Oh gee, what could go wrong putting a foreign born white supremacist technocrat in a lead position of our military with full access to its systems so he can integrate an AI system no one understands or knows how to defend against or extract should we want to do so at some point.

onetime trillionaire Elon Musk

Look I know there are bigger problems we need to work on, but I still have to appreciate the little things

Hah! You almost got me The Onion!!

Wait...

Newt Gingrich is still alive???

What the actual fuck even is this fever dream, honestly

They're going to re-segregate the army probably.

But he just said no fatties, weirdos, or wimps.

And the clown show downfall of America continues unabated.

I'd try to shame conservatives for what they've done, but those cucks probably think a, checks notes, Nazi and, checks notes, 83 year old retired piece of shit are good choices to help run, checks notes, the most powerful (and dangerous) military on the face of the planet.

WTF.....

Putting AMERICA First means having an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT run Our Military!

-LITERALLY Republicans!

We live in a fucking cartoon.

The single most terrifying thing about this, to me, is how few people seem to know what Palmer Luckey’s company Anduril does. They are building autonomous kill bots.

The fucking “let’s build skynet” guy is being invited to US military leadership and his name is dropped from the headline and mentioned in barely 2% of replies.

Best Forecasters of Future Conflict.

They know future conflict isn't the war that a foreign nation will come at the military with. The future of warfare is how they will fight the revolutionaries that will inevitably rise against tyranny.

Musk has the ability to deploy surveillance technology anywhere. The "study" is "how do they continue to keep squeezing the iron fist?"

Edit: and by anywhere, I mean ANYWHERE. Motherfucker owns a space agency. Tesla cars rely on video processing of always network connected cameras for their driving assist mechanisms. Starlink puts network connectivity anywhere it currently isn't.

And GUESS who is part of the PayPal mafia? Palantir. But also Yelp and LinkedIn. Those are much less important than Palantir, but Yelp can at least target businesses that don't play along, and LinkedIn can harm people seeking employment.

The dystopia we are in is worse than people can truly grasp.

Hegseth: "no weirdos"

Not even consistent with his own bullshit.

Honestly expect military experiments like neuralink implants guaranteeing ideologically aligned warriors and complete obedience to the state

I hope that lead means infantry vanguard.

Just in time for Elon to screw with the machines and for Newt to dribble saliva on everything

Two men with no military experience who haven't so much as been in a fistfight. Makes sense.

Hey, troops, be prepared to die a lot and needlessly! All for the Epstein Class! Be sure to thank your fellows WHO VOTED FOR YOUR DEATH.

Didn't Hegseth just proclaim no weirdos, no beardos & no fatties?

Good god I sincerely hope the Dems get a supermajority and grow a spine to clean our fucking house of these Nazis.

Seriously, we need to end these motherfuckers before it's too late.

We’re never going to be able to fix this, are we?

And the tankies on here will tell you without any sort of fucking irony that Kamala would be just as bad as this fucking bullshit.

Elon the immigrant? Strange move.

We already tried Elon in politics... No!

What in the holy fuck? We've got to get these guys out of office.

There's this, and the "Fortress America" thing, where military bases are supposed to be off the national grid.

Which is 100% a way to speed up nuclear SME roll out. The military already gets different policies for nuclear material, and has been piloting containerized SMEs for a while. What they're doing is setting up Elon and friends to be the deciding factor and/or the companies selling this to themselves. Bill Gates has a company working on SMEs as well, and it seems like they either want him to do the work and then Elon and Gingrich, who I wasn't aware could still string 2 sentences together coherently. are in the middle.

This is seriously African Dictator playbook, Chapter 1. Trevor Noah called this back in 2016.

Newt Gingrich is still alive?!?

The fuck does Elmo know about war?

Go get some of those mad lads in Ukraine that are fighting for their very existence and ask them about the future of war. Or fuck it, ask James Cameron, he seems to be more on track with how humans will cease to exist in the future than most people.

The original speech, untranslated:

BY THE GRACE OF THE OMNISSIAH, HEAR ME, ACOLYTES OF THE FORGE

[The Magos Dominus raises a mechadendrite, and the cogitators fall silent]

Mark well the weakness of the flesh, brothers.
The mind of the single supplicant is flawed, clouded by bias and the corruption of its own vanity. It is a heresy to let the same hand pose the question and pronounce the answer. The Machine Spirit does not sanction such folly.

Therefore, on this sacred day, we call upon a blessing denied to our foes: the holy congregation of our own innovators, our high Archmagi, and our devoted tech-adepts.

These are the great minds and tireless hands who shall divine the shape of wars yet unborn, and forge the instruments of our victory before the enemy has even dreamed of conflict.

And so, by the authority vested in me and with the sacred oils freshly applied, I proclaim the commencement of PROJECT MERIDIAN!

Let the greatest cogitators of our realm convene to peer through the veil of time and study the future of warfare itself.

[The augmetic choir swells with binary canticles]

Let the rites begin. Let the data-looms turn. Praise the Omnissiah! Praise the Machine God!

[Servo-skulls drift overhead, chanting in monotone: "01001000 01001001 01001100..."]

It's just Elon telling the DoW how many more of Elon's products they need. While he maintains the ability to disable all of them on a whim.