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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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.
so glad he admits he needs help
WTF…
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
They’re going to re-segregate the army probably.
They’re already trying to force out all the black service members by denying them promotions and shitty rules about shaving.
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.
Don’t forget Palmer Lucky, founder of Oculus and real life version of The Incredible’s villain, Syndrome.
We’re never going to be able to fix this, are we?
We already tried Elon in politics… No!
Just in time for Elon to screw with the machines and for Newt to dribble saliva on everything
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
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…”]
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.
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.
Are they going to lead the invasion of Iran from the front?
