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The lunatics are running the asylum, or I should say turning the United States into an asylum. Let's just talk about what went down over the past 24 to 48 hours. We learned that the Trump Department of Defense and national security apparatus would make war plans via group text threads with emojis like fist bump emoji, fire emoji,
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American flag emoji, the most complex. classified, sensitive, compartmented information that exists was all there on a text thread. And how did we learn about it? Because the Department of Defense, led by Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host, invited into the group chat the editor-in-chief of the media company, The Atlantic, who was just in the group chat.
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He wrote an article. The Trump administration, we should call him a regime, texted me its war plans. He talks about how he was invited into this chat. He saw the most highly classified information. He didn't know what the heck in the world was going on and if this was even real.

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Jay Styba's avatar

Is there any accountability in this administration. This is treason.

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Heather.B's avatar

Everyone on the chat should be fired. They all knew they were sharing top secret war plans and shouldn't do it via text on a public app. There is NO defense.

JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, John Ratcliffe, Susie Wiles: They all broke the law and knew it. Democrats need to push. Don't let this go!

This whole administration is totally incompetent, disgraceful and detestable. Our country has become an embarrassment!

MAGA faction is basically a cult at this point. They will throw away anything they claim to honor for their deranged orange leader.

Four years of this 💩. It’s going to be long, but I can’t wait until this is over.

Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of shirts everyday 👇

https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com

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Douglas's avatar

If the Biden or Obama Admin had done this the screams from the right would rip a gaping hole in the space time continuum. There'd be 24 hour coverage in the expansive right wing media ecosystem. But...now we have to depend on the same Dems--who VOTED for Gabbard, & especially Ratcliffe---who can't even find their voice to defend Democracy, to make Americans realize what a NatSec crises this is. I guess 83 year old Bernie will have to do it. Mark Warner won't (Ratcliffe his buddy).

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Judy Berube's avatar

I was just thinking the very same thing. FOX Not News would be having a field day, not to mention MAGAs.

What do these Repubs in the House and Senate need to happen to make them denounce this madness.? It'll be too late after they push the nuclear buttons.

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MorningStar's avatar

For it to affect them personally.

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Valerie Cartwright's avatar

100% We are surrounded by republicans who don't care about any of the carnage, and they won't until it affects them personally. I've been disgusted by them since 2016.

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

Me too.

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franciemanis@gmail.com's avatar

Yes, they seem to not care about what their constituents think or want. It is all about the cult leader, that they will only criticize in anonymity as they are afraid he will release the Cracken on them. That is usually only on non-cultists, but who knows. Four years of this craziness. I'm old and I don't know if I can deal with this for four years!

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

they are scared lap dogs, it's up to us to save our democracy. Call out those Democratic leaders who representatives that sit on their ass just to collect a paycheck. They represent us.

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Barb O's avatar

Resist. And protest march. Bigly and often.

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Dianne Pymble-Ward's avatar

Bernie Sanders can be relied upon to speak up and at 83 travel long distances to get the message across to the people. Why aren’t the Democrats speaking up and challenging Dump and MuskRat?

What Dump is doing is affecting the entire world economically and emotionally.

Come on Democrats be loud!

Love from Australia

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Timothy Richley's avatar

I hope like hell it ends, but the longer musk/trump "flood the zone" with massive BS the harder it will be to dig them out.

Schumer is living in a would that might have existed 20-30 years ago when he says he believes the Rs will "wake up" before 2026. But that is not the Repug Party as it exists today

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MorningStar's avatar

2026 if far too late for anything good!

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Terry's avatar

There was also, Joe Kent, trump's nominee for National Counterterrorism, although he hasn't been confirmed by the Senate.

This was so illegal. Get rid of them all. Including trump.

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Eilee Hurley's avatar

You won’t get rid of him now this is what project45 is about they want Mexico Panama canada and Greenland then Russia want Europe every thing these treasonous do as far as maga cult goes is ok but if dems had done it the country would have them fired such hypocrisy and trump is the president and says he didn’t know

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franciemanis@gmail.com's avatar

He touts that he is the president of peace, yet spews incessantly that he wants Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, and now Greenland! HE and co-president muck are deranged and destroying our country! The president of peace says he will take Greenland, one way or another! He is suggesting conflicts with all four entities, but he is for peace?? He cannot remember what he says from one moment to the next and none of his sycophants will tell him. They are as duplicitous as their liars-in-chief.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

This is yet another BS distraction so that we will not notice what he and Muck are up to next.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump doesn't know bc he's too busy playing golf in his retirement.

President musk knows and he doesn't care bc he's already given all the info to putin. They breach security daily, no big deal, get used to it people! /s

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Viola Biggar's avatar

Folks Pollievre is a mini trump

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Viola Biggar's avatar

Thank you Ben♥️

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Viola Biggar's avatar

Keep Pollievre out

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Viola Biggar's avatar

They are NOT getting Canada Period

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Black Raven's avatar

That's why it is called a Kakistocracy. A government filled with the worse people.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

Government by the incompetent

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MorningStar's avatar

They were always a cult. the cult of stupid.

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Timothy Richley's avatar

Nope, not even a little bit

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Bodhi's avatar

It’s been treason since Jan 6th

No one cares enough to take any unprecedented substantive action— NO ONE

If judges would treat him like they would anyone else we wldn’t be here

If Democrats wld’ve put up a fight whenever low life Republicans were corrupting every institution vs acting like biz as usual—

If If If

Bottom line…..

We have a bunch of cowards in our government that are more comfortable putting their personal agendas before the Country & hiding behind corrupt norms—

None of them are worthy of a seat at the table after a decade of this shit show

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Oaktown's avatar

I watched the Intel hearing this morning; I think they may be angling to throw Pete Hegseth under the bus. They all need to get on the bus and deport to Russia. Not one of them admitted their egregious errors or apologized.

Notable Dems at the hearing: John Ossoff (GA), who also gave a rousing speech at his "town hall," Bennet (CO), Mark Kelly (AZ)

The Dems should keep on this disgraceful breach of nat'l security like a dog on a bone.

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Dora Weiss's avatar

Been listening to you since your beginning, no words can express the gratitude for what you have created. It is badly needed.

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DontCallMeBoomerBabe's avatar

Read mary trumps book and it all makes sense... such a fucked up family and man

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Mary Ellen Blanchard's avatar

Agree about Mary Trump’s book.

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Mary Ellen Blanchard's avatar

His mother was neglected and mistreated her whole time alive in that house. Such evil bastards.

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Jane's avatar

I think this is horrible. Another question why Elon Musk was in this meeting?

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Karen's avatar

Why is he in ANY government meeting? Why is he even in this country? 😡🤬

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Linda's avatar

He bought Trump….

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franciemanis@gmail.com's avatar

No, he bought trump and now is the payback!

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franciemanis@gmail.com's avatar

Oops. sorry

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Eilee Hurley's avatar

He’s a spy for China he’s got loads of businesses in China I wouldn’t trust him an inch

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franciemanis@gmail.com's avatar

Couldn't be, since the cult says it is Biden that is in bed with China! They refuse to see or hear what is going on now.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Musk is the president, he bought and paid for the presidency

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Lee Burns's avatar

I don't think Musk was in the meeting.

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MorningStar's avatar

‪Colin Oreilly‬ ‪@colin0reilly.bsky.social‬ 25m

Reply to

The Tennessee Holler

They doxxed Undercover Agent in the chat while one of the recipients was IN A MEETING WITH PUTIN AT THE KREMLIN

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RolledLow's avatar

Who needs Wikileaks when we’ve got these fools? LOL (Can’t decide if my tears are laughter or tragedy.)

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"An elderly man, sitting at the breakfast table, is reading the newspaper while his wife is preparing breakfast. He says, ‘This paper is very thin. Didn’t it used to be fatter? The wife replies, ‘Yes dear. That was when the papers printed both sides of the issue."

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Ilona  Schweiger Swarovski's avatar

Thanks guys Mighty we fight back protect our democracy against Trump

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SEDBRNOT-MAY29's avatar

He re-stole all those boxes and took them back to Florida!

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franciemanis@gmail.com's avatar

He can't blatantly sell the info in DC, but Mara Lago is another matter!

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David A Pitock's avatar

Mar-lago is a dead drop just leave it in the bathroom 🚻 😒

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SEDBRNOT-MAY29's avatar

Greenland/Denmark: Just tell your your air traffic controllers to deny permission for landing any American airplanes at your airports

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Oaktown's avatar

Or bring out the red carpet when he lands and turn a polar bear loose on 'em.

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SEDBRNOT-MAY29's avatar

Waste of a good carpet. 😂

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David A Pitock's avatar

Poor polar bear 🐻‍❄️ to be subjected to that much crap 💩 😢.

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Oaktown's avatar

That's just to lure them out of the plane.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Cosplaying as government officials!" Democratic star SHREDS Hegseth", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)......

https://youtube.com/shorts/pyx0B8XZaOk?si=ZmxYjOO82cgpRH9c

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Oaktown's avatar

Ossoff is a star; powerful speaker, fearless, and got elected in GA.

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Diane J's avatar

I can't help but wondering, with 47's close ties to Putin and the Saudis, if maybe this wasn't so accidental and Heggie is being made to take one for the gang.

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Julie's avatar

Thx Ben, MTN & the Meidas Mighty! The guardrails are completely gone. The current administration is beyond rehabilitation & should ALL be removed from their posts..

The more we see & hear, the worse it gets..

#Resist #Fight #Organize & stay strong!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Social Security Chief Says White House Ordered 'Rapid' Phone Service Cutbacks."

"Leland Dudek told stakeholders such big changes, being enacted in just two weeks, typically take two years.

In a meeting with advocacy groups that are stakeholders in the Social Security Administration's disability and retirement programs, Leland Dudek flatly admitted the sweeping changes he’s pursued since becoming acting commissioner last month were dialed up by his superiors in the Trump administration. Dudek last week announced that for any transaction requiring Social Security claimants to verify their identities, starting on March 31 they will no longer be able to do so over the phone. Instead, claimants who can’t use the agency’s website will have to verify their identities in-person by visiting a field office. Democratic members of Congress and groups such as the AARP have blasted the proposed change as an unnecessary burden on seniors and people with disabilities. The disdain and contempt Donald Trump and his goons have for the very people who helped put him back in office is beyond measure. Incredibly awful stuff." (Huff Post)......

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leland-dudek-social-security-phone-service_n_67e1bb85e4b03e4bddd128db?link_id=8&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-trump-throws-whiny-tantrum-over-hilarious-portrait-2&email_referrer=email_2669732&email_subject=trump-issues-stunning-response-to-bombshell-scandal&&

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Douglas's avatar

Why is Donny so focused on destroying the futures of tens of millions of seniors?? Cruel.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Kamala told us all over and over again........Orange Hitler had a revenge list.....we are learning now that that list includes millions of Americans...and also millions of inhabitants of Motther Earth.

Donable Lector has a front row seat waiting for him in the darkest corners of HELL!!!

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Vikki's avatar

Question. Is there a corner dark enough?

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WJB Motown's avatar

Satan can use discarded Trump coins and Russian/Saudi payoff millions to expand Hadies and create a new eternal flame wher he can fry forever.

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Oaktown's avatar

If not, hot enough to melt his orange goo.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump knows he lost the election, he knows American people did not want him and did not vote for him. Musk rigged the election. Election truth alliance has the evidence. So trump has no empathy for anyone and continues to destroy America while we pay for his luxury lifestyle of vip dinners and golfing weekends by private jet.

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Stephanie long's avatar

Because he has no use for them. He can’t breed them anymore and he can’t force them to do labor. That’s all he wants us for.

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Oaktown's avatar

Because he wants to justify his tax cuts for billionaires.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you."

"With no court to verify anything the Trump regime alleges, you could be arrested and sent to a prison in El Salvador for having views the regime dislikes."

(Robert Reich, Mar 24, 2025)

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Dee Joy's avatar

That's the goal. You're one of them if you're rich white straight male. If you're strong white straight male you can become one of their cherished slaves. If you're white, sexy female then you can become one of their servants.

Everyone else can go to the concentration camps, they can't bear to look at you. You're an insult to humanity. This is how dark maga think.

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Jack Crowley's avatar

Pete Buttiegeg has a response that is perfect. Check it out

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Carla Goldstein's avatar

Thank you for all you do. I am a retired member of Big Law. Is there a way to organize a full page ad in the NYT or some other main stream news media of as many signatures as possible calling out the shameful capitulation and inaction by Big Law. I am so scared that if our institutions fall the collective resistance of individuals may not be enough.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "Trump issues STUNNING response to BOMBSHELL group chat scandal", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)......

"In the age of Trump, we unfortunately and routinely have to pick our jaws up from the floor, what with all the gaslighting, lying, and Olympian levels of incompetence on frequent display. But the MAGA cult leader's vertigo-inducing response to his national security team LEAKING ACTUAL WAR PLANS in a group text thread truly takes the cake: "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic." Seriously. What the actual f*ck is going on here? It should be noted that the president of the United States was NOT included on the war plan text thread. He is either lying through his teeth or literally has no idea what the incompetent, evil bozos he put in his Cabinet are doing behind his back."

https://youtu.be/k7GY0iMEJRg?si=ffSZmJPMujHlM-WL

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump is retired. He is just the face part time when not playing golf. Musk is the president of the incompetent bozos. All these traitors need to be locked up. Send them to El Salvador prison, Russia or mars. Nobody cares just get them out of the Whitehouse

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Oaktown's avatar

All he does anymore is play golf, whine about his vain grievances, sell cheap merch and sh*tcoin, party on at Maralardo, and make a fool out of himself on the world stage. I'm seething every day the red Nazi party doesn't call for his impeachment.

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Anne Marek's avatar

Usha looked like something out of Handmaid’s Tale. I am surprised she wasn’t wearing green.

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Kathy H's avatar

She looks like a Stepford Wife, too, & here I thought her husband was the creepiest, robotic, sublife form I have ever seen ... how can her visit be viewed as anything other than sinister when Vance has made his demeaning view of Europe more than clear repeatedly? It is really distressing to me the way all of this is playing out exactly like domestic abuse scenarios, the insistence 'you're gonna like it', be 'cherished', 'protected', etc., whether you want it or not. No means No. They are overriding every understanding of consent. I don't feel sorry for her with the demeaning things her husband has said about race & women because she is enabling abuse. I don't like Melania, but we don't see her playing an ambassador puppet.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "While Trump cuts healthcare, this is what Mar-a-Lago looks like", on YouTube. (Brian Tyler Cohen)......

https://youtube.com/shorts/4U1lD21FA7w?si=AZYc8lk7QTdCCkPp

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Catherine Maltby's avatar

More dressed up circus monkeys!! I thought all of them were at the White House?!

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Dee Joy's avatar

Rich people enjoying their luxury life that WE PAY for!!

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Nazi incompetence shouldn't be a surprise with a drunk running the Pentagon This most recent botched job will no doubt having him drink his ass into oblivion....remember "I promise to stop drinking if I get the job WET BRAIN is what they call this in alcohol rehab circles

America WAKE UP Vote the Nazis out of office and pronto

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Janice Merrifield's avatar

50501 protests in all 50 states April 5th

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Call Representative John H. Rutherford at (202) 225-2501, Senator Rick Scott at (202) 224-5274, and Senator Ashley Moody at (202) 224-3041. Tell them to DEMAND Nat’l Security Advisor Michael Waltz’s RESIGNATION!"

"Convicted felon and fraud, Donald Trump, sure knows how to pick ‘em, huh?

His National Security Advisor Michael Waltz added a reporter from the Atlantic to an unapproved chat group, along with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, where they discussed classified war plans!

This flagrant incompetence is a risk to our national security! It warrants clearance-pulling, career-ending consequences.

We can’t let this reckless, shameless, buffoonery escape consequences - the lives of our service members and our lives were put at risk! Keeping their discussions off of government systems allows them to hide what they are doing! What other breaches are they responsible for?" (Crazy 8 Pac)......

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Dee Joy's avatar

The thought that any of these incompetent bozos are playing war games with our soldiers lives in their hands and their massive security breaches - makes me feel sick.

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Gloria Steiner's avatar

God help us.

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Timothy Richley's avatar

According to MAGA, god is totally on their side

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Dee Joy's avatar

Everything maga says is a lie. Every accusation they make is a confession.

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Maryooch's avatar

What about those of us who have sons and daughters who are active duty military? Like it's not bloody scary enough, knowing what they are called to do. This is the shit I feared most, endangering our military. (Yet if a recruit so much as posts a photo on social media that brass deems inappropriate, that recruit gets the boot.) Let's see these highly-qualified, alpha male, non-DEI hires slither out of this one.

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Dee Joy's avatar

We already know it bidens fault or Obamas fault or was it the immigrants?? No I think it was the Venezuelans or maybe the trans?? No it was the gays!

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Maryooch's avatar

Don't forget Hillary.

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joyce book's avatar

This prez really doesn’t know ANYTHING!

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joyce book's avatar

I’ll bet he’s powdering his nose right now so he’s CAMERA READY.

(Take ur anti-nausea medication).

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WJB Motown's avatar

For the love of God.....make sure the Orange freak changes that stinking...dripping.,overflowing Depends diaper!!!

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Oaktown's avatar

It's a truly hideous nose, powdered or unpowdered.

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WJB Motown's avatar

A brown nose at that...... coated woth Putins last big shit

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joyce book's avatar

U know he and Krazy Karoline are getting ready for their show at this very moment If they don’t show up we will know - it’s bad!!!!

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Katherine Todd's avatar

I always thought that cabinet heads in our government were expected to know what their job was before being hired. Having this experience of inept clowns running things is deeply unsettling.

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Tangeman's avatar

Vote for a sleazy convicted felon surrounded with his cult cronies & we get unqualified corrupt nasty bullies running amok.😤😡😤😡😤

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump and musk are cheaters and they're criminals. They were both headed for prison of course they cheated and rigged the election.

Please see election truth alliance. org. They have lots of proof that musk rigged the election. They've done lots of podcasts about it. An algorithm was used to delete harris votes.

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Janelle Booker's avatar

What a joke I don’t expect much from this horrible administration. But how disappointing the current “GOP MEMBERS” in the Senate and House are. Shame on everyone who makes excuses for Americans lives that could have been lost and for the incompetence and corruption which we already know. I find it so sad that our country truly didn’t believe running on a platform of how Awful Donald the Felon is didn’t work. Kamala really would have made an excellent president. And if this is who our country supports now I’m moving to Canada or England. It’s disgusting

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump and musk are cheaters and they're criminals. They were both headed for prison of course they cheated and rigged the election.

Please see election truth alliance. org. They have lots of proof that musk rigged the election. They've done lots of podcasts about it. An algorithm was used to delete harris votes.

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Mari Hughes's avatar

These people are a joke!!! They should be gone!!!! Now!!! Yesterday!!!! The whole administration is a joke!! I pray for our armed forces!! If things don’t change, they could terribly harmed and or killed!! Sickening!!! Get DUMP OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!!!🤬🤡😡🤬🤡😡🤯🤯🤯

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Magdalena Brandon's avatar

Can it get any more ridiculous!!

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Jeb's avatar

Watch our isolation increase and our gdp decrease

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Darrell T's avatar

These daily fuckups, hell, hourly fuckups can't go on for 4 years. They just can't. Where's the Star Chamber?

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Peter De Abreu's avatar

These people don't care. I have a brother and cousin who are deep red MAGA. AND NO MATER HOW I PRESENT THEM WITH FACTS THEY JUST REPLY:

"WE'RE IN POWER NOW JUST SUCK IT UP" THEY ARE ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF 4 YEAR OLDS PLAYING WITH THEIR TOYS IN TNE SANDBOX.

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Zeke1967's avatar

The most incredible aspect of the security debacle is the fact that the buck never stops at the desk of Felon 47. The GOP and the Trump gang of incompetents are basically acting like this was just a minor misstep while attempting to spin the idea that it was all the fault of the Atlantic.

Meanwhile the doge bros are working away at destroying the government from the inside while the House and Senate GOP are busy trying to figure out how to get huge tax break for folks who don’t need it while ignoring their constituents clamoring to get their attention to their fear of what is happening to them on the ground.

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Gloria Marconi's avatar

The worst of this whole incident is seeing in real time the incompetent idiots that are running things, making decisions that will affect millions of people. The Dear Leader is clueless and suffering from dementia and the rest of his gang is really too stupid to live. We are in deep doo-doo.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"The Big Chill."

"Trump’s attacks on the four pillars of civil society will succeed, unless the pillars demonstrate courage and take collective action against the attacks." (Robert Reich, Mar 25, 2025)......

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=159129260&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Kathi Krauss's avatar

Hillary is right. Deplorable!!

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Orangeshitstain's avatar

Is it true that Hegseth is going for the “black out drunk” defense?

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PM's avatar

Hegseth is the head of Dod and Trump is over Hegseth, therefore both need to be fired. “You’re Fired”

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Gail Talbot's avatar

DJT is threatening countries with the buffoons' he has put into our government, who couldn't pull off a confidential security meeting.

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John Cranford's avatar

This is high stupidity that should at least result in all being fired immediately and the immediate impeachment of the President by Congress. This is a grievous mistake that Congress can't overlook. Please contact your representatives immediately and demand action.

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Ed Garland's avatar

Ben, excellent as usual. Thank You.

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Stevenslas's avatar

Prime Minister Carney "the Banker" put Trump "the Bankrupter" in his place. Canada will never forget the betrayal of its best friend and neighbor. Elbows Up!

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Kathy's avatar

Very glad to hear that Citizens United is being discussed. We have got to get oligarchs out of our politics. Or ‘We the People” never never truly have representation in government.

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Glenda C.'s avatar

Hey Jordy - please primary Fetterman!

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Sue Holmes's avatar

As Manuel would say in Fawlty Towers “I know nothinggggg”

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Paul Volker's avatar

Hegseth, first denied it… Fox News will now do damage control and defend the leak!

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PM's avatar

And we, especially those who have a platform, should be going after Hegseth Rubio Vance Trump in the same no excuse language they used on Clinton.

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Joelle Fagan's avatar

Usha looks like a hostage

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Sandra Wallace's avatar

I read on another site that there was an unnamed top secret level participant on the call. Is that true, and if so, wouldn't that be DJT, who claims he didn't know anything about it, whereas he's the "Commander in Chief" ????????????? Was he golfing while his war room was making decisions without him? Could mystery person have been Elon?

What's next? The usual "don't talk about it and it will go away", "thoughts and prayers", or distract, deny, divert, disinfect, disabuse, and most important of all, LIE, LIE, LIE.

Excuse me, I'm in shock, feeling devastated, disgusted and in despair. Gotta go throw up. Then, hopefully I'll recover ASAP and stand up, show up, and act up as best I can.

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump is retired. Musk was the unnamed one as he bought the presidency

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Jeff Knight's avatar

The group text about battle plans was more like a bunch of drunk frat boys bringing each other in, like "hey dude, look what we're doing, ain't it kool 👍😁".

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Sharon Conway DeHerder's avatar

WTFFFFFFFF!! I have been watching the Senate Intelligence hearing. DNI Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Cash Patel, CIA Director Radcliffe and the other Senior Intelligence Officials refused to admit that the leak to the Atlantic with war plans is a breach.

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@theresetcollab's avatar

Hegsturd added the journalist purposely. Unless of course he’s just that incompetent.

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We’ve got to see past the chaos and stay stay on point. Right versus wrong, good versus bad. Theirs is no division beyond them ( Republicans have control of all branches of government and are aligned in intention and ideology with Big Tech’s neoreactionary movement, enabling a Musk led coalition to swiftly move the government towards neoreactionary authoritarianism) versus us! Massively rich versus the passively poor, yes you too middle class.

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Phillip Simmons's avatar

Trump is an F'ING IDIOT!!

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Glenda C.'s avatar

Thank you, Meiselas brothers, for this episode. It was a very informative worthwhile one.

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Barbara Spaulding's avatar

They were using emojis when talking about killer NG people. Yet another embarrassment to our country.

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Meg Allen's avatar

How much is Pete drinking tonight? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"AG Pam Bondi calls for Jasmine Crockett to apologize to Texas and Tesla ‘shareholders’ for Elon Musk criticism. Trump administration has said it will investigate attacks on Tesla as domestic terrorism." (The Independent)......

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pam-bondi-jasmine-crockett-tesla-b2720908.html?link_id=4&can_id=56bdad496d5a1d659d2f23c00c81d0e3&source=email-trump-throws-whiny-tantrum-over-hilarious-portrait-2&email_referrer=email_2669732&email_subject=trump-issues-stunning-response-to-bombshell-scandal&&

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Karen Schaaf's avatar

And why wouldn't Drump have been included in the conversation???

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Dee Joy's avatar

Trump is retired

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Joan Bosworth's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYCG89ijY64&t=34s

I’m waiting for someone to testify that they missed the security training. Indefensible.

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Susan Paulo's avatar

Trump—DENY, DENY, DENY!

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Sally Smith Fauske's avatar

Thank you for your great coverage of the big issues. I also appreciate your ability to keep the conversation civil with clean language, unlike some of the other podcasts I try listening to.

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FeralAF's avatar

Hegseths f*ck up is why half the country can't sleep at night.

And you're so right Ben, f*ck these traitors.

Jordy's thumb anticl made me lol. I needed that. You three are a great together. You each bring your own expertise and personal characteristics and together, it's a great mix.

Thank you

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Dee Joy's avatar

I love when jordy appears, he's always waving with a big smile. These bros are so cute.

So mrs vance is going to Greenland to plot her new holiday home? Or make recommendations for the new trump tower? Bc she's so brilliant you know 🙄

Always an ulterior motive with this ridiculous mob. Untrustworthy. I hope the people of Greenland come out in full force and tell these idiots they're NOT welcome!! Give them NO peace!!

Protest at their hotels, protest everywhere they go. Drive them out!!

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Dawn's avatar

I'd like to see us harp endlessly about it, exactly the way they acted about Hillary's emails.

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Valerie Cartwright's avatar

Citizens United was the beginning of the end. #EndCitizensUnited!

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Deborah Berryman's avatar

I live in Denver & Bernie + AOC = AMAZING!!!!

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Valerie Cartwright's avatar

Seriously! I was screaming about this same level of incompetent, reckless, traitorous sharing of our most sensitive information when Trump was found to have stolen and hidden classified documents in his shitter! He has been sharing our secrets since his first briefing in 2015. We are laid bare and at the mercy of our enemies.

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Valerie Cartwright's avatar

The headlines should read:

TOP INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS USING UNSECURED GROUP CHAT!

NATIONAL SECURITY THREATENED!

JEFFREY GOLDBERG, NATIONAL HERO!

RECKLESS ADMINISTRATION JAILED AT GUANTANAMO!

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Trump AG, Pam Bondi, warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’, in what she says about Elon Musk.

I’ll be blunt: MAGA Republicans are trying to scare me into silence.

But here’s the thing: I REFUSE to be silenced by Pam Bondi or ANYONE else!

I will continue standing up to Donald Trump, our unelected co-president Elon Musk, and all their MAGA extremists, if it’s the last thing I do — and no one will silence me.

Pam Bondi and Donald Trump think it’s terrorism to criticize Elon Musk and his companies.

But if Pam Bondi has such a problem with terrorism, she should speak to her boss, who pardoned the January 6th domestic terrorists who desecrated our democracy and tried to pull off a coup.

We need to show this administration that we won’t be scared into silence or cowed into submission."

Jasmine Crockett

March 25, 2025

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"The destruction of the Department of Education is happening in real-time.

Teachers are getting pink slips.[1] Special education programs are being dismantled.[2] Students in rural and low-income districts are losing critical support.[3] But unless local newspapers and national outlets like NPR start reporting the truth, these devastating stories will remain invisible to the public.

We've already told Congress: vote NO on any bill to abolish the DOE. We've told Governors: fill the gaps and sue to restore it. But now, reporters must do their job too, cover what’s happening to real people in real communities. They must put parents, students, educators, and local leaders on the record about the chaos Trump’s cuts have unleashed.

From rural school closures to the collapse of Title I support and Pell Grant freezes, communities are unraveling while Trump loyalists gut the department and redirect public funds to for-profit religious schools. This is by design, part of a broader right-wing plan to destroy public education from the inside.

Tell NPR and your local press: cover the local consequences of Trump’s assault on public education now.

Every community has a story to tell. A program cut. Teachers who have been laid off. Students left behind.

When media outlets report on these stories, they can create political pressure, influence public opinion, and protect the foundation of public education. Even if they are already covering it, the more they hear from us, the more coverage it will get.

We’ve seen it with infrastructure, voting rights, and DEI. When grassroots pressure builds, coverage follows.

We’re asking reporters to do more than cover Washington politics. We’re asking them to investigate what’s happening on the ground, in classrooms, at school board meetings, and in neighborhoods most impacted by these cuts. That’s how we stop this attack. That’s how we fight back.

We must demand the media cover the local impact of Trump’s assault on public education. Urge your local papers and NPR to expose what’s happening in our schools before it’s too late.

Let’s make sure the public sees what Trump’s destruction of education really looks like, not as a political headline, but as a local crisis harming real lives."

LeeAnn Hall

Director, National Campaign for Justice

(SUPPORT OUR WORK

[1] Thousands of California educators issued pink slips again this year

[2] Dismantling the Department of Education will strip resources from disabled children, parents and advocates say

[3] How Dismantling the Department of Education Would Harm Students)

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "WHOA! Ossoff DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump AND MAGA", on YouTube. (Meidas Touch)......

https://youtu.be/lJD2I7jxFpE?si=AnqHEESOkGuTrZtX

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "I Have ONE QUESTION For Anyone Not Voting Democrat", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)......

https://youtu.be/5DqBBh21Gjs?si=FTwuv4l-HPniN55K

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

Watch: "LIVE: If A Democrat Did This They'd Be In Jail", on YouTube. (Tennessee Brando)......

https://www.youtube.com/live/CMsqhei0F0A?si=5Rm5kZJdUEP5jRy-

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Laura Jacob's avatar

Protection of Greenland… according to Trump. Like the kind you get from the mob.

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C. Sabo's avatar

Maybe we can just throw it out to the wind and ask all our adversaries if they listened!

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gerri caldarola's avatar

YOu go for it BEn… They are traitors

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Barbara Levick's avatar

They're making a lot of the credentials of the journalist and his publication, but he and it are irrelevant. Who this information was shared with doesn't matter, it was shared with someone who has let it be known that it is standard operating procedure to make war plans in an unsecure setting, as if it's an online game.

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gerri caldarola's avatar

This isn’t a f-up; this is a BREACH of security…

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TL Philp's avatar

Ben. This situation is as serious as a heart attack. But … it's also a good time to remind the Mighty that the clown show will end, and Rumpelshitskin and his cadre of buffoons will be ousted.

Perhaps it's a perfect time to urge every Mighty member to watch Michael Moore's 1995 classic movie, Canadian Bacon. Moore saw the shit show coming 20 years ago.

Elbows Up!!

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FeralAF's avatar

The more I hear coverage on this war plans leak, the more I wonder why Trump wasn't involved on the text and why Vance, since he was resisting the plan, wouldn't have noticed Trump was excluded and then alerted him. I mean bombing someone is a pretty big deal.

So much incompetence, but also stinks.

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Meemaw's avatar

Brett is smart AF

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Shelley Montgomery's avatar

He never knows anything about anything. Lies!!!

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Meemaw's avatar

Shitocracy

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Meemaw's avatar

21:00 Usha looks like a hostage

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Chrissy Lindy's avatar

Hopefully sending Usha isn’t a set up to have her unalived and declare war.

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Meemaw's avatar

At 7:33 I clearly hear your dogs barking. Obviously they are smart dogs, Obviously they agree with what you're saying

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Catherine Maltby's avatar

Looks to me like Hegseth just might break his promise, if he hasn’t already?!

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Andy Brymner's avatar

Just heard what that pompous smug faced piece of crap that is Jesse Watters said. Really can’t stand Fox.Keep up the brilliant work Meidas Mighty

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S. Rose Smith-Hayes's avatar

We all know that the 'Circus' is running things, so do Not be surprised by what the folk that are members do. I am really sad about this because our freedom is Not in good hands.

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Cheryl Thomas's avatar

EVERYONE that was on that Thread should be Terminated and Jailed the same they wanted to do to Clinton. They should pay a HUGE price they expected to have done to Clinton, this is why SECURE DECVICES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE USED! This administration is so ill equipped to do their JOBS. They have NO CLUE as to what they are doing! MY GOD we are going to end up being Nuked by Trumps good ole boys Xi, Putin, Jim Jong Un! My god the ignorance and stupidity of it all! They should be fired and JAILED IMMEDIATELY! Had this been a Democratic group they would be screaming from the Roof Tops! LOCK THEM UP!

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Linda Burnett's avatar

It’s the clown running the clown show. That’s what happens when you put unqualified people in positions.

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Tony Vernon's avatar

Hegseth didn't add the Atlantic guy to the group chat. Just a point of clarification. Hegseth still should've noticed - appalling. The entire Atlantic article is worth reading.

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debra's avatar

As I listen to you (and your guests), I feel vindicated. My head bobs up and down with every sentence. You three captured what's happening in words I thought only I could use. As I hear the clips with my barf bag handy, your response says the same thing I think as I Iisten. Thank you for being a truthful, fact-filled place for people who think they are losing their minds if they listen to or read mainstream corporate media. I feel sorry for those who don't know about Meidas+ (and I'm broadcasting it to everyone I know).

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Lorri's avatar

Ok, hegseth just stated that trump said:" "no more" we will desimate the Huethis (sp). Then first thing I hear the rump state in the next interview. is " I havent heard a thing about it, I know nothing about it"

Plus hegsie claimed this journalist was creating hoaxes. None of the 'hoaxes' hegseth claimed the journalist said, were things WE ALL HEARD the rump saying on camera with our own ears in the past. They might have been hoaxes, but they were coming from the rump's own mouth!

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Janet S's avatar

Hey Ben, Brett and Jordy- did you see this video from Canada? They mention you in their song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhA3bpjah5k

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Sljenkins's avatar

I just love you guys ❣️ the energy that Ben brings is electrifying. You sure you don't want to be president? Lol

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Meg Allen's avatar

I liked your thumbuddy Trump, Jordy. It was funny. Don't listen to Ben!

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Jonathan Klinski's avatar

He can't even manipulate stocks! Stay far away from all things Trumpf! Especially DJT

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Joan Pixton's avatar

If we had an escape such as this at the aerospace/defense contractor I worked at there would have been an investigation of the root causes and corrective actions would be put in place so the escape would not happen again. Would think, at a minimum, an RCCA will be completed, but with the sheer incompetence of these people I’m sure it won’t.

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BJ Andrade-Ward's avatar

US military aircraft sold to other countries have historically had reduced capabilities compared to those used by branches of the US armed forces. That includes used aircraft. They are not sold as is in terms of avionics, and weapons systems.

However, those aircraft have not been "defective" in any way.

I firmly believe that Trump has zero actual knowledge about anything. He just babbles to hear himself talk - like a toddler.

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Lou's avatar

Thank you!

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Joyce Hawkins's avatar

Hegseth only repeated JDT had made at some point in time. No original comments.

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Melinda Cole's avatar

Does anyone remember that show the three stooges?

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Robert Hanson's avatar

The spineless Republicans in congress must take this clear act of treason seriously and stop gas lighting the American people. I guess we should know by now how far they will go to protect their convicted felon, rapist, fraud and overall piece of crap leader. Rock on Meidas Mighty.

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LindyLoo's avatar

Thank you!! Great broadcast!

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Wilma Brand's avatar

The picture is missing one thing, his orange skin lol 🇨🇦🇺🇦💙

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Leslie's avatar

I hope they play the video of Hegseth at the hearings and read Tussi’s message. They should be fired. DEI=DONALD ENSEMBLE OF IMBECILES. OUR country is so vulnerable right now. Trump administration is destroying our relationships with our allies while intentionally aligning us with murderous dictators.

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Wilma Brand's avatar

The orange buffoon cannot open his mouth without lying. I still say Greenland should refuse the second lady turn the plane around 🇨🇦🇺🇦💙

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Lisa Blake's avatar

Do not ever stop fighting the good fight! You're freaking amazing

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Jeffrey Oswald's avatar

I believe the exact lyrics are “The lunatics have taken over the asylum.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLdZFCMx8Y

Coincidentally, I sent this link to my family and friends on January 20th.

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Phyllis Anis Leewilliams's avatar

There is a childish old buzzard, not to speak of incompetent. What will it take? Do they have to learn the hard way?

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Vikki's avatar

Maybe Donnie would have preferred a Picasso??

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Elizabeth Alexander's avatar

I agree, I agree, I agree! Thank you , guys for all your your hard work.

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Ruth Graham's avatar

I feel like I am in a never-ending nightmare with this DUI hire &Humpty Dumpty I can’t wait for him to fall off the wall .

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He openly admitted that he knew nothing about it? Adds to the suspicion that he is not aware of what is happening around him, and he is not making the decisions. However, it could just be lie #35,000. Who really knows? Will Hegseth be held accountable?? NOOOOO

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Dmb's avatar

We look like fools what do we look like now

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Why didn't he send Melania?

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Adriana's avatar

Canada 🇨🇦 is on that leaked document invading Vancouver and Toronto first it was sent to cbc journalists to 💘💘♥️♥️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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geoff lord's avatar

This is treason! Throw them all in jail!

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Teresa Hendren's avatar

What a great Podcast! I watch and read your updates all the time, but this is the first time I've commented. You guys do such an amazing job informing and uplifting us. You're able to cover every current issue with facts and passion. This Podcast got me especially fired up by all the positive people and actions that are taking place around the country. Keep up the amazing work!

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Sue Stine's avatar

And no evidence available for FOIA or in the National Archives.

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Mary Bradshaw's avatar

Excellent podcast - love Meidas Touch!

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Franklin Quon's avatar

Some need to be fired due to poor job performance. It is imperative that DOGE be made aware of this immediately.

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Lesley Lotto's avatar

Ben is 🔥

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Susan Clancy's avatar

Usha Vance is a live avatar… what a robot

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Jeffrey Goldberg on the Group Chat That Broke the Internet. What happened when Trump officials accidentally texted him their war plans." (The Atlantic)......

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/03/jeffrey-goldberg-group-chat-broke-internet/682161/

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Why Social Security is in the worst crisis since its founding in 1935, and what you can do about it. Hint: Not because it's running out of money, nor fraud, nor administrative costs." (Robert Reich, Mar 25, 2025)......

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-social-security-is-in-the-worst?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=159585835&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=17g504&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Dennis McAtee's avatar

How do these people expect us to trust them when all they do is trip over their hypocracy and lies. Do they think we are stupid. Stupid is as Stupid does!

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Joyce Hawkins's avatar

The only terrorist is DJT.

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Laurel Yatsko's avatar

Traitors all. To paraphrase the regime's Orange Caligula, "Lock Them Up".

What they have done and continue to do is ....unparalleled in terms of national betrayal. Our parents fought facism. And we are to fund it now???.

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jacque miller's avatar

you guy are fantastic ! thumbs up Jordy, good stuff🥰

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susan's avatar

super interesting theory about a recession being created in order for oligarchs to buy up America cheap

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Steve's avatar

If they ever revive the sitcom 'Hogan's Heroes', Trump would perfectly fit the role of Sergeant Schultz; 'I know nothing'.

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MarcoNOTRubio's avatar

They kinda have a process, NOT due process, in fact the exact opposite. They take your paperwork away (destroy it?), then kidnap you.

This is the Trump regime version of the GESTAPO, with Tom (Himmler) Homan in charge!

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Deborah's avatar

You three are magnificent and important

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sirius-sue 🌊🇺🇸 ♀️🏳️‍🌈's avatar

Great segment! Could you please promote the April 5th national protest? We need 3.5% of the population to effect change! Please use your voice!

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Jeanne Schultz's avatar

Ben, you just really made me laugh.

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Rambles and Rabbit Trails's avatar

I got nauseous when Hegseth was on camera. He’s a professional liar.

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MarcoNOTRubio's avatar

We need ‘fighters’ across all political lines, not just democrats! This autocratic oligarchic regime must be opposed!

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Tony Ricci's avatar

March 25th 2025 TRUTH

Rest assure as Americans wake up this morning there's a sense of guarantee that they wake up to an unsecure and none safe country. The events that have taken place in the last 2 weeks under the Trump administration shows how unsecure and how dangerous this administration is to our country. Whereas people in the Trump administration just signing The president's name to documents that only the president should be signing like war powers to deport people without due process. and the event that took place yesterday on some kind of super chat non-secured shows more incompetence in this cabinet. What also scares me is that the president had no knowledge The speaker of the house Mike Johnson standing next to the president had no knowledge of the events that took place on that chat. While being asked by reporter.

A group of people that live to be in front of the camera to showboat Fox News and their maga agenda IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO ALL PEOPLE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

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Sue McNeil's avatar

This leaked information on a totally careless call is a clear reminder of what Normals people know - Trump is completely unprepared for the presidency. But something in my mind is wondering, was the reporter invited on purpose by someone on the call who wants Trump's ineptitude to be seen clearly? Just a thought.

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Daniel Knight's avatar

Watching the Senate hearing today about this FU and I have one question to the Democrats, why was Jeffery Goldstein not called as a witness to counter the wall of lies. Democrats are either incomplete or wilfully ignorant.

EAT THE RICH!

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Valerie's avatar

Holy SHIT!!!!

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Paula Abney's avatar

Is it Ok I posted this on Twitter? I love you guys. Thanks for keeping it real.

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Enchanted Forest Art Press's avatar

It's hard to be scared of this regime, since these people are so unbelievably stupid.....

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Mary Beth Venazindis's avatar

Criticize, Lie and Deny! Interesting that he wasn’t at the meeting, were they doing this without his input? Maybe his dementia comes into play?

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Ghita Feldbæk's avatar

Greenland and Denmark has NOT invited them https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2025-03-25-amerikanske-topfolk-vil-besoege-groenland-uacceptabelt-siger-mette-frederiksen

We are being treated, like You are, so why should we welcome them?

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Anne Laitala's avatar

Fantastic the truth cannot lose.

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Diantha R Weilepp's avatar

GET THISE PEOPLE BACK !!

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Lvg_900d_l1f€'s avatar

Video of Ms. Vance is definitely ai - sentences don’t flow together (very mechanical).

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Margaret Nolan's avatar

Interesting that DJT always claims to “not know anything” about issues of concern. Is he an idiot or just wants us all to believe his own cabinet doesn’t keep him informed.

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P A Williams's avatar

Yes, and John Ratcliffe, the Trump appointed CIA Director, exposed the name of one of his operatives in the field, while in this group text chat. Hello, time to get that operative out of there!

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Sue Crowl's avatar

Hegseth looks like he grew out of his suit. What a bunch of incompetent imbeciles. trump denying any of it, why not? Because he's an incompetent imbecile too.

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hanet's avatar

It's so important ad so telling that the world and Canada are taking trump seriously while people like Schumer are holding back. The American people in the streets are taking this serious because this affects 99% of us! Elected officials in this trump regime are dead men walking. If our elected officials wont start on impeachment and filing charges against elon and cabinet members the world will have to intervene. Thank you Canada for calling trump bluff and standing against the regime of corruption.

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MJRafanello's avatar

I read an article that outlined the timeliness for the deportees and invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Basically, the government lawyer Ensign was asked if the government was planning on invoking and deporting people in the "next 24 to 48 hours." The gov't lawyer asked for a recess to get that information. Before the court reconvene the Alien Enemies Act was proclaimed. Right after the Judge verbally told the lawyer the order to stop. While the Judge wrote out the order they started sending planes. The verbal order said to turn around any flights around. Later, the gov't lawyer said they don't have to follow a verbal court order and they lied in court because of national security.

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Sharon's avatar

Dear Greenland: Trump said prior to his first term to Access Hollywood that, when you’re a star, they (women) let you do it… grab them by the pussy. He will try and grab you and assault you. Do not let him or his delegation in your country!

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Linda's avatar

The writing was already on the wall when Trump nominated unqualified nominees for the most important departments all because he wants loyalty to himself instead of to the people…We need to add firing to our rallies to these unqualified heads for the sake of our security…

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Jessica's avatar

The whole DEI Pete Hegseth getting COMMUNITY NOTED on X will never NOT be funny. The dude lies and gaslights to our faces and then gets owned by community notes.. Let the Lord do his work lol!

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Suzanne Karbowska-Hayes's avatar

America has now got its own Gremlin house in Washington full of white rats trained as pets by Putin in the Kremlin

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Nicole's avatar

Why would Greenland let the American planes land

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Nicole's avatar

Rapists don’t listen to the word “no”

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Vikki's avatar

That's right, Donnie. Sweat the small stuff. Because you don't know anything about the big stuff. JFC, MAGA is insane. On a scale like "No one has ever seen before." 🙄

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Linda Armstrong's avatar

Per DT “You know what they do to traitors don’t you “ ?

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James Brown's avatar

Hegseth was drunk.

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Stephanie long's avatar

How comes everytime someone asks Trump about a subject or incident. He never knows anything about it. For a man that overseas every department. He has no clue what anyone does.

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Michael Bowman's avatar

While this is scandalous, the question remains, ‘is it intentional?’ While we all talk about this for days, what are they hiding?

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MJRafanello's avatar

Using signal for federal government discussions. Using X and Truth to announce firing, hiring, and other orders. Since when is any of this a way to run a government?

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Rebecca Williams's avatar

They are supposed to have these meetings in person in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmental Information Facility), not over the internet.

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Gloria Steiner's avatar

Actually, trump is distorted on the outside, but mostly his brain is distorted. I thought that portrait looked human, which he does not.

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Jeffrey Wood's avatar

Reason was they didn’t want a paper trail, which is required by law.

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Susan  Coopet's avatar

Simply the best source for facts and truth with proof and exhibits!

Thank you for keeping me informed and sane.

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Froggy13's avatar

They were making war plans, something they do not have the authority to do. It is the authority of Congress. So what's next? The lawless, unauthorized bombing of Canada, Greenland or Panama? Ever last one of them needs to be removed immediately. This includes Mike Johnson, who blew it off saying there was no cause for action against any of these people. They are dangerous and feel they are above the law.

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Victoria's avatar

he made a mistake and said trump administration instead of biden.

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Katrina Billings's avatar

In case you haven’t noticed Donald Trump is a total moron. If Biden had responded to those question in that dismissive way all hell would have broken out. It’s so disgusting yet no one seems to being held accountable.

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Len Giannini's avatar

And Trump goes on and on about the cost of protection Canada gets from the US.

Geeez , maybe with protection like that we should ask for a refund !!!

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Andy Brymner's avatar

Wow who would have thought that totally unqualified people would do this. They will be throwing each other under the bus to save themselves.Not one of them thought it was a bad idea to do this on a chat group platform.Amazing but Trump only picks the Top people.Imagine this would have happened under Biden. Maga would be salivating for dismissal of the clowns what a shit show

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Katie F's avatar

Man I really wanted that interviewer to ask him (Hegseth) if he realized his response came across as defensive and embarrassed.

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Ida Orr's avatar

Incompetent Baffoons!

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Nan's avatar

but hunters laptop….

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AT's avatar

IMHO, when this is all over, when trump is ousted/impeached/jailed, when republicans finally stop groveling, when the madness stops, trump will say, "Look! I united the country."

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Jacquelyn Pease's avatar

The concept of Greenland? They are a country, what concept?

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joyce book's avatar

Jordy. Well said. Wealth inequality.

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Nancy G Leveson's avatar

Everyone in this country knows about the Signal chat. Why doesn't Trump? Does nobody ever talk to him and keep him up to date with what is going on? Or, most likely, is he just lying as he always does when he doesn't want to admit something.

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Nicole's avatar

Are any republicans going to speak out? In Ohio max miller is a retired Marine… shouldn’t he be upset

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Chelle's avatar

I felt the pulse too after listening to Sen. Andy Kim of NJ...and the people there....but we have to keep it going....this would be the perfect time...something has to be done to these idiots. Dems cannot let this drop without some accountability!!!

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Pat Sevigny's avatar

The house of cards will fall. T---p sits there all slumped over looking like the insecure man he is.kids r taking over. Massachusetts kids r staging walkout s. These kids r 15. Guess how old they will be in 2028? T---p will never tell the truth. It's pretty pathetic that he thinks it helps him to " know nothing about a major security breach that could cost lives.how dumb is he? He's responsible & it's on him even if he claims to know nothing. It's his job to know.different topic- Nh was going to close our library to cut 6 million from budget. I have an idea maga folks. Instead of hurting our kids education [ btw they will be 18 next election maybe have t---p skip 2 mar largo golf trips? Bam! 10 million tax

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Jan Knox's avatar

How do we get these people back? I haven’t heard a plan. Are they lost? That’s not

Acceptable. Bring them back for due process

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LOIS HADFIELD's avatar

DJT needs to call his truth social UNTRUTH SOCIAL with all the BS that he spews and all the "I don't knows" that he confesses to......lies, lies, and more lies.!!!!

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Sue Holmes's avatar

“Democracy has a Pulse”

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Tricia Babcock's avatar

great reporting brothers Meiselas. Please 🙏🏻 let Jordy speak 🗣️ more.

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Donna R.'s avatar

They belong in the sandbox. Total incompetence.

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Ted Parry's avatar

With this horrendous incompetence displayed by so many top Trump department heads, the time must be fast approaching when the Supreme Court has to finally make a decision do they back Trump or do they back the constitution and the country?

We hope they are inherently intelligent people and they must realise that it is a distinct possibility that Trump will somehow abolish the Supreme Court - it's decision time

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SusanK's avatar

Who the f*** knows what they've been saying on signal before this???? I hope they give the guy who was invited to the signal chat a lot of protection!!!!!!!! 😔

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Sue Holmes's avatar

Wonder if the Invite to chat was from Putin? Comment from hubby

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Shasta Greene's avatar

Its a regime of looters, thugs and fools.

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He wrote an article. The Trump administration, we should call him a regime, texted me its war plans. He talks about how he was invited into this chat. He saw the most highly classified information. He didn't know what the heck in the world was going on and if this was even real.