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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPete Hegseth isn't just an unqualified Fox host. He's a tradcath cult member who thinks he's fighting the Crusades
Jim Stewartson, Antifascist
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Pete Hegseth isn’t just an unqualified Fox host. He’s a tradcath cult member who thinks he’s fighting the Crusades—who will be in the nuclear chain of command.
This guy helming the most lethal force in history is a national security extinction event.
“Deus vult” = “God wills it”


November 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
@jim-stewartson.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth isn’t just an unqualified Fox host. He’s a tradcath cult member who thinks he’s fighting the Crusades—who will be in the nuclear chain of command.
This guy helming the most lethal force in history is a national security extinction event.
“Deus vult” = “God wills it”


November 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Pete Hegseth isn't just an unqualified Fox host. He's a tradcath cult member who thinks he's fighting the Crusades (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Nov 2024
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FirstLight
(14,722 posts)1. I am afraid to look it up...what does it mean?
Is it anti-semitic? What do you mean about crusades? Please clarify
Vinca
(51,735 posts)2. No one's even mentioned the AK-style rifle tattoo. No wonder he's accused of rape. Who would hop in the sack with that?
La Coliniere
(1,320 posts)3. MTG in a Georgia minute!
keep_left
(2,751 posts)4. He's not a tradcath/radtrad, but he speaks their language.
It looks like he's some variation on the usual evangelical fundamentalist Protestant sectarianism, which makes sense since he's from Minnesota and has a Norwegian background. (He probably started out a Lutheran). However, he has all the trappings of the radtrads tattooed on him, including the Jerusalem Cross. He also has one of those "Don't Tread" (Gadsden Flag) snakes on one of his arms, which is a favorite of the Gravy Seals (aka Meal Team Six, Custard's Last Stand, etc.).
I predict a conversion to radtrad-ism in the near future, possibly after getting caught fathering another out-of-wedlock kid.