“[Trump] doesn’t like it when people are off message,” a senior official said

Donald Trump reportedly revealed to close aides that he has been considering dissolving the office ran by the Director of National Intelligence, a position currently held by Tulsi Gabbard, alleging that she does not add to his administration.

The idea stemmed from a brief video posted to social media by Gabbard earlier this month, in which the former Hawaii representative rattled off about how “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” adding that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”

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    I hope all his other fanboys in the government are paying attention. First Musk and now Gabbard. This is how fragile their loyalty actually is. You can suck his dick all day, but as soon as you make one wrong move you are no longer on the winning team. It happens with all fascists, there’s no reason it’d be different here.

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      Trump will always throw your ass under the bus at some point, no matter how loyal you’ve been. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a delusional moron.

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      They have to know by now. They all think they’re the special one. The whole MAGA fascist project is built on the principle of “leopards won’t eat my face.*”

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        It’s a mistake to think they’re all comedically stupid. They’re definitely stupid enough that we wouldn’t enjoy their company, but they’re smart enough to know that if they can hang around until DT dies, whoever’s left will become something even more dangerous - and far more malleable.

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        I think the initial motive for her appointment may have been to later eat her face. Turncoat who doesn’t mind taking money from Russia, Iran, even Assad. Of course she’d say Iran wasn’t building a nuke (peaceful 60% enriched uranium, y’know).

        They specifically placed the most useless person as head of intelligence to paralyze entire agency and then dismiss it.

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      The thing you just understand about American politics is that extremely few pay attention beyond the headlines and most who do are labeled as tankies