And there goes the intelligence community.
Gabbard is going to be compartmentalized. They're never going to let her near anything that matters.
I wish you were right.
They have 19 year olds named big balls gaining access to all our information. You think she is going to have problems accessing information. Ha ha ha.
You have way too much faith in a collapsing government.
Any basis whatsoever to your comment?
with only Sen. Mitch McConnell breaking GOP ranks to oppose her
Oh so NOW you're worried, it would seem, about your legacy and whether you stood against fascism?
Mitch McConnell, you will always be remembered for obstructing, gaslighting, packing the SCOTUS with toadies, and then flip-flopping on impeachment and accountability for your party, the insurrection, and enabling the orange menace to return to power. Forever. People will piss on your grave, and they will be justified.
TOO LATE.
"On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined."
"Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."
"I think that all the explanations leave some mystery. When I think of it at all, I still say, with unbelief, 'Germany—no, not Germany.'"
All from Milton Meyer.
She is literally a Russian asset, and now she's going to be our top intel official. We're fucked.
Wild watching the dumbest reactionaries on the internet get everything they ever wanted.
You'd think after Brexit, after the first Trump term, they'd have re-evaluated their pre-existing beliefs.
It's like the worse their outcomes are the more certain that they are correct. It's almost a coping mechanism.
They dont have a clue. Just a team and their team is winning so they are winning to. Even if their life goes to shit because of the shit their team does they can just hand wave it away as the other side's fault.
We're literally going to turn into a worse version of Russia aren't we.
Moron in charge of intelligence?
Matched set with the moron in charge of the country….
I agree with McConnell? Yuck.
He only voted "no" because he knew it wouldn't make a difference, and this way he gets to pretend like he's a reasonable person.
From Clickhole :
For the record I also despise the old turtle man.
I never agreed with him, but he's at least an American. Maybe not the same ideals, but it's clear he has some standards.
Always thought John McCain would be the last person I said that about.
Fuck McConnell. He played an enormous role in making this bed that we're all forced to lie in now. No quarter.
No quarter.
unless there is a "hang" and a "draw" in front of it.
he’s at least an American
He's not really. He fell in line, eventually, behind Trump's attempted coup the first time around. He's been undermining the American system for decades. And, in traditional fashion, now that all the walls and pillars he's been systematically knocking out are starting to affect his living room, it's all of a sudden a problem.
I will agree with you that the people who are still voting for Trump's stuff are more stupid. They're still knocking stuff out, and it'll come back around on them pretty quickly. But McConnell certainly doesn't get a pass for any of it. He's not American, he just doesn't want him to be the one getting hauled out in the street by the mob or Trotskyed, and he's still sharp enough to see that on the horizon now.
Welcome, American Oblast!
This makes me sad.
Hold onto your chairs folks. It's going to be kinda bumpy from now on. And not in a good way.
Shouldn't "intelligence" be in quotes for her position?
Ha ha ha this is ridiculous. What complete fools.
Imagine not being excited for the destruction of the US empire.
Imagine pretending that you won't be first in front of the firing squad, "queermunist." If it gets as bad as it can get, you'll never have a chance to celebrate the "destruction of the US empire."
No one is going to be lined up for a firing squad because of Tulsi Gabbard. She's just going to ruin the US intelligence community, which is easily one of the most evil institutions on Earth. This is literally the only good nomination, she's perfect.
I'm more worried about the dipshits running the FDA and HHS into the ground ensuring bird flu becomes pandemic. How long until they make raw milk mandatory in school lunches? 🤮
I didn't say it would be specifically because of Tulsi, what I'm saying is that when a country like this one implodes, people in targeted minority groups end up on the receiving end of violence.
Fucking accelerationists, always pretending they won't suffer when everyone else does. On behalf of my trans son and my gay daughter, fuck them all for celebrating the destruction of the country my kids (currently) live in, kids who will inevitably be on the receiving end of hate.
Naive fucking idiots.
The empire collapsing is not the same as the country collapsing and the empire must be destroyed for future of humanity. The US, as a country, can absolutely survive without being an empire. I'm celebrating the death of a death machine.
We don't have to let our home be destroyed and we should stand up to Trump's regime on domestic issues. I'm hardly an accelerationist. I'm trans! They're gonna fucking kill me and I'm not celebrating that. But I am a revolutionary defeatist. In cases like this, where the empire is being destroyed and dismantled by people like Tulsi Gabbard, we should be happy it's not worse.
Don't confuse the country for the empire. They're not really the same thing.
The empire collapsing is not the same as the country collapsing and the empire must be destroyed for future of humanity. The US, as a country, can absolutely survive without being an empire. I’m celebrating the death of a death machine.
No, you're celebrating the death of a country. If the government of the United States collapses, that literally is the end of the country. It cannot survive that. It'll shatter into at least 50 pieces, and a lot of people will die. It's naivety of the worst sort to pretend that somehow society will march on without a fucking government.
Don’t confuse the country for the empire. They’re not really the same thing.
Fucking accelerationists and their ridiculous view of human nature.
Hate to say it, but I don't think that the downfall of the American hegemony would go well for queer folks, even a fucked up as it is. To a certain extent, global power IS a zero sum game. Especially in the context of Tulsi Gabbard, who seems to be aligned with Russian interests. If American influence wanes, that vacuum will get filled by soft power coming from Russia, China, or some combination thereof. Neither of them are huge fans of the queers.
An unsurprisingly dumb take by a tankie. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Having batshit people heading the American government is going to negatively affect more than just the US.
Accelerationist trash.
The part where I have to live through it sucks pretty hard. I'm also not certain that what will follow will be any better.
Yeah okay this one seems kinda bad
"Intelligence"
What’s with the skunk haircut? This chick is such a clown - listen to her on Bill Maher
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