I hear they're tough and gamey. A rotisseried hen, though...
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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Sid needs to meet a real military man... In a dark alley at midnight.
The European press seems to be running in overdrive to minimize President Trump in advance of next week's announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize.
-PJ
I think Trump wants to get in everyone’s face daily to reinforce his growing Teddy Roosevelt image.
The Guardian, A LEFT WING RAG.
DONT READ THIER BS.
Sidney Blumenthal... yeah... this is going to be objective.
My point was about the length of the speech. I read through it. It was tiring. In ten minutes, he could have given the broad principles and made it clear Hegseth was in charge.
“”Trump’s inability to understand their stolidity in the face of his provocations showed his incomprehension not only of the military but the presidency under the law. When he took offense at their stoney silence his rebuke disclosed that he saw them merely as his pawns. They were to his mind no different from his personal attorneys he had installed at the Department of Justice to do his bidding, including the suppression of the Epstein files.””
Dear Sydney,
You happen to be wrong on all counts. The only incomprehension is coming from you and your ilk. Trump understands full well ‘why’ the stoney silence. Because the Obama/Biden regime had purged the US military of the non-partisan generals and installed, instead, generals that “would” be pawns for the radical left Democrats. But you know that already, don’t you Sydney. You’re just doing what leftist do. Propagandizing and LYING.
Well the joke is on you and your leftist cohorts, Sydney. Trump will, over the next three years, proceed to reinstall real patriots of this nation into the US Military. Sit on that reality and take a spin.
Warmest regards,
APARL
American Patriots Against the Radical Left
I hear they're tough and gamey. A rotisseried hen, though...
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