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Sometimes journalists established me and I am a journalist – although my delicate detractors dispute this.
Maybe like you, I looked at-with a good dose of perplexity and fun-indignation-with-the night dominates the last 24-hour “news cycle” in North America and beyond.
This is the duration of attention of the squirrel of several of my perpetually indignant colleagues, that today’s indignation generally has a short life expectancy because another outrage inevitably arrives tomorrow.
But the indignation that seizes Washington, DC – The capital of indignation – seems to consume the Beltway Press Body for more than a day or two.
When this happens, indignation tends to evolve into a scandal with four alarms which journalists are looking for because it often results in a Grand Prix of the Ego for the lucky scribe who triggered the original indignation.
The determining ingredients of a scandal have already fallen into a predictable place: a multitude of indignant politicians – this time largely democratic – and a stable of “national security” experts have rushed to television to say that they are indignant and to demand investigations on the reasons why the indignation has occurred and the resignation of the powerful architects of indignation.
I think that soon the new scandal will be baptized “Appgate” by a lethargic publisher in homage to the old scandal of all scandals – Watergate – thus confirming its status as a scandal.
Why appgate?
Apparently, a large part of the American national security establishment, up to and including vice-president JD Vance, thought it was a wise idea to start a group of 18 people on the signal messaging application to have a detailed head-cut on the opportunity to bomb Yemen before bombing Yemen.
Smoking experts are in a Tizzy because these types of “highly classified” discussions are supposed to occur in the secure “situation room” near the oval office, and not in an online forum using open-source encryption that any child capable of resolving a Rubik cube in less than 30 seconds can bypass a desire.
Oh, and a familiar gallery of hysterical personalities of the cable run in the apoplectic circles, shouting “everything is lost” after learning that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of the Establishment, the Atlantic magazine, was invited to join the “cat group” selected by mistake.
An astonished Goldberg was aware, in real time, of what constitutes “planning war” in the “merit based” regime of the President of the United States, which values incompetence as discretion as a prerequisite for employment.
Picked the indignation machine to immerse yourself in high and hyperbolic equipment.
I recognize that Vance and Clownish Company make the unfortunate Maxwell Smart looks like the fictitious spy of John Le Carre, George Smiley.
However, a large part of the blowers and anxious swelling is missing the cheeky point.
Rather than denouncing the accidental opening and transparency of the Trump administration, the fourth domain should rather celebrate it.
The generation after the generation of high -level journalists has given presidents and primary ministers on the need for more “light” to attract suffocating secrecy which, as a disconcerting rule, envelops state affairs.
When the furtive shroud falls – for any reason for the person’s hand – grateful journalists and publishers must exploit the welcome opportunity as long as possible and share the wonderful fruits of their unexpected pass with the public with the public.
So, let’s give a credit where credit is due, and thank the American national security advisor Michael Waltz for his superb hospitality by allowing a journalist to record childish reflections – with a multitude of infantile emojis – a bunch of dizzy rents who remain convinced that they are “men of states”.
I hope that the “senior officials” in other countries obsessed with the secret to follow the commendable example of Waltz and let journalists testify – expressly or in error – the banal “internal functioning” of the members of the rider of the bureaucratic equivalent of the so -called “” “Directors Committee“, In particular when it implies deadly questions of war and peace.
In this way, obstinate myths would be bare on the “serious” men and women who populate the sanctuaries in power in Western capitals and are forced to “debate” the consequences and implications to kill innocent people in sovereign nations.
Each journalist from each world editorial room knows that the good fortune of Goldberg is what dreams are made of.
Of course, he is “indignant” from the violation of scandalous security. To tell the truth, it was a blessing for the quick career of Goldberg in the career.
He talks about the incestuous city. Goldberg’s sweltering friends on CNN and MSNBC – who refer to the Washington match like “JG” – shone the intoxicating projectors on the suddenly request publisher to revel in his implementation scoop that has turned around the world.
All the flattering attention has, I suppose, acted as a balm to appease “the indignation” of Goldberg.
The mystery for me is why he did not play Possum and fully took advantage of being a silent partner at the heart of what passes for the “brain confidence” of Trump which happens for a “foreign policy”.
Goldberg should have hovered quietly and bring together some more delicious “revelations” before drawing his parachute.
Short -lived fool.
I know. I know. Gatriot indignant that he is, Goldberg put “national interest” before his professional interests to revive the urgent alarm.
RIGHT.
The other mystery is the reason why Trump – who would have Does not light up on work before almost noon, was not gone to the group’s plans to attack these annoying Houthis.
I am Spitball here, but it seems to me that the Commander -in -Chief of America, who admits that he has no idea of many things, does not have – like me – an idea of the signal application and how to use it.
Trump may have had other pressing concerns about his concerned mind organizer Enterprises raised for the annual hunting of Easter eggs in the White House or make sure that the oval office button to deliver its beloved diet coke on a silver tray was in reliable order.
Ah, the burden of being the “free world leader”.
We can also confirm, graciously of JG, that Vance and Blustering and Al believe that Europeans are “pathetic” freeloaders “which have been bailout, again and again, by the United States.
If there was any doubt before, the transatlantic “alliance” was extinguished, from all places, from an application.
That’s not all that could have been extinguished.
The prospects for Vance to succeed Trump took a potentially fatal blow after the ambitious vice-president committed the Capital sin to assert in private that his vindictive boss made a “error” by machine-gunning the Houthis.
What a beautiful dividend it would be.
We owe Trump and his 18 “dwarfs” from the discussion room a debt of gratitude for their rank and reveal the ineptus.
Please continue, please.
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