Just How Stupid Do They Think We Are?

March 27, 2025 (Vol. 19 No. 15) - Just how stupid does Trump and his band of thugs think the American people are? Based on their behavior this week, I'd guess they think the people are dolts and dim-witted slugs. And an argument can be made that a core percentage of the electorate - the people who blindly support Felon 47 - believe everything the Administration and Fox News tells them. However, in light of this Administration's behavior during the past week, it appears that the folks making up the White House's national security team are the dolts and dim-wits. Against all national security protocols, they used a public messaging app, Signal, to chat up operational plans for an attack on Houthi terrorists in Yemen. It is bad enough that Signal is easily hacked by foreign operatives, but one of this little chatty group was actually in Russia at the time the chat took place. (Hell, for all we know, he was allowing Vladimir Putin to read over this shoulder.) If that is not enough, the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight accidentally included a reporter, the editor of The Atlantic, into the chat, Make no mistake: A premature release of these war plans could have resulted in American deaths. Fortunately, the reporter was ethical and wasn't willing to disclose these operational plans until after the attack had been completed. Frankly, at first, he didn't think anyone was as stupid as to allow reporter to listen in on a classified operation. Yet, they were. The White House's response to the justified outrage among Republicans, Democrats, the military and the American public has been to lie. They looked square into the camera and said they did not discuss specifics of the operation. Trump and his chatty minions were basically using the Wizard of Oz defense: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Faced with those claims, The Atlantic published the entire chat, including specific details regard what weapons would be used and the timing of the attacks. Still, as late as the time of this writing, President Bone Spur is calling the whole controversy "a hoax." Read that chat yourself. Make your own judgment as to whether this ill-considered dialogue among officials at the highest levels of the U.S. government could have put our service men and women in harm's way. Which takes us back to the core question: Just how stupid do they think we are? Perhaps the better question is: Just how doltish are the people running the country and shouldn't someone or several people be fired for what is, metaphorically and really, criminal stupidity? That's it for now. Fear the Turtle.