RedditsuxHegseth’s Self-Centered Reason for Calling in Generals Leaks
I love the part about post by Ben Hodges on the same kind of thing happening in 1935 Germany. 90 years ago.
The gathering, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday, was described as a “pep rally.” But bringing hundreds of generals to Quantico, including those stationed abroad, could prove to be an extremely expensive pep talk.
There’s absolutely nothing the military in general hates more than this shit, and there’s nothing high ranking officers specifically hate more than being treated like common soldiers.
This isn’t going to inspire loyalty, it’s going to turn the top brass against this administration for various reasons.
They’re just pissing off everyone
AlmaccaHere’s hoping they let their feeling be known in no uncertain terms.
Okay ❤️
Yay ❤️
I truly hope you are right, but I am extremely concerned that this will be a power grab, having the generals swear an oath of loyalty to the Trump regime directly, rather than than the normal oath they may have sworn.
Doing this would make it extremely easy to take over and purge the leadership of disloyalty to the regime.
The situation is very precarious at the moment.
The correct reaction would be for the generals to fulfill their real oath to the Constitution and immediately depose Hegseth and the rest of the Trump regime as the domestic enemies they are.
Gradually_AdjustingIt’s basically the only scenario I can see on the table where normality even has a chance to return in our lifetime. The military would have to clean house on both sides of the aisle though, force primaries for everything, and basically flush the toilet on the last 150 years of party politics.
Bring back G. Washington.
You can never go back in time. Better to think of what ideals would be typified by a new revolutionary spirit.
Yeah I’d love to see the facial expressions on the Marines generals as he tells them how to be better Marines.
Hegseth will tell them real good. I’m sure his credibility will go a long ways with them. Especially when he shows his tattoos, and starts rubbing it on that his tats are bigger than their tats. Marines love that shit.
Then they’ll take him out for beers, get him really drunk, and beat the shit out of him in the alley behind the bar.
I hope so, but the way things are going, I doubt it.
Exactly. At some point the meeting will end, and Hegseth will leave, and the generals will just be in a room together, talking about how shit hegseth is.
And at some point, someone is going to address the elephant in the room, and say “I signed up to protect America from Nazis, not help the Nazis take over. This has got to end. NOW,” and a lot of others are going to agree.
And two things will happen: They will rise up and take America back, or they will be removed from their positions, and give the American Resistance extremely strong and experienced military leadership for the rebellion.
Wispy2891One of the most expensive “this could have been an email” meeting
Not even normal soldiers, but as decoration. They’ll be there to make him look good, for “optics”, and will serve the same function as furniture and wall art. All for a talk that is about army fitness and not anything requiring terribly delicate security?
If they have any self-respect they’ll be talking amongst eachother right now saying the same shit and deciding not to go. Besides, if security is the reason they should all be gathered then security is also the reason why that’s a terrible idea.
They think all these Generals are on their side, but Generals value competence and loyalty, and they know what Treason looks like.
These MAGA dumbfucks haven’t realized that they are gathering ALL the military high command together, so they can start their military uprising.
MisterOwlthey know what Treason looks like.
That’s fucking hilarious. These same generals are perfectly okay with deploying troops against American citizens in Portland.
How do you know that? How do you know that they haven’t been stewing like the rest of us, slowly getting hotter and hotter?
Now they get to meet with their peers, and find out they’ve ALL been thinking the same things, and they want to come up with a plan.
Frankly, that scenario is as plausible as the one in which they toss away every military dream they ever had, to be recorded in history as the weakass generals who let the Nazis take over the world.
How do I know?
I’ve been paying attention.
“The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States.”
If there is no coup now, our military leadership is 100% on board with killing US citizens. They would be just as bad as the “weakass generals who let the nazis take over”.
Let’s see what happens, shall we?
Trump and Hegseth would have no trouble ordering the military to fire on American citizens, they are confirmed psychopaths. I’m not convinced that the majority of Generals would follow that rule. I suspect that MOST would not.
I admire your optimism. I suspect that the vast majority of them would open fire on american babies if Trump told them to.
Love that for them.
it’s going to turn the top brass against this administration
Are you fucking kidding? US top brass fucking loves this shit. Fascist pep rally on the taxpayers dime, it just doesn’t get any better.
oh, I’m sorry, i didn’t know you had more experience with the military and high level officers…
“The president just said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas within the United States.”
If there is no coup now, our military leadership is 100% on board with killing US citizens.
Let’s see what happens, shall we?
Using “military leadership” to refer to a single political appointte is fucking ridiculous.
Edited for accuracy. Are you beginning to understand? Or are you gonna keep playing military apologist?
ExtremeDullardwhat the new military looks like under Trump.
MAGA should ask Hugo Boss to jazz up the military.
AI slop unfortunately. Hugo Boss didnt design any Nazi uniforms. His company had contracts to manufacture SS, SA and Hitler Youth uniforms.
Do you not consider SA, SS, and Hitler Youth nazis?
I do not consider manufacturing to be designing.
Fair point!
So then, exactly who did the designing?
If they were already well known for creating quality garments of their own design, they were probably chosen for that reason, knowing that they had the ability to manufacture their own designs. The Nazis probably had some input - “Black, lots of black” - but mostly they would have left the designs up to the pros, chose a few favorites, and gave the greenlight.
They were designed internally by each service. For example the SS uniforms were designed by Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck.
Excellent post. My apologies for my ignorance. See my edit to my original post.
As it was put to CNN, the “guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint.”
So it’s purely an ego inflating thing. Gotcha.
Its purely a dictator thing.
Tomato tomato.
I would not be so sure about that
Dictator-style.
miss_demeanourAll those high-ranking military folk in one spot at one time!
Super smart!
Super smart!
While the likelihood is next to zero, can you imagine putin giving krasnov this order? It would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
So who is providing the prep talk? Hegseth? I hope they laugh him out of the state
Watch the brass stonewall him and give him essentially a dead room. It’d be legendary if they then simply filed out without speaking.
This is intended for release to the public, and presumably the military rank & file, so the pressure is on Hegseth to deliver a compelling performance demonstrating his incomparable leadership.
So he’ll be up there doing his best Hitler imitation, posing and emoting like a political rock star tearing off a blistering guitar solo, hoping his incendiary rhetoric inflames the Generals in the audience to patriotic fervor.
Instead, they don’t react to anything, don’t applaud, and just file our silently.
Go ahead, release that propaganda video, Skippy.
Doing this would require just a minimal amount of courage.
Even still, I think we all know nothing of the sort will happen. They will cheer, they will lick his boots, they will say it was a valuable experience and they love daddy trump unconditionally… and then go back to violating posse comitatus.
SludgehammerThe gathering, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday, was described as a “pep rally.”
He’s going to rant about how great he is, then ask for his boots to be tongue polished, got it.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before, and it just seems extremely bizarre and strange,” Hertling said.
Get used to it dude.
otterIf only some of the speakers didn’t have to leave that room ever again. Oh, lucky day for the rest of the world… 🤷🏼♂️
“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC”
Yuuup. 🫡😶🌫️
donThere’s a tweet in the article:
Pete Hegseth: @PeteHegseth
Cool story, General
Ben Hodges: @general_ben
July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.
Fucking shitbag fuckmook.
I keep seeing this historical “fact” but I can’t find anything corroborating it. “Hitler oaths” were already being taken since 1933, by June of 1935 the Reichswehr was replaced by the Wehrmacht.
The link you’ve shared here talks about the Führer Oath being created in August 1934 but not becoming law until mid-1935, which seems to roughly agree with the date in the post you’re disputing. I can’t find much to support the claim about a surprise assembly, though, at least from a cursory search.
It looks as though his post is taken almost verbatim from this substack post: thecycle.substack.com/p/from-hitler-to-hegseth
which doesn’t inspire the most confidence.
Alright relax pal. This was far more retarded, and of much less significance.
Well shucks, bud. You know what? Boom, comment edited. Enjoy!
CurmuffinA preview of Pickled Pete's speech:
Harvey Dent: can we trust him?