Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.
“Trump administration fires all non-white chiefs in unprecedented purge of military leadership”
Fixed the title
This is to ensure the military won’t be able to stop them. Expect much more and worse soon
No doubt on the advice directly from Putin.
Waiting for Trump to put the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers into these positions.
So is this even legal? Are there seriously no checks and balances for this kinda stuff?
The own supreme Court, presidency, Congress and Senate majority. Which check and which balance do you prefer?
Dude, legality has lost all meaning.
Lol checks and balances is an illusion to keep the masses from revolting
Imagine helping to protect your country for 40 years, only to have a felon who is offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you. I predict that a white man will be offered to take Brown’s place and will be far less qualified.
That’s what all of this anti “DEI” (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is about, purging anyone who isn’t a straight, able-bodied white male.
I see this in every thread. He was a felon when he was running. People voted for a felon. The American people wanted a criminal in the white house. The guy all previous generals who worked with him warned against. 77 million people are responsible for these firings, plus whatever many stayed home and didn’t vote. His campaign promise was to replace everyone with loyalists.
I call for the dissolution of the secret ballot.
I want everyone to have to account to their vote to the country.
But then you can purchase votes and/or be pressured by employers to vote their way.
It’s not like the Trump voters are silently voting. They’re load and clear?
Careful. The Nazis may use this to decide you go to a camp in the future.
Who the fuck cares. Fuck the Nazis, I’m on paper saying as much and I’ll fucking end as many as I can if they want to try me.
Amen. It’s necessary.
I agree with the person you respond with. I haven’t voted for a Republican once and I’m very much here saying the people who didn’t vote “because the democrats didn’t give us a reason to” are as culpable… but I also live in a very red state and one of the few saving graces is in order to participate in the primaries one doesn’t have to be registered to a party. Something I’ve avoided, but also something the state is trying to get rid of. I’m seriously considering registering Republican just to keep targets off my back.
Plus I think we may be passed elections anyways so those not “of the party” are likely to be targeted anyways.
I don’t negotiate with, or knuckle under for terrorists.
*besides white and orange
offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you
This isn’t the problem here, it’s military leadership that may disobey him
Two things can be true. Remember the white supremacists he called “very fine people”? The “shithole countries”? Kamala Harris “turned black”? Remember when he claimed Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs?
Imagine helping to
protect yourcommit war crimes for country for 40 years,
I hope the joint Chiefs already had plans in place as a contingency for this. Now is the time for a military coup. The sooner it’s done, the less messy things will get
Every single member of the military I’ve talked to, somehow, for some reason seems to support Trump. I’m fucking stunned by it, but it seems he has their support.
it’s about a 50/50 at my local base. The vets, on the other hand, tend to lean towards tRUmp. I have never gotten it either. Our regional congressman, or ex now, never did jack shit for us. We were a tool to get her elected every time. She didn’t really do anything to help. When she left, what did they do? Idiots voted in another useless GOP.
When PACT was first shot down, I had to actually explain why that was a bad thing and that we needed it. They bought every last fake talking point. I had actually read the measure. Anyone that did had seen why it was a good thing.
We have a problem of propagation of fake news on bases. A lot of them show faux on the TVs in waiting areas. On top of that, it tends to be conservatives that join. Officers do tend to be less red. I really don’t know what would happen if the military actually fulfilled its oath to protect against the domestic threat part of our oath.
It is disgusting hearing fellow vets with the “I got mine” attitude, or other attitudes that are directly against the nature of service. That isn’t what we were serving for.
Also, the “I got mine” group is about to lose all of what they got.
This is a really dark thing to say and I might delete it if it’s too off base, but as a vet that decidedly does not support trump, I wonder if the ones that don’t are too suicidal
I would honestly not be surprised to see the suicide rate increase. Especially among the marginalized veterans. We’ve already seen a couple. I remember the one who jumped off of the VA building wherever they were at. It’s been mentioned a few times on the reddit vet board, and I’m noticing an increase in vets posting that they’re at their limit and contemplating ending it all.
My BIL is a vet as well. He was having a mental break last week. I was able to talk him into going to the ER. He’s getting better, but we’re all worried about events going down. We’re trying to prep as best we can. We feel as though something really bad is coming up. I told him to take a step back from the news and social media. I had to for a bit as well.
Yeah it’s tough out here for folks. I’m just waiting for when they’re going to stop covering my gender affirming care. Nothing yet, but it is inevitable. Your BIL is lucky to have you. I hope he’s able to get the help that he needs <3
Remember a few months ago when Trump said he needed generals like Hitler had
I was just talking to a friend yesterday who mentioned that the conditions for China to invade Taiwan will be optimal in three weeks based on the ocean conditions and ship movements.
I said even if Trump wants to be the “president of peace” and avoid interfering, the generals wouldn’t allow the inaction. I think my exact words were, “he would have to fire them all in the next two weeks.”
One absolutely doesn’t prepare such a large operation at such a short notice.
For an intelligence analyst, signs of an invasion are typically detectable 3 months ahead. If one performs a maritime invasion at a notice of weeks, failure is likely. (For reference, the D-Day needed years of planning and months of moving resources to work.)
Also, I trust that Taiwan has infiltrated China just as deeply as China has infiltrated Taiwan - they likely cannot keep massive secrets from each other.
You assume they haven’t already been planning for months, or years.
America is toast. Best we can hope for is a military coup. Military purge is in progress. At this point I think threatening to nuke Canada is the red line and only if prevailing winds are on my side.
Left and right are living in alternate realuties and this can only lead to violence. If the military chooses right then it’s world war 3.
The non-violent alternative is for the left is to do an economic coup by halting consumption.
halting all work and transportation too. EDSA worked because the protests blockaded the capital
In my dreams
"The removal of the second Black man to serve as America’s most senior general and the first woman to" …and there it is.
I genuinely hope racism and sexism are the primary motivations behind this because that’s pretty much the best case scenario
I get what you’re saying but the sexism and racism lead, in this case, directly to slavery, so maybe blow shit up before women and blacks become slaves. Again.
General Brown was abruptly dismissed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on February 21, 2025 by President Donald Trump. Trump subsequently announced that Brown would be replaced with John D. Caine, who did not meet the legal prerequisites for the position, and who, according to Trump, had pledged “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.”, while wearing a MAGA hat.
If they don’t meet the legal prerequisites, they don’t get the job. dafuq!
So a Conservative DEI hire?
In a manner of speaking, yes. Should bring this up in c/conservative. We’ve already established that an unelected H1B immigrant from S. Africa is dismantling our government.
Have you met this, or the previous trump administrations? The don’t care about the law.
Cool, cool cool cool cool…
This will turn out well…
Unprecedented? Not according to the playbook we’re following to the fucking ‘t’.
It’s absolutely batshit insane that we can see this happening in real time and have direct references to the third reich.
Every fucking week they do something and we can just pull an article about how the Nazis did it first.
What gets me is that they’re so lame doing it all. Like at least the nazi’s had slick uniforms and admittedly well designed iconography. You guys (Americans) are going through a Nazification by a bunch of losers
I mean, I was listing a few examples out in another conversation, and just off the top of my head… and I’m no historian or anything - I’m sure there are similar lists orders of magnitude more detailed floating around the internet somewhere. Anywho:
1921 - The Sturmabteilung – More commonly known as the ‘brown shirts’, militant branch of the Nazi party, loyalists who used violence and intimidation against opposing parties and targeted populations. Today we have MAGA or ‘red hats’ who use the same tactics but in a less organized fashion (arguably groups like the ‘Proud Boys’ are a closer match, but those are all just smaller subsets of MAGA). A few recent key highlights were the Jan 6 insurrection and the caravan that ran a bus of Biden supporters off the road; and of course countless individual instances of targeted bigotry.
1923 – Speaking of Jan 6, that was the modern equivalent to the Beer Hall Putsch, which was also an unsuccessful attempt at an insurrection.
1924 – Hitler was sentenced to a 5 year prison sentence for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, for which he only served 10 months; during that time he wrote his manifesto “Mein Kampf”. Our current president was recently convicted of 34 felonies, for which he faced zero consequences. Around that time, Project 2025 surfaced, which echoes many of Mein Kampf’s key points, most notably a disdain for democratic institutions and a call to restructure the government into a more authoritarian model made up of loyalists. Trump has also directly quoted Mein Kampf multiple times, and borrowed other language from Hitler like “Lügenpresse” (Lying Press) as “Fake News”.
1926 - League of German Worker Youth, or “Hitler Youth” – heavy exploitation of teen impressionability, especially teen boys, to woe support from a young audience. Today there are youth groups for just about everything, but leveraging insecurities of young boys played a role in the recent election, with exit poles showing Gen Z males leaning disproportionately to Trump.
1929 – The Great Depression left pretty much the entire planet dreaming of a more economically secure future, which gave opposition parties to the status quo a major point to criticize those currently in power; the Nazis were no exception, and gained a lot of their support promising an improved economy. The modern world economies were recently all hamstrung by covid, and remain weakened, once again giving opposition parties something to blame on their opponents – costs of groceries, housing, etc are a huge part of why people justified support for Trump (and more broadly, a global shift toward authoritarianism).
1933 – Enabling Act of 1933 – The gist of this one is that Hitler used their existing legal framework to completely undermine and rewrite their legal framework. He put out a rapid slurry of legal decrees and took a grand total of 53 days to basically destroy their constitution and grant himself absolute power. Today, we’re seeing a similar rapid-fire of concerning legislation from Trump via his executive orders.
1933 – Hitler appointed Chancellor by German president Hindenburg. Hindenburg was in his mid-80s at the time of that appointment. Trump may be more of a Hitler’s-enabler figure than an actual-Hitler, but it doesn’t take long to spot a younger vocal appointee that’s been handed power without the say of voters: today’s actual-Hitler could be Elon Musk. *as I understand it, voting for a party then appointment to chancellor was pretty standard for the German govt at the time, so this was very much Germany’s equivalent to Trump taking the majority vote.
1933 – Book Burnings – Basically material that didn’t align with Nazi ideals was made contraband. Today, we’ve seen a push to remove things like LGBT or civil rights content from public schools and libraries.
1934 – The Night of Long Knives – Purging of non-loyalists from government positions by execution. Today’s equivalent is happening right now, starting with the email that was sent to all federal employees essentially bribing them to resign, and threatening firing of those remaining as part of a restructuring of the federal workforce, and continuing with the gutting of non-loyalists from the military.
There’s also the seeming never-ending list of examples of minorities who support Trump.
You know. Its interesting. Like… really interesting. And sobering.
Reading history books about the rise of the nazis and the reich, and you ask yourself, “how could they have not known what was going on?” and “how could they let these things happen?” What were they doing just standing around? Why did they let this happen?
I understand that history is written by the victors. I understand that there is so much we will never know. There is nuance and circumstance and so many things that snowball into the most terrible things.
But now… im starting to understand the feeling of powerlessness now. The inability to change the machines that are in motion. The overwhelming dread.
I could make generalizations of the people of germany in the 1930s. But it would be disingenuous. And unnecessary. It feels like they are my neighbors now in 2025. They are angry, or apathetic, or ignorant. And the machine and history does not care about them in the slightest. History will be written by the winner and we are all going to be a broad generalization of what happens next. Your experiences will be written off as a success for the new order, or as a failure. If it is written at all.
History doesnt teach you to dwell on the minutiae and routines of the common man. It doesnt teach you that, despite everything you may do or what you believe, or how much you loathe the actions of your leaders, that you have so little sway. That you are powerless and ineffective.
I feel that and understand that now.
History books in school taught us the wrong lesson i think. But i dont think that we can learn this experience from a book or documentary. If it could, we would not be repeating it now.
That powerlessness you feel is by design, and every state technically wants you to feel some form of it, with varying intensity. It keeps people from trying to make things better without actually having to put effort in to preventibg them.
But there are things we can do, and we are not powerless. Get involved in your local communities while there is still time to organize: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451
That’s how everything in history has ever changed for the better.
I would argue that the powerlessness is not by design. Its a consequence. It is an immuno response.
It is my sincere belief that the social contract still exists and that, in the grand scheme, all this happening now is the symptoms of a fever.
The social contract is being tested. The system is working properly, if slower than we want. Our immune system is working correctly and the treatment is occurring in real time.
If it is a cancer, we will be dead soon. And if it is a bad case of the flu. Well in that case, our immune system will balance it out. I hope. We arent taking any vaccinations, and the ones we took in the 1940s have worn off.
This can be a booster shot, or a skipped immunization. But we actually have experienced this sickness before.
Dont get me wrong. We are sick right now. But our job is to be the antibodies and white blood cells that regulate the system. Ive still got hope in it.
Week…who the fuck you kidding… these Nazis are super meth fueled blitzkrieg their way literally everyday… we’re fucked
And so his purge of bipartisan and democratic leaders of the military allows him to ensconce lackeys that won’t question or refuse orders to invade other countries, like Canada.
People keep on saying that America won’t invade other countries, like Panama or Canada. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.
Anyone who thinks it won’t happen at this point is not paying attention or is fully balls deep in conservative media.
He’s also about to fire all the JAGS, so they can court-martial anyone who isn’t a loyalist and pardon war criminals who are.
It’s time to remind the military that the only moral response to an unethical order is to ignore it.
How many Silas Soule’s do you think are still in the military? Not many, I imagine
Can only hope they show at the minimum the same type of malicious compliance that South Korea did during their president’s attempted coup. But Americans don’t seem to value democracy as much, and haven’t had to keep fighting for it to have the fire to do such a thing.
What should they say? That we’re going to? That’s even worse.
I suppose you should say it’s a horrible thing we shouldn’t do.
This is an internal coup, there’s no doubt about it. I’m not sure how the oligarchs are letting this happen. It’s insane. Their regret will not make me happy.
It’s literally the oligarchs making it happen. Trump is not the main player here.
The oligarchy wants the collapse of the US so they can bring about their own style of techno feudalism and the “dark enlightenment”
It’s being funded by the Oligarchs, why would they want to stop it?
Oligarchs are not unified. Some companies are heavily disaffected like pharmaceuticals thanks to RFK. Tariffs will also hurt most businesses’ bottomline. Trump’s policies only benefit certain oligarchs (tech companies and Musk) so the other oligarchs who get pissed off will band together to support someone friendlier.
The oncoming recession is going to hurt most businesses.
But not the owners. They’ll be able to buy up those tasty, cheap stocks.
Exactly. In every crisis, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Out of the last several financial crises, who’s come out for the better? All I see is the widening of the gap between rich and poor.
Makes me wonder about the rhetoric against violence and how ‘we need to be above that’. Where has that message come from?
Two places:
1: We are supposed to be nice people. 2: The wealthy are evil, and want people to be too gentle to resist.
The rich amplify the ‘kind’ part of protests (MLK), while trying to stifle the ‘harsh’ (Malcom X, Panthers), to ensure that resistance is toothless. IMO, the answer isn’t to ditch ‘kindness’, but rather to understand protest movements as two pieces that work together…
Hammer, and Anvil. One is a promise of unyielding violence if things don’t change, while the other is a solid foundation that offers an alternative. Protestors shouldn’t seek peace at all costs, that isn’t how an effective negotiation works. Power only respects power.
When we protest, the understanding needs to be there that we’ll become militant if they ignore us. If we don’t get our way and just peacefully go home, there’s no point to protest in the first place.
Chaining ourselves to their gates, hunger striking, throwing bricks, burning effigies, etc – these tactics are often decried as not peaceful enough, but they show we’re not going to stop at words. That we’re prepared to escalate. We need to make them afraid. We need to show them if they don’t listen very soon, their heads will literally roll. And then we must be willing to follow through. If we don’t, we may as well start heiling now.
‘we need to be above that’. Where has that message come from?
From the same oligarchs who wants people to remain passive.
Where indeed.
And their employees worse.
They’re letting it happen because he is supporting the oligarchy, giving tax breaks to people who don’t need them, etc.
Wealth != intelligence
Just prepping the landscape for the Russian takeover 😅😢
Hey Americans if you were looking for a red line this should probably be it…
Too many Americans are still comfortable and have a job, food, shelter, etc. Things will probably change once all of these things kick into motion and cause huge recessions, but by that point it’ll be too late. That’s the paradox of prevention.
I think america is just dying with a whimper
Is this country worth fighting for? The people are…but this country?
And a lot of the people… Maybe not so much. They put us here.
Do you have any idea how much greater the harm across the globe will be, the more power these fascists get?
I don’t think anyone does. There are far too many people in Europe and otherwise who do not realize how much of an impact this will have on them.
I am not a big fan of American exceptionalism but the American empire has turned itself into the main character of the world stage and the fallout of it collapsing will harm a lot more than just itself.
Yes it is, warts and all.
