Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics

[Red]

House Republican on war plans chat: ‘There’s no doubt that Russia and China saw this stuff’

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said there’s “no doubt” that Russia and China were monitoring the U.S. officials’ devices used for a war plan text chat. “I will guarantee you, 99.99 percent with conf…

thehill.com

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said there’s “no doubt” that Russia and China were monitoring the U.S. officials’ devices used for a war plan text chat.

“I will guarantee you, 99.99 percent with confidence, Russia and China are monitoring those two phones,” Bacon told CNN’s Manu Raju. “So I just think it’s a security violation, and there’s no doubt that Russia and China saw this stuff within hours of the actual attacks on Yemen or the Houthis.”

 

[Eminence]

Yeah, Hegseth need to be in prison at a minimum.

The broader planning talk - I don't think it should be taking place on this app, but it's in reprimand and change/reinforce policy territory.

The fairly detailed announcement of operation info (when/what), is incompetence well past a tolerable level for the SecDef (or active treason, take your pick).

 

[Red]

Trump is inspiring authoritarians elsewhere….

Some world leaders invoke Trump to justify political crackdowns

Analysts argue that the US president’s upending of political norms has emboldened autocratic leaders around the world.

www.semafor.com

Analysts argue that US President Donald Trump’s upending of political norms has emboldened autocratic leaders around the world to pursue crackdowns on human rights and democracy.

Some leaders have explicitly invoked Trump’s return to power as justification for their moves: After Hungary’s parliament voted this month to ban an annual LBGTQ+ Pride parade, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government said the changes in Washington meant the “American boot” had been lifted off Hungary’s chest and that events like Pride no longer enjoyed US protection.

Serbian authorities cited Trump’s claims of fraud at USAID to launch raids against pro-democracy civil society groups. Georgia’s government similarly used the USAID aid freeze to vow to pursue new restrictions against media and civil society, including a proposed ban on foreign funding for media.

Other leaders have not openly cited Trump, but analysts see clear links between their actions and Trump’s rule: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is betting that Trump won’t challenge the jailing of a top rival, while some have drawn comparisons between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent efforts to oust critics in this government and Trump’s prioritization of loyalists for key posts.

 

[BabyPeterzz]

Donald Trump is a mirror.

This is what sane people have to deal with. Conservatives, who vastly overestimate their knowledge and intelligence, get to see what we see everyday. Ignorant, lying, incompetence. Temper tantrums. All while putting all our lives at risk.

This is why liberals are mean to you. The tolerant left tolerates you.


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[Al-O-Meter]

This is why liberals are mean to you. The tolerant left tolerates you.

The tolerant left is climbing out on sheds to assassinate the opposition candidate and showing up to Democrat members of Congress' town halls saying "niceness doesn't work so are you ready for violence?"

The conservatives sane idea of banning males from girls and women's sports isn't putting lives at risk. The so-called tolerant left's shooting bullets at people they disagree with definitely is.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

House Republican on war plans chat: ‘There’s no doubt that Russia and China saw this stuff’

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said there’s “no doubt” that Russia and China were monitoring the U.S. officials’ devices used for a war plan text chat. “I will guarantee you, 99.99 percent with conf…

thehill.com

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said there’s “no doubt” that Russia and China were monitoring the U.S. officials’ devices used for a war plan text chat.

“I will guarantee you, 99.99 percent with confidence, Russia and China are monitoring those two phones,” Bacon told CNN’s Manu Raju. “So I just think it’s a security violation, and there’s no doubt that Russia and China saw this stuff within hours of the actual attacks on Yemen or the Houthis.”

We, the United States, are lucky it wasn't worse, and everyone in that Signal group should have known better.

Chuck Schumer warned them eight years ago that this was a possibility when he said “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.”
https://nypost.com/2017/01/11/schumer-predicted-intelligence-officials-would-get-back-at-trump/

Jeffery Goldberg is one of the harshest critics of the Trump administration with the largest platform. The chances that particular journalist was added inadvertently to the Signal group are nonexistent. Someone who had gained access to National Security Advisor Michael Walz's Signal account added Jeffery Goldberg, and it wasn't Michael Walz.

I predict the one who used Michael Walz's Signal account to add Jeffery Goldberg to that group will never be discovered as those in the US government whose job it is to know how such a thing could be facilitated will strangely be unable to find the culprit.

 

[enchilada_style]

Good luck to those that have made it their life mission to defend this administration for the next four years. It’s like trying to defend a Luka trade every single day.

 

[Rubashov]

Yeah, Hegseth need to be in prison at a minimum.

The broader planning talk - I don't think it should be taking place on this app, but it's in reprimand and change/reinforce policy territory.

The fairly detailed announcement of operation info (when/what), is incompetence well past a tolerable level for the SecDef (or active treason, take your pick).

No chance of this happening.

 

[Eminence]

No chance of this happening.

You're right, sadly.

 

[Rubashov]

You're right, sadly.

ye who enters here, abandon all hope.


i read that somewhere.

 

[Zombie]

We, the United States, are lucky it wasn't worse, and everyone in that Signal group should have known better.

Chuck Schumer warned them eight years ago that this was a possibility when he said “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.”
https://nypost.com/2017/01/11/schumer-predicted-intelligence-officials-would-get-back-at-trump/

Jeffery Goldberg is one of the harshest critics of the Trump administration with the largest platform. The chances that particular journalist was added inadvertently to the Signal group are nonexistent. Someone who had gained access to National Security Advisor Michael Walz's Signal account added Jeffery Goldberg, and it wasn't Michael Walz.

I predict the one who used Michael Walz's Signal account to add Jeffery Goldberg to that group will never be discovered as those in the US government whose job it is to know how such a thing could be facilitated will strangely be unable to find the culprit.

Lmao.

Even if your fantastical conspiracy were somehow true, that would only make this look marginally better for Waltz and everyone else in that chat. They still would have been using insecure communication channels and, hilariously, still didn't notice that there was a random other person in the chat the whole time.

Or to put it another way - in order for the conspiracy to succeed, Hegseth, Vance, and the rest of those in the chat would still have to display rank incompetence not to immediately sniff it out.

Also, Goldberg is a very well known and well connected journalist (yes, even well connected to those within the Trump admin). It is not surprising in the least that his contact info was in Waltz's phone, and from there the scandal was just a fat finger away.

 

[PJF]

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