WaPo wants everyone to know they are complying with Hegseth’s directive that credentialed news orgs only print what the Pentagon tells them to print or be blacklisted.

Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.

It's easy to make fun of Trump and his administration. Time and again they've shown themselves to be stupid, incompetent, and lazy. But this meeting gives me the creeps. Trump's standard method of operation is to have his flunkies brazenly break the law and see what happens. What they are up to?

so the question is are we invading venezuela, china, or a US state?

Ben Norton's anaylsis of this ghoul is that he's a religious fanatic who thinks he's waging a Holy War against Communist China. So these actions he pulls is a concerning

Chat are we cooked?

How's the pizza index doing?

Night of long knives?

This isn't alarming at all!

No idea what's coming out of this, but the US empire is running out of time. Every day China grows stronger and the US capability to restrain the world through lawfare and sanctions grows weaker. The hammer is increasingly the only tool left, but it has a shelf life too, as the US's enemies continue to develop their defensive capabilities. In a little over a week, Iran was able to land significant blows against 'Israel,' and Iran has only a fraction of the capabilities of China or Russia. They need to do something, and they need to do it soon. The question is what?

The article suggests they might focus inward, shifting their focus from China as a primary 'threat,' to domestic radicalism, but this would be a terminal mistake. For the empire to literally turn its guns inward and shoot itself in the foot at this moment of precarity would seal its doom. It would only accelerate the decline of the US's economic, technological, and cultural power, while granting a repressive to its enemies. Liberalism as we know it has already been defeated. The right holds more power now than they have in generations. They already have millions of cops to maintain order domestically, and there is no armed insurgency justifying an "all hands on deck" military response (let alone a single spec-ops unit) to speak of. There is absolutely nothing gain from doing this.

If they are "smart," this meeting is being held in preparation for a foreign intervention.

Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States.

Does this mean the military is going to be used inside the USA, on their own population, on a previously unseen scale?

I don't know how accurate this Bluesky comment is.

This has basically never been done.

I guess it’s more secure than a group chat

Time to sign another pledge?

hope the building implodes for no discernable reason

Hmmm, hey internal anxiety, what do you think is going to happen?

Ah... hmm, really? Ok, ok... well shit.

Don't let me hold the lathe on this one: They're going to announce an economic depression soon and ramp up the fascism internally. They're getting the army prepped to join ICE in brutally deporting people they don't like. Anyone that refuses during this meeting will be immediately replaced. Martial law will just be the start of the purge. Immigrants, sure, but also the homeless, trans people, leftists, sucdems, libs that actively protest, chuds that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and there'll probably be a few more fash idiots "martyred" for being more useful dead than alive while they're at it. My anxiety is telling me to spend all my money on fun shit while I can, but I'm going to try and ignore that urge.

"Pledge your eternal loyalty to emperor Trump.or you're fired"

Quantico Virginia

Oh boy we kicking off WW3 early

long ago are the days when a guy like this could fire 40% of the top generals for being "woke" and they could immediately leave, gather their loyal officers up, "raid" their armories and march on D.C.

instead they'll just pout, go home, call their lawyers and worry about their pensions. a few months from now we'll have humvees at every intersection, checkpoints outside every city

Surprise Pizza Party!!!

Sources indicate that Hegseth called the emergency meeting because he glued his balls to his butthole again, and now he can't take a dump because his balls are blocking up his butthole

H prob just dm’d his boys while drunk. We all do it

Remember on September 10th 2001 when Rumsfeld held a mandatory meeting of the Pentagon & DOD to announce a 'radical new reorganization' of state defense, meaning more contracting, less transparency, a change in the roles it played, more internal surveillance.

This feels like that, just done even more incompetent and egotistically.

Whether they just use the recent years of lead stuff or seal the deal shortly after with something new, I'd put money on massive further mercenarification of the military (Palantir for surveillance, digital repression, mercs on the streets), deployment into new more repressive roles within the US, and either an explicit or implicit loyalty demand. Shortly followed by some of the most repressive executive orders and legislation to date.

So the generals are gathering in their masses?

Pentagon about to start bombing CIA aligned cartels in Mexico