Aloha and Namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey

Joint featuring lively, in-depth conversations with people who cruise the corridors of power

in America, sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

This past Sunday night, I was doing my usual Sunday night thing,

nursing a glass of mictors and watching some equally delectable and high-proof TV.

In this case, the third episode of what shaping up to be a superb season two of The Last of Us.

When an email arrived bearing the subject line, the group chats that changed America.

My first instinct was to trash that email without even reading it, captivating his signal

gate was for a time I felt like I'd read about as much as I could tolerate about the laughable

carelessness and gratuitous dumbassery of Donald Trump's national security team when it came to

communications and their predilection to behave like a bunch of tittering teenage girls if teenage

girls were really into showing off about how much they knew in advance about the bombing of hootie

rebels but then i thought come on john don't kid yourself you could never get enough of pete

heggsus emoji game so i opened the

email but i found something different and far more interesting there originally reported and deeply

revelatory piece by semifor editor and chief ben smith about the proliferation over the last few years of

private group chats on signal and WhatsApp among the Silicon Valley elite.

And the role that those chats has played in facilitating and hastening, if not actually causing,

the shift of the high-tech world's political allegiances to the right, a shift so pronounced

that it has led many of the world's most famous and brilliant minds to embrace a man that

many of them surely consider an utter ding brilliant minds to embrace a man that many of them

surely consider an utter dingbat, that would be Donald Trump, and a shift so consequential

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