By David Glenn Cox
Any lingering questions about fascism? No longer any doubt remains where this fascist crazy train is going to take us then. It was a militarist fantasy complete with the flag from the movie “Patton.” (Trumpet’s sound!) How amateurs think professionals do things. “You guys are fat and don’t have any white power tattoos like me! Drop and give me twenty soldier! Drop and give me twenty admiral!
Was it a bridge too far? 86 proof Pete Hegseth was already under fire for the calling all cars aspect of the meeting. Calling people home from the Philippines and Africa to hear a speech from a low budget motivational speaker. The bargain basement preacher with a message of fitness, maleness and whiteness.
It short it was a bonafide act of an insane person. It was an insult to every American, not to mention to those in uniform. The hootspa, the gargantuan arrogance and ego on this one. This little Fox News pipsqueak wanna be pretender is going to tell battle hardened lifelong members of the US military how to act? Imagine, you’ve been in a new job for eight months now. And you give a speech to thirty-year members telling them how to act and what’s, what. There’s a new sheriff in town!
The first touch or inkling of mental distress was in his thinking it was possible in the first place. Eureka! I’ve got it! I’ll give a speech! I’ll get every admiral and general on the planet and put em all in one room. Yeah! That’s what I’ll do! Then I’ll turn on the old Peter dick charm! And I’ll turn them around! He sounded like a possessed aluminum siding salesman or a Timeshare representative on meth. The ersatz Fuhrer wanna be model oozing and yearning to get out through his pores. “Listen up, boys and girls! Listen to me!”
The speech was fully authoritarian fascist and advocated violating laws. Advocating for shoot first and ask questions later NKVD blue cap police policies. To say it went over poorly is the understatement of our times. Not since the Challenger accident has it ever gone worse. It went so bad; the Reich wing media are silent about it. Push it down the memory hole and make it go away! Show some Roadrunner cartoons and make the public forget.
But I’ve seen this behavior before in the business world. The company gets a new CEO and after ninety days. After he’s been there long enough to not be new anymore. He gives a speech about how we’re all going to have to tighten up and do a better job! Cause if you don’t, we’re going to have to make some changes. So, we’ve got to all pull together. And that means; Do whatever I tell you! And it never, ever works.
Basically, telling people they are the reason for the company’s dilemma and aren’t doing their jobs right. They are stupid and you have all the answers. They are the disease, and you are the cure. We’re going to crack the old whip! Get with the program or just get! It pits the boss or leader against the team as an adversary. “Shh, here he comes.” He’s looking to cashier people to make an example of them. Clam up! Don’t tell him nothing!
Let him ship the order to the wrong plant. Don’t mention the parts are on backorder till the last second. “Don’t help him fail, let him do that all on his own!” Okay, Mister Big stuff! Show us what you’ve got! 86 proof Pete Hegseth should resign and leave the country for Brazil or wherever Nazis retire these days.
But you know who just had to come along. Good thing he’s not too busy being president. But that’s just how grandpa is. He’s got to be included in everything. He’s got to be made to feel special, even if it’s someone else’s birthday. He’s just got to glom on to everything.
“I just thought I’d totter over from here wherever I was before and mumble a few words into the microphone. Boy, is it ever quiet in here? Is this thing on? The President of the United States showed clear and convincing signs of confusion and dementia. Not finishing his sentences and sentences without subjects or frames of reference. “We always use the good paper! I told them, what choo talkin bout Willis? Bring out the good paper!”
Do you hear the massive Republican silence? The vacuum of Republican politicians rushing to defend the president. Too afraid to criticize and too scared to go along.
During the era of Bush (the idiot) and Darth Cheney. The Administration had this great idea. Take some of our ICBMs and take the nuclear payload off and replace it with a conventional warhead. That way, with just the simple touch of a button. The president could bring death and destruction anywhere on the planet in sixty minutes or less.
The nervous Nellies and panty waists asked, “What will our nuclear adversaries think when they see an ICBM coming in their general direction?” Silly, we’ll just call them on the phone and tell them! Finally, an underground petition began to circulate stating if the Administration went ahead with the plan. There would be mass resignations at the pentagon.
The Bush cabal was smart enough to know that couldn’t be allowed to happen. The Trump Junta is not.
It is questionable if Trump even fully grasped what puddin-head putrefied Pete was even doing. If he had, he would not have shown up. It was a bad move politically because now Pete’s fallout is now Don’s fallout.
Pete Hegseth advocated for violating their oath to the Constitution and Trump seconded the motion. These are the very actions which poison Trump’s own base against him. Hegseth’s meeting will have the opposite effect unifying the military against the Defense Secretary and the President. Pete’s going to jail, and Trump is going??? Probably to a hospital some place.
The calls are rising for the 25th amendment. Trump has corrupted and co-opted the Congress and the courts. Now, they are trying to corrupt the military in the same way. The very same way as Joseph Stalin. The pentagon can remove a commander if they think he’s unfit. Not a suggestion, just a reminder.
“…being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences…” ― Albert Speer
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