Blake Masters Wants to Fire All Generals

[applegrove]

Blake Masters Wants to Fire All Generals

September 15, 2022 at 10:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/15/blake-masters-wants-to-fire-all-generals/

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“Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, has repeatedly said the U.S. should clean house on the senior ranks of the military, pushing the claim that all the generals and admirals are ‘woke’ and ‘left-wing’ losers who’ve never won a war,” Vice News reports.

Said Masters, on leaked audio: “Your entire general class, they’re left-wing politicians at this point. It’s very hard to become a general without being some kind of left-of-center politician.”

He added: “I would love to see all the generals get fired. You take the most conservative colonels, you promote them to general. Not because the ideology is important, but because the conservative colonels will be able to leave the ideology aside. They just care about an effective fighting force.”

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Applegrove: Thiel is backing Masters and Thiel & Vance want to get rid of all elites. I guess Masters does too. Experts are elites. Generals are experts.

[onecaliberal]

1. He wants to Russianize the American military. That's what we need.

[Walleye]

2. The desire to expel all from the government who don't agree with you it's textbook fascism

It is a fascist mentality, you have to destroy everything and start over in your own image

[Mad_Machine76]

3. Were they all "woke left-wing losers"

who horribly bungled Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001-2009?!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Another armchair warrior?

[grumpyduck]

5. " the conservative colonels will be able to leave the ideology aside."

Seriously?

IMHO, buddy, you are a fucking ignorant hypocritical piece of shit. STFU.

[rsdsharp]

6. I don't believe senators have that power.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Only the US Congress appropriates money to fund the operations of the US military

as an enumerated power of Congress under the US Constitution.

Congress holds the pursestrings.

[rsdsharp]

12. Yes they do, and the Senate has the power to approve promotions

at the level of major/Lt. Commander and above.

The do not, however, have the power to fire specific general officers.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes they do. They don't have to pass a budget unless personnel changes are made.

The GOP is nasty enough to do this.

Edit to add:

They can also start releasing embarrassing material about various generals to force them to retire.

[rsdsharp]

14. That's not the power to fire. That's extortion.

I think they would find a great deal of the professional officer corps would resign over such a move.

[Irish_Dem]

7. The GOP is taking a wrecking ball to the entire country, I guess it's the military's turn now.

The GOP will try to wipe them out too.

[Biophilic]

9. Oh goody, then we can look just like the Russian army.

Seems like another Putin puppet.

[Torchlight]

11. Masters' is getting inspiration from Moscow's 1936 officer purge.

No better way to render an army ineffective simply for political expediency. I halfway expected Masters to begin railing about Counter-revolutionaries and Trotskyites.

(The Russian purge of senior officers removed three of five four-star generals, 13 of 15 to three-star generals, eight of nine admirals, and 154 out of 186 division commanders)

[Initech]

15. I swear, next MAGA nut who says the word "woke"...

Is getting slapped upside the head Three Stooges style. I'm so tired of this shit.

[applegrove]

16. We should call them broke because those people the right wing controls are

no doing well financially and their states are not doing well either. "I'm woke. You are broke!" We should say.

[EnergizedLib]

17. There's only one way to fire generals

Become Commander in Chief, which he’s not and let’s not give him any ideas.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Fascist turds are Thiel and Masters

…rigging the game to dump the old establishment to make themselves the new elite, an openly fascist version.