Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has become “emboldened” after ousting some of the military’s most senior officials as he moves to “consolidate control” at the Pentagon, according to a report. The firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan and the Army’s chief of staff Gen. Randy George was part of Hegseth’s reported pursuit to “consolidate control” of the Pentagon, leaving him “more confident than ever in his job,” The Washington Post reports. Despite concerns from those in President Donald Trump’s inner circle, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Hegseth appears to have secured his standing within the administration amid a turbulent first year in office, the newspaper reports. “All the power has been taken away from the uniforms and 100 percent gone to the political appointees,” one official told the Post. Phelan was removed on April 22 shortly after voicing concerns to lawmakers regarding what he characterized as a “land grab” by Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, according to the newspaper.
This consolidation of control is to overturn the election results later this year in a coup.
Good thing we’re all just going to sit here and watch it happen.
It’s time for the military to honour it’s pledge then, send every tank, plane and ship to Washington and start shooting and don’t stop until they surrender.
Then move on to the regime hangers-on, backers and supporters and hunt them with drones, dogs and special forces, let musk and theil know there is nowhere in the universe they can hide, take everything they own
I’m firmly of the belief only a military coup and a rewrite of the constitution forcing the states to sign at gunpoint if necessary will fix America.
MAGA is a terrorist network, take the country back from them.
What was that about the army being politically neutral?
This will be quite the ride in 2028 when trump won’t go away.
It won’t get that far. They’ll seize control this year.
Held up in his ballroom fortress calling the shots and sending his fans to their deaths?
Where air goes in so can aerosolised fentanyl
How you doing Republicans, feeling safe in this world you created?
They can’t hear you. They are currently doing Trump’s “beat off two dudes” dance.
Gotta fill those spots with more sycophants and morons. Gotta love the fact if some other country did decide to attack us, the mushroom-fluffers would have no idea what to fucking do. They’d probably end up bombing US, the citizens.
Fucking disgraceful. Hope the military is happy that they get to go fight fake wars for the Epstein class and die to cover up the pedophiles in office.
The only competence these people have is creating fascist power structures, because as psychopaths, that (and not competence in any meaningful field) is the one thing they’ve been training their whole lives for. Their fragile egos combined with sociopathic fixation on authority and loyalty means that everything needs to be a performative demonstration of masculinity and power.
Or more succinctly: They get off on people having to do what they say, preferably against their will, and we all have to suffer so they can feel good.
All of these actions just self-identify Hegseth and the rest of Trump’s gallery of rogues as weak, pathetic, sadistic children.
Drug test Pete! Dude is drunk off his ass 24/7 and gets to call in drone strikes.
Yes but he relies on the military to issue those strikes, if he has no support in a military committed to standing up to tyranny who is to say he won’t one day be the target.
The Untied States continues to march towards dictatorship. If only there was some way it could have been foreseen.
