10 bucks says Hegseth meant to meet with a couple generals, but because he was drunk he accidentally sent the orders to every general and admiral in the military.
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Auto-complete changing Al into All Generals instead of Al Johnson.
I will make that bet.
I 2nd the bet!
Military take over of sesame street
I fucking knew it
Is this going to be like Squid Game, Pentagon Edition?
He wants to tailor butch new uniforms and enact stricter eye shadow guidelines?
"Ladies and Gentlmen, we have a dire situation at hand that threatens the security of this great nation. I've gathered you all here today to help me convince the President that the orange tiles are not lava."
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".
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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.
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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
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“Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”
If I were a general I'd be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.
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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.
But these are the Generals, not congressmen...
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Smells like a purge.
The kind where they'll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.
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Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.
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.
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That is seriously ominous
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