"Pete #Hegseth’s big, urgent military summit will just be a “pep rally” for what he calls the “warrior ethos.” "
I don’t know any generals and I don’t have much of an idea of what internal military politics are like. But I’d like to think that our top brass have a deep understanding of the history of how wars develop, see the writing on the wall and do a coup. They are literally the only force that can kill this cancer before it fully metastasizes.
hence them getting rid of as many 4 stars as they can
Public photo-op and rally. Privately? Loyalty test.
Yeah kind of glossed over the part where he’s going to threaten to shorten people’s careers, which sounds a lot like firing?
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” an anonymous defense official told the outlet. “And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: Get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.”
When your tax dollars could have been an email
The Trump regime has to be the saddest bunch of insecure fucking losers that have ever had the reigns of power.
Also the meanest and most vindictive and malicious.
The most greedy. Not the most capable though.
Fascists are always insecure fucking losers.
I should clarify - the U.S. Army Warrior Ethos is
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.
So… Flying everyone back to D.C. for a pep rally is quite literally making them not place the mission first and violating the first line…
So, yeah, he’s planning a coup.
Tell me again about how this is the greatest military in the world?
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” an anonymous defense official told the outlet. “And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: Get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.”
Ah, so this was all just to threaten them.
Takes balls to gather the actually toughest people in the world and then try to intimidate them.
US military leadership are not remotely the toughest people in the world.
Not now that they’re exempting top brass from training due to “technical knowledge”
Or absolute fucking idiocy.
He is trying to get as many of them to resign as he can by jerking their chain.
deleted by creator
Sounds like the military to me. All the dog and pony shows and BS about esprit de corps is just part of the service.
Every member of the armed forces needs to remember that they are required NOT to follow ILLEGAL orders, and they’ve sworn to uphold and defend THE CONSTITUTION from ALL ENEMIES, foreign and DOMESTIC
They’re a bunch of servile meatheads who will do fuck all. The BEST of them were all purged by Trump and even they are just sitting by quiet and complicit.
Hegseth plans to have his speech recorded and later released.
Oh that should be fuckin hilarious
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” an anonymous defense official told the outlet. “And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: Get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.”
The meeting announcement was sudden and ambiguous, and will pull these senior military leaders away from their previous assignments.
Hegesth’s “warrior ethos” hinges on his belief that the military is too woke. He is expected to use Tuesday’s meeting to go over new fitness and grooming standards for officers.
I can totally see that as the actual reason. It’s stupid, it’s incompetent, it’s fascist, and it’s totally self-serving for (in this case) Drinky Pete.
Oh, it’s definitely the case. There’s new beard rules (i.e., no more beards), and one of my employees is thinking about letting his reserve contract end over it because he can’t get a medical exemption (he has a skin condition). He was planning to stay on until pension retirement, until this idiot took over.
Is this like that asshat manager that always wants to hold some “team building” exercise, make everyone travel into the office or some central location, and then make it all about themselves?
It’s probably a good time for those generals and admirals to discuss how they will overthrow the soon to be despot.
Imagine: the three and four stars being the ones who frag his ass?
I can’t believe this thought hasn’t occurred to them.
“You had enough of this shit too?”
The military is a machine, not a person. You point, click, and tell them what to shoot. That’s it. They don’t do political policy.
And really, that’s a good thing if you think about it. Like it or not, Trump and his flunkies are in the White House because the majority of voters put them there, so when you get down to it, it’s the majority’s job to get rid of him if they don’t like him.
I mean, do you really want the military to go, ‘hey, we know y’all elected this guy, but we don’t like him, so we’re going to just get rid of him’? Just because they’d be getting rid of a guy we don’t like this time doesn’t make it a good thing.
Are you for real here? It is not a secret what this admin is. Cannot be denied. And that invalidates your point.
I’m just staying that the military won’t depose Trump.
I mean, do you really want the military to go, ‘hey, we know y’all elected this guy, but we don’t like him, so we’re going to just get rid of him’? Just because they’d be getting rid of a guy we don’t like this time doesn’t make it a good thing.
No, but I do want them to refuse to follow illegal orders.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too my guy.
What does that even mean?
To tell the Sec Def “No, I won’t be showing up” is deny a lawful order. Your boss can tell you to be somewhere.
If the US Military starts to play political games, like denying an otherwise lawful order because it came from an asshole, they’re breaking different parts of their own internal rules.
That said, if the civilian arm in charge of the military, e.g. the executive branch, decides to say that the Army can, and should, unilaterally bomb unidentified boats in their region for ‘defence purposes’, that’s now a lawful order so you can’t deny that one.
And as an average joe, you can beat the rap (in thirty years when they pardon you) but you can’t beat the ride. Enjoy your DD.
I mean yes. Just because the president says something doesn’t make it legal. Now everything he says might be legal but who knows.
Irrelevant comment.
Their first loyalty is to the constitution. If they are given orders that violate the constitution then they are obligated to not obey them. If the president is abusing his power to destroy the constitution then they are obligated to protect it.
Whatever orders they’re given come after this first responsibility.
Trump and his flunkies are in the White House because the majority of voters put them there,
Incorrect. A majority of voters selected other candidates. Trump received 49.8% of the vote.
Don’t you love having a voting system where the majority doesn’t win?
About as much as I love having 9 people appointed for life that can overrule that voting system in case it does actually let the majority win.
Military personnel swear on oath to the constitution, not to the president.
Read the entire oath. You are also sworn to obey the orders of the President and the officers appointed over you.
All those other countries who have had military coups should have told their militaries that they don’t do political policy.
So you want to make the US even more like North Korea? Wtf
No, I’m saying “the military doesn’t do politics” is a dumb statement. Every military doesn’t do politics, until they do.
Also North Korea didn’t have a military coup and they’d almost certainly be better off if they did, so not the best choice for comparison.
If you really think the US military is just a machine then I would like you to do a little research and find out what all the recent 3 and 4 star generals are doing after they retire. I can tell you they are not sippin pina coladas on Coronado.
Yes. When they tell thr military “hey were throwing out the rukes you kill who we tell you no matter what”
I expect them to immediately kill the threat in front of them. Not dance with them and try to negotiate.
This is the peak “this could have been an email” meeting
