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Gabbard nomination heads to Senate floor

The director of national intelligence nominee cleared a major hurdle, but there are still a handful of GOP senators who could oppose her on the floor.

The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence with a 52-48 vote.
Senator Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to oppose Gabbard's confirmation.
Gabbard faced scrutiny for her foreign policy views and lack of significant experience.
Her confirmation is seen as a win for Trump and reflects his influence over the GOP.

It is Trump’s genius to nominate Cabinet heads who hate the agencies they have been appointed to re-engineer. Tulsi, for instance, was hounded by the deep state, who put her on the dreaded “Quad-S” travel list, which requires invasive (ahem) “enhanced” screenings and a mandatory DEI airport escort.

It means you have to get to the airport five hours before your flight for a painful, unnecessarily intimate, and socially awkward experience. They did it to her over and over. I’m sure she isn’t feeling resentful.

Why did they brand Tulsi with four scarlet S’s? National security, that’s why, so shut up. It’s classified! Need to know! Never mind! Follow the science!

The most explanation anyone has ever gotten is that it was because of Tulsi’s suspicious travel schedule. Yeah, okay. More likely, it’s because Ms. Gabbard knows all about the deep state’s biolabs in Ukraine and has chatted freely about them. Will she declassify the embarrassing biolab files? She’s got a lot of leverage. Maybe she should hold onto that leverage until the exact right moment when the pain would be greatest. ...

Sigh. You’d think Democrats would be happy. Tulsi is not a Republican. She is a former Democrat and now an independent. And she wasn’t just any random Democrat. She was in leadership. In 2016, she resigned as vice chair of the Democrat National Committee — protesting its oleaginous treatment of socialist Bernie Sanders, and she promptly endorsed Bernie for president.

But she is a wrong thinking Democrat, mostly because she is a patriotic veteran.

Yesterday, Bernie, that Rat Fink, unsentimentally voted against Tulsi’s confirmation, despite her support for him last time around. Mitch McConnell also voted against her. But of course he did.

As good as this news was, it was even better news for the pending confirmations of Kash Patel for FBI and Robert Kennedy, Jr. for HHS. If the deep state couldn’t kill Tulsi’s confirmation, then things just got a lot easier for Patel and Kennedy. Let’s go.

Yowza. Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Gabbard Says More Than 100 Intelligence Officers Fired for Chat Messages.” Chat messages! The picture caption explained (scare quotes alert), “Ms. Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said the chats were an ‘egregious violation of trust’ that violated ‘basic rules and standards’ of workplace professionalism.”

Okay, so the funniest part of the Times story wasn’t the firings—it was that they were too chicken to quote a single chat message. Not even a vague summary of the repulsive chatter. Unlike yours truly, who at least described it in general terms yesterday. All the Times would admit is that the messages contained “sexual themes,” including “explicit discussion of gender transition surgery.”

The Times did not even try to defend the chats. There weren’t even any quotes from employment lawyers criticizing the firings and vowing to sue.

The overlooked story here is that our intelligence agencies employ people who even think such things, much less chat about them at work. Good gravy! Where is the shame? It this what LGBT “Pride” means? And Heaven help us if these top-secret-clearance officials are actually doing the things they were describing in their sexy chats.

I’d prefer to believe they were just indulging in hyper-promiscuous leather festival fantasies—rather than reporting on real-life experiences. Because some of that stuff should already be illegal. I mean, think about the poor gerbils. Ick. (Okay, sorry, don’t think about them.)

Anyway, by trying to run cover for the intelligence agencies (ask yourself: why??), the Times only managed to accelerate its own decline. What a terrific way to send all your readers scrambling to social media in search of even a hint of what kind of filth got 100 spooks fired. How bad was it?

One example I can share was published by Rufo yesterday. More leaks. In this particular thread, NSA and CIA officials (names redacted) wallowed in peak pathological narcissism, lovingly fantasizing about having hermaphroditic babies— for pushing trans ideology on children. “An intersex birth would be a great opportunity to raise a kid as non-binary and let them choose later,” the (now-former) spook speculated.

Who cares about the kids’ opinions? Am I right? Kids are just a way to bend the arc of history toward depravity. Don’t get in the way of progress. We have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. Just ask Chuck Schumer.

But I digress. The Times article did include at least one astonishing fact not previously seen elsewhere. On top of reporting that there were over 100 involved spooks —enough to field two full NFL football teams— it reported that fifteen different intelligence agencies were implicated. First of all, I didn’t even know we had that many secret departments. Good grief, as Charlie Brown would have said (but I’m glad the plucky little cartoon hero never lived to see this).

Second, the bright side is they finally found a common interest, to knit them all together in a poly-something. Intercourse between agencies, you might say. By which I mean dialog, of course. Drag your brain out of the gutter.

Right about now, Tulsi Gabbard is probably wondering exactly what she signed up for. Sure, she agreed to clean up the intelligence agencies. But this? Things are worse than we thought. The even more fun part is imagining how this might have played out differently if the Deep State hadn’t targeted Tulsi for daring to criticize its Ukraine Project.

But let's get back to the Topic:

Will Tulsi (or other Trump staffer) spearhead the repeal of the Patriot Act?

Yes - TSA raped and sodomized Tulsi multiple times on the whim of the Biden sock puppet on behalf of the wishes of the deep state.

I hope Tulsi will do it, considering how the "4S" security checks she was subjected to multiple times at airports involved rectal and vaginal body cavity searches. Yes - TSA raped and sodomized Tulsi multiple times on the whim of the Biden sock puppet on behalf of the wishes of the deep state.

Tulsi Gabbard fired Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof as top officials of the National Intelligence Council on Tuesday and moved the council under ODNI control.

The firings followed complaints that these officials politicized intelligence and obstructed the confirmation of essential nominees for Trump administration policies.

Gabbard also established a task force in April to restore transparency and referred three intelligence professionals to DOJ for criminal prosecution over leaks.

A senior official emphasized that the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes and the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials jeopardize national security and must stop, noting that investigations are ongoing into 12 intelligence personnel suspected of leaking information.

These actions aim to hold leakers accountable and prevent politicization, signaling a broader effort to reform intelligence operations under Gabbard’s leadership.