Pete Hegseth won't resign. Because nothing matters.
Classified info, Schmassified info. Who wants a beer?
As you’ve surely heard by now, Pete Hegseth, the DEI hire who (lack of qualifications be damned) heads the defense department, sucks.
And by “sucks,” I mean he’s predictably awful at the job he should have never been handed. Yesterday, in particular, was a spectacular showcase for the former (and future) Fox News bobo. As detailed in this article for the Atlantic, Hegseth and several other administration officials not only plotted military strikes in Yemen via the lightly protected Signal (an open-source encrypted messaging service popular with journalists), but accidentally included an actual journalist, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, in the dialogue. Oops.
You can’t make this shit up.
Were we operating in normal times, Republicans and Democrats would together be calling for Hegseth to step down. They’d acknowledge the enormity of his mistake. They’d recognize he’s not up to the gig. They’d give him the option of resigning or being removed, and they’d make Donald Trump’s life miserable should he defend his nimrod hire.
Alas, the day is far from normal. Republicans have already lined up to defend Hegseth and snipe at Goldberg and pretend, hey, nothing to see here. They want you to notice the birds chirping, the popcorn popping, Vanilla Ice gearing up for his next bar gig. Anything but this fuck-up.
But my new standard for politics is a single question that applies to both parties: How would you be responding had the [opposite party] done this?
In regards to Hegseth, we know the answer. Back in 2016, when Hillary Clinton was the Democratic presidential nominee, her use of a private server for classified emails while she was Barack Obama’s Secretary of State proved a major, major, major, major issue. She was damned by Trump for the mishap repeatedly, and the GOP had a field day with the matter. One can certainly argue it led to her defeat.
Now, however, the GOP wants Americans to ignore what’s happening.
They want the truth to pass us by.
Why?
Because nothing matters.
Absolutely nothing.
Heard on the radio this morning that using 3rd-party encrypted apps, rather than US secured comm systems, was recommended in “Mandate for Leadership,” aka #Project2025. The reason was to prevent having anything to provide when subpoenas came around.
This is the truly scary issue here, that our federal government is not only intentionally hiding what it’s doing from us, now, but from history, forever, since these texts never get recorded as a government document, or archived, so essentially never happened.
No wonder criminals use Telegraph, Tor, and crimno-currency.
If any of us normal people would have made a mistake like that in our own workplace, we would have been immediately reprimanded if not outright dismissed. With this clown show administration, it is receives barely more than a shrug. Somehow, trump and his stogies will somehow place the blame on Biden.