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Christian nationalist Hegseth plans to clean the military of “woke” generals who, he claims, "only have their jobs because of “diversity."

A Jerusalem cross, symbol of the crusaders’ holy war against Muslims & Jews, is inked on his chest.

Hegseth lobbied Trump on behalf of 3 military personnel charged with or convicted of war crimes.

https://religiondispatches.org/meet-pete-hegseth-the-man-who-will-lead-the-entire-us-military-a-man-deemed-an-extremist-by-the-us-military/

#Christofascism #Hegseth #Trump #USPol .

Meet Pete Hegseth, the Man Who Will Lead the Entire US Military — A Man Deemed an 'Extremist' by the US Military

On Tuesday, Trump announced Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth as his new secretary of defense. The guy in the image above. It's not a parody; it's from the cover of his 2020 book, American Crusade.

^{Religion Dispatches}

DrALJONES hat dies geteilt

Nyx 5 Tage her •

Seems on-brand. Whenever I look up the worst political actors in the USA to see who they are, a lot of them seem to be Catholic, or went to Catholic school.

JD Vance
Ron DeSantis
Greg Abbott
Marco Rubio
Robert F Kennedy Jr
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Vivek Ramaswamy
Rupert Murdoch
Roger Stone
Rudy Giuliani

America is undergoing a religious coup. The country is losing the wall of separation between church and state; they have already started forcing their religious beliefs on everyone else. They will go for control of the US Central Bank next.

#Christofascism #Hegseth #Trump #USPol

DrALJONES 5 Tage her •

Central banks are just arms of their govts. Govts pretend they're independent, but they're not.

Currency-issuing govts instruct their central banks to enact govt spending (newly created, not from fed taxes)

info (US & UK are same in this regard):

Bank of England
The "govt creates new money... when it undertakes expenditure, rather than spending being financed by taxation from, or debt issuance to, the private sector".

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2022/may/self-financing-state-institutional-analysis

The self-financing state: An institutional analysis

This paper is an institutional analysis of government expenditure, revenue collection and debt issuance operations in the United Kingdom.

^{UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose}

Pomegranate_Stew 5 Tage her •

You can add the Ricketts family to that list as well. Joe & Marlene have been pushing and funding the merging of their religion (Catholicism) & government for years. One of their kids worked for Trump the last time he was inflicted on us and another bought his way into the Senate before being elected to it in November.

DrALJONES 5 Tage her •

Imo, fascists simply use religion for their own purposes - to enact fascism.

Yes, religion as a fictional narrative is problematic, but it is the political ideology of fascism that causes crusading violence.

Don't fall into the trap of imagining that one particular religion is the cause.

Nizami 5 Tage her •

Has tRump appointed anyone who is not psychotic?
Just curious.

DrALJONES 5 Tage her •

Well, psychosis (hallucinations, etc) is a mental illness (not necessarily harmful to others)

Whereas the billionaire fascists driving Project 2025 are more likely to have the personality disorder of psychopathy/sociopathy. Trump, Musk, Murdoch, Thiel, et al. Not all psychopaths do harm to others, but these fascists do.

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