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IT is hard telling what this ass sucking, neo-nazi, fascist fotze drippings Sec of Defense petie lola hegseth has planed for this meeting but I have some ideas.....Purge.....Long Knives.....Reichstag Fire.....Military Coup.....Project 2025, and reading through the 4100+ comments posted on this article I am not alone in not trusting him, most people, especially members of the military and their families, do not either. From the Washington Post, followed by a couple of articles and a video on hegseth from Tag24 and CBS News. ALSO, it is interesting NOT MY pres drumpf / trump didn't sign the executive order changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War (secondary title) till 5SEP25 but on the memes from May 2 & 3 2025 below DOW is used, so this was in the works but not publicised for months.....
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. It was issued earlier this week, against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown, and as Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress among his opponents who fear that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution.
In a statement Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell affirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but he offered no additional details. Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no security concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.
It was not immediately clear whether the White House is involved with the meeting or if President Donald Trump also intends to be there. A spokesperson referred questions to the Pentagon.
There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, each of these officers oversees hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.
Top commanders in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region are among those expected to attend Hegseth’s meeting, said people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the issue. The order does not apply to top military officers who hold staff positions.
“All general officers in command in grade O-7 through O-10 and their general officer senior enlisted advisers are directed to attend within operational constraints,” the order states, according to one person who saw a copy. O-7 through O-10 refers to the military’s classification for all generals and admirals.
None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns.
“People are very concerned. They have no idea what it means,” one person said.
Others expressed frustration that even many commanders stationed overseas will be required to attend Hegseth’s impromptu summit, with some questioning the wisdom in doing so. “It will make the commands just diminished if something pops up,” a defense official said.
The Defense Department possesses and often uses highly secure videoconferencing technology that enables military officials, regardless of their location, to discuss sensitive matters with the White House, the Pentagon or both. Another person said ordering hundreds of military leaders to appear in the same location is “not how this is done.”
“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” this person added, using an abbreviation for general officer or flag officer.
“Are we taking every general and flag officer out of the Pacific right now?” one U.S. official said. “All of it is weird.”
On Capitol Hill, where Hegseth’s unorthodox stewardship of the Defense Department has rankled members of both political parties, lawmakers also appeared caught off guard. Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House armed services committee did not immediately comment on the development.
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 through a sweeping consolidation of top military commands, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.
The unusual order to show up at Quantico next week coincides with efforts by Hegseth to exert greater influence over who gets promoted to be a senior military officer, multiple officials told The Post. Even at the one- and two-star level, the secretary’s team is scrutinizing old relationships, and what officials have said or posted on social media, as they determine whom to send forward for a higher rank or assignment.
The effort has had a chilling effect on rising officers, people familiar with the matter said, as multiple officials have expressed unease about the initiative and questioned whether it will erode the military’s ability to stay insulated from the nation’s toxic politics. Others have said such pressure would drive some rising officers to leave, resulting in enormous losses to the Pentagon in terms of the time and money spent training those leaders.
Top administration officials also have been 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. Some officials familiar with the order to travel said they thought that may come up.
Hegseth’s directive in May to slash about 100 generals and admirals also has generated concern among top military leaders. He called then for a “minimum” 20 percent cut to the number of four-star officers — the military’s top rank — on active duty and a corresponding number of generals in the National Guard. There also will be another 10 percent reduction, at least, to the total number of generals and admirals across the force.
Last month, Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve; and Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command. No specific reasons were given in those cases.
The firings were the latest in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks. Since entering office, the Trump administration also has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.; the chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; and the Air Force vice chief of staff, Gen. James Slife among others. The list includes a disproportionate number of women.
Gen. David Allvin, the chief of staff of the Air Force, announced last month he will step down in November, after he was asked to retire.
The Washington Post wants to hear from Defense Department civilians and service members about changes within the Pentagon and throughout theU.S. military. You can contact our reporters by email or Signal encrypted message:
Washington DC - Donald Trump's cabinet pick, Pete Hegseth, is facing a damning new report regarding his alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct, and financial mismanagement that has led him to lose jobs in the past.
On Sunday, The New Yorker published a report detailing a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint filed in 2015 by several former employees of Concerned Veterans for America – a nonprofit group Hegseth served as president of.
The report claimed Hegseth would get so drunk that he "needed to be carried out of the organization's events" and described one incident where he "had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team."
The report also claimed that Hegseth and other male members of his management team "sexually pursued the organization's female staffers, whom they divided into two groups – the 'party girls' and the 'not party girls.'"
Hegseth was forced to step down from the nonprofit over "concerns about his mismanagement and abuse of alcohol on the job."
The New Yorker also found that Hegseth led another nonprofit called Vets for Freedom, which "ran up enormous debt" under his leadership.
The new details about Hegseth's past come after Trump nominated him to be Secretary of Defense, which will soon require confirmation through a Senate vote.
CBS News has confirmed that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, was forced to step down from two nonprofit veterans groups due to alleged financial and sexual misconduct. Last month, allegations surfaced that the former Fox News host sexually assaulted a woman in 2017. He denies those allegations and was never criminally charged.
Pete Hegseth's nomination met with controversy
Hegseth's appointment as defense secretary has been facing heavy scrutiny, as he has also been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017, which he has vehemently denied.
Critics have also drawn attention to his political views, citing his extremist positions and tattoos that have been associated with White Nationalist movements.
While many have argued the allegations against him are enough to disqualify him from the position, Trump has stuck by his pick and has been rallying support with fellow Republicans.
Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as he is scheduled to hold meetings with Republican Senators Tedd Budd of North Carolina, Jim Risch of Idaho, and Eric Schmitt of Missouri.
Washington DC - The Department of Defense (DOD) recently shared a meme on social media in praise of its leader, Secretary Pete Hegseth, but it didn't go over with users as well as the department expected.
On Friday, the DOD Rapid Response X account shared a cartoon image of Hegseth standing with his hand raised defiantly in front of a trio of evil drug smugglers, along with the caption "100% Operational Control."
The image appears to be inspired by heroic realism – a form of art typically used throughout history for political propaganda, which is mostly associated with socialist and fascist regimes.
The post has gotten a significant amount of criticism, with one X user describing it as "Next level cringe that doesn't actually accomplish anything."
But what caught the attention of most users was the fact that Hegseth's hand in the image was missing its pinky – a clear indication that it was created using artificial intelligence.
Tons have since shared their own AI-generated versions of the image. Republican Congressman Jack Kimble shared one featuring Hegseth, who has a reported history of excessive alcohol use, holding liquor bottles, with the added caption ".10 Blood Alcohol."
Hegseth has been facing heat in recent weeks after he was caught twice discussing military operations in unsecured Signal chats.
It was heavily speculated that President Donald Trump would fire Hegseth over the mishap, but he has since dismissed such rumors as "FAKE NEWS."
A dear friend shared via IM with me and a group of our friends a bumper sticker she saw encouraging people to pray for NOT MY pres drumpf / trump as in Psalm 109:8, "Let his days be few"....I reminded my friends this is the same 'prayer' republicans were encouraged to pray after Pres Obama was elected. I told them it was wrong then, it is wrong now and I can not pray for the death of anyone no matter how evil I think they are. I will actively participate in the opposition to the authoritarian theological oligarchy the NOT MY pres musk, NOT MY pres drumpf / trump, NOT MY vp vance, their administration and the gop / greed over people-republican party plans to impose on America, destroying our democratic Republic a la the heritage foundation cabals project 2025. I will not abandon my Christian faith to lower myself to the level of those now in power. Here is the article from VOX on how the gop got drumpf / trump, though I must point out that the gop / greed over people-republican party has been working to destroy our Democracy since they nominated barry goldwater for president in 1964.
Sen. David Perdue is the junior senator from Georgia. He’s known in the Senate as a nice, modest guy — not one of the bomb throwers, by any means.
Here is how the prayer he encouraged the audience to make for Obama continues:
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
You don’t have to believe Perdue literally wants Michelle Obama to be a widow to think that invoking this psalm toward the president of the United States is, perhaps, a bit inappropriate. (Perdue isn’t the first to suggest Psalm 109:8 is an appropriate prayer for Obama; it’s become a meme in hard-right circles, where you can buy bumper stickers and shirts that say the same thing.)
The Republican Party acts shocked by Trump — like he is some alien parasite who has taken over their party without warning or precedent. They shouldn’t be so shocked.
Comments like Perdue’s are the context in which Trump ran. For years, Republican voters have been told that the president is a Muslim, a Kenyan, a socialist. They have heard Newt Gingrich fret over his “Kenyan anti-colonial mindset,” Mitt Romney worry that the United States is “inches away from no longer being a free economy,” and, yes, Donald Trump argue that he’s hiding the true circumstances of his birth. They were thrilled when Ben Carson called Obamacare “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery” and pleased when Ted Cruz agreed to look into whether Obama was planning an armed takeover of Texas.
And those examples are limited to national leaders in the Republican Party. The rhetoric coming from state senators, talk radio hosts, and local Tea Party chairs is much worse. Grassroots Republicans have been told for years that the struggle with Obama is existential and civilizational, that the disagreements are fundamental and scary, that the future of the country they love dearly is in doubt.
Republican leaders are not responsible for all of this rhetoric, but they have consistently indulged it and rarely challenged it. Rather than fighting the hysteria, they have sought to harness it for their own ends.
In some ways, the strategy has worked. Republicans control the House and the Senate. But they face a base continually angry over their inability to stop Obama, and one that punishes them severely when they try to compromise. And now the base has lost faith in their quisling leaders and turned to a guy who seems like he really won’t give up, who seems like he really isn’t cowed by the media or Washington elites, who seems like he believes what they believe and recognizes the stakes are high enough that something needs to be done about it.
Or, as Jamelle Bouie wrote:
So, in case you missed it, a sitting U.S. senator just asked an audience to pray a death curse to the president.
In Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ follow-up, Mickey is resurrected ad infinitum, humbly accepting the pain, suffering, and dehumanization inflicted on him. Remind you of anyone?