If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.
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What a clusterF&*%k of a disaster. But will there be any consequences? No, of course not. Bet Trump doesn’t even say “oops!”
A name comes to mind - Reality Winner The smoke must be pouring out of her ears.
Absolutely anyone transmitting classified information regardless of by accident or on purpose gets the same response which is to immediately be taken into custody. Ok FBI do your job!!!!
Highly suspect abt it being an accident. Maybe these nazi's just wanna brag covertly? Oopsie, here's our game plan. Coming to a country near you soon.
Imagine if was Kamala or Biden ?
Lions led by DONKEYS !!!!
It's almost as if they want the info out there. That, or they're just too fkg stupid to be competent.
Incompetence was the whole point of appointing Hegseth.
Except that they're funneling more money to the DoD and their own wallets by destroying other agencies. How is a show pony suckup a means to an end? I don't get it.
Instead of thinking of Hegseth as merely incompetent, remember that he's also a loyalist. Between him and the newly appointed 3-star [White] General as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Trump is preventing a military threat to his administration and keeping it strong against any resistance.
Seems like loyalist is the only thing he has going for him. Makes more sense with the newly appointed general the brains of the operation. I didn't know he was a trump suckup.
General MAGA is a YUGE Twitler suck up!
Crystal clear now👍
So I guess incompetence was MOST of the point, not all of it.
Oh no, installing loyalists was the whole point. The incompetence is simply an inevitability when pairing loyalists with a syphilitic imbecile such as Twitler.
Yes, I know it's the whole point....I just didn't know about the general. From now on I should just assume.
Bingo; this is the most incompetent administration ever assembled. Their idiocy will shine through.
1. They're laser-focused on the US Treasury. 2. Fuck up federal agencies to claim they don't work. 3. Privatize federal agencies to make more money for the rich. 4. No Lives Matter except for the rich. Only Rich Lives Matter. 5. Exhaust people so they don't fight anymore. WE HAVE THE POWER👊🇺🇲
Exactly!
Yes. The latter.
Well said- following you 💙
Same
There will likely be a sacrificial underling.
Is being drunk an acceptable excuse?
They are infinitely more likely to imprison the reporter.
If they accidentally bring their phone into a SCIF without even turning it on, they can be brought up on charges. But Congresscritters stormed a SCIF and had a pizza party without consequence, and now this. I guess accountability is only for plebs...
He will end up blaming it on Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, and Doctor McGillicuddy.
More likely Captain Morgan and Sailor Jerry!
Even if he does blame alcohol then he still needs to face the consequences of his actions. If he’s still alive after that then he can go for addiction treatment.
#endthegop and save the world! Seriously, We gotta unseat, tar and feather these dangerous fks before they get us nuked....
All the conservatives, not just the GOP.
Great way to inspire loyalty in your troops. Let’s see how that goes down.
Exactly! The level of complete incompetence is astounding! Can you even imagine what would have happened if this was done during Biden or Obama's administration? GOP would have gone ballistic.
HE WILL SOBER UP.....MAYBE!
Republicans care so little about our country that they want drunk imbeciles to be in charge of our security
The peculiar idea is that aren’t they also the part of US? Don’t they live in the US? Doesn’t the national security also matter to their security? I am not able to get their logic.
Yes, also their grandkids live here too. You would think they would care
tRump has already surrendered to Ruzzia, and Elmo is in bed with China. The only powder keg left to worry about is the mid-east, and one can presume that they are leaving that up to Netanyahu
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Remember the fuss the Republicans made over Hillary’s email
Be fair, Charlotte! You can't hold Pete Hegseth responsible for stuff he does while he's drunk.
Boom!
A big giant sign he’s still drinking
idk… the article says it was Michael Waltz who created the group. No one seemed to look over the list of participants after a roll-call that was made early in the convo. Not that Pete isn’t likely still well in the sauce, but it seems like incompetence is just rampant over there.
Paging Doctor Feel Good- it was the way of that regime last time -I’m calling it- he’s a fucking drunk because deep down he knows he’s incompetent but his toxic pride wants to pretend otherwise-
Oh, totally.
You’re more right though- this was a group effort
He's not any smarter when he's sober.
Would never claim as such but the fact is he’s got a serious substance abuse issue -it’s well known and it will make the dummies dumber
So…..how drunk was he????
Blood test please!
This isn’t even a hypothetical.
“We are currently clean on OPSEC.” 😂🤣
we should still push for it!!
“Lock him up - lock him up”
He should
His defense would be, “but I was drunk.”
And this is exactly what needs to happen. This is just insane. These people are incapable of running this country in any form. These are the mistakes that are not forgivable. Resist ✊️
….was he sober?
Probably. He’s not smart.
So how many times does a maga incompetent get before they’re actually deemed incompetent? Asking for a friend.
No consequences for Hegseth or anyone else on that chat. The GOP certainly won’t do a damn thing unless their daddy tells them it’s ok.
They’d never get out of prison. But Pete is a legacy, so it’s ok.
Probably not.
He will get pardoned.
Likely spend time in Leavenworth??
Old Pete is sure doing a fine job isn’t he. Anybody in charge checking his water bottle to be sure it’s water in there and not booze?
Just another day in the trump white house. Crimes and inappropriate actions, non stop.
I am wondering what he has been sending to Fox News that we aren’t aware of.
Exactly what you could expect. Imagine what the discord server is like.
The last sentence in your post signals that we are not a country of laws. I am enraged about that. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves at the ignorance of this fact.
Did anyone else notice that the journalist was the only one in the chat group that understood that it was completely inappropriate (not to mention illegal!) to be discussing military operations on an insecure platform? 🤔😳
The journalist was the only one that understood anything. The rest are all morons . Trumps kinda people.
Mike Johnson: Silly Democrats, consequences are for libs
They'd be in the stockade immediately. Every government agency would be probing up their ass immediately..
Who gets to decide whether or not he is investigated and prosecuted.
But we can hope
Clearly,he has to regive-up drinking or texting...
Different spanks for different ranks.
I’m a private citizen, I sent an email to the wrong Stephanie at work & got hauled into a meeting & investigated. My email contained NO confidential/secret info, just a questionnaire to be completed. I was wrong, should’ve been more careful, & probably got more of a reprimand than what will happen
You’re probably right!
Does anybody feel that things are building to a breaking point?
@papst-ny.bsky.social
Sounds about right!
They are ALL guilty
I’m thinking Hegseth was drunk again
They’ll double down and say it’s the Atlantic’s fault, as usual. What happened to “Fire all DEI hires”? Add DUI hires to that.
I agree.
Where's the outrage? The calls for an investigation & a congressional hearing where Secretary Kremlin & Couch F***er have to testify for hours on end to explain why they're re using a non governmental approved messaging app to discuss top secret plans as Reps demanded of Hilary & her emails!
The Republicans are the worst, most disgraceful and treacherous bunch of hypocritical bastards!
I second this. We destroyed Hillary Clinton for her private email server debacle and yet, somehow, this is acceptable? What hypocrites. It was always about power at the expense of the American people's interests.
Reps live by double standards. The only God they believe in is the Almighty Dollar which they Worship at the altar of Hypocrisy.The Dems should be all over this getting as much air time decrying this & calling out Reps as being soft & incompetent on National Security, F.P & cant keep Americans safe!
All representatives and senators have accounts on that other social media platform. As much as some of us don’t want to use that platform, that’s where all of the members of the legislature have accounts. Bombard them publicly with messages about this!
This incident leads folks with functioning brains to wonder what it will take for the convicted felon to fire the DUI hire. Hegseth is a walking national security risk.
For Hegseth this is just another day at the office.. he doesn't and never had to pay attention to the guardrails. KKKing Trump will forgive him as Hegseth will continue to have fealty to his monarch and he will get rid of all this "woke" nonsense..
Nope, now we look like fools under the current administration!
Ya party boy is exempt.
Is he drunk again?
His punishment will be to make him wait until 3 PM to start drinking
Exactly. There would a severe punishment for any military person. They would probably lose their position too if they couldnt be trusted with such information.
Absolute dangerous levels of incompetence
Inept, incompetent and effing stupid. These folks can’t be trusted with play dough or finger paint😱
Well, in his defense, he was drunk at the time.
It's not over yet.
Suggestion put a breathalyzer on the phone used to call NORAD
This is a political ad in the making! Shout it!
Hegseth is the epitome of screwup! Look it up there's a picture of Hegseth!
IMO, Hegseth is a classic REMF. I know the reference is a bit dated, but they've been there in every conflict. Poem from WW1
Who was that kid who was sharing classified info in a discord b/c he needed the internet clout? Didn't he plead guilty for something like 10-15 years instead of gambling with 50+ on a not guilty plea? But Hegseth likes the taste of boot, so he'll be just fine.
Jack Teixeira. He’s doing 15 years.
Probably not. But we can hope. And maybe some of the cult will start to see what utter morons they are following. Probably too much to hope for though.
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I suppose, in normal times, this would be met with resign or be fired. These are far from normal times.
Especially with a name like Pete Hegseth and not Jack Teixeira.
I'm tempted to drop an R word on that fool, but I won't sink that low.
Administration of 🤡🤬💩🤡💨
18 U.S. Code § 798 - Disclosure of classified information Violation. All trying to avoid a FOIA request.
Proving we are on our own
If you call the White House and ask nicely they may give you the launch codes
Use a Russian accent for better service.
Stupid is as Stupid does 🤪😜🤣
4 scotches into the morning.
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Hickup, burp.
One time I accidentally forwarded an email to the wrong distribution list when I woke up at 3:00AM. It contained no confidential information, it was a schedule for safety checks. I was promptly demoted for that and my salary was reduced by 15K. If a corporation can do that, the govt should.
Didn't some low level military guy expose secrets to gamers and get prosecuted?
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What can luck leak. Thank God forvthat
There was that kid on the cape who is in prison today and reality winner went to prison too for leaking one document
Time for the Double Standard Two Step. Grab your partner.
He just has to buy the next round.
Note to another inexperienced unqualified incompetent employee of the convicted felon and adjudicated sexual rapist sociopath 🤡 . But hey, not her emails ...
Put on some pants!
I agree but if he doesn't at least resign, another sign we have become predominantly autocratic country.
Well he was probably drunk so no we shouldn't punish him. But burn a tesla and your a damn terrorist.
We live in hope.
DUI is DEI?
It must be! There’s surely also some penalty for lying to Congress just as an added bonus! Remember that he was going to quit drinking if he got this job! The fact that the Senate confirmed him has allowed this to happen!
USA 2025 💩⚫️
Fire his ass
Exactly. It's time to remove Petey from his position—the Peter principle in action.
It's either "boys will be boys," or "he's still learning," or "you can't always bat 1000." There's always an excuse for why their incompetence is fine, and everyone else calling them on it is the true problem...
And of course Mr ‘The buck stops here’ Trump continues to use his usual lame excuses, ie ‘I knew nothing about it but I trust those guys …’ Like all the Cabinet and Staff who were ‘the best people’ who got fired during term 1?This term, he sold hispower to the oligarchs for his get-out-ofJail card.
When I was a student co-op engineer for the USAF, I was told in a security on-boarding briefing that I would be prosecuted for leaving the office with my *phone book* in my bag. Fire them. Arrest them. Prosecute them. Instead, they'll probably arrest Goldberg and try to bankrupt his attorneys.
How many drinks did he promise not to have before he did it?
Is there a Betty Ford clinic in Leavenworth?
Pete among others had better watch out because they are putting a lot of battle-hardened murderous ex-soldiers in a bad position right now. I certainly wouldn't want that category of soldier pissed at me
Reality Winner is comparatively a saint!
What was he thinking? (Drinking)
one of my best friends was in a signal company, top secret clearances, in west germany, at the height of the cold war, 1981-83. if he had done anything close to this, he'd still be under Leavenworth.
I'm married to similar (NBC) he just finished reading the Atlantic piece, he's lying down due to chest pains.
Just more proof we have two justice systems. One for the rich and connected and one for ever one else.
This is definitely The Bad News Bears of an administration! SMH
Can’t help but wonder if he was drinking.
Yup. They ain't fuck around about OPSEC. Even if it's just training. The fact that the drunkard will likely get away with it with no repercussions, irks the SHIT outta me.
Hhmmm, Teixeria is looking for a roomy!
Trump kept classified documents in a bathroom at Mar a Lago, where his international guests could get to them and HE wasn't charged, thanks to the corruption on SCOTUS. So Hegseth won't even have a lecture.
Didn't bother his boss
Hegsot
As long as you keep kissing the ring, you're safe.
& have the mal classified documents been returned?
When do you think GOP senators & congressmen will request field sobriety testing? Before or after he gets people in the field killed thru incompetence?
It’s all about minimisation with the Trump regime, unless it’s someone they don’t like - then it’ll likely be a one-way ticket to an El Salvadoran hellhole prison…
Upcoming NYT headline - “Secretary of Defense uses a means to share war plans that some of his political opponents criticize as unorthodox”
Fuck this administration, we WILL get justice for all their crimes.
It should at least be grounds for rescinding their security clearance. Spillage is a serious issue and the policies are clear. Lives are at stake. National security anyone? Literally the lives of all military involved are at risk. Not to mention they should be in jail for divulged national security.
Your probably right 🤬
Well he enjoys being under the Trump's Fuck Up Umbrella, nothing will ever happen to them. If Dems ever get in power again some old fart will shrug and let's let this go so we can work together crap.
Do you know how much information has "accidentally" been leaked out! P.S. I've met a lot of V.I.P. people, too include secret service...🙊🙉🙈
Anyone else remembering this?https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/mar/31/Iraqandthemedia.broadcasting1
Hmm no but I remember Reality Winner.
But, but her emails!
Holy shit!
The “free-loading” thing bewilders me. The U.S. has made the *policy choice* to maintain a worldwide Navy & network of military bases. Are these Trump dilettantes suggesting they want Europe to create competing Navy+bases? Why would the U.S. want that, esp. with Trump alienating our (true) allies?
Yes. They are really that stupid. Especially JD. He is annoying enough to annoy Stephen Miller. Which is why, as a European, I will add praying for DJT not choking eating a burger to my evening prayer.
Trump will award him stock in Trump Media
He’s still at happy hour. #FireHegseth
So this is how our New National Security under MAGA, Musk, and Hegseth allows anyone to see and know about our military strategy! Espionage Act Law being broken here by highest MAGA executives! youtu.be/H1eFV_5XTWk?...
This is probably worse than Teixeira.
The law applies to everyone tho. This was not a sarcastic post.... obviously it comes across that way, but it's a true statement.... or was.
Accountabilty does not exist in this administration.
The fact that it's all public now makes it even worse. A security leak with consequences. Embarrassing to the United States.
LEAK! Fire Alarm! Devastating. Enough of Trump sycophants, tattooed Christian nationalist frat boys, Stepford debutants, or zealous FOX-schooled political snipers who will do great harm to the country! Leaders in Pre-Trump Nat-Security, Intelligence, Military--real adults-need to reassure security..
It just gets added to the pile of embarrassments.
It’s going to be a long four years.
Indeed.
Everyone single individual who took part in that Signal chat were knowingly in violation of the espionage act. Signal is not a secure messaging platform for SCIF only information
Also, Trump promised to prosecute leakers so...
Not Republican leakers, though.
Previously I mentioned re-instating Lloyd Austin, however I discovered he mocked the judge for blocking the transgender ban and I'm not about to support Lloyd Austin if he's transphobic. Until I learn more, I'm withdrawing my opinion on Austin. But we need Hegseth out. Gotta be a better option.
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Very good idea. I just called my senator and spoke to a staffer about my concern about this.
Thank you so much for reaching out!
I think a firing squad was mentioned…
He’ll claim it was a drunk text so technically not a leak.
But it occurred over days
You say that like it discounts the previous post.
Are you sure? Alcohol makes the brain leak. Hence the leaking text. Making it leak out how unsuitable an alcoholic is for such a sensitive job. And the incompetence of the US government is leaking out rapidly as well. By the buckets. So, again, are you sure? Because everything leaks.
It was 11:45 a.m. - sounds about right for Kegseth
Maybe he had an interview with Larry Kudlow? Lar starts happy hour about 10 AM, it appears... maybe Pete was just being sociable.... 🤡
I miss paranoid drunks
LOL. 👍
He couldn't wait til noon?
Pete? LOL He was probably having a little hair of the dog and all.
They'll blame the reporter instead. Bet.
Let’s ask Reality Winner, Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991) is an American U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison ...
The irony is in one of his leaked texts he mentions the need for 100% OPSEC 😂
😂🤣😂
To him him and people like him, OPSEC is just a euphemism for "keep what were doing a secret cuz we shouldnt be doing it, but if we call it OPSEC its plausible deniability"
I think Hegseth says things like OPSEC because it makes him seem all soldiery.
I think you are correct. Like "warfighters," a term that makes me cringe.
If the tables had been turned and it had been Democrats in error, the whole world would have heard the creaming coming from all the Republicans!
Yes; but here in the darkest timeline, this is how it goes. We need to be vocal about this not being okay. We cannot allow this craziness to be normalized.
What can you expect from a weekend TV host!!!🤡
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Hell… if a three star general did it they would be instantly canned. Pure and dangerous incompetence.
If any of us left the SCIF with any more than a good idea, we would have been sent to Leavenworth. But boxes, upon boxes of sensitive information left in a golf course? Nothing.
The name Jack Texeira comes to mind … wrapped up PDQ. Currently serving 15 years.
What if it had said HRC and Susan Rice?
Or hanged, in the good old days.
No rules for themselves - This is what happens when we’re dealing with Fox weekend host - A rich man's bitch and a Felon - Nothing to see here -
It’s fucking unbelievable. Or rather, it should be. But this is Hegseth who is both too drunk and too stupid to not fuck up this badly. It won’t be the last time, either. 🤦♀️
They might confiscate his Wild Turkey, tho.
I bet he is going to make a trip to Fox soon.
He must have been drunk texting again.
We have the best people running our government. According to Stephen Miller, "We are smarter than China, Russia, and the North Koreans. They are not advanced like we are and have no idea what Signal is used for".
More proof of my theory that we are damned lucky that these Nazi scumbags are stupid. If they were this evil, and competent, we’d be in a hell of a mess.
To Hegseth, operational security is somebody Else's job. Too bad Hegseth fired That guy for being Trans.
But Goldberg will be prosecuted for making it public.
Sadly true.
Whiskey Pete will get a medal.
He already posted parts of the chat and the WH acknowledged it happened but they're all in cahoots so nothing will come of it.
Astonishing. Hegseth should be fired and jailed.
Amen!
They’ll just give him a couple drinks, slap him on the back & move on because the government is run by MORONS
Petraeus proved that draconian military justice is only for us littles. Just like the rest of American justice.
That's what happens when you put a Fox TV person in charge of Defense. Unbelievable
Former Army Counterintelligence Special agent here. Can confirm. Immediate revocation of all clearances, investigation that would probably involve FBI or offensive CI, and if not exploitable, charges would most likely be filed depending on who gained access to leak and damage of information.
So including a reporter on a non secure line would be considered bad… possibly incompetent?
I say it’s treason!
Drunk or not!
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For everyone involved.
New distractions would come anytime soon and all of this will conveniently disappear. Never forget!
