Some people have been asking, why are some people so upset about the forms of communication and not the fact that the US bombed near a hundred people to death? Why are people hung up on court orders and civil rights? Why do people care what DOGE is doing, when Republicans just got massive tax cuts sent to the Senate?
The reason people are so upset about Signalgate and not so much the bombings, the reason people are upset about Trump defying court orders and not so much the tax breaks or actual immigration policy, the reason people care whether DOGE bros have security clearance, have actual authority and follow procedure is this:
If you don't have rule of law, policy discussion is moot. If you don't have competent professionals in place, anything can happen very quickly, the functioning of the state will erode, and even if you get in power you can't just change policy and go back to where you were. The structures they are destroying every day took a century to build up.
When Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton were bombing people, you could always say, well, I wi
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Some people have been asking, why are some people so upset about the forms of communication and not the fact that the US bombed near a hundred people to death? Why are people hung up on court orders and civil rights? Why do people care what DOGE is doing, when Republicans just got massive tax cuts sent to the Senate?
The reason people are so upset about Signalgate and not so much the bombings, the reason people are upset about Trump defying court orders and not so much the tax breaks or actual immigration policy, the reason people care whether DOGE bros have security clearance, have actual authority and follow procedure is this:
If you don't have rule of law, policy discussion is moot. If you don't have competent professionals in place, anything can happen very quickly, the functioning of the state will erode, and even if you get in power you can't just change policy and go back to where you were. The structures they are destroying every day took a century to build up.
When Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton were bombing people, you could always say, well, I wish they didn't do that, but the US has put itself in the shoes of world police, and a lot of factors have to be weighed, you don't want to leave a power vacuum, yada, yada. Rumsfeld could say "mistakes were made", and it was obviously a cop-out, but still you could have the feeling that it's complicated, difficult decisions are made, and we don't have all the information. Innocents were killed, but to some extent it was still people who lived by the sword that died by the sword, many people in the world, even if not all, could realistically make a choice not to get caught in the crossfire. The rules were unfair and one-sided, but there were rules.
But with these people? They aren't taking anything seriously. They don't know and don't care to know how to run a country. They don't know and don't want to know how to talk to foreign leaders and build trust and alliances. They are fucking toddlers and frat bros with nukes, and that's more terrifying than anything.
In the #intelligence hearing, Rep #JoaquinCastro, #Democrat of Texas, took issue with the intelligence officials saying the information in the #Signal chat on the #Houthi strikes was not #classified. “You all know that’s a lie,” he said. “It’s a lie to the country.”
Asked if #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz owed an apology, #Trump said, “I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best.”
Trump added that he thinks “we won’t be using it very much,” referring to the #Signal app.
#Waltz said the team is looking into “how in the heck” a journalist ended up in a group text chain on the Signal app where top ofcls were discussing plans for #military strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthi rebels in #Yemen.
