Welcome, Moral High Grounders! Here is the audio version of the newsletter from Friday, December 6, 2024, which was entitled Pete Hegseth's God Is Not An Awesome God. (And if you grew up evangelical and that means you will have an earworm for the rest of the week because of That Song, then I am simultaneously sorry and not sorry. Also, it turns out one of our readers was in Sunday school with that asshole and they did sing that song.)
We didn’t have an audio version for the second newsletter I wrote about Hegseth, which was also about how all these MAGA losers want to be Braveheart — the Thanksgiving holiday got all in the middle of it — but catch up on it if you haven’t.
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