Goldman on Waltz's absurd explanation of SignalGate: "It is absolutely preposterous, but what it goes to show is when you are lying you can't keep a story straight."
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Would be so much easier to admit fault, ask for forgiveness... But NO... he has to continue to lie. One loses immediate credibility when you lie, and everyone knows your a liar!
Exactly. Even if getting 'sucked' in was plausible...not...you are saying you still had a number you don't know on a classified call on a non government chat app that disappears and can't be archived. You also responded in emojis to the death of 53 people and an act of war you dumb ass.
Which is why I tell the truth. Not so much that I’m some sort of virtuous person… it takes just way too much energy to keep lies all lined up like little duckies in a row. Way too much work.
I’ll give them a number got sucked into their phone. How do you add a phone number you don’t have contact info for to a group chat about dropping bombs?
The playbook:
1. Trash the journalist.
2. Classified info was not discussed
3. Go visit a few service people and pretend you care about them.
4. When asked act like don’t know anything about it. (Trump)
5. Use the old the contacts were sucked into my phone excuse.
6. Never own up to any of it.
You notice they never address using an app that was not secure? Not one of them raised the issue before, during or after. Could it be they were on signal because they did not want that conversation to be documented?
They think they are on the campaign trail and it’ll work
How many more outcomes can we get with this residual story to wear Johnny Reb Dt
Out
Anguish needs to be fed constantly
His mind is so fragile it’ll wear out
Wear Dt out constantly
Drum beat it till
He’s punchy
I’m definitely thinking an SNL skit of an Urgent Appeal ‼️ to support all those who have lost pants after the recent, persistent pant-fire outbreak in this administration.
This is surreal. This just keeps getting worse and worse for the Republicans and they know it. I can't stop hearing a loud ticking noise tbh.
I'd be happier if I wasn't so damn horrified. I haven't found a way for those two emotions to coexist in my brain yet. I don't think I want to.
The Trump mafia's response to Signalgate demonstrates one thing very clearly, that this regime doesn't regard ANY government procedure, act, or information as "classified". Something Trump had already signalled when he stuffed his Mar-a-Lago bathrooms full of government top secret documents.
"Sucked in" is such a good term for what's happening with the maga people, as they bypass any remaining reasoning skills and absorb all this bullshit at face value
no matter what waltz does he’ll be the sacrificial lamb. trying to impress an old friend with his new found powers went wrong. national security is no joke, mike. thanks
I find it funny that the felon does not realize the implication of why Waltz even has the journalist's name in his contacts. Guess who leaks White House info? One guess.
I think it was more nefarious than that, an inside job if you will. There are plenty of people in this administration who see what is happening and in their small ways are trying to stop it. It looks like they will succeed too.
you’re being gracious to mike but i doubt trump has any good people around him. first term was understandable but now it’s all lackeys, yes men and opportunists. with a few exceptions
I hate that this meme is getting so much traction, because this guy is lying. BUT if you use Signal, you will know that there are many names in the directory that you don't recall, have never heard of, or called. Names really do get "sucked into" the Signal directory. Try it.
Yeah, no serious person who isn’t trying to spin some wild story has had a random number sucked into their contact list. Ffs, most children can spin a more credible coverup story
@michaelwaltz.bsky.social, if I wanted to watch a dude polishing his boss's knob on video, I’d go to pornhub. JFC, man. Stop gargling his disgusting orange nads. Have you NO self-respect? (Rhetorical. We know you don't.) 🤦♀️
@andersoncooper360.bsky.social made me laugh out loud “sucked in”…like wtf eh! Omg cannot make this stuff up (except they are) and my Trump bingo card is shattered two months in
Gaslighting, projecting, manipulating, deflecting & straight up lying. If I’m in a group chat with friends or family & there is a number I don’t recognize I immediately ask who it. Every person in the group needs to be fired & possibly prosecuted. The level of hypocrisy & incompetence is astounding.
It Waltz just called it a mistake or a typo or a brain fart or a senior moment then people could relate. This BS line that he wasn't responsible for something he did just isn't acceptable.
Great simple advice given to me as a child from my grandfather who caught me in a lie... "Tell the truth always so that you don't need to remember what you said, only what you did."
No one has ever had that happen,ever. Then, when she responds with a question, he can't even explain the lie he's pushing. He's just speaking unintelligible nonsense. He's a horrible liar.
It gets sucked in ?
Guess he’s had it loads of times … those bloody ‘escorts ‘ , ‘call girls ‘, porn videos that he told his wife were just ‘sucked’ into his phone !
Yeah 🙄
Adding an incorrect person to a chat can happen easily, but it remains your responsibility to ensure you correct the error before posting. He didn't and this error rises to the level of firings being warranted / required.
Adding the wrong person to a chat about who's bringing what to Thanksgiving is easy. Adding ANYONE to a "chat" including tactical warfare plans and the identity of embedded spies should be IMPOSSIBLE. It should never come down to one guy being dumb, cuz there's always a dumb guy.
I agree.
I always go through the list of persons in a chatgroup or meeting out of curiosity, just to see who is there besides me. I always though it something everyone does out of common sense. I mean: you want to know who you're talking to right?
So who did the others think Goldberg was?
Thanks that you said it's common sense. Glad to know I'm not the only weirdo in a chatgroup...Unless I start working as a high ranking government official. Then I'm apparently the only weirdo in the group. Also the one doubting the use of Signal, since only a couple of week Russian and Chinese hacks
Sociopaths are fun to cross-examine because they are opportunistic liars -- they say whatever they think they need to, to get to the next moment, even if it means making mutually exclusive claims.
My favorite is when you know a sociopath long enough and they start recycling lies they used before because they have a pretty limited repertoire. Three years in the case of the ex; they were oblivious but I wasn’t and so began the end.
Actually Dan Goldman kind of sucks. He’s a two faced collaborator who kept silent about Columbia for weeks because when it comes to rounding up brown and Black peoples he’s aligned with Trump. After all that tough talk on CNN he’s been absolutely useless. Here in the NY10 we call him do nothing Dan.
This. He supports mask bans and demonizes protestors in the name of “combatting antisemitism” but does fuck all about actual Nazis in the government or disappearing people on the streets of NY because he thinks harming disabled and brown people is easier than actually having a spine.
Waltz says “I’m sure everyone has had a contact where it says one person…”. I HAVEN’T. I add my contacts myself. I’m not great on my phone, but it hasn’t happened.
My theory is that they had a list of media contacts, and they really meant to add a different media contact, and instead added the journalist from the Atlantic. Who was the one they meant to add? My guess is a Russian contact. But that’s just my best guess based on logic.
I don't know who else was in the call but it's kind of what staffers are for. Important people bring flunkies to meetings, whether to keep them up to date or to provide facts or expertise the boss doesn't have or to look important or to provide ideas. I've been the flunky.
Except that in this case, they were specifically using Signal because they didn’t want anyone to know what they were doing. Having any kind of staffers on the call would just provide witnesses, and that’s exactly what they didn’t want. No loose ends for later incrimination.
They need flunkies to know because flunkies actually do stuff. Waltz doesn't work out when the attack should start or the missiles should be launched. He tells a flunky roughly what he wants done & a flunky works out the details. Then later Waltz shares those details with the chat.
He knows he fucked up, America knows he fucked up, he knows America knows he fucked up. Yet, this arrogant POS still has his job.
WTF are you waiting for to remove him by force if needed,?
I wondered! I'm never 100% who we're actively at war with, but I was pretty sure I hadn't heard about Yemen. Now they're just not mentioning it at all? Wtf?
@repdangoldman.bsky.social you look exhausted. I hope you are staying healthy and eating healthy because we need you to continue to do the good work of the people. We love and care about you and know that your family does too and they need you around for a very long time.
Wait...I thought I was the only one who had George Clooney's private number. I got it from my friend's sister's ex-boyfriend's cousin's mother-in-law, somehow.
How many right wingers or just everyday Americans will forget this story when midterms come?
I always hear Americans saying they miss real journalism yet when unbiased news is provided with clear receipts they choose to live in la-la-land than actually pay attention.
Yeah, whole bunch weren't paying attention. I just today saw a focus group with MT that they admitted it. So. Some of us were listening, some were watching FOX News and some weren't really even paying attention.
History shows us that at certain moments in time the generations of lies and fictions told by some will build to a point where the only path forward for them is through force.
Being a good liar requires extreme discipline and memory: the liar has to be a historian of their own lies with near-perfect recall to pull it off. These dummies can't cut it, but Trump teaches how bullshit succeeds by discarding any truth for feelings and bias, blurring reality through his "weave"
"when you are lying you can't keep a story straight"
Except of course if you are delusional like Trump who is very consistent with his lies about whales, toilets, showers, Hannibal Lecter etc.
The question I have not seen answered.
Who authorised the attack?
Trump denied all knowledge of the planning.
The group seem to have had nothing clear.
Is it in writing somewhere?
Gabbard was asked the same question in the hearing as Waltz. They were sitting side by side, so she knows what he said, and she gave a totally different answer than he gave. Not sure how many people saw that.
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How fast can this motherfucker run?
(That’s the look on Anderson’s face)
The Stupid! It Burns!-Edition
Mike Waltz left his Venmo account OPEN revealing 100s of names
Pete Hegseth still strutting around lying & putting our Military in danger
#GOPTraitors still do nothing
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https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/
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https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3llf7fpea2h25
#FireThemAll
I think it downplays the severity of the situation.
Waltz is showing some of the stupidity Trump expects from him.
I wish #America was in a strong enough position to Arrest and Prosecute such Traitorous Activities.
Moore's Law has been the Law Of The Land for some time now.
#USA Enemies HAD these Signal texts immediately.
1. Trash the journalist.
2. Classified info was not discussed
3. Go visit a few service people and pretend you care about them.
4. When asked act like don’t know anything about it. (Trump)
5. Use the old the contacts were sucked into my phone excuse.
6. Never own up to any of it.
How many more outcomes can we get with this residual story to wear Johnny Reb Dt
Out
Anguish needs to be fed constantly
His mind is so fragile it’ll wear out
Wear Dt out constantly
Drum beat it till
He’s punchy
I'd be happier if I wasn't so damn horrified. I haven't found a way for those two emotions to coexist in my brain yet. I don't think I want to.
What a crock
Tired of the "explanation"
Alas, I still have the same boring contacts in my phone.
Have to revert back to the tried and true to stop having a boring life. (Obvs, the slapchop)
ofDefense
Shouldn't he have been?
You know what his name is?
Stephen Feinberg.
-M.Twain
Guess he’s had it loads of times … those bloody ‘escorts ‘ , ‘call girls ‘, porn videos that he told his wife were just ‘sucked’ into his phone !
Yeah 🙄
He added a person. He didn't know it was a journalist. Who did he think he added?
I always go through the list of persons in a chatgroup or meeting out of curiosity, just to see who is there besides me. I always though it something everyone does out of common sense. I mean: you want to know who you're talking to right?
So who did the others think Goldberg was?
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Start calling them what they are.
Traitors. Fucking traitors.
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I know many can’t tell. But there are still an awful lot who know better and willingly put up with it.
Like the fools they follow…they are unserious people.
WTF are you waiting for to remove him by force if needed,?
Houthis have been fighting against Israeli ships because of their treatment of Gaza.
It is a tangled web and then you suddenly realize, we are the bad guys AGAIN.
unless you are teflon covered like Donald you really have to keep the lies repeatably the same
No one will be fired for Signalgate.
Trump won’t even allow a debate.
Losers continue to run the state.
Make American incompetence great!
I always hear Americans saying they miss real journalism yet when unbiased news is provided with clear receipts they choose to live in la-la-land than actually pay attention.
Except of course if you are delusional like Trump who is very consistent with his lies about whales, toilets, showers, Hannibal Lecter etc.
Who authorised the attack?
Trump denied all knowledge of the planning.
The group seem to have had nothing clear.
Is it in writing somewhere?
Buffoonish doubling down on all your lies, incompetence, and corruption.
Putin is SO happy!