Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard."I have yet to find a single military official who was in the audience today who thought tha...
I hope every single one of them realizes that they were used as seat fillers for more culture war bullshit. I’m sure they can see right through these two man-babies for the weak human beings they are and will think twice when they’re asked to do something illegal/immoral for them.
Mussolini promised the world to his troops, and was seen as a competent soldier himself (I admit I know little on his military prowess). Our regime is led by a diaper wearing, flat footed nepo baby who hired a pretty boy guardsman who spent more time in front of a camera wielding propaganda than he did a rifle to lead our entire military. These generals meanwhile get chastised and left to fix every fuckup generated by the administration with no reward for themselves or the men and women under their command. Then they see any hope of rewards in retirement after decades of service go up in smoke. Yeah, I’m not too worried about them doing illegal actions on US citizens. I’m becoming more afraid of a military coup however. If our balance of power and law becomes obsolete, then they may see it as reason to change the executive power as it stands.
I was kinda hoping that they would have done that coup today and put those two on trial for being enemies of the constitution. The military swears an oath to the constitution and those two knuckleheads were directing the generals to do unconstitutional shit. I’m pretty sure this coup scenario would be better than what is going on currently
It’s much to early to talk about a coup. But when Trump really wants the US military to act against US citizens, I don’t think that’s an order the military can possibly obey. I think that will be coup time.
I can’t believe we’re seriously talking about this.
I agree with your assessment. They all had a chance to speak with each other at this meeting, and I’ll bet at least some of them started to talk about worst-case scenarios.
They won’t act spontaneously, it will be in response to a seriously illegal demand.
It’s just all really awful
The military is not going to do a violence to protect the country unless ordered to do so (by the executive branch) OR a violence is done to them first.
If they’re to be believed they’re honorable / noble enough to want to protect the nation from the president then they’re honorable / noble enough to not act first. So, double edged sword and all that
Yeah that’s a good point
There are 300 million of us lmao you just gotta convince people to remove their representation and replace it with someone competent. Im sure the generals probably believe its not their duty or place and also fear to consequences of turning the USA into a military rule for even a second. It’s time to stop praying to a higher power for a miracle and start removing your congress people from office. They can’t hide from their voters for ever.
Our system is corrupted from top to bottom. The vote harder strategy has failed
I mean voting is good: we just need to remove the rot and start voting again with a clean slate. We don’t have fair access to voting anymore.
Yes we need a reset to hold our government officials accountable for the corruption
The problem is, people rarely view their own representative as the problem (as long as it’s who they voted for). So if a republican view sees the country going to shut during a republican administration, at best, they’ll think it’s a bunch of other Republican reps that are messing things up for the person they chose.
Im southern. I absolutely view my congressmen and senators as a problem.
This country is gerrymandered as shit. A lot of people do view “their” representative as part of the problem, but what recourse do they have when decades of political gamesmanship has made their votes no longer count?
I covered this in my parenthetical…
Right and this is a bipartisan issue because the Democrats will die behind whatever geriatric they’re about to prop up next year. No one cares about qualified candidates. They just want someone that makes them feel warm and fuzzy.
That would mean immediate civil war which would be horrific for everyone. It’s a lever that should only be pulled as a last resort
They declared war on America yesterday and encouraged the military to commit war crimes against American citizens……how is that not a declaration of civil war? Genuinely curious
Yesterday was a propaganda event.
I disagree they have done everything they said they would do and were way far down the tyranny rabbit hole
I mean, insofar as Hegseth has internalized the culture war and can’t stop being a fox news host long enough to do his job. I think priming the Military to eventually use it against the American population was the main purpose of this gathering.
You don’t have to say that you “think” that, Trump was very clear that he expects them to wage “War” against specific cities he hates. Deploying the military against American citizens is one of our most basic prohibitions, and he just told the world that he intends to violate it.
The significance of using the word “War” to describe his intentions towards these cities can’t be overstated. He clearly intends to use the military to commit serious violence against these cities. Just that threat alone should be an impeachable offense.
Intends to? He already has.
Imagine if it continues to degrade to the point that Kristi Noem gets put in charge of more branches of armed forces.