The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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BREAKING: Hegseth STRIPS military chaplains of their rank while pushing his hardline religious agenda.
Pete Hegseth has decided that military chaplains aren't "warfighters" enough — so he's stripping the rank insignia off their uniforms. There's just one problem: military chaplains have spent over a century proving their valor in combat with their blood.
The U.S. Army this week gave its chaplains 90 days to remove their rank from combat uniforms, implementing Hegseth's directive that a chaplain "is first and foremost a chaplain and an officer second."
But as one viral social media post pointed out, the historical record OBLITERATES Hegseth's premise. Since World War I, U.S. military chaplains have earned 5 MEDALS OF HONOR, 26 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Navy Cross, 45 Silver Stars, and 719 Bronze Stars for valor.
These are men who ran INTO gunfire — unarmed — to drag wounded soldiers to safety, administer last rites under shelling, and comfort the dying on battlefields from the Argonne to Iraq. To suggest they need their rank stripped because they're not warriors enough is an insult to every chaplain who gave his life for the troops he served.
So, what's REALLY going on here? This is part of Hegseth's relentless campaign to inject hardline Christian nationalism into the U.S. military. He eliminated the Army's spiritual fitness guide, slashed recognized faith codes from over 200 down to just 31, and complained that past administrations infected the Chaplain Corps with "secular humanism."
And consider the company Hegseth keeps. He's the Trump administration's most prominent member of pastor Doug Wilson's church — which preaches that homosexuality should be a CRIME, that women should submit to their husbands, that the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote should be REPEALED, and that Southern Christians who owned slaves were "on firm scriptural ground." Hegseth even invited Wilson to deliver a sermon at his monthly Pentagon prayer service.
THIS is the man deciding what "big-T truth" America's warfighters need.
Chaplains have bled for this country for 250 years. They don't need Pete Hegseth questioning their courage.
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It seems that the two dozen people who turned up for the concert left disappointed.
But at least Donnie wasn't embarrassed
But at least Donnie wasn't embarrassed
WikipediaPraise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" is a famous American rallying cry and patriotic song. It was famously coined on December 7, 1941, by Navy Chaplain Howell Forgy aboard the USS New Orleans during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Well Secretary Hegseth, we can't be certain.
President Trump may overrule you on this, as Trump has been known to occasionally do the right thing, when it's in his best interest to do so.
For now, this unilateral action may not be viewed favorably among evangelicals, a significant component of Trump's MAGA horde.
It may not matter much to you now Hegseth. But there are likely to be some close political races this November. The outcome of those close races may determine which party controls congress for the rest of Trump's presidency (unless he runs for a 3rd term). That would be unConstitutional. BUT ! So is the current Trump term.
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Dozens? Are you sure it was that many?
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BREAKING
The emails, released by Bernie Sanders from a former CDC chief medical officer, lay out the pressure campaign. Less than a day after Kennedy was sworn in, a CDC official wrote that an HHS communications director had called and told the agency to pull "all campaign ad buys related to flu or anything encouraging shots or vaccinations" — saying the order came straight from Kennedy.
A health secretary walking in and shutting down vaccine messaging in the middle of flu season is not a paperwork dispute. It's anti-vaccine ideology overriding public health.
The emails go further. Kennedy's aides pushed what one called the "absolute need for political review of major policy decisions at CDC," telling staff to send scientific decisions up for political approval before they took effect. Then came the worst of it: efforts to reopen the long-buried hoax that vaccines cause autism, including moves around vaccine advisory panels and access to confidential data.
Here's what makes it a scandal and not just a difference of opinion. Kennedy told lawmakers under oath that vaccines play a critical role in health care. The public version was reassurance. The internal version, these emails show, was suppression, interference, and ideological meddling.
Scientists scrambling to protect basic vaccine policy while the man running American health tried to bend the CDC around his conspiracy theories.
That's not skepticism. That's sabotage.
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Malice? Or delusion? Either way the outcome, the consequence is the same.
"Among life's perpetually charming questions is whether the truly evil do more harm than the self-righteous and wrong." Jon Margolis
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b) Obama reportedly had some friction with the Secret Service, as Obama's smart-phone was a Blackberry, the Secret Service had an alternate preference.
Whether Trump twitters on a Secret Service approved, U.S. government owned smart-phone, or not, there may be some very "interesting" evidence.