Justin Glawe: Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship

[Nevilledog]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-military-speech-posse-comitatus

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday delivered a speech to the nation’s top generals and admirals that laid out his plans to re-envision the military as a ruthless fighting force that has no place for rules and norms like equal opportunity for women or even tolerance for “fat generals.”

“You kill people and break things for a living,” Hegseth said. “You are not politically correct and don’t necessarily belong, always, in polite society.”

Hegseth went on to say that the military would no longer be restrained by “stupid rules of engagement” — including, apparently, at home.

That chilling speech was followed by an even scarier one from Trump himself. After encouraging the conspicuously silent assembly of military leaders to applaud for him if they felt so inclined, Trump laid out a lawless, authoritarian vision for the armed forces, including fighting a “war from within” against the his domestic enemies.

In other words, boots on the ground — in places like Portland, not Pyongyang.

“Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic,” Trump told the generals and admirals in attendance. “That’s what the oath says — foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic.”

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[Klarkashton]

1. Rules of engagement/Geneva conventions are intended to work both ways. God help any GI that gets captured by an enemy

that isn't restrained by “stupid rules of engagement”

[Irish_Dem]

2. Hegseth is putting our troops in great danger.