u/SirCrapsalot4267

Everyone's laser focused on Trump, and I get it the asshat is a walking dumpster fire, but while you're watching the magician's left hand Pete Hegseth is doing something far more terrifying with his right.

Hegseth has now removed more than a dozen senior military leaders across multiple branches, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff which is completely unprecedented turnover at the highest levels of the armed forces and he just did it again firing the Army's top general along with two other senior officers in a sweeping wartime shakeup, dramatically expanding a leadership purge inside the Pentagon as the Iran war intensifies.

The stated reason? None.

The real reason that leaked is that the Army chief refused to remove two Black and two female officers from a promotion list, defying Hegseth and citing their long and exemplary service. So he's not just purging experience he's purging anyone with the spine to push back on his ideological crusade, mid-war, with troops already deploying to the Middle East. Trump at his worst was chaotic and greed driven, Hegseth is chaotic and ideologically driven with a semblance of a checklist.

Then there's the God stuff, and I cannot stress enough how unhinged this has gotten. Every month at the Pentagon, Hegseth hosts evangelical worship services that legal experts say are unprecedented. He has brought clergy from his small Christian denomination to preach at the Pentagon, including a prominent pastor who says women shouldn't have the right to vote, then during a press briefing about an active war Hegseth prayed for U.S. troops to inflict "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy…we ask these things with bold confidence in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ."

This isn't just a performance of faith it's bleeding into the troops themselves and military leaders told service members that the Iran war was "part of God's divine plan" and that Trump was anointed by Jesus, and soldiers are complaining and worried about it. What the fuck is this?

In one report I read a commander quoted the Book of Revelation and said the war will bring the second coming of Christ. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation received more than 200 complaints from 50 military installations. Hegseth has also quietly dismantled the infrastructure of religious freedom inside the military, cutting the list of recognized faith codes from 200 to just 31. This is a man turning the U.S. military into his personal crusade army, literally. Literally a Crusade. He has Crusader tattoos. His book is called American Crusade. This isn't subtext it's the literal god damned fucking text.

Then there's the core foundational absurdity that Hegseth has no experience relevant to running the U.S. military or the Defense Department. Trump chose Hegseth as secretary of defense in part because of his looks and his ability to comport himself on television. That's it, that's his qualification for leading the most powerful military on earth. I was reading more into this and in one example Senator Duckworth pointed out that when asked basic questions at his confirmation hearing like naming one of the main international agreements he'd be responsible for leading he couldn't name one. She asked him to name a single country in ASEAN. He couldn't do it.

On top of those qualifications, his tax filings show that the small nonprofits he led during his pre-Fox News career had higher expenditures than revenue, and serious allegations of financial mismanagement contributed to his departure from both organizations. This man couldn't balance a veterans advocacy group's budget, and now he's in charge of an $800 billion department, firing decorated generals mid-war, and preaching holy war to the troops.

Trump is dangerous because he's reckless. Hegseth is dangerous because he's reckless and he actually believes he's doing God's work. That combination should terrify every single one of us whether we're American or not. This motherfucker needs to go ASAP.

EDIT: Had some spelling errors I fixed.