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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military

https://youtu.be/2sSRf7VOCmQ?si=_tKwc5JMDha2LPZj
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u/CankleDankl 18h ago

This'll go over great for the november elections

Actually that's probably the entire reason they're doing it. Put someone back under Elon's desk so he'll happily be a yes man for Trump again and run the propaganda machine on sXitter

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u/Izoliner 18h ago

They don’t care about the election, they already announced that a big chunk of the higher-ranking army leaders will be ousted before mid-terms. Meaning only those that will comply with Trump will remain to avoid any coup.

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u/ivan420 17h ago

Avoid or ensure?

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u/SwordfishOk504 16h ago

I think it's less about a coup to hold onto power (although maybe!) and might be more about just completely gutting the US's ability to project strength for its interests and its allies interests, much less defend itself domestically.

I don't think Trump's goal is to hold onto the US, I think his goal is to burn down the entire concept of the US as any sort of functional democracy on his way out the door to some remote island.

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u/Metalsand 2h ago

It's not Trump - he understands so little about the military that they have to explicitly tell people in uniform around him to not talk to Trump, because he will just take something they say and start making policy around it. He couldn't purposefully create or destroy a better military, and his first term didn't involve fucking with the military at all.

What's different, is that he basically put a grunt in charge of the US military strategy, who has then proceeded to do very grunt things, like blaming fitness standards on people who don't need to run as being why the military falls behind in some categories. But even when you ignore the culture war things, he makes decisions that are absolutely the kind of stupid shit that grunts would espouse. Such as advocating for steam catapults instead of electromagnetic catapults on carriers. There's a laundry list of reasons why, despite the growing pains, electromagnetic catapults are far superior, and the "proof is in the pudding" considering not a single nation on Earth is creating new steam catapults...

This kind of logic is what you espouse when you're a stupid grunt talking out of your ass, and not reading reports or weighing actual value of the systems in any scientific way.

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u/EricSanderson 16h ago

I wonder if Elon is gonna recommend that the military pay Elon a lot of money

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u/MirandaScribes 13h ago

Yeah gee I wonder

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 4h ago

But of course!

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 4h ago

Yeah, he can get a ton of money, and then he can turn around and pay the troops in Spacebux to spend in his corporate towns. It'll be great, won't it?

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u/Trelyrien 16h ago

Don’t forget, Elon confirmed hours before pretty much anyone that trump won. This is about cheating.

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u/itstawps 16h ago

They are absolutely doing to orchestrate an emergency and or just simply ignore it. Currently purging all military leadership that would oppose them.

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u/Octane_Au 15h ago

Exactly. Elon is being pulled off the bench to rig the elections again, double his net worth again, then he'll dip out again.

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u/CoronaMcFarm 15h ago

He will do just fine in his position at the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda

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u/Hockeymac18 15h ago

More like hack the voting machines

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u/Lambs2Lions_ 7h ago

I’ll be surprised if you win anything back at this rate. You’re all hoping the system isn’t rigged but it’s getting rigged in front of your eyes and the Democrat leaders are all quiet about it. Checks and balances my ass.

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u/Shigglyboo 7h ago

they're not worried. trump didn't seem worried about 2024 either. he said he had votes and it didn't matter if you voted or not. I expect even with him not being popular the votes will say he is. any anyone who says it's suspicious will be told "you sound like a maga". democrats will say it's time for unity and they'll shake hands with the cheaters.

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u/NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT 7h ago

They'll kill Americans before losing an election

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u/Working_Tackle5375 2h ago

or maybe this was the price to get Elon to help them cheat again (trump did say that the last election would be rigged).