John Ullyot, who resigned last week as chief Pentagon spokesperson, predicted that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth will also be out of a job soon.

Ullyot called it a “strange and baffling purge” that has led to “a near collapse inside the Pentagon’s top ranks.”

And he warned that even more “bombshell” stories about Hegseth and the Defence Department are about to drop.

https://archive.ph/QMYVm

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    First cunt is out and it’s been under 100 days. The amount of infighting drama will only increase, and I wonder whether Trump will push Elona under the bus, too.

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      Gearing up to drop the DOGE, possibly. Caught a ton of messages from the RNC in my organization’s email filter today with a survey asking if people still support DOGE. Sounds like a narrative change, but who knows could just be a dumb newsletter.

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    He called himself a “strong backer” of Hegseth

    If Ullyot backs Hegseth then I don’t give a shit about anything else he has to say. Hegseth’s end nearing at this point isn’t a bombshell or surprise.

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    When it’s not working, it’s working. The destruction of American military might was the objective from the start. Just look at who benefits the most by this.

    It’s Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.

    When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it’s happening in real time before our eyes.

    All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they’ve cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.

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      If what they’re doing is trying to destroy the American military apparatus, then that is just objectively good for the world.

      But they aren’t. Last year’s military budget was 850,000,000,000. This year’s budget is $1,000,000,000,000. Do you destroy something by giving it more money?

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        Tbf not that hard to increase waste by 25%. Just think of how a new staff takes a long time to do easy work, causes rework, and generally sucks up the time of the people around them until they get the experience and skills they need to do that job.

        That’s the micro scale, but in a macro scale it’s the same. Cause more waste, and not only will the money matter less, the public interest will be deteriorated and the entire foundation compromised.

        Actually just check out the history of CIA ops around in foreign countries. Consider how many of those countries end up with a high inflation rate and that currency becomes more worthless in a deathspiral.

        I think it’s not a single factor like “it’s orchestrated by state nation x” but I fully believe if the US is going to make itself weak then those countries like potentially Russia or China will take full advantage of it and offer a helping push. They’ll do it subtly. So it’s hard to see. But it’s just standard politics, and it would be insane to think they won’t take full advantage of a situation.

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    I legit would feel a lot more comfortable about the national security of my country if the Pentagon were to require mandatory breathalyzer checks throughout the day for the leadership team.

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    “President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account,” he wrote

    Sorry, what?

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      God remember when he invited the man who was wrongfully arrested for breaking into his own home, over to the Whitehouse for a beer???

      Were they even wearing suits?

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        Better still, he invited the home owner and the arresting officer over:

        On July 24, Obama invited both parties to the White House to discuss the issue over a beer, and on July 30, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined Crowley and Gates in a private, cordial meeting in a courtyard near the White House Rose Garden; this became known colloquially as the “Beer Summit”.

        From Wikipedia

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    TBH, of all the unqualified and under qualified members of this cabinet, Hegseth has the be the most unqualified. I don’t know if Vegas has odds on which cabinet member goes first, but Drunk Pete has to have something close to 1:1.

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      of all the unqualified and under qualified members of this cabinet, Hegseth has the be the most unqualified

      I dunno. RFK is also a strong contender for that title.

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        the list is just so fucking long

        can we just try and name the most qualified, agree that they’re unqualified, label the rest as more than unqualified and call it a day?

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          Trump’s selection method was to find out who’s the absolute worst candidate for each job, then to hire them. It’s the dregs of the dregs.

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      You forgot that he is also one of the most loyal to Trump. In this admin, loyalty is above all else. It doesn’t matter how incompetent you are as long as you’re loyal.

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        That’s a fair point, but if he messes up enough, and more importantly embarrassingly enough, the loyalty won’t matter. Can’t make the King(s) look bad.

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          HitlerPig will never admit that his pick was anything less than the best idea ever. He will double, triple, quadruple down, and never fire him.

          And the besides his own raging ego, the primary reason is because he is counting on Field Marshall Hegseth to order the military to attack protesters next summer, to justify declaring Martial Law and suspending the midterm elections. He can’t afford to have the mid-terms, which will be a bloodbath, and give the Dems the majority in at least one chamber, and control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest power. Can’t have that, so they have to stop the election altogether.

          After multiple misteps that would get any other Defense Secretary fired, and probably prosecuted, HitlerPig will be able to hold it over Nazi Pete’s head, when he issues the command to murder American citizens in Tiananmen-style attacks around the country.

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          loyalty is resigning in disgrace and taking all the blame not only for your own fuck ups but also the kings so they can start fresh

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    Honestly, I wonder what these bombshells are supposed to be. The current administration goes with the worst possible scenario every single time.

    It also doesn’t help, that they get away with it all the time.

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    I still have not made up my mind…
    Is all of this because all of them are incredibly stupid OR is this by design, is all of this intentional.

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      Both. They’re fucking morons, manipulated according to the design of smarter men who wish us ill.

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        Don’t pretend like they’re going out of their way to hurt us. It’s just for profit. Capitalism needs to die and so does the class system.

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          Capitalism isn’t going anywhere when you have nearly a quarter of the working class who blame women for most of their problems rather then the guys fucking them over daily.

          Of course they’re going out of their way to hurt you lol. What kind of theory are you even reading? Exploitation of working people and extracting as much value from them as possible is the definition of Capital. They will burn you and your countrymen to keep themselves warm.