So on Monday a new team of “journalists” took over at the Pentagon. Let’s meet some of them.

First:

I can’t find a single meaningful thing this guy has done in his life. He did bring a sign to a college campus that someone ripped down and I guess that’s enough to be a MAGA martyr.

But there was a problem from the start, because:

I had to look up this guy, too. He’s a nobody.

But wait—the plot thickens:

I had to look up this guy too. The Arizona Globe says:

R.C. Maxwell is a Phoenix-based writer and political commentator with a decade of experience, quotes, and coverage in the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, and Breitbart News.

The Arizona Globe is also a far right rag. Hmmm.

And the screw continues to turn:

It’s perfect, right? These dumbasses who keep telling us that they are now Real Journalists Who Tell The Truth are literally all repeating the same lie. Because journalism!

And when the group think was exposed, they were all completely embarrassed and vowed to do better. LOL, no:

Fact-checking? Accuracy? Independent Journalism? Pfffffffft.

There’s also the Russian angle, with Jack Posobiec now part of the Pentagon Press team. You can think of him as Putin’s special correspondent:

SouthFront is an online disinformation site registered in Russia that receives taskings from the FSB. It attempts to appeal to military enthusiasts, veterans, and conspiracy theorists, all while going to great lengths to hide its connections to Russian intelligence. In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, SouthFront sought to promote perceptions of voter fraud by publishing content alleging that such activity took place during the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle.

Jack Posobiec tweeted a link to a SouthFront article about Libya in February 2020.

Posobiec shared to Twitter the 28 links to SouthFront from November 2019 to August 2020, all while working for the low-standard news network OANN, Hatewatch found.

Move along, folks, nothing to see here but vatniks.

It’s maybe ironic or maybe fate, but one of the most MAGA House reps got caught using what had to be an imported Russian talking point when referring to his treason weasel buddies now at the Pentagon:

And since there are no coincidences, I will refer you to the cover image for this post, with the SecDef’s place card at the cabinet meeting earlier this week.

To close I’ll leave you with 2 things:  the quote that inspired the title of the book, and a clip of the stage adaptation of the book, which is one of the funniest books ever written. Unexpected bonus:  Nick Offerman as Ignatius.

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”-– Jonathan Swift