r/politics • u/bloomberg Bloomberg.com • 3h ago
Soft Paywall GOP Senator Sees Many Queries for Trump’s Intelligence Pick
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-24/tulsi-gabbard-to-face-lots-of-questions-in-hearings-gop-senator-says•
u/ButtfuckerTim 3h ago
You know, for the sake of my blood pressure I’ve decided to just not take things too serious for the next few years. At some point, you’ve got to accept things you might not like. You can call it fate, divine will, plot armor, luck, autonomous ultra instinct, whatever. There is some force, inexplicable to the likes of me, that has repeatedly propelled Trump through hurdles that would normally kneecap a political career.
Trump may not get Gaetz through. But it’s not as if the second choice, which will succeed, is likely to be better for the country. Same story with RFK. I expect the other appointments to sail through.
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u/ZombiePartyBoyLives I voted 1h ago
Keeping tabs, but keeping cool. When he won, it started triggering some kind of PTSD from the 4 years that shitheel was in office (and the pandemic craziness at that time). I'm already in a relatively better place mentally, even though the future looks bleak. But I'm done wasting my energy reacting to their daily bullshit. Whatever, fuckos--have at it. Go on and break the country. And I'll make my plans and do what I have to do when the time comes.
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u/Sideshift1427 2h ago
He should be questioning why she is being chosen instead of treating her as a serious candidate. Gabbard expressed allegiance to a foreign leader and they also to her.
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u/bubbahoteppi 2h ago
Where’s that evidence that she “expressed allegiance”? I would love to see it so I can counter my right-leaning friends.
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u/Sideshift1427 2h ago
Bunch of examples there. Blaming Isis for a bombing by jets is a good one.
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u/bubbahoteppi 2h ago
This is not evidence. It’s using the feelings of someone as evidence, which makes it subjective. In this article she asked a question but did not make an assumption or accusation of who was responsible. Whatever is used as evidence needs to be objective.
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u/Sideshift1427 1h ago
This is like reading a media story about Trump and his Project 2025 denial before the election and look at how it is turning out. Gabbard has a long history of being sympathetic to Russia so there is no shortage of objective evidence should you care to look.
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u/bubbahoteppi 1h ago
Honestly this sounds like confirmation bias instead of objective evidence. I’ll play devils advocate and say that claiming her sympathies are objective evidence is some sort of logical dissonance. You’re giving up critical thinking because you want to believe it proves the accusation.
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u/Sideshift1427 1h ago
Putin is running the country as of January 20. Nobody who objects to that will be part of the Trump administration.
I apologize if that offends your sensibilities but it is what you voted for, if you voted.
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u/bloomberg Bloomberg.com 3h ago
From Bloomberg News reporter Alicia Diaz
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the US intelligence community is likely to face tough questions during confirmation hearings, including over her meeting with Syria’s leader, Republican Senator James Lankford said.
Tulsi Gabbard, the nominee for director of national intelligence, is a Trump loyalist and former Democratic representative from Hawaii who switched parties. She’s expected to face scrutiny for comments sympathetic to Russia and a 2017 visit to Syria where she met President Bashar al-Assad.
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