The specific clusterfuck of discussing war plans over Signal, a consumer cellphone app

Hegseth’s response to his drunk-texting classified information is “NUH-UH!”

Since I don’t watch TV news, I’ve never seen Pete’s picture before. He really has TV-anchorman hair, doesn’t he? Abundant and wavy. I’ll bet Trump really envies him his hair.

Here’s somebody with an opinion:

If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/atlantic-hegseth-vance-houthis.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Not freaking likely.

And very likely only the first of many more fuckups to come.

You know who else thought he had God on his side?

It sounded better in its original German.

Of course they’ll screw up the TA-50 requirments for the soldiers sent there. They’ll be dressed for Hawai’i and wondering how it got so damn cold in a land called Green.

Dream on! They’ll just do it. Logic be damned!

Yet they’ve been preaching how they’re the party of all of family, etc. Quee Gertrude hit the nail on the head. They protest too much.

Dollars to donuts you’re thinking and praying the same things I am.

Remember how the loyal Nazis in 1945 fell in line to adore Karl Dönitz after Dolph blew his brains out? Me neither. That’s because they didn’t. This would be no different. Whatever hold Firxt Felon47 has on the cult will not transfer to Vance. And the Roberts court, as packed as it is, owes him nothing.

Got mittens? Why, yes, I do. But I don’t need to wear them now. The weather over here is rather nice, if a bit windy.

You know a situation is dreadful when Pete Buttigieg uses a public F bomb. And he was in the military.

You know, I can’t help but feel like there’s someone missing from this group who ought to be involved in deciding to bomb a foreign country. Some sort of presiding member, if you will. Presider? Presidary? Presbyter?

I’ll think of it later.

The Decider?

I completely agree. We’ve never seen any of the acolytes successfully take the reins.

And thank god for that.

So yeah, I’ll take Vance of the halfwit.

We seem to be getting closer to understanding how that whole “texting US war plans to a journalist” thing came to be in the first place:

A person close to the White House was even more blunt: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: [ed: National Security Adviser] Mike Waltz is a fucking idiot.”

And that’ll do it.

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Mike Waltz can rightly be blamed for adding Goldberg to the group chat, but that doesn’t excuse Hegseth from transmitting classified over an unapproved means. It also doesn’t excuse anyone else on the chat for not shutting the whole thing down as soon as it became apparent that classified was being shared on Signal.

In other words, they’re all fucking idiots.

Decider In Chief, aka the DIC

I think there are 23 categories of Academy Award (“Oscars”) given. I think we can break this one down into any number of valid categories :wink:

Also, maybe this is what Trump meant when he promised ‘the most transparent administration ever.’

That puts a pretty fine point on it.

I hear Susan Collins is concerned, in addition:

Former Louisiana Senator and known genius Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that this isn’t a big deal because “Americans aren’t losing sleep over this”. Not sure when that became the legal test for anything.

Good news is that Russians haven’t invested much effort into compromising the Signal app comms /s

AND the Russians have a subscription to The Atlantic! GASP!

Text STOP to unsubscribe from war plan updates.

What.

Former Louisiana Senator and known genius Robert F. Kennedy Jr

My mistake, it was another Louisiana Senator Kennedy. Must grow in trees down there.

RFK Jr. a was never a senator of any kind, Louisiana or otherwise.

John Kennedy is the gurning idiot Senator from Louisiana.