Basically bad for the country

The dizzying spin over Whiskeyleaks (thanks, MPS) continues to gain momentum, from Greasy Pete ("a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist...the guy that peddles in garbage") to his master ("the person that was on happens to be a sleazebag...he found it very boring and he left early") to their spokesmodel Bottle Blonde No. 1 ("well-known for his sensationalist spin").  Mike Waltz assured Laura Ingraham that Everything Is Under Control ("I just talked to Elon on the way here, we've got the best technical minds looking at how this happened").  Computer error?  "You've got someone else's number on someone else's contact, so of course I didn't see this loser in the group."  

Then it got sinister:  "Now whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical means, we're trying to figure out."  You contacted him, asshole.  Admit it and resign.

That's not how it works.  Owning your mistakes is for Democrats.  Waltz went on:

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist but of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families (?), lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax [sic], gone to all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States, and he's the one that somehow gets on somebody's contact and then gets sucked into a group."

He seems to be saying When we fuck up, we fuck up beyond all recognition.  Why couldn't it have been Hannity or Watters or you, Laura, getting classified war plans?  But of course he isn't.  He (and Elon's best technical minds) will find a way to blame Jeffrey Goldberg.  "I'm not a conspiracy theorist"?  Who said anything about a conspiracy?  Now we've slid from "he did it deliberately" to "who else is in on this?"  A conspiracy so immense...sorry, I thought it was 1950 and I was in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Tulsi Gabbard was and wasn't in the chat, and the topic of discussion was and wasn't classified.  Hence this exchange with Senator John Warner:  "There was no classified material that we shared in that Signal chat."  "If there was no classified material share it with the committee.  You can't have it both ways."  Goldberg shared the material, Senator, and here it is:

Should we call the government of Yemen and ask them if this was another Goldberg "hoax"?

Here's a report from March 17 about the attack.  Of course, it's from the AP, those losers and haters who still refer to the Gulf of Mexico.

How do I know they're going after Goldberg?  Because "he's made up a lot of stories and I think he's basically bad for the country."  People have been Salvadored for less.  

The plot thickens.  American Oversight, which describes itself as "a nonpartisan nonprofit watchdog that advances truth, accountability and democracy by enforcing the public's right to government records," has filed suit against Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al. alleging that their use of the Signal app violated federal recordkeeping laws.  And look who got the case:  U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, the same judge who told ICE to stop deporting random people to El Salvador, the one the cult wants to impeach if not lynch, the one appointed by "BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA."  Cases are randomly assigned, you say?  You must be a radical left lunatic.  Come sit by me.

And there's your conspiracy, especially if American Oversight ever got a hundred-dollar donation from someone who knows someone whose niece works for George Soros, the Napoleon of Liberal Crime.  Surrounded as he is by assassins, or at least "sleazebag" journalists and "activist" judges, The Leader can barely concentrate on the conquest of Greenland and the scum slum clearance in Gaza.  This being a time of scorched earth DOGE-type solutions, Mike Johnson has the answer:  eliminate the federal courts.  "It violates separation of powers when a judge thinks that they can enjoin something that a president is doing," he declared.  No, Mikey, bless your heart, that's the definition of separation of powers, of three co-equal branches of government.  I know you went to school in Louisiana, ranked 49th in the nation, but you can take my word for it.  I went to school in New Jersey (ranked first).   Now go play with your gavel and maybe Paula White-Cain will give you a discount on one of her thousand-dollar angels.

 

Since I started writing this, YouTuber and Kremlin influencer Benny Johnson has become the first to call for Jeffrey Goldberg to be charged with possession of national defense information, which he calls "something far more pernicious and nefarious that's really bad."  I wish I could English good like that.  He compares Goldberg to "lurking like a peeping Tom in the girls' locker room.  He's lurking in a towel, a little creepy, spying on the Trump administration."  Something you want to tell us, tovarisch?  "You knew what you were doing, you little rat!"  Unlike you, unwittingly accepting Putin bucks, eh, Benny?  This will work its way up to someone with credibility like Thom Tillis, and then the Sunday talk shows will take it seriously, and the newly entrumpened newspapers will pick up the chant...

Jeffrey Goldberg and the Atlantic probably have a long-term relationship with tough, sharp lawyers.  It's the rest of us who need to worry.  According to this here in the Washington Post (as Agent K would say, they get lucky sometimes) The Leader's sanctions have frightened away old established law firms like Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling for representing people he hates like Jack Smith.  They do this in countries he admires like Russia and Turkey but it's unprecedented here.

Like everything else.