Surviving a second Trump admin

[Whack9]

White house says gold reserves may be used to buy Bitcoin:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-ho ... 21472.html

What Happened: Bo Hines, the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, suggested in an interview that the U.S. could capitalize on the gains from its gold holdings to purchase more Bitcoin.

This move, according to Hines, could be a budget-neutral way to increase the country’s Bitcoin reserves.

...
Hines referenced the Bitcoin Act of 2025, proposed by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), which advocates for the US to acquire 1 million Bitcoin, approximately 5% of the total Bitcoin supply, over a span of five years. This acquisition would be funded through the sale of Federal Reserve gold certificates.

[Vrede too]

Very likely it is anti-Trumpers disclosing information.

"Very likely" - The knee-jerk excuse making for PINO admin* incompetence is beyond staggering. Every single time.

Ah yes, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth. Notorious anti trumpers embedded in the Trump administration.

Thanks for the recap and expert debunking of SoupySales' "Very likely" explanation.

Why are they using signal? Aren't there more secure avenues for communication for something as important as national defense? Looks like signal messages are deleted for good after 1-4 weeks. That may explain it.

Good question. The feds have whole divisions devoted to providing secure comms. As you say, they probably want to hide their activities from investigators and posterity. They hate transparency and democracy.

I posted a possibility. If the above is factual it is a screw up.

"If" - Trumpette blinders are incredible.

A "Very likely" possibility, clearly lacking any understanding of what happened, as Whack9 thoroughly pointed out. It was just knee-jerk excuse making for the PINO admin*, as usual. MAGAts are sooo predictable!

That's more than a screw up.

The incompetence is beyond staggering.

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

[Vrede too]

Pentagon Issued Warning About Signal Messaging One Week Before Its Head Was Caught Using It
This is nuts.

Chat N'War

... The White House has gone on the defensive, saying no classified information was shared in the chat. But NPR is now reporting that a Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 — less than a week before the screwup went public — explicitly warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.

OPPS!

The advisory claimed that a "vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," and that Russian hacking groups were "targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest" (a Signal spokesperson told NPR that the company wasn't "aware of any vulnerabilities or supposed ones that we haven't addressed publicly.")

To be fair, Putin is also cc'ed on all of these national security comms.

It remains unclear whether the memo is related to Goldberg being inadvertently added to the offending Signal group chat, though the timeline suggests it's possible. But regardless, it shows that the Pentagon knew that discussing an upcoming offensive over a commercial chat app was a horrible idea — even while its head was doing exactly that.

Mixed Signals

As experts told Goldberg, senior defense officials often have dedicated spaces in their homes called "sensitive compartmented information facilities," with approved communication equipment for discussing military activity. By discussing highly sensitive information on Signal while out in public instead, the officials risk exposing the data simply by losing their phones or having them stolen....

Morons.

[Whack9]

Pentagon Issued Warning About Signal Messaging One Week Before Its Head Was Caught Using It
This is nuts.

Chat N'War

... The White House has gone on the defensive, saying no classified information was shared in the chat. But NPR is now reporting that a Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 — less than a week before the screwup went public — explicitly warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.

OPPS!

The advisory claimed that a "vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," and that Russian hacking groups were "targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest" (a Signal spokesperson told NPR that the company wasn't "aware of any vulnerabilities or supposed ones that we haven't addressed publicly.")

To be fair, Putin is also cc'ed on all of these national security comms.

It remains unclear whether the memo is related to Goldberg being inadvertently added to the offending Signal group chat, though the timeline suggests it's possible. But regardless, it shows that the Pentagon knew that discussing an upcoming offensive over a commercial chat app was a horrible idea — even while its head was doing exactly that.

Mixed Signals

As experts told Goldberg, senior defense officials often have dedicated spaces in their homes called "sensitive compartmented information facilities," with approved communication equipment for discussing military activity. By discussing highly sensitive information on Signal while out in public instead, the officials risk exposing the data simply by losing their phones or having them stolen....

Morons.

Yeah but "warrior ethos" or something.

[GoCubsGo]

Oh no!

She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
Rebecca Carlson planned to use a USDA grant to hire overseas workers for her cherry harvest. A funding freeze has left her in debt and unsure whether she can hire the workers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/econom ... rcna197320


Who could have foreseen this!?

"overseas workers"

Make ????? Great Again

Don't you know they're taking all those high paying American jobs that nobody wants?

Here we go, Florida leads the way!

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business ... labor-laws

[1 CAT FAN]

Thanks for pointing out that American adults are too lazy to work. Leftist news media has finally hit on something.

[Supsalemgr]

Very likely it is anti-Trumpers disclosing information.

"Very likely" - The knee-jerk excuse making for PINO admin* incompetence is beyond staggering. Every single time.

Ah yes, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth. Notorious anti trumpers embedded in the Trump administration.

Thanks for the recap and expert debunking of SoupySales' "Very likely" explanation.

Why are they using signal? Aren't there more secure avenues for communication for something as important as national defense? Looks like signal messages are deleted for good after 1-4 weeks. That may explain it.

Good question. The feds have whole divisions devoted to providing secure comms. As you say, they probably want to hide their activities from investigators and posterity. They hate transparency and democracy.

I posted a possibility. If the above is factual it is a screw up.

"If" - Trumpette blinders are incredible.

A "Very likely" possibility, clearly lacking any understanding of what happened, as Whack9 thoroughly pointed out. It was just knee-jerk excuse making for the PINO admin*, as usual. MAGAts are sooo predictable!

That's more than a screw up.

The incompetence is beyond staggering.

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

There is still a "missing" which may not alter anything. It would be interesting to know more about the staffer who made the mistake.

[Whack9]

Very likely it is anti-Trumpers disclosing information.

"Very likely" - The knee-jerk excuse making for PINO admin* incompetence is beyond staggering. Every single time.

Ah yes, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth. Notorious anti trumpers embedded in the Trump administration.

Thanks for the recap and expert debunking of SoupySales' "Very likely" explanation.

Why are they using signal? Aren't there more secure avenues for communication for something as important as national defense? Looks like signal messages are deleted for good after 1-4 weeks. That may explain it.

Good question. The feds have whole divisions devoted to providing secure comms. As you say, they probably want to hide their activities from investigators and posterity. They hate transparency and democracy.

I posted a possibility. If the above is factual it is a screw up.

"If" - Trumpette blinders are incredible.

A "Very likely" possibility, clearly lacking any understanding of what happened, as Whack9 thoroughly pointed out. It was just knee-jerk excuse making for the PINO admin*, as usual. MAGAts are sooo predictable!

That's more than a screw up.

The incompetence is beyond staggering.

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

There is still a "missing" which may not alter anything. It would be interesting to know more about the staffer who made the mistake.

It wasn't a random low level inconsequential staffer. It was Mike Waltz. Trump's National Security Advisor.

I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national- ... -chat-leak

[Supsalemgr]

Very likely it is anti-Trumpers disclosing information.

"Very likely" - The knee-jerk excuse making for PINO admin* incompetence is beyond staggering. Every single time.

Ah yes, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth. Notorious anti trumpers embedded in the Trump administration.

Thanks for the recap and expert debunking of SoupySales' "Very likely" explanation.

Why are they using signal? Aren't there more secure avenues for communication for something as important as national defense? Looks like signal messages are deleted for good after 1-4 weeks. That may explain it.

Good question. The feds have whole divisions devoted to providing secure comms. As you say, they probably want to hide their activities from investigators and posterity. They hate transparency and democracy.

I posted a possibility. If the above is factual it is a screw up.

"If" - Trumpette blinders are incredible.

A "Very likely" possibility, clearly lacking any understanding of what happened, as Whack9 thoroughly pointed out. It was just knee-jerk excuse making for the PINO admin*, as usual. MAGAts are sooo predictable!

That's more than a screw up.

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

There is still a "missing" which may not alter anything. It would be interesting to know more about the staffer who made the mistake.

It wasn't a random low level inconsequential staffer. It was Mike Waltz. Trump's National Security Advisor.

I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national- ... -chat-leak

I have now seen that statement since my last post. I give Waltz credit for taking responsibility. As much as the left would like this to be a long term issue it will be a 2-3 day story now.

[Whack9]

"Very likely" - The knee-jerk excuse making for PINO admin* incompetence is beyond staggering. Every single time.

Thanks for the recap and expert debunking of SoupySales' "Very likely" explanation.

Good question. The feds have whole divisions devoted to providing secure comms. As you say, they probably want to hide their activities from investigators and posterity. They hate transparency and democracy.

"If" - Trumpette blinders are incredible.

A "Very likely" possibility, clearly lacking any understanding of what happened, as Whack9 thoroughly pointed out. It was just knee-jerk excuse making for the PINO admin*, as usual. MAGAts are sooo predictable!

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

There is still a "missing" which may not alter anything. It would be interesting to know more about the staffer who made the mistake.

It wasn't a random low level inconsequential staffer. It was Mike Waltz. Trump's National Security Advisor.

I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national- ... -chat-leak

I have now seen that statement since my last post. I give Waltz credit for taking responsibility. As much as the left would like this to be a long term issue it will be a 2-3 day story now.

Doesn't matter. Still an issue. Still embarrassing. Still probably shouldn't be using Signal. Still hypocrites

BRD: the above poster is now in the "...and if it did happen, it's not a big deal anyway" phase.

[Vrede too]

Whack9, MAGAts are sooo predictable!

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

There is still a "missing" which may not alter anything. It would be interesting to know more about the staffer who made the mistake.

It wasn't a random low level inconsequential staffer. It was Mike Waltz. Trump's National Security Advisor.

I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national- ... -chat-leak

Adding Goldberg is how they got caught, but that ended up being harmless because lefty reporters are responsible when it comes to matters of national security. The real scandal is that they were using Signal for these war comms, as Whack9 says, something Hegseth's own Pentagon was warning against. This is a monumental failing involving the entire apparatus of PINO's national security admin*, a gang of rank amateurs, and may have broken several laws. One of them was participating from Moscow!!!

Hegseth was the most guilty among equals because he freely shared the most operational details. In a normal admin he, Waltz, the CIA director and a few others would be kicked to the curb. But no, DonOLD and his criminal enterprise have shunned accountability his entire life, and the GQP is complicit. Maybe no one gets booted.

As an aside, O Really and GoCubsGo must have been salivating a little bit that they would win their bet on Hegseth being the first to be ousted. Not so likely now. That said, there's no indication that my man, loony KINO, is on the way out. We're all losers.

[Whack9]

Whack9, MAGAts are sooo predictable!

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

There is still a "missing" which may not alter anything. It would be interesting to know more about the staffer who made the mistake.

It wasn't a random low level inconsequential staffer. It was Mike Waltz. Trump's National Security Advisor.

I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national- ... -chat-leak

Adding Goldberg is how they got caught, but that ended up being harmless because lefty reporters are responsible when it comes to matters of national security. The real scandal is that they were using Signal for these war comms, as Whack9 says, something Hegseth's own Pentagon was warning against. This is a monumental failing involving the entire apparatus of PINO's national security admin*, a gang of rank amateurs, and may have broken several laws. One of them was participating from Moscow!!!

Hegseth was the most guilty among equals because he freely shared the most operational details. In a normal admin he, Waltz, the CIA director and a few others would be kicked to the curb. But no, DonOLD and his criminal enterprise have shunned accountability his entire life, and the GQP is complicit. Maybe no one gets booted.

As an aside, O Really and GoCubsGo must have been salivating a little bit that they would win their bet on Hegseth being the first to be ousted. Not so likely now. That said, there's no indication that my man, loony KINO, is on the way out. We're all losers.

Oh my. The reporter released the rest of the texts since the admin came out saying they weren't classified. Since there's no classified info, guess it's ok to release them.

https://archive.ph/WFZ6C

Yesterday, we asked officials across the Trump administration if they objected to us publishing the full texts. In emails to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and the White House, we wrote, in part: “In light of statements today from multiple administration officials, including before the Senate Intelligence Committee, that the information in the Signal chain about the Houthi strike is not classified, and that it does not contain ‘war plans,’ The Atlantic is considering publishing the entirety of the Signal chain.”
We sent our first request for comment and feedback to national-security officials shortly after noon, and followed up in the evening after most failed to answer.
Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: “As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] — yes, we object to the release.” (The Leavitt statement did not address which elements of the texts the White House considered sensitive, or how, more than a week after the initial air strikes, their publication could have bearing on national security.)

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Oh my. The reporter released the rest of the texts since the admin came out saying they weren't classified. Since there's no classified info, guess it's ok to release them.

https://archive.ph/WFZ6C

This just gets better.

... The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.

... The Hegseth text continues:

•“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”
•“1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”

Let us pause here for a moment to underscore a point. This Signal message shows that the U.S. secretary of defense texted a group that included a phone number unknown to him—Goldberg’s cellphone—at 11:44 a.m. This was 31 minutes before the first U.S. warplanes launched, and two hours and one minute before the beginning of a period in which a primary target, the Houthi “Target Terrorist,” was expected to be killed by these American aircraft. If this text had been received by someone hostile to American interests—or someone merely indiscreet, and with access to social media—the Houthis would have had time to prepare for what was meant to be a surprise attack on their strongholds. The consequences for American pilots could have been catastrophic.
The Hegseth text then continued:

•“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”
•“1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
•“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”
•“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)”
•“We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security.
•“Godspeed to our Warriors.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt steps in it again. She's racking up a miserable record early on. Will she last?

[Whack9]

Pete Hegseth: Whiskeyleaks

[1 CAT FAN]

Very likely it is anti-Trumpers disclosing information.

"Very likely" - The knee-jerk excuse making for PINO admin* incompetence is beyond staggering. Every single time.

Ah yes, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth. Notorious anti trumpers embedded in the Trump administration.

Thanks for the recap and expert debunking of SoupySales' "Very likely" explanation.

Why are they using signal? Aren't there more secure avenues for communication for something as important as national defense? Looks like signal messages are deleted for good after 1-4 weeks. That may explain it.

Good question. The feds have whole divisions devoted to providing secure comms. As you say, they probably want to hide their activities from investigators and posterity. They hate transparency and democracy.

I posted a possibility. If the above is factual it is a screw up.

"If" - Trumpette blinders are incredible.

A "Very likely" possibility, clearly lacking any understanding of what happened, as Whack9 thoroughly pointed out. It was just knee-jerk excuse making for the PINO admin*, as usual. MAGAts are sooo predictable!

That's more than a screw up.

The incompetence is beyond staggering.

SoupySales has disappeared since we made fun of him for doubting the veracity of the scandal. Go figure. Must be because Faux Noise told him that it's a real foul-up, far exceeding Hillary's non-scandal that he screeched about for months. MAGAts, they're beyond staggering.

Good thing you're posting anonymously, you could be whacked for mentioning Hillary in a scandal.
Is James Comey still available to do a thorough investigation?

[GoCubsGo]

Amazing that thr RWNJ's hair isn't on fire with an actual fuck up and security scandal.

Wonder why that is?

'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'

[O Really]

They're only good at creating imaginary "scandals." Not so good at handling one of their own. Can you imagine the response if Obama had said something like Trump - "it happens."

[GoCubsGo]

They're only good at creating imaginary "scandals." Not so good at handling one of their own. Can you imagine the response if Obama had said something like Trump - "it happens."

When Faux Noise personalities and other mediocre personalities cosplay at high government officials this is what you get.

[Whack9]

Amazing that thr RWNJ's hair isn't on fire with an actual fuck up and security scandal.

Wonder why that is?

'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'

When the extent of the electorates world view is watching some rich fucks chase a ball around on TV or scrolling through Tik-Tok and you extend that thinking to government and world affairs, only the appearance of winning matters.

[GoCubsGo]

Amazing that thr RWNJ's hair isn't on fire with an actual fuck up and security scandal.

Wonder why that is?

'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'

When the extent of the electorates world view is watching some rich fucks chase a ball around on TV or scrolling through Tik-Tok and you extend that thinking to government, only the appearance of winning matters.

They're counting on the same lazy, ignorant electorate that voted for them to believe them.