In the court battle today, the report said, “The White House singled out six stories published by POLITICO, including a June 2026 article that cited a ‘senior administration official’ who put the odds of the U.S. striking a deal with Iran to end the war at between 80 and 85 percent.” This was characterized as some sort of leak that endangered national security.

However, according to Status, that “senior administration official” was Vance, who was “speaking on a background call with reporters authorized by the White House,” and had been granted anonymity by the press pool.

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    So, was this intentional? Vance gives out some “anonymous” information, and then when it inevitably gets published, they accuse the media of “leaking” national security details, in order to justify punishment?

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      Seems that way!

      Dude, all this shit is so exhaustingly childish. I know it’s part of their strategy, and it’s pretty effective tbh. Their moral compass is so foreign to mine that we might as well be different species. Out of this world even.

      That said, I think they might actually be starting to find out after fucking around for so long. They’ve fucked up pretty bad.

      And THAT said, we can’t fuck around with holding them accountable if they actually lose power. We did that last time and we’ve found out, though I think anyone with at least two functioning braincells could foresee the consequences at the time. Trump and his underlings have caused crimes against humanity and we really can’t afford to be squeamish about punishing accordingly.

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        Jeffries and Schumer are also owned by Israel, nothing is going to happen to anybody regardless of the election.

        Jeffries already had a secret meeting with Jared Kushner to ensure continuity with Israel and Gaza policy.

        The “FO” is kayfabe.

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      Look, just because that lines up perfectly with everything they’ve ever done and everything they’ve ever said that they will do that doesn’t mean that’s very obviously and glaringly what is happening here. Have some faith in the grace and nobility of this land and it’s chosen people and leaders. These are U.S. politicians you’re talking about, after all, and they work for Godtm.

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      Of course. They used the unofficial mechanisms in place to leak info they want leaked to the press, to setup that same press.

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        Mm sorta, if our admin were bush era competent (as in just barely) it would be entrapment but since the executive branch declassified it by speaking it aloud and on record it’s not entrapment since it can’t possibly be criminal.

        “Government agents may not originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person’s mind the disposition to commit a criminal act, and then induce commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute.”

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      If conservatives were capable of empathetic foresight, they wouldn’t be conservatives.

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        They’re in it for the money and if they see their gravy train ending, something needs to be done about it. See: fucker carlson’s sudden left shift

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      You can tell a pattern.

      1. They want to do something unconstitutional/illegal but want a reason to try to justify it.
      2. They do a false flag operation to cause a relevant problem or point to something tangential to the problem.
      3. They use Step 2 as the reason and do the thing in Step 1.
      4. Pretend Step 2 is a real problem and/or they didn’t do it themselves until proven otherwise to anyone with a functioning brain.
      5. Refuse to undo Step 3 unless forced to by Congress or the courts.
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        Not a false flag. They’re just lying. Nothing about that statement endangered National Security at all. They’re just straight up lying. They don’t have to do a false flag

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          They’re too stupid to understand that, which is actually a good thing. Think of the level of incompetence; to plant details for a story you’re going to then use to bar them and the details you planted don’t even endanger National Security.

          It’s not the idiotic puppet show out front we need to be watching, it’s the people in the shadows pulling the strings.

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          No need to play 5D Chess when you can just play Tic-Tac-Toe.

          Especially given that, as the situation in Iran shows, they don’t even have the intellectual capability to play 2D Chess.

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        As we’ve seen today with the Politico drama, they don’t give a shit about being forced by the courts either

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          They won’t comply with the courts, but others do. It all depends on how far away the sub org is from Trump and gang. Anything that was formerly independent usually complies, like the recent USPS thing.

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      US is a troll country at this point. Just fucking shit up and then exploiting the chaos. Historically, death of an empire looks like this btw.

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    that’s the kind of thing they mean with conquer the people by defeating the media