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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But he just said no fatties, weirdos, or wimps.
He didn’t say no ketamine.
Yea but said ketamine addict IS a fatty, weirdo and a wimp.
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.
Didn’t Hegseth just proclaim no weirdos, no beardos & no fatties?
Newt Gingrich is still alive?!?
Elon Musk hasn’t drowned in a hot tub?
On all that ketamine it’s a roll of the dice every day.
Hegseth: “no weirdos”
Not even consistent with his own bullshit.
We’re fucking doomed.
If you’re American, consider that the rest of the world has been reading comments like this daily for years.
Is that the big plan? Every day, new BS, “we’re cooked chat”. Repeat.
Begging Americans to decide now what is too far and put it on the wall or something. As of right now, it sounds like frogs slowly being boiled in the pot.
Yes that is literally his plan. Put out constant bullshit headlines about deranged stuff like this, so you become exhausted and stop paying attention. And then he steals billions from his various crimes.
He’s on tape saying as much.
I think the destruction of military power for all the major nation states is the plan of the wealthy.
IMO They are preparing for a world of corporations and billionaires with their own militas. So destroying the competition before they announce the new game has begun.
Thats why all the bluster and fury stops at a certain level before anything changes the plan.
Well, we might be okay.
I don’t think any of those dorks have seen COLOSSUS: The Forbin Project yet.
Elon the immigrant? Strange move.
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.
You mean the department of defense. Its gulf of mexico too and lake ontario while we’re at it 🙄 Stop indulging the moron please.
I work in defense. People are calling it the Department of War, and there is historical context for it. It actually strikes me as less Orwellian and more honest about the types of assholes we are.
I agree that Trump can’t singlehandedly rename international bodies of water, but I just don’t give a fuck about the executive renaming parts of the executive branch.
I think you mean you work in war (/s but also not really)
Quit.
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.
He knows even less about war than he does about technology.
So I am looking forward to how much he is going to fuck up everything in the military to fill his own pockets.
He knows how to spend money on robots and has enough on hand to arm them.
Let’s just hope that he’s incompetent enough to fuck that up.
Not too hard to forecast future conflicts when you’re the ones who will initiate them.
Are they just pulling names out of a hat now?
Yanks are ruled by fucking morons
It’s a cautionary tale about wealth usurping democracy in the modern age.
I don’t like who he picked but one thing is for sure…he really needs the help!
They’re going to use Teslas as a global military spy-net. I would be surprised if they aren’t already. Minus the military part. This is just formalizing it.
The jokes keep on writing themselves. Man, the onion must really be having a tough time right now.
Hegseth, at 21, getting a rejection letter from his application to The Onion . . . “they’ll regret this, I don’t care what it takes . . .”
