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Signal Failures: Trump’s Pentagon Leaks State Secrets While Jesus Wept.

Easter at the White House

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Joshua Powell
Apr 21, 2025
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In the festering puss pool that is Trump’s America 2.0, Pete Hegseth — the Fox News GI Joe with delusions of military competence — has transformed the Pentagon into a frat house. This white-winged, tattooed media parasite, whose sole qualification is his practiced ability to lick Trump’s boots on morning television, has now twice been caught hemorrhaging national security information through unsecured channels, proving that in this administration, catastrophic incompetence is not a glitch but a feature.

The “Houthi PC small group” Signal debacle — where Hegseth vomited classified operational details to a group chat accidentally including a journalist — wasn’t just a breach of protocol; it was a breathtaking display of staggering negligence that in any functioning democracy would have warranted immediate dismissal and possible prosecution. Yet in Trump’s kleptocratic carnival, such security violations are merely one day’s news cycle before tomorrow’s fresh disaster.

As if exposing Yemen …

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