In my opinion, a massive hack attack by likely culprits China, Russia or North Korea takes down the entire U.S. internet, water and power plants and top-level government communications. Only lower level military and state disaster personnel are operational. What about Starlink? Sloppy security means it is knocked out, and since it ousted Verizon for the White House, confusion reigns.
Key to this is the use of home phones by Hegseth and company. Home phones, despite a secure messaging app like Signal, are trivially hacked to capture the screen, cameras and microphones, making security meaningless.
No security flaw or lax practice goes unexploited. Focusing on DEI instead of defense may be disastrous.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/trump-admin-fire...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58247/national-security-...
Hahaha--no. Such a devious long-term plan wouldn't be taxing specific US military bases or populations of penguins, for starters.
I see such a huge outpouring of energy being spent right now trying to develop mutually-incompatible 4D chess explanations for Trump taking a dump onto the chessboard, borne from different flavors of denial.
For some, it's because the first rule of Cult Club is that the cult-leader can't be fallible. For others, it's because they don't want to believe that stupidity sometimes wins.
I think there's no more pathetic creature than those who try to sanewash and apply 4d chess theory to the mental retardation of Donald Trump. Trump Derangement Syndrome exists, but it's his supporters who have had it all along, not his opponents.
