Spy world vexed by Trump choice of Gabbard as US intelligence chief
Spy world vexed by Trump choice of Gabbard as US intelligence chief
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.
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.
A lot of agents are going to die under her.
Just like under Haspel.
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/
I stand by my assumption that it’s all based on who gives the best blowjob.
Here's hoping the CIA does some of that sweet CIA stuff.
It'll blow their minds.
And this time John McCain isn't around to advocate against torture from within the GOP.
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?