National Insecurity is not a bug, it's a feature... of this Administration. Most reportage of this story fail to note that this was not merely incompetence; this is a calculated, intentional jettisoning of national security in order to escape internal accountability and oversight.

Mr. Takei - I hope you are making your “5 calls a day” to your Reps and Senators to share your feedback. I also hope you will join “us” on 4/5/25 to protest throughout the USA about all the horrible things happening right now.

How bombing YENEN is bailing out europe is beyond me BAILING OUT IS RA HELL and yourselves is what you are doing With innocent people

I can't shake the feeling that it really feels like an act. I don't know if the *actual* security leak stuff was incompetence, or bait, but the rest reads like "look how awesome we are at getting things done, voters! Oops, I mean reporters, uh I mean no one, this is how we get it done"

This is NOT how foreign policy works. This is how criminals work. This is not just insane, it is criminally insane.

This whole thing was practically the B storyline in last week's episode of Daredevil Born Again. I hate it when fiction becomes reality.

Europe is done with you too 🙄🇬🇧

The Espionage Act of 1917 is a U.S. federal law, enacted shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, that criminalizes actions intended to harm national defense or interfere with the war effort, including espionage and the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

Well they do like to delve back into antiquated laws to try to hurt people. Maybe it’s time for these kinds of laws to hurt them.

“F Europe, who we all hate, but make sure to protect the Saudis.” Great job MAGA voters, the U.S. is no longer recognizable.

It really makes me wish for a war or huge disaster on US soil. See who helps you out then

beyond the idiot scope

Let’s all take a minute to imagine what the multiple choice question on our grandchildren’s history test is going to look like.

Our government is an enemy of America.

Not "bailing out Europe again". Protecting global trade and the economic consequences of doing nothing and narrow minded self-interest

🤔

Hmmm... 👀

And not surprisingly his biggest concern was oil.

If only #HillaryClinton were included in the text chain- THEN it would be a bad thing.😂

Or somebody used Hunter's laptop

Only the brightest and the best are selected to serve in this administration

Awesome distraction from the Administration's offshore prisons-for-non-criminals, though. I wonder what they'll do to distract us from the Signal screwup? This continual firehose feels like a core feature of a kakistocracy.

"Nobody was texting war plans" --Guy who drunkenly texted war plans

The most insane SO FAR…

Alexander Vindman pointed out that he wonders if “VP” is actually Vance… or Vladimir Putin!!!

But, but … Hillary’s emails!! 🙄

next level incompetence that we all knew would happen with drunks, putin puppets and idiots in charge

"Sure! Kill a ton of people. But for chrissake be careful of the oil!" A tale as old as time. Our hopeless fucking addiction to petroleum rears it's ugly head constantly.

They chanted “lock her up” for a helluva lot less

What The Actual Fuck! Santa Cruz, California

This was bad but the big scandal is why are America’s top officials using private encrypted apps and phones in violation of the Presidential Records Act and all security? They are using these apps to make sure no one in our government can ever see what they are planning and doing.

“But hEr emAILs!”

Yes. Someone mentioned that these idiots are just following Project 2025 - using personal phones, etc., to do government business and destroy/delete everything once done. Leave no traces behind. Not surprised if they have been conducting government business this way for other stuff for a while.

Does anyone not see that the journalist fuckup wasn't a fuckup? It was quite deliberate. This is what the orange orangutan wants, is for the country to completely fall apart, be exposed, etc. It's all part of the revenge plan.

And nothing will happen.

Poor Vance, always having to bail out Europe on his own. Let's do him a favor and take that job away from him.

And...they let him be for three days or more. And...the reporter left on his own without ever being discovered. Are we defining zombies or a coma here?

The only way this would have been better would have been if they had all insulted #Trump in the thread. Would have loved to have seen the fireworks then from the big orange baby!

Wait till Vance and Hegseth find out that there wouldn’t be an America without the help of the European country of France. 🤔 Clown show.

"tight" messaging by the loose lipped drunkard.

Fox would have been more upset about this if he was wearing a tan suit when the texts were sent

His last little glass of Canadian whiskey before the price goes up 😄🤫🇨🇦🤠

You’re not bailing out Europe, you’re trying to fix your fuckups. America is the one funding Israel’s attacks in Gaza and this has led to Houthi attacks on Israel and international shipping. You’re the fucking cause if this problem. Maybe America staying home will be really good for the world.

Hahaha. The only tight messaging these clowns are capable of is their lips to Trump's ass.

“Messaging tight “😂

What they (Republicans) do in the dark.......

And they added Steve Witkoff to the text chain while he was IN RUSSIA. Witkoff is Trump’s special envoy to Putin.

This needs to be said LOUDER

Well Putin needs real time updates.

They added Putin and witkoff while he was there. 😭 surely Britain and Canada were listening too

I’m sure they were laughing.

Yup and Goldberg said there is more coming 😵

Are we absolutely sure "VP" isn't Vladimir Putin?

Good point

That's what happens when people vote for the incompetent...

And community notes…. Knows the truth.

and letting Europe know they are 'hated'

I guess the espionage act does not count anymore….

Woodward and Bernstein rolling in their graves.

Is Gary Trudeau still writing Doonesbury? This is straight out if that or Bloom County

No bailing Europe out of anything. No-one asked you to bomb anyone, and there are European patrols in place around Yemen since '08.

"I just hate bailing Europe out again." 🙄🙄🙄

I am so disgusted with that hearing. Extremely pathetic. Was there classified information discussed in the chat? I can’t talk about it here.

Agreed, but the problem isn’t including the reporter: the problem is using Signal in the first place, instead of gov-approved secure apps.

It’s to avoid leaving a trace, in a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act. I guess it didn’t work out as planned

Groupchatgate? Signalgate? Textgate?

HIGHLY revealing what Trump’s cabinet thinks of Europe - they despise us, and will only help if there’s dollars for them - who needs an ally like that?

Idiot kids playing Risk

That should be a minimum requirement to hold office... Understand the rules of Risk. But you know these folks thought playing a game like that was uncool.

*Incompetent* not insane.

Zero accountability. Just another warning sign of how dangerous this administration is to throw on the bonfire of shame.

We all knew your allies won’t share intel with this regime. 🇨🇦🎯

Nor should they at this point!

Security violations aside, does anyone care about who they are bombing, and why? If they were chatting about bombing Canada, would people over here start to pay attention to those minor details?

It's nice to know their true colors. Now maybe Europe can wake up and get in control. The US is not an ally. They are mercenaries going for tre highest bid. No more, no less. It sucks.

So MAGA

The question now is; whats going to be done about this? Is it going to be swept under the carpet when a couple years ago there’d be a full scale investigation and firings?

It's like they ran a full slate of candidates from the Ugly American Stereotype Party

Our Euro allies must be so pleased

Would be funny if it wasn’t so utterly absurd 🤬

I don't get how more people aren't up in arms about this and not mad at the journalist, for telling us it happened.

Tip of the dung pile for this group of clowns.

Yup.

I thought they wanted our eggs

BUT HER EMAILS!!!!!!!!!

The Trump administration is downplaying this as a no bid deal issue. When in fact, it is a huge issue. Discussing top secret information on an unsecured network is not okay

When you put Otis in charge of defense.

Otis was kind hearted tho he wouldn’t be so evil and disgusting AND he would have already locked himself up! (And nobody under 50 know what we are talking about lol)

Agree. Idiotic individuals running the government

hating people and protecting oil: that's the gop for you

Somebody kick in their bedroom door and take away their devices

Never trust an alcoholic

bsky.app/profile/step...

Morons!

Yeah, MAGA never disappoints. The most qualified people /s

Beside the reporter, none of the others on the chat are guaranteed to be who they say they were. They could be foreign spies. Additionally, there are almost certainly foreign nations that have infiltrated their personal phones and see everything on their screens. Yes, this is SO insane :^(.

George, what worries me more is this is only one group chat. How many more have happened that we don't know about, that could have been intercepted by others? The fallout from this should be epic.

Yeah that’s the thing. This is not the only thread. They been using it for years I guess

Yes, they are the most incompetent group of people ever! They are unfit for lead anything except chaos! 🥲

All the class of a bunch of 1920's mobsters on the docklands.

Here's the whole chat: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dha...

'I just hate bailing Europe out again.' What is he referencing? WWII? We didn't do that alone.

Interesting insights. Now we know where the VP of the US stands: Europe is bad, Saudi is good. Got it.

You know what?? I’m more worried about Social Security cuts than these moronic imbeciles trashing the country on line! How far do we have to go before SOMEONE saves us??😡😡

It's looking more and more like we have to save ourselves on this one...

Everyone clearly misses the real reason the WH uses Signal APP for highly classified communication: (1) it is a breach of DOD records retention policy (2) does not comply with FOIA requirements (3) Has been hacked by Russia, so they can read it all So its a perfect tool for Today's MAGA Traitors!

The fact that Pete Hegseth "hates bailing out Europe again" shows his arrogant incompetence in not remembering it is the US who is the only country to invoke the NATO Article 5 after 9/11

And that European navy patrols the Suez Canal as well. And that European military aided the US in its (illegal) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Like George said- they're INSANE

It's so juvenile, I was expecting someone to say 'lol jk jk' in there with their little emoticon chat. Glad they take killing people so seriously.

Mind-Blown!

But was it an accident, or are they sending out Feelers?