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@wdlindsy@toad.social"It appears that the use of Signal is a widespread practice in the Department of Defense in order to “communicate with the White House.”
Therefore, we should assume that foreign hackers have read every message between the White House and the Department of Defense over the last 63 days."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #incompetence #stupidity #Signalgate
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-crack-in-the-facade
"There is no Secret Genius lurking in the Trump administration. They’re not playing 3-D chess. There’s not some grand strategy. No, Occam’s Razor cuts deep here, and lots of blood may soon be spilled as a result of the evident implication:
The most powerful people in the world are both stupid and incompetent."
~ Brian Klaas
"At the White House yesterday, Donald Trump announced he’s imposing a 25 percent tariff on all imported cars. He’s described April 2, the day in which his reciprocal tariffs regime will supposedly be fully implemented, as 'liberation day' for the United States."
~ Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson
#Trump #tariffs #taxes #incompetence #stupidity
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-mckinley-tariffs-rauchway-interview
"But scratch the surface of this bluster and it quickly becomes clear that Trump’s ideas about tariffs and their alleged benefits are a combination of confused and baseless."
@wdlindsy
You seem to think he means what he says. He's not smart, but he knows enough not to say, for example, that this is part of his plan to crush Canada.
#FBPE 
@wdlindsy They wanted April 1st, but that's his day.
If I had to buy a reliable daily driver car next month, I'd have about $8k extra"liberated" from my money.
Reliable. Like a Toyota.
It would be $8k extra.
@wdlindsy “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
@wdlindsy Well said. Clever but not intelligent. #Trumpeltiere.
@wdlindsy
If he's right, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor is even more applicable here. But please note that Grey's exception certainly applies:
> Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Dynastic wealth and elite stupidity has always precipitated devastating wars that destroyed their own wealth & triggered their own decline.
https://fee.org/articles/dietrich-bonhoeffer-on-the-stupidity-that-led-to-hitler-s-third-reich/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy
https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/
The billionaires funding this version fascism seem unaware of the price paid by the moneyed in the past.
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/
@wdlindsy And the world is stuck with these stupid incompetents for at least 4 years
After which, my money says we get more of the same
[Because Signal use, password leaks, and personal not Govt phones] we should assume that foreign hackers have read every message between the White House and the Department of Defense over the last 63 days.
There is a reason for laws and procedures. Sure, accountability is built in. It's a feature, but it stops stupid people from needing to think about what they don't or can't know. Follow the rules. Get your work done safely and easily. These are the guys that would fire their parents at 3 years old after their first tantrum, then raise themselves. Yep. That'll work out fine...