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Mark Wauck's avatar

So, Hegseth arguing for going ahead and bombing Yemen:

"Nobody [in America] knows who the Houthis are, so [we can just say] Biden failed and Iran funded them."

Pretty cynical way to go about killing people and selling it to the American public.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Yeah, that Hegseth is a brilliant warrior. /sarc

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Stephen McIntyre's avatar

At a minimum I would say that Mike waltz and Pete Hegseth probably should be fired.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

They’ll be praised for such brave actions in support of Israel.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Everyone take note... please check all your Signal groups you're a part of and remove any improper participants immediately.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

When Goldberg learned of these plans why wasn't he put in a temporary restraining order by a liberal judge?

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Joe's avatar

But we will soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return

Interesting for Egypt has had prior conflict with Yemen, but on this one appears to be only a FINANCIAL conflict eg: Reported: Egypt’s Suez Canal revenue decreased some 50% in 2024 (from $9 billion annually to around $4 billion) due to Yemen bombing

This writing publicized By Hegsworth has to be very troubling to Egypt The Egyptians are already on edge, I imagine the Egyptian Civilians are not happy their government is working with the US to bomb Yemen and/or will be paying for it in part

I was very surprised to read it, very surprised Egypt is supporting bombing Yemen

And just another example the Mid East will apparently never support each other, and then when part of Egypt is later taken by Israel Egypt will complain.

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Jeff Martineau's avatar

New Digital Paradigm: there are no secrets or hiding (even if you try) anymore, and they know this. The language used indicates this and provides certain advantages. There is nothing to hide in this case.

They are doing things openly that others kept in the shadows. See every single press conference/interview they do.

There is no “trusting” at this point, so no point in operating on that basis. Trust, if it happens, comes down the road.

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ML's avatar

Nowhere to hide, very good point.

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ML's avatar

…which leads me to suspect this was all done on purpose…

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Mark Hazard's avatar

Signal! That's like asking planes and shit Boeing to build you a 6th Generation fighter. The Russian / Chinese / Iranian IC listening in should flag them for bullshit.

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Lyon's avatar

They added Jeff Goldbergmansteinowitz on purpose to make sure the World knows how much they hate Europe and UK.

I think it's a funny troll.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

BTW, I got my car back. The dealership told me that a fuse was blown during the software upgrade--it was clear to me that something happened at that time. They also told me that the same thing happened to one of their employees over the weekend, who had the same model and did the same upgrade--which just came out. Either there's something tricky about the upgrade process or the upgrade itself is flawed. But either way shouldn't the parent company have caught this? If it's true what they're saying this could be happening across the country.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Well if you own an Audi or VW you'll immediately understand why the parent company hasn't caught on.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Ha! Very shrewd.

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Where do I go to apply for political asylum, asylum from this insane government?

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Canada or Greenland I presume.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Republic of Texas might be making a comeback, eh, Tex?

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Texas Khaan's avatar

If I were really The Great Khaan, things would be very difficult for political morons in or near my Empire .

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Steghorn21's avatar

They should move on to Onlyfans, because only the true MAGA fans of Team Trump are going to like where this is all goiong.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

I have to question this as an accident. You've got Mike Walz letting Jeffrey Goldberg into a Signal chat for a classified information discussion? Either this guy is utterly incompetent or it was on purpose. "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to my right, he we are stuck in the middle with you, Trump!" This another clown show, but this time the world really is on the line.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Fire that arse.

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SMH's avatar

That loud thud you heard was my jaw hitting the floor! Apparently Laurel and Hardy would be an upgrade🙄

Damn, with the Biden crowd gone I thought we were through with this kinda crap, but, my enthusiasm was premature.

Amateur hour remains in place.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Better hire Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Or Curly, Larry, and Moe.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Let's hope that it was just an elaborate operation to deliver a message to the Europeans. Otherwise, everything about it is very bad for the US.

Fox News should be interesting tonight.

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SMH's avatar

Jeff: I sincerely hope that you are right, but that seems pretty convoluted, especially considering that the VP was perfectly willing to call the Europeans out to their faces.

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ML's avatar

…and whose brilliant idea was it to send Usha (spelling?), JD’s wife, to Greenland?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Diversity?

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Martin Rossol's avatar

I’ll take an adult. Almost any adult; this string sounds like bunch of teenagers!!! (I hope this is not psyops, to get 'us' to turn on each other...)

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Manul's avatar

Why were these conversations conducted on Signal? Signal is not to be used as a substitute for using appropriately encrypted communications for national security discussions.

Reading the conversation, it seems it was classified. So there is a release of classified information by a person who probably was not authorized to receive classified information (the Atlantic reporter) to the public who is certainly not authorized.

This is bad judgement by all those involved and there appear to be violations of the law.

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History Lass's avatar

Tulsi and Vance at a minimum should have caught this egregious screw up.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

And Hegseth. And any other "senior officials" that Goldberg claims that he emailed for verification.

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