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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
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.
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 hope so, but the way things are going, I doubt it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Okay ❤️
Yay ❤️
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...
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?
Love that for them.