Posting again, because OMFG.
Original post:
I'm sorry WHAT?!
🧵 1/...
"The #Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling."
2/ Via Brad Moss:
So to be clear:
1) these folks weren’t using the highly secure networks we pay billions to maintain
2) we have no indication if they’re keeping copies of these chats for Federal Records Act compliance
3) a lot of this sounds like classified info
4) ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME
3/ Via Jamelle Bouie:
my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing
@GottaLaff Maybe that will help limit the amount of damage the coup regime is able to inflict.
@woozle @GottaLaff That's what I keep hoping. People this incompetent can't stay in power forever ... can they?
@medigoth
To be honest, this level of incompetence is normal for authoritarians. It's baked into the mentality.
They do not see reasonable people following reasonable leaders as strength. Authoritarian leaders must demand absurdity to demonstrate the capacity for force and cruelty, and followers want absurdity to demonstrate submission.
And, as CS Lewis wrote, "...the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
@woozle @GottaLaff