10 Comments on “Tuesday Cartoons: Not the smartest tools in the shed.”

1. Sadhbh (Sigh-ve) says:

   March 25, 2025 at 8:03 am

   So many people should be fired because of this signal shitshow…but I know nothing will come of it. Except the retribution of Goldberg and the Atlantic.

   • welshie says:

     March 25, 2025 at 8:25 am

     Exactly, no consequences for anyone. It’s anyone’s guess what the next unprecedented fuck up will be.

     Just had a thought with the USPS guy resigning, Bezos put in charge because he knows how to deliver stuff. 🙄

     • dakinikat says:

       March 25, 2025 at 9:56 am

       The level of incompetency in all of the Trump administration makes them looking like they should be sent back to kindergarten to start over again. These guys couldn’t put together a toddler level puzzle.

       • welshie says:

         March 25, 2025 at 1:05 pm

         That’s why there are appointment hearings, right? So that the criminally incompetent don’t get high level government positions and it’s not just someone that appeared on TV and will do anything a mob boss says.

         • dakinikat says:

           March 25, 2025 at 8:43 pm

           In theory and recent history, yes. But today’s Republicans are afraid of the Wrath of Don and his gun brandishing KKKult

   • dakinikat says:

     March 25, 2025 at 10:03 am

     Seven Reasons Trump’s Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace

     by emptywheel

     #2 is a doozy

     “The entire national security team participated in a potential violation of the Espionage Act

     But the effort to claim this is just a mistake in the creation of the Signal list is an attempt to downplay that Trump’s CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, sent the identity of a currently serving intelligence officer and later sent what appears to be sources and methods on Signal, and then his Secretary of Defense, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, sent operational details of the imminent strikes on Yemen on Signal, and then Waltz himself sent out what sound like the immediate results of the operation, also on Signal.

     All those men, who loudly condemned Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden for their unintentional mishandling of classified information, who demanded that DOJ prosecute such lapses, sent information on an insecure chat that happened to include a journalist.

     18 USC 793(f) makes it a crime to so negligently mishandle National Defense Information that someone not authorized to receive it does receive it.

     (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—

     Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

     And yet Trump’s entire national security team — not only his National Security Adviser and his CIA Director and his Secretary of Defense, but also his Chief of Staff, his Secretary of State, his Vice President, his Director of National Intelligence, and others — did nothing as the entire team shared information about an upcoming and recently completed military attack, on Signal.

     The entire gang was in on it.”

2. Sadhbh (Sigh-ve) says:

   March 25, 2025 at 8:11 am

   also big point to remember:

   

3. Sadhbh (Sigh-ve) says:

   March 25, 2025 at 8:24 am

   One more:

   Heather discusses the Signal Fuck Up as reported by Goldberg in the Atlantic March 24, 2025open.substack.com/pub/heatherc…

   — JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T13:23:29.290Z

4. dakinikat says:

   March 25, 2025 at 11:54 am

   The Daily Reid: Our Little KakistocracyWe are being run by idiots, mediocrities, and bad-minded fools with group chats

   

   Joy-Ann Reid

   https://www.joyannreid.com/p/the-daily-reid-our-little-kakistocracy

   “The word “Kakistocracy” literally means “a government by the worst or most venal people.” Basically, government by idiots, or “Idiocracy.” I also like the term “Mediocracy,” to describe a government in which mediocre people are deliberately elevated to positions of power, both because they won’t be smart enough to rebel and will go along with whatever the autocrat or oligarchs in charge say, and because their very mediocrity actually sends a message to the out-groups, that no matter how hard they strive, how diligently they work, or how smart or even brilliant they are, the mediocrities in the in-group will always be in charge, and get all of the best jobs, positions, land, housing, and benefits. You literally cannot elevate your status through excellence in a mediocrity. Your only hope is to be born a member of the preferred and protected caste.”

5. dakinikat says:

   March 25, 2025 at 1:16 pm

   You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.

   — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-03-25T17:06:41.062Z