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    Wait, this article is insane. Not the part about Signal, not the part about accidentally inviting a journalist, not the part that it’s real, but how intelligent the people in the chat actually sound. What a joke they perform on live TV acting all dumb for their voters to eat up

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      It always has been. Former NC Representative Jeff Jackson relayed as much on his Youtube channel that the same people that were yelling and acting like meetings were direct to television airings of Jerry Springer were calm and collected in private, without cameras. Sadly, that kind of candid information reveal is in short supply since his resignation.

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      Besides my initial impression that “this is all illegal,” practically a given with any article about the executive branch these days, what I was most struck by was the fact that it wasn’t one step above “let’s bomb yemen lol XD.”

      Hegseth was the only one who sounded like an edge lord with the “loathing” and “PATHETIC” comments.

      Here’s the sequel, by the way: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5211867-hegseth-says-nobody-was-texting-war-plans-after-group-chat-breach/

      Here’s what Hegseth said about actual journalist and editor-in-chief of the highly-regarded The Atlantic:

      Hegseth also called Goldberg “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”