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Trump should announce he will give a live television broadcast to the nation, where he will deliver a major announcement, without saying what it will be.

Countries around the world, which have taken advantage of America for years, will cower in fear that Trump might announce they will be invaded by the great power of the American military.

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@jchyip

No he fucking hasn't, youre just reading The Guardian, the surrender monkies of the LibDem Art School Psuedo Left.

There is no won, there is just shame filled continuing to be fascist. There is just coup papers owned by billionaores

The Guardian never let's a moment to be smug slip by. Even if they have to make stuff up to demonstrate how deserving of smugness they are.

Read the head lines as if bored.

All this noise about #signalgate not enough talk of #FreePalestine.

How dangerous are the Houthis' to American interests? If they are such a "terrorist" regime why on earth are MAGA social media influencers like Jackson Hinkle able to safely travel there and even are allowed to directly address Yemen's Free Palestine marches just days after Trump bombed the nation in supposedly devastating strikes?

Another article on the actual scandal within #signalscandal being the activity they were coordinating. Not the use of an app.


Trump's 'America Second' strategy of subjugating itself to Israel - in this case bombing targets that present no threat to the US in order to punish a group standing up to Israeli aggression against Palestinians, may likely be making US citizens less safe, not more. While breaking domestic law in defiance of international law. Sounds awfully familiar to Australian foreign policy.

In #Australia the relentless participation in US wars in the name of 'security' and 'alliance commitments' has demonstrably eroded security. While driving up costs and straining regional relationships. All while breaking laws, norms and conventions on behalf of foreign interests. While mouthing glib motherhood statements about 'the Rule of Law'. Empire sucks.

"Historically, the president has only been permitted to unilaterally order US forces to wage war in self-defense — if, say, US troops or civilians come under attack somewhere. But just as with Biden’s own Yemen strikes, that’s not what has happened here. Trump ordered these strikes in response to the Houthis threatening to resume attacks on *Israeli shipping. It’s worth noting, too, that the Houthis’ stated reason for restarting this blockade is as a response to Israel breaking the terms of the Gaza cease-fire and once more blocking humanitarian aid from entering the territory."

#groupchat #uspol #auspol #yemen #ihl #genocide #gaza

jacobin.com/2025/03/yemen-scan

jacobin.comThe Real Yemen Scandal Has Zero to Do With Jeffrey GoldbergThe press is mostly framing the Yemen group chat scandal as a story of incompetence. There’s little attention being paid to the deadliness, illegality, and ineffectiveness of the strikes themselves.
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As I've argued (with mixed success) on the other account, the Trump regime "Signalgate" scandal has political relevance for folks who want this fascist government to fail, even if you, like me, do not give one flying fuck about "national security." Trump's warmonger division willfully broke multiple laws, got caught lying about it, and currently look incompetent enough that they'd struggle to run a taco stand, let alone a government. This isn't breaking news to anyone who has been paying attention, but it has inspired the larger liberal establishment to finally make *some* effort to push back against the Trump regime, and I'd rather have them doing that than meekly accepting the boot; which is precisely why the entire fascist manufacturing consent machine in and around TrumpWorld is flailing so hard to justify the regime's actions and make this go away.

For whatever value Signalgate does (or doesn't) have in slowing the Trump regime's agenda down however, I think it says a lot about why we're facing down a fascist government requested by roughly 75M voters, that the "national security" discussion has taken overwhelming precedence over acknowledging that the attack on Yemen itself was unconstitutional, and the leaks also reveal the administration confessing to a war crime.

1) commondreams.org/news/us-strik

A Reminder Amid Group Chat Outrage: US Strikes on Yemen Are Unconstitutional

"The advocacy groups Just Foreign Policy, DAWN, and Action Corps released a joint statement Thursday calling on Congress to take action to stop U.S. military action in Yemen by upholding "its sole authority to declare war under Article I of the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR)."

The chat messages sent between officials including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz stunned the public and Washington insiders this week because they had accidentally also been sent to Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, but the three groups pointed out that they also included an admission from Vance that the strikes were not defensive—contrary to claims by President Donald Trump."

2) truthout.org/articles/democrat

Experts: Leaked Messages Show Waltz Admitting to War Crime in Yemen Strike

"In an exchange after the strikes first hit, as shown in Wednesday’s leak, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz says that the U.S. had collapsed a building that one of their Houthi targets was supposedly inside, calling it “amazing.”

“Their first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and now it’s collapsed,” Waltz said. Per the screenshots, Vice President J.D. Vance responds, “Excellent.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe says, “A good start.” Waltz then replies with a fist emoji, a U.S. flag emoji and a flame emoji.

According to Yemen Data Project, the first strike killed at least 13 civilians and injured nine on the night of March 15, hitting north of the capital, Sanaa. Yemen Data Project says that this was the bombing deemed “excellent” by the vice president and “amazing” by Waltz.

The messages are “prima facie evidence of at least one war crime applauded by the people who conspired to commit it,” wrote Dylan Williams, Vice President for Government Affairs for the Center for International Policy (CIP), on social media."

To be clear, I'm not saying these crimes by the regime aren't at least coming up on the margins of the liberal establishment; I've seen a few Democrat politicians expressing these critiques, and brief discussions in even the mainstream corporate media have occurred around these topics. The problem is that the vast *majority* of people with a platform to bring these crimes to light simply don't care. We live in a society where illegal military actions based on the thinnest of pretexts, and war crimes against (particularly Muslim) civilian targets are so normalized that it just doesn't move the needle for a political and media establishment that helped normalize this monstrous shit in the first place. If you haven't figured out by now that one of major reasons the Trump regime is (mostly) succeeding in installing a fascist dictatorship in America, is the powers granted to the imperial presidency to protect "national security" and to fight a racist, quixotic "War on Terror," I'm going to have to ask you how long you've been in a coma. A society that empowers and tolerates crimes against humanity abroad under the auspices of "keeping us safe," is a society that will tolerate the same when their leaders invariably bring the violence back home.

Common Dreams · A Reminder Amid Group Chat Outrage: US Strikes on Yemen Are Unconstitutional | Common DreamsLeaked messages reveal Trump officials admitting illegal strikes in Yemen. Advocacy groups demand Congress act to stop unauthorized war. Are lawmakers more concerned with protocol breaches or the lives lost in Yemen?

#Trump #warmonger
#yemen
@palestine

"Face it Trumpers: you’ve been had. You voted for a president who told you he was going to end the wars, and he started a new war and was backing an active genocide within a few weeks of taking office. You voted for a president who said he’d protect free speech, and he’s stomping out free speech...to silence criticism of Israel. You voted for a president who said he’d put America first, and he’s putting Israel first"

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/0

Caitlin Johnstone · Trump Supporters Can No Longer Say Trump Never Started A WarI’d like to point out that the tired MAGA talking point about how Trump “never started any new wars” has officially been invalidated because of Yemen.

People acting like Goldbergt is some kind of hero posting the "war plans" of Trump regime to media, forgetting that he was, is and always be an apologist for IDF crimes and didn't think IDF is commiting war crime and the reports about their crimes are antisemitic.

"Goldberg was an ardent apologist for the Israeli Defense Forces and attacking accounts of Israeli atrocities in Gaza. He suggested such accounts were overblown or that Hamas was responsible because it was using civilians as human shields or that anti-Semitic Westerners were exaggerating the situation. In one post, he linked to this “very funny” satirical interview about an “NGO that uses an ostensible human-rights agenda as camouflage for an anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic program.”

And he wrote, “I don’t think Israel is committing war crimes. Israel is fighting an enemy that intentionally seeks to kill civilians; in the course of fighting Hamas, Israel does some stupid and brutal things, but, by Andrew’s standard, every act of self-defense by a Western nation against Islamist insurgents is a war crime.”

Even now Goldberg is busy apologizing for Israeli actions. The Haaretz revelations show Israeli soldiers behaving “like Cossacks,” but his item makes sure to note that the “world media, generally speaking, doesn’t like Israel very much, and stacks the deck against it,” while the “goal of Hamas is to murder innocent people; the goal of the IDF is to avoid murdering innocent people.”

Even after Haaretz reported CLEAR proof of Israeli war crime and their INTENTION to commit war crime, he responded with

"Based on the Haaretz stories, the IDF didn’t work too hard to avoid killing civilians."

#TheAtlantic #JeffyGoldberg #SignalGate #Israel #WarCrime #Politics #FakeHero #PEFP #IDF #Genocide #Gaza #NeverForget #NeverForgive

@palestine @israel #USPol #Media #Propaganda #Yemen #Trump #Dumbfuckistan

harpers.org/2009/03/jeffrey-go…

Harper's Magazine · Jeffrey Goldberg and Israeli War Crimes , by Ken SilversteinJeffrey Goldberg is upset. "When the IDF fails to achieve its goal, and ends up inflicting needless destruction and suffering, it sullies not only its own