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Tuesday, October 07, 2025

A senior White House official accidentally disclosed that the Trump administration was considering deploying an elite army strike force into Portland by using Signal in a public place.

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"These leaked messages make it blatantly clear that the decision to send troops to Portland is based on political optics, not safety," said U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.

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-- Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com) Oct 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM

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Dummkopf Trumpf was 21 years old when LBJ deployed the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions to Detroit, and possibly other cities like Philadelphia or Los Angeles, to suppress angry, down-trodden people of color. The Dotard may be reliving this in his mind.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-04 08:20 AM | Reply

"sensitive military plans discussed so openly"

The specific chat medium and the specific military plans aren't really relevant here. Focusing on those things buries the lead. It illustrates how incompetent the opposition to Trump is, assuming it's even being done in earnest.

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-04 09:06 AM | Reply

They rappelled from helicopters onto an American apartment building full of Americans in an American city and no one seems to care. Why should this matter?

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-10-04 05:00 PM | Reply

Good grief...

Not another Trump admin security breach because of the use of Signal?

Then there's things like this occurring ...

Hegseth targets IG investigations as Signalgate report looms
www.politico.com

... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sprinkled several new rules into his Tuesday speech to military leaders that will carry more serious consequences than grooming and exercise -- likely undermining the department's inspectors general just as a report on the Pentagon chief's own behavior wraps up.

The changes call into question the credibility of the office ahead of an upcoming report on Hegseth's controversial release of sensitive information in a Signal group chat about military strikes in Yemen. They include new restrictions on how IGs process complaints and when they should provide updates on investigations, likely reducing the number of both.

The move, part of a wider Trump administration effort to lessen the role of inspectors general and legal advisers, threatens to further weaken a key federal watchdog and discourage troops from coming forward with concerns about military safety and conduct.

"Whistleblowers provide critically important information," said Robert Storch, who served as the Pentagon's inspector general until President Donald Trump fired him and other independent inspectors general in January. "It's particularly important in a department of the size and complexity of the DOD that people who are on the front lines -- and in the case of the DOD they may literally be on the front line -- be encouraged and empowered to come forward to report when they see something they reasonably think is wrong." ...



So, instead of solving the problem, Sec Hegseth seems to be targeting the symptom?


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-04 06:48 PM | Reply

They land in Portland and find hippies just minding their own business.

#5 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-06 11:03 PM | Reply

I call on every stoner on the West Coast to gather in Portland to follow the troops around and keep offering them joints and bong hits. We could call it The Great Portland Smoke-In. My condolences to those who dwell in less permissive states.

#6 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-10-07 10:54 AM | Reply

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