When Mrs. Hegseth begged Pete to seek help, instead of seeing a therapist he joined a patriarchal church that reinforced his worst instincts. It added a mixed grill of bad ideas now shocking the nation.
When one's own mother outs one's vileness, you would think that folk would sit up and take serious notice. But, no. I suspect that the fact that it was his mother...a WOMAN no less...who did the outing. Obviously, she was suffering from wandering womb - a known medical condition that makes women hysterical and stupid - and so there is nothing to hear here.
Just the fact they are floating the idea that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote is deeply troubling on many levels (the primary one being the misogyny). They overturned Roe v. Wade, even though lots of people said they’d never do it. It will be much more difficult to revoke the 19th Amendment. However, if the christian nationalists become more entrenched, I could see it potentially happening. We have to clean out the rot that the current regime is allowing to take over.
Taking away the right to vote from women has been a long time goal, along with banishing us from education, the public, paid work and all manner of like things. And here I have to make it clear that I am in no way talking about all men. But the truth is that the men, and occasional woman, who pulls this KNOWS that we see and that we are at LEAST as intelligent and capable as they are. They want to hide from Mother the evil they do. When women notice, and point out, that the emperor is wearing no clothes, we women are to blame. They could do whatever their hearts desire to anyone and everything, if only SHE would shut her damned eyes, ears and mouth. This has been going on for at least 6,000 years. Men like that cling to their infantile "mommy must do everything for me and then cease to exist in any real way" demand. And, frankly, we women have allowed it, by being fo willing to give in. We have been trained to obedience, victimhood and silence and it is Goddess-damned time we throw off the shackles of self-doubt and self-hatred and take out rightful places in the world and save it from the Mad Kings and all their foul Princes.
Not surprised by this. As I recall, it’s the wet dream of evangelical christian men to take all our hard-won “rights” away, including the right to vote. Women are not equal, coz of that Adam’s rib thing. What say you, God?
They used to claim that men had one less rib than women, too. The those darned scientists came along and actually counted them. Always trying to disprove the Bible, don'tcha know?
I should point out that it is not just the right to vote they want to take away. I have heard and read, and much of this is in Project 2025, that the right to an education is on their dream chopping block, along with disallowing women's right to work and choose whether and who she will marry. The population is in decline and they are using that to ultimately make us nothing more than forced baby machines...especially white babies. We are living in Trump's version of Nazi Germany, right where he and so many want to live, where women where the incubators for the state and their babies little more than cannon fodder. I think that if my father had presumed the right to determine the course of my life, including whether and who I would marry, patricide might have been on the table.
Too many people calling themselves Christian have never read the entire Bible. And their cherry picking skills are phenomenal. Paul clearly names women as leaders in the church. Alas, men such as Pete were threatened by this and changed their names or rewrote the relevant passages. Women are also clearly important to Jesus. But these so-called Christians don’t follow Jesus, they follow the anti-Christ. That is, if I wasn’t aware that the revelation of John was not intended to be a future prophecy but a way to deal with current problems in the world of the ancient church.
You can leave them to education, but you can’t make them think
The early Christian Church consisted of many different books that are currently not part of the official canon.
I'm referring to the Nag Hammadi gospels, which are Gnostic writings. They consist of books you likely never heard of -- Gospel of Mary Magdelene, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, etc. They were mystical treatises, and philosophical works — that taught salvation came through secret knowledge (gnosis), often interpreting Jesus’ role in a mystical rather than literal sense.
While theological disagreements were the official reason for excluding the Gospel of Mary from the canon, there’s strong evidence that gender politics, including male chauvinism, played a role in how the text (and Mary Magdalene herself) was sidelined in early Christianity.
In the 1st–3rd centuries, many church communities debated the role of women in leadership. Some, like certain Gnostic groups, allowed women to teach, prophesy, or hold authority. The Gospel of Mary elevates Mary to a position on par with — or above — male apostles, undermining the developing patriarchal structure in the mainstream church. Later, church fathers pushed for an all-male clergy. A gospel giving theological primacy to a woman didn’t align with that direction.
Which goes to show weak shallow men will always feel threatened by outspoken smart women. Much like Kegsbreath.
Oh, I love the way you think and your scholarship. And the guys have been trying to convince women that our 'natural' state is one of silence, obedience and complete submission to our masters...our so-called betters. One would think, however, that after millennia of pushing this 'ideology,' one would realize that, even with the Inquisition, women are never going to be the easily programmable automatons that will devote every moment to making them happy that they would like. Nor are we ever going to be the uniformly penis-pleasing Barbies they dream of.
You may not have been referring to me as not being aware, but given that I have a copy of “the other gospels: accounts of Jesus from outside the New Testament “ I can reassure you that I am very aware of them.
I also suspect most Christians have no clue of how many Christianities actually existed and how different they were.
By the way, comma, you may have already heard of him, but if you have not run across Bart Ehrman and his “misquoting Jesus” blog and pod, you might enjoy following him. I just had the privilege of going on a cruise tour with him and his knowledge basis phenomenal.
Maybe not. Constantine may have given it the final push, but it was growing pretty rapidly. And he did not outlaw paganism. The odd thing is that the common use of Latin and the spread of the religion may have played a role in unifying Europe by providing a common culture. By the way, I do not consider myself to be a Christian.
I actually read the Bible from cover to cover for the first time when I was 14. My eyes just about popped out of my head. It was the first place I ever read about seminal emissions and men hung like horses. For some reason, they never did read about having drunken sex with his daughters from the pulpit. I can’t figure out why…
Hegseth and the rest of Trump's henchmen are not in any way Christian in following the teaching of Christ. They are what Christ hated and feared. Money changers in the temple, pharisee politicians, and people who are consumed by their pursuit of wealth and power. They have turned Christianity into a weapon against women and disadvantaged. It is truly blasphemous for them to say they believe in anything but what will give them power over their enemies. White supremecy and Christian nationalism are one and the same.
Actually, Jesus the historic man was probably simply trying to make a better world by taking care of each other rather than by violence. At least the Bible scholars I have read, by which I mean, people who can read scriptures in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, etc., and who can explain why they believe what they believe, and whether they are in the majority or minority views, don’t necessarily perceive him as violent. Although, it seems pretty clear that the Romans viewed him as someone who was claiming to be a leader of the Jews, as opposed to the Romans being the ones in control
Reducing the historical Jesus to three verses in one book of a collection of writings about him is as reductionistic as fundamentalists pounding their chosen proof texts. I'm not getting into any religious claims, one way or another; my comment is based on who the historical figure likely was, an idealist and social reformer, based on overall academic scholarship.
Well, don’t assume every religion has written scriptures that are intended to be, well, scriptural. There is a reason that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are called people of the book.
Well, then you’re making the same mistake that fundamentalists make. It is faith book. It is the story of people developing a faith. It shows how their understandings changed through time and experience. It was never meant to be a science book or a textbook or a history book. In fact, it is more like a library than a book. There is some stuff intended to be history, there are songs, there are letters, there is some satire, there’s poetry.
My husband attended parochial school. He told me, “the ‘buy-bull’ is my Science book.” There is no evidence that any god ever existed. As an atheist, faith and belief is not evidence, it’s just a “feel good” deception. The sheeple better have faith and belief, or else they will surely burn in the pits of eternal hell. There is no evidence of heaven or hell.
As for myself, when I check out, I’m going to the beach. The beach is real. 🤗⛱️🐚
Shrug. I no longer consider myself to be a Christian. I did have a shared death experience with my grandfather. Far before I ever heard that it was a thing. It had nothing to deal with faith and I wasn’t even that close to that grandfather.
I personally hate the word God because I think it sounds like Zeus or someone from the Marvel’s comic universe like Thor, or the painting of Michelangelo on the Sistine chapel, some human with superpowers, typically masculine
I do believe in the universe. And I do believe that the universe is bigger than a human brain can comprehend. And as such, I do believe there is stuff out there beyond our comprehension. And I do think that applying something to the universe like thinks, is, etc, is again far too anthropomorphic
I will also add that there is a pretty decent philosophy in the Bible. And some interesting literary styles. When I was in Sunday school, the big point of the story of Jonah was basically God being able to use big fish as taxi cabs. But the real point of the story is that God actually loves those people we consider our enemies, even their cattle and dogs. That is still a message we could stand to learn today
Thanks to this regime of crooks and miscreants, we are indeed a first world corrupt country being dragged into becoming a corrupt third world country, as Dare Obasanjo observed.
What I do wonder about is what happens when it is finally shown that the pussy grabbing POS is found guilty of raping minors? Does anyone think that he'll really be punished? Obviously, he owns the DOJ. He owns the SCOTUS majority. He wants to weaponize the military to take over law enforcement in DC. Hell, he isn't even doing time for 34 felonies. He was convicted of rape and never had to register as a sex offender. Does anyone really think he'll be punished?
No, I doubt that he will be punished or held accountable in any way. To hold people like him accountable, we may have to look to history, such as Romania in the '80's or '90's and Italy in WWII. Not recommending violence, just looking to history. :)
Pete Hegseth is said to be considering a run for governor of Tennessee. I wonder if he knows that in 1920 Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to pass the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Although Harry Burns, a young legislator from East TN was going to vote no, he changed his mind after receiving a letter from his mother (and many telegrams from women across the state) urging him to vote yes. His subsequent statement recorded in the TN House Journal is inspiring. Among the five reasons he gave were his belief that “a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow” (reason #3), his realization that such an opportunity “…seldom comes to a mortal man to free seventeen million women from political slavery was mine” (reason #4), and “I desired that my party in both State and nation might say that it was a republican from the East mountains of Tennessee, the purest Anglo-Saxon section in the world, who made national woman suffrage possible at this date, not for personal glory but for the glory of his party.”
My own great grandaunts and other antecedents worked hard to get Australian women the right to vote. One of their main arguments was this:
"We work, we earn money, and then we PAY TAXES. We FEED the government, so we have a right to choose it."
So if someone cancels your right to vote, then cancel their right to tax you. Same of course for anyone else whose vote you remove: don't tax them, either.
Check out Indivisble.org. it's a great place to get started and they have programs to teach effective non-violent protesting and much more. They are always looking for people who have all kinds of skills, from art and writing to all manner of volunteer work. They have independent and interdepent chapters in every state and coordinate with other groups to make the big protests and stuff work.
When Mrs. Hegseth begged Pete to seek help, instead of seeing a therapist he joined a patriarchal church that reinforced his worst instincts. It added a mixed grill of bad ideas now shocking the nation.
When one's own mother outs one's vileness, you would think that folk would sit up and take serious notice. But, no. I suspect that the fact that it was his mother...a WOMAN no less...who did the outing. Obviously, she was suffering from wandering womb - a known medical condition that makes women hysterical and stupid - and so there is nothing to hear here.
Women shouldn’t have the right to vote?? wtf where do these idiots come up with this shit?
I want to meet him alone in a room to show him just how hard a woman can fight to protect that right they Already fought for.
Putz…
Just the fact they are floating the idea that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote is deeply troubling on many levels (the primary one being the misogyny). They overturned Roe v. Wade, even though lots of people said they’d never do it. It will be much more difficult to revoke the 19th Amendment. However, if the christian nationalists become more entrenched, I could see it potentially happening. We have to clean out the rot that the current regime is allowing to take over.
I'm sure they're going to go after the non-whites, LGBTQ+, liberals, and other groups they hate. Gotta make sure those elections turn out "right."
Drain the proverbial "SWAMP"!
Taking away the right to vote from women has been a long time goal, along with banishing us from education, the public, paid work and all manner of like things. And here I have to make it clear that I am in no way talking about all men. But the truth is that the men, and occasional woman, who pulls this KNOWS that we see and that we are at LEAST as intelligent and capable as they are. They want to hide from Mother the evil they do. When women notice, and point out, that the emperor is wearing no clothes, we women are to blame. They could do whatever their hearts desire to anyone and everything, if only SHE would shut her damned eyes, ears and mouth. This has been going on for at least 6,000 years. Men like that cling to their infantile "mommy must do everything for me and then cease to exist in any real way" demand. And, frankly, we women have allowed it, by being fo willing to give in. We have been trained to obedience, victimhood and silence and it is Goddess-damned time we throw off the shackles of self-doubt and self-hatred and take out rightful places in the world and save it from the Mad Kings and all their foul Princes.
Not surprised by this. As I recall, it’s the wet dream of evangelical christian men to take all our hard-won “rights” away, including the right to vote. Women are not equal, coz of that Adam’s rib thing. What say you, God?
They used to claim that men had one less rib than women, too. The those darned scientists came along and actually counted them. Always trying to disprove the Bible, don'tcha know?
I should point out that it is not just the right to vote they want to take away. I have heard and read, and much of this is in Project 2025, that the right to an education is on their dream chopping block, along with disallowing women's right to work and choose whether and who she will marry. The population is in decline and they are using that to ultimately make us nothing more than forced baby machines...especially white babies. We are living in Trump's version of Nazi Germany, right where he and so many want to live, where women where the incubators for the state and their babies little more than cannon fodder. I think that if my father had presumed the right to determine the course of my life, including whether and who I would marry, patricide might have been on the table.
It's kind of like Gilead~The young women bear the children and the older ones raise them.
They fear us. Failures like Pete know they are inadequate and are afraid they will be exposed.
Right on.
Count me in 😡
Too many people calling themselves Christian have never read the entire Bible. And their cherry picking skills are phenomenal. Paul clearly names women as leaders in the church. Alas, men such as Pete were threatened by this and changed their names or rewrote the relevant passages. Women are also clearly important to Jesus. But these so-called Christians don’t follow Jesus, they follow the anti-Christ. That is, if I wasn’t aware that the revelation of John was not intended to be a future prophecy but a way to deal with current problems in the world of the ancient church.
You can leave them to education, but you can’t make them think
The early Christian Church consisted of many different books that are currently not part of the official canon.
I'm referring to the Nag Hammadi gospels, which are Gnostic writings. They consist of books you likely never heard of -- Gospel of Mary Magdelene, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, etc. They were mystical treatises, and philosophical works — that taught salvation came through secret knowledge (gnosis), often interpreting Jesus’ role in a mystical rather than literal sense.
While theological disagreements were the official reason for excluding the Gospel of Mary from the canon, there’s strong evidence that gender politics, including male chauvinism, played a role in how the text (and Mary Magdalene herself) was sidelined in early Christianity.
In the 1st–3rd centuries, many church communities debated the role of women in leadership. Some, like certain Gnostic groups, allowed women to teach, prophesy, or hold authority. The Gospel of Mary elevates Mary to a position on par with — or above — male apostles, undermining the developing patriarchal structure in the mainstream church. Later, church fathers pushed for an all-male clergy. A gospel giving theological primacy to a woman didn’t align with that direction.
Which goes to show weak shallow men will always feel threatened by outspoken smart women. Much like Kegsbreath.
Oh, I love the way you think and your scholarship. And the guys have been trying to convince women that our 'natural' state is one of silence, obedience and complete submission to our masters...our so-called betters. One would think, however, that after millennia of pushing this 'ideology,' one would realize that, even with the Inquisition, women are never going to be the easily programmable automatons that will devote every moment to making them happy that they would like. Nor are we ever going to be the uniformly penis-pleasing Barbies they dream of.
You may not have been referring to me as not being aware, but given that I have a copy of “the other gospels: accounts of Jesus from outside the New Testament “ I can reassure you that I am very aware of them.
I also suspect most Christians have no clue of how many Christianities actually existed and how different they were.
By the way, comma, you may have already heard of him, but if you have not run across Bart Ehrman and his “misquoting Jesus” blog and pod, you might enjoy following him. I just had the privilege of going on a cruise tour with him and his knowledge basis phenomenal.
Christianity is just another tired mystery death religion. If it wasn't for Constantine and King James (the gay), it would have disappeared.
Maybe not. Constantine may have given it the final push, but it was growing pretty rapidly. And he did not outlaw paganism. The odd thing is that the common use of Latin and the spread of the religion may have played a role in unifying Europe by providing a common culture. By the way, I do not consider myself to be a Christian.
Thank you for the correction. I used to be until I realized what it really was.
Thank you for this post, something I have thought for most of my 85 years.
My experience is they really like the Old vs New testaments. Lots of smiting and violence.
Smiting, violence, genocide, adultery, misogyny, incest... Of course, when you tell them that, they claim that you are the one cherry picking. 🙄
I actually read the Bible from cover to cover for the first time when I was 14. My eyes just about popped out of my head. It was the first place I ever read about seminal emissions and men hung like horses. For some reason, they never did read about having drunken sex with his daughters from the pulpit. I can’t figure out why…
Hegseth and the rest of Trump's henchmen are not in any way Christian in following the teaching of Christ. They are what Christ hated and feared. Money changers in the temple, pharisee politicians, and people who are consumed by their pursuit of wealth and power. They have turned Christianity into a weapon against women and disadvantaged. It is truly blasphemous for them to say they believe in anything but what will give them power over their enemies. White supremecy and Christian nationalism are one and the same.
Guess he never read
Matthew 10:34-37
Jebus is NO Prince of peace
The GOP-Guardians of PEDOPHILES- ARE following in the footsteps of jebus.
Actually, Jesus the historic man was probably simply trying to make a better world by taking care of each other rather than by violence. At least the Bible scholars I have read, by which I mean, people who can read scriptures in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, etc., and who can explain why they believe what they believe, and whether they are in the majority or minority views, don’t necessarily perceive him as violent. Although, it seems pretty clear that the Romans viewed him as someone who was claiming to be a leader of the Jews, as opposed to the Romans being the ones in control
I often think of how the historic Jesus would be utterly appalled at so much of the hateful crap that has been preached in his name.
Amen to that. They must be fantastic cherry pie makers because they’re so good at cherry picking.
Well, jebus gave his real reason for showing up.
Matthew 10:34-37
Prince of peace? I call bull shit.
Reducing the historical Jesus to three verses in one book of a collection of writings about him is as reductionistic as fundamentalists pounding their chosen proof texts. I'm not getting into any religious claims, one way or another; my comment is based on who the historical figure likely was, an idealist and social reformer, based on overall academic scholarship.
I like the comic collection(s) /Second Coming/ by Ahoy Comics. Good stuff! "Jesus vs. Superman" kind of thing, but not what you'd expect... ;-)
They're up to three volumes so far, with the third of course being called /Second Coming: Trinity/...
Every religion interprets ‘scripture’ in their own way. That’s why I have no problem cherry picking the buy-bull.
Well, don’t assume every religion has written scriptures that are intended to be, well, scriptural. There is a reason that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are called people of the book.
I’m thinking it’s really “people of a fictional book.”
Well, then you’re making the same mistake that fundamentalists make. It is faith book. It is the story of people developing a faith. It shows how their understandings changed through time and experience. It was never meant to be a science book or a textbook or a history book. In fact, it is more like a library than a book. There is some stuff intended to be history, there are songs, there are letters, there is some satire, there’s poetry.
My husband attended parochial school. He told me, “the ‘buy-bull’ is my Science book.” There is no evidence that any god ever existed. As an atheist, faith and belief is not evidence, it’s just a “feel good” deception. The sheeple better have faith and belief, or else they will surely burn in the pits of eternal hell. There is no evidence of heaven or hell.
As for myself, when I check out, I’m going to the beach. The beach is real. 🤗⛱️🐚
Shrug. I no longer consider myself to be a Christian. I did have a shared death experience with my grandfather. Far before I ever heard that it was a thing. It had nothing to deal with faith and I wasn’t even that close to that grandfather.
I personally hate the word God because I think it sounds like Zeus or someone from the Marvel’s comic universe like Thor, or the painting of Michelangelo on the Sistine chapel, some human with superpowers, typically masculine
I do believe in the universe. And I do believe that the universe is bigger than a human brain can comprehend. And as such, I do believe there is stuff out there beyond our comprehension. And I do think that applying something to the universe like thinks, is, etc, is again far too anthropomorphic
I will also add that there is a pretty decent philosophy in the Bible. And some interesting literary styles. When I was in Sunday school, the big point of the story of Jonah was basically God being able to use big fish as taxi cabs. But the real point of the story is that God actually loves those people we consider our enemies, even their cattle and dogs. That is still a message we could stand to learn today
It's utterly astounding that he has not yet been fired for his incompetence.
Thank you Big G, you've got the goods on Hegseth. What a wretch he is.
Thanks to this regime of crooks and miscreants, we are indeed a first world corrupt country being dragged into becoming a corrupt third world country, as Dare Obasanjo observed.
We're well on the way to becoming a third world country with nukes, much like Russia.
I love that nickname!
Yeah, piss drunk Pete needs to: STFU!
I already subscribe. That's not the problem.
What I do wonder about is what happens when it is finally shown that the pussy grabbing POS is found guilty of raping minors? Does anyone think that he'll really be punished? Obviously, he owns the DOJ. He owns the SCOTUS majority. He wants to weaponize the military to take over law enforcement in DC. Hell, he isn't even doing time for 34 felonies. He was convicted of rape and never had to register as a sex offender. Does anyone really think he'll be punished?
No, I doubt that he will be punished or held accountable in any way. To hold people like him accountable, we may have to look to history, such as Romania in the '80's or '90's and Italy in WWII. Not recommending violence, just looking to history. :)
Thanks God! You are the best 🤗🥰😄❤️♾️
Pete Hegseth is said to be considering a run for governor of Tennessee. I wonder if he knows that in 1920 Tennessee was the 36th and final state needed to pass the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Although Harry Burns, a young legislator from East TN was going to vote no, he changed his mind after receiving a letter from his mother (and many telegrams from women across the state) urging him to vote yes. His subsequent statement recorded in the TN House Journal is inspiring. Among the five reasons he gave were his belief that “a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow” (reason #3), his realization that such an opportunity “…seldom comes to a mortal man to free seventeen million women from political slavery was mine” (reason #4), and “I desired that my party in both State and nation might say that it was a republican from the East mountains of Tennessee, the purest Anglo-Saxon section in the world, who made national woman suffrage possible at this date, not for personal glory but for the glory of his party.”
My own great grandaunts and other antecedents worked hard to get Australian women the right to vote. One of their main arguments was this:
"We work, we earn money, and then we PAY TAXES. We FEED the government, so we have a right to choose it."
So if someone cancels your right to vote, then cancel their right to tax you. Same of course for anyone else whose vote you remove: don't tax them, either.
I'm waiting for all the dirt to come out about Pete's beloved pastor. Anyone that misogynistic has probably abused women.
Not sure that abuse of women is much of an issue with them. They like it.
The men might like it; the women/girls - not so much.
Happily, I am cautiously hopeful that the majority of men would also hate it. Cautiously hopeful.
I have no doubt about that.
Need to find a place that will give us some positive actions to take against what is happening.
Check out Indivisble.org. it's a great place to get started and they have programs to teach effective non-violent protesting and much more. They are always looking for people who have all kinds of skills, from art and writing to all manner of volunteer work. They have independent and interdepent chapters in every state and coordinate with other groups to make the big protests and stuff work.
God, I would like to add a p.s. to your letter to Pete: If men could have babies, abortion would be a sacrament.