Yeah, uh… MAGA might need to pretend that 47 has surrounded himself with the best and the brightest if they want to, but, accidentally looping in a reporter on your (presumably) top secret attack plans two hours before the attack begins? Sending him all of the details? Let’s just go with ‘not the best’ and certainly not ‘the brightest.’

It was SO, oh, let’s say, unexpected, the journalist, actually, ‘the Atlantic’ editor Jeffrey Goldberg, thought he was being hoaxed. Well, right up until the bombs started falling on Yemen in the exact pattern described in the chat. Then he knew it was real. In the end, he got to watch the major players involved congratulating themselves with strong-arm emojis and such – in real time. Apparently, these are the very best Kops Keystone could provide, and they seem to be led by Captain Laurel N. Hardy. Quality work, all around.

And just HOW did this journalist gain access to the secure communication system the law requires government officials to use? No, don’t be stupid. That “secure communication” thing is just a law. These guys don’t care about no stinking laws. It was just, I don’t know, easier to use the publicly available chat app ‘Signal.’ No one can say, for sure, how the reporter got looped in – nor whom else may have been looped in.

Besides, it’s not clear they were all on their secure systems. Tulsi Gabbard wouldn’t answer the question, which, of course, answered the question. Had she been on proper equipment, she wouldn’t have hesitated to say so. Jeffery Goldberg definitely was not. And this morning, according the the Guardian, German publication Der Spiegel is reporting they’ve found “mobile phone numbers, email addresses and, in some cases, passwords used by national security adviser Mike Waltz, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard can be found via commercial data-search services and hacked data dumped online.”

Now might be the time to mention that the regime was careful to have one of the people on the group chat in Moscow while the action took place – actually in a meeting with Putin at the time. I suppose that made it easier for Putin to get real-time updates as to what his puppet is doing. I wonder why the One Percent owned, corporate media isn’t mentioning that part too much…

I don’t know. I think active chats about active military operations on a publicly available app might be something of a security breach. Telling the opposition what you’re doing while you’re doing it seems… risky for our troops. I suspect such things significantly increase the risk that someone might monitor the communications surreptitiously. I think it lays incompetence bare.

Apparently, the person responsible was national security adviser Mike Waltz. According to Politico, a person close to the White House said: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a fucking idiot.” Yep. You can count me in on that. But in fairness, it will be news if someone finds a member of this regime who is NOT a blithering idiot.

Oh, but MAGA gotta spin. Apparently, the most important point to remember is that NONE of the responsible people were responsible. It was someone else’s fault. It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault with these guys – the so-called “party of personal responsibility.” They’ve even tried to blame the reporter – I guess for accepting their invitation?

MAGA Mike the Johnson started the “deflect blame” tour when he said, “I think it would be a terrible mistake for there to be adverse consequences on any of the people that were involved in that call. They were trying to do a good job, the mission was accomplished with precision.” TRYING to do a good job and DOING a good job are NOT the same, Mike…

So, they had to go straight to the top. No, not Elon. They asked Donny. He went into his Sgt Schultz mode. He knew nothing. He saw nothing. Mr. Finger-on-the-pulse uses that one a LOT. He’s just hearing about it right now. I will say, he really doesn’t understand what a chat app is. He TRIED to say Goldberg “got off the line early,” pretending Goldberg didn’t REALLY know how that all played out because he hung up the phone? But he’s an artful liar and he pivoted quickly, just in case. He went with… Oh, gods are you kidding me? Really? THAT old dodge?

Now, listen. I don’t mean to be unkind, but if you STILL believe all media to the left of Fox Not News is only and always making up fake news stories just to make 47’s regime look bad, you’re too stupid to function. Does that REALLY make sense to you? There are NO honest news stories in left leaning media? NONE?!? And yet, that’s The Felon’s response every single time a story he doesn’t like appears.

Suddenly, Goldberg is a “fake news” guy, a terrible writer working at a failing publication. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! I would think, by now, even a MAGA would wonder how that’s possible. Bad news, MAGA. The left prints honest stories all the time. Yeah, sure, they’re stories you don’t like because they make your guys look the way they really look but that doesn’t make the stories “fake.” I’m telling you, the trumpster needs a new shtick. And you need to wise up. School’s out.

But just to be sure, they ALSO ran with “no classified information was involved.” Okay, so the chat that was “fake news” by a bad writer who is making it up, is ALSO real, but didn’t include classified information. Now MAGA can choose. Some will argue it’s fake news, some will argue it didn’t matter because it wasn’t classified. They’ll ALL be wrong.

Fortunately, the solution is simple. Publish the transcript, right? The whole thing, start to finish. Then we can ALL see if Jeffery Goldberg is lying, or if it’s, perhaps, someone else. WAS Goldberg looped in on a secret military operation over a publicly available app? Release the transcripts to make Goldberg look bad. In the end, ‘The Atlantic’ released them.

Goldberg had published an edited version of the chat, to prove he was telling the truth. Then the MAGA spin machine went to work and blamed Goldberg for being there and suggesting he was making the whole thing up and besides, there were no classified details in the chat he made up. So, Goldberg published the rest. “See for yourselves,” he’s saying. Frankly, some of it looked like the kind of information one would normally consider classified.

White House spokesliar KKKaroline Leavitt challenged people, “do you trust the Secretary of Defense who was nominated for this role, voted by the United States Senate into this role, who has served in combat and honorably served our nation in uniform? Or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a registered Democrat and an anti-Trump sensationalist reporter?” That would be Goldberg. I very definitely believe Jeffery Goldberg over the prevaricating pack of putrid people. Definitely…

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I have to say, I used to think “Presidentin'” must be a hard job. I thought it required a certain minimum level of intelligence, a certain professionalism. I thought it would cut into my leisure time too much. (Let’s pretend that’s the ONLY reason I haven’t run.)

If Trump has proven ANYTHING, it’s that ANYBODY can do the job AND you get to play golf all day, every day. Not a bad gig, if you can steal it…