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Who needs spies when you’ve got Signal?<\/a> So apparently idiots can also rule entire countries now, not just companies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, once a vocal critic of mishandling classified info, now starring in ‘Texts of Our Lives.’ …And Vice President JD Vance, expressing disdain for ‘bailing Europe out again’ while planning strikes that predominantly benefit European trade routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truly, the Trump administration is redefining ‘open government’\u2014one accidental group chat at a time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who needs spies when you’ve got Signal? So apparently idiots can also rule entire countries now, not just companies! Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, once a vocal critic of mishandling classified info, now starring in ‘Texts of Our Lives.’ …And Vice President JD Vance, expressing disdain for ‘bailing Europe out again’ while planning strikes that predominantly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[755,1001],"class_list":["post-146025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-politics","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149518,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=149518","url_meta":{"origin":146025,"position":0},"title":"How Nepal’s Violent Gen Z Revolution Destroyed a Government","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"05\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZRbnDU8D5CQ?si=8GpadzWPSI3LrMex Major protests erupted across Nepal, launching the country into chaos \u2013 a wave of Gen Z\u2013led demonstrations that quickly turned into violent riots and what many now call the Nepal revolution. 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