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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Disaster for the Left.
Funny, ‘twasn’t a disaster to those of use who are or were military. Real military, that is, not a woke little wimpo turd.
After all these years Sid is still an a$$hole
Sid The Squid - “I Hate Republicans, But Love To Plant My Face In Hillary’s Manpackage”
The Left spends a lifetime pooping on our military and suddenly knows what is good for them.
Trump should have taken no more than 10 minutes to introduce his DOD and then left the stage,
HogWash Sidney...
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Trump gave the message “Warriors!”
The crap is Over! Get Back to Work!
Blumenthal pretends not to know that Trump wanted the leftist social warriors to react so they could be culled.
They writing indicates they dont know very much about actual dictators.
“ the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces in order to have them belittled as failures and humiliated for their slovenly personal appearance”
What if it’s true?
Do Generals even clap and react at something like this, or is this their normal behavioral tradition?
For some reason Blumenthal reminds me of the afterbirth of a flatulent pig. “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.” The military, like every other government agency, has been corrupted over the last decades. Mark Milley is a perfect example. I spent 21 years in the military and I can distinguish between a true leader and a link in the anal-nasal chain.
The speech was awesome. It was PATTONESQUE!
The foolish Guardian author is making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Trump attended a military academy prior to entering college. I believe he knows what is required of the military.
Rush called him Sid Vicious.
It is very gratifying watching these Bill Clinton troglodytes gnash there teeth, trembling from knowing what’s to come. The Obama/Biden woke degenerate tranny military is at an end. They won’t be around to save or defend all the communist pukes that are rotting USA institutions and society.
Blumenthal knows full well that his days are numbered. The guillotine blade is being sharpened. /spit
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