Final week, we reported that Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered some 800 high U.S. navy generals and admirals to assemble at a Marine Corps base in Virginia for some mysterious purpose that mystified even a lot of these top-ranking navy officers, who had been defending the nation at posts unfold out throughout the U.S. and a number of other different international locations.
Hegseth should have had one thing massive — one thing world-changing — to announce that may have necessitated such a uncommon, seemingly excessive directive. Are we beneath assault? Has somebody necessary been assassinated? Has the specter of “World Warfare III” that President Donald Trump is all the time speaking about lastly develop into imminent? HAVE THE ALIENS LANDED???
Effectively, as a result of we all know you had been all ready with bated breath to search out out precisely why Hegseth known as this alarming assembly of high navy officers, NewsOne has the solutions. And, truthful warning, these solutions are alarming. They’re world-changing. “Secretary of Warfare” Pete Hegseth known as this assembly to tell our navy that we’re on the precipice of a monumental, probably cataclysmic occasion!
Nah, I’m simply messing with you — he simply wished to spew extra anti-woke, anti-DEI, and anti-anti-fascist nonsense, and likewise known as the highest navy leaders a bunch of fatties who must hop on a treadmill on occasion.
Now, Hegseth’s deal with to those navy leaders began off sounding severe sufficient. The truth is, in response to Newsweek, he instructed them they need to “put together for struggle.”
“From this second ahead, the one mission of the newly restored Division of Warfare is that this: Warfighting,” he stated, referring to the Trump administration’s MAGA-macho rebrand of the Division of Protection. “Getting ready for struggle and making ready to win. Unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not as a result of we would like struggle. Nobody right here desires struggle. But it surely’s as a result of we love peace.”
Critically, you’ll have thought Hegseth was lined in Braveheart physique paint whereas going over struggle plans to struggle towards impending doom. I imply, it was an in-person assembly, not an unsecure Sign chat, however nonetheless. As a substitute, he largely simply did extra whining about every little thing he described as “woke” in his division.
“No extra identification months, DEI places of work, dudes in attire, no extra local weather change worship, no extra division, distraction, or gender delusion, no extra particles. I’ve stated earlier than and can say once more, we’re completed with that s***,” he reportedly stated.
Sure, Hegseth has stated all of this earlier than — advert nauseam even — which is why, up to now, this nice assembly of navy minds is coming off just like the epitome of, “This might have been an electronic mail.”
After all, telling these generals and admirals to get off their fat-asses and get to Planet Health may not have had the identical sting in writing.
From Newsweek:
“It’s fully unacceptable to see fats generals and admirals within the halls of the Pentagon main instructions across the nation, on the earth, it’s a nasty look,” Hegseth stated.
Since taking workplace beneath Trump, Hegseth has made bodily readiness central to his effort to revive what he calls the navy’s “warrior ethos.” He has repeatedly highlighted the significance of recent health necessities as a part of that broader push.
The Protection Secretary pointed to his personal routine for example. “All of it begins with bodily health and look,” he stated. “If the Secretary of Warfare can do common, exhausting PT [physical training], so can each member of our joint drive.”
“At present at my route, each member of the joint drive, at each rank, is required … [to] meet peak and weight necessities twice a yr yearly,” Hegseth added.
He added that the U.S. navy will mandate troops in fight roles to fulfill “this highest male commonplace solely,” requiring each service member in such positions to attain above 70 % on the “male commonplace” of their department’s bodily health check.
Look, setting apart the truth that Hegseth is out right here berating and body-shaming high navy officers who, on common, are of their late 40s and 50s, to name these navy leaders away from their worldwide posts, the place an precise assault or act of struggle can occur at any second, simply appears to be past irresponsible. It’s no surprise that navy personnel have been talking (anonymously and never anonymously) with the media to complain concerning the irregularity and potential hazard of calling all these high navy leaders to this one, publicly introduced location, only for this arbitrary present of authority.
It’s additionally no surprise that when Trump spoke at this assembly, it was to precise to these in attendance that it was all simply as unserious as they should have identified it was.
From the Guardian:
He says he’s “by no means walked right into a room so silent earlier than.”
Some within the viewers chuckle, to which Trump jokes: “Don’t chuckle, you’re not allowed to do this.”
“Simply have time,” he provides. “And if you wish to applaud, you applaud. And if you wish to do something you need, you are able to do something you need. And when you don’t like what I’m saying, you possibly can depart the room. After all, there goes your rank, there goes your future.”
Folks chuckle, and Trump tells them to “really feel good and unfastened.”
Positive, this might be one informal, comedic show — if it weren’t such a primary instance of how our federal authorities has develop into a perpetual show of novice hour.
Don’t get me fallacious, each Hegseth and Trump stated issues that had been fully alarming throughout this assembly, however solely as a result of their rhetoric was filled with extra of the identical authoritarian threats which have come out of this administration because the begin of Trump’s second time period.
Really, it’s price noting that Hegseth introduced he’s not solely persevering with his authoritarian insurance policies, however he’s additionally implementing guidelines that primarily make it towards division coverage to complain about it.
Because the Guardian reported, he introduced that he’ll finish nameless complaints procedures, and that the DOD’s Inspector Normal’s Workplace (which is investigating him over Signalgate) could be “overhauled,” accusing the workplace of making a tradition of “strolling on eggshells” that had been “weaponized, placing complainers, ideologues and poor performers within the driver’s seat.”
“No extra frivolous complaints, no extra nameless complaints, no extra repeat complaints, no extra smearing reputations, no extra countless ready, no extra authorized limbo, no extra sidetracking careers, no extra strolling on eggshells,” he stated. (Positive, a governmental ideologue complaining about ideologues in authorities. Why not?)
In the meantime, Trump made it a degree to proceed blustering about his propaganda-reliant agenda to weaponize the navy in Democratic cities based mostly on false data and outright lies about rising crime.
“I instructed Pete we must always use a few of these harmful cities as coaching grounds for our navy, nationwide guard, however navy, as a result of we’re going into Chicago very quickly, that’s a giant metropolis with an incompetent governor,” he stated.
Once more, WHY CALL THIS BIG-ASS, INCONVENIENT-ASS MEETING WITH ALL THE NATION’S TOP GENERALS JUST TO SAY EVERYTHING THEY HAVE ALREADY SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN PUBLICLY???
What the hell is fallacious with these folks? Are these incompetent wannabe dictators actually so comically insecure that they should name this assembly simply to do extra jingoistic chest beating and decrying of what they name wokeness?
Apparently, the actual function of this assembly was to inform all of those skilled navy leaders that if they’ll’t get behind this administration’s Hitler-esque agenda, they need to get the hell on.
“The earlier we have now the appropriate folks, the earlier we will advance the appropriate insurance policies,” he stated. “But when the phrases I’m talking right this moment are making your coronary heart sink, then it is best to do the honorable factor and resign.”
So, that is how we make America nice once more, huh? Make it’s identified that far-right ideology is the one acceptable ideology to carry on this administration, and present all dissenters the door. That’s how we deliver the nation collectively and finish the divide.
My God, we’re cooked if that is all we have now to supply to name management.
Unhappy.
SEE ALSO:
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Tons of Of High Navy Leaders To Meet In Virginia — However Why?
Hegseth: Restore Accomplice Navy Base Names ‘Honors’
Pete Hegseth’s Assembly With High Navy Command Was, As Predicted, Simply A Large ‘Anti-Woke’ Farce And Waste Of Time
was initially revealed on
newsone.com
