#introduction
Before retiring, I was an aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander), software developer, and tech writer. But that was to pay the bills. I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy. Lots of details at www.dvorkin.com
My wife and I also help writers self-publish. You can find out more at www.dldbooks.com
In theory, I should be writing much more now that I'm retired. In practice, that's not happening. I blame the Internet.
Here's one possible explanation for Hegseth calling so many top generals and admirals to a meeting on September 30th. I hope this is far fetched, but here's my hypothetical scenario.
The officers will be met by thousands of heavily armed ICE goons who will immediately arrest and disappear them. They will then be replaced by junior officers loyal to Trump. In other words, an even larger scale, and possibly less bloody, Night of the Long Knives.
MAGA is a core of stupid, ignorant people filled with anger and resentment, led by opportunistic demagogues and catered to by amoral plutocrats. It's a deadly combination we've seen throughout history. Our institutions weren't designed to protect us against it, and I don't see how they can be modified to do so.
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.