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In the normal world of 65 days ago, this would have led to multiple resignations in shame. If it were any other employees of the government, they would be looking at an FBI investigation, and possibly prison. But in this hellscape, Kash Patel is more concerned about a hippie holding a “swasticar” sign in front of a Tesla dealership, and Republicans are stumbling all over themselves to say it’s not a big deal, just a little oops! Like when a waiter tells you to enjoy your meal and you reply “you too.”

. . .We should say again, these are ALL people who should have never been texting anything but a grocery list on fucking Signal to begin with; the app is known to have been breached by Russian and Belarusian hackers, and the phones themselves could be hacked or intercepted. Also, it’s against federal records law. AND fucking WAR PLAN conversations should have been in a secure facility! For security! These rules exist for a reason! All things that every single person on that list ought to know. And they are ALL people who should have been like hey, wait a minute, who’s even in this Signal chat? Maybe hiring unqualified loyalist dipshits who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing and have little to no experience at their jobs was a bad idea?

And OH LOOK, Steve Witkoff was on there too, texting the most emojis of all, five in a row (two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags)! And guess where Steve Witkoff happened to be on Thursday, March 13? Why, in RUSSIA, getting choked up while Putin told him he’d prayed in church for Trump after he got shot in the ear. If every single emoji ever typed on Witkoff’s phone wasn’t captured by the time he got back on his plane with tears in his eyes, Russia is seriously slipping.

Ha ha! It's really bad! 😭

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago

Signal was not breached, individual users OPSEC was breached when they scanned a pairing QR code.

Still shouldn't have been used to share Intel, but signal itself is safe.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

Signal wasn't breached, don't scan sus QR codes.

[–] some_guy 3 points 3 days ago

Secretary Kegbreath

Everyone needs to adopt this. Absolutely awesome.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

This is what happens when you hire your drunk/druggie party friends instead of people who are educated and responsible. Bunch of con artists with HUGE egos.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Plus, there’s the remains-to-be-seen damage when trash-talk about our supposed allies gets out. And VP Butthair, Sec. Def. Boozehole and Nazi hair-club dropout Miller had lots of trash-talking to do about Europe, and how keeping the Suez Canal safe to help Europe was the last thing they wanted to accomplish.

Vance: “I just hate bailing Europe out again.” Hegseth: “VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”

Chimed in Miller: “Green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.”

What do “we” expect in return for doing them a favor that they did not ask for? Bag of money emoji? Whatever it is sure sounds damn sleazy.

For the record, President Joe Biden also carried out airstrikes on the Houthis, and with the cooperation and help of Europe. The US could have asked for that this time too, instead of doing it all alone and then bitching about never getting any help.

. . . Let us also not snooze here on how Trump truly did not seem to know that the whole text-chain-to-the-reporter thing had even happened. Why not? Jeffrey Goldberg emailed the National Security Council for confirmation, so somebody should have made Trump aware before the story was published. Were they scared to bring him bad news? Whatever happened, Poppy seemed genuinely confused about it. “I know nothing about it [...] you’re saying they had whut?”

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt is insist-lying that “no classified material was sent to the thread.” You know, except for the classified material that the National Security Council confirmed was sent to the thread, of course.