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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?

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        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.

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      My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant

      Or being black or a women.

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      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…

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    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.

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      And all the times I’ve heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.

      It’s always projection. 100% of the time

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        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

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        Epstein’s Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]

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          It’s polulist tactics 101: blame all your wrongdoings on your enemy/opposition. All they can reply with is “no you!” Wow, strong defense, as if anyone is going to believe that.

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      But, I could be wrong.

      They renamed the Department of Defense to Department of War. So yeah, you’re probably wrong. It’s probably just a military high tea with a karaoke contest or something.

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      “Antifa” they are going to war with American citizens. They are going to purge anyone who objects

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    9 days ago

    “Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”

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    Smells like a purge.

    The kind where they’ll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.

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      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.

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        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.

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          Not just ICE. Republicans are talking about putting a Turning Point USA chapter in every school in the country. They’re stacking the next generation with Hitler Youth indocrination to avoid that pesky “loyalty to the constitution”

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          I mean, there’s funding, sure. But I’d put my money on a marine with nothing but flipflops and his privately owned rifle over a ICE goon any day.

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            Every org is going to have extremists, but you are talking about a former military member that was discharged with a less than honorable discharge, who then committed and was sentenced for murder.

            What do you think the AFB should have done here?

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        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.

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      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.

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        I hate that all these are legitimate possibilities. “We’re doing a coup, so you will all be expected to do your part.”

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        Wagging the dog like every conservative president, really. Something something drugs or whatever reason we are giving for murdering civilians in the Caribbean.

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    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.

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    Can anyone added accidentally to the signal group brief us on what happened in the meeting please.

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    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

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      Seems like the kind of gathering where you may want to bring a gun and sit near the emergency exit.

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      Putin is salivating right now. Jerking off to visions of a nuke wiping out the heads of US military.

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        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.

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          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.

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            It got very formulaic.

            Crisis happens, president makes rash decision that his advisors say is going to be a mistake, mistake happens, he fixes mistake with fatherly talk and “I’m new at this” repeat.

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    “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™©®.”

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    10 bucks says Hegseth meant to meet with a couple generals, but because he was drunk he accidentally sent the orders to every general and admiral in the military.