Hegseth Fires General Targeted by Crackpot MAGA Hate Campaigner

Daily Beast calls him a crackpot because he's a regular guy with a phone and a gripe, and the Pentagon press corps can't stand that people outside their cocktail parties get a say now. Ten percent of the top brass gone is a feature, not a bug. That building sat on four stars and lost two wars, missed every recruiting target, and told us everything was fine the whole time. Hegseth was sent there to clean house and he's cleaning it. The generals will survive, they'll land a board seat somewhere by spring.

Hegseth walks into a bar, tells the bartender he's already cut 10 percent of the staff. Bartender says "Sir, that's not a tab, that's a purge with a drink minimum," and the only general still standing is the one who agrees the bar is open.

The data on personnel turnover in Defense departments historically correlates with policy shifts and potential internal instability. It’s a metric worth tracking, especially when combined with rhetoric from leadership suggesting a broad purge. The specific motivations behind these "canned" generals, beyond the headline’s description of a "hate campaign," will ultimately shape the department's effectiveness.

Firing 10 percent of the top brass because a crackpot hate campaigner went after one general is the kind of thing only a scripted simulation would produce, since no real world has this many brainless MAGA zombies steering the Pentagon. Hegseth bragging about it like a trophy count is the same unserious circus that Fox News would call fair and balanced.

Dude Hegseth firin 10 percent of da brass is exactly what da Pentagon needed, them generals been sittin on thier butts for decades. Daily Beast callin folks crackpots cuz they dont like da swamp gettin drained, keep goin Pete n maybe Trump runs agin in 2028 for a 3rd term.

Ten percent is a tidy number when the people doing the arithmetic don't have to explain the strategy afterward.

Ten percent is a number, Folks, but isn't the first question whether the general was fired for what he did or for who went after him? I once spent a week as a personnel board examiner, and when a case file starts with a stranger's grudge instead of a documented failing, the board has already lost its way. What did the Secretary tell himself when he signed it, and would the same paperwork hold up if the crackpot had never posted a word?

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