WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2026
It has now come to this: We'd planned to speak today about the recent murder of Stephanie Minter, age 41, in Fairfax County, Virginia. Also, about the recent murder of Sheridan Gorman, age 18, on the Chicago lakefront.
Last night, on the Fox News Channel, Trace Gallagher alleged that CNN and MSNOW have refused to report or discuss these recent killings. We had planned to cite the tribal siftings—the tribal evasions—involved in this state of affairs.
We Blues! As the "democratization of media" has helped split this nation into warring tribes, we Blues have disappeared important news topics too! We had planned to go there today—but thanks to Michael Luciano's report at Mediaite, we can tell you instead that it has now come to this:
Hegseth’s Pastor Agrees With Interviewer Who Says ‘I Pray That God Kills’ Democratic Candidate
The pastor and spiritual adviser to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth agreed with a podcaster’s wish that God kill state Rep. James Talarico (D-TX).
Brooks Potteiger is a pastor at Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a church in the Nashville area that Hegseth attends. In August, Hegseth held a Christian religious service at the Pentagon, where Potteiger was invited to say a prayer.
Last Tuesday, Potteiger appeared on the Reformation Red Pill podcast, where host Joshua Haymes, who is also a member of Pilgrim Hill, made some astonishing remarks about Talarico. This month, Talarico won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate after having spoken openly about his Christian faith while also opposing Christian nationalism, to which Hegseth subscribes.
Just to be clear, we're speaking here about Secretary Hegseth's pastor, not about Secretary Hegseth himself. According to Luciano, that pastor agreed, on a recent podcast, with some "astonishing" remarks.
With respect to those remarks, How astonishing were they? We'll offer a fuller transcript below, but here's what Luciano reported next:
[continuing directly from above]
“I pray that God kills him,” Haymes said. “Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ.”
“Right,” Potteiger agreed. “We want him crucified with Christ.”
It gets worse, as you can see below. But that's what Luciano reported.
Luciano's report continues from there. We'll suggest that you read his report and look at the videotape it includes.
In our view, it's an important report—a report which helps capture what Plato once called "the [difficulty] of the time."
At this site, we've been puzzled by Hegseth's demeanor ever since 2023. During that year, we started watching him on Fox & Friends Weekend.
Again, it isn't Secretary Hegseth who made the remarks in question. But can a large, highly "diverse" modern nation expect to survive the "democratization" to which we've referred?
In our view, the answer isn't clear. That said, here's a fuller chunk of the conversation which now sits out there on the web for anyone to be influenced by.
The Christian pastors are talking about James Talarico, age 36, the Texas Senate nominee of whom they disapprove:
HAYMES (3/17/26): This is the kind of guy you pray imprecatory psalms against, and I mean that actually. First and foremost, we pray that a man like this will be cut to the heart. My wife and I were talking about this in the car the other day...
Public enemies—these are the orcs at the gate. You are not called to love the barbarian horde that is planning to break into your city and, you know, pillage, plunder, rape and mutilate you and your people. You don't love that horde. That is your enemy, and this is where you have imprecatory psalms. This is where you pray, strongly.
The Psalmist is not shy. "God, destroy them. Make them as dung on the ground," right? Madison and I were talking about that...
I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ. That's the first thing.
POTTEIGER: Right. We want him crucified with Christ.
HAYMES: That's exactly right.
POTTEIGER: I want him to be—Saul of Tarsus? Talarico of Tarsus! That's what I want. Who would say, "I was holding the garments while they stoned Stephen and now I'm the —" Yeah! That's what we want.
HAYMES: Yes. We want death and new life, right? And if it would not be within God’s will to do so, stop him by any means necessary, O God! That’s why we pray imprecatory psalms, even in our Lord’s Day service. We're Whole Bible Christians, after all.
Haymes and his wife had been talking about making the others as dung! At any rate, what's a "Whole Bible Christian?"
With no disrespect intended, you'll have to Google that up.
What did those Whole Bible believers literally mean by the various things they said? Each person can puzzle that out. But whatever these two Christians actually meant, we regard what they said as dangerous.
At any rate, that's a slightly larger chunk of what the two Christians said. It's now floating around on the web for everyone in the country to hear.
Regarding what we've transcribed, we'll note that it's Haymes who does most of the talking. But it's Potteiger, the DefSec's pastor, who provides some of the more colorful talk.
Does Potteiger want the candidate killed, or does he want the candidate converted? We can't tell you how to read that. We can tell you this:
On that same day—on Tuesday, March 17—Greg Gutfeld and Emily Compagno engaged in dangerous secular talk concerning Talarico. They did so on our nation's most-watched "cable news" program, The Five.
When they emitted some truly remarkable statements, no major figure in Blue America deigned to say a word. Over here in Blue America, our major news orgs have decided that the Fox News Channel doesn't even exist.
Rather plainly, The Five is a "news show" in name only. In reality, it's a propaganda / entertainment entity—a dim-witted corporate messaging vehicle whose co-hosts may or may not be qualified to participate in an actual TV "news" program.
We Blues! The people we've been trained to trust won't report or discuss this ongoing situation. We'll guess that it's safer and easier to look away—to refuse to discuss the real world.
Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we'll show you what our cowardly kittens are choosing to enable. We'll transcribe the remarkable comments emitted by Gutfeld and Compagno.
We'll transcribe what the messengers said. All in all, the game works like this:
Silo Red cranks it out. Silo Blue runs off and hides!
Tomorrow: What the two messengers said
Iran thinks Trump & Hic'seth are idiots too:
ReplyDelete"Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the statement in a prerecorded video aired on state television.
“The strategic power you used to talk about has turned into a strategic failure,” he said. “The one claiming to be a global superpower would have already gotten out of this mess if it could. Don’t dress up your defeat as an agreement. Your era of empty promises has come to an end.”
He added: “Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you are negotiating with yourselves?”
We are ruled by idiots who have demonstrated how weak the world's greatest military really is. Sad.
Shame on you, @10:19. You know that statements made during a negotiation are intentionally slanted to achieve certain goals. Zolfaghari is trying to sound strong in order to gain a better negotiating position. By supporting his statement, you are taking the side a truly evil Administration -- a group that rules by murdering tens of thousands of its own people, not to mention all the other civilians they murder.
Deletei>The enemy of my enemy is my friend is aphorism that should not be followed when your enemy's enemy reaches too high a level of evilness.
BTW Zolfaghari's statement is ludicrous. It's comparable to the Black Knight.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
On Sunday, the president posted, “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party!”
DeleteGo fuck yourself, dickhead in cal
Excellent work 10:19 triggering David into a slobbering moron spewing hate, anger, and bitterness; you have clearly identified a stress point for Republicans.
DeleteShame on you David for still supporting our troops dying in a failed war. A war that if it escalates would end the good life we have come to expect from the carbon based energy we all need and consume. Seriously wonder what the fuck is wrong with you, especially if not a paid troll. More good news from former Trump top military man Matrix who knows from personnel experience how epically stupid Trump is:
Delete“I think that you could see a tax for any ship going through — something completely unsustainable in the international market,” Mattis said.
The overall U.S. and Israeli strategic objectives for Iran remain “murky,” he said.
“The Americans are fighting in a markedly limited war, and I think that what we’re seeing is a situation where [airplane] targetry never makes up for a lack of strategy,” he said.
Mattis also explained why naval protection of ships would prove a huge challenge and leave major vulnerabilities.
Even a degraded Iran retains the ability to attack ships from shore along a vast stretch of coastline in the wider region, he said.
“If you look at the Texas Gulf Coast, that’s about 367 miles, that gives you an idea of how difficult this will be for the U.S. Navy to try and protect ships in that shipping lane, 600 miles down the Gulf, 100 miles through the Straits and then out into the water,” Mattis said.
“And they’ve got anti-ship cruise missiles that could be fired off the back of a pickup truck that can go 100 miles. So there’s the problem.”
Seriously David, go away and please get help.
Yes, it's horrifying that Paster Potteiger publicly says he wants the death of a public servant. It a million times more horrifying when a million Americans publicly say they want President Trump dead.
ReplyDeleteIn what way?
DeleteWe learned it from Trump who said he was glad fellow Republican Mueller had passed away.
DeleteI am still thrilled that scumbag lefty Reiner's son murdered him and his libtard wife! Aren't you David?
DeleteNegotiations Going Well?
ReplyDeleteIranian military spokesman: “The strategic power you used to talk about has turned into strategic failure. Anyone claiming to be a global superpower would have already gotten out of this mess if it could. Don’t dress up your defeat as an agreement. Your era of empty promises has come to an end.
Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you’re negotiating with yourselves? We state this clearly: until it is our will, nothing will go back to the way it was.
That will only come about when the very thought of acting against the Iranian nation is completely wiped from your corrupt minds."
Hector - It's noteworthy that our Iranian enemies are essentially quoting American anti-Trumpers. The anti-Trumpers are trying to make Trump look bad for political reasons. But, their misrepresentation of the Iranian defeat also encourages the Iranian regime to keep fighting, to keep hanging and shooting their own people and to keep killing civilians throughout the middle east. Also, these words help to put the Iranian régime in a stronger negotiating position, to help them develop nuclear weapons that might be used to blow up an American city.
DeleteWell, Trump started the war without getting the backing of the country, so it’s hardly surprising that some citizens disagree with his decision. You think they should not speak up about matters of war and peace?
DeleteDickhead in Cal is the free speech monitor for the current fascist regime. He is just making sure everyone is properly wearing their Nazi armbands.
Delete"to help them develop nuclear weapons that might be used to blow up an American city."
DeleteDo you really think our foreign policy should be built on paranoid deulsions?
DG - should people who disagreed with the Iran war stop speaking out in opposition to the war? The traditional answer is "Yes." Traditionally, once the nation is at war, citizens were expected not to publicly oppose that war.
DeleteI think that principle make sense in today's situation. Now that the war has started, would you not agree that Americans will be better off if the US wins than if Iran wins?
Traditionally we debate in democracy before we sneak attack a country during negotiations, you fucking fascist freak
DeleteHector - please explain why it's entirely inconceivably under any circumstances that an Iran with nuclear weapons would use them against the US. I can imagine circumstances whereby any country's nuclear weapons might be used. Here are three
Delete-- A government breaks down and terrorist acquire nuclear weapons
-- Nuclear weapons are stolen by terrorists
-- An insane leader facing death and defeat decides to take an American city of the world with him.
Of course, these risks apply to any country that has nuclear weapons. But, we can't stop NK from being a nuclear power. We can stop Iran.
Well, if a president starts a war in violation of international law without obtaining the Constitutionally-required declaration from Congress, I don’t think we have to or should give up our right to express our views. But that’s me.
DeleteThe Republican Party has always been a war-mongering party. It's it's tied-in closely to their big spending, big government ideology.
DeleteLots of grift and graft during the fog of war, which is also why the criminal GOP is always itching for an enemy to go to war with.
DeleteMaybe orange chickenshit should have considered that before he tore up the agreement negotiated by the black man from Kenya.
DeleteDG - There were good argument that it was wrong for the US to attack Iran, but I don't think the two you mention are valid.
DeleteInternational law barely exists. Yes, the UN charter forbids attacking a country that's not attacking you, but who follows that? Not Clinton. Not Obama. Not either Bush, not many other countries. And, US law as interpreted today gives the President the right to unilaterally attack another country, as long as he notifies Congress within a certain period, something Trump did.
"please explain why it's entirely inconceivable under any circumstances that...."
DeletePrecisely my point. That your criteria for catastrophic intervention is that we render it "inconceivable under sny circumstances" that Iran possess a nuclear weapons is paranoia.
And your logic is faulty. You seem to find a country obtaining a nuclear weapon something to be avoided at all costs. But a country that has nukes, we just leave alone. Why? Having nukes, aren't they more of a threat than a country we merely suspect of developing them?
Under your logic we should immediately start bombing North Korea and Russia and God knows who else. To achieve your paranoid goal of "inconceivable under any circumstances."
D in C - people - on the left - protested against the Vietnam war and Bush II's Iraq war, and were reviled as traitors by the right. Now, almost all recognize that the protesters were right, that these wars were huge mistakes. Even Trump attacked Bush II and his brother Jeb over the invasion of Iraq. You seem to eat raw whatever the current administrations says, even though Trump doesn't seem to have any appreciation of the virtue of being truthful. Even prominent right wingers, like Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly have attacked Trump over this war. We'll see how it plays out, but you sound exactly like the right-wingers who reviled the protesters against those two previous wars.
DeleteDiC - I guess "International law barely exists" is your tacit acknowledgement that Trump is breaking it. So much for his oath to faithfully execute the law, right? And if he can disregard this law -- a law binding on the US -- at his pleasure, is there any reason to believe he can't disregard any other law?
DeleteProverbs 14:15: "The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps."
DeleteHector - Here's the psychology IMO. The world is in enormous danger every day because of the existing nuclear weapons all over the place. That's why the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday clock is at 85 seconds to midnight. In addition to the risk of being blown up is the risk of nuclear weapons being used to blackmail the US or some other country.
DeleteWe cope with this risk by denial, by ignoring it, by pretending that it doesn't exist. So we follow that pattern and pretend that the risk of Iranian nukes doesn't exist. If we admit that a nuclear Iran is a potential huge risk, then we have to acknowledge the huge risk we're already facing. We don't want to think about that.
David the fucking 1'st amendment absolutist, amiright? And it's 89 seconds you fucking idiot. And we lost the military action in Iran just a matter of time before we run home and pay Iran reparations. Trumpers, the gang who can't shoot straight.
DeleteFuck you, dickface, President Obama was not in denial when he negotiated a treaty with Iran which the civilized world signed on to until the fucking abomination you support tore it up like the ignorant asshole he and you are
Delete"We cope with this risk by denial, by ignoring it, by pretending that it doesn't exist" All of that is completely made up in your tiny little magat infested brain.
DeleteAC/MA - historical analogies can be (ab)used to prove any POV. You point to wars that were not working that were rightfully objected to. Demonstrations by me and millions of others helped persuade the US to end the Vietnam war. (BTW to rebut a partisan comment, that war was started by Democrats and ended by a Republican. As was the Korean War.)
DeleteHistory shows plenty of wars that did need to be won. Before WW2 began, there were so-called America-firsters who proclaimed that the US should not fight against Hitler. However, once we were actually at war with Germany, it would have harmed the US to continue to argue that way
Who would have guessed that following Israel into a war started by Netanyahu would not be approved of by the majority of Americans? The tide is turning on the US / Israel relationship and it can't come soon enough. No more going to bat for a little brother who likes to start fights without consulting us. Or at least that is the party line of this administration. Iran posed no threat to the continental United States. Just as there is zero evidence that fraud plays any role in the outcomes of US elections. But Republicans like to fix problems that do not exist, for reasons that entirely have to do with power and money. And no, it is flatly unAmerican to suggest that demonstrations against this or any other war are not patriotic.
DeleteTraditionally the USA did not go to World War based on bullshit. Goddamn right I am protesting these fucking idiots. See you all on Saturday. USA! Let's make her great again. Dump Trump!
DeleteBTW AC/MA -some people who opposed the Vietnam War were traitors. They were not just rooting for the war to end, they were celebrating the possibility that the enemy would win. There was a chant
DeleteHo Ho Ho Chi Min
Ho Chi Min is gonna win.
1:12 The kindly sultan of Saudi Arabia advised the President to press on. What in the ever loving fuck is going on? No collusion with Putin though, just weird how much Trump always is there to bail that fucker out.
DeleteWe were absolutely right about Ho Chi Min, and we are absolutely right about the war in Iran. (We lost this one as well.) You remain an insufferable fool.
DeleteLook at David squirming.
DeleteLet's get real though.
David is a foreign troll, nothing he says is genuine or accurate.
Forgot to ad, we love America and don't accept being lied into war. Like we have been lied into every single war since Vietnam, and several before that.
DeleteEven the neocons in our intelligence agencies say Iran abandoned their nuclear weapons program 23 years ago.
DeleteIn reality, Iran never had a nuclear weapons program.
Iran is a signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty, and has had a fatwa against nuclear weapons for decades.
Interestingly, Israel does have nuclear weapons but is not a signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Republicans are just doing their usual Orwellian doublespeak: war is peace, etc.
David in Cal supported Ho Chi Min! What a fucking traitor!!! Per the Idiot Dickhead: "Demonstrations by me and millions of others helped persuade the US to end the Vietnam war." You a commie loving freak David.
Delete"Iran...has had a fatwa against nuclear weapons for decades."
DeleteTrue. But I read somewhere that a fatwa expires with the death of the ayatollah who issued it. Since Ali Khamenei issued the fatwa against nuclear weapons, the Trump Administration essentially cancelled it by killing him.
Ironic, huh?
Rule Number One:
DeleteIf it ain't bigotry, a Right-winger didn't "really" mean it.
"We cope with this risk (of nukes) by denial, by ignoring it, by pretending that it doesn't exist."
DeleteSo the way you dealt with the threat of actual, existing nuclear weapons in the hands of North Korea, Russia, China was to deflect your fear onto a nation that didn't even have nukes.
Fascinating.
DiC 1:15 -- We were traitors for opposing an unjust war? You lost that argument a half-century ago.
DeleteBTW -- I'd give the over/under on this war at $1T. And I'll take the over. Any takers?
DeleteHector - good snark, but incorrect reasoning. Policy decisions must be made on each individual situation. Iran is not NK. If someone wanted do doo serious analysis of the reasons to allow NKL to keep their nukes but use our military to prevent Iran from getting nukes, one would have to look at all the differences.
DeleteIsn't it funny how the Red team is SO concerned about deficits except when they're in charge and want to start bombing some Middle Eastern country?
DeleteTrump keeps falling in the polls.
ReplyDeleteWhich is so weird, because Trump is doing a great job, right?
womp womp
Minus 20+ on everything. Worst second term polling in history. How's that start a reckless war for no fucking reason then losing it in the first week rally around the flag poll bump going for you idiot David?
DeleteDemocratic candidate for state legislature won the Florida district that includes the abomination’s Mara Lago disgust rodent infested golf club/home. Huge swing from 2 years ago
DeleteDem candidate for Florida state legislature in Tampa holds a slight lead and might win that race.
DeleteThere are no ongoing negotiations between Trump and Iran.
ReplyDeleteTrump just made that up, just like he makes stuff up every day.
Trump knows he stepped in it with attacking Iran, which is why he threw Hegseth and Miller under the bus the other day, saying they - Hegseth and Miller - were the ones responsible for starting it, not him.
It is true that Hegseth and Miller both want to wipe out Muslims, Hegseth literally said it out loud, exclaiming "Kill all Muslims".
Recall that while Miller's lack of charm was mocked by his own wife on Fox News recently, Hegseth's own mother condemned him for being a serial abuser of women; Hegseth r*p*d a married Republican woman at a conference, he tried to claim it was consensual but the woman was drunk, possibly drugged, and after the event she sought treatment for sexual assault. At the time Hegseth was cheating on his second wife by having an affair with who is now his current wife.
But the notion that Trump can weasel away from responsibility is silly. This is Trump's disaster, he will own it, as God sends him down to that Lake of Fire.
The President is using $1 Billion of our tax dollars to pay a French firm to abandon offshore wind projects during an oil and gas carbon energy crisis. Please explain?
ReplyDeleteThe orange king is an imbecile bought and paid for by big oil
DeleteHowever, his insider trading is nonpareil:
Deletehttps://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-insider-trading-oil-markets
He treated all states fairly his 1st term. Now he is punishing his base in Blue states. How's that a fucking thing?
ReplyDelete"An analysis by Politico’s E&E News found that since returning to the Oval Office, Trump has approved only 23 percent of requests for disaster declarations from states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators, while approving 89 percent of requests from states with Republican governors and two GOP senators."
Why does he do it? Because he can, and fuck you, what are you going to do about it?
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