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This administration's op-sec has been consistently "barney fife" levels of incompetence.
by JohnMakin 9mo ago
This administration's op-sec has been consistently "barney fife" levels of incompetence.
- winddude 9mo agothis administrations competence on anything and everything has been a kid eating glue
- theyneverlear 9mo ago[dead]
- jermaustin1 9mo agoIf it wasn't meant to be eaten, it shouldn't have tasted so good!
- rbanffy 9mo agoWe should get their heads checked for crayons.
- malfist 9mo agoOne of them has bragged about how difficult it is to identify a giraffe, but that he's done it three times
- FireBeyond 9mo agoAnd probably also been asked to draw a clock at a certain time, too.
- mcs5280 9mo agoPretty sure that's a feature, not a bug
- JohnMakin 9mo agoPersonally I believe this but it gets into conspiracy theory real quick. There are far simpler explanations.
- miltonlost 9mo agoIncompetence and conspiracies go hand-in-hand.
- JohnMakin 9mo agoNot really. It is far easier to explain incompetence in powerful positions than to explain competence on purpose in powerful positions - the latter is definitely a conspiracy, the former is not.
- pixl97 9mo agoQuite often it is both. It's not uncommon for incompetent people to be put in positions of power. Because they are incompetent, competent but malicious people take advantage of this and commit actual crimes. This is where actual conspiracies show up. And that is the incompetent powerful people cover up said crime to avoid looking incompetent. It is an extremely common pattern.
- direwolf20 9mo agoWhen Donald Trump saw the footage of the murder of Renee Good, he said "Oh". He didn't know what ICE were doing until then. He trusted his cabinet who were telling him they were getting illegal immigrants and left wing terrorists.
- bigfudge 9mo agoHe also repeated the lies that she was a domestic terrorist etc. I don’t think we need credit trump with any moral fibre over this just yet…
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- toomuchtodo 9mo agoThe trick is how to weaponize the incompetence against them.
- rbanffy 9mo agoThere at least one country that weaponised it against the US.
- Braxton1980 9mo agoRussia
- kstrauser 9mo agoLeave Fife out of it. His heart was in the right place, at least. Also, his boss made sure he was unarmed.
- stronglikedan 9mo agoIt's been the same with every administration, unfortunately. It's just a side effect of such an unnecessarily big goverment.
- snake42 9mo agoYou really think that every other administration has had this level of incompetence? The current bumbling and corruption is absolutely unparalleled.
- jfreds 9mo agoInviting a reporter from the Atlantic to your signal chat where you coordinate military plans has nothing to do with government being too big
- chrisco255 9mo agoIf they are so leaky then why were they able to capture Maduro without a single American casualty? On one hand you claim incompetence and yet no one was tipped off. So maybe the Signal group chat wasn't as important as it was made out to be?
- direwolf20 9mo ago... because they didn't leak the Maduro operation? Also because Venezuela cooperated.
- zzrrt 9mo agoLol. The Maduro operation did leak, but the press held the story. Rubio said “Frankly, a number of media outlets had gotten leaks that this was coming and held it for that very reason, and we thank them for doing that, or lives could have been lost.” https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5667060/media-shows-restraint-on-breaking-news-of-venezuela-raid https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5667060/media-shows-res...
- acdha 9mo agoYou have to actively maintain a state of ignorance to say this isn’t different. Go look at all of the public reporting starting in January about the way appointees in the Pentagon, DOGE, etc. blew through the normal policies and procedures controlling access, clearing people, or restricting sharing. For example, this wasn’t just “oops, I used the wrong number” but Hegseth getting a custom line run into a secure facility so he could use a personal computer of unknown provenance and security: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/hegseth-signal-pentagon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/hegseth-signa... That’s one of the reasons why one of the first moves they made was to fire CISOs and the inspectors general who would normally be investigating serious policy violations. This isn’t “big government”, it’s the attitude that the law is a tool used to hurt their opponents and help themselves but never the reverse.
- 0xy 9mo agoAnd when the CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP, stealing info on 80% of Americans, including both the Kamala and Trump campaigns, under the previous admin it was rock solid op-sec, presumably. Or when the previous admin leaked classified Iran attack plans from the Pentagon, so bad that they didn't even know whether they were hacked or not. You can at least pretend to make a technical argument over a political one.
- zzrrt 9mo ago> CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP Isn’t that the fault of the ISPs, not the admin?
- 0xy 9mo agoNope. The breach was in law enforcement operated portals.
- zzrrt 9mo agoSource? I cannot find anything suggesting that law enforcement agencies operate the portals. They are mandated by law and used by law enforcement, but operated by the telecom providers. From [0]: “Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim”, “the intruders spent much of the last year rooting around the ISP networks”, “telecom administrators failing to change default passwords”, “Biden FCC officials did try to implement some very basic cybersecurity safeguards, requiring that telecoms try to do a better job securing their networks”. Per the original topic, the article goes on to explain how the Trump admin destroyed those little security steps. I’m okay with some both-sidesing of bad opsec, but I think you’re incorrect on the blame in this story, and to the extent it is the government’s responsibility, the Trump II response was worse than the Biden’s. [0] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/trump-cybersecurity-policy-is-indistinguishable-from-a-foreign-attack/ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/trump-cybersecurity-poli...
- direwolf20 9mo agoIt was a previous admin who mandated a backdoor. Predictably, enemies of the state got access to the backdoor.
- 6stringmerc 9mo agoWhen I saw mention it was in context of a “contracting” type set of info / document I actually chuckled - I spent a decade in procurement and sales for high stakes contracts. Incompetent person has no idea how to manage a procurement and goes online. Basically this is a 2026 version of an inept executive bashing “what is an RFP” into a search engine from 2007.
- shadowtree 9mo agoMaduro and his bodyguards would slightly disagree.
- andrewflnr 9mo agoUnfortunately for Maduro, that operation was run by military professionals rather than directly by Trump's lackeys. But give Hegseth enough time and he'll bring them around to the new standard.