I disagree. An email wouldn't have captured the full scope of Hegseth's immaturity and desperation. Now, all our military leaders have seen it first hand. Well done.
Although he called and made the speech for general, the fact this was broadcast tells me this speech was not for the generals…
The drunk TV guy with a make-up room tells generals he wants manly men. Did I get that right?
The best part is that both him and trump prepared a "funny" speech with pauses for cheers and applauses but were too stupid to realize the difference between a military meeting (listening in silence at blank face) and a political rally (cheering at whatever you say, even if it doesn't make sense)
they wanted a north korean, russian style rally.
A quick reminder
he declared war on American citizens yesterday
He encouraged war crimes against American citizens
He told them to prepare for war
Trump told them they are loyal to him now or they’re fired
I am not advocating for it but in other nations, that would cause a military coup.
I've been wondering why that didn't happen right then and there. A boy can only dream, I guess.
Thank you, everybody is focusing on Pete and his stupidity and not the important part, I feel??
Let's have every single general, admiral, and other very high ranking military personnel in the same room with the secretary of war and the president. Oh, and let's announce it publicly ahead of time. What could go wrong?
JFC Pete is so fucking stupid. A smart, motivated, and malicious individual could have wiped out all of our military leadership in an instant.
I know Hanlon's Razor and what not, but in this case, I do have to wonder if the intent was malicious, or more data from this was gleaned by our adversaries than we realize.
At this point we know the GOP is compromised with Kremlin assets masquerading as asshats.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, and almost all their internal documents became public, western intelligence was shocked to discover that their own operations far, far outpaced the KGB in both scope and budget.
I don't really think we need "Kremlin assets" to explain this. Trust me, we have a more than sufficient asshat capacity.
A smart, motivated, and malicious individual could have wiped out all of our military leadership in an instant.
This is right out of a Sacha Cohen movie..Haffaz Aladeen.. complaining to military the missiles should be pointy.
The best part was "You're not allowed to do that (laugh)", said by a guy who tried to invade Chicago.
"in USA they can only choose between two haircuts"
I bet every single one of them is thinking "This little toe-rag is my boss?"
And because it wasn't an email, they can share their discontent in person with each other without being spied upon.
This was a "look how powerful I am that I can demand you all show up to here me rant" meeting on Pete's part. So yes, a waste of time, and money.
Make note of the ones that are smiling.
Idk; if I had to fly 4000 miles to get yelled at by a drunk retard LARPing as what I do professionally, I'd crack up a little
Remember that conspiracy theory about JFK being taken out because he crossed the military complex?
Well now we can see how this experiment goes, piss off every capable military leader, and see how long this attempted dictatorship lasts.
crossed the military industrial complex
I am glad to see several skin tones. There are not enough women in this picture.
I would like my Military-Industrial Complex that bombs schools and hospitals to come in pink, please.
hesgeth, trump got rid of them.
:(
enough women
can't seem to find any though
Not that it matters, but the colours in there are just black and white, no asians or latinos
Those generals agree with 80% of what was said and will 100% follow whatever orders come down. Just because they grimace at stupid meetings doesn’t mean they are the peoples’ friends.
They're all 4-star general West Point graduates. They do not agree with 80% of the speech, and whether they'll follow orders is not a given. There is a balance of power at play.
No one is "the people's friend" and that's not the point. Some of these guys believe in nothing but power, but a significant number are also constitutional ideologues. And both of those groups among the generals know their power is both at risk and so is the constitution. And this meeting has been largely been disliked according to reporters among all of them.
Pete Hegseth is completely retarded.
Something like 150 people sitting in this picture and 6 black men and 3 women. But there's too much diversity in the military!!!!!!!!!
The upper ranks in nearly every American organization is a poor representation of those in lower ranks. Roughly 1/5 of military members are black. 6/150 is 1/25, so not really an accurate representation.
Meanwhile Pete Hegseth: 'We have too much diversity!!!!!' and bans beards
A lot of black men have pseudofolliculitis, which causes bumps, scarring, and rash on their faces from daily shaving. Black men are a big portion of people that request the shaving waivers in the military.
This was distraction. The main reason for the meeting was to galvanize the troops for world war 3.
No it was to distract from the Epstein files.
How to waste money 🙂
I bet they all walked away with something better! Their new Russian friends who will always be there! Listening in...
I'm convinced what we saw was just a distraction for the public.
They definitely did the more nefarious shit off camera.
All to watch Fat Man and Little Boy.
What's the difference between the green and blue uniform?
What branch of military they're in. Green is army/marine, blue is navy/airforce/space force.
forgot about space force, besides that netflix show, haven't heard anything about it
I wonder what space force do all day.
Yep, our satellite is still up there physics is continuing to work, we'll check again in 10 minutes.
It's not like they have any human assets to order around, everyone in space is either a civilian or not an American citizen anyway. It's not as if Russia is likely to invade the moon or anything
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