Pickled Pete Hegseth's military career peaked out at Major. For those unfamiliar with the military that's six grades below a four-star. Hegseth the super Christian is on his third wife and has a well-deserved reputation for excessive drinking. It is not his prerogative to determine which religions count, and which don't. Hegseth is neither fit nor qualified to lead the DOD and every Senate Republican knew that when they voted to confirm him. Party first at all times.
I think he might be the next to take the fall for this fascist regime (Good) and the forever war that finally has their supporters upset about something…gas prices. None of the rest of it mattered before that apparently.
Tom Massie (a REPUBLICAN!) wants to impeach the little prick, and Mike Johnson adjourned the House to prevent his action from going forward. When Congress reconvenes, there will be hell to pay, and it may well be that Johnson and Kegsbreath will be footing the bill.
Mikey is scared shitless and he should be. Dangerous little prick. Massie and others are just trying to parachute out (little late). He doesn’t give a shit about women and children (pro-life), unless it’s politically convenient for him.
Massie stood shoulder to shoulder with these monsters BUT having their own help take them down is always better. And I will give him credit for speaking against the pedo club. Doesn’t mean I’d ever vote for him.
I took an oath when I first joined the military and retook that same oath upon being sent overseas to serve in a combat zone. Nowhere was a god mentioned in that oath. Instead, I swore to uphold the US Constitution. Not a god, not a flag, not a political party, not an ideology and not a President. The Constitution.
3 very good friends of mine in the past 2 months moved to Europe. 2 of the 3 back to their home countries as they have small children. Can’t blame them.
I, too, never forswore my oath. I just got my absentee ballot, I intend to vote for those who will also defend the constitution, not the Republicans who are trying to shred it.
Aside from naval guns, the largest field artillery pieces in service are 155mm (6.1inch) bore. The shit'll fit, if you cut it into appropriately sized pieces. 🫡
The message is pretty clear. If you explicitly do not believe that a god exists, Kegsbreath doesn't want you in uniform. If you are not explicitly Christian, he will allow you in, but not give you any respect. How many different types of Judaism are being practiced today? There are also several forms of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. No religion and other religion are the closest he will get to admitting there are faith traditions outside the major ones. The only nod to atheism at all is the agnostic category, which the DUI hire is using the evangelical sense and not the primary usage ("just doesn't know about god, not one of those filthy god hating 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴").
If he really wanted to show equal respect for all religions, the Christian categories would have been narrowed down to a maximum of three: Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox. Instead, General Drunk Tank pushes for Christian Fucking Privilege.
A derisive nickname for Hegseth amongst military personnel because he never earned a badge, known as a tab, for advanced training, which almost all Army officers earn.
While I detest Hegseth's petty move on this topic, pragmatically it's not going to change the lived experience of military members. There was never going to be 211 different chaplains at a military installation nor even the 31 that the list has been cut to. If you are a member of a minority religious group, there is most likely not going to be a chaplain of your faith nor a specific religious service on your Sabbath. Even the Christian services are going to be generic. And the majority of visits to chaplains are not going to be religion specific but if they were, the best you could hope for was a referral to a local community group of your type. None of that is going to change due to Hegseth's actions.
And that's why I call it petty. It doesn't change the way things work, it only makes minorities feel ignored and left out. I had my own experience with being in the military (USAF 1969-1973) at a time before they added atheist to the list. I was forced to choose the ambiguous "Religious preference - None". That could be taken to mean that I was religious but any religion would be fine because I didn't prefer one over the other. Of course my preference was for no religion at all but the lack of my preferred label, Atheist, didn't effect my 4 years of service one bit. But it did, and still does, annoy me. 😠
You are right in that the chaplains will never be numerous or diverse enough to cover everyone. They never were intended to though. But their training now will not cover any instructions on the minority religions, which it did before. But this isn’t even about the chaplaincy, it’s about accepting there are minority religions in the service and providing the proper care if a servicemember dies. Yeah, it’s not an everyday life type of thing, but it is important when it happens. Some religions require specific actions taken with the body that won’t be addressed anymore because the military in general won’t acknowledge them. It’s about allowing certain activities regarding worship, or many other things we might not be aware of. And it is about the attitudes of the chaplains and commanders and all the chain of command or chain of concern who will be more comfortable in any biases they might have, and an inability to make complaints about it.
Maybe the daily life won’t change, not at first, but the intention of the change is to normalize discrimination against minority religions. It always starts with something that doesn’t look like it will matter, camel’s nose type of thing. USArmy (and national guard) 1993-2004.
It’s a good thing the Air Force doesn’t have other pressing matters to deal with, like a war no one authorized, that they can focus on forcing their entire population, over 315,000 active duty personnel, to play semantics games with their emergency data in their records all at once. What a colossal waste of time and resources.
Aren’t they in the process of impeaching Hegseth? They better get a move on, this shit won’t change until he’s gone. Well, at least the midterms need to go our way. We need everyone to get the lead out and vote.
Looking at that meme, I see horseface has a holiday tree. Anyone want to tell him that it's a Pagan symbol and that his own god told its follower not to have them?
It’s probably in best interest to stay the hell away from this current military if at all possible and into the foreseeable future. Absolutely nothing good is going on in or coming out of there.
I very briefly considered ROTC but Reagan’s election dampened whatever interest I might have had. And truly my interest was more about having college paid for and not because I had interest in the military.
My dear daughter talks about the Air Force, but hubs and I are steering her away, it would solve our financial support of her college issues, but it just isn’t safe nor ideological sound at the moment. Perhaps she can go later, if she’s still interested, but with this administration I wouldn’t have it.
She wants to study forensics. She has a school in the state (the state university satellite campus) she thinks would be good. We will figure something out. She’s a smart cookie and I can’t wait to see what she will do.
I had a brief notion in high school to join the Air Force, I wanted to be an astronaut and figured that was the obvious path. I had an appointment with a recruiter, but he never showed up. There was one with the army in the next office and I talked to him briefly, but never considered it seriously after that. Anyway, I probably made a wise decision, I afterwards discovered I nearly get air sick just looking at planes.
Pete Hegseth seems to be bound and determined to take the United States military and twist it upside down, inside out, and sideways, and use religion to do it. His reductive attitude towards religious categories clearly demonstrates his bias towards Christianity and his disregard of other religions, never mind those of us who identify as atheists. I would fully expect a massive blowback to this ridiculous and unnecessary simplification of what has been a workable standard up to this point.
Considering the current growing rebellion against Trump and his policies, it's entirely possible that such negative feedback may actually work.
Pickled Pete Hegseth's military career peaked out at Major. For those unfamiliar with the military that's six grades below a four-star. Hegseth the super Christian is on his third wife and has a well-deserved reputation for excessive drinking. It is not his prerogative to determine which religions count, and which don't. Hegseth is neither fit nor qualified to lead the DOD and every Senate Republican knew that when they voted to confirm him. Party first at all times.
I think he might be the next to take the fall for this fascist regime (Good) and the forever war that finally has their supporters upset about something…gas prices. None of the rest of it mattered before that apparently.
Never forget the conservative motto: I have mine, f**k you. They only get upset if something affects them personally.
💯 This hyper individualism that we are all raised on (indoctrinated to believe) helped bring us here.
Linda, No, not all are raised that way. Jes sayin.
It's not just conservatives- swing voters are like that, too. They don't care about any issue that isn't actively punching them in the face.
☝️🎯
Donald Trump is very much a 'kill the messenger' kind of guy.
Tom Massie (a REPUBLICAN!) wants to impeach the little prick, and Mike Johnson adjourned the House to prevent his action from going forward. When Congress reconvenes, there will be hell to pay, and it may well be that Johnson and Kegsbreath will be footing the bill.
Mikey is scared shitless and he should be. Dangerous little prick. Massie and others are just trying to parachute out (little late). He doesn’t give a shit about women and children (pro-life), unless it’s politically convenient for him.
It only takes a simple majority to remove Little Johnson.
True ... though I wonder if Hakeem Jeffries is up to the task.
Massie is an ammosexual, who owns a gun business. I remember him passing out Ar-15 pins and his disgusting christmas card.
Massie stood shoulder to shoulder with these monsters BUT having their own help take them down is always better. And I will give him credit for speaking against the pedo club. Doesn’t mean I’d ever vote for him.
From your lips to the IPU's ears.
So he is a typical "Do as I say, not as I do"-republican?
I think that's a safe bet.
"Pickled Pete" - phrasing presented to precisely portray a philandering punk. Perfect!
And his list seems to be a little heavily loaded with sects under the Pentecostal umbrella.
Golly gosh! Just WHY would THAT be??? 🤦♂️
Oraxx-Spot on!
This combat Veteran's dog tags say HUMANIST.
White Claw Petey Kegbreath can go fuck himself.
In the ass.
With a pineapple.
Grenade.
Sans clip and pin.
Vietnam vet here. My dog tags said 'None'.
Mine too.
After the laxative so he cannot interfere with the device's proper operation by clenching.
Joe:
You're holding back. Tell us how you REALLY feel!
Remember: group is a safe place for us to express our feelings. Feelings can be scary, but we have to remember that they're just feelings.
Now, if you like, we have a box prepared so you can send the pineapple grenade to Kegsbreath's office, with instructions on how he should use it.
/droll
Wow. So do mine.
Regular Joe, as an almost 72 y.o. woman, I really appreciate your vibe.
D, as a 63 y.o. male, I appreciate your appreciation. 🫡
I took an oath when I first joined the military and retook that same oath upon being sent overseas to serve in a combat zone. Nowhere was a god mentioned in that oath. Instead, I swore to uphold the US Constitution. Not a god, not a flag, not a political party, not an ideology and not a President. The Constitution.
I still stand by that oath.
I affirmed my oath, never swore it. No "So help me god" involved.
These "domestic" enemies are our biggest threat.
Yes, and one of the reasons US get less tourists visits nowadays.
3 very good friends of mine in the past 2 months moved to Europe. 2 of the 3 back to their home countries as they have small children. Can’t blame them.
I, too, never forswore my oath. I just got my absentee ballot, I intend to vote for those who will also defend the constitution, not the Republicans who are trying to shred it.
It was a deep disappointment to me that the military did not step in to stop the seditionist J6 attack from within.
If I could have only one job in the next administration, it would be firing that worthless piece of shit.
From an artillery piece.
Do we have one with a sufficient bore that can handle a pile of shit that size?
Aside from naval guns, the largest field artillery pieces in service are 155mm (6.1inch) bore. The shit'll fit, if you cut it into appropriately sized pieces. 🫡
We could bring the 𝘐𝘰𝘸𝘢 out of mothballs to fire him whole.
Joe, I like the way you think!
“𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎, 𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛,” 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙, [𝑎 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛] 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦.𝑐𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑦. “𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑."
The message is pretty clear. If you explicitly do not believe that a god exists, Kegsbreath doesn't want you in uniform. If you are not explicitly Christian, he will allow you in, but not give you any respect. How many different types of Judaism are being practiced today? There are also several forms of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. No religion and other religion are the closest he will get to admitting there are faith traditions outside the major ones. The only nod to atheism at all is the agnostic category, which the DUI hire is using the evangelical sense and not the primary usage ("just doesn't know about god, not one of those filthy god hating 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴").
If he really wanted to show equal respect for all religions, the Christian categories would have been narrowed down to a maximum of three: Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox. Instead, General Drunk Tank pushes for Christian Fucking Privilege.
He’s not a general, he was a Major, which is even better here, Major Drunk Tank.
Frank Burns was also a major
You mean "Ferret-Face?" 😝
You tell 'em.
What else could that poor guy do without a functional brain?
What does an omnipotent deity need a human military for?
Same thing he needs a starship for, I guess.
GMTA
Someone has to pilot the starship.
Gawd can move mountains and create entire planets in six days, but a spaceship's got him stumped.
Space Force will bring it a starship.
Money it's always money.
"What's the problem? We have both types of religion: 'Christian' and 'Hell-bound Heathen Devil Worshipper'?"
https://youtu.be/vS-zEH8YmiM?is=v6xsfBfoUujAIlar
Mostly OT: “No Tab Pete”
A derisive nickname for Hegseth amongst military personnel because he never earned a badge, known as a tab, for advanced training, which almost all Army officers earn.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseth-3-word-brutal-072128726.html
I bet Pete drinks Tab.
With just a tiny bit of bourbon to make it taste better.
You mean a tiny bit of Tab? (Wouldn't want to spoil the taste of the bourbon.)
I didn't know Tab still existed.
Discontinued in 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(drink)
I wouldn’t doubt he was a PX Warrior. Stolen valor is rampant among his type.
"an attempt to push Christianity onto the troops, and there's implicit intimidation there.”
Standard operating procedure for the xtian cult.
These christian thugs will do us a big favor by turning off countless numbers to their christian cult!
But it might be too late by then, unless we're very very lucky.
While I detest Hegseth's petty move on this topic, pragmatically it's not going to change the lived experience of military members. There was never going to be 211 different chaplains at a military installation nor even the 31 that the list has been cut to. If you are a member of a minority religious group, there is most likely not going to be a chaplain of your faith nor a specific religious service on your Sabbath. Even the Christian services are going to be generic. And the majority of visits to chaplains are not going to be religion specific but if they were, the best you could hope for was a referral to a local community group of your type. None of that is going to change due to Hegseth's actions.
And that's why I call it petty. It doesn't change the way things work, it only makes minorities feel ignored and left out. I had my own experience with being in the military (USAF 1969-1973) at a time before they added atheist to the list. I was forced to choose the ambiguous "Religious preference - None". That could be taken to mean that I was religious but any religion would be fine because I didn't prefer one over the other. Of course my preference was for no religion at all but the lack of my preferred label, Atheist, didn't effect my 4 years of service one bit. But it did, and still does, annoy me. 😠
You are right in that the chaplains will never be numerous or diverse enough to cover everyone. They never were intended to though. But their training now will not cover any instructions on the minority religions, which it did before. But this isn’t even about the chaplaincy, it’s about accepting there are minority religions in the service and providing the proper care if a servicemember dies. Yeah, it’s not an everyday life type of thing, but it is important when it happens. Some religions require specific actions taken with the body that won’t be addressed anymore because the military in general won’t acknowledge them. It’s about allowing certain activities regarding worship, or many other things we might not be aware of. And it is about the attitudes of the chaplains and commanders and all the chain of command or chain of concern who will be more comfortable in any biases they might have, and an inability to make complaints about it.
Maybe the daily life won’t change, not at first, but the intention of the change is to normalize discrimination against minority religions. It always starts with something that doesn’t look like it will matter, camel’s nose type of thing. USArmy (and national guard) 1993-2004.
It’s a good thing the Air Force doesn’t have other pressing matters to deal with, like a war no one authorized, that they can focus on forcing their entire population, over 315,000 active duty personnel, to play semantics games with their emergency data in their records all at once. What a colossal waste of time and resources.
Aren’t they in the process of impeaching Hegseth? They better get a move on, this shit won’t change until he’s gone. Well, at least the midterms need to go our way. We need everyone to get the lead out and vote.
Looking at that meme, I see horseface has a holiday tree. Anyone want to tell him that it's a Pagan symbol and that his own god told its follower not to have them?
Bet he wouldn't get rid of it, the hypocrite.
It’s probably in best interest to stay the hell away from this current military if at all possible and into the foreseeable future. Absolutely nothing good is going on in or coming out of there.
I very briefly considered ROTC but Reagan’s election dampened whatever interest I might have had. And truly my interest was more about having college paid for and not because I had interest in the military.
My dear daughter talks about the Air Force, but hubs and I are steering her away, it would solve our financial support of her college issues, but it just isn’t safe nor ideological sound at the moment. Perhaps she can go later, if she’s still interested, but with this administration I wouldn’t have it.
She wants to study forensics. She has a school in the state (the state university satellite campus) she thinks would be good. We will figure something out. She’s a smart cookie and I can’t wait to see what she will do.
I had a brief notion in high school to join the Air Force, I wanted to be an astronaut and figured that was the obvious path. I had an appointment with a recruiter, but he never showed up. There was one with the army in the next office and I talked to him briefly, but never considered it seriously after that. Anyway, I probably made a wise decision, I afterwards discovered I nearly get air sick just looking at planes.
We have to wait patiently for the good news to come. I am gonna have a celebration when it happens.
🍾
If Signalgate wants an all-xtian fightin' force, guess who gets to do any and all actual fightin' while non-xtians stay safe at home?
My guess is all the non-white troops that he can't deport.
Pete Hegseth seems to be bound and determined to take the United States military and twist it upside down, inside out, and sideways, and use religion to do it. His reductive attitude towards religious categories clearly demonstrates his bias towards Christianity and his disregard of other religions, never mind those of us who identify as atheists. I would fully expect a massive blowback to this ridiculous and unnecessary simplification of what has been a workable standard up to this point.
Considering the current growing rebellion against Trump and his policies, it's entirely possible that such negative feedback may actually work.
If your god needs Pete Hegseth to help them... it might be time to get yourself a better god.
Or a better Hegseth. If there is such a thing.
A better Hegseth is found nowhere in nature.
I guess the man himself is somewhat unnatural.
When the bar is so low, advanced tunneling gear is required to avoid clearing it.