‘God Kills’: Deranged podcasters
Just when you think that you have seen all the crazy there is to see, up pops something new.
From a story published in The Atlantic April 24, consider this part of the opening paragraph, which focuses on the Texas Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate, James Talarico: “During a recent episode of the right-wing Protestant podcast Reformation Red Pill, host Joshua Haymes told the pastor, Brooks Potteiger, that he prays that ‘God kills’ Talarico, given that the politician seems to be possessed by demons. Potteiger agreed, offering that Talarico should be ‘crucified with Christ.’ According to The Atlantic story, the podcasters insisted that their remarks were of a metaphorical sense and shouldn’t be taken literally.
Okay, says the next crazed shooter just looking for a mission.
For his part, Talarico, a former protestant seminarian, said, “You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love you. I love you more than you could ever hate me.”
Enough of that schmaltzy stuff, James. Give ‘em hell.
Personally, if I were Talarico, I’d visit a curandera steeped in the black arts. Forget the good witch stuff. I’m looking for the real deal, even if it does involve a nocturnal visit to Reynosa or a bus trip to Campeche, where the real brujos live.
I want to find a witch and place before her/him a photo of these podcasters, Pastor Brooks Potteiger and Joshua Haymes. Get out the egg, a few candles, some straw, maybe three snakes, and let the black magician go to work.
I’d even pay for expensive spells, maybe get half price for the second guy, since I’m paying for two, and I’ll be asked to pay in cash.
Who Are These Nut Jobs?
So who is podcaster Joshua Haymes and who is Pastor Brooks Potteiger?
What kind of deranged minds are saying they are praying for the death of Democrat U.S. Senate Nominee James Talarico before later working to dismiss it as a metaphor?
I mean, I’ve met sick people before, so I know them when I see them, and these are two are very sick dudes.
No surprise, perhaps, but Potteiger is good friends with our buffed and ripped secretary of Defense, Pete “I Don’t … Dweenk, Dwunk, Dwink, Drink Anymore” Hegseth.
In fact, according to his entry on Wikpedia, he is also Hegseth’s “closest spiritual advisor.”
Haymes, the podcaster, is a former pastoral intern at Potteiger’s church.
Meanwhile, Hegseth has appeared on at least four episodes of the “Reformation Red Pill” podcast, and last May brought Potteiger to the Pentagon to lead a prayer service, during which the “spiritual advisor” hailed Trump as a divinely appointed leader.