Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a massive upcoming study on the “future of warfare.”
Hegseth made the announcement at his “State of the Force” address on Wednesday afternoon, describing the trio of Trump loyalists as “the best forecasters of future conflict.”
“There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them. So today we are leveraging a unique source of American advantage—one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders, and our technologists. Big thinkers and doers who will forecast the creative solution to tomorrow’s conflicts,” Hegseth said. “And that’s why today … I’m announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.”
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I hope a good number of liberals are buying guns and spending time at the range, because they’re not planning on letting you win with votes.
We live in a fucking cartoon.
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.
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…”]
Honestly expect military experiments like neuralink implants guaranteeing ideologically aligned warriors and complete obedience to the state
Oh my god I fear you’re onto something
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.
A racist bigot of a man who was noted by his own mother as being a piece of shit to women, has a fascist man with multiple baby mamas and a birthing fetish, as well as a serial adulterer have joined together to conduct a study about the military.
I wonder if it will say women don’t belong in the military as well as no black people, non Christians, and the USA needs to wipe out Muslims in the middle east to bring about end times.
Putting AMERICA First means having an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT run Our Military!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
He just picked the wrong one. There’s probably quite a few illegal Mexicans who’d do a better job than Hegseth.
What the actual fuck even is this fever dream, honestly
bottom of the barrel humans known as MAGA decided to fuck the entire world over rather than work on themselves
Great move including the guy who disabled Ukrainian drones at the request of Putin. Totally trustworthy and won’t backfire in any way.
If the dispute between the US and Canada were to escalate into a war, the US would loose at this point.
Loose the nukes that is.
We’re never going to be able to fix this, are we?
What in the holy fuck? We’ve got to get these guys out of office.
Two men with no military experience who haven’t so much as been in a fistfight. Makes sense.
I’m sure it’s another kin money from the treasury scam
