Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as top U.S. intelligence official
Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as top U.S. intelligence official
Gabbard overcame initial skepticism from some Republican senators about her nomination, underscoring Trump's grip on the party.
Summary
The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence in a 52-48 vote, with only Sen. Mitch McConnell breaking GOP ranks to oppose her.
Critics, including Democrats and some Republicans, raised concerns over her past meeting with Syria’s Assad, sympathetic comments on Russia, and prior support for Edward Snowden.
Gabbard reversed her stance on key intelligence policies during her confirmation.
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.
I will always remember him as the guy who filibustered his own bill just because Democrats voted for it. That one act perfectly encapsulates who he is.
She is literally a Russian asset, and now she's going to be our top intel official. We're fucked.
This is truly the "move fast and break things" administration.
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.
Yes.
Russian colony
Russian colon
Don't know if worse is really the right word, but yeah that's very clearly the goal the GOP have been working toward.
Moron in charge of intelligence?
Excuse me, it's "Russian Puppet Moron in charge of intelligence"
They voted her in bc they dont want the Russians leaking all their dark secrets
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.
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!
She looks like a Marvel villain
Looks like. yeah.
Hunger Games reject villain, IMHO
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? 🤮
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 I'm sure the brown people on their way to the newly minted Guantanamo Bay concentration camp are real excited for what the collapse will look like.
Yeah okay this one seems kinda bad
What’s with the skunk haircut? This chick is such a clown - listen to her on Bill Maher
"Intelligence"
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Dog killer.
No you're thinking of the Secretary of Homeland Security. I hope.
On second thought, it's a moot point.
MI5, MI6 *shrug*
Sadly a moot point indeed.