by Pa Rock
Taxpayer
The US Department of Defense which now calls itself by its former name, the War Department, has spent millions and millions of our dollars this week to fly several hundred generals and admirals into the Washington, DC, area for what seems to be a pep rally led by former Fox weekend host and current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the ever-rambling Donald Trump.. The meeting is being held at a Marine Corps military base in Quantico, Virginia, thirty-five miles from the nation's capital.
The visiting military leaders had to be flown in from around the globe, fed, housed (and generals don't sleep in barracks!), and chauffeured during their brief trip back to the United States, a considerable expense and undoubtedly a logistical nightmare that left hundreds of other people having to step away from their regular duties in order to make the sudden and mysterious meeting happen.
The meeting is in progress and this blog post is being typed.
The highly tattooed Defense Secretary, Mr. Hegseth, told attendees that he was issuing new directives on physical fitness and grooming standards, and he said that he wants to return to "the highest male standard" for combat positions. Both he and Trump, who spoke after Hegseth, seemed to repeatedly attack the nebulous concept of "wokeness," and Hegseth specifically targeted the "insane fallacy" that "diversity is our strength."
Trump, who missed the opportunity to serve in the Vietnam War due to "bonespurs," threatened to fire top brass "on the spot" who disagreed with him.
Hegseth commented specifically on issues of shaving and weight. He seems to prefer his servicemen lean, mean, and clean shaven, including top leaders, and he particularly disparaged service members who are "fat."
Trump went so far as to declare that he was going to get rid of ugly ships.
Trump, who again managed to incorporate the subject of the pending Nobel Peace Prize, something he openly lusts after, into his remarks, also bragged about changing the name of the "Department of Defense" back to its original name of "War Department," and he prattled on about "Defense" being a woke name.
So far there have been no reports of any major new policies or programs or wars being announced, or of any discussions that would warrant the expense and danger of bringing so many military leaders home for a meeting - other than the change of the department's name from "defense" to "war," something neither Hegseth nor Trump have the power to actually do, and that has already been in the news for several weeks anyway. But just showing all of those military bigwigs who can pull their strings and make them dance into town like puppets may have been the point of the entire exercise. If they were not "awoke" to that reality before, surely they are now.
Our tax dollars in action!
1 comment:
I have now been teaching at the training center of our Foreign Ministry for would-be-diplomats like civil and military attachés.
My students include those from our ministry of defense.
Strangely, they have been having a similar meeting of their members called upon from around the world to gather in Tokyo. Our stupid people have been made to believe certain threats are imminent so that they could fight in a proxy war for the USA, which want to sell weapons. My country is doomed under a very unfair post-war rule by your country. 😢
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