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Holy shit, look who else Hegseth fired. The head of Naval Special Warfare Command, the naval component of SOCOM and commander over the Navy SEALs.

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Idrees Ali

@idreesali114

Aug 22

This purge is much deeper. Hegseth also fired the chief of U.S. Naval reserves and the commander of Naval Special Warfare Command. x.com/idreesali114/s…

4:19 PM · Aug 22, 2025

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KPSS

@sea_change111

Aug 22

They're planting loyalists for when the coup happens.

This is ominous in so many ways but I also keep looking at Venezuela.

If you want to maintain a grip on power you need to install loyalists in every leading role.

On what grounds?

How much more of this BULLSHIT are the people, the lambs, going to take? It seems as if they don’t care that the country is being weakened and dismantled by these traitorous MF’ers!

He appears to want to eliminate as many competent people as possible. Btwn. his firings & Patel’s at the FBI, America is quickly becoming far less safe

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant

not great bob

Project2025...get rid of military leadership..."too many"..replace with loyalists. Americans need to wake up to the takeover of our police and military...

I never thought an 0-4 would in be in charge of our Military and this is the sad result

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New England Veteran

@NEVeteran

This after or before he fired the General who reported that Irans Nuclear program not set back decades but only months (which come on.. we ALL knew as we ALL saw those trucks pull up to the sites PRIOR to them being bombed)

Anita.Aus

@AnitaWo42078705

I heard via Australian media that Hegseth also fired the head of DIA …. Why? …. it is suspected it is related to Lt Gen Kruse giving an assessment on the damage to Iran’s nuclear facility was less than POTUS wanted

Project 2025, Putin & Thiel got Trump to speed things up. He wasn't dismantling our national security & govt fast enough for them.

Handing US to China/ Russia on a plate

Zen Bonker Fella

@hoshawc

Aug 22

Anyone with honor is on the chopping block…..speaks volumes for that lizard named hegseth….

Dr. Cole #Resister

@1drcole

Aug 22

Shocking move—Kruse, Lacore, and Sands fired for challenging Trump's Iran claims and resisting Ukraine land-cede plan post-Alaska summit! #TrumpPurge #IntelLoyalty #UkraineDeal

nickreal03

@nickreal03

22h

Very worrying signs...

We're in so much trouble.

He's not leaving office and the military will back him. They will have installed all loyalists by the time the next "elections" roll around. Donald Trump is America's Francisco Franco.

trump knows the SEALs were our last hope.

shit is going down.

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If Hegseth replaces military leadership so carelessly, it only shows how unstable the system is. For the defense of Europe and freedom, continuity is needed, not chaos.

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Jeremy Lawrence Redlien

@queerthecloset

17h

This is all really bad.

Where’s the Fox News replacements ? Aren’t we running out of them now??

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The Galois Connection

@TheGaloisCxn

Aug 22

I've said for years that members of the national security apparatus needed to wake up to the fact that they were the last remaining defense against authoritarianism after SCOTUS was compromised. Now they fucked around and found out.

Why was he fired? Queasiness won't stop. Does he not tow the approved narrative line? Does he actually take his oath of allegiance to the constitution seriously?