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So after Sec Def Hegseth denied posting classified info in the leaked Signal chat, the Atlantic has released more screenshots of him describing the full play-by-play warplan:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
Also, looks like it might have been Waltz's deputy Alex Wong who accidentally e-vited Goldberg to the chat:
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1904883964072124642
What gets me is that none of this even matters anymore, so I don't get the big deal made over it.
When you've refused to concede a national election, your supporters have stormed the central seat of government, and you've then not only been allowed to run again but been resoundingly re-elected, why would something like this be even a ripple? I'm surprised even right-wing rags like the NY Post have this at the top. What do they think will be the outcome of any of this? Trump already said he's not firing Waltz. The GOP will remain dutifully silent. The public sure as shit don't care.
Yeah, in 2012, this would've been career-ending for everyone involved, but these are different times. Absolutely nothing comes of this.
I can’t believe the Trump team has only been in power for a few months now. It already feels like a years worth of events have happened.
It’s going to be a looooong presidential term. Buckle up.
That's because of information warfare.
Look, you think the Biden White House wasn't an absolute fucking shit show? They kept a lid on his dementia the entire time, and only after the debate did three years of stories all deluge the news all at once. Imagine a hostile media and a hostile deep state, instead of keeping a tight lid on all these stories, leaking about the naked incompetence of the president for 3 years straight. If instead of attacking people pointing out the moments when Biden was obviously demented in public, accusing them of hateful rhetoric and making fun of the poor president's stutter, they uncritically amplified them?
I don't want to say it's all fake. It's not. But your perception is being heavily abused.
I think that the shitshow-level of the current administration is appreciably larger than the last, both in frequency and spectacle. Trump administration fuck ups often do have some parallels to fuck ups from previous administrations, but more often than not, the comparisons obscure just how strange some of these people act.
It’s not just the fuck up, but the whole response: total refusal to accept any responsibility, blatant lying about what happened, the defensiveness, which comes off as childish rather than masculine. None of this is surprising, given that Trump filled his administration this time around with sycophants and media personalities. It makes for great TV though.
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