Hegseth’s “Urgent” Military Meeting Is for Dumbest Reason Imaginable
"Pete #Hegseth’s big, urgent military summit will just be a “pep rally” for what he calls the “warrior ethos.” "
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?
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.
The Trump regime has to be the saddest bunch of insecure fucking losers that have ever had the reigns of power.
Fascists are always insecure fucking losers.
That’s why they are fascists, they are fucking terrified of everything and so turn to a “higher power” to make them feel safe and secure. It serves the same function as religion
Also the meanest and most vindictive and malicious.
The most greedy. Not the most capable though.
“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.
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
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.
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.
All those other countries who have had military coups should have told their militaries that they don't do political policy.
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.
Military personnel swear on oath to the constitution, not to the president.
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.
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.
Are you for real here? It is not a secret what this admin is. Cannot be denied. And that invalidates your point.
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.
Hegseth plans to have his speech recorded and later released.
Oh that should be fuckin hilarious
This is the peak "this could have been an email" meeting
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.
“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.”
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?
Unless that's just the shitty cover story
I mean, it’s possible. But it’s also much more likely than this idiot has actually done this ridiculous thing for this preposterous reason.
Like… We all have this friend who, whenever they get into trouble, some might think they did it out of malice. But, you know the guy, and know right off the bat that he got into trouble because he did something stupid, not something intentionally malicious.
And how do you know this? Because they’ve done it before, and they’ll do it again.
Have y'all ever listened to or seen anything about Hegseth? He's prattled on about this "warrior ethos" shit endlessly and was literally too stupid and incompetent for Fox fucking News. This is exactly the kind of stupid shit he'd pull.
Sounds like a cover story to me
When your tax dollars could have been an email
What the fuck, Pete.
Isn't this not that dumb of a reason? Look at it this way. The summit is to make clear and solidify the new ideological direction of the entire military. I think it's pretty scary still.
This is the ethos:
As someone with actual Norwegian roots I can't stand the Nazis' appropriation of imagery. Not that there is anything that I can stand about the Nazis.
Yeah, any time I see someone with viking/Nordic symbols I have to play the game of "nerd or nazi" (nerd is a good thing in this instance). I usually assume Nazi, and that hurts.
this is the only valhalla kash is ever gonna get
These people are all such fucking losers.
Tell me again about how this is the greatest military in the world?
Sounds like the military to me. All the dog and pony shows and BS about esprit de corps is just part of the service.
The wasps are running the hospital.
Couldabeenanemail.
The military ran out of pretzels?
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.
Or absolute fucking idiocy.
He is trying to get as many of them to resign as he can by jerking their chain.