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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
There is no way this is a good thing. Summoning a single general to a meeting without giving any context is not a thing that is done. Summoning all of them and not stating the meeting purpose or providing read ahead charts or pre-briefs… that’s incredibly ominous.
I’m hoping it is only him directing them to call it Dept of War (DoW) on all official comms instead of DoD.
Its also ridiculously irresponsible.
There is a lot of discussion to be had over the actual value of a general in modern warfare (where individual soldiers have tactical value and so much decision making happens at the company or even squad level). But no discussion is required to say what a ridiculously juicy target “every high ranking military official” is and the massive damage to morale and organization that would ensue.
Yeah that’s a lot of HVT in one area.
I wouldn’t be super shocked if this turns into loyalty pledge-a-palooza.
That’s my guess as well. “Swear a blood oath to King Trump personally or you’re fired right now”.
I’m skeptical of that.
This will be hundreds of “military men”. Yes, the vast majority are pencil pushers who are in worse shape than the average divorced dad “trying to get back out there”. Even if they are bringing every single chud they can find, they are still going to be the “weaker” group. And chuds hate feeling weak.
If it were just the inevitable loyalty oaths, I would expect that to happen in more isolated groups. And while it is always possible that they could batch the generals into the room to kiss the skidmarked ring, that still feels like a risk when they might not get the photo op they want at the end.
My money is on “planning how to secede from the United Nations”. Aka “planning to go to war with basically all of NATO and a bunch of Global South countries who want revenge”. Whether that goes anywhere is a different discussion, but “all of our generals made some great plans” is a talking point they would want.
When Saddam took power he called a meeting of the party leadership and publicly arrested those he suspected of “treason”. He even had the event recorded.
Yeah but Drunky Smurf is a total coward
Vance and Hegseth arent, though…
"Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes, Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen.“
What, with the current administration, is not ridiculously irresponsible?
They have not yet decided to ban speed limits and seat belts, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that
You could call it Pentagon Secret Pizza Service
Or PSPS
Do you deliver to Virginia?
I mean I’d pretty much have to.
Would you be willing to deliver to MD? Do your drivers have any drone experience?
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Drunk texted them accidentally?
Fucking hit “Reply All”
remOvE Me fRoM tHIs diStro LISt
Don’t think so, there was no journalist in the chat group…
He brought them in to help him find his keys
Or declared war to NATO (meaning ourselves) on Discord, brown out drunk.
My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant. Everybody is being called for two reasons; that’s how the corpo’s do layoffs now and, more importantly, as of right now the admin has zero fucking clue which 1/4 they are going to fire yet. That list is going to have more day of changes than a Vince McMahon era PPV.
If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?
That’s generally how fascism works, and doesn’t last.
I would think it to be good. That would push the Blue States to hire the none-evil leadership into their ranks. We will need skilled and good people to lead us against the Neo Confederates.
Doesn’t take much intelligence to order the go ahead on another civilian boat bombing. If anything, the dumber for the better that type of evil.
There were two meeting rooms on the email! (/silly joke)
But don’t they do mass firings by text and just locking you out of your machine these days? The US Aid workers were left stranded for a while— not sure if they got help getting back or just got abandoned and had to get friends and family to pitch in for flights home…
My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant
Or being black or a women.
We’re going to war with somebody.
And all the times I’ve heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
But, I could be wrong. I always admit that.
And all the times I’ve heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
It’s always projection. 100% of the time
Maybe it’s like the department of justice: find me a war that will help me politically. I’ll fire anyone who doesnt.
But shit, Venezuelans need to be stocking up on supplies. Effing MAGAts have already been laying the groundwork
Epstein’s Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]
It’s polulist tactics 101: blame all your wrongdoings on your enemy/opposition. All they can reply with is “no you!” Wow, strong defense, as if anyone is going to believe that.
They need to christen their newly renamed Department of War with a war of some sort. Otherwise why go through all that trouble of renaming it. That would just look stupid.
Let’s just hope it’s not against US citizens.
Better Americans fight Americans than anyone else. Fix your shit.
trump is already at war with them.
yeah it better be just some more brown people! this is american tax dollars after all
“Antifa” they are going to war with American citizens. They are going to purge anyone who objects
But, I could be wrong.
They renamed the Department of Defense to Department of War. So yeah, you’re probably wrong. It’s probably just a military high tea with a karaoke contest or something.
Two things can be true at the same time. I know this must be shocking news to you.
“Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”
My guess? Loyalty pledge.
'Murica right now:
Murica right now
Murikkka
That or/and a purge
If I were a general I’d be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.
Saddam was a hell of a lot more competent than this bunch. I actually consider it a significant blessing that they want to jump us over the cliff and into fascism, but they’re in a Pinto that needs new tires, and they seem unaware enough that they are trying to make it work anyway.
Not to say it definitely won’t work, I am glad for people getting out and raising hell about it. But it is a blessing that they are so stupid.
Fum fact: the cybertruck is 17x more dangerous than the pinto was
I remember hearing a story about some country’s leader started gathering their legislators and then claimed he had uncovered a list of names conspiring against him, then announced the names one by one, got the soldiers to lead them to a hallway, and executed them, then the remainder of them pledge loyalty to the leader.
Something like that, forgot what country it was. But this sounds so familiar. Uncanny parallel.
A video of that event exists. It was Saddam Hussein.
Sadaam.
Yeah, definitely talking about Iraq. Here is Hitch talking about it.
But these are the Generals, not congressmen…
Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.
Or New York City.
The generals in Europe wouldn’t care if we invaded South America. He’s doing something bigger. My bet is invading Ukraine, Russia, NATO, or the US. And I couldn’t guess which one. Maybe more than one.
Probably gonna ask them to swear an oath to Trump and anyone who doesn’t gets a boot
Almost definitely this. And maybe bringing them in person because they have to kneel before trump while saying the oath.
I hate that all these are legitimate possibilities. “We’re doing a coup, so you will all be expected to do your part.”
That could be an email. Bringing them in person is alarming.
Hegseth is a media talking head. He wants spectacle to garner viewership, so a dramatic in-person meeting would be the way he would do it.
Am I out of the loop? Why the fuck would we be invading Venezuela?
Wagging the dog like every conservative president, really. Something something drugs or whatever reason we are giving for murdering civilians in the Caribbean.
Smells like a purge.
The kind where they’ll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.
I mean… the US military is supposed to be anti fascist, and if you’re a general you’ve been there longer than just trumps term, so really they are all anti fascists.
Antifa is a terrorist organization now, so he’ll round em all up, charge them with treason, and install new generals who’ve never served in the military before.
The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man. Which is what my air force friends have been telling me - don’t worry, the forces won’t go fascist. Trump apparently came to the same conclusion and is reducing their forces while he massively ramps up ICE, his new domestic army that DOES swear allegiance to him.
Which seems like it has implications but I’m no analyst.
The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man.
Technically, all of the admin did the same pledge and we see how that’s going.
Not just ICE. Republicans are talking about putting a Turning Point USA chapter in every school in the country. They’re stacking the next generation with Hitler Youth indocrination to avoid that pesky “loyalty to the constitution”
I mean, there’s funding, sure. But I’d put my money on a marine with nothing but flipflops and his privately owned rifle over a ICE goon any day.
How many ICE goons are (ex)military?
I could be wrong here, but I feel like anyone in ICE who was in the military are the military rejects, or couldn’t get into the military.
If they were good ex military there would better jobs than ICE.
right, the air force has no extremists
i remember the AFB he was stationed at’s response to this. it was nothing.
Every org is going to have extremists, but you are talking about a former military member that was discharged with a less than honorable discharge, who then committed and was sentenced for murder.
What do you think the AFB should have done here?
he was active duty when it happened
And he was discharged, tried for murder and sentenced to over 40 years in jail.
What do you think should have been done by the military unit that would have made this better?
anything more than jack shit would have been nice.
Its actually illegal to be a “Nazi” “Communist” or “Member of a Totalitarian Party” when someone becomes a US Citizen, so I think we should revoke citizenship of all the magats.
Which will basically be like Tsarist Russia, which was humiliated countless times in the 19th century and ww1 in no small part due to their big military officers being appointed due to noble rank rather than merit or ability.
That is seriously ominous
Can anyone added accidentally to the signal group brief us on what happened in the meeting please.
This seems like exactly the type of gathering you want to avoid in a world where hypersonic missiles probably* exist.
* bring on the pedantry over what actually defines a hypersonic missile
Seems like the kind of gathering where you may want to bring a gun and sit near the emergency exit.
I’m not cut out for military. I’d sooner resign than be summoned in this way
Putin is salivating right now. Jerking off to visions of a nuke wiping out the heads of US military.
There’s always the state of the union where you could cripple the US government, so it’s not like there aren’t options for something like that if you were already willing to risk it.
Whole TV series on that too called Designsted Survivor with Kiefer Sutherland. I quite enjoyed it.
I loved it. But season 3 feels… idk, like the government is already fixed so plot is over, not sure why they even made a season 3.
It got very formulaic.
Crisis happens, president makes rash decision that his advisors say is going to be a mistake, mistake happens, he fixes mistake with fatherly talk and “I’m new at this” repeat.
Money, the reason is always money.
