It is kind of like the Houthi group chat leak and the loss of all of those operatives around the world: Oops! Yeah, well, everybody makes mistakes. Whatcha gonna do?
BREAKING NEWS: It was George Santos who added Jeff Goldberg to the Houthi attack plan chat group.
MAGA: “America is once again respected by the rest of the world!”
The rest of the world:
Surely this can be circumvented simply by stating that any disparagement is appropriate?
But if we tell young people the truth about our history—and that American has not always been “great”—they will abandon patriotism, feel ashamed, become psychopathic, and start tormenting small animals and nations (e.g., Canada, Panama, Greenland.)
As opposed to extending patriotism, feeling superior and self-important, and trying to take control of ‘inferior’ animals and countries (e.g. Greenland, Panama and Canada)?
While most of the world is focused on the Jeff Goldberg leak from the “Houthi PC Small Group” chat, I’m more concerned that the Der Spiegel Report of the Trump officials’ private data dumps available on the Dark Web showed that half of them routinely use the password “abc12345” for all of their accounts.
Tulsi Gabbard uses “password123”.
JD Vance uses “Vance2028”.
Marco Rubio likes to use simply “Polo”.
Hegseth’s password: “5oclocksomewhere”
Don’t say that unless it’s true. It’s just believable enough to create confusion. Unfortunately.
Yes, I’d have no problem believing that they’d be careless enough that their passwords ended up on the Dark Web – just that they wouldn’t be sufficiently self-aware to use such ‘on the nose’ passwords.
In other news:
I’m posting this simply so that I can beat the late night comedians to making the obvious pun about Texas expanding its penile code.
Furthermore, the State of Texas also wants to lead the nation in anti-furries legislation:
And having learned from the North Koreans what “true devotion” to the “Dear Leader” is all about, it will soon be illegal in Texas to walk past a photo of Donald Trump without pausing to bow reverently. (Also, one must always “withdraw” from the area respectfully without turning one’s back toward the Orange Man.)
Nobody has ever seen anything like it. Like you wouldn’t believe.
Nothing to see here, just JD Vance spreading his freedom seeds all over the place. (Yes, this is a real tweet from the real White House account.)
Given that Vance served as a military journalist, it would seem more in-character for him to be pointing a camera “downrange.”
Hope the protective eyewear doesn’t smudge his eyeliner. 
That simply isn’t believable, mostly because most apps and websites today have password length and complexity requirements that prevent you from making passwords that bad.
Agreed. But I’m easily amused.
Of course, most administrations and military organizations today also require the use of secure platforms, as in “Don’t use Signal for military strike chat.” But some “teams” exempt themselves from the common sense which others must live by. So, it happens. (That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.)
Mind-numbing. I just had to check that out for myself. Indeed, there it is on the White House feed.
Meanwhile, it sounds like Vance got a truly arctic cold shoulder in Greenland. It’s so funny that the advance people went door-to-door trying to find some Greenlander who would allow the VP and cameras into their home for a flashy photo-op and everybody said no!
More alarming is another headline on that same website:
“Fascist professor who studies US fleeing Canada to work at Yale.”
(As he said in an interview, “With the changes coming to America and its universities, I think I’m going to be happy there.” He may not be an unassuming Ivy League academic for long. He is already rumored to be the leading candidate for the new cabinet secretary of the Ministry of Truth.)
I’d forgotten about his parody of The Producers from nine years ago. It is hilarious and far too close to the tragic truth of how Orange Man got into the White House.
I was waiting for “Springtime for Hitler and Mar-a-Lago . . .”
I always thought the purpose of MAGA wasn’t to make America Great Again, so much as make Trump feel Great Again – but this is ludicrously blatant:
Benjamin Franklin might have made scientific breakthroughs, invented a stove and helped to found the United States, but did he ever usher in a “golden age” for the nation? In the view of Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas, that’s precisely why Donald Trump — not the Founding Father — deserves to grace the $100 bill.
Gill’s Golden Age Act of 2025 is just one of five Trump-adulating House bills introduced in the two months since the president began his second term. Other measures would make Trump’s birthday a federal holiday, rename Dulles Airport in Trump’s honor, carve Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore and create a new $250 bill with Trump’s likeness.
For any Europeans around (or Canadians for that matter), it has never before been more important for Europe to be united than it is now now.
It has never before been more important that we support the EU and strengthen the NATO alliance, even without the US, as they’re likely to leave soon.
It has never before been more important that we remain vigilant and cognizant to the systematic, decades-long political and intelligence work that Russia has pursued in supporting and emphasizing anti-EU politicians and political parties in European countries, by exploiting the anti-immigration sentiments, and general fear of foreigners and immigrants.
It also becomes obvious how and why Turkey has been such a contentious issue concerning their possible EU membership, and how Erdogan is likely to have been manipulated by Putin into becoming ever more an autocrat with support from conservative Turkish muslims, and generally more hostile to progressive ideals. It also explains why Erdogan has become so much of a friend of Putin. If conservative Islamism gains more support in Turkey, they will become that much less attractive as EU members, and therefore become less likely to support Europe and NATO should any confict actually break out between Russia and other European nations.
I think in light of this it might actually have been a significant strategic mistake not to have invited Turkey into the EU, even despite their numerous failings on corruption and human rights, because it’s actually just left them all the more difficult to influence. And therefore probably more open to Putin’s manipulations and ass-kissing.
It is mind-blowing to see how well the Russian project has worked in the US, particularly considering the historical relationship between the US and Russia. And of all the political parties, the “conservative” Republican party were the ones to break and take the bait.
I will never not be blown away by this. So easily manipulated by fear. Fear of gays/trans, fear of foreigners, fear of cultural Marxists etc.
Or you might have had another Hungary and Victor Orban on your hands – using his veto to squeeze every last advantage out of the EU and flouting its rules.
