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angrychair

(11,639 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 11:53 AM Aug 2025

Drunk and Disorderly

Learned something new about Kegseth. "Pound them down Pete" has a tattoo I didn't know about.
There is the Jerusalem cross tattoo on his chest. Everyone has seen that one and hopefully heard it's connection to militant religious extremism.
There is a much more troubling tattoo that he should really be asked about more.
On his inner bicep there is tattoo that reads "Deus Vult" which is Latin for "God wills it". This specific tattoo is frequently associated with white nationalist movements.
In fact, while he was a member of the DC national guard, it was the specific "Deus Vult" tattoo that got him removed from the detail in support of the Biden inauguration as an insider threat risk.

Those two tattoos, together, they are a clear sign of a Christian nationalist. In fact many consider him, based on the tattoos and his own writings and people he associates with, to be tied to the Christian Reconstructionist movement, an extreme and very militant, Christian nationalist movement.

So, to be clear, the guy that was bumped from an inauguration detail as a significant insider threat risk, is now in charge of the military itself.

These senior civilian Pentagon officials and military flag officers retiring or being fired, is not random but a reshaping of our military leadership by a Christian nationalist deemed to be a serious insider threat risk.

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Drunk and Disorderly (Original Post) angrychair Aug 2025 OP
Read up on Kegsbreath's favorite pastor, Doug Wilson. Paladin Aug 2025 #1
I never notice the tattoo. Omnipresent Aug 2025 #2
They are all white "christian" nationalists Nigrum Cattus Aug 2025 #3
Those tats are way worse than the ones people they sent to CECOT had Blue Full Moon Aug 2025 #4

Paladin

(32,208 posts)
1. Read up on Kegsbreath's favorite pastor, Doug Wilson.
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:06 PM
Aug 2025

Wilson is head of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. "Christian nationalist" is way too nice a label for the sort of thing this guy is preaching. Plenty of info online about him, all of it disturbing.

Omnipresent

(7,299 posts)
2. I never notice the tattoo.
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:08 PM
Aug 2025

I usually can’t get past the image of him emerging from a dunk tank, swigging a bottle of champagne.

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