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.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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    18 hours ago

    She is literally a Russian asset, and now she’s going to be our top intel official. We’re fucked.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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      “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.

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    17 hours ago

    ”FIRST THINGS FIRST! ROUND UP ALL OF THE DALMATIONS!!!”, shrieked Gabbard.

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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      19 hours ago

      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.

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        Fuck McConnell. He played an enormous role in making this bed that we’re all forced to lie in now. No quarter.

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          14 hours ago

          No quarter.

          unless there is a “hang” and a “draw” in front of it.

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        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.

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    18 hours ago

    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.