Here, too, the sheer ridiculousness of the regime once again obscures its criminal intentions.
Statements such as these are then completely ignored:
We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.
Pete Hegseth Source
This obviously means that all moral conventions, humanitarian principles, and international agreements are being thrown overboard—in other words, absolute ruthlessness, Israel-style.
This is the face of America today: a grotesque grimace of fascist malice.
Jesus Christ that’s grim and inhuman shit. “Stupid rules of engagement”?? Stupid things like reducing civilian casualties and not turning the populace against you? This is how empires fall.
It’s working so well for Israel, everyone loves them now.
Where’s Fitz when you need him?
Exactly… I feel like I’m the only one who paid attention to what they actually said, rather than just mocking the spectacle.
He literally said that the US cities will be their “training ground”.
“And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you just feel nice and loose, OK, because we’re all on the same team. And I was told that, sir, you won’t hear – you won’t hear a murmur in the room. I said, we got to loosen these guys up a little bit. So you just have a good time.”
Too coherent
It’s word-for-word part of his opening remarks. Don’t worry - it rapidly becomes more incoherent from there.
I wonder how much this meeting cost the tax payers. It wasn’t free to fly all the generals to this location and put them up for however long it was required.
Millions, probably at least 8 figures.
So 0.00001% of the annual military budget…
Look at the timing. This meeting took place the day before the shut down. These dumb saps aren’t getting any travel vouchers. Hell they’re not even getting paid this month!
I’d like to see the first line changed to “Everybody’s calling them” because
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The generals didn’t get to be generals without knowing when to keep their mouths shut.
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You don’t have to be military to enjoy this crack. I’m definitely going to be part of that everybody.
And also
- Trump’s favorite way of manufacturing and spreading lies is to say “Everybody’s” and “People are” saying whatever it is.
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And no I didn’t say thank you
Please tell me this is actually happening
I haven’t seen any confirmation. I think it’s just a joke meme.
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I’m sorry, but… is this a Facebook meme? This is the oldest source I could find:
It’s almost certainly not real.
I know it’s not going to get taken down, but:
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but it was pretty evident to me that this was a joke
I dunno, it’s presented like a news bite to me.
They just adapted incel / Maga recruitment methods to try and reel in the tops of the world, for real? Those work on incel / Maga, because they’re downtrodden and insecure, but arrogant, want not to be, but don’t have the insight or the ego to permit self improvement.
People don’t get to the top with a personal failings like that, being angry at the world, types, don’t ever get to top jobs, they were talking to grownups, thinking their magical words will cause them a world wide army. Holy fk I can’t decide if thier levels of God syndrome are hilarious, in the face of the level of danger this presents. I mean, they’re not dangerous in the sense that no one would listen to them, other than the dickheads like them. But, damn!
I was kinda hoping when the orange titbag told them if they didn’t like what was said they could leave, that they would all rise up and rush the stage to show them what real soldiers think of loudmouth pussies
They wouldn’t dare risk their pensions or their cushy post retirement job at a military contractor corporation.
But don’t worry. When and if this regime falls, they’re going to write SO MANY books about patriotism and fighting the good fight and how they secretly hated having to mulch all those civilian protesters and how it’s unfair to put them on trial for following orders.
I used to work for a software company that spent its time chasing military contracts. We had a whole corridor with offices for the retired colonels we had hired who never came into work. I had a friend in HR so I knew what everybody in the company made; the colonels all made in the neighborhood of $200,000 a year. Not a bad no-work gig at all, especially when that money was on top of their pensions. I can’t imagine the kind of money the fucking generals and admirals pull.
Us programmers used to sneak into the colonels’ offices to “work” – which really meant “nap” – confident that we would be undisturbed. I especially liked it because I didn’t have to hold in my farts.
What Trump wants
Wtf how do you even synchronize applause? Those top military leaders must spend hours of their days practicing clapping.
Did you watch the video? It wasn’t synchronized at all, it was just normal (if overly enthusiastic) clapping.
I’ve watched this video half a dozen times now and slowed it down to .25 speed. That’s some of the most synchronized clapping I’ve ever seen.
I dunno, it doesn’t look that way to me. Like, if they were trying to be synchronized, then they did a really bad job.
How to say you weren’t on the drum line without saying anything about drums, haha
Yeah they should definitely get those generals on the drum line. Those dumbasses are out there planning military strategies instead.
Yeah, or maybe this?
https://media.tenor.com/iXWRFGidWj0AAAAM/first-order-stormtroopers.gif
This is slightly encouraging.
They actually showed bits of both speeches on TV news around here (I’m not in the US) and these guys are like a clown version of the Nazis.
Wouldn’t that be great if I could have the faith in our military leaders to mock trump instead of saving their own positions and paychecks by bending the knee.
Good god, he looks like a freaking dunce in that photo. What an embarrassment
Nah, that’s just an accurate physical description of the two.
