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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
Im calling it. Fight antifa which is anyone the administration says it is or anyone posting or demostrating against facism. I carry signs against facism regularly. no kings anyone?
Off to the gulag with you!
“Ok everyone, we’re here for a very important reason. Trump is pouty over his UN incident and we need to throw him a proper dictator worship party. I’m going to need all of you in DC pronto so we can really give those boots a good kissing. It’s for The Good Of the Country™©®.”
Sorry boss, best I can do is a warship party.
-Navy equivalent of brigadier general or above
That is seriously ominous
Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.
Or New York City.
That could be an email. Bringing them in person is alarming.
Hegseth is a media talking head. He wants spectacle to garner viewership, so a dramatic in-person meeting would be the way he would do it.
The generals in Europe wouldn’t care if we invaded South America. He’s doing something bigger. My bet is invading Ukraine, Russia, NATO, or the US. And I couldn’t guess which one. Maybe more than one.
I hate that all these are legitimate possibilities. “We’re doing a coup, so you will all be expected to do your part.”
Probably gonna ask them to swear an oath to Trump and anyone who doesn’t gets a boot
Almost definitely this. And maybe bringing them in person because they have to kneel before trump while saying the oath.
Am I out of the loop? Why the fuck would we be invading Venezuela?
If I were a general I’d be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.
Saddam was a hell of a lot more competent than this bunch. I actually consider it a significant blessing that they want to jump us over the cliff and into fascism, but they’re in a Pinto that needs new tires, and they seem unaware enough that they are trying to make it work anyway.
Not to say it definitely won’t work, I am glad for people getting out and raising hell about it. But it is a blessing that they are so stupid.
Fum fact: the cybertruck is 17x more dangerous than the pinto was
If the drunk loser wants a war he can go himself, maybe he can finally get some qualifying experience and get shot a few times by the Taliban
We’re resegregating the military.
There is no way this is a good thing. Summoning a single general to a meeting without giving any context is not a thing that is done. Summoning all of them and not stating the meeting purpose or providing read ahead charts or pre-briefs… that’s incredibly ominous.
I’m hoping it is only him directing them to call it Dept of War (DoW) on all official comms instead of DoD.
Its also ridiculously irresponsible.
There is a lot of discussion to be had over the actual value of a general in modern warfare (where individual soldiers have tactical value and so much decision making happens at the company or even squad level). But no discussion is required to say what a ridiculously juicy target “every high ranking military official” is and the massive damage to morale and organization that would ensue.
Yeah that’s a lot of HVT in one area.
I wouldn’t be super shocked if this turns into loyalty pledge-a-palooza.
That’s my guess as well. “Swear a blood oath to King Trump personally or you’re fired right now”.
I’m skeptical of that.
This will be hundreds of “military men”. Yes, the vast majority are pencil pushers who are in worse shape than the average divorced dad “trying to get back out there”. Even if they are bringing every single chud they can find, they are still going to be the “weaker” group. And chuds hate feeling weak.
If it were just the inevitable loyalty oaths, I would expect that to happen in more isolated groups. And while it is always possible that they could batch the generals into the room to kiss the skidmarked ring, that still feels like a risk when they might not get the photo op they want at the end.
My money is on “planning how to secede from the United Nations”. Aka “planning to go to war with basically all of NATO and a bunch of Global South countries who want revenge”. Whether that goes anywhere is a different discussion, but “all of our generals made some great plans” is a talking point they would want.
When Saddam took power he called a meeting of the party leadership and publicly arrested those he suspected of “treason”. He even had the event recorded.
Yeah but Drunky Smurf is a total coward
Vance and Hegseth arent, though…
"Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes, Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen.“
What, with the current administration, is not ridiculously irresponsible?
They have not yet decided to ban speed limits and seat belts, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that
Trump is declaring war on the UN because of the escalator, starting the stupidest war since Caligula declared war on the sea.
Well Caligula won that war. Really showed Neptune
I mean you don’t really call in people from abroad to say “hey, war time” you call in people to tell them they’re no longer needed and the others who are also called in get told about the “awesome” restructuring that’s going on.
Well since we’re all here howabout a quick game of Frag the Drunk Nazi.
There’s a government shutdown looming, who’s to say it doesn’t have something to do with that? Y’know, since their paychecks come from the government.
The defense budget is basically unlimited
It’s the department of war now, so calling it a defense budget seems wrong.
My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant. Everybody is being called for two reasons; that’s how the corpo’s do layoffs now and, more importantly, as of right now the admin has zero fucking clue which 1/4 they are going to fire yet. That list is going to have more day of changes than a Vince McMahon era PPV.
There were two meeting rooms on the email! (/silly joke)
But don’t they do mass firings by text and just locking you out of your machine these days? The US Aid workers were left stranded for a while— not sure if they got help getting back or just got abandoned and had to get friends and family to pitch in for flights home…
My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant
Or being black or a women.
If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?
That’s generally how fascism works, and doesn’t last.
Doesn’t take much intelligence to order the go ahead on another civilian boat bombing. If anything, the dumber for the better that type of evil.
I read the comments and first of all—you guys are hilarious 🤣
So I’m going to be that guy and tell the truth: It’s almost certainly related to what’s going on with Russia invading Poland (or at least violating their airspace) right now.
Russia’s been invading every airspace around them for decades. It never triggered more than a “could you not?” reaction from anyone.
There’s a promise to shoot down jets now
No. There is zero reason to bring all generals in person over last week’s drones.
I’m of the mind it’s either a mass firing (they already put plans in place to cut the top 20% or so of military command) with loyalty pledge, going to full blown war, or a favor to Putin to take all of the US command down at the same time. From most likely to least.
Do you deliver to Virginia?
I mean I’d pretty much have to.
Would you be willing to deliver to MD? Do your drivers have any drone experience?
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You could call it Pentagon Secret Pizza Service
Or PSPS
