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Hegseth's Proposed Pentagon Cuts, Firing of Generals
Hegseth is considering firing a number of military generals and flag officers, NBC News reported Wednesday, citing two Defense officials and three congressional officials.
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The proposed cuts were outlined in a memo issued Tuesday, which ordered a reduction in the Middle East and Europe military commands.
Saudi Arabia and Russia getting what they paid for...
The acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said Wednesday that reduction, which is projected to slash $50 billion off of the defense budget, would help pay for President Trump's administration's defense priorities, including border security and the "Iron Dome for America" missile defense system.
I keep saying it, they won't actually cut spending one bit. All these "cuts" are really reallocations they're phrasing this way to fool the rubes into believing they'll actually substantively reduce the deficit or debt.
Wait for it. I bet Musk will soon reveal SpaceX is getting into the business of making rockets for defense purposes or StarLink will introduce a program for missile guidance or something.
#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-21 08:28 AM | Reply
In case you forgot: Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years www.investors.com
#2 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-02-21 04:17 PM | Reply
Approximately 40 people over the span of a year?
That monster!
#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-21 04:20 PM | Reply
Charlie Brown has been fired.
www.cbsnews.com
#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-21 11:00 PM | Reply
Military Brass who aren't more loyal to Trump than they are to America will be fired outright.
Because they are the last obstacle to a Fascist Dictatorship.
#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-21 11:07 PM | Reply
Jobs are only for straight white men.
#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-21 11:11 PM | Reply
"Minutes later, Hegseth released a statement announcing he'd fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the chief of the Navy.
The removal of the second Black man to serve as America's most senior general and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff appears to send a strong signal from an administration that has outlawed diversity and inclusion efforts across the military and wider government.
Hegseth called Franchetti a "DEI hire" in his 2024 book, in which he wrote: "If naval operations suffer, at least we can hold our heads high. Because at least we have another first! The first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff " hooray."
www.cnn.com
Wonder if he got drunk and beat her up first?
#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-21 11:45 PM | Reply
fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the chief of the Navy.
#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-21 11:51 PM | Reply
Orange men rule!!
But then, he's not really much of a man at all, is he?
More like a vulture.
#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-21 11:54 PM | Reply
Posted by Corky at 2025-02-21 11:54 PM | Reply
Not when you get owned by a four year old kid. Anything but a man.
#10 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-21 11:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Not when you get owned by a four year old kid.
That was pretty funny. Kid tells him to get lost and wipes his nose on his desk but Lewzer can't so ---- since it's the boss's kid.
#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-22 12:11 AM | Reply
This is from 2013
x.com
#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-22 02:48 AM | Reply
Obama fired 197 military officers in 5 years.
#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-22 02:49 AM | Reply
#2 | Posted by MSgt
Wow. Surprise surprise you stupid f*&^s are latching on to 'but they did it toooooo' false equivalencies.
Then again, you're the dips*&^ boomer who constantly posts imugr links as if they're solid content...
#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-22 03:10 AM | Reply
Anyone that doesn't pass the loyalty oath is gone.
Its a coup
#15 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-22 08:45 AM | Reply
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social He nails it.
Covie @covie_93 It is ironic because trump firing a Black 4-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff only to name a less qualified white man to the same job is the reason why DEI policies exist in the first place. bsky.app
#16 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 12:43 PM | Reply
firing a Black 4-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff only to name a less qualified white man to the same job
#17 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-22 12:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
There's a Democrat, who many people still insist would have beaten Trump the first time, that ran on massive Pentagon cuts as part of his platform.
What does he have to say today?
"Bernie Sanders backs DOGE as it eyes Pentagon budget cuts: 'Elon Musk is right'"
#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-22 12:58 PM | Reply
#14 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-02-22 03:10 AM | REPLY: The senior officers going 'out the door' are dem political officers [yes men for the dems] and will be replaced with warrior officers which is what is needed.
Tough S*** if you do not 'approve'. As retired military I am all for the 'changing of the guard'. The fact that libbie dems are unhappy with this is telling....
#19 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-02-22 01:17 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
...and will be replaced with warrior officers straight white men which is what is needed.
#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-22 01:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
The defense secretary is an alcoholic rapist.
#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-22 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
" and will be replaced with warrior officers"
Warrior officers?!?
Is that what the service used to call a bootlicker?
#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-22 01:29 PM | Reply
It means Use of Force > De-escalation. Warrior or Guardian.
Normal for military. The mentality infected domestic policing, that are supposed to be Guardians.
#23 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-22 03:17 PM | Reply
Feels like explaining what the A is again.
#24 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-22 03:17 PM | Reply
" Feels like explaining what the A is again."
So Yav's link will prove you wrong on this, too?
#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-22 03:21 PM | Reply
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)"the top lawyers in each service branch"is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.
Amy McGrath @amymcgrath.bsky.social Here's what is going on. When you start firing the military's top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Trump has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Chief Naval Officer & the second in command at the Air Force.
He is also firing the top lawyers in the Army, Navy & Air Force.
These are EXACTLY the steps you'd take if you planned not to step down peacefully in 2029.
bsky.app
#26 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 04:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4
#26
THIS is what's really happening.
Which is OK with Trumpers, mind you, but I don't think the Swing Vote is going to be so easily fooled in 2 years.
Not that votes and laws are going to matter anyway with a King.
#27 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-22 04:48 PM | Reply
Which is OK with Trumpers,
Anything Trump or Musk do is okay with Deplorables.
#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-22 05:15 PM | Reply
#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-22 03:21 PM | Reply | Flag:
Never read it, not going back to it. It's Asexual, it's always been Asexual. Allyship comes after. You are not marginalized, you don't get to identify with the marginalized.
#29 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-22 06:01 PM | Reply
By all means though, keep using it wrong and marginalizing people some more lol. Allies yay!
#30 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-22 06:08 PM | Reply
I've been doing some research and have come up with the following. A in LGBTQIA is all in compassing to include Asexual Aromatic and Gendered people. It doesn't include Allies however.
#31 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-22 06:13 PM | Reply
but but but! Yav has a link!
It's just not to the story of what happened when a company made a commercial to LGBTQIA+, called the A allies, and offended LGBTQIA+ people. It was a thing.
Like Chappelle said, don't piss off the alphabet people.
#32 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-22 06:57 PM | Reply
" but but but! Yav has a link!"
Well, read it.
As it is, you look like a moron who keeps digging the hole deeper.
It's actually a good, informative link. Try it, it won't kill you. And you might learn something.
#33 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-22 07:21 PM | Reply
Indeed I do. I also lived through it. As did Danforth. As have others who documented their understanding in those links. For instance:
2SLGBTQQAI+
#34 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-22 07:44 PM | Reply
Democrats and the left are always obsessed with lifelong anger and societal divide. They thrive on it. As a result they are always pissed, homely and lonely. Just for fun do a poll of good looks in CONGRESS.
#35 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-22 08:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Robson is physically attracted to 300 lb rapists.
#36 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-22 08:22 PM | Reply
Democrats and the left are always obsessed with lifelong anger and societal divide. They thrive on it. As a result they are always pissed, homely and lonely. Just for fun do a poll of good looks in CONGRESS. #35 | Posted by Robson
LOL You need to read this thread:
Vance Offers Advice to Young Men Suppressed by US Culture
drudge.com
#37 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 08:32 PM | Reply
Okay, so I had to look up praetorianism. Gift article at link:
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or "lethality," or promoting "warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.
A Friday-Night Massacre at the Pentagon
Trump's purge started with his firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.
Trump apparently met Caine on a trip to Iraq in 2018. The president later recalled that first meeting during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2019. He claimed that Caine"call sign "Razin" Caine"was insistent that ISIS could be defeated in a week if America committed enough force to the effort. Trump said that Caine then donned a MAGA cap, and said: "I love you, sir. I think you're great, sir. I'll kill for you, sir." Trump added that he told Caine he was not allowed to do that, "but they did it."
#38 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 08:40 PM | Reply
Indeed I do. I also lived through it. As did Danforth.
Congrats on embracing being lesbians.
#39 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 09:20 AM | Reply
#33 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-22 07:21 PM | Reply | Flag:
medium.com">Why the A doesn't stand for Ally/a>
#40 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 09:24 AM | Reply
medium.com
hmmmm link issues
#41 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 09:24 AM | Reply
hearts in the right place, just misguided on letters.
#42 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 09:26 AM | Reply
"Congrats on embracing being lesbians"
Tell us you lost the argument without using those specific words.
#43 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-23 09:57 AM | Reply
Why the A doesn't stand for Ally
Even us Chinese immigrants know it doesn't stand for "Ally".
#44 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-23 10:11 AM | Reply
I posted that link. I reference that the author was summarily smacked down in the comments section and that you should read them. But you said "Never read it, not going back to it" then you posted the same damn link. But you didn't bother to read further.
"Congrats on embracing being lesbians" I'm a gay man. I've been around a LOT of lesbians. LOTS. I've one of the gay men that also would go to lesbian bars because I had good lesbian friends that I'd hang with. I can lay out our culture, and how it works in a macro sense better than you could even imagine. Having said all that, I have no idea what your remark is even supposed to mean. It's just weird.
#45 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 10:12 AM | Reply
(you said that to Danforth who cited the link I provided long before you)
#46 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 10:12 AM | Reply
Your immigration managed to boost China's overall IQ while lowering the United States. Xi thanks you.
#47 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 10:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
I can lay out our culture, and how it works in a macro sense better than you could even imagine.
Click the medium link.
Explain why he's wrong.
#48 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 10:51 AM | Reply
and why when a company made an inclusive commercial that called the A allies, did gays and lesbians etc revolt against that and called it demeaning and exclusionary?
#49 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 10:52 AM | Reply
#48 "Explain why he's wrong." First, it's not a "he" - you can't even get that right. Second - I'm not repeating myself. You didn't bother the first time or the second time.I gave you exactly how to find information out in the very link you posted. It's not hard. You go to the comments and read them. They are short. They say what I had said before I even found that link.
#49 - It takes no imagination for me to figure out what likely happened. There are militant homosexuals in our community, and I've had them scream in my face, that insist they control the narrative, who is in, who is out, who is a "good xxx" and who's a "bad xxx." They tend to be younger (than me, but not young) and don't have the history - but they are angry.
Finally, This is all I'm going to say on this. You don't get to tell me about my life experience, challenge me, and not bother reading anything I provided. Hell - you even posted the same link without knowing I already did it but couldn't read it, or even get the author's pronoun right. So there's no point to this.
#50 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 11:29 AM | Reply
BTW - on #49, researching that more deeply, it appears there was an intent (or at least the appearance of) trying to profit by using the status of "ally" to make a profit. That never goes well.
#51 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 11:45 AM | Reply
I don't honestly read most of the ---- you post unless it stands out as extraordinarily silly.
Militant gays, and they're wrong, and you know it because you're gay. Okay. good enough.
#52 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 11:45 AM | Reply
Huzzah! I accept my place as one of the Alphabet People, being a straight white man.
#53 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 11:47 AM | Reply
I rather enjoyed you making yourself out to be a fool with so little help on my part.
#54 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 11:49 AM | Reply
Militant Gays is a hilarious answer, but they're all wrong.
#55 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 12:09 PM | Reply
Now do Laura, all her research is wrong too.
#56 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 12:10 PM | Reply
Have you stopped for a moment to consider you're making the argument "the gays that care the most are wrong, because I'm gay too, therefore I say straight people are lgbt and always have been."
If you can't see the comedy in it...
#57 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 12:24 PM | Reply
If you can't see the comedy in it... #57 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG
If "Ally" is correct.
Then Bellringer is correct, homosexual men can be LGBTQA+, and Laura is incorrect, because you don't need to actually have a "fight" you can just say... I'm an Ally!
We don't have to agree on everything right?
Yeah I am one of them, an Ally, aren't you? Who, who isn't an Ally? I want names!
#58 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-23 01:43 PM | Reply
Hey, I just gave you the history as I lived it, and found others that lived and wrote about the same history. The entire argument is what it is, and what has been happening in the non-heteronormative community for decades. I already alluded to the GLAAD and PFLAG.
But you folks argue over whatever it is that you think matters, you know, you not being an actual part of the community. Knock yourselves out explaining to us that are in it what we should think. That is what MAGA is all about, anyway, isn't it?
I don't doubt Laura's research found the answer she got. There was no internet when this all started. When the internet started gaining, people hadn't even heard of "asexual." "Agender" Forget about that. That took YEARS to even become a "thing. It didn't even get a dictionary entry until 2015, ferchrissakes.
I related my memory of this. That was it. But arrogant straight ----- think they know more and keep telling me I'm wrong. I just have to laugh at how genuinely stupid, arrogant, and pathetic you sound. Seriously, you want me to say what I knew all these years was wrong when I lived it?
Well then, OK! Sure! LMAO!
Idiots.
#59 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 03:42 PM | Reply
But arrogant straight ----- think they know more and keep telling me I'm wrong.
#59 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag:
No, Militant Gays keep telling you you're wrong, and straight people are agreeing with them.
#60 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 05:18 PM | Reply
tldr for me, it's funny when straight swingers in Oregon identify as oppressed, not allies.
#61 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-23 05:19 PM | Reply
Knowledge takes the willingness to work. You don't have either.
#62 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-23 06:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Too many top brass doesn't make a strong military.
#63 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-23 06:45 PM | Reply
You're a ------- idiot. ---- off, you ------- Russian stooge.
#64 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-23 11:11 PM | Reply
-------- the fake "military expert" hasn't been right in anything for 3 + years. Time to take a breather, dumbass
#65 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-23 11:12 PM | Reply
The senior officers going 'out the door' are dem political officers [yes men for the dems] and will be replaced with warrior officers which is what is needed.
#19 | Posted by MSgt
Uh huh. Sure.
Nobody cares you're retired military. You're a moron whose opinions are childish and stupid. "Warrior" blah blah blah. Piss off, idiot.
#66 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-24 12:28 AM | Reply
Why are ya'll arguing about the gay alphabet meaning?
#67 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-24 12:36 AM | Reply
Boredom.
#68 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-24 12:38 AM | Reply
69!!!!!!!
#69 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-02-24 08:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
It is notalble that none of the officers he is firing did anything wrong except for having more loyalty to the Condtitution than to the traitorous Donald Trump and certainly no history of on the job drunkenness like "Hegseth the drunk" had at Fox News! Also, every last one of them is far more qualified for their jobs or even to be Sec of Defense than by that clown who has only one qualification for his job; the willingness to kiss Donald Trump's ass or suck his dick on command. That this piece of s**t is in charge of our military should frighten every thinking American!
#70 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-24 10:53 AM | Reply
#59 | POSTED BY YAV
You gotta TLDR version?
#71 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-24 11:10 AM | Reply
#70 | POSTED BY DANNI
I wonder what this place was like when Obama cleaned out 197 top military commanders to align with his political goals.
#72 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-24 11:14 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
#72 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-24 11:14 AM | Reply | Flag:
Slow. It took five years, not two seconds you muppet.
Your false equivalency from 9 years ago is noted, stupid.
#73 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-24 11:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#74 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-24 01:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
It took five years, not two seconds you muppet.
Your false equivalency from 9 years ago is noted, stupid. He's just repeating rightwing misinformation he read on X.com
That moron has never had an original thought.
Everything he posts is straight from Musk's stench hole.
#75 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-24 04:24 PM | Reply
Seriously, you want me to say what I knew all these years was wrong when I lived it?
It's doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong anymore.
The only thing that matters is your loyalty to Trumpy.
You can be as wrong as you want and break as many laws as you want.
As long as you bend the knee to King Trumpy you can break as many laws as you need to.. especially if you are making a profit on it!
New Rulz- If you are making a profit that automatically makes you right.
#76 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-24 04:46 PM | Reply
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