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So, I thought this was going to be some secret strategy briefing heralding some awful new global project. Instead it’s a couple little boys peacocking around bragging about how masculine they are to a captive audience.
I wonder how the generals and admirals feel about being pons in this loser’s bruised ego theater?
The least cool thing a person can do is brag about how cool they are. Same thing applies to masculinity. When you preform like this, you’re expressing how weak, afraid, unsure and incapable you are. That’s the maga cultural movement in a nutshell.
Fuck every single person in civilization leadership at this moment.
Uhm, well there was a lot of that stuff, but Hegseth spoke for like 45 minutes and inbetween the usual incoherent rambling and machismo, and the book plug [!], there were some actual important announcements thrown in. Internal investigations is to be gutted, records of wrongdoing will be expunged, "DEI" purges will continue, and a whole lot of "you can do whatever the fuck you want now, we will back you" messaging. This was a rallying cry to the fascists in the audience, and I fear there is a subset that will act on it.
Haven't made it through the entirety of Trumps speech yet, but most of the first ~20 minutes have been his usual meandering.
Were you trying to say "pawns?"
Porns
It's kind of a relief in a way, of all the ways "fascists war department leader calls all the generals home suddenly for a meeting" could go, raving about aesthetics is probably one of the least immediately dangerous for everyone else.
He's trying to force black men out of the military, it's not like he's giving fashion tips.
I wonder if the public version of this pageantry is cover for the secret meeting where he singles out leaders for not being loyal enough or where they plan to coup ... antifa?
Eh, after that public humiliation of the leadership, I am certain that any secret meeting won't remain a secret for much longer.
A talk like that makes you no friends.
I literally just got added to the Super Secret military stuff group chat