Report: top Army general told to drop Kid Rock chopper probe before firing
IN THE MIDDLE OF LOSING A WAR, Whiskey Pete appears to have fired General Randy George bc George refused to drop a probe into Kid Rock. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Crow. JAMES Crow. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱127In a sane world, “Pete Hegseth fires Army chief of staff because of an investigation of Kid Rock” would be nothing more than a peculiar Mad Lib. Yet, here we are.
Artemis76Yikes. And the probe wasn’t into Kid Rock, it was into the military ppl who irresponsibly did a personal show for Kid Rock with extremely expensive military equipment
Helen Kennedy40I guess it's encouraging that I can still be surprised by these people.
Mark Brandriss23This is reminiscent of Stalin's political purge of the Soviet army in the 1930s, just a complete gutting of the nation's experienced military leadership and expertise in order to satisfy the leader's personal whims and paranoia. Historically stupid.
Brady United Against Gun Violence, NY22So…no na sec protocols for handling TS information, no safety protocols nor investigations as to how feckless occurs, no discipline, nor accountability for responsible leadership, just remove all the real warriors w/expertise at the top, & then bloviate. God help our military. gop congress did this.
Trump/GOP corruption threatens the world17Google: " obstruction of justice governed by UCMJ Article 131b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)... Specific Intent: The act is done with the intent to influence, impede, or obstruct the administration of justice"
Secretary of Defense Rock522Nice how the heads of the Army, Air Force, and Navy all got into their positions by selling out colleagues or appealing to MAGA culture war nonsense! Merit is back!
post malone ergo propter malone134prioritizing lethality (helicopter joyrides in Tennesee for a guy who hasn't touched the top 40 since the Bush administration)
Based Mitogaku Understander Gigan20Worth saying that I’m sure this didn’t help George’s case for staying, but he’s more a casualty of the Pete-Driscoll civil war going on in the department atm
Soy Boy13Whats that you say? Things can’t possibly get dumber? Hold Pete’s beer…
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥9I think the last time the US Armed Forces was under any equivalent to the level of institutional attack it's currently under is either while losing the War of 1812, or else the *better* half of its own officer corps going rogue and defecting in 1860
Mere Smith7your entire military career scuttled because some punk ass Faux News host who’s never even smelled a battlefield illegally orders a helicopter flown over a rock star’s house to show off for a politician holy shit I’d be incandescent
Hare 🍉4real Caligula making his horse a senator stuff here
Shadow Hedgie 🌻4the scriptwriters for this season of America are really stretching the boundaries of credibility
Meidas Dutch3Trust Pete to be the brilliant strategist. Not.
Aram Zucker-Scharff3I don't think firing someone for doing a routine investigation into flight safety protocols bodes well for the safety of flying in America actually.
The military helicopter flyby of Kid Rock's house absolutely deserved investigation. That's why we filed a complaint saying so with the IG. If the Army chief of staff's firing had to do with his support of a probe, that's a real problem.
How authoritarian regimes evolve. A general tells his superior its best not to investigate rules violations that involve an ally of the President. The superior proceeds, is fired, and the general who advised killing the investigation is promoted in his place. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
lachesis-2.bsky.social3On January 6th, he had a mob of mental cases. Now he has an army.
Headline Vibe · by NoMAGA2The corruption isn’t only that the rule was ignored; it’s that ignoring it became the winning career strategy. That turns one intervention into a warning to everyone else.
Scobiwan1Yep, knives out and head on a swivel at all times. Don't ever write or record certain conversations or say things that shouldn't be said, but it is understood. Like mobsters
Mindcite💥75Pete Hegseth is Benedict Arnold. On whiskey and crack.
Beau2I know it’s not exactly the point, but I feel like Randy George ought to be a nickname among the troops for a senior military officer, rather than his actual name. Also, who knew the US Army had a senior officer in charge of number twos?
The Trump administration’s pick to replace fired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George faces resistance from some Senate Republicans.
pineraven.bsky.social4If you want to follow the rules but Hegseth is your boss, you get canned.
Tom Gingerich2Every time he turns around, he replaces a competent person with an incompetent one! And the Republican lackeys are fine with it! Karma? Where the hell are you?🤬
How long will the mad king be allowed to ruin everything?
The knives are out for LaNeve, and for good reason: he's the worst kind of careerist, a man who shanked not only GEN George but also GEN Mingus to even reach the position he would need to be in to force GEN George out. LaNeve is what we veterans call a "blue falcon."
Wesley Morgan35Notable that both George and Mingus had vastly more GWOT combat experience than LaNeve, measured both by time in Iraq/Afg and by the jobs they held during those tours and where and when they took place LaNeve’s *only* GWOT command tour was an 82nd battalion during the 2011 Iraq drawdown
Otto von Biz Markie12These are some of the nicer things I've heard him called
