WaPo wants everyone to know they are complying with Hegseth’s directive that credentialed news orgs only print what the Pentagon tells them to print or be blacklisted.
Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.
I think the rapture guy was one week off.
BIBLICIAL PROSESY IS NOT AN EXACT SCEINCE. TRUST THE PLAN.
John the Revelator got that prophussy
Does an unscheduled sunrise still count as the rapture, though?
so the question is are we invading venezuela, china, or a US state?
I can’t imagine (openly) attacking China. Venezuela feels likely, but so does invading internal states, which would be wild.
I can’t imagine (openly) attacking China.
Idk, Hegseth believes he is a crusader fighting against China to stop global communism and Muslims
Yeah causing a nuclear exchange… that seems smart.
Because what would happen is China would immediately destroy every single US navy ship in and around Chinese waters. They’d immediately take down every single USAF jet/bomber.
Then the US would stomp its feet and shit diapers while Beijing tries to get a world summit together to figure out wtf the US just tried to do. It would have to end there with a huge defeat for the US attempted invasion or it would just inevitably go on until the US lost all fighting capability and starts considering the suicide nuclear option.
Don’t forget Trump chasing windmills in Afghanistan!
No, he’s doing that off the coast of new england https://www.npr.org/2025/08/31/nx-s1-5522943/trump-offshore-wind-energy-ports
HOW DARE YOU. gREENLAND.
This would actually be the funniest outcome.
Greenland was (and is) missing from this thread to a surprising degree. I know Trump talks a lot of shit but I think the Mercator projection is burned into Trump’s brain so he knows Greenland is bigger than the Contiguous United States. He knows this is a fact. And when it comes to that gigantic island - the real estate center of Trump’s brain overrides his conspiracy brain. He drools at the thought that if the climate does turn to shit and everything heats up - all that land will be very, very valuable. Plus - once he takes it - he can rename it to whatever he wants. Trumpland?
The Big Beautiful Island
Trumpland is all I could think of and it’s not actually Trumpian. Trump could def say the “official” nickname of the country that useta be Greenland is The Big Beautiful Island because [hand accordion gesture] it’s big and it’s beautiful.
We have all our digits in several pies.
It’s easy to make fun of Trump and his administration. Time and again they’ve shown themselves to be stupid, incompetent, and lazy. But this meeting gives me the creeps. Trump’s standard method of operation is to have his flunkies brazenly break the law and see what happens. What they are up to?
Venezuela invasion probably
But do you need every general just to invade Venezuela?
Maybe you do if you’re feeling all dry and itchy and want get your mojo back by ogling some big handsome generals
Ben Norton’s anaylsis of this ghoul is that he’s a religious fanatic who thinks he’s waging a Holy War against Communist China. So these actions he pulls is a concerning
he’s a religious fanatic who thinks he’s waging a Holy War against Communist China
Both Catholics.
We need to put a hold on these papists until we can figure out what the hell is going on
tbh I always thought Zenz was a whacked out Lutheran, the more you know huh
I think he was born Catholic and converted evangelical. Hegseth is the inverse. Any type of Christian-to-Christian convert cannot be trusted
Any type of religious convert in general is extremely sus.
In profile he looks like a grown up version of Sid from Toy Story.
He looks like a bad clone of a bad clone of Timothy Olyphant. Like if the movie Multiplicity had been cast differently
He looks like a bad clone of a bad clone of Timothy Olyphant.
Yes! For nearly this entire year I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe him. The best I came up with was Timothy Olyphant’s brother which was close but not quite right.
Glad it’s not just me lol. No shade to Timothy Olyphant either, he doesn’t deserve to have this bum vaguely resemble him
he doesn’t deserve to have this bum vaguely resemble him
Exactly.
I didn’t want to make the comparison because I kind of like Timothy Olyphant and don’t want to link him to Hegseth in my head.
Exactly my thought, no one deserves that!
Just kidding.
Although Bullock’s closest and most dangerous frenemy being a bar owner does kinda scan for Pete too.
Bullock’s closest and most dangerous frenemy being a bar owner does kinda scan for Pete too.
This tracks so wellAnd once again I would like to emphasize my sincere apologies to Mr Olyphant for the association, he does not deserve it
No idea what’s coming out of this, but the US empire is running out of time. Every day China grows stronger and the US capability to restrain the world through lawfare and sanctions grows weaker. The hammer is increasingly the only tool left, but it has a shelf life too, as the US’s enemies continue to develop their defensive capabilities. In a little over a week, Iran was able to land significant blows against ‘Israel,’ and Iran has only a fraction of the capabilities of China or Russia. They need to do something, and they need to do it soon. The question is what?
The article suggests they might focus inward, shifting their focus from China as a primary ‘threat,’ to domestic radicalism, but this would be a terminal mistake. For the empire to literally turn its guns inward and shoot itself in the foot at this moment of precarity would seal its doom. It would only accelerate the decline of the US’s economic, technological, and cultural power, while granting a repressive to its enemies. Liberalism as we know it has already been defeated. The right holds more power now than they have in generations. They already have millions of cops to maintain order domestically, and there is no armed insurgency justifying an “all hands on deck” military response (let alone a single spec-ops unit) to speak of. There is absolutely nothing gain from doing this.
If they are “smart,” this meeting is being held in preparation for a foreign intervention.
I dunno, feels like “Nazi counterattacks in 1944” type shit. Like it’s only gonna get harder but even if you try now you have a 90+% chance of failure. The US could probably do a lot of damage, but at the cost of much of the navy and air force, and that’s ignoring the chance of things going nuclear.
The civil unrest is real tho, i can’t see how they could launch another foreign invasion without doing some local purging.
It’s not a phenomenon you can purge. They might try, but it will go about as well as trying to make the dog shit smell go away by stomping on it over and over again.
They can have some local purging. As a treat.
Hopefully is the last gasp of a dying empire and we just break our toys ineffectually
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I was thinking more like it’s a 20% higher chance of martial law.
Night of long knives?
One where the paramilitaries and cops purge the military of disloyal elements, using anti-antifa as the pretense would be very plausible
but in preparation for what? do they really expect mass disloyalty if they invade venezuela? china?
Most likely a general (no pun intended) purge of anyone displaying anything other than absolute fealty to Trump. If there’s anything the Trump II administration has proven, it’s that Trump can install the most unqualified hacks in prominent positions of power and business in DC will continue as usual. So they get rid of any general that sees a contradiction in “putting Trump first is putting America first” and replace them with whomever Trump found entertaining on Fox News this week.
Can’t wait to see Judge Janine to get two bottles of sherry in her and ride into battle on the back of a MRAP screaming about Mrs Potatohead
Tagline please
Who do we tag for submit these?
That’s why Kash Patel always looks like that. He knows he’s completely unqualified and out of his depth. And he’s the director of the FBI. Love to see it.
Wonder if they told him about aliens and made him eat a baby on camera or something.
I mean, business as usual can only continue when that happens up to a certain point. Once you reach a critical mass of morons, the whole thing grinds to a halt.
Eventually, yes. The problem is that it rarely happens the moment the grifter that broke the camel’s back get hired. It’s more like 6, 12, 18 months down the line when some critical function that had held together with duct tape and promises suddenly goes belly up, and then it’s a cascade of “to fix X, we need to fix Y first, and to fix Y we need to fix Z first, and we fired the last people who know how Y and Z actually work a year ago.”
Right. It’s a cascade that gets tipped off with some random thing going wrong or new challenge. But it’s inevitable eventually. In a way we’re extremely lucky that this round of fascists haven’t understood that you need institutions to oppress people
The Burger Reich prefers a franchised model of fascism to a corporate-run one.
replace them with whomever Trump found entertaining on Fox News this week.
I’m firing the disloyal. An example is Major Buck Wild Williams is now gonna be a top guy. Maybe my most top guy. Effective immediately - now on the joint chiefs and I’m making him a five star general - People say that I can’t. But I can. I’m the president. I can do anything. I saw him on Fox. Loud! Strong and powerful. Social media good. Very, very good. Many, many good things about Trump. The best part is that Buck Wild Williams is his real name. Not a nickname. It’s on his birth certificate. It’s that magic name thing: name determinism. ‘Determinism’ great word. Destiny.
Good question, they have no push back on anything they want. Natural fascist desire to eat each other?
Yes.
Anyone who ranks above major in the military is likely to have delusions of grandeur and their major career goal is becoming a general. It’s taken people decades of their lives to climb up that high in the ranks, so they don’t want to do anything that might jeopardize their career, and they want to lessen the competition for promotion.
the only thing i would expect enough disloyalty among middle/upper leadership to consider command failure would be active military deployment inside the US. and not like reserves/national guard stuff like we’ve seen. that would probably require a sudden and decisive purge.
short of that, maybe if they wanted to premeptively nuke another nuclear power, there might be a confab ahead of time to find out who in the chain might hesitate to be a warrior for christ and murder a billion people because some drunk radio shock jock woke up with a hangover.
china?
The brass would absolutely rebel against a war with China, it’s the exact opposite of US military strategy
Here are the things they would definitely need to clean house for: large scale violation of posse comitatus, war with China, or nukes. Even a war with Venezuela is a tough sell given proximity to home.
in other news: the potomac mills costco reports a shortage of pink copy paper.
I don’t understand the reference
“Pink slip” is old slang for getting fired, as the now former employee got the pink carbon copy.
Potomac Mills is a large mall near Quantico
Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States.
Does this mean the military is going to be used inside the USA, on their own population, on a previously unseen scale?
Kinda feels like it, especially since I personally know at least a few people whose brain has been melted by facebook propaganda who would eagerly support it.
When I saw my mom angrily (and unprompted) blaming “evil democrats” within a couple hours of Kirk getting shot in texts, it highlighted to me on a personal level how the foundation has been laid for this regime to just do whatever they want and get meaningful support for it. There’s a considerable percentage of the population now who are such reactionary fanatics that they will 100% cheer on Trump if they see troops cracking skulls in “evil democrat states”.
We know what this is. We all saw the Nazi salute during the inauguration, the subsequent deconstruction of the government, and the fucking death camps opening.
How’s the pizza index doing?
Not only are we seeing ~230% spikes in activity, but the gay bar is also bumping. No word on grindr server load yet.
Chat are we cooked?
Slightly toasted at the moment. But the heat’s going up.
A nice golden crust. Right before the marshmallow catches on fire and turns into a carbon shell
Yeah, right arooounnnd…here (CW: Nuclear blast depiction/gore[it’s the nuke scene from Terminator 2])
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
always have been
Properly maillardized
I guess it’s more secure than a group chat
Not a cell phone in sight, just generals living in the moment ♥️
Hmmm, hey internal anxiety, what do you think is going to happen?
Ah… hmm, really? Ok, ok… well shit.
Don’t let me hold the lathe on this one: They’re going to announce an economic depression soon and ramp up the fascism internally. They’re getting the army prepped to join ICE in brutally deporting people they don’t like. Anyone that refuses during this meeting will be immediately replaced. Martial law will just be the start of the purge. Immigrants, sure, but also the homeless, trans people, leftists, sucdems, libs that actively protest, chuds that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and there’ll probably be a few more fash idiots “martyred” for being more useful dead than alive while they’re at it. My anxiety is telling me to spend all my money on fun shit while I can, but I’m going to try and ignore that urge.
Ok now let me give one of the best case scenarios:
The orders come as Hegseth has unilaterally directed massive recent changes at the Pentagon — including directing that the number of general officers be reduced by 20 percent, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile new order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.
Military mass layoffs babeeeeeeeeee.
Got to fire all the DEI hires.
Recruitment crisis? Just take the SSRIs and stimulants away from our finest White children and send them in.
Its me, I’m the Angloid taking SSRIs and stimulants
They’ll have to take em from my cold sad hands
Ignore that urge and save your money. Put it somewhere safe(er), all the better if a very trustworthy family member.
This isn’t alarming at all!
Pentagon about to start bombing CIA aligned cartels in Mexico
They were supposed to have those plans ready by September, per a former leak from Klippenstein.
But I don’t think that would require a meeting like this, after all, attacking Venezuelan fishermen didn’t
They were supposed to have those plans ready by September
Yeah, that’s what reminded me, although I think you’re right and it’s probably something else
There hasn’t been any consent building for such an operation and September is already over. It seems they are preoccupied with Venezuela. But when they start building consent against Mexican cartels, you know those strikes are ready to go.
I live near the border and am not excited at all for the chaos and military presence to come
So the generals are gathering in their masses?
OH SHIT!
Just like
with phat 
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