I’m reposting here this summation by Glee Violette of Trump and Hegseth’s meeting with top military leaders. It is beyond concerning. It’s a call and plan for full-scale use of the military to suppress any protest, opposition or voices of those the regime finds a threat. And a threat to them is anyone who opposes them in any fashion. It’s a call to use the military against “the enemy within”, which means anyone in the U.S. who doesn’t submit to fascism. It’s a move to fully line up military leaders with this mission or to force them out.
This is a huge step in the consolidation of fascism which would mean a different, violent form of rule. A dictatorship where the rule of law is destroyed and there are no rights of assembly, due process or freedom of speech. A dictatorship where science, truth and logic are corrupted, turned inside out, and completely suppressed. A dictatorship where non-white peoples are subject to vicious and open racist assault and suppression and imprisonment, beyond even the worst of what has taken place previously. A dictatorship where transgender and LGBTQ folks are surrounded, suppressed and assaulted. And where humanity in the world as a whole are subject to ridicule and murder at the whim of Trump.
This is not just spectacle or “a distraction”. It’s the imposition of a new, vicious form of rule, dictatorship. This imposition has been in process since Trump 2.0 took office, but this is a huge leap to finalizing it and consolidating it as the established form of rule. And no, the 2026 elections will not save us. There will be no free and fair elections. Not even as “free” as previous ones even with their suppression of millions of voters and gerry mandering.
Our only hope is to gather in millions in the towns and public squares throughout the country, non-violently and not leave. Oct. 19 No Kings Day and Nov 5th Refuse Fascism Call for Washington D.C. are key nodal points but the response has to happen now.
-CJ
Glee Violette
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BREAKING: Before leaving the White House for his speech at the Quantico base on Tuesday, Trump told reporters, “I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m going to fire ‘em right on the spot.”
His message AT the assembly? That the US is fighting an “invasion from the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.”
Trump made VERY clear who he was referring to. He went on to single out large, Democratic-run cities as targets for a federal crackdown, naming Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles as examples of places he deemed “very unsafe.” “We’re gonna straighten them out one by one. And this is gonna be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within,” said Trump.
“I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor.”
No, a Democratic Governor.
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And how do Trump and Hegseth plan to deal with “The Enemy” in this war going forward?
Hegseth made his NEW rules clear. “We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country,” he declared. “No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”
And, again, WHO is “The Enemy”?
“It’s a war from within,” said Trump.
Neither Trump nor Hegseth referenced a war against any other people or nation. Only our own people, and our own nation.
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Hegseth started his address by making it clear only white males have a place in HIS military. He said that everyone, regardless of gender, will have to pass the SAME physical requirements.
DEI and “woke” regulations are banned.
He defended his firings of flag officers, which included the top U.S. general, who is Black, and the Navy’s top admiral, who is a woman. He said the officers he relieved were part of a “broken culture”.
“Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the ‘Woke Department,'” Hegseth said. “But not anymore,”
“If the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, you should do the honorable thing and resign,” he said.
“HONORABLE?” If something is making your “heart sink” it most definitely is NOT “honorable”.
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But the MOST important thing, as far as Hegseth himself was concerned, was the policy change he is making for his OWN benefit.
He wants to “encourage risk-takers” by not making them accountable for their “mistakes”.
He said that by ending “equal opportunity programs” and overhauling the Inspector General’s office, he would end discrimination complaints and other “frivolous complaints.”
“No more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints, no more smearing reputations,” he said. Personnel records will “allow leaders with forgivable, earnest, or minor infractions to not be encumbered by those infractions in perpetuity.”
Bloomberg News notes that, “Hegseth himself is the subject of a current investigation by the Pentagon’s Inspector General for leaking classified information in a Signal messaging chat that inadvertently included a journalist.”
Hegseth is now about to direct a war on our own soil against our own people. He is not planning to be accountable to ANYONE.
AND, he wants to make sure that the officers who obey his potentially illegal commands do not have to worry about being accountable, either.
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Trump followed Hegseth by opening with, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.”
He made some short comments echoing his “War Secretary”, and said he “had their backs. 100%”. Even though he got a deferment when he was called to serve with them in Vietnam. But that’s OK. Now that he does not have to serve at all, he is committed to making the military stronger, faster and fiercer “than ever before.”
And then, of course, he launched into his usual rally-style rambling rant about himself.
Making the same false claims about ending more world conflicts than any other president, claiming personal credit for a rise in enlistments, claiming ALL the credit for “his” creation of the U.S. military’s Space Force and blaming Biden for the bad deal Trump himself made with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders.
In fact, he made sure the military leaders knew that their allegiance should be ALL about politics. “The past administration — they did not treat you with respect. They’re Democrats. They never do,” said Trump.
“We won every swing state, we won the popular vote. We won everything. You have to take a look at the map. It’s almost entirely red except there’s a little blue line on each coast. And I think that’s gonna disappear, too,” said the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States of America.
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It was a different message than the one Trump told Reuters he was going to give: “I want to tell the generals that we love them, they’re cherished leaders, to be strong, be tough and be smart and be compassionate,” Trump said in the Reuters interview on Sunday.
Compassionate??? While carrying weapons to confront our own citizens in our own cities, under Trump’s new authorization to use “FULL FORCE”.
Right.
In his first term, Trump wanted the military to shoot BLM protesters. General Milley refused.
Now Navy commanders are obeying his orders to blow up small boats and kill unknown people in international waters.
Will National Guard and Marine commanders obey his orders to shoot the same “Venezuelan Drug Runners” in our own cities?
Will they obey his orders to shoot ANY “illegal aliens” or “gang members” or “criminals”?
Will they obey his orders to shoot US?
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Trump said today that “we are under an invasion from the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.”
Hegseth said, “We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”
This was a bald-faced open statement of not only supremacist rhetoric, but a statement of the intention to use violence to achieve their agenda.
Trump named Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles as examples of places he deemed “very unsafe.” “We’re gonna straighten them out one by one. And this is gonna be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within,” he said.
Oh. And Trump just ordered the National Guard into Chicago.
For the Planet and Humanity 