Oh Boy It Never Ends: A WORKING MAN

Above is Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Miss Sassy Transitioning to Miss Pussy?" from Friday and Thursday his THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Propaganda Pig." went up.

So last night we saw A WORKING MAN -- my girlfriend and I -- and in a few hours I'm taking my nieces and nephews to A MINECRAFT MOVIE.

Where to rank Jason Statham's new film?

I've noted his movies here before and that I'm a fan. I don't think I've really written about his place in film though.

He's kind of the Liam Neeson now. Liam's not had a big hit since 2015. Things probably got worse after the 2019 comments -- look them up, I'm not rehashing here -- but even before those comments he seems to have stripped the soil of all the nutrients.

Clint Eastwood has done the same performance in every film. And he is known for his vengeful White man films -- probably those are what he's most famous for. But he's varied up the type of films he's made -- action, comedy, western, drama. Liam got into the pattern of vengeful White male and just worked it into the ground.

I'm a Liam fan and I watch everyone of them. But there are times when they blur in my mind.

Jason's not gotten to that point yet.

I'd seen him in films before 2002's THE TRANSPORTER (I'm a big fan of Guy Richie's films so I'd seen him in two of those) but that's really where he stood out. I didn't see the film because of him, I saw it due to the trailer which made it look really good and it delivered. The following year he was in THE ITALIAN JOB which is still one of my favorite films of the '00s. After that, he was good in a lot of films but the films themselves were so-so. 2007, he started making some solid films again.

2015 is SPY with Melissa McCarthy. That's one of my favorite films that I can watch over and over. It's a comedy with some action and it's one of my favorite films and probably my favorite Jason film.

A WORKING MAN delivers and it's not a waste of time. You won't feel cheated. But in terms of his action films?

For me, THE MECHANIC franchise is his best. I want another one of those. I also love THE TRANSPORTER franchise and I want a franchise from THE BEEKEEPER. I'm not sure I want A WORKING MAN franchise. It's a good film but I'm not sure it's rich enough for sequels. I could be wrong. I liked Denzel's EQUALIZER but I didn't think there was a point to a follow up. I was wrong. EQUALIZER II is a great film (and I loved seeing his house -- the safety room where the kid hides) and EQUALIZER III as also amazing.

But right now, it just seems self-contained. A good film but not one that needs a franchise.

Here are my top ten favorite Jason films.

10) WRATH OF MAN

9) MECHANIC RESURRECTION

8) THE TRANSPORTER

7) CRANK

6) FAST AND FURIOUS: HOBBS & SHAW

5) CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE

4) WILD CARD

3) THE ITALIAN JOB

2) THE BEEKEEPER

1) SPY

Okay, noting five community sites. Ruth:

Ann:

My cousin Marcia:

Mike

Rebecca:

Going out with C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Friday, March 28, 2025. Details continue to emerge about the security breach while outrage mounts. Donald Chump stupidly thinks he can ignore it and the Congressional idiot who was the face of 'uncommitted' remains uncommitted to the American people.

Let's start with Rachel Maddow last night on MSNBC.

Convicted Felon Donald Chump is cratering in the polls. And that's especially obvious when it comes to the security breach and his ineptitude in responding to it. Another segment from last night's THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW.

She cites the YOUGOV survey conducted on March 25th:

How serious of a problem is it that Trump officials shared military plans with a journalist in a chat app?

Very/somewhat serious 76%

Not very/not serious at all 13%

This is a very serious issue which is why we've covered it and two Congressional hearings on the topic.

Donald Chump doesn't get how serious this is and we'll be going into that in a moment.

But let's take a moment to note another idiot. She is a Socialist who spent years and years posing as a Democrat -- something all Justice "Democrats" have done. After she worked to tank Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, she had a fit that some people -- including us -- were talking about her being a Socialist. After endorsing a fellow Socialist for Mayor of NYC -- her business because NYC is in the hart of Michigan (that was sarcasm) -- ahe stopped the pretense and is finally out and proud.

Rashida Tlaib, congratulations on stepping out -- or being forced out of -- your political closet.

Rashida's attacked the security breach . . . Well attacked those people who take it seriously.

A national security breach that goes to how team Trump puts us at risk on any and every security matter wasn't an issue to her. She felt that was a distraction and we needed to be focused on who was killed in the bombings

Now she could explore that topic in a hearing of her own -- even a field hearing -- if it really mattered to her.

The bigger question though is why, time and again, when it comes to the American people, Rashida's not there.

She's (for now) a member of the US Congress. A member of the House of Representatives -- the American people's House. But she's not there for us.

She makes it clear on her government website where she ignores the security breach but does have a link on her page to Twitter and she's remained on Twitter and refused to go on BLUESKY. Shed rather give Alien Musk traffic -- at a time when people are fleeing that platform she continues to give her consent and approval to Musk and his Twitter.

The American people think this is a serious issue (and it is). But Rashida's only public comment on the issue has been to dismiss concerns over the breach and insist that we are focused on the wrong thing.

Few Republicans in Congress are being as craven as she is.

Something to think about over the weekend.

The security breach has already resulted in questioning during two Congressional hearings -- the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Many are calling for accountability. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is the name most often cited when people discuss firing. Senator Tammy Duckworth told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC Wednesday night that everyone of the government officials in the Signat chat risked the safety of those Americans carrying out the bombing mission that Donald Chump ordered and that every official should be fired. Don't disagree with her on that.

Some are of the opinion that despite Donald solidifying his trashy image via a 'reality' show that required him to say "You're fired," he's too much of a weak sister to actually fire someone when it's not part of a TV show. But Hegseth shouldn't get too comfortable with that because he and others are in the midst of another security scandal. Michael Luciano (MEDIAITE) reports:

Passwords and private information belonging to top national security officials in the Trump administration have been found online, according to the German publication Der Spiegel.

In a stunning report published on Wednesday, the paper said its journalists “used commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that has been published on the web.” Those whose information was compromised include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

“Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet,” the outlet wrote. “DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.”

Again, these Intel nominees were never qualified for their jobs. And that just raises more questions.

Will we next learn that all three responded with their bank information to an e-mail reading:

Dear sir or ma'am,

I am an exiled prince in Niger and my money is currently in limbo unless I can get it out of this country. This is a dire emergency and you must not breathe word of this to anyone for their are people in this country working to harm me. If you please will give me your bank account numbers, I will transfer $125,000 into your account and you keep may $25,000 of that just for assisting me.

Thank you,

Sammy O'Reilly

Intel officials shouldn't be so dumb. Kelsey Baker (BUSINESS INSIDER) reports:

Trump administration officials accidentally shared planning for combat action with a reporter, and it's exactly the type of failure that military leaders have long feared — one that comes from sloppy OPSEC and smartphones.

Using Signal, a popular secure messaging app that is encrypted though not impenetrable, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and other top officials discussed key details related to pending US airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, including weather, assets involved, and timing.

What the group failed to recognize is that one chat member was actually the top editor of The Atlantic magazine.

"We are currently clean on OPSEC," Hegseth wrote in the group chat just below an operational timeline that identified the types of planes involved and strike start times.

Two OPSEC violations are apparent from the chat.

Most obviously, sensitive military topics were openly discussed with an individual without a "need to know" and presumably without an appropriate security clearance. Second, that operational information was transmitted over an unsecured line, vulnerable to enemy hacking.

US House Rep Jim Himes is the Ranking Member on the House Intelligence Committee and, on Wednesday, he noted, "And they know that there's only one response to a mistake of this magnitude: You apologize, you own it and you stop everything until you can figure out what went wrong and how it might not ever happen again. But that's not what happened. The Secretary of Defense responded with a brutal attack on the reporter who did not ask to be on the Signal chain. Yesterday, our former colleague Michael Waltz did the same in the White House and then went on FOX to call Jeff Goldberg a loser. "

Instead of getting what we're owed, we continue to get lies and attacks from the administration. We The People continue to get lies and pointed fingers at others. Jennifer Bowers Bahney (RAW STORY) reports:

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who's in the middle of the Signal messaging app scandal that inadvertently revealed an impending military strike to a journalist, made an angry post on social media Wednesday once again denying that "war plans" were revealed.

"So, let’s me get this straight," Hegseth began on Wednesday.

"The Atlantic released the so-called 'war plans' and those 'plans' include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information. Those are some really s----y war plans."

We've got a serious problem here.

Is he drunk? Seriously, is he drunk?

If not, he's either the worst liar or the dumbest person on the face of the planet. You are texting the time that strike will occur, shortly before it is carried out. That is top secret, that is considered classified at that time. At the time, pay attention and put down the shot glass, you texted, the mission hadn't been carried out yet. As Tammy Duckworth explained to Rachel Maddow on Wednesday, that could have led to American's flying the bombing mission getting targeted. The details revealed also threaten whomever was the Intel asset on this. Stream the video below.

This is not minor though Hegseth continues to act as though it is. This goes not just to the fact that he's not qualified for this position, it also goes to the reality that he's not mature enough for the position.

On the latter, that should have been obvious to all, when he was trying to get confirmed and, in a desperate big like no one has ever tried before, Little Petey enlisted his mother to fight his confirmation battle. From December 9th, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Mama Hegseth"

And now from last night, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Mommy! Save Little Petey!"

Back in December, that was the clue to America but few wanted to grab it. When you're a grown ass man of 44 years (45 in June) and you can't get through your own confirmation hearing without sending Mommy on a media blitz, you're not mature enough to hold the office. Little Petey demonstrates his lack of immaturity right now by lying about what went down, by attacking journalists Jeffrey Goldberg and by acting as though this security breach is the fault of everyone else except for him.

Brian and Penelope Hegseth, you failed in raising your son. And that would be your own damn business and I wouldn't comment but your son is the Secretary of Defense and your failure puts us all at risk.

The security breach is a very serious issue. Senator Martin Heinrich's office issued the following:

Heinrich slams Trump Administration intelligence officials for lying under oath: “Incredibly disappointing”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, appeared on MSNBC with Jen Psaki yesterday, where he reacted to Trump Administration intelligence officials lying under oath to his question during Tuesday’s hearing on whether intelligence officials’ Signal group chat included precise information on weapons packages, targets, or timing.

heinrich psaki

VIDEO: Heinrich joins MSNBC to discuss senior Trump Administration officials' reckless, dangerous, and illegal handling of highly sensitive war plans in Yemen, risking the lives of American troops.

On the Signal chat transcript:

Jen Psaki: Senator, I know you’ve been living this, trying to get more information, trying to ask very valid legitimate questions. But you hadn’t seen those text messages until this morning.

Senator Heinrich: Nope, just like everyone else.

Psaki: What did you think when you read them?

Heinrich: Well, I thought, how can you come and testify in front of Congress, and not think, given everything that's gone on, that the details would come out? When you have the Director of the CIA, when you have the DNI, just brazenly lying to Congress, how could they not think that this wasn't going to come out at some point, or that we wouldn't get to the bottom of it? It is deeply disappointing.

On Trump Administration officials lying under oath to Heinrich’s question about contents of Signal chat:

Psaki: Secretary Hegseth also lied about this. They [Directors Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe] weren't the only people lying about it. They were sitting there under oath testifying in Congress.

Heinrich: Yes.

Psaki: It was a text chain they were on. Hard to imagine they didn't remember those details. Did they lie to you?

Heinrich: Yeah, they did lie to us. It's hard to imagine for me that they didn't all go over the text chain the night before. Or in the run up to even the morning, knowing that this was in the news already. So, it's incredibly disappointing to see how cavalierly they misrepresented this. And obviously I hadn't seen those parts of the text chain at that point. But I suspected, and what we would normally really be concerned about showing up outside of what we call the high side, the secure communications infrastructure that we use. Are these operational details? Because that is what can put service members at risk, and this is a case where real lives are on the line. There were intelligence details in these exchanges that may well have put peoples' lives at risk.

Psaki: Yeah, the General is making this point that they're still at risk now. And this now gives the Houthis a better understanding of how these communications happen.

Heinrich: That’s exactly right.

On an expedited Inspector General investigation into the situation:

Psaki: Let me ask you: Senator Roger Wicker said today that the Senate Armed Services Committee is seeking an expedited IG investigation. He's a Republican senator. We haven't heard that from a lot of other Republican senators or any others that I'm aware of publicly at this point, but you talk to them privately. Do you think more could come out? Is there more who might call for that?

Heinrich: I hope. I really hope more [Republican senators] do come out, because the private conversations are: People know this was wrong. People know that it was reckless. No one wants to defend this in the public. Even if you watch the Worldwide Annual Threat Assessment hearing in its totality, you didn't hear Republicans coming to the defense of this kind of recklessness. We'll just have to see. You know, there's this palpable fear of saying anything critical of Team Trump. And to his credit, I think Roger Wicker did what anyone would normally do in this situation, which is just to say, “Let's get to the bottom of it.”

Psaki: That's what IGs are supposed to do. Hence why it's so problematic that a number of them were fired. Senator, thank you so much, and thank you for continuing to press on this issue. I know there's many, many more questions out there.

Heinrich: We're not done yet.

A recap of Tuesday’s hearing on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence can be found here.

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Of course, not everyone is taking it seriously -- such as the White House -- such as the White House spokesperson. She's not lying to save herself so who knows why she's lying but the porcine spokesperson for the White House is stomping her hooves and digging in with the lies.

From last night, that's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Propaganda Pig." Isaac Schorr (MEDIAITE) reports:

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt raged against The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, first in a social media post and then at an afternoon press briefing.

In an editorial over the leaked Signal groupchat in which senior Trump administration officials discussed plans for an attack on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the Journal took aim at peace envoy Steve Witkoff.

“A real security scandal is that the Signal chat apparently included Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s envoy to wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Press reports say Mr. Witkoff was receiving these messages on the commercial app while in Moscow,” observed the Journal. “This is security malpractice. Russian intelligence services must be listening to Mr. Witkoff’s every eyebrow flutter. This adds to the building perception that Mr. Witkoff, the President’s friend from New York, is out of his depth in dealing with world crises.”

The editorial also singled out Vice President JD Vance for criticism, arguing that his position in the chat will lead American allies to believe “hat officials at the top of the Trump Administration think the U.S. relationship isn’t based on common interests or values,” but is instead “closer to a protection racket.”

On Wednesday morning, Leavitt took to X to dispute the Journal‘s characterization of Witkoff’s actions.

Fat Piggy then oinked-oinked that this was "fake news." Fake news? Karoline, fake news is your reported weight. Maybe that spooked her? The thought that they'd make her go on the record about her actual weight? Something spooked the liar and she fled:

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt unexpectedly ended a news conference Wednesday after fielding tough questions about the government Houthi attack plan leak for the first time.

Leavitt, who gave a surprise glimpse into her family life, lost her temper and snapped at CNN's Kaitlan Collins during a volatile press conference.

[. . .]

The conference, which was the first held since the massive Signal war plans scandal, lasted slightly under 25 minutes. She spoke for under 10 minutes before answering a handful of questions from reporters then abruptly leaving.

A handful of viewers noticed her sudden departure on X.

"Karoline Leavitt got scared and just ran off the stage after getting grilled by reporters about the signal chat," one user wrote.

Another added: "Karoline Leavitt practically ran out of that press conference after getting hammered by reporters."

She just fled, on a swinish tear, she just fled from the bright lights and cameras. Remember, the media's part of the "sunlight [that] is said to be the best of disinfectants" against government corruption as cited by former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies.

Next question in the chamber for Karoline: Did she marry a man 32 years older in the hopes that age would have blurred his vision and softened her hoggish looks?

The scandal continues and actually enlarges due to the administration's refusal to address it. Had Chump, for example, announced two days ago, "Hegseth has given me his resignation letter," the intensity of the scandal might have faded. But the inaction just makes it continue to grow. It was wrong and lies from the administration do not erase that. In fact, the lies only inflame people because even someone with no knowledge of classified or top secret grasps that you do not give out the target and the time of a target for an impending strike in a non-secure chat. Everyone grasps that.

That includes other countries. Elizabeth Palmer (CBS NEWS) notes international fallout:

In the British Parliament, the Signal group chat controversy prompted a hard question on Wednesday for the U.K. leader from opposition lawmaker Ed Davey: Can Britain still trust America with its secrets?

"Will the prime minister make it clear that he will order an urgent review into the security of the intelligence that we share with the United States?" Davey asked during a session in the House of Commons.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushed back.

"We work with the United States on a daily basis," Starmer said. "Unpicking our relations with the U.S. for defense and security is neither responsible nor serious."

And Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) notes:

Newspaper and news website headlines across the continent, however, have not.

Chump looks like an idiot on the global stage because that's what he is.

The security breach has not been addressed. All these days after it was revealed. And remember it was revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg who was brought in on the chat. If he hadn't revealed it, would the administration know about it even now?

Probably not.

And day after day, no action has been taken.

When you hear the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns," this is what they're talking about.

Chump looks as ineffective and as indecisive as Emperor Nero.

He's made himself a joke.

The security breach took place March 13th, March 14th and March 15th. Grasp that Jeffrey Goldberg was wrongly included on all of those group texts and that the Intel people had no clue.

Chump's administration should have never let it happen. Having allowed it to happen via gross negligence, they didn't realize it. Three days they kept Goldberg 'in the loop,' so to speak, on conversations no one outside the government should have been in on. And then they didn't even realize it for days and days. March 24th, he published his account in THE ATLANTIC. All these days later, it has still not been address.

This was a breach of security. It was also an intelligence failure because whatever you call the discussions -- top secret, classified, extra butter on the pop corn -- the White House does not want to be having conversations that they include the press on without the knowledge of the administration.

This was an intelligence failure.

What if Goldberg hadn't written the story? Think about that. He might still be in the group chat and hearing who knows what.

This security breach and Intel failure is something that the administration should have discovered all on their own.

Yesterday, Senator Jack Reed's office issued the following:

WASHINGTON, DC -- Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) sent a letter to the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense regarding their bipartisan concern and interest about the Signal group chat involving senior members of the Trump Administration.

Full text of the letter follows:

Mr. Steven A. Stebbins

Acting Inspector General

U.S. Department of Defense – Office of Inspector General

4800 Mark Center Drive

Alexandria, VA 22350-1500

Dear Mr. Stebbins,

On March 11, 2025, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was reportedly included on a group chat on the commercially available communications application called Signal, which included members of the National Security Council. This chat was alleged to have included classified information pertaining to sensitive military actions in Yemen. If true, this reporting raises questions as to the use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information, as well as the sharing of such information with those who do not have proper clearance and need to know.

Accordingly, we ask that you conduct an inquiry into, and provide us with an assessment of, the following:

1. The facts and circumstances surrounding the above referenced Signal chat incident, including an accounting of what was communicated and any remedial actions taken as a result;

2. Department of Defense (DOD) policies and adherence to policies relating to government officers and employees sharing sensitive and classified information on non-government networks and electronic applications;

3. An assessment of DOD classification and declassification policies and processes and whether these policies and processes were adhered to;

4. How the policies of the White House, Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and other Departments and agencies represented on the National Security Council on this subject differ, if at all;

5. An assessment of whether any individuals transferred classified information, including operational details, from classified systems to unclassified systems, and if so, how;

6. Any recommendations to address potential issues identified.

Please include a classified annex to these responses as needed. The Senate Armed Services Committee will work with you to schedule a briefing immediately upon completion of your review.

Respectfully,

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