Hegseth and the cross
Ridiculous and yet typical of the left:
In a Thursday appearance on All in With Chris Hayes, the former NAACP lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill fired the first shot, declaring that Hegseth was a “known white supremacist.” While her remark might be dismissed as hysteria, it was followed up by a Friday report in the Associated Press and a Saturday report in The Washington Post confirming that Hegseth, while serving in the D.C. National Guard, had been flagged by his fellow troops and superior officers as an “insider threat” due to a “white supremacist” tattoo. So what was the tattoo—a swastika? A Sonnenrad? Neither: It was the phrase Deus Vult, Latin for “God wills it,” inked on Hegseth’s bicep. According to the Post, a naval intelligence officer discovered social media evidence of the tattoo in January 2021, and then distributed it to a chat of officers with the warning, apparently based on a brief Google search, that the phrase was affiliated with “the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and other extremist groups that participated in the siege at the Capitol.” Separately, according to the AP, the security manager of Hegseth’s unit flagged the tattoo to his superior officers …
Hegseth is an evangelical, not a Catholic, and the phrase, while it has been adopted by sections of the online far right, is also a generic Christian slogan popular among certain evangelical subcultures as well as among internet shitposters inspired by the Crusader Kings II video game.
Much more at the link.
I guess everyone on the right is a white supremacist. Even Larry Elder, the so-called black face of white supremacy. People making the okay sign. The Tea Party. And now Hegseth.
“Christain nationalism/nationalists” is another slur “ism/ist” for the ever so sensitive and threatened leftists. A new tool for the panic whores.
I’m not a fan of tattoos, but I think vaguely Crusader-linked images, or Christian images, are pretty common among American military guys. Some weirdo groups may be using them, too, but that doesn’t invalidate their general usage or meaning.
Kate:
The left came after a disabled veterans (his legs were blown off by an IED) for a tatoo, a Crusader cross (IIRC) often by military and firemen that isn’t the one used by the Neo-Nazis.
The left doesn’t care if they are wrong.
onward christian soldiers is probably also out, well it tells you what quality is what we label intelligence, of either kind, the organs, were scrubbed of any data on actual threats to the nation, of a different sectarian bent
Tara copp, is the ap hack, who put this feltercarb together
of course so called antifa and BLM somehow don’t get a
parallel attention do they
Well, if any are on Active Duty, cashier them. If still in NG, then label them a threat to the safety and well being of the American People. Bury their A’s
According to the Post, a naval intelligence officer discovered social media evidence of the tattoo in January 2021, and then distributed it to a chat of officers with the warning, apparently based on a brief Google search, that the phrase was affiliated with “the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and other extremist groups that participated in the siege at the Capitol.”
I eat pizza and I drive a car. The fact that there’s assholes out there doing both of those things as well doesn’t automatically make me an asshole via some made up lefty associative property.
I’m also not going to renounce pizza and cars because of it.
The election hasn’t changed leftists at all. Nothing will change them, ever, except their depopulation.
When the enemy is reduced to throwing caca at the wall in hopes that something will stick… you know that slander is all they have left.
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” Margaret Thatcher
“The left doesn’t care if they are wrong”
Rather, “The left are NEVER wrong.”
That’s why they can call anyone they want to “Nazis”;
that’s why they can disregard the law and all decency;
that’s why they can
fortifysteal elections with aplomb and self-righteousness.Nope, NEVER.
You forget that “White Supremacist” only sometimes is used by the Left for “Whites are better than blacks” and sometimes for “White Christians are better than Atheist Jews” and that the latter is absolutely a simple fact because atheists are scum regardless what ethnicity they pretend to. So the Leftists are equivocating definitions, but they’d pass a lie detector test.
Remember back in the 1990’s the media would speak disparagingly about ” WASP” – White Anglo Saxon Protestants. For some reason ” WASP” were considered bad.
Much of the founding generation of this country were ” WASP”.
Over at Yahoo News comment section, ” Trump is a Russian Asset” is still going strong.
Yep, belief in God now means you’re a white supremacist.
Only atheists believe in the equality of mankind.
Only atheists are rational enough to run the show.
om is correct here…
“The left doesn’t care if they are wrong.”
I’d simply add, ‘as long as they retain power.’
Funny how the people who throw around the accusations of “white supremacy” go to great lengths to make sure they live in the whitest neighborhoods they can find.