Posted on 10/05/2025 5:12:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The president of the United States seemingly does not understand what the military is for
No dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces in order to have them belittled as failures and humiliated for their slovenly personal appearance, while degrading whole classes serving in the army, navy and air force degraded as inferior and unworthy. No dictator has ever pleaded for generals and admirals to applaud his remarks, followed by deafening silence.
Donald Trump is used to entering to the din of a mob jazzed up with YMCA. “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” Trump said when he addressed the country’s highest-ranking military leaders at the Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday. “Don’t laugh. Don’t know if you’re allowed to do that.” He was trying to force some tittering, an old lounge act gag to rouse a dead audience. “You know what? Just have a good time.” The comedian who felt his routine was bombing before he even began sought to relax the room. Then Trump instinctively replaced the ingratiating gestures with threats. “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.”
Trump’s syllogism perfectly encapsulated his psychology of victimhood and politics of retribution. If you do not bend the knee to him, he is personally wounded. Your failure to worship him must be punished. Your slight of his majesty condemns you to ruin.
Trump cannot grasp that the silence of the commanders during his unprecedented address to them demonstrated their highest duty. Their discipline showed fidelity to uphold their oath to the constitution. By their stillness they presented themselves as models for the rest of the...
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Sidney Blumenthal AND the Guardian….
Gack
Sidney Blumenthal and Andrew Weissmann are twin brothers from a different mother.
I blocked The Guardian on my social media.
Fake news concocted by leftist eurotrash.
The speeches didn’t move the needle. They were pure filler. Nobody got fired, no one was made an example. Nothingburger. I was hoping for 4 star blood. Patton Schmatton.
Deep State scum!
Pardon me, but I have known more than a few a$$holes in my time.
I prefer any of those a$$holes over Sid Vicious
I just said the same thing to myself.
Good old Sidney Blumenthal. Has he stopped beating his wife yet?
"Blumenthal Drops Libel Lawsuit Against Drudge:
Former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal dropped a $30 million libel suit against Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge and agreed to pay Drudge's side $2,500 for travel costs. Blumenthal filed the suit in 1997 after Drudge reported a story that suggested Blumenthal beat his wife, Jacqueline."
And then of course there's the time that the Romanian Hacker Guccifer hacked Blumenthal's email account, and uncovered Sid's emails to Hillary's private server, reporting on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya.
Good old Sid. What a piece of shit he is.
You insult Mr. Whiplash.
Perhaps they can aks Iran if......no....wait.....
LOL Sidney Blumenthal LOL
(exact same reaction just reading the title)
if the Manchester Guardian HATES the speech, then you just know the speech was directly on target!
So the CIC, told the top brass to shape up ! Good for him.
Sidney Blumenthal an avowed lefty Trump hater.
What Blumenthal does not understand, or does understand and simply doesn’t want to mention because it takes away from his political diatribe, is that a dictator wouldn’t sit and talk to his flag officers, he would shoot or imprison those who did not agree with him. We need to look no further than what Joseph Stalin did, but he was not the first nor the last to do such things.
Blumenthal is a nasty, biased, uninformed, prick.
Sidney Blumenthal writing in The Guardian. A perfect storm of idiocy and dishonesty.
Obviously something a dictator would NOT do. A dictator would kill off the officers he deemed to be disloyal to himself and would not have brought all together for a deserved dressing down.
They also were the ones who screwed the military beyond belief A lot of good Generals are relieved that our military's national nightmare is coming to an end and a lot of hard charging colonels are excited about an impending bump in pay grade.
One thing I really missed on Hegseths' speech a promise to reform the JAG corps and purge the woke monkey wrenchers who have taken control of our military justice system and politicized it.
I was encouraged by Hegseths promise to purge the fitness reports of otherwise excellent officers who have received BS infractions imposed by the woke JAGs
Exactly. I haven’t talked to a vet yet who was not enthusiastic about the speech.
Just Leftist Agitprop.
No dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces in order to have them belittled as failures and humiliated for their slovenly personal appearance, while degrading whole classes serving in the army, navy and air force degraded as inferior and unworthy. No dictator has ever pleaded for generals and admirals to applaud his remarks, followed by deafening silence.So it follows: Trump is not a dictator!
Q.E.D.!
Regards,
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