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(19,637 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 09:42 AM 7 hrs ago

'A Special Kind Of Loathsomeness'

"Bad Men Behaving Badly Chap. 746: ‘Cause it’s not awful enough we have to endure the racist crap spewing from our home-grown jackasses, the rest of the world just bore grim witness to it as dunk-tank Christofascist Pete Hegseth chose a D-Day remembrance to flip the script on World War 2, trash European allies for not being fascist enough, and liken (good-guy) Allies landing at Normandy to an 'invasion' of brown people 'with ”dangerous ideologies.' Fact: 'This is repulsive and confused, unless you’re a Nazi.' "

"Speaking of: Last week, under cover of darkness, 'shameful' Senate Republicans pushed through a 'Secure America Act' (sic) gifting yet more billions to keep out more of the swarthy hordes Pete’s so scared of. Without making any of the reforms Dems had demanded, they added to last year’s obscene $191 billion gift to DHS another $75 billion for ICE and $65 billion for CBP, 4 to 7 times their previous budgets, with most allocated to expand detentions, deportations, facilities, goons - not, as it could, to fund free childcare for over a million kids, groceries for over 10 million households, a year of SNAP benefits to 31 million people, health care tax credits for a year etc etc ad nauseum. Their wise leader, meanwhile, was throwing tantrums on TV - 'Dude is losing his shit' - because a reporter dared ask for evidence of his flood of unhinged claims."

"And greasy 'Secretary of War (Crimes)' Pete lurches along on his quest to turn America into a white nationalist theocracy. A buffoon of a warmonger though (because?) he never saw combat, he posts klutzy videos of himself working out; in one, he prances in a 'This Is War' t-shirt. (No, this is reality TV). Sporting Crusader tattoos - Deus Vult, but whose God? - he stripped 180 unholy faiths from those the military recognizes despite a First Amendment ensuring 'the free exercise of religion for everybody' - a religious purge dressed up as paperwork (telling) thousands of service members their beliefs don’t matter to the government they’re risking their lives to protect. (After outrage, he restored the Mormons.) He cut dozens of female and Black Navy officers from leadership-approved promotions, dissing 'historic so-called firsts' that make the military 'less lethal.' "

"And to mark this weekend’s 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944 D-Day landing of Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy - perhaps the most pivotal moment in a long bloody fight to defend democracy against fascism - he gave a pro-fascism speech, embracing a Great Replacement theory that calls for a return to the racial ideology on which fascism is based. Speaking at the American Cemetery in north-west France where about 9,400 are buried, he’d barely recalled the courage of Allied Forces from multiple countries wading ashore in history’s largest amphibious operation to liberate Europe before pivoting to warn 'their legacy requires our active vigilance.' European leaders may have grown too 'comfortable,' he said with the chutzpah of the deeply ignorant, and they may have somehow 'forgotten that freedom is not free.' "

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https://www.commondreams.org/further/a-special-kind-of-loathsomeness

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'A Special Kind Of Loathsomeness' (Original Post) sop 7 hrs ago OP
Nobody bought that flip. He keeps underlining everyday how pathetically lacking he is a SoD. marble falls 7 hrs ago #1
Pete is a grotesque reminder that this Hey Joe 6 hrs ago #2
77,000,000+ US people enjoy what he does dave99 3 hrs ago #5
I hope most of the people who lost SNAP benefits were republicOns KS Toronado 5 hrs ago #3
Most of those who lost SNAP don't vote. maxsolomon 4 hrs ago #4

marble falls

(73,015 posts)
1. Nobody bought that flip. He keeps underlining everyday how pathetically lacking he is a SoD.
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 09:57 AM
7 hrs ago

Hey Joe

(864 posts)
2. Pete is a grotesque reminder that this
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 10:46 AM
6 hrs ago

Regime is a refutation of every principle that our nation was founded on.
It is egomania, racism and greed running rampant and proud .
Never believed I would see my country fall so far,
so quickly.

KS Toronado

(24,016 posts)
3. I hope most of the people who lost SNAP benefits were republicOns
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 11:17 AM
5 hrs ago

maybe just maybe they might get a little wiser on who to vote for.

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