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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.
This is one of those headlines that freaks me out, but ultimatly this meeting probably won’t effect me in any way. This keeps happening. I should just stop monitoring this stuff.
This is 100% wishful thinking, but perhaps they’re taking Russia seriously.
Fuck, I couldn’t even muster the cope to think this might be true.
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?
I remember hearing a story about some country’s leader started gathering their legislators and then claimed he had uncovered a list of names conspiring against him, then announced the names one by one, got the soldiers to lead them to a hallway, and executed them, then the remainder of them pledge loyalty to the leader.
Something like that, forgot what country it was. But this sounds so familiar. Uncanny parallel.
Sadaam.
Yeah, definitely talking about Iraq. Here is Hitch talking about it.
My guess? Loyalty pledge.
'Murica right now:
Smells like a purge.
The kind where they’ll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.
I mean… the US military is supposed to be anti fascist, and if you’re a general you’ve been there longer than just trumps term, so really they are all anti fascists.
Antifa is a terrorist organization now, so he’ll round em all up, charge them with treason, and install new generals who’ve never served in the military before.
The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man. Which is what my air force friends have been telling me - don’t worry, the forces won’t go fascist. Trump apparently came to the same conclusion and is reducing their forces while he massively ramps up ICE, his new domestic army that DOES swear allegiance to him.
Which seems like it has implications but I’m no analyst.
Its actually illegal to be a “Nazi” “Communist” or “Member of a Totalitarian Party” when someone becomes a US Citizen, so I think we should revoke citizenship of all the magats.
We invading Argentina?
Probably Illinois
We’re going to war with somebody.
And all the times I’ve heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
But, I could be wrong. I always admit that.
And all the times I’ve heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
It’s always projection. 100% of the time
Maybe it’s like the department of justice: find me a war that will help me politically. I’ll fire anyone who doesnt.
But shit, Venezuelans need to be stocking up on supplies. Effing MAGAts have already been laying the groundwork
They need to christen their newly renamed Department of War with a war of some sort. Otherwise why go through all that trouble of renaming it. That would just look stupid.
Let’s just hope it’s not against US citizens.
Better Americans fight Americans than anyone else. Fix your shit.
trump is already at war with them.
yeah it better be just some more brown people! this is american tax dollars after all
“Antifa” they are going to war with American citizens. They are going to purge anyone who objects
Two things can be true at the same time. I know this must be shocking news to you.
This seems like exactly the type of gathering you want to avoid in a world where hypersonic missiles probably* exist.
* bring on the pedantry over what actually defines a hypersonic missile
Putin is salivating right now. Jerking off to visions of a nuke wiping out the heads of US military.
There’s always the state of the union where you could cripple the US government, so it’s not like there aren’t options for something like that if you were already willing to risk it.
Whole TV series on that too called Designsted Survivor with Kiefer Sutherland. I quite enjoyed it.
I loved it. But season 3 feels… idk, like the government is already fixed so plot is over, not sure why they even made a season 3.
Seems like the kind of gathering where you may want to bring a gun and sit near the emergency exit.
I’m not cut out for military. I’d sooner resign than be summoned in this way
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.
What, with the current administration, is not ridiculously irresponsible?
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.
"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.“
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…
If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?
I would think it to be good. That would push the Blue States to hire the none-evil leadership into their ranks. We will need skilled and good people to lead us against the Neo Confederates.
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 hope they all brought knives ala the Roman Senate…
Wouldn’t that be wild? MAGA world would find a way to blame the left, though.
You could call it Pentagon Secret Pizza Service
Or PSPS
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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Drunk texted them accidentally?
He brought them in to help him find his keys
Fucking hit “Reply All”
remOvE Me fRoM tHIs diStro LISt
Or declared war to NATO (meaning ourselves) on Discord, brown out drunk.
Don’t think so, there was no journalist in the chat group…
“Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”
