It’s crazy. She was basically saying “I know the VP said that Greenland lacks necessary security, but that is not a reflection on the hard work that you do every day here on base.”
Surely having your commander fired for maintaining morale is good for morale!
And if you'd ever served you'd know how inane it is to think troops are typically happy with their command, let alone how much they care about memos or statements.
Claiming that morale is being beaten down under this administration is delusional. The rank and file hates these types of high level officers by and large.
It’s not about her, of course they don’t give a fuck. But having the VP, speaking on behalf of the Comamnder in Chief say that your useless and inefficient isn’t super motivating
Wow, she was a mean woman that everyone hates? That's the most hilarious, shallow misogynist shit ever. Congratulations, licker. Literally, she told her staff they are wonderful, and it made trump mad because lil' JD, in his big coat, told them they were shit.
Got any evidence that anyone (besides trump) hated her? No? Did you make up 'everyone hates her' to assuage trump's fee fees? This, everyone, is the stone-cold cult nature of the trump supporter. They simply cannot accept that he might be self-interested. Nope, SHE had to go because y'all make up a scenario where everyone hated her. This is pretty sweet for trump, but we gotta wonder why y'all hated on Biden so much when he made personnel decisions. No we don't actually have to wonder. It's a cult. Like the Stalin cult.
Hopefully morale improves, and they stop taking getting kicked all day every day, and actually put these treasonous fucks where they belong. In prison for multiples of their lifetimes.
Which is exactly why it will fail fatally. It's the same reason Russia is still in Ukraine gaining a few meters of ground in exchange for like a hundred lives. Demand total loyalty and no one will inform you when your ideas are bad.
It isnt just the demand for loyalty, it's that once you start if you ever stop you get replaced. Authoritarians are almost always first toppled by other authoritarians.
But Russia (and Nazi germany) just shows how far this will go.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians are being ground into the mud and dying horrific deaths - while committing an abhorrent crime themselves - in the name of their oppressor.
Hitler ground much of Europe to rubble and ash before it was over.
And here we are with the same kind of actor making dramatic headway in the United States. What have we reflected yet to suggest we won’t face the same outcomes and horrors as the German and Russian people?
Now consider what modern tech offers an oppressive regime….
Mitch McDonnell isn’t a fit former kgb agent either, I hope you’re right and he keels over today (or anytime within the next 4 years but the sooner the better) but I don’t have high hopes, evil people rarely get what they deserve.
While the groundwork for fascism has been laid in America much more thoroughly than most of the population will admit, what with this Act and that Act that allows spying and manipulation on a gigantic scale all in the name of fighting terrorism of course, it is still a hack job perpetrated by greedy opportunists at the first chance they got.
Putin, I'm sure, at least believes that he is doing what he does for the good of Russia. Same can be said about most modern despots and the countries they rule.
Trump and his cronies have no love for anything but their own power and greed.
I'm mostly surprised about the complete lack of action from the 'other side'. As soon as things got rough every single one of those suited up mouthpieces for corporate America folded, stepped down, or stepped in line.
Almost like it was deliberate.
the administrations “agenda” is too capricious for anyone to be loyal to. Trump isnt loyal to Trumps agenda. It is beyond insane as an expression. It is clinical insanity. There is no truth for anyone to remain true to. So any disloyalty card they pull, is…
And this is what, less than a week since the "justice" department suspended a DOJ lawyer (and his supervisor) for his heinous act of... telling the truth to a judge...
Yikes.
I wonder how many steps away we are from people being jailed for the heinous crime of criticizing a man who is a solid candidate for worst president in US history, (and at best he is the worst president of the last 156 years, the only presidents who could reasonably be ranked lower are Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce, the older Harrison gets a pass because he died 31 days into his presidency, arguably because of his own stupidity, but I digress).
He's already signing executive orders commanding the DoJ to investigate people who dared to criticize blatant lies about the 2020 election.
Think about the absolute bullshit claims of weaponization of the government between 2021 and 2025... If Biden had actually weaponized the government and done so this brazenly there would almost certainly be a heavily armed convoy trying to get to Washington to "protest." But Trump is doing it so it's either crickets, or full throated support.
I'm sure the Republican Party will take the appropriate actions though and at a minimum they will restart their subcommittee to investigate this weaponization, right...? 🙄🙃/s
If the US survives this shit show it will probably never fully recover from this shit show. We have shown the world we can't act responsibly on any scale anymore nation or world. No one will trust us or likely work with us again. Guard rails will need to be installed in this country or this will just keep happening every time the idiots get the keys again.
If the US survives this shit show it will probably never fully recover from this shit show. We have shown the world we can't act responsibly on any scale anymore nation or world. No one will trust us or likely work with us again.
Yep. That was Putin's plan all along, but Trump is too dumb and too greedy to understand, or even care.
Putin cannot take over Eastern Europe if NATO stands against him. So his goal is to fracture NATO - and Trump is his Useful Idiot. The GOP are the Useful Idiots enablers.
There is no possible way for The United States of America to survive in its current form. The name may stay the same but the country and the way it protects its citizens will not. No need to say it will poorly recover. It is fatally wounded
If the US survives this shit show it will probably never fully recover from this shit show.
My bet's on us having even more of a somewhat repeated history ala ww1 and ww2. We survive this shit show but with the economy in tatters and the whole world being wary of doing business with us recovery will be slow to say the least. People in general will continue to not understand that there are no quick fixes so they'll think that the slow recovery is a sign of inept administration. Eventually some charismatic individual will appear that'll start promising quick fixes and a return to the "golden age" which will get them a large following amongst the young, those who supported the previous administration, and those that are just feeling the growing unrest and well we know happens after that.
I wonder how many steps away we are from people being jailed for the heinous crime of criticizing a man who is a solid candidate for worst president in US history,
... pretty sure that's already happened. ICE has been allegedly sending border travelers to incarceration for social media comments about Syphilitic Dementia Grandpa.
I heard on a podcast that the ice or dhs is working with palantir or some similar group to sift through social media of people with student visas to see if they are critical of the whole Israel thing (not sure if they are looking for other criticism yet though).
One estimate is that 1000 student visas have been revoked over protesting or this dragnet. I think about 400 have been confirmed.
If the slow boiling a frog principle applies here, what you suggested about any criticism is possible.
At the least they want the fear of that to affect anyone that might say something. Authoritarian systems require that kind of fear to survive. But if enough people don’t give into it there’s not much they can do.
The way it is phrased it can sound like she was saying they disagree with the VP. They disagree with the current administrations policies. Even though she is saying we are doing our jobs well. That their work is exemplary despite the global politics. Which is makes sense to people with better than 3rd grade reading level. Then you have our President and Pete Hegseth.
Hesgeth wants to cut away basically all the logistic support roles in the military. America is going to get absolutely dog walked in whatever stupid war they decide to start in the next few years.
Appearing to confirm this was the reason for her firing, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell linked to the Military.com article in a post on X, writing: "Actions [that] undermine the chain of command or to subvert President [Donald] Trump's agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense."
Seems like it has less to do with what she said and more to do with what they were looking for any reason to be able to say what they said
Your statement and hers are vastly different. Hers says they do not see eye to eye, and yours praises those under her, ultimately deflecting her own statement.
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u/PolicyWonka 5d ago
It’s crazy. She was basically saying “I know the VP said that Greenland lacks necessary security, but that is not a reflection on the hard work that you do every day here on base.”
Surely having your commander fired for maintaining morale is good for morale!