Summary
Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a Fox News presenter with minimal managerial experience, as defense secretary has stunned the Pentagon.
Hegseth has been a vocal critic of the military, calling for a purge of generals and questioning the appointment of Gen. Charles Brown as chair of the joint chiefs of staff.
Hegseth’s nomination is seen as a boost for the far right in Israel, as he has shown support for territorial expansion and suggested the construction of a new temple on the Temple Mount.
If they’re stunned by this then they’re gonna be catatonic for the next 4 years. I wonder what effect that’ll have on national security…
Anyone surprised by something Trump does is either an idiot or been living under a rock.
So he’ll cripple our military by installing loyalists and removing competent leaders by Totally bypassing existing procedures in the Pentagon… Wonder if any foreign adversaries will decide to test our strength once this is done… Love this timeline. Give me more.
I’m not seeing much benefit for them. If their goal is to destabilize the US, we’re doing the job ourselves far better than they ever could. And if their goal is to conquer territory? The US is pretty isolated and it would be difficult to maintain control unless it was Mexico or Canada invading. Oh, other than Alaska, Russia could attempt to annex it. Trump might even just hand it over if they ask!
As an individual territory, the U.S. is isolated. As an empire, we have bases on every continent. The risk isn’t being killed. It’s being declawed.
Not advocating for American imperialism, just clarifying the point.
100% agree, also, I think we’ve come across each other before. Love the tag and pic. Metroid is my favorite series.
Sadly, Dread was not for me. Too much twitch reaction and pattern memorization required to progress, not enough exploration. Hoping I’ll like Prime 4 better!
Haven’t played all the way through personally, but I enjoyed it. There was a skill gap for me though via the same twitch reactions 😂.
We’ll just pretend the other m didn’t happen. But yes been looking forward to MP4 for SOOOOO long. Honestly gonna miss the Wii controls, thought they worked really well for Metroid.
other m didn’t happen
That was literally the quote by my username in the Nintendo subreddit.
Oh no, it’s the consequences of our actions! What a fucking joke of a country we are in.
They’re better positioned than most to actually do something about it, but they won’t.
Well considering they came out in opposition to Trump and now they’re scrambling to figure out what to do with illegal orders, I really wouldn’t say they’re doing nothing.
We shall see.
Placing people in positions of power based on personal loyalty over competence. This is how dictators secure their power. It also usually completely cripples the country’s ability to function at every level but the dictators don’t care about that.
Do you want cheap eggs or not
I’ll take the ones with extra bird flu please.
I came for the bird. I stayed for the flu.
Not
I wonder how many thousands of pentagon people voted for trump.
You better worry about how many will obey when he orders them to be used on American soil.
Anyone who’s been on a military base should be very worried about that answer. It’s Fox News 24/7, in both recreational and professional areas.
I always hear a different story. One side says the soldier/airman/sailor/(are Marines just grunts?) is supposed to carry out all lawful orders by their superior, and the other is to protect the constitution.
National Guard and Coast Guard aside (which are technically state militaries, but Congress has recently given the President to authority to Federalize them without the governor consenting), it seems to me that one of the things a service member should have learned was that the military cannot operate domestically.
Now, I’ve met some smart officers, and some really dumb officers, and a lot of… People who survived enlistment and they all swear up and down that the reality comes to what happens when a gun is pressed against your head. Do you die for your country (as is your job) or do you commit treason risking that punishment in the future.
I like to imagine there’s a super top secret elite of the elite who are basically selected because at some point faced with that question and they take the bullet and become involved with an organization like Tenet.
Virginia, where most of them live, was blue.
More than half
I think this is pretty funny in a the capitalist propagandizers are running the nuclear state insane asylum kind of way.
OH OH OH OH IVE SEEN THIS ONE!!!
NEXT THEY’RE GONNA REVEAL VAULT PROGRAMS!!!
I guess on the plus side when China invades Taiwan we won’t have to honor our long-standing commitments and get our hands dirty defending our allies I mean economic partners
With TSMC in Taiwan still the only chipmaker worth its salt in the world, that’s not going to happen. They’ll have every carrier group there the second China sticks it’s pickles across the line.
Trump believes Taiwan “stole” chip making technology from the states. And judging from most Republican’s general stupidity on this matter… They think majority of the semiconductors are produced in China. Because to them Taiwan == China.
Why the fuck would a good candidate for Secretary of Defense have any serious opinion on foreign policy.
Don’t miss that red flag among all the others.
Trumpets don’t value knowledge. They value commitment and loyalty and the ability to blame others.
He’s clearly an accelerationist. Rebuilding the temple on the Mount is a requirement for Jesus to come back and kick off biblical Armageddon.
Trump has surrounded himself with insane people who are hell-bent on destroying the world so they can be raptured. Choosing people for these roles who openly say shit like this further proves that is their actual plan.
They want to destroy the world and jumpstart their revelations prophecy. They don’t give a shit what happens to the rest of us.
So let me get this straight. Trump appointed some guy with minimal military and managerial experience as the defense secretary? Is that the same as Secretary of Defense? I am not surprised, I am just trying to fathom the stupidity of this current decision.
The stunning has only begun.
The Stunnening!
Y’all better have some contingency plans in place to prevent him for doing well…anything
Eh, the military will probably coup before submitting to Stalin-esque purges.
That isn’t a particularly good thing. Coups are like Lay’s and Pringles… You can’t just have one and once you pop you just can’t stop.
Yeah, I’m trying to think of a recent (<100y) example that didn’t result in a junta or other coups, and I’m drawing a blank.
Gorbachev purging the Soviet military.
I don’t think that’s really a coup — if anything it’s the same as what Trump wants to do, but unlike Mr. Pizza Hut he isn’t on the right side of history.
I interpreted you as saying that you couldn’t think of a mass purge that didn’t result in a junta or other coups.
I was thinking (and presumably xmunk too) of scenarios where the military overthrows the government.
There are lots of examples of purges not resulting in coups, including the most famous purger of recent times, Stalin.
I was thinking (and presumably xmunk too) of scenarios where the military overthrows the government.
Ah
Collapsing the USSR and causing horrible living conditions throughout the area for the better part of two decades was the right side of history?
Right, I forgot he singlehandedly destroyed the USSR, which was a glorious utopia until his leadership and would totally still be around today otherwise. Thanks for the correction.
No because he has already said when he becomes President he is going to create a task force that will basically clean house in the military of any ranking people that are not ‘yes men’
He is wanting to create a North Korea/Russia style military that is only there to agree with him.
He doesn’t understand just how decentralized the military command structure is, and the enlisted-officer relationship that has existed for a very, very long time. Just because anything is written in a regulation and a high-ranking officer with a good idea fairy perched on his shoulder says something or orders something doesn’t mean it happens. Or that the report back from down below is actually true. Officers that actually rise up through the ranks understand that they, too, should sleep with one eye open if the enlisted do not approve.
This is an insane take. No, the military isn’t going to coup over this. If the generals were getting executed, perhaps, but they’re just being retired or shuffled off to other duties.
We definitely have plans, big plans. Big massive contingency plans. Well, I can’t really describe them right now, because they’re so big. It’s really more like concepts, but check back in 2 weeks.
We don’t! That’s the best part about having a country full of idgafologists and sociopaths.
The answer is Guns, and more guns.
But people seem to not understand how fucking outgunned the population is versus the military.
Russia’s investment really paying off!
They said russia lost the cold war. Well when america is sold for scraps to putin, who is the winner then?
Russia lost the cold war, but Russia won the orange war
Put in a clown, you get a fucking circus.
