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.
A smart, motivated, and malicious individual could have wiped out all of our military leadership in an instant.
How? Is a foreign actor going to launch an ICBM at Virginia? This was at Quantico, not exactly a place where anybody can enter or even get near.
Edit because I was curious and checked: the base occupies over 55,000 acres.
An insider threat (which is seeming more and more likely) wouldn’t’ve needed an ICBM
The US goes through a threat situation like this every state of the union, if they can’t handle something like that for this, they can’t handle it for that either, and the state of the union is a better target.
Sure, I’m not saying it would be easy for an insider threat, I’m just saying there’s options other than an ICBM.
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??
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.
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.
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.
Stress-testing the government to find out who shot JFK.
It was Lee Harvey and the Secret Service
HW Bush was supposedly in the city at the time, and spent decades being “unable to recall where he was” on that very memorable day
crossed the military industrial complex
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.
Just like our representatives are
How to waste money 🙂
“in USA they can only choose between two haircuts”
Although he called and made the speech for general, the fact this was broadcast tells me this speech was not for the generals…
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
can’t seem to find any though
I think there are some female generals in the upper right corner, but the resolution is too low to be sure
There is one person with long blonde hair right off the center and one with longer black hair in the same position on the left side. Alltogether there could be eight female generals.
The Corps has about 10 and theres a couple dozen in each of the other branches, then again there are also a bunch of enlisted folk sitting there so it’s not just a room full of generals. The enlisted Marine front right for example, is sitting in a seat that could be filled by a female black Marine General but something tells me the folks organizing this wouldn’t want to see her prominently displayed during their practice civil war speech
The drunk TV guy with a make-up room tells generals he wants manly men. Did I get that right?
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
They’re the two in the front row, second and third from the left. Diagonal silver buttons.
Thanks! I kinda guessed that but didn’t want to assume.
Isn’t the marines uniform black? Or is it something for the lower rank only
You’re probably thinking of their “dress blues”. Its like the military equivalent of a formal suit, they get worn to parades and weddings and stuff. Every branch is a little different, but the dress blues for the Marine Corp is a really dark navy.
Honestly, I’m just happy they didn’t lock them in and burn the building down.
I mean there’s two ways to interpret this and one of them doesn’t make me all that sad
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.
