So it’s nothing more than a Soviet/ North Korean/ Iraqi style propaganda video?
Hegseth thinks he’s going to call in all of our highest commanders, people who have spent their entire careers navigating the complex military labyrinth to the top of the game, and this ignorant sycophantic child thinks he’s going to tell THEM how the military is going to operate?
This video will have so much laughter, or outrage, from the audience, that it will be unreleasable.
A small part of me hopes that these Generals are so outraged by Hegseth’s arrogance, that they storm the stage and beat him to a pulp. Let the MAGAs release THAT video.
people who have spent their entire careers navigating the complex military labyrinth to the top of the game, and this ignorant sycophantic child thinks he’s going to tell THEM how the military is going to operate?
To be fair, these same generals are okay with deploying troops on American soil against American citizens, so yes. He will apparently tell them how to operate, and they will respond “yes daddy”.
They’ve never all been in the same room together before. Think about that. Before this, every communication between them has been monitored by someone, somewhere, and they all know it. They’ve never had the chance to get groups together outside of prying ears.
Maybe. Surveillance would be very tight, even outdoors. Its dangerous to get this many high ranking officers together, especially when your support isn’t fully set up. Maybe the reason to do it is to sniff out as many resisters as possible, and make a public example out of them.
This could be very bad, or it could be very good.
I’m sure that they will have MAGA commisars around to monitor for dissent
Everything is just so. goddamn. stupid.
He does realize this immediately makes him a domestic threat to the Constitution right?
As opposed to any other cabinet member
The gathering, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday, was described as a “pep rally.” But bringing hundreds of generals to Quantico, including those stationed abroad, could prove to be an extremely expensive pep talk.
There’s absolutely nothing the military in general hates more than this shit, and there’s nothing high ranking officers specifically hate more than being treated like common soldiers.
This isn’t going to inspire loyalty, it’s going to turn the top brass against this administration for various reasons.
They’re just pissing off everyone
One of the most expensive “this could have been an email” meeting
Not even normal soldiers, but as decoration. They’ll be there to make him look good, for “optics”, and will serve the same function as furniture and wall art. All for a talk that is about army fitness and not anything requiring terribly delicate security?
If they have any self-respect they’ll be talking amongst eachother right now saying the same shit and deciding not to go. Besides, if security is the reason they should all be gathered then security is also the reason why that’s a terrible idea.
They think all these Generals are on their side, but Generals value competence and loyalty, and they know what Treason looks like.
These MAGA dumbfucks haven’t realized that they are gathering ALL the military high command together, so they can start their military uprising.
they know what Treason looks like.
That’s fucking hilarious. These same generals are perfectly okay with deploying troops against American citizens in Portland.
How do you know that? How do you know that they haven’t been stewing like the rest of us, slowly getting hotter and hotter?
Now they get to meet with their peers, and find out they’ve ALL been thinking the same things, and they want to come up with a plan.
Frankly, that scenario is as plausible as the one in which they toss away every military dream they ever had, to be recorded in history as the weakass generals who let the Nazis take over the world.
“The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States.”
If there is no coup now, our military leadership is 100% on board with killing US citizens. They would be just as bad as the “weakass generals who let the nazis take over”.
Let’s see what happens, shall we?
Trump and Hegseth would have no trouble ordering the military to fire on American citizens, they are confirmed psychopaths. I’m not convinced that the majority of Generals would follow that rule. I suspect that MOST would not.
I admire your optimism. I suspect that the vast majority of them would open fire on american babies if Trump told them to.
How do I know?
I’ve been paying attention.
Exactly. At some point the meeting will end, and Hegseth will leave, and the generals will just be in a room together, talking about how shit hegseth is.
And at some point, someone is going to address the elephant in the room, and say “I signed up to protect America from Nazis, not help the Nazis take over. This has got to end. NOW,” and a lot of others are going to agree.
And two things will happen: They will rise up and take America back, or they will be removed from their positions, and give the American Resistance extremely strong and experienced military leadership for the rebellion.
I truly hope you are right, but I am extremely concerned that this will be a power grab, having the generals swear an oath of loyalty to the Trump regime directly, rather than than the normal oath they may have sworn.
Doing this would make it extremely easy to take over and purge the leadership of disloyalty to the regime.
The situation is very precarious at the moment.
The correct reaction would be for the generals to fulfill their real oath to the Constitution and immediately depose Hegseth and the rest of the Trump regime as the domestic enemies they are.
It’s basically the only scenario I can see on the table where normality even has a chance to return in our lifetime. The military would have to clean house on both sides of the aisle though, force primaries for everything, and basically flush the toilet on the last 150 years of party politics.
Bring back G. Washington.
You can never go back in time. Better to think of what ideals would be typified by a new revolutionary spirit.
I hope so, but the way things are going, I doubt it.
Here’s hoping they let their feelings be known in no uncertain terms. I’m sure they won’t though if they want to keep their jobs.
it’s going to turn the top brass against this administration
Are you fucking kidding? US top brass fucking loves this shit. Fascist pep rally on the taxpayers dime, it just doesn’t get any better.
oh, I’m sorry, i didn’t know you had more experience with the military and high level officers…
“The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States.”
If there is no coup now, every united states military officer at this gathering is 100% on board with being deployed on US soil against US citizens.
Let’s see what happens, shall we?
Using “military leadership” to refer to a single political appointte is fucking ridiculous.
Edited for accuracy. Are you beginning to understand? Or are you gonna keep playing military apologist?
Yeah I’d love to see the facial expressions on the Marines generals as he tells them how to be better Marines.
Hegseth will tell them real good. I’m sure his credibility will go a long ways with them. Especially when he shows his tattoos, and starts rubbing it on that his tats are bigger than their tats. Marines love that shit.
Then they’ll take him out for beers, get him really drunk, and beat the shit out of him in the alley behind the bar.
Love that for them.
Okay ❤️
Yay ❤️
There’s a tweet in the article:
Pete Hegseth: @PeteHegseth
Cool story, General
Ben Hodges: @general_ben
July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.
Fucking shitbag fuckmook.
Edit:
I keep seeing this historical “fact” but I can’t find anything corroborating it. “Hitler oaths” were already being taken since 1933, by June of 1935 the Reichswehr was replaced by the Wehrmacht.
The link you’ve shared here talks about the Führer Oath being created in August 1934 but not becoming law until mid-1935, which seems to roughly agree with the date in the post you’re disputing. I can’t find much to support the claim about a surprise assembly, though, at least from a cursory search.
It looks as though his post is taken almost verbatim from this substack post: https://thecycle.substack.com/p/from-hitler-to-hegseth
which doesn’t inspire the most confidence.
Alright relax pal. This was far more silly, and of much less significance.
Well shucks, bud. You know what? Boom, comment edited. Enjoy!
I can only imagine the scuttlebut between some of these officers after the fact. Oh, to be a fly on that wall
They’re so incompetent but also incredibly lucky.
Luck runs out, incompetence doesn’t.
A preview of Pickled Pete’s speech:
Harvey Dent: can we trust him?
He should protect his neck
Protec’ yo neck.
Banger https://youtu.be/R0IUR4gkPIE
As it was put to CNN, the “guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint.”
So it’s purely an ego inflating thing. Gotcha.
Pure propaganda
Dictator-style.
Its purely a dictator thing.
Tomato tomato.
All those high-ranking military folk in one spot at one time!
Super smart!While the likelihood is next to zero, can you imagine putin giving krasnov this order? It would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
I love the part about post by Ben Hodges on the same kind of thing happening in 1935 Germany. 90 years ago.
The gathering, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday, was described as a “pep rally.”
He’s going to rant about how great he is, then ask for his boots to be tongue polished, got it.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before, and it just seems extremely bizarre and strange,” Hertling said.
Get used to it dude.
If only some of the speakers didn’t have to leave that room ever again. Oh, lucky day for the rest of the world… 🤷🏼♂️
“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC”
Yuuup. 🫡😶🌫️
At least they’re consistent lmao
