So, what’s the right answer for Republicans regarding this whole Signal thing? The right answer is not to care.
Not at all. The fake Democrats don’t get a trophy. They don’t get a head. They get nothing.
Understand that no one outside of Washington, DC, or Twitter cares about some journalist getting mistakenly admitted into a Signal thread. At all. The Democrats think they have finally found something they can sink their teeth into after two months of unbroken failure and humiliation, but it’s a pretty pathetic morsel. Real people don’t care about it.
Unfortunately, some conservatives do. To care about this is a huge mistake. We don’t know what this even is. What we have are the weasel words of Jeffrey Goldberg, a guy with so little credibility that if he told me the sun was coming up in the east I would arise before dawn to confirm it, saying that these guys were discussing war plans. I’ve seen war plans. I held a Top Secret clearance once upon a time. These were not war plans. I can safely say that there was no operations order cut and pasted into some Signal text.
The stuff we’ve seen is the stuff we already knew, like that our senior leaders think the Europeans are a bunch of freeloaders. In fact, the Europeans are a bunch of freeloaders, and our senior leaders have been quite clear about that in public.
Another colonel turned civilian lawyer, the great @CynicalPublius, even speculated that this stuff might have been leaked on purpose. Perhaps. I don’t know about that. I also don’t care about that.
And you shouldn’t care about that either.
The issue here is not about operational security. Our enemies want to pretend it is because they think they can use that to hurt the Trump administration and strip out one or more of his close advisors. They want a trophy to mount on their wall, and they are demanding firings and resignations. I demand they pound sand. You should, too.
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We’re done playing the two-tier system of accountability game where Democrats do whatever they want, while Republicans eagerly submit when our enemies demand their heads. Nope. Not doing that anymore. The two-tier system of accountability is done. The way you make sure that it’s done for good is you don’t play along with it. That means that the side that has abused it doesn’t get anything as a reward for its abuse. It gets nothing. This is basic game theory. Screw with us and you get screwed with back. They are bad actors, and they don’t get to win.
Now, several conservatives are in full, “Oh well, I never!” mode over this. They should stop being soft. Some of them are never truly happy unless they are policing other Republicans for alleged breaches of the sacred norms, norms which, of course, no longer exist. The nonstop victories of the Trump administration make them nervous. They get anxious when we’re not losing like gentlemen. They are comfortable only in failure mode.
They also like to virtue signal. They think it demonstrates integrity when they try to hold Republicans responsible when Democrats are never held accountable. What it demonstrates is weakness. Let’s review some Democrat senior leader accountability fails. Hillary’s server with 30,000 emails, destroyed when it was under subpoena. Joe Biden’s garage SCIF. Diane Feinstein‘s red Chinese agent driver, and Eric Swalwell‘s gal pal Fang Fang. Mark Milley calling up the Chinese to chat with them about American plans and to offer assistance to thwart his commander-in-chief. None of them were held accountable. And speaking of accountability what’s the name of the guy who got fired over the Afghanistan disaster?
The new rule is no accountability when it comes to senior leaders, and that’s what we need to apply. Maybe the old rule was better, but it got changed. Now, some people have pointed out that if low-level guys like you or me did these things, we might go to jail. Maybe. But the rule is now that senior leaders don’t get fired or prosecuted for stuff like this, and that’s the rule we’re going to play by.
Hey, if they want to change the rules back to what they used to be, where senior officials are held accountable when the other party catches them doing something allegedly questionable, we’re first going to need an unequivocal acknowledgment by our enemies that they changed the rules, that it was a mistake, and that they want to enforce the old rules in the future, including against themselves. But even if they did this, which they never will do because they want two sets of rules, one for them and one they can use against us, they still don’t get their prize this time. We can change the rules back in the future, but today they suffer the consequences of the rules they chose.
Today, the rules are what they are, but don’t take this as a concession that there was any wrongdoing. I don’t buy that. Regardless, Democrat senior leaders never, ever, ever get held accountable for actual wrongdoing, yet some conservatives are eager for red blood. They always are. It makes them feel good about themselves that they can say they’re fair, that they call balls and strikes, that they have integrity. They have nothing. They are complicit in the Democrats’ strategy.
We are allowed to take our own side in a fight, and I have to reiterate this because some of us don’t ever seem to want to. They want to be neutral in a time when you better pick a side if you want to keep this country from descending into communist chaos. Let’s be clear. I am an advocate for the side of the Constitution and freedom against the people who literally want us enslaved or dead. And when I say “dead,” I mean dead. I watched my President almost get his head blown off. Another of the bullets killed a guy like me, and not incidentally, a guy like you – an American patriot. This is serious stuff, and this is not a time for spineless posing.
They cry, “Whataboutism!” Whataboutism is a moral necessity. There can be only one set of rules. To voluntarily accept a two-tiered system is to accept your own servitude. We’re not doing that anymore. That’s done. That was a different kind of Republican. Those guys had their shot. They gave us Iraq, the Wall Street meltdown, and Barack Obama. They failed. We’re going to do something different. We’re going to win.
And winning requires that we focus our targeting not our own people over invented outrages but the enemy. If there were problems with the Signal chat, they will be fixed. Donald Trump is not losing any of his advisors over this. We’re not going to offer any sacrifices to the great goddess of norms on an altar the Democrats long ago desecrated. The idea that we’re going take Jeffery Goldberg‘s word and throw one of our own over the cliff to please the likes of faux-fussy Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, a bunch of ex-generals who’ve never won a war, and the rest of these dorks is inconceivable to a based conservative. The only proper response to anybody complaining about this non-scandal is either to ignore them completely or to mock them mercilessly.
We’re done playing their games. They don’t get to win. The Democrats get nothing, and Republicans who are going along with them need to zip it.
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