Hegseth's pointless meeting

I disagree. An email wouldn't have captured the full scope of Hegseth's immaturity and desperation. Now, all our military leaders have seen it first hand. Well done.

Although he called and made the speech for general, the fact this was broadcast tells me this speech was not for the generals…

The drunk TV guy with a make-up room tells generals he wants manly men. Did I get that right?

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.

The best part was "You're not allowed to do that (laugh)", said by a guy who tried to invade Chicago.

This is right out of a Sacha Cohen movie..Haffaz Aladeen.. complaining to military the missiles should be pointy.

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??

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

I bet every single one of them is thinking "This little toe-rag is my boss?"

And because it wasn't an email, they can share their discontent in person with each other without being spied upon.

"in USA they can only choose between two haircuts"

Make note of the ones that are smiling.

Idk; if I had to fly 4000 miles to get yelled at by a drunk retard LARPing as what I do professionally, I'd crack up a little

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.

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
crossed the military industrial complex

Those generals agree with 80% of what was said and will 100% follow whatever orders come down. Just because they grimace at stupid meetings doesn’t mean they are the peoples’ friends.

They're all 4-star general West Point graduates. They do not agree with 80% of the speech, and whether they'll follow orders is not a given. There is a balance of power at play.
No one is "the people's friend" and that's not the point. Some of these guys believe in nothing but power, but a significant number are also constitutional ideologues. And both of those groups among the generals know their power is both at risk and so is the constitution. And this meeting has been largely been disliked according to reporters among all of them.
Pete Hegseth is completely retarded.

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.

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

This was distraction. The main reason for the meeting was to galvanize the troops for world war 3.

No it was to distract from the Epstein files.
Which they will lose in three seconds with him in charge.

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

I bet they all walked away with something better! Their new Russian friends who will always be there! Listening in...

I'm convinced what we saw was just a distraction for the public.

They definitely did the more nefarious shit off camera.

How to waste money 🙂

Look at all those beards. Disgusting!

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
- 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

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

I don't think the meeting goals are what has been discussed.

This might have been : 1) prepare for war with Iran, or 2) gather intelligence on these people to see who might be a problem they need to get rid of before the 4 years mark.

something else so secret that they don't trust the network and meet in person and the speech is the cover story

I think there was more to this than just pointlessness. Say, you want to have a meeting with specific leaders, but you know that bringing them in will get out, and folks may be able to figure out what you're up to based on who you bring in for the meeting.

So, you bring every leader in for a pointless meeting publicly, while then having a secret meeting afterwards with the actual leaders you wanted to talk with.

Who they actually wanted to talk to, i don't know, but my guess it was the leaders stationed in the Middle East, based on all the ships we've been sending to the region, as well as Trump's ultimatum to Hamas, and the recently announced plan to turn Gaza over to Tony Blair. I have a strong feeling Trump is sending American troops in to help Israel take over Gaza entirely.

Why hide that though? Who would stop America from invading Gaza? The kind of subterfuge you are suggesting would be more likely before an invasion of say Europe, China, or Russia. Or a coup.
- Because, militarily, you never want to give away information you don't need to. If Hamas could find out which generals, admirals, and other leaders they were having come to Washington for meetings, it would tell them what forces to expect, and they could plan a resistance, as ineffectual as it would probably be.
  But, it could cause more US casualties, which might cause more unhappiness in America, as Americans don't like it when American soldiers die in pointless wars. Remember, Trump ran as the man who would get the country out of pointless wars, so the more deaths from this pointless war, the more complaints from his political base.

hesgeth is also overcompensating that during bidens presidency, when he was still enlisted? that he couldnt get close enough to BIDEN entourage to harm him. also trump had him to distract this from the files, anything to take up news space.

Brings new meaning to the word "uniform."

Always has been?
That was the original function, to remove individuality from the soldiers.

I bet those people shoved in the back corners are even more pissed to be there

if it was trump ordering it, he wouldnt even give them chairs to sit in.

We could clip and simplify that headline to "Hegseth's pointless".

Look at all those guys and their big important medals and their little hats.

A bunch of fatties

and a lot of baldies