Loose Lips sink ships
Far be it from me to point out the obvious, but there are times when our behaviors don’t have real world consequences. Maybe we leave the stove on. Maybe we forget to lock the door. Maybe someone let the dog out. It doesn’t mean the house always burns down, someone robs you blind, or the dog bites a neighbor. It just means those things are more likely.
Yet, we know these things do happen. We see too many instances on the news to completely write it off. In one breath we talk about how that person should have been more careful and then in another instance we remember that we have likely done the exact same thing.
We experienced this as a country this weekend. We heard a story about the ex-president sharing secret plans with a foreign national and some people immediately pointed out the hyperbole. It couldn’t possibly come back to bite us in the ass. That’s just something that liberals are spouting off about to scare us. There are never really real world consequences. Loose lips don’t really sink ships. That’s just a red herring.
Well, maybe not. The Israelis were under attack this weekend. I’m not going to say it. Don’t listen to me. Let’s listen to the Israelis. They know the ex-president shared their secrets with the Russians. We can connect the dots from there. Let’s dispense with something really quickly. The Russians are not our friends. They have never been our friends. They likely will never be our friends. Their interests almost never align with ours.
Again, I did not connect the dots here. The Israelis did. Trump told Russia. The Russians are closer allies with the Iranians than we certainly are. Everyone we oppose is usually somehow Russia’s friend. So, Trump’s secrets that he got from Israel somehow made it to Iran. The Iranians don’t like the Israelis, so it probably made to Hamas. Again, I repeat that I did not connect those dots. Our right-leaning allies in Israel connected those dots.
So, before we start linking a six billion dollar deal (none of which is U.S. money) to this attack let’s talk about direct consequences and not seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. We already know the intelligence community kept things from Trump. Why did they do this? Well, that episode with the Russians in the oval office is probably exhibit one. That exact exhibit one is at play here. Remember, that is not me just pissing in the wind. The Israelis believe this.
I keep repeating that on purpose. You can certainly question Biden’s policy decisions and everyone is free to do so, but there are not two rational actors in this presidential race. One is a bloviating jackass that can’t be trusted with any actionable intelligence. You’d almost expect the intelligence organizations to give him far fetched and dubious intelligence to just to see if he can embroil Russia in a misinformation campaign. Unfortunately, Putin is smarter than someone you could dupe with an Ethiopian prince scheme.
Let’s get this off to a very basic start. Maybe the guy that kept our government secrets by a toilet shouldn’t be president again. Maybe that guy should be in jail before he can share any more of our government secrets. I know many of us wanted to believe that those loose lips wouldn’t actually cause any real damage. It was a fool’s errand. Loose lips do sink ships. They just don’t sink all of them and they don’t sink them immediately.
That the Israelis connected the dots from trumpf to Hamas is a good example of how the inconvenient uncomfortable truths spawn convenient lies. The information filter of magats can only buy into these convenient lies. An example of the spawning of a convenient lie spewed out of J D (dunce?) Vance. The truth to him and many other RW nuts is that Biden sent Iran $6 billion of our tax $$’s to help fund the Hamas attack. The inconvenient truth is the money was Iran’s from the sale of oil to S Korea and was held up by sanctions. It still resides in the bank and has not made it to Iran or Hamas. That is just too uncomfortable and inconvenient for repugnanticans, so just make up something and blame Biden.
1What was nuts about that Steve is that eventually Fox News debunked that crap on their network. When Fox itself is debunking your right wing talking points maybe you have gone a little too far. Of course, maybe that’s just me.
2First, Israel should have known not to tell him anything, then the people who worked for him in the intelligence field shouldn’t have shared with him – you know, all those folks now writing books about how they stayed to protect the US. That was four years that changed the US and is changing the world for some time to come.
3So relieved to see anyone connecting the dots. Since the news broke my first thought was that Putin somehow helped the terrorists to sow chaos and deflect attention from Ukraine. Iran and Russia are friendly and Putin hasn’t exactly given Israel full-throated support in the past few days. The enemies of the US and the West in general of course will collaborate, it’s just a matter of how much. The terrorists didn’t pull this horror off by themselves. And yes, tfg scattered the seeds.
4I don’t even know where to get started Grandma. That’s a whole presidential library of commentary. If someone is not trustworthy enough to get that kind of information then what in the hell are they doing there? How do we even allow them to be a choice for voters that might register as house plants on the IQ scale? Furthermore, once someone like him gets there then how in the hell do you go about not giving him information? Who gets it instead? Obviously major decisions have to be made based on actual verifiable information. If the guy in the chair can’t be trusted with it then what in the hell do you do? There were so many failsafe points that were just blown by and continue to get blown by. Anyone with any kind of clout at any moment could stand up and say we aren’t doing this anymore, but no one has yet. It’s just absolutely nuts.
5$6 billion from a Quatar bank account, to weapons dealers, to delivery of weapons, to launching an offensive strike in a month? You don’t need detailed knowledge of the international underworld to recognize how ridiculous that is.
True story – I just bought a couch and waited longer than that for the furniture store to process my order and get the sofa delivered to my living room.
6Remember that most things tfg touches die.
7Good piece, Nick. Thanks.
8…and yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants Trump in the White House again.
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