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Summary

White House insiders blame National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a group chat error that exposed military strike discussions to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

Waltz mistakenly added Goldberg to a Signal chat about potential strikes in Yemen, involving key officials like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and JD Vance.

Trump has defended Waltz but is reportedly weighing his options.

Some aides urge resignation to avoid forcing Trump to make a decision. Critics call Waltz reckless, but House Speaker Mike Johnson opposes his resignation.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Oh, so they are going to blame one fucking guy and it's not donvict and donvict will bear zero consequences.

Seems like I heard this one before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I use this app. If I saw a new person added to a casual group chat, I'd ask about it. I'm not an idiot who sucks Trump's dick, though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There is no passing the buck for matters of national security. The "party of law and order" should know that. They crucified Hillary for far less.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
  • There is no buck.
  • If there is, it's not a big buck. Or a bad buck.
  • If it is, it stops somewhere else.
  • If it didn't, the buck is actually just a glitch.
  • If it isn't, this is the devastating effects of the Biden economy.
  • suckers and losers
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They consider the sin not to be using unapproved services using an unapproved service, the sin is the guy who got them caught.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They will all get away with it, mark my words.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

No argument here. They absolutely will.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

The trump regime is incompetent, evil, and rotten to the core.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The crimes each member may have committed exposes them to multi-decade prison sentences.

They're urging someone to resign? RESIGN?

Let's see the court cases. Each one of those hypocrites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Big Booby Bondi will remain silent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The people that want these unqualified dipshits in these roles are the same types of people that fell for the fucking lie that Hillary "acid washed" her emails.

BTW, next time you hear some asshat suffering from TDS (the actual kind, not the stupid thing they talk about and that they lifted from Clinton days anyway since they are lazy and unimaginative and always projecting - these people spent their time ever since the early 90s getting the vapors over lots of imagined nonsense related to the Clintons and so they should know about derangement) brain repeating that dumbfuck lie - ask them what they mean by "acid washing" an email or a server. Just keep asking what they mean by that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

two words: presidential pardon.

No one will spend the time, money and effort to prosecute these people when they can just wave the whole thing away with a signature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's not the reason to choose not to prosecute. You indict them, prosecute them, sentence them, and then if he wants to pardon them, he is choosing personal loyalty to him over acting against the American people and our national security. Charge them, and use the predictable sociopathic response to beat them incessantly for years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@FiskFisk33 @corsicanguppy why not make him do it. Make him sign his approval to every "mistake" his cabinet makes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But then I don't really think I understand US politics. To me it makes no sense why there isn't an impeachment charge against him every day. He's providing enough ammo. If he's going to flood the zone, flood it right back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What's hard to understand? Republicans control the House, and Republicans are complicit. Any impeachment charge wouldn't make it out of committee, and any charge on the floor would be quickly voted down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then make them vote it down? What is so hard to understand about this? Every impeachment charge is time spent on the floor that forces them to delay voting on other damaging policies. If he's going to continue flooding the zeitgeist with damaging policies and immoral action, then force his colleagues and constituents to sit down and listen to it in detail. Eventually the end goal doesn't become worth the sacrifice to get there. There's a reason no one ever sits through a time share seminar even if its for a free 3 day weekend getaway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Voting on what? Everything is being done through executive actions. This Congress has rendered itself irrelevant. The only thing Congress is actually doing is voting on nominees, and I think Democrats should vote against those, but they're too busy unanimously voting in favor of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Me neither. I would have thought this was exactly the kind of situation impeachment was meant to stop. I am thoroughly confused.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good luck with that. It will never happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Exactly.
Orange ShitGibbon had boxes and boxes of top secret stuff in his unlocked toilet right next to a fax machine yet nothing happened.
Not only did nothing happen to him, he also got voted back in again. Ffs.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

One thing I want to know is: who did Waltz think he was adding? Is there another Goldberg in the administration (or a foreign one?) out there? Or is his name right under Gabbard’s in the contacts list?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

My hopeful theory is that some intern with access to his phone did it so their behavior would get exposed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I saw speculation about another person in the administration with the same initials. I think they work at the US Trade Representative (?).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I think the journalist just went by his initials as did a few other people in the chat, so it could be as dumb as just having someone with the same initials. Which is notably not how government systems work, for exactly the reason that you need to know exactly who you're communicating with and the system should make mistakes like this unlikely.

Obfuscating your identity makes sense of you're trying to talk to leakers or doing something shady and want to allow some deniability should the conversation be compromised. Which begs the question of why so many of them already had their Signal accounts set up that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe it was Moldbug but Waltz can't type with his thumbs very well.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When the most responsible person in the chat is the journalist added in error…

[–] MuAraeOracle 14 points 3 days ago

Somehow the kids knew they needed an adult in the room...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Every damn person on that chat was a giant fucking idiot and it's responsible for the data spill here with their collective agreement to use a non approved communication tool, taking about and continuing to talk about classified data on a unclassified environment, and then not self reporting they're were complete morons for violating security that a new hire would have known better than to do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I always forget how low the bar for "average" is. But for the average person to realize how epically stupid Trump and his goons are takes things like this to happen.

What gets me more depressed is that nearly 4.1 billion people on earth are below average.

We are governed by goobers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sadly this is hardly enough either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

100%. The entire time I was typing it, I thought, "events like this just expose the magnitude of the dark underbelly."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Thing is, they’re all fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The outlet also pointed out that Trump’s lack of social media posts suggested he was weighing his options.

He's having quiet time to reflect on the choices he's made or he's so senile that he can't think one thought at a time.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Shocking. You shitcan the infosec practices and human resources you've built up for decades, and then wonder why your new seive doesn't make a good bucket.

We've got some absolute geniuses running things here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I'm stealing this analogy

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