gabbard
Says the #Trump supporter
Via Scott MacFarlane:
ALERT: Sen. Mitch #McConnell (R-KY)
Director of National Intelligence "wields significant authority over how the intelligence community allocates its resources.. In my assessment, Tulsi #Gabbard failed to demonstrate that she is prepared to assume this tremendous national trust"
FFS
#Gabbard confirmed, per Aaron Rupar.
Via Rupar;
this is what passes for courage among Republicans these days
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️Tulsi #Gabbard’s nomination as national intelligence director advances in key Senate committee vote – live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/04/donald-trump-tariffs-live-blog-news-updates-canada-trudeau-mexico-china?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
😫🤦🏻♀️
“ #Trump ’s allies, including #JDVance, are making calls to shore up support for both #RFKJr. and Tulsi #Gabbard following their confirmation hearings this week”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/trump-allies-rfk-jr-tulsi-gabbard?cid=ios_app
“Exclusive: Tulsi #Gabbard said at her confirmation hearing on Thursday that she did not know that a cleric she met in Syria threatened to unleash suicide bombers in the U.S.
Documents and emails from 2017 indicate she was told then about the threats.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/30/gabbard-hearing-syria-suicide-bombers/
" A few months after #Gabbard’s visit, the Assad regime massacred scores of civilians with chemical weapons... #Trump said: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”
Except from...Tulsi Gabbard. On the day of the Khan Sheikhon attack, Gabbard somehow already knew she was 'skeptical' that the Assad regime was responsible. This reflexive position...contradicted U.S. and French intelligence."
MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearings-director-national-intelligence-rcna187852
#USPolitics
oy gevalt, google Chris Butler. According to the Science of Identity website "Jagad Guru appeared in this world in 1948 as Chris Butler." #Gabbard, god forbid she -- not even a Manchurian Candidate because she doesn't even try to her closeness to #Putin (and #Assad) gets confirmed, and #Hegseth might have some interesting, hilarious religious discussions that might lead, I'm afraid to Hegseth acting upon his warrior ethos.
Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show https://www.byteseu.com/678669/ #DonaldJ #Elections #Gabbard #JosephKeithJr(1944) #Kellogg #PetroOlekseyevich #PoliticsAndGovernment #Poroshenko #Putin #Russia #trump #Tulsi(1981) #Ukraine #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #VladimirV #volodymyr #Zelensky
#RachelMaddow has been releasing these "Public Servant Announcements", providing critical info on #TheOrangeMenace's wildly unqualified, incompetent, and even potentially dangerous picks to fill his #cabinet & lead crucial gov't agencies.
Her latest was T****'s pick to run #Medicare: #DrOz (and I thought #Tulsi was bad.)
I encourage you to watch the prior three clips as well for #Gabbard, #KristiNoem & #MattWhitaker.) #JFC #DisasterPresidency #CabinetOfIncompetents
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-dr-mehmet-oz-five-things-about-trump-s-pick-to-lead-medicare-medicaid-services-227885125965
"Rachel [Maddow] takes a closer look at #Trump's choice for director of national intelligence, former Congresswoman Tulsi #Gabbard, who has a deep history of anti-gay activism and a disturbing amount of support from Russian state media."
Video MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-tulsi-gabbard-six-things-about-trump-s-pick-for-director-of-national-intelligence-227549765688
#USPolitics
Gabbard nomination puts Senate GOP in a bind
Former Hawaii Democratic Rep. #Tulsi #Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence,
is on record calling for the U.S. government to “drop all charges” against #Edward #Snowden,
wanting to repeal key intelligence-gathering tools
and sometimes embracing Russian talking points regarding the wars in Syria and Ukraine.
That’s even before examining Gabbard’s foreign policy views,
which are far outside the mainstream of American political discourse
— and even further away from the center of gravity in the Senate Republican Conference.
It’s presenting a unique challenge for Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
That panel — which is responsible for processing Gabbard’s nomination — is stacked with hawks on both sides of the dais.
Trump’s choice of Gabbard is in keeping with his desire to completely overhaul the federal bureaucracy.
But GOP senators are already indicating they’ll be interested in probing Gabbard’s controversial and often outright hostile posture toward the very intelligence apparatus she’d run if confirmed.
The Snowden praise is particularly troubling to lawmakers,
the vast majority of whom believe the NSA leaker caused irreparable damage to U.S. national security.
Snowden is now a Russian citizen
https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/gabbard-nomination-senate-gop-in-bind/
"Tulsi #Gabbard’s nomination to be the next director of national intelligence may not be making you happy, but it’s certainly making someone happy: Russian President Vladimir #Putin.
"In Russia, the response to the former Hawaii representative’s nomination has been 'gleeful,'"
The New Republic https://www.yahoo.com/news/vladimir-putin-gleeful-over-trump-211951392.html #USPolitics
#Journalists are first, but everyone else is next. #Trump has announced multibillion-dollar #lawsuits against “the enemy camp”: #newspapers and #publishers. His proposed #FBI director is on record as wanting to prosecute certain #journalists. Journalists, publishers, #writers, #academics are always in the first wave. #Doctors, #teachers, #accountants will be next. Authoritarianism is as predictable as a Swiss train. It’s already later than you think. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump #mattgaetz #gabbard
💬 #TimothySnyder "Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the #UnitedStates. How could you do so?
The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence
From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- #Kennedy, Jr.; #Gaetz; #Musk; #Ramaswamy; #Hegseth; #Gabbard -- are perfect instruments. ⏩
Prof. #TimothySnyder
Decapitation Strike
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments
https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike
#US #USA
#trump #musk #ramaswami #rfk #gates #gabbard #fascist #corrupt #nepotist #billionaire #swamp #looter
Gabbard […] claimed, in the early days of the Russian invasion, that “[Biden] wants Russia to invade Ukraine so that they can impose ‘draconian’ sanctions on the country”, while she also seemed to support Putin using his military to deter Ukraine’s NATO membership as a case of Russia pursuing its own national security interests.
The Russian apologist gets her reward: Director of National Intelligence in the Trump Administration.