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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think, she has a very small set of sincerely held beliefs, one of them being that the US should completely disengage from all foreign entanglements.

I think that she tried to seek opportunities to gain influence and power in the Democratic Party to enforce those goals, she was disillusioned and saw no route for her self there, so she pivoted to maga because it looked easier to advance to a position of power within. She was willing to say and do anything to get that position where she could pursue her deeply held belief, and she got there, and found that by the very nature of the easy power, she had completely given up any autonomy to act upon her beliefs.

Now, it’s pretty clear that this is not the beginning of a political movement she can harness, but the death of one that used her, she’s stepping away to not be associated with the worse to come. Maybe she’ll be able to salvage a career of some sort, but really, the best she can hope for is not be noted in history text books as a key player in the clusterfuck coming.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

She’s a buffoon

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Husband has big boobies now... It's going around in D.C.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's the other one

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No, this one as well. Everyone's getting on the "bimbo-ing" bus, all for Mr. trump who loves them.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Big Bobbas Two? Look whose booba now?

[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The rats are jumping ship, the end must be soon.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 14 points 1 day ago

Something has been up with her for a while. She's been unusually quiet, and she showed up at that FBI raid in Atlanta for some reason. Maybe it's been stuff going on with her husband that has kept her out of the spotlight, or maybe that's just the nature of the position as top spook.

Whatever, she's still a traitor and a Russian spy.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They just rotate personnel. Can't build a good case against one person as easily if you have to put it into context of predecessors crimes.

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually there is a substantial amount of RICO case law. You can't walk in and then claim you only broke the law because someone in th org previously did something making it illegal. These people are often the ones that flip and turn state's witness.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

What the mob was doing was keeping all the different parties oblivious of what each other were doing. If you ever hear "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" that is where it comes from. What RICO did was say as a group you all committed a crime. You can't curtail the law by having 10 people do 10 different steps and then say they are all innocent as no one individual did it all.

Those laws got stronger as criminals got smarter. To the point where using an unsuspecting 3rd party could implicate the 3rd party. If I wrote a letter to a hit man and then put that letter in another letter and sent it to you saying "can you please mail this for me but don't open it" you and I and the hitman could all be charged with the killing. They can make the case you should have recognized this was shady and not helped.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In a normal admin, how often do the secretaries change?

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

About every 1.5 Mooches.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fairly often, for lots of reasons.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Did you misspell, treasons?

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Next she'll be moving to Russia for "her husband's health."

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 5 points 1 day ago

Director of shield, apparently.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember reading in 2016 that she was going to be the next Bernie Sanders, the future of progressivism.

What a joke

[–] daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Where did you read this and who wrote that? Just want to make sure to never trust anything they fucking write again lol.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, she had a weird Democrat thing going on, then she slipped into MAGA. Strange trajectory, probably because she was fronting for Russia.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it was 10 years ago. ain't no way anyone would remember the url of that article.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

It was definitely in the zeitgeist. She was the original fetterman but much more easily outed.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Literally what I came here to write. 🤣

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago
[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

can’t have a director of intelligence that opposes our lord and savior’s war now

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Move him away from the window Tulsi, better yet open it and sit next to him you cunt.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why is Reuters reporting that she was forced to resign?

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A Reuters article I read did not say that. It claimed troomp said she “did a great job”.

Mediaite reports Reuters said that: https://www.mediaite.com/media/reuters-reports-wh-forced-gabbard-to-resign-despite-her-citing-husbands-cancer-battle/

As does this

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/reuters-reports-wh-forced-gabbard-194248000.html

But perhaps Reuters changed their tune? Unfortunately I don’t know a way to get around the paywall here, but it seemed to be the same as other articles (Reuter reports that Fox reports…)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/

here's the text of that one...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, saying her ​husband had been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and that she was stepping away from her role to help ‌him. Gabbard advised Trump of her intention to step down during an Oval Office meeting on Friday, Fox News Digital reported earlier. The resignation is effective June 30, it said.

A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House. Davis Ingle, a White House spokesperson, said on X that Gabbard was stepping aside in light ​of her husband's diagnosis. "Tulsi Gabbard is an America First patriot who has served this country faithfully and extremely well over the last 16 months," ​Ingle said. In her resignation letter posted on X, Gabbard told Trump she was "deeply grateful for the trust you placed in ⁠me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half." She cited her husband Abraham Williams' ​recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer. "I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding ​and time-consuming post," she said. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, would serve as acting director of national intelligence. He said Gabbard had done "a great job" but with her husband diagnosed with bone cancer, "she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a ​tough battle together." Trump has hinted in the past at differences with Gabbard on their approach to Iran, saying in March that she was "softer" than him on curbing Tehran's nuclear ​ambitions.

In April, several sources told Reuters that Gabbard could lose her role in a broader cabinet shakeup. A senior White House official said then that Trump had expressed displeasure with Gabbard in ‌recent months. ⁠Another source with direct knowledge of the matter said the president had asked allies for their thoughts on potential replacements for his intelligence chief. 'PUSHED OUT' Signs of the White House displeasure have included Gabbard’s absence from deliberations between Trump and his top national security advisers on the U.S. military operation that deposed former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Iran war and Cuba. "She was pushed out by the White House," a source familiar with Gabbard's departure told Reuters. "The White House has been unhappy with ​her for quite some time." The person ​said among other reasons for the ⁠displeasure with Gabbard were the activities of her taskforce known as the Director’s Initiatives Group. Among other activities, it has worked to declassify documents related to the death of former President John F. Kennedy, investigate the security of election machines, ​and probe the origins of COVID-19. Another source of friction, the person said, was Gabbard’s revocation last August of the ​security clearances of 37 ⁠current and former U.S. officials that exposed the name of an intelligence officer serving undercover overseas. Gabbard led several initiatives aimed at rooting out politicization from the intelligence community and approved the stripping of security clearances from former intelligence officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told ⁠reporters after ​a Friday event in Manassas, Virginia, that Gabbard's job itself had become too politicized. "This position now ​more than ever needs to be an independent, experienced intelligence professional," Warner said. The next leader should understand the "Director of National Intelligence should be focusing on foreign intelligence and not involving himself or herself ​in domestic election incidents," he said.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Well, there's the answer as to why Reuters is reporting that?

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know a way to get around the paywall here, but it seemed to be the same as other articles (Reuter reports that Fox reports…)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/

https://www.removepaywalls.com/

https://www.removepaywalls.com/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

That just links to an archive.today of it. I tried doing it myself on that site before posting that, and it kept trying and didn't work. I checked that site also and they didn't have any other solutions. I guess someone got it to work.

[–] earlstilt@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Too busy selling data to worry about news stories

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

There was rumours she'd be fired about a week ago.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah she doesn't wanna keep testifying under oath. Might get her in legal trouble, all that lying. Her reputation is already destroyed tho.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

So long skunk head. I'm sure you'll be replaced by somebody even less qualified.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Now she can’t make claims about looking into UFOs. Aww shucks.

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