Hegseth quotes fake Bible verse in mortifying "prayer"

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Pete Hegseth recites fake Bible verse from “Pulp Fiction” during Pentagon prayer service
Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth authorized the deployment of weapons-grade cringe during a Pentagon prayer service yesterday, quoting a “Bible verse” that film buffs will immediately recognize as Samuel L. Jackson’s famous monologue in Quentin Tarantino’s ultraviolent black comedy, “Pulp Fiction” — which is delivered just before Jackson’s character murders an unarmed man in cold blood.

Hegseth, of course, is too myopic to recognize that the speech is satirizing men who hide behind religion in order to justify unholy acts of violence against their fellow men…which is exactly what mass murderer Hegseth himself is doing a daily basis. Nothing sums up the Trump regime’s relationship with religion better than using fake Bible quotes to justify an illegal war of imperial aggression.

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Senate Republicans screw themselves with shocking move
With the country mired in a deeply unpopular war entirely of Donald Trump’s making, Senate Republicans were given the chance yesterday to reassert some semblance of congressional authority and rein in the president’s imperial adventurism in Iran. Despite poll after poll showing Americans strongly disapproving of Trump’s “little excursion” in the Middle East, every Republican not named Rand Paul declined to pass a resolution to prohibit our wannabe dictator from taking further military action without congressional approval.

Brian Tyler Cohen and Sen. Elizabeth Warren spell out exactly what this all means and the blowback Republicans can expect to face in the upcoming midterms.

Take Action: Pass a War Powers resolution and stop Trump’s illegal wars!

Trump gets nightmare news as his top impeachment witness launches run for Senate
Alexander Vindman for Senate: Alexander Vindman made history as one of the star witnesses in the first impeachment case against Trump — and now he’s running for Senate so he can hold the wannabe dictator accountable from the halls of Congress. Vindman has vowed to take on “a Republican Party that’s failing to deliver accountability and underwriting chaos and corruption,” but to win in Florida, he’s going to need some help. Can you chip in to help kick-start his run?

Trump posts more AI Jesus slop after furious backlash
Wait a second. That’s not Jesus, that’s clearly a DOCTOR! Why does he look so forlorn? Is something wrong? Are the test results back? Is he breaking bad news to the president about his failing health? Is Trump trying to tell us something?!

Take Action: Demand Congress pay for healthcare, not war!

Democrats file articles of impeachment against Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors”
House Democrats finally filed six articles of impeachment against Sec. of War Crimes Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, accusing him of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” in reference to the ongoing attack on Iran without congressional authorization and deadly strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats, among other official acts. It’s about damn time.

RFK Jr. once removed a dead raccoon’s penis to “study later” while his wife and kids waited in the car, book claims
If the stories told in New York Post journalist Isabel Vincent’s new biography, RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise, are to be believed, you really do have to wonder at some point if RFK Jr.’s mission in life is to just retire the writing team at The Onion for good. According to Vincent, Kennedy wrote in a 2001 diary entry: “I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be. My kids waited patiently in the car.” Beyond parody.

Oscar Wilde famously wrote, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life,” but no one could’ve foreseen it being taken to these extremes.

Pentagon approaches US automakers to help make weapons as wars deplete stocks, report claims
The same administration that has spent the past year promising America had the biggest, baddest, most beautiful military the world has ever seen is now running so low on bombs and whatnot that the Pentagon is apparently asking automakers if they could press pause on making cars and trucks and instead pivot to war machinery.

The last time the US military needed this kind of emergency manufacturing assistance Hitler was still alive, and we’re only 47 days into Donald Trump’s “little excursion” in Iran. All this on top of the $1.5 TRILLION Trump is requesting for next year’s Pentagon budget AND the extra $200 billion he wants this year to pay for his current quagmire. Any questions?

New York drops the ball on landmark climate legislation
Evergreen Action: In 2019, New York passed one of the most ambitious climate laws in the country, setting bold targets to achieve 100% clean electricity, reduce emissions by 85%, and invest in more affordable, reliable energy. But intense lobbying from Big Oil is fueling efforts to weaken this historic law. Will you add your name to demand New York legislators protect the climate law and propel us to a cleaner, more affordable energy future?