I was putting together a different sort of commentary about the Musk-Trump occupation government, (Tusk? Mrump? Mump?) but the thing we have to address now is that the Trump Cabinet had a meeting over Signal, a commercial, non-government service, over personal phones, to plot a strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz invited The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg in on the chat. This led to an expose that has since been called “Signalgate”, in keeping with the post-Nixon standard of attaching “gate” to any scandalous government event which once might have been cause for making officials resign but is now just business as usual.
We can tell this because just a day or so after the Atlantic story, most of these officials were called upon to testify on Capitol Hill on what would have otherwise been a scheduled briefing, and denied under oath that they had revealed classified data. Fox News himbo and accidental Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.” So The Atlantic then revealed the full transcript of the chat server, listed as “Houthi PC small group” which clearly showed that Hegseth and the Cabinet were, in fact, coordinating a military strike over Signal. (Houthi PC Small Group would be a great name for a punk band, by the way.) Goldberg’s transcript also confirms that Mike Waltz invited him to the Signal chat. Of course since Republicans are the Trump Party, they are not going to do anything about the officials lying under oath on matters that in the past would have gotten people electrocuted.
Milblogger Jake Broe shared a social media post from Piers Morgan saying, “If you don’t consider this to be classified info about imminent war plans, it * may * be that you’re too partisan to recognize the truth when it slaps you around your tribal chops. If this had happened on Biden’s watch, Republicans would have rightly gone berserk.”
Piers Fucking Morgan, people. Who has never met a Republican ass he didn’t kiss.
Vice President Trump, of course, told reporters that he knew little of the details or whether the discussion was classified data. “Eh, I’m just the most powerful guy in the world who demands complete loyalty and obedience from everybody under me, that don’t mean I know what they’re doin’.” But then, plausible deniability is a lot more plausible when you’re senile.
Just today, Keith Olbermann’s podcast had the headline, “THEY USED SIGNAL TO BYPASS TRUMP THEY KNOW HE’S GOING CRAZY“. Now on one hand this could be more Olbermann raving, but seriously: If you were trying to keep the lights on in a house run by King Ook-Ook Gorilla, how much would you want him to know?
I am not sure what is worse, the fact that the Musk-Trump regime is obviously traitorous and fascist, or the fact that they’re so fucking bad at it.
Of course Hegseth and the others sneered that this was all ginned up by a biased mainstream journalist. But that gets to my take, which I’m not sure anyone else has addressed yet. We know that the Trump Party, which is really the Putin Party, does not consider Russia the enemy. We also know that they do consider the mainstream Liberal Media to be the real enemy. So that raises the question: If you don’t care about letting classified data into the hands of authoritarian governments, why don’t you care about letting it into the hands of liberal journalists? The cabinet failed to practice data security against the real enemy, and that is the failure.
If I were a Trumpnik right now, I would be looking at myself in the mirror and asking why I should support people who are counterproductive even to my goals.
What this all means, ladies and gentlemen, is good news and bad news. The good news: When, presumably not if, Trump dies, Democrats will get back in charge. That was less likely given the returns on the last election, not to mention demographics turning against Democrats in both the Electoral College and Senate races. But now that the Putin Party is going after Social Security people will know who’s responsible. And when Democrats are in control of Congress, they will do investigations and launch prosecutions of all these malicious bumblefucks, perhaps aided by some pro-military Republicans who would no longer be in fear of Trump’s literal personality cult.
The bad news is, the Putin Party is fully aware of that future, and that is why they are making all the radical changes they are making as quickly as they are, because they know that in a normal democracy they would be reversed on the next go-around which is why they’re trying to trying to make sure there are no free and fair elections again and why they’re trying to accelerate from mere Turkiye/Hungary style strongman regime to full blown dictatorship. That’s why they’re sending ICE on public raids to round up anybody who disagrees with them, even if they’re “accidentally” white people or American citizens. The problem, of course, is the execution of the agenda. I mean, clearly they are planning to create a goon squad but how well is it going to work when the rank-and-file don’t know what the hell their orders are and what the hell their superiors are doing?