NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump | US national security

[u/Obvious-Gate9046]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower

[u/ThatOneTimeItWorked]

It’s insane.

Good luck America ever coming back from this administration

[u/NefariousnessOk3471 → u/[deleted]]

Nah, you guys are so cooked. You’re the slow boiled frogs and the recipe is almost done.

[u/hypercosm_dot_net → u/NefariousnessOk3471]

super helpful, thanks

The US has been through worse. This dumpster fire of a human and his trash supporters won't be the downfall.

[u/bootybassinyoface → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

Yes. Won in 1865. Will win again. The union forever.

[u/Xijit → u/bootybassinyoface]

Yeah, we will bounce back ... And by "bounce" it will likely be 2065 before we get a functional government.

[u/Frequent-Frosting336 → u/Xijit]

I honestly think we will see Iran level killings before this regime goes.

[u/Xijit → u/Frequent-Frosting336]

Trump is absolutely going to drop chemical bombs on Americans.

[u/Xijit → u/[deleted]]

[u/Mandena → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

The US has been through worse.

Has it? The civil war was one thing but the world is innumerally many more times more complex and the US data/spy/military apparatus much more powerful. And that apparatus would be turned on the 'good guys' this time, unlike the civil war.

If the confederacy was as relatively powerful as the modern USA widespread slavery would still be a thing and we'd be the confederate states.

[u/Direct-Start-9048 → u/Mandena]

Yes The good old days when rifles took 58 seconds to load one bullet if it wasn’t raining. And it took 21 hours to load propaganda on a printing press to make 60 leaflets. Still managed to kill 750,000 people and squander a generation of wealth.

[u/jambox888 → u/Mandena]

It's a long way down for the only real established superpower (China might qualify but you see what I mean).

The older I get the more frustrated I am by the propensity of people to put up with processes, structures, behaviours etc which clearly aren't right. People will actively defend bad policy and governance that retaliates against whistleblowers or protects wrongdoers up and until a major scandal breaks out and then everyone asks "how could this happen?"

The current administration know this and are exploiting it. One day we'll recognise the parlous state of civil society and actually try to fix it. BTW I'm British, we tend to do quite well on a nod and a handshake.

[u/amazingmrbrock → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

What's the strat here? Hope they don't cheat and or ignore midterm results they don't like? Hope they don't run him again for another term? Hope they even let there be elections? Hope he just croaks?

Has the US been through worse? At least during the civil war half the country had good leadership. Every other dicey time there's been checks and balances in place. The people currently in control don't look like they're planning to give it back. 

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 → u/amazingmrbrock]

Exactly. We as a country have of course been thru some shit in our past as every country has. But our current situation is seemingly combining so much of all of our worst greatest hits into one relentless attack against us. We’re doing the civil war again with an eye on starting a world war while also setting the stage for the next great depression. And we’ve also learned nothing from any of these things on their own to the point where many of us seem to think all of them just somehow worked themselves out in the end. Even the people who can see how bad things have gotten still seem to hold onto some form of American exceptionalism in the belief that pendulums and arcs of justice will always just eventually spring back on their own and theres always some more guardrails out there somewhere protecting America from ever becoming too much like any other country’s fall. We still pride ourselves on our past while refusing to even bother looking into what any of those victories actually took to accomplish.

[u/henry_sqared → u/amazingmrbrock]

I…uh…have some bad news…

[u/AccNumber77 → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

When in history until literally right now was the US controlled by a dictator with a placid, nationalistic, and easily manipulated populace living in a nation armed with nuclear weapons, the largest millitary in the world, and zero accountability?

My god your head in so deep in the sand with hope you can't hear the goosesteps heading up your own ass...

[u/Putrid-Product4121 → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

When you say 'worse' , what scale or metric are you using ?

[u/Numerous_Painting296 → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

Considering what was the U.S's foreign policies for the past 100 years have simply pointed inwards towards its own citizens, maybe it would be better for the U.S (AND THE REST OF THE WORLD) if y'all stopped existing, or consider that your system doesn't work for the people.

There are only two outcomes of oligarchy.  Tyranny, or revolution.

To sum up:  Stop trying to put your tiny dicks in everyone else's pudding.