This is the joke we tell each other in Poland now after Trump got elected:

Help, my dears, drama.
A cousin from the US writes that his mother-in-law is in the US illegally. The cousin loves his mother-in-law very much. He even rented her a beautiful apartment in Brooklyn and says that is very afraid that Trump's agents will find her in this apartment at 1250 Pacific St corner of Nostrand Ave on the 3rd floor.

One of the takeaways from the leak of the Houthi airstrike group chat, besides the obvious security failure, is the competency and deliberative process shown. They were debating the merits and breaking it down into granular arguments and nobody was staking ideological positions just searching for the best plans

Ah yes, besides using a Signal group with people they don't know they were insanely competent.

That is not a "security failure", that is a "I am incredibly unqualified for the job I have" failure. Turns out firing people because they are black and then hiring white people with zero competence has consequences, who would have thought. Nice attempt at spinning it to something else tough

Would I rather have leaders who perfectly dot every i and cross every t on protocol and then go out and fuck up foreign policy with insane plots, or would I rather have leaders who buttdial people once in a while but spend their time deliberating on the most rational course of action and concern themselves with every stakeholder. We've had our fair share of the former

Your post doesn't make much sense when checked against reality. Why would a newly hired worker jeopardize their position by leaking an air through the engine story? I agree this raises concerns about intelligence security, but are we are at more concerning levels than Biden and his Admin? They couldn't even find coke criminal in the White House.

Or, perhaps this was intentional. The content of the leak amounts to nothing that hasn't already been said.


Also, have you had time to check the DOGE gov source yet?

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Mar 25 2025 04:29am

DOGE: As I said in my last post I checked two huge savings and they were not wasteful and none of yoh provoded a single link for an actual wasteful spending that was cut and saved al ot of money - one was just lies from Musk and Trump that even DOGE does not want to repeat and the other was 80k a year for WSJ which is not even a drop in an ocean of money.

It is extremely incompetent to leak military plans in a group Chat, noclue what you are trying to argue. If Biden did that every one of you would have been screeching about his unfitness due to dementia until the end of times but suddenly being absolutely terrible at your job is no big deal to you.

>shit that doesn't actually impact direction of government or policy
>shit that decides the fate of the world and direction of the american empire

somehow I feel these two categories shouldn't be conflated

Kinda feel like the most powerful country on earth should be able to achieve both without such embarrassing blunders tbh.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/stunning-signal-leak-reveals-depths-of-trump-administrations-loathing-of-europe

While it's incredibly dumb that this got leaked, I don't disagree with the general sentiment that Europe has gotten lazy over the years. Hopefully England and France follow in Germanys path.

This post was edited by duffman316 on Mar 25 2025 05:56am

It's funny how easy it is to appease a narcissist

The Kremlin confirmed Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted to U.S. President Donald Trump a portrait he commissioned of the U.S. president.

Putin gave the painting to Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Moscow earlier this month, the Russian president’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said in a response to a journalist’s question, declining further comment.