His masters might have figured that angle out ... He's to goddam dumb to, but it's it's a very plausible explanation and
a way of figuring out what fecal matter sinks and what floats and what you can get away with for a daily news cycle.

(apologies for the scatological reference, but, - hey, cmon, who are we dealing with?)

All of those generals have been trained for decades to spot a charlatan like HedgeHog. He can give all the speeches he wants but he can’t demonstrate a lifetime of honor and moral steadfast character like them.

This is gonna be interesting.

Those who remember the word “Westmorlend” can recognize the problem.

otherwise he won't get any.
😂

Sorry. None of this fascist crap is funny, but it is laughable.

something is off with shithole, the 6 RW US SC justices, and most of the Republican party, including the RW corporations.

Of course hundreds if not thousands of Secret Service sleepovers at the "resorts" at $10K a pop may be in the same general ballpark.

penis.

I have no reliable information about the size of Hegseth’s penis. I just think he’s inflicting his insecurities on America, and that we are the worse for it.

And don’t even get me started on Fat Donnie from Queens.

Sorry - old boys camp joke. But penile worries seem to bother most of the trump entourage.

Maybe Noem has the biggest?

Meaning, attack and kill any person or country
who criticizes Trump, and/or which isn't white
enough.

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The risks to our security and our democracy are potentially huge.
I expect this is about purging the military of any remaining professionals who won't follow illegal orders.
Our main hope in saving democracy is a military that won't enforce Trump's autocratic agenda.
This is right out of Hilter's playbook.
Are we going to wait until it's too late to get alarmed about this?

When I was in the Air Force those were the words that told us to order whatever we wanted so that we could spend all the money allocated for that year. We were told that if we didn't spend every penny (and then some) that had been budgeted for this year they'd cut our budget for next year, since we obviously didn't need as much as they gave us.

Lots of money wasted at the end of each fiscal by every government department trying to show that they really needed all the money that had been budgeted.

Flying every general officer to DC to participate in something that could easily be done via Zoom is a massive waste of money and personnel resources (they aren't getting to DC by themselves - they'll need aircrews, ground transportation, lodging, etc.).

Govt funded social service agencies I worked for had same thinking.

I also saw it at a DoD entity and at a Dept.of Commerce agency.

Generals can read. The military uses the Defense Message System which sends what look a lot like modern-day emails, and it could have been transmitted that way.

The problem Hegseth has, is when you stick two high-ranking officers in the same room they talk. When you stick everyone wearing a star and all their sergeants major in the same room, they talk A LOT...and they'll be talking about what to do about Donald Fucking Trump and the platoon leader he put in charge of the military.

That’s the problem: Pete KEGseth doesn’t do secure video chats.

anyone here but me thinking that gathering the entire worldwide group of our top Admirals and Generals, in ONE place, and at ONE time.....is beyond ludicrous????

I terrifies me to think about what they're thinking of doing............

And not for just the “cutting the head off the snake” reason. Tuesday is the end of the federal fiscal year. Absent a budget deal/temporary extension bill, all the major military leadership (officers and senior noncommissioned personnel) could be STUCK in Virginia.

Besides the nightmarish shenanigans Caligula and Kegseth could get into, it provides a major opportunity for adversaries to do some shit.

While the Command Staff is away? Shades of Milo Minderbinder cutting a deal with the Germans to bomb their own base! I would't put it past trump to do such a thing for a chance to build hotels in Moscow.

being lectured to by a sloppy drunk TV personality is on brand for this bunch in the cabal of Crumb the 1st.

The military brass probably find this highly insulting. And I wouldn't blame them.

new rules to force black servicemen with no-shave waviers out. I think their goal is an all-white or pre-Truman segregated forces. Women will be sent packing. Just a guess.

He just missed by 50 years the chance to demonstrate his warrior bullshit against real live enemy fire.

And quite quickly, I imagine.

location and publicize it world-wide.

When Stalin purged his generals , he had a big meeting, and had them all arrested and sent to Siberia, or murdered. In 1937, Stalin ordered a meeting of high up members of the military, and the Politbureau.

Ninety three of the 139 Central Committee members were killed and 81 of the 103 generals and admirals were executed. In 1941, a further 46 generals were murdered.

If Putin wanted to harm the USA, I can imagine him sending a missile to Quantico when every single flag officer was present. Just a small nuke would pretty much erase our entire military leadership.

Yes, Hegseth IS that stupid.

In a matter of two hours, he purged 66 ‘traitors.’

Iraqi leaders had been invited to a congress without knowing what was on the agenda.

While I'm sure something sinister is not likely, but how smart and SAFE is it to have perhaps over 500 of our top military leaders of active duty troops around the world all sitting in the same building at the same time? While I'm sure security is iron clad (maybe with these idiots?) our enemies would be salivating to hit a target like that (or clandestinely eavesdrop). We don't do that with the top civilian chain of command, we separate them when needed i.e. the State of the Union address. Whatever the reason for it it's stupid and foolish as fuck to me.

but logically, all evidence is that competence simply does not factor into this admin, only loyalty. At some point, we will see what that means in the security realm.

…to hear a speech on “warrior ethos” for less than one hour in duration?

Forgive me but I’m not fucking buying it.

I’ll have more details please…

There’s something far more nefarious brewing.

They're really doing a great job saving taxpayer money with a stunt like this, huh?

And I know nothing about the military.

Has this pansy never grown up?

Cantelope’s itching for a coup.

All he wanted, I'm sure, is to feel like The Big Man.

Many military professionals know what's what.

"The speech is set for Sept. 30, the last day of the fiscal year. If there is a government shutdown, it could leave key staff stranded in Virginia..." These people really are trying to destroy this country.

The book gives guidance for officers in situations like this.

Im sure he learned that at Princeton or while being a jail keeper in Guantanamo. This is just a chance for him to cosplay being a battle hardened warfare expert.

Hegseth was against prosecuting those soldiers for their behavior.

Does he have a shark tank in which to dump those who don't go along with him?

I was just speaking to a recently retired career military intelligence officer who specialized in WMDs. He mentioned a high probability of conflict in Taiwan, as well as in Venezuela. He also mention heightened tension with Russia that he thinks will soon erupt. We did not talk party/MAGA politics because I assumed he would be a Repub. But when I tried to tease a response by stating that the current administration is burning down the United States, he remarked that it’s gotten really bad and the whole world is on fire.