During Tuesday’s hearing, Gabbard told Warner that the Signal thread didn’t share any classified information but refused to share its contents, or even admit that she was on the chain.

“If it’s not classified, share the texts now,” Warner told Gabbard. “Share it with the committee. You can’t have it both ways. These are important jobs. This is our national security.”

Bitch, we can smell the bullshit 500 miles away.

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Does anyone else find it fucking disgusting that liberals are now mad that Trump is incompetently committing mass murder in the Middle East?

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No, it is never disgusting to be against genocide, even if you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.

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TBF I think they’re saying liberals are only mad because Trump’s genocide is incompetent. Like, liberals aren’t mad about the actual content of the messages, they’re mad that Trump broke the law.

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Funny they’re saying that because they weren’t being mad at the genocide themselves, either, or the people commiting it, they’re busy being mad at liberals instead.

Bit of yelling at themselves in the mirror there.

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Does anyone find it disgusting that conservatives now AREN’T mad that Obama was incompetently committing mass murder in the Middle East? (Because Trump is now doing the same?)

Personally, and morally, our anger should be towards the people NOT upset at Mass Murder, which as you have explained, isn’t liberals.

To be clear, yes, liberals turned a blind eye to this during Obama. But to your point, they aren’t now. Trump, instead, is murdering without care, and his base is celebrating it.

A blind eye isn’t the same as active support, and MAGA is actively supporting murder. While at worst, liberals still have blinders on.

Personally, I’m not going to spend any time chastising a lesser evil. But many did during our previous elections, which is how Trump got elected both times.

Harris + Isreal being a great recent example. Because no matter how bad Harris was, it’s not Trump turning Gaza into a night club.

What disgusting hate should we throw her way about Gaza now that it’s targeted for demolision by Trump?

At best, it’s wasteful to be so angry at liberals now. At worst, it’s stupid, and will keep the people you should be angry at in power to do worse things more frequently as it has for both of Trumps elections.

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Does anyone find it disgusting that conservatives now AREN’T mad that Obama was incompetently committing mass murder in the Middle East? (Because Trump is now doing the same?)

I mean hopefully?

To be clear, yes, liberals turned a blind eye to this during Obama. But to your point, they aren’t now. Trump, instead, is murdering without care, and his base is celebrating it.

That’s not what I’m talking about here. Of course the hypocrisy there is also ridiculous, but that’s not what I’m trying to say. My point is: Liberals seem to have more of a problem with the bad opsec than with the actual mass murder. As if competently murdering brown people in the hundreds is somehow better than incompetently murdering them. This is the reaction of people who are only marginally opposed to mass murder.

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This is the reaction of people who are only marginally opposed to mass murder.

Understood.

My point: the world is slowly becoming overrun by people that are not opposed to mass murder at all.

So why should we spend any effort towards measuring what level we’re each opposed to mass murder, instead of actually opposing it while it’s happening?

It’s wasteful at best, and creates fractures in a needed united front against mass murdering corporate narcissists at worst.

Albeit a valid criticism of libs, it’s not productive towards solving any growing problem in any way. It is punching down on a group that Trump already has his boot on. Yet you’re enjoying the boot, and feel it’s earned, instead of aligning with the people it’s on who you clearly agree more with.

At the rate the US is going, there won’t be many libs left to laugh at once that boot is finished with them.

So I’ll save my criticism of their behavior after I know for sure they’ll still be around to criticize. Until then, anyone under that boot is my ally despite any political differences.

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This isn’t a team sport, these are people’s lives. What the hell is wrong with you?

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Yes, these are people’s lives, and now everyone is mad that Trump is being incompetent about murdering those people. The only sane reaction to a dictator failing to massacre a population is happiness that he’s not competent about it. The reactions I’m seeing only imply that liberals are okay with the actual bombing and only mad that Trump is not following opsec. By the way I’m not MAGA; leftists hate liberals too.

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No one is upset about the incompetence threatening our ability to murder Yemenis, they’re attacking them for being incompetent broadly. It could have been plans for arming Ukraine or where our spy satellites are looking and the reaction would be the same: “look at these incompetent MAGAs fucking up governing” with an extra glee at being able to tag it as “national security” that conservatives lean into so heavily.

And they weren’t incompetent at murder. The murders went through just fine, because very little of the actual operation was handled by this crowd of idiots and some combination of a US citizen being rightly scared of his government and assuming our murders are justified and should not be hindered.

None of this is to say liberals aren’t morally bankrupt about our well oiled murder machine, just that they’re not angry about the risk to the murder operation. They don’t care one way or another whether some Arabs got murdered. Haven’t before and don’t now.

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By the way I’m not MAGA; leftists hate liberals too.

Uniting around a shared hate of liberals is how the weird leftist/MAGA alliance happened.

It’s why leftists give MAGA a free pass on things like genocide.

That’s why you prioritize posting about randoms on social media you perceive to be liberals, and not the people dropping the actual bombs.

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I read that as the typical finger pointing, it’s only okay when our side commits the atrocity, thanks for clarifying.

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cope harder, MAGA CHUD.

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The hell?

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you said:

Does anyone else find it fucking disgusting that liberals are now mad that Trump is incompetently committing mass murder in the Middle East?

this is the absolute worst, least intelligent take someone could make about this situation.

It’s not as if “the left” wouldn’t be upset if they were competently bombing the Middle East. Musk/Trump will have their wars and we will be upset with those.

what i find disgusting, is when MAGA can’t seem to remember the endless campaign against Clinton over an email server, while this gets a shrug from the Presidents and a collective “this is not real!!” from the online MAGA legions.

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Umm. What? No. Seriously. Wtf mate?!?

I think mass murder is despicable. Considering the US government had engaged in large scale extra judicial killings for decades (whether red or blue, no fucking difference), my country disgusts me. But, are you legit saying doing so incompentently is the problem? Not the murder. The incompetence.

Touch grass, god damn weirdo.

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But, are you legit saying doing so incompentently is the problem? Not the murder. The incompetence.

Uh… No? I’m mad that Americans seem to be more mad that the mass murder is being done incompetently than about the mass murder itself. It’s like competent mass murder is acceptable but bad ospec is not.

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Well now I’m mad that you seem to be more mad about how people on social media react to bad opsec than the mass murder itself. It’s like mass murder is acceptable but reacting the wrong way to bad opsec is not.

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I cannot fathom how you arrive at such a conclusion. Like, I figure you know not to trust the “news” anymore; but, dude, don’t trust the media?

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