If he is so well known for these things, according to her, then why was he invited to the chat? Not to mention that the whole thing skirts government record keeping and foia laws. Bunch of morons.

All that said, as things like this are exposed, the fact that it’s being reported so clearly proves that it’s not all a doomed lost cause. Some media will ride the ad revenue, but there’s still ethical journalists out there. The perpetrators are forced to defense and must react to exposing sunlight.

Looking at it as a whole, and considering all that has happened so far, it’s possible they’ve moved too quickly with many foreign and domestic policy pivots. The bad may just pile up faster than can be dealt with in this regime of Cohen style media manipulation.

Someone has weighed the consequences of this signal leak and it is, somehow, the least of their problems. Not much of a choice but the reaction and defense so far seems notably weak. Predictably, GOP party leadership continues with the lockstep double down and will “repeat it until it’s true”.

The denials by Hegseth, the blame and whataboutism by others like Waltz are par for the course. They’re going to try to ride this to pave over several things that include the El Salvador prison and the trade war (specifically the news cycle leading up to April 2). Things can always get worse.

Yes, this is bad. They’ve most likely been using this as an insecure tool to communicate about who knows what before this reporting. What’s worse is that the pattern is to pile up so much bad that every new thing and previously bad thing ends up as normal business.

Of course, how could I forget Mike Waltz. Oh and the speaker of the house. Definitely can’t forget about him. We need a top 20 or 30 list. My top five is lacking.

Homan, Bondi, Noem, Hegseth and Steve "Coulda been duped" Witkoff. Someone else should be emerging from the pack to take the lead soon. Maybe we'll get some more Noem cosplay before the week is done!

The cruelty is the point.

This is weakness.