Lieutenant Colonel Ritchie retired speaking on Trump and Hegseth.

[Duncanpup]

Link to tweet

/mediaviewer

[canetoad]

1. I opened this

Expecting to see Lionel Richie. DISAPPPOINT.

(Joke, K&R)

[Coldwater]

2. Others have spoken out as well

[chicoescuela]

3. Hopefully he wasn't the exception and most, if not all,

feel that way.

[StoolPigeon]

4. Article III, Section 3

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or ...

[Coldwater]

5. In an unrelated story

The head of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Gen. Bryan Fenton, retired from his role Friday.

Seriously he planned on retiring for months and in August Congress approved his replacement, but what I found most amusing was the response out of Pete Hegseth's office.

“FWIW, Gen. Fenton was planning on retiring, it was not tied to the Secretary of War’s speech,” Kristina Wong, an adviser to the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, said on the social platform X.

[Skittles]

6. aw jeez

even Trump's nitwits are surrounded by nitwits

[Danascot]

7. Apparently

it's nitwits all the way down.

[ShazzieB]

10. Is that an actual image from the speech, or was AI involved?

No, I did not even try to watch the whole thing, because I knew I wouldn't be able to stomach it. Have read lots of quotes from it and seen some clips, but nothing as horrifying as that image.

If it's real, it's appalling. Beyond appalling. I need to know how real it is so I can set my apall-o-meter accordingly. 😬

[Aviation Pro]

8. LTC Ritchie speaks for me

Nothing further follows.

[Hotler]

9. Finally, someone that's taken the oath has said the words. Domestic enemy.

Sir, thank you for your service.
Fascist are domestic enemies.

[ShazzieB]

11. That is one battle hardened warrior right there?

I'm sure Hogsbeath and Schlump would both be very pleased.

Those two were like little boys playing with toy soldiers, and they displayed just about as much sense, IF that much. I'm sure that ordering those generals and admirals around made them feel big and strong and tough and powerful, but it just made them look weak and pathetic and deplorable. Pathetically deplorable. Deplorably pathetic. I hate to keep using the same words over and over, but the English language doesn't have enough of the right words to fully describe this spectacle in all of its horrifying awfulness.