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@leftcoastbabe Or they disagreed with policy or they refused to toe the line of fitness or they were doing a poor job or they failed to meet goals set for them or they committed misconduct or they are DEI hires or a combination of all the above.

Only reason for Pete Hegseth to fire top generals in middle of a war is that they refused to follow orders. Only reason well-respected generals would refuse to follow DOD Secretary's orders was that those orders were insane. Americans are going to die for Pete & Donald's egos.

@ChrisCoons Thanks, now get out of the way.

General Randy George deserves our nation’s thanks for his decades of dedicated leadership both in combat and in transforming the Army to meet the challenges of this century. I am alarmed by his firing, which is clearly part of an appalling string of purges and loyalty tests by Secretary Hegseth that threatens to weaken our military and our nation.

@ProjectTS @sandibachom Crazy is what it is. You are a party in your own head.

@GehrBoxProducts @sandibachom Guess that confirms it. Now do Trump.

Dude. That’s like firing Eisenhower in WWII. Somebody stop him. Release those tapes. Somebody. Anybody.

@ProjectTS @sandibachom Oh ya, did a google check. Putin was born in 1952. Wow pretty influential as a baby/ toddler.

@ProjectTS @sandibachom Putin was a child during Truman’s presidency at best. Likely wasn’t even a sperm.

@RonFilipkowski Why? Ineffective performance or resistance to civilian leadership goals is why the generals get fired.

The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

@gtwhitesides You can be a good general and not aligned with the political leaders appointed over you. The result is fired. Get over it. Being a General does not make you correct or in the best interests of the United States policy.

Over the past year, I've had the privilege of getting to know Gen. George. He is a brave and smart patriot. Hegseth's attacks against generals who are far more capable than himself continues.

NEW: General Randy George, the Chief of Staff for @SecArmy is OUT. This comes after her has been undermining Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. @SecWar If you follow my reporting, you knew this was coming… Lots of pettiness over at DoW directed toward @SecWar. Just another reminder of why Biden nominees should have been purged on day 1 of the new Trump admin.

@thedaywar90 Bullshit! Carryon Pete

Breaking: CNN claims 75% American want Pete Hegseth impeached, prosecuted, and imprisoned. What do you think about this?

@DisavowTrump20 Getting a Purple Heart does not mean anything other than getting an injury during enemy action. He could have been fragged by a buddy that shot him in the ass during a wild party. It certainly does not mean he cant be fired for other cause.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George. Serving for over 40 years, George received the Purple Heart. RETWEET if you stand with General George against Trump!

@ImBreckWorsham Likely, but why in the hell give intel to the enemy. Are you an idiot?

Your government is lying to you about how many Americans are dying in this war.

@johnpavlovitz No we are not with you NATO. In for a penny or in for a pound. You know what is wrong and want to watch the train wreck until it hits you.

Dear NATO, We're 100 percent with you. Sincerely, Decent Americans.

@DarrigoMelanie Or the states could stop funding drug addicts, illegal aliens and fraud.

Trump wants a $1.5 trillion military budget. It would only cost $45 billion to end homelessness and hunger in the U.S.

@NBCNews Maybe they aren’t as qualified as yellow, brown, white or male officers. Maybe their political views are not aligned with the civilians appointed over them. In any case that’s the option of their commander or superior.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden administration policies or officials, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

@LaGrecca333 People fear change and generally are short sighted with limited attention spans. You are in those groups.

I hated George Bush with a passion. Now in retrospect he wasn’t as bad as what we have now.

@shanaka86 You need a history check. MacArthur was fired for not following US policy. Montgomery was sidelined because he was too much of a pu$$y. Patton was put on timeout for being too aggressive toward his troops. Soldiers need toe the line.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@EthanLevins2 Recovery drones? That’s new. How about SIGINT drone?

If no planes were shot down, Why are recovery drones circling this random area in the ocean ?

@DianeSare Well because evil gets old.

Why would we want to bomb any nation "back to the Stone Ages?"

@DividendBreeder Change the oil and filter yourself. You would see a large savings. I do.

I got an oil change last week and it was $89.99. Inflation has hit oil changes hard. Wasn’t that long ago I’d get it for $29.99 with a coupon.