The best part is that both him and trump prepared a "funny" speech with pauses for cheers and applauses but were too stupid to realize the difference between a military meeting (listening in silence at blank face) and a political rally (cheering at whatever you say, even if it doesn't make sense)
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they wanted a north korean, russian style rally.
Although he called and made the speech for general, the fact this was broadcast tells me this speech was not for the generals…
Let's have every single general, admiral, and other very high ranking military personnel in the same room with the secretary of war and the president. Oh, and let's announce it publicly ahead of time. What could go wrong?
JFC Pete is so fucking stupid. A smart, motivated, and malicious individual could have wiped out all of our military leadership in an instant.
I felt the same way on 9/11... The reaction was to close every bridge and tunnel on and off Manhattan and my first thought was "Well, shit, captive audience, so if whoever did it has a dirty nuke, that's the time for the dirty nuke."
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I know Hanlon's Razor and what not, but in this case, I do have to wonder if the intent was malicious, or more data from this was gleaned by our adversaries than we realize.
At this point we know the GOP is compromised with Kremlin assets masquerading as asshats.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, and almost all their internal documents became public, western intelligence was shocked to discover that their own operations far, far outpaced the KGB in both scope and budget.
I don't really think we need "Kremlin assets" to explain this. Trust me, we have a more than sufficient asshat capacity.
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A quick reminder
he declared war on American citizens yesterday
He encouraged war crimes against American citizens
He told them to prepare for war
Trump told them they are loyal to him now or they’re fired
I am not advocating for it but in other nations, that would cause a military coup.
I've been wondering why that didn't happen right then and there. A boy can only dream, I guess.
Thank you, everybody is focusing on Pete and his stupidity and not the important part, I feel??
The drunk TV guy with a make-up room tells generals he wants manly men. Did I get that right?
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I disagree. An email wouldn't have captured the full scope of Hegseth's immaturity and desperation. Now, all our military leaders have seen it first hand. Well done.
This was a "look how powerful I am that I can demand you all show up to here me rant" meeting on Pete's part. So yes, a waste of time, and money.
"in USA they can only choose between two haircuts"
Remember that conspiracy theory about JFK being taken out because he crossed the military complex?
Well now we can see how this experiment goes, piss off every capable military leader, and see how long this attempted dictatorship lasts.
crossed the military industrial complex
The best part was "You're not allowed to do that (laugh)", said by a guy who tried to invade Chicago.
This is right out of a Sacha Cohen movie..Haffaz Aladeen.. complaining to military the missiles should be pointy.
I bet every single one of them is thinking "This little toe-rag is my boss?"
And because it wasn't an email, they can share their discontent in person with each other without being spied upon.
One does wonder....
With so many generals and admirals together in the room, would they talk to eachother? Would they wonder if the country is going in the right direction? Would theyy be okay with being deployed in the US to arrest and fight citizens?
Would they talk about being okay having a drunk and irresponsible idiot as their boss who will push them to commit war crimes?
One wonders if any of these guys are willing to talk about better solutions
Bros flew 20+ hours from South Korea for important briefing: “no fatties on the frontlines.” It would be unreasonable to not be pissed.
Hopefully they are.
In private
Given their rank, they're probably not doing it in private, but just in general
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The best scenario we can hope for is for generals to simply refuse an illegal order, and when told to retire, refuse, and when reassigned to also refuse on the grounds that it's illegal punishment for refusing an illegal order.
Anything more and you're in coup territory, which sets the precedent that the military can step in and "correct" civilian government when it's wrong in their view. See, for example, Myanmar. Even after the military relinquished control to allow democracy, they still decided to "correct" that democracy when it started to drift from their wishes.
Refusing civilian government requests that violate the constitution is literally part of their oath. It is the highest and most important part. To cede ultimate authority to the constitution, to the law, and not to a leader.
This is an existential battle between those who want a framework of power that is a hierarchy and those, like the founders, who wanted a division of power across a community of leaders, to prevent monarchic hierarchies. If democracy falls to the consolidation of a hierarchy then the American experiment has concluded and we return to the age of kings and warlords. The dream of community rule, not individual power, must be tried elsewhere, with whatever learnings can be gained, like the influence of power of private capital and the role of wealth on democratic integrity.
I hope American patriots, those who believe in the separation of power as the founders did, win this battle.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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I am glad to see several skin tones. There are not enough women in this picture.
Something like 150 people sitting in this picture and 6 black men and 3 women. But there's too much diversity in the military!!!!!!!!!
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Meanwhile Pete Hegseth: 'We have too much diversity!!!!!' and bans beards
A lot of black men have pseudofolliculitis, which causes bumps, scarring, and rash on their faces from daily shaving. Black men are a big portion of people that request the shaving waivers in the military.
Make note of the ones that are smiling.
Idk; if I had to fly 4000 miles to get yelled at by a drunk retard LARPing as what I do professionally, I'd crack up a little
How to waste money 🙂
.... quite a few friends were made right there. I personally would not gather them all in a room to tell them how fat they are. A veteran like that could do me in with a toothbrush.
"You might think I'm fat, but I can still kick your ass" - the generals to Hegseth
F-A, F-O. 😃
dead silence
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This was distraction. The main reason for the meeting was to galvanize the troops for world war 3.
No it was to distract from the Epstein files.
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I'm convinced what we saw was just a distraction for the public.
They definitely did the more nefarious shit off camera.
I bet they all walked away with something better! Their new Russian friends who will always be there! Listening in...
All to watch Fat Man and Little Boy.
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