The royal "we". Interesting.

They don't have the cards?!?

This fuck-up was strictly due to the fact that they're incompetent morons just randomly inviting people to group chats and shit with no guardrails.

No.

These fuckwits were handling classified and top secret information in the open on their cell phones.

It doesn't matter what specific app they used. This is not about the technology. You missed the point.

It's not like a felon could get elected?!

<Dr. Evil $1 million dollars meme .gif >

One of the ways that people now interpret WW2 was that armored tanks , ships and planes became critical in combat, and every actor in the conflict was going out and trying to secure oil supply lines. Places like Europe, Africa, the middle east and the pacific were all involved due to reliance on fossil fuel resources... Whoever could capture the resources or secure the flow of the supply lines had huge advantages. You could bring down the enemy by indirectly starving them of oil just as quickly as attacking them head on. The allied forces directly targeted the axis oil infrastructure like refineries as their highest priority targets.

https://oilprice.com/...

Surely that can't be happening again with new types of critical resources?

No, thats Betta.

Better is a taste similar to sour.

Drink a covfefe.

What are the odds that they saved the US money and kept it a total secret rather than to brag about it.

So low that I think this is a smoking gun that they failed to do so. We now know it didn't work out because they are quiet.

send him back to South Africa

Venezuela might also be nice at this time of year.

" I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC.”

I laughed so hard I spilled my mustard.

But to just revoke them as retaliation for musk’s unrelated bullshit doesn’t sit right with me.

It should.

Rules and laws come from our values. If a company isn't moral or ethical, retaliation and consequences are exactly what needs to happen. And we should create new rules and laws to make sure they are forced out.

You do not normalize Nazis.

We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year.

Translation: Canada buys more stuff from us than we do from them.

But what if you make a department of Honey Bun Efficiency? There is surely a simple solution for your fiscal crisis.

My friend said that if Steam and Netflix both went down at the same time there would be huge riots. I am not sure they are wrong.

Not to mention that, in this case, the phone network was known to hacked and infiltrated by adversaries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon

This hack included JD Vance's phone who was part of this chat group.

https://www.nytimes.com/...

These peoples phones shouldn't be considered any more secure than a public bathroom.

One name for this phenomenon of higher standards is "the bigotry of high expectations" (as opposed to the 'soft bigotry of low expectations').

Like… why are taxes so hard when the IRS always has all my data?

In some European countries, the government automatically does the taxes and just sends a letter showing the result of the calculation so you have a chance to review the result.

They have all the numbers already...

And just wait until he starts keeping classified documents in the airplane lavatory next to the photocopier.