What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Brain]

States cannot be admitted to the US by presidential diktat.

If Trump ever pulls the trigger we'll find out.

[Norgy]

The editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote in an article published on Monday that he was mistakenly added to the text chat on the commercial messaging app Signal by Michael Waltz, the national security adviser.

Good, that's an honest mistake.

It was an extraordinary breach of American national security intelligence. Not only was the journalist inadvertently included in the group, but the conversation also took place outside of the secure government channels that would normally be used for classified and highly sensitive war planning.

Mr. Goldberg said he was able to follow the conversation among senior members of President Trump's national security team in the two days leading up to the strikes in Yemen. The group also included Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Mr. Goldberg wrote.

At 11:44 a.m. on March 15, Mr. Hegseth posted the "operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing," Mr. Goldberg wrote. "The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East."

In an interview, Mr. Goldberg said that "up until the Hegseth text on Saturday, it was mainly procedural and policy texting. Then it became war plans, and to be honest, that sent a chill down my spine."

Mr. Goldberg did not publish the details of the war plans in his article.

No backsies on Hegseth. He is all yours.

[Solmyr]

But her emails!

[Sheilbh]

Total aside - but I genuinely think messaging apps have had a serious bad impact on our politics and media.

Again me being crotchety and conservative - and in this case lawyerly - but I'm just not sure chat functionality is good for decision making. And I think it can help create a momentum of its own. Both points seen across UK government WhatsApp messages during the covid response (the Scottish government WhatsApps were being deleted every 24 hours so we don't know what went on there) - and also, from what I've heard, just the general feverishness and focus on the who's up/who's down/who's in a scandal side of Westminster. As ever - I very much doubt there's anything particularly unique about the UK on this.

[Sophie Scholl]

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[Richard Hakluyt]

I find it interesting how much Vance hates Europe. Perhaps he was treated as an uncultured yokel on a vacation to Paris or something?

[Legbiter]

I find it interesting how much Vance hates Europe. Perhaps he was treated as an uncultured yokel on a vacation to Paris or something?

Yeah MAGA hates Europeans with the seething fury of a "Global South" thirdie.

[Norgy]

The what now?

[Neil]

What's a 'thirdie'?

[HVC]

he likes coming up with new slurs. i assume its someone from the third world.

[Sheilbh]

As someone who has a lot of sympathy with old school Third Worldism, it always makes me sad how that term got to be abused and misunderstood

[Razgovory]

he likes coming up with new slurs. i assume its someone from the third world.

I think these come from Alt-Right sources or 4chan or something.  I have to look up all these weird terms he uses.  This is what I found on this one


That really raise more questions than it answers.