Summary
President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence has sparked intense criticism over her lack of intelligence experience and perceived pro-Russia stance.
Critics, including intelligence officials and Democrats, fear Gabbard’s appointment reflects Trump’s prioritization of loyalty over competence, potentially politicizing the intelligence community and straining trust with foreign allies.
Gabbard, a former Democrat who left the party in 2022, is controversial for her isolationist views and criticism of U.S. support for Ukraine.
While her confirmation is likely given a Republican Senate majority, significant resistance is expected during hearings.
A lot of agents are going to die under her.
Here’s hoping the CIA does some of that sweet CIA stuff.
It’ll blow their minds.
He’s a troll. He did it precisely because it was the worst pick that would wreak havoc. Same for all his appointments.
Trump is an ignoramus, but it doesn’t take any intellect to realize in life that if you have no sense of morality holding you back, setting a bunch of fires/causing chaos is a highly effective way to keep others distracted as you empty the cash drawer and walk away.
It’s easier to rob a nation that is on fire. And despite all his Nazi talk to his even dumber rubes, all Trump cares about is his net worth, aka what it is to all capitalists that chase millions and billions as it’s own end: his fragile ego score.
This is honestly a very gallows poetic way for the American experiment to end, our worship of capital and deification rather than condemnation of the greedy taken to its ridiculous extreme, putting a cartoonishly greedy, proudly ignorant, crony market capitalism worshipping nepo-rich idiot in charge to burn it down and sell the charred remains off for his bigly exclusive private profit.
Ronald Reagan and Jack Welch would be so proud.
Kakistocracy
I wish it was that simple. Trump is not a troll, he’s a puppet. Check those people’s backgrounds, they’re all Russian agents. They’ve all supported Russia’s propaganda. We are not lead by an ignoramus as you stated, but an actual foreign influenced puppet.
I’m sure Putin is paying him well to wreak havoc and set fires, which again is the point. Not some Fourth Reich, just “I’m for sale. Make ego score line go up.”
I still just consider that death by the free capitalist market. If we were a society that had a prosocial incentivized economy and not an economy that completely controls society for individual greed and preaches greed as virtue, Trump wouldn’t have even been a successful game show host, let alone POTUS twice, let alone have mass tolerance of gross emoluments violations with the consent of basically his entire party.
Trump using what he has, the Presidency in his case, to screw some people, us, over to get MOOOAAAAAR, is more American than apple pie ever was, and is at least as American as school shootings.
Maybe the next country that sits on this land might think of putting people first and rewarding honest labor before considering rewarding speculative, often insider rigged by design gambling as the highest, most rewarded of pursuits.
Well, while I agree with you, his term is also only 4 years. Maybe this will be a lesson to us and we can move on. I’m not saying that’ll happen, I’m just being optimistic. Of course, there’s just as high a chance we’ll just keep voting in more and more braggadocios psychopaths’ and truly bury this nation once and for all. And unfortunately I believe the odds are actually not in my favor. But we gotta hope right?
I abandoned hope years ago after fighting the good fight for a couple decades. Partly because hope and its close sibling fear are by far the easiest vectors bypass a person’s reason and manipulate them, and partly because holding on to hope with increasingly dire data points and increasingly disappearing paths for a societal reformation just led to never ending anxiety and depression for me.
There is peace in understanding and acceptance, at least that’s been my experience. I still vote out of harm reduction, but not out of hope. That’s about who I am for me, you know, “to that starfish it mattered,” not about hoping it will be effective, because in 24 years of voting, it’s yet to do anything but perhaps slightly slow down our nation’s and our species’ march to avarice motivated self-destruction, and by slow down I mean we keep driving towards the capitalist made climate apocalypse cliff at 87 under someone like Obama instead of 90 like Bush or 110 like Trump.
If a candidate being taken seriously started talking about reducing manufacturing solely to medical, ecological housing materials, and food production and basically ending pointless consumerism and winding down to more reasonable, agricultural way of life for the sake of the habitability of Earth for humans, maybe I’d reconsider my stance on hope. Better chance of being struck by lighting 10 times in an hour though.
My guess is that he’s making all these assignments as a test to see how many senators bend at the knee for him
No need to guess, they’ve threatened outloud that’s the case.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4990414-tommy-tuberville-warns-republicans-donald-trump-agenda/
The stupidest thing is that he could have quietly blackmailed the Saudis out of $50 billion on Inauguration Day 2017.
Well, seems like maybe Jared did it for what, $3 billion? Did he get ripped off?
