The epic carelessness and recklessness of Donald Trump’s fools
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Donald Trump is weak, stupid, arrogant and delusional.
What makes him deadly are the imbeciles, extremists, yes men, and incompetents who surround and venerate him.
There is nothing to debate or analyze about him or them. There is no secret strategy or grand plan behind anything they do. None are three-dimensional chess players, students of history, visionaries, dealmakers, international negotiators or statesmen.
What they are is a comic book sprung to life, a poisonous pack of fools, a real-life Team America in real life. It is an ugly spectacle.
Scott Jennings need not interpret what has happened, and tell us a version of the latest MAGA lie, which is somehow that it was the reporter’s fault. Of course, this is what Trump’s henchmen are saying.
Donald is a victim of a hate crime again. No doubt soon, one of his minions will be calling for the shuttering of The Atlantic, which was founded in 1857.
Donald has been set up by Jeffrey Goldberg. The bravest, most brilliant American of all, the greatest genius who has ever been, the only person who could possibly figure out what happened is, of course, Elon Musk.
He will unmask the conspiracy. Musk shared an X post by Scott Adams, author and cartoonist behind the Dilbert comics, who wrote:
If DOGE taught us anything, it's that all of our government systems are stone-age relics. My best guess is that every government official in both parties uses commercial apps for all but the most sensitive stuff. There is no real choice.
Musk’s response:
Most government systems are shockingly primitive.
Goldberg. It’s an ethic name? N’est-ce pas?
Here is Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, who said he had spoken to Elon Musk for help in finding out what happened:
We've got the best technical minds looking at how this happened. I can tell you for 100% I don't know this guy.
Heil Trump!
Elon and little X are going to take a respite from savaging the Social Security system and destroying the VA to root out the evidence behind what the White House acknowledged when it admitted the texts were authentic.
The case is closed. The debate has ended. These reckless fools are everything I have ever labeled them, and so much more.
The real world is not a reality show.
There is no respite from this.
The facts of what happened will not dissipate for tomorrow’s episode, or that of the next day.
Instead, they will linger permanently as markers of intent, malice, extremism, immorality and otherworldly incompetence.
The Trump White House is filled with monkeys who command nuclear weapons. Let us be clear about something: none of them, including Susie Wiles, are fit for their duties no matter how many effusive stories have been written about their prowess by access media reporters.
The price of these people holding their powerful offices will be dead Americans. Period.
The extraordinary texts revealed the epic carelessness and recklessness of Donald Trump’s fools, as well as their degeneracy as they unleashed the US military like characters from a D-list knock off of “Wag The Dog.”
Here is the update to The Atlantic story, which has now shared the full text thread.
Again, before launching this attack, Pete Hegseth spent two months stripping the images of Black people and their contributions to the military off of the Pentagon website.
It cannot be said that he has not had success. Jackie Robinson was discovered and erased, as well as an 80-year-old B-29 named Enola Gay, which may be homosexual, or at least bisexual.
These immense achievements should excuse Hegseth’s stupidity. Even if all of the American pilots had been shot down and killed because of Hegseth’s carelessness their deaths would have been for Trump, so their lives would have had meaning.
MAGA FOREVER!
Heil Trump!
Heil Hegseth!
Heil Victory!
Heil MAR! (That’s Little Marco to us.)
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I knew it was going to be bad. I never imagined it could be this bad….but then again….no person who had any self worth, any moral compass any skill except the ability to lie continuously..would take a job in this administration. That was always going to be a huge problem. Nobody…NOBODY worthwhile would work for that asshole …..