It wasn't a mistake: it was SOP, and ooops, included a reporter by accident

It's not the clown show you think it is. It's far worse.

Like many of you, I opened up my newsletters yesterday to see the article by Jeffrey Goldberg, EIC of The Atlantic “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” In it he describes how the top echelon…the principals, of the national security apparatus were planning an air strike on Yemen against the Houthi group. Holy Shitballs!, I thought. These clowns will be exposed now. But I was wrong: Not that they aren’t clowns: they are. Not that they weren’t exposed: they were. But that this would be considered a fuckup of epic proportions and somebody’s head might roll…at least a low level admin assistant who managed to add Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal Chat (though maybe that’s the point…and why he was included in the first place).

To my horror, I realized that this text conversation, which included the National Security Advisor, VPOTUS, the Secretary of State, the Director of National Security, the Director of the CIA, the Secretary of Defense, wasn’t just an oopsie that a journalist happened to catch.

It’s standard operating procedure. In the clip below, Sen Jon Ossoff questions CIA director Ratcliffe, who keeps insisting nothing was classified. It’s a total lie, obviously. But again, that’s not the point.

The point of using a commercial, non-secure app on non-secure phones to plan a military operation that Trump probably didn’t know about is the fact that those messages disappear after a week or 4. The point here is that this administration is doing ALL or most of it’s top secret business on this app, open for all the intelligence agencies in the world to see, and for the US Government not to have a copy of, for the archives.

My inside-the-beltway source texted me this morning, “Lol. Hilarious. Amateurs.” But see, I don’t think this was amateur hour. I think this is how they share our plans with the Russians and Chinese. I think this is how they keep their records from being recorded in the national archives. I think this is how they make all sorts of high level decisions that Trump may or may not know about.

And that’s far more sinister than a bunch of clowns not using their SCIFs (secure facilities) for comms. It’s a bunch of traitors using their unsecure phones and a commercial app IN ORDER TO BROADCAST OUR PLANS and keep them from going on the official record, which could be classified for years if necessary.

It’s good to see some sign of alertness from Senate Dems here, and maybe this treasonous behavior will wake them from their torpor. Those of us here in the grass roots want our elected leaders to show more fight. That’s why AOC and Bernie are getting the crowds at their anti-Oligarchy tour. That’s why Schumer is being reviled for his invertebrate behavior.

This, my friends, is the core of the administration. I’m actually kind of bummed that Jeffrey Goldberg took himself off the list. That was way too professional of him. He says there’s even more to the story, and I can’t wait to see it. But someone in this opposition we need to be building, in perhaps part of the national security apparatus that hasn’t turned treasonous (if they, god willing, exist) needs to be hacking those conversations just like our “adversaries” are. I’m willing to bet that’ll be an easier way to learn what’s going on than lackluster business-as-usual reporting by the legacy media, and herculean effort by the independent media to keep track of this regime’s crimes.

At the same time today, Trump ordered more force reduction in the Social Security Administration. Think you can’t get anyone on the phone now? They’ve given up $500 BILLION in revenue by gutting the IRS and virtually encouraging people not to send in their taxes.

So to sum up, here are my educated guesses.

1. This is Standard Operating Procedure, meant to keep shenanigans secret from the US government.

2. This kind of communication excludes Trump who is a happy warrior golfing and destroying the federal government, social security, the IRS, medicare, cancer and other health research, universities, etc.

3. There are many, many, many signal groups that the people doing the actual work of destruction and treason are using to signal (haha) our activities to our adversaries and make life or death decisions every minute of every day.

4. This. Is. The. Plan.

5. These clowns aren’t nearly as amateur as we think they are. They’re doing a fairly successful job tearing down this country from the inside and the outside, making us weak at home, taking away our mutual aid, and reducing our power in the world.

6. I wouldn’t be surprised if VP (not Vance, but Putin) is on some of these chats….

So, while this is an opportunity to galvanize those of us who love this country, it’s not a fuckup, and there’s so much more we don’t know than we’ve so far discovered. Also Jon Osoff is freaking amazing, and nobody will convince me otherwise. Also, AOC, Crockett, Pritzker, maybe Pete, and a few others are using their spines. I hope 3.5% of our population shows up on April 5.

To be clear, all of this is speculation. I don’t have any information that you don’t.

Keep fighting, my friends.