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Septua

(2,766 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:59 PM Mar 25

About the unintended message delivered to Jeffrey Goldberg...

Last edited Tue Mar 25, 2025, 09:03 PM - Edit history (1)

If you watched any of the Senate hearing today on the DOD clusterfck, what was more disturbing for me was the fact the "witnesses" didn't want to talk about it and when they did, the replies were word salad nonsense, skirting accountability. Even worse, Trump has minimized the obvious breach of national security and badmouthed Jeffrey Goldberg.

All of which further exposes the overall incompetence of the Trump administration and his undeniable, inarguable intention to transition our Constitutional Republic to some type of authoritarian or dictatorial regime.

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gab13by13

(27,973 posts)
2. The incompetence was sending it to Goldberg in their minds.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:07 PM
Mar 25

It sounds like they have been doing this for 2 months to avoid having to archive everything under the Record Keeping Act.

If documents are subpoenaed they won't have any documents to turn over.

DallasNE

(7,775 posts)
16. This Is Exactly The Issue
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 03:42 AM
Mar 26

This keeps happening because breaking the established processes carries no consequences because there is no enforcement. Start sending people to jail. That won’t happen as there is no ethics in government. Oaths are in place but nobody pays attention to the solemn oath they take.

EarthAbides

(278 posts)
4. Putin is pulling the strings
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:33 PM
Mar 25

They used Signal so that Putin could be in on the chat. Somebody in the administration is going to spill the beans sooner or later, hopefully before Dumpster Trump declares martial law.

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,056 posts)
6. This could be an opportunity to show the need for a strong Fourth Estate
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:14 PM
Mar 25

In this time when unqualified bootlickers are entrusted with the lives of our military.

IronLionZion

(48,729 posts)
9. None of them would admit it's wrong to use an unclassified platform
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:45 PM
Mar 25

and that's the core of the problem. They're so used to it they don't see any problem.

yardwork

(66,537 posts)
10. It's not so much incompetence as deliberate criminality.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:47 PM
Mar 25

They used a platform that allowed them to delete the text exchange. That's a violation of federal law. It means the evidence can't be subpoenaed.

That alone is evidence of deliberate criminality.

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
11. Lot of softening language in this post that I find disturbing.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:51 PM
Mar 25

"Breach," "incompetence," "indifference." You do realize you're talking about people who are openly Russian assets and have been in full insurrection against the United States for several years running? This is not a government.

They're not merely doing a job poorly. These are deliberate crimes by people who are on the other side of a war against this country's very existence.

Mossfern

(3,767 posts)
12. Absolutely true.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 05:10 PM
Mar 25

I've been wondering myself.
Why haven't people been saying that these are acts of Treason.

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
13. Exactly. I understand people's desire to normalize, but this is getting ridiculous.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:00 PM
Mar 25

We should ask prominent figures what line has to be crossed before they'll start using the T word, because it's been an undeniable fact about these bastards for a decade.

It's not like it's a subjective term: It's explicitly defined in the Constitution. As are the offices of the federal government, and a particular type of people (insurrectionists and supporters thereof) who are not allowed to be in them.

This regime is illegal on literally every level. Every...fucking...level.

The individuals in it are barred from office by the Constitution. They are guilty of Treason under the Constitution. They act fully outside the Constitution's definition of the offices they claim to have, and openly violate the rights of Americans defined by that Constitution.

They are not a government, and most certainly not ours.

Septua

(2,766 posts)
14. This is not a government
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 08:49 PM
Mar 25

I thought I made that point...

"All of which further exposes the overall incompetence of a Presidential administration and it's indifference to serious national leadership."

But, I'll edit it to stronger language...




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