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B.See

(7,205 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:35 PM Sep 30

Trump Threatens Military Brass with Demotions Career Damage

Well, I guess telling top military brass who find you LOATHSOME to leave, is ONE way to purge the military so you can replace them with jackbooted loyalist THUGS.

Trump Threatens Military Brass with Demotions Career Damage - UPI via MSN

(btw this was the original title of the article as it appeared in the source, UPI)

Trump, after lamenting that the room was so quiet when he walked in, told the meeting of top military leaders, "If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you just feel nice and loose, OK?"

Hegseth told the military officers that they had gone soft and that reforms would overhaul the Department of Defense inspector general and equal opportunity programs.

"We are overhauling an inspector general process -- the IG that has been weaponized," he said. "We're doing the same with the equal opportunity and military equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints, no more smearing reputations. No more endless waiting, no more legal limbo. No more side-tracking careers, no more walking on eggshells."

Hegseth told them to quit, if they disagreed. "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, you should do the honorable thing and resign."
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Trump Threatens Military Brass with Demotions Career Damage (Original Post) B.See Sep 30 OP
No wonder nobody applauded after TSF stopped bloviating. no_hypocrisy Sep 30 #1
will these sexual predators make rape great again? msongs Sep 30 #2
Absolutely. New motto... B.See Sep 30 #3
Kegsbreath: "Rape is back on the menu, boys!" Maru Kitteh Sep 30 #4
Precisely. B.See Sep 30 #5
"you should do the honorable thing and resign" drmeow Sep 30 #6

no_hypocrisy

(53,625 posts)
1. No wonder nobody applauded after TSF stopped bloviating.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:38 PM
Sep 30

It'd be like me offering my father dessert after he promised to ground me.

Maru Kitteh

(30,898 posts)
4. Kegsbreath: "Rape is back on the menu, boys!"
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:50 PM
Sep 30

THAT is what he means when he says “no more frivolous complaints.”

drmeow

(5,808 posts)
6. "you should do the honorable thing and resign"
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 07:01 PM
Sep 30

Kegsbreath knows nothing of honor! The most honorable thing to do is resist not resign. The Nazi should be the one to resign.

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