did the Amer-exit thing!
Your little Johnny gonna come home from school as … Jane! Not!
Way too funny!
“Highest Google search: “How do I change my vote!” Too late MAGA! You done did the Amer-exit thing!”
Funny after the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, many people were wondering how to recall their state politicians since they played their roles in getting Bush, Jr. elected and they found out barely half of the states do have a recall election procedure at the state level.
I like David Feldman’s rendition of Trump and his cabinet, “The Quack Pack,” Daffy Donald leading the charge!
“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ……”
SNL’s got a LOT of material for the next four years! Along with late night talk show hosts. Maybe Shittsinpants will send the military after them! :-)
The Diaper Brigade would be another good one. I’m seeing Elon and Donnie Boy jumping up and down on stage in diapers, hugging each other.
“Real Men Wear Diapers!”
They will have plenty of material but the question is will SNL and the late night talk shows will be around once Trump gets into office?
Hegseth is just another unqualified piss-poor choice and representative on par with the rest of those in the “Quack Pack.”
Leadership in the military, particularly at the SECDEF level sets the tone, the Command Climate, the example to be followed and emulated throughout all services.
Can you imagine yourself a senior life-long military leader, particularly a woman, having to brief a SECDEF like Hegseth? If you’re a female, you already know going in he’s a misogynistic, women-shouldn’t-serve-in-combat, women hater. Ask his first two wives! Better yet, ask his own mother!
The entire DOD is on the Titan submersible with this nomination, the repercussions palpable as the entire military structure devolves into complete chaos.
Yep, Fucked Around – now you gonna “Find Out!”
You think recruitment is bad now? Hide and watch!
It would be hilarious we’re it not for the commitment of professional military members that have spent their whole careers ready to answer the call, the seriousness of that professionalism completely destroyed with one cabinet appointed! Mmm, mmm, mmm!
FAFO!
Well, as Colonel Wilkerson told reporter Abby Martin in the Empire File, today senior officers only care about cashing in their military careers for six-figure salaries in the MIC. He also stated that they are not the most professional, not the most capable bunch of people so they were already destroying themselves before Trump came along.
The late Colonel David Hackworth talked about how careerism has destroyed the US military ever since the end of World War 2.
Related, but not about Hegseth, Trump already getting his ass kicked by Mexico in his faux trade war, President of Mexico telling Trump, “Bring it Bitch!” The Mexican peso already up against the dollar! Too funny!
The rest of the world saying “fuck the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency,” accelerating the exit, the dollar will be devalued “like nobody’s ever seen,” to coin a Trump phrase.
You like apples MAGA? They’re green, but you’ll eat them!
LMAO!
Sheinbaum got her PhD at … wait for it … Berkeley!
Trump’s was honorary from … you guessed it …. Trump U!
If Mexico retaliates, the US loses 500,000 jobs! Good MAGA jobs!
Way to go MAGA! “You just go on with your bad selves!”
“Bless your hearts,” as they say in the South! Laughing My Ass Off!
wow, Brandon pardons his son like a true Goon. Talk about selfish priorities. Spin that one MRFF KJPs.
Synergy we’ve all heard those fear mongering tactica before… from your soon to be ex loser President. Didnt work from him either
Oscar: the prosecution was ordered by the Trump White House – so you’re not in any position to call the pardon a “goon” move. Moreover, we know your boss would not have bothered ordering a prosecution through the courts – he would have instead seen to it that Hunter accidentally fall out a window. Dasvidaniya.
Definition of Goon move actually.
Oscar, if you remember, if you could remember, Karl Rove went after Don Siegelman, former governor of Alabama in a political prosecution and went through the federal justice system to find a federal judge and prosecutor who were more than willing to convict Siegelman at Karl Rove’s behest. You had a bunch of politicians from both parties raising the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. In addition, you had these politicians and former AGs (both federal and state) petitioning the Supreme Court to review Siegleman’s case.
Bush, Senior pardoned anyone who was involved in the Iran-Contra affairs so that was a Goon move which shut down any chance to take the people to court. Bush Senior was a loser when the economy went south and he didn’t do anything about it which cost him his second run for president.
A ‘goon move’ say the trolls paid for by the ultimate goon, Putin.
In my opinion this is a classic case of ‘if you hadn’t started nothing there wouldn’t be nothing’. Hunter Biden had agreed to a plea deal to include charges on nonpayment of back taxes (even though he’d paid the back taxes plus all the penalties – if you’ve ever had dealings with the IRS you know how impressive that feat is) when the MAGA GOP decided to yank the rug out from under him in order for James Comer to make political points since all his witnesses against the ‘Biden crime family’ turned out to be absolute embarrassments on the stand.
Oh, but here I am, providing facts and perspective which requires intelligence to understand and doesn’t fit well on a bumper sticker. I guess I’ve been ‘owned’, too smart for my own good.
#45 and his MAGA cohorts like the poorly educated. They are so easy to fleece.
Remember when the majority of the country voted for Trump? Also remember when the media fawned over Biden PROMISING he wouldnt pardon his idiot crack head kid? No wonder Trump won. Biden was nothing but empty promises. Howd that student loan thing go again?
I say MAGA loves the poorly educated and in walks Oscar to prove my point. Thanks troll.
Here’s a question Oscar. President Biden repeatedly stated he was not going to pardon his son, that he would let the Justice system play out as he trusted the process.
And then…
Oscar likes to pretend that Biden out of the blue without any provocation decided to reverse what he previously said, only Joe Biden isn’t that kind of guy. He’s the one, when changing his mind on a topic, who provides paragraphs of logic and research as to why he’s changing course. It’s just who he is. So… what could have happened to make a father decide he needs to step in to protect his family?
Perhaps Oscar of the Russian propaganda President Biden changed his mind because the humans #45 tapped to be in his cabinet to a person spoke of how “the gloves are off” and how they will investigate every member of the Biden family.
And like good Russian/Trump acolytes if no evidence is found they will ‘make something up’. How do I know? The GOP has done it before. When? Did you watch the Comer hearings? Did any hard evidence materialize? Were any impeachment votes reported?
And no, I don’t remember a majority of American citizens EVER voting for Trump. Where’s your evidence Oscar?
Empty promises. Right. And who exactly has the concept of a plan?
I stand by the CHIPS Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act…. so many monies applied to our crumbling highways and bridges but no one talks about it. Well, taking care of business isn’t sexy, it doesn’t drive clicks like hate does.
So – dear readers – hope you survive the holidays. From what I read most citizens are primed to pop. Well, breathe for one. For two, get a plan. When life is just too much I find writing it all down or however that manifests for you, meaning getting it all out helps. Then I can organize things into piles – that’s the stuff I can’t, I just can’t. Cool, we’ll put a blanket over that and deal later. Next is the pile I can do something about. Step by step, bit by bit things get done.
Remember, slow and steady is the pace that will let us win this race – the Turtle.
“I say MAGA loves the poorly educated”
What are your credentials exactly?
Oscar, it was the Electoral College that got Trump into office not the majority vote. You should know how the presidential election works a long time ago which proves how poorly educated you are when it came to you paying attention to American history.
Grey One Talks Sass, you wrote, “And like good Russian/Trump acolytes if no evidence is found they will ‘make something up’. How do I know? The GOP has done it before. When?”
How about 1953-54, with the Army-McCarthy Hearings? Of course, there have been numerous times since, but for those of us on this forum, the McCarthy hearings were a particularly dark time.
Oscar, since you asked about credentials, I’ll give you mine:
BA in History, 1998.
MS, Studies of the Future, 2005.
Entered PhD program in Sociology, 2011. Graduated with a MA in Sociology in 2023. My PhD studies were interrupted by narcolepsy, diagnosed in 2021. I was just too stubborn to admit to myself that I wasn’t going to complete a dissertation until December 2022.
My other qualification: a memory long enough to recall the Deceiver-in-Chief (more than 30,000 documented lies during his first term) saying exactly that (loving the “poorly educated” — they’re easier to swindle) in his 2016 campaign.
If you don’t have the GAS to search for the results of “I love the poorly educated”, here’s a link to the Snopes.com article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-love-poorly-educated/
Full truth-in-lending, as a high school drop out, unable to compete, by way of credentialing measure, in this forum, it doesn’t take a lot to figure out that China is kicking our collective asses, in just about every aspect, the more important is that they have something we don’t – visionary leadership!
And before you run off into never never land with the Communist platitudes, let’s make a quick comparison:
China’s economy is controlled by a centrally planned Communist party government that controls capitalist corporations, to include their own State-owned corporations.
In the US, corporations control a capitalist government that controls the people.
China is a capitalist economy with socialist attributes. The US is a corporate-socialist economy with capitalistic attributes.
The key ingredient missing – vision. China knows what it wants to look like 50 years from now
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Government in the US that can give you a goal two years from now.
The US is a dying empire, the efficacy of its palliative care prescribed and administered by corporate greed.
If you want to know your representative’s vision for the future, ask his corporate donors, they’ll tell you what his priorities are!
Speaking of losers, Trump already getting owned by Mexico’s President as well as Xi in China.
They’re on to him, know his tactics, too easy to back the Orange Little Man and the United States into a corner.
Trump’s tariffs threats nothing more than sounding like a man with a paper asshole flapping in the breeze.
Trump may “act” like he’s going to “punish” other countries to show himself he’s a legend in his own mind – he’s done it all his life – but his punishment will be on the American people, just like it has with every deal and subsequent failure he’s ever entered into.
He thinks he can stiff other countries but they’ll back him down – he’s so easy to read and so abjectly stupid. He’ll gaslight the base in MAGAritaville, but the world knows they’re dealing with a toddler and will distract him with shiny objects!
The countries he’s fucking with know that all you have to do is punish the American people with trade, or lack thereof.
The only power America has is military power and Trump is a pussy, owned by Vladdy. Remember when he “attacked” Sryia? 59 cruise missiles but called the Russians before the attack to make sure they knew the targeting. The air base they attacked was using the damaged runway the same day! “That showed them!” Too funny.
Remember him dropping the Mother of All Bombs in Afghanistan? Made a crater in the desert, zero damage, moved some sand around – and then gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban! Sheer toddler brilliance! Both attacks nothing but PR stunts.
Use the military to round up and deport brown-skinned people?
Complete PR stunts. A few will get deported and Faux News will hype it up but at the end of the day, just an orange man sounding like a man with a paper asshole flapping in the breeze!
BRICS growing exponentially, soon to decimate the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Been coming for awhile but Trump will get credit for the devaluation of the dollar in global markets, the dollar worth-less.
Welcome to Idiocracy! In the Find Out phase MAGA!
Many, today, live in an oily rag pile of a combustible mixture of ignorance and misinformation, unwilling to think beyond the regurgitation of what they’re fed as completely baseless talking points.
That combustion coming to fruition in this “find out” phase, accelerating the palliative care of a dying empire and it’s people.
The $8 Trillion that Trump increased the national debt by will be eclipsed in the sequel, trade wars ignited, more tax cuts for the wealthy, paid for by the MAGA proletariat, less education, less healthcare, quality of life further diminished, higher inflation, the Orwellian “Less is More” gaslighting of the country.
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Too late to get off the Titan submersible. Enjoy the ride!
Can’t say you weren’t warned!
No better example of US capitalism than United Healthcare and it’s for-profit denialism. Those in Congress don’t play by the same rules many Americans play by with regard to illness and healthcare. They play by the “I got mine” rules, while collecting those health insurer provided corporate donations. We should make members of Congress wear sponsorship jackets with patches from all their donors, much like NASCAR drivers.
Brian Thompson making $5,000/hr, $40,000/day. But, you know, that’s what you have to pay for your healthcare in this country, Brian just one of many that was and is on the corporate dole in the most expensive health care country in the world.
The US one of only three countries in the OECD without universal or near-universal healthcare.
In the US, we “socialize” the healthcare providers (insurers), not the recipients of that healthcare, leading to for-profit denials of coverage, soon to be exacerbated by the repeal of the ACA. Many on the Trump train too stupid to understand that the ACA and Obamacare are one and the same.
Too fucking funny, the “’bout to find out” realization waiting in the wings.
“Got Ignorance?” LMAO.
Trump and other conservatives act like they are still in the 1950s where the USA had a very strong manufacturing base and high tariffs that protected American industries and American jobs.
yea then democrats outsourced it all too china and mexico etc etc ad nauseum.
So, Democrats outsourced jobs to China? By congressional mandate? How’d they do that?
You got something other than ignorance to show the forum?
To Mexico? USMCA was …. Trump’s trade agreement so …….?
Just can’t fix stupid!
Sorry, but the Republicans and Corporate America play an overwhelming part in outsourcing the jobs aided and abetted by the Chinese and Mexican governments. Bush, Jr. directed his Commerce Department to help American businesses move their jobs overseas