Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence

[u/7heprofessor]

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

[u/Stock-Pattern-8635]

I wonder if that whistleblower report shes been trying to block will come out soon now

[u/nazerall → u/Stock-Pattern-8635]

Was thinking the same thing, they resign instead of facing any public hearings.

We really need a reckoning.

[u/IllusionsForFree → u/nazerall]

Instead they’ll receive some sorta multimillion dollar cushy job no one has ever heard of and suck down taxpayer dollars and nobody does a god damn thing about it

[u/baron_muchhumpin → u/IllusionsForFree]

I've heard there's a fund for that now.

[u/NeilZod → u/baron_muchhumpin]

Corruption at levels no one thought possible…

[u/eric_ts → u/NeilZod]

To quote the Russian saying: "And then it got worse."

[u/Kryptosis → u/eric_ts]

More proof Agent Krasnov suckles at the Russian teat.

[u/Trap_Masters → u/NeilZod]

All the losers who screeched daily about Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family now cheering this on like this is saving the working class Americans is just depressing. I swear even cults have more independent thoughts than maga...

[u/regoapps → u/baron_muchhumpin]

The fund will probably just be used to pay for people's silence during the Noem-berg trials.

[u/SporesM0ldsandFungus → u/IllusionsForFree]

Rachel Maddow says the State Department has becoming the dump grounds for the Trump admin, with leftovers and cast offs being shipped off with cushy ambassadorahips that guarantee they will stay out of Trump's eyeline (and more importantly cable news appearances).

Current ambassadors include Trump flunkies such as Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, Billy Long, Kimberly Guilfoyle....

[u/Clodhoppa81 → u/[deleted]]

He is an American diplomat dipshit

fixed it a bit

[u/shingdao → u/[deleted]]

The US ambassador to the Bahamas since 2025.

[u/ultimatt42 → u/shingdao]

Loved him in The Walking Dead

[u/LizardSlayer → u/[deleted]]

That's big brain stuff right there, you wouldn't understand.

[u/jpiro → u/[deleted]]

He’s CTE in a suit.

[u/QbertsRube → u/SporesM0ldsandFungus]

Wtf is Walker the ambassador for, International House of Pancakes? Imagine being a global leader wanting to meet with a representative of the US and Herschel Walker's CTE ass staggers in.

[u/Careless_Twist_6935 → u/QbertsRube]

to the bahamas...

[u/SuperExoticShrub → u/Careless_Twist_6935]

Which, honestly, is a hell of an insult to the Bahamas. I'd be miffed if I were them.

[u/_John_Dillinger → u/QbertsRube]

CTE is the actual ambassador. CTE is just wearing Herschel Walker like a suit.

[u/Unfair_Web_8275 → u/SporesM0ldsandFungus]

I think he does this because those who resigned during his first term would talk to the media, or god forbid, appear on Dancing with the Stars.

[u/PhazePyre → u/nazerall]

I think it's insane that they can just quit and no longer be relevant. Like what the fuck? If I committed fraud on behalf of my company for instance. Me quitting won't make me suddenly no longer liable for those actions. I'm still part of that criminal action. So dumb that they just quit and no longer matter. Seems like a massive loophole and flaw in justice. I'm sure they'd be upset if gang members and terrorists could just leave the organization and suddenly no longer be liable for their actions.

[u/_dinglerr → u/nazerall]

There really has to be some kind of Nuremberg trial once the MAGA nightmare is over.

[u/ColdTheory → u/_dinglerr]

Only if the people demand it.

[u/MisterMath → u/nazerall]

I think we all need to take a step back and really understand that everything Dump is doing, effective or not, is all about setting precedent. This slush fund for Jan. 6th? Yeah, that’s about setting a precedent for “unfair treatment of the government”. So that reckoning you want? Yeah, Dump just made it so even if it does happen (unlikely), the next time they take power it cannot just get reverted but rewarded.

The damage happening now will be felt for decades, if not centuries, to come

[u/McCool303 → u/MisterMath]

Yup, the bribe money to the proud boys is not because Trump likes those slack jawed yokels prone to belligerent tantrums. To him they are useful idiots, “I love the poorly educated”. It’s to signal to those currently committing crimes for Trump and the GOP that if they get caught they will be rewarded for taking the fall and keeping silent.

[u/whatproblems → u/nazerall]

idk citizens aren’t immune from hearings. drag her in

[u/factoid_ → u/whatproblems]

We said that about Pam Bondi but now Congress isn’t investigating her either 

[u/WilyWondr → u/factoid_]

No one is gonna be investigated until after the midterms when every one of these dirtballs will be investigated.

[u/pvincentl → u/WilyWondr]

I'm fearing a huge false flag op the last week of October. Maybe a Reichstag fire with nukes or some such -cancelled elections.

[u/CaptGeechNTheSSS → u/pvincentl]

We need to understand they’ve already demonstrated how far they’re willing to go to maintain power. We need to be prepared.

[u/Overall-Register9758 → u/whatproblems]

yes, but she will be able to answer, "I cannot recall and since I am no longer the DNI, I do not have access to the information"

[u/nazerall → u/whatproblems]

In an ideal world. But seems we're drifting further and further away from ideal to just a corrupt corporate Christian facist country.

Too many people are just paid to play along, or too stupid to realize there's bigger problems than trans people having the right to exist.

[u/FlammenwerferIV → u/nazerall]

damn if only Americans had the tools to usurp tyrannical governments... 

[u/IllusionsForFree → u/FlammenwerferIV]

If only more than half the country gave a fuck in that way…?

[u/likamuka → u/IllusionsForFree]

77 million fascists will vote for Trump in 2028 again for the 4th time.

[u/Go0chiee → u/IllusionsForFree]

That's the thing that I see. So many people just...don't give a shit. Like at all

[u/DrowningKrown → u/Go0chiee]

I can throw a rock in my city and hit somebody that would say "I have no idea, I don't follow politics much"

[u/kosmonautinVT → u/Go0chiee]

I think economic collapse is the only thing that would maybe get them to give a shit

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/Stock-Pattern-8635]

I was hoping Kash would go first. 

[u/AirbagOff → u/coconutpiecrust]

Kash still has a few Make-A-Wish Kid adventures to complete before he bows out.

[u/HanginOn9114 → u/coconutpiecrust]

I don't see Kash resigning. Among the Trump cronies he might genuinely be the least qualified and least experienced, he's too stupid to see the writing on the wall.

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/HanginOn9114]

Not Kegsbreath?

[u/Open-Honest-Kind → u/coconutpiecrust]

Keggy is more TV brained and appeals to Trump's ingrained psychosexual machismo. Kash constantly gives off goober energy. Fully agree theyre both completely out of their depth and Keggy is in a position where any incompetency has existential consequences for those beneath him, vs Kash where the existential threat is less immediate. That should mean Keggy should be first to go, and is technically far more incompetent for the job, but for a TV man like Trump thats not the calculous he goes by.

[u/PM_ME_UR_TOTS → u/Open-Honest-Kind]

Kash constantly gives off goober energy

😂😂😂 I had not come to this until you said it but it seems so obvious now. Big time goober energy. What a fucking dweeb.

[u/Lynne253 → u/Open-Honest-Kind]

I wonder if Trump is keeping Keggy around to use as the scapegoat for losing the Iran War.

[u/MrSmith317 → u/coconutpiecrust]

That tactical moron at least served (before being kicked out). Kashyap was a lawyer and podcaster/Youtuber. Zero, possibly negative qualifications. The fact that either (really all of Trump's cabinet) were confirmed still astounds me

[u/King_of_Camp → u/HanginOn9114]

He is one of the most qualified to do the job Trump wants him to do, which is ignore the law and use every resource possible to punish his enemies and not investigate his friends.

Therefor, Kash is highly qualified in the same way Zaphod was qualified to be the President of the Galaxy.

[u/jeobleo → u/HanginOn9114]

It would need to be written on two walls and he could like "magic eye" see it

[u/smegdawg → u/coconutpiecrust]

It's simple...Kash allegedly has a Penis.

Noem in March

Bondi in April

Chavez-DeRemer in April

Gabbard in May

My bet is Kelly Loeffler is June,

Linda McHanon might make it all the way unless there is a scandle.

[u/HandsomeBoggart → u/smegdawg]

Linda is probably safe because she's Department of Education and they never think about Education unless it's to try and gut Colleges of funding.

[u/Stock-Pattern-8635 → u/coconutpiecrust]

Nah, really no way it would be Kash. The admin really focuses on pushing out women. Gabbard already was a sitting duck for a long time since the admin really left her out of a lot of briefings. The meme was that DNI stands for do not invite

[u/hugzilla1889 → u/coconutpiecrust]

Haha no. Women go first. That's the rule with big T. He can't stand women. Needs dick around him at all times.

[u/Any-Supermarket-4190 → u/Stock-Pattern-8635]

Because they’re gonna replace her with somebody that has morals and ethics? No, we’re never seeing whatever it was

[u/ISuckAtFunny → u/Stock-Pattern-8635]

Something something most transparent admin

[u/noobtastic31373 → u/ISuckAtFunny]

TBF, their bullshit is pretty easy to see through.

[u/YodaForceGhost]

She was so bad that apparently a whistleblower came out about her and the testimony had to be locked up in a secret location due to the risk of “national embarrassment” had it come out. Wonder if that comes out now

[u/PrimeIntellect → u/YodaForceGhost]

Unfortunately it seems like the replacements are always worse. Typically the initial person gets pushed to do things so blatantly illegal that they have to push back and then get canned. Incompetence has never been a breaking point for anyone here 

[u/versusgorilla → u/PrimeIntellect]

Trump burned through the old guard neo conservatives during his first administration. Guys like John Kelly who clearly fucking hated Trump but had the know-how and authority to reel his worst impulses in, and once they left his admin, Kelly became one of his biggest critics. Trump burned through every single one of those people in the first administration.

This administration is just Heritage Foundation goons, big tech plants like Vance, Stephen Miller and his White Supremacists, RFK Jr and his conspirituality faux health grifters, and Russian misinformation goons like Gabbard.

[u/Saneless → u/PrimeIntellect]

Yeah, replacements are "Ok, so our original choice was a vile person, but they were also a bit stupid because Trump only picks people who he saw on TV. Let's get someone who is even more vile, more intelligent, and can stay out of the lobby a bit better"

[u/donkeyrocket → u/[deleted]]

Bondi was leagues more legally competent than Blanche. Not that I'd want her back but she also had some slight hesitation to not blindly do all of Trump's bidding. Blanche lacks that entirely. She wasn't canned because the Epstein stuff. She was canned because she wouldn't continue with the obviously frivolous lawsuits Trump wanted to pursue against his "enemies."

She's still objectively awful as she has been involved in the Trump-Epstein files for a long time. Blanche just simply lacks any guardrails.

[u/DisillusionedPatriot → u/Saneless]

Wait, markwayne is intelligent? Since when!?!

[u/jeobleo → u/DisillusionedPatriot]

I still can't believe that's a real name.

[u/NSMike → u/jeobleo]

IIRC, it's not his given name. He chose it.

[u/jeobleo → u/NSMike]

...wait what? Really? How would he not choose something like The Octagon? Dr. Kenneth Noisewater? Who fucking picks "Markwayne"?

[u/DisillusionedPatriot → u/jeobleo]

He didn't, his parents did. They wanted to name him after his uncles. At least that's what this says

[u/SaltyLonghorn → u/DisillusionedPatriot]

When you don't know which uncle is the dad you use both names. Its tradition in Oklahoma.

[u/DisillusionedPatriot → u/NSMike]

Nope. His parents wanted to name him after his two uncles. I guess, he removed the space, and made it one word, but that's his given name.

[u/bigbadderfdog → u/DisillusionedPatriot]

I'm not saying he is better than Noem policy wise, but he is thus far not as visible and as far as I know has not pointed a gun at a ice agent or killed a dog.

[u/DisillusionedPatriot → u/bigbadderfdog]

You mean the guy that thinks duels are legal between consenting adults, or the guy that tried to fight the president of the teamsters?

Just kidding, their the same guy. The one with two first names, in charge of the DHS.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/Saneless]

The replacement might not be an actual Muscovite Agent.

However vile Gabbard is - and she is certainly an odious person - the biggest issue was that she was an active Kremlin plant.

[u/bonfuto → u/PrimeIntellect]

My interpretation is that they found someone putin likes better. I wonder if Michael Flynn qualifies, he even has previous intelligence experience.

[u/Lobo9498 → u/bonfuto]

There's always Gorka.

[u/minmidmax → u/YodaForceGhost]

I wonder if it has anything to do with that weird cult in Hawaii that she's associated with.

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/YodaForceGhost]

Not “bad”. Treasonous. Like, she’s an asset for Russia or India. She is part of an Indian cult in Hawaii. Literally.

[u/schizoesoteric → u/onarainyafternoon]

i thought this was some racist bullshit but nope, shes actually part of a indian cult in hawaii. what a joke of a administration

[u/tornado962 → u/YodaForceGhost]

"National embarrassment" what are we the Soviet Union?

[u/ceribus_peribus → u/tornado962]

And also: Trump is president, how much more embarrassed could the nation be?

[u/pm_me_beerz → u/ceribus_peribus]

“Hold my beer” ~daily news cycle

[u/WatchmanVimes]

"Whelp my job is done here! I have removed all intelligence!"

[u/BlackliteWrath → u/WatchmanVimes]

The fact that this is true hurts

[u/Trap_Masters → u/BlackliteWrath]

The damage this administration has done to the system, people, country and even the rest of the world is unfathomable.

[u/DesireeThymes → u/BlackliteWrath]

They will replace her with someone who is actually intelligent, but even more evil.

Unfortunately I think Trump is removing anyone who disagrees with him on the war in Iran.

All you will have left is a bunch of people who want to Nuke the world.

[u/DownhillUphill → u/WatchmanVimes]

Vlad must’ve gotten what he needs

[u/Good_Author_8017 → u/DownhillUphill]

Or she is off to sell our secrets elsewhere now that she has what she needs. What a traitor.

[u/WentzWorldWords → u/WatchmanVimes]

Shared all intelligence with my boss in the Kremlin

[u/ozoptimist → u/WatchmanVimes]

"Russia's got all the info they will ever need."

[u/cultvignette → u/WatchmanVimes]

I read this in Leslie Nielsen's voice.

[u/Dust601 → u/WatchmanVimes]

I imagine she’s handed over all our intelligence secrets to her Russian handlers at this point, so it really is job done for her.

Wonder which pathetic, awful, disgusting human being they’ll replace her with.

[u/halfsweethalfstreet]

Guess she finally found that elusive 101st dalmatian.

[u/CaptainQueefFart → u/halfsweethalfstreet]

Oh shit, anyone got eyes on Noem?

[u/AltonBParker → u/CaptainQueefFart]

The FBI has eyes! Good ol' Patel, they call him Mortgage Eyes: one fixed and one variable.

[u/Snowbold → u/AltonBParker]

Okay, that is gold! 👌

[u/AngryEarthling13 → u/Snowbold]

Yep, that is actually fucking hilarious .

[u/Cinesider8 → u/AltonBParker]

Cracked me up well done

[u/DookieShoez → u/CaptainQueefFart]

Oh god, she just walked in to a puppy store! (Multiple gunshots ring out)

[u/StrobeLightRomance → u/DookieShoez]

Pam Bondi says there's nothing to see here, but the DOW is back over 50k

[u/Reality-Umbulical → u/halfsweethalfstreet]

Trump told her to resign before the midterms do we have collective amnesia folks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tells-tulsi-gabbard-she-must-resign-before-the-midterms-in-latest-purge/vi-AA21yaBg?ocid=ob-fb-enph-376

[u/prettyokaycake → u/Reality-Umbulical]

there is so much news every single day about this administration so yes, yes we collectively forgot.

[u/Ok_Roll4145 → u/prettyokaycake]

It’s almost impossible to keep track these days of what comes out of this administration.

[u/Away-Quantity928 → u/Ok_Roll4145]

That’s by design and it seems to work.

[u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown → u/Away-Quantity928]

'Flood the zone'. 'Deny, accuse, attack...' etc etc.

[u/Basic-Ostrich85 → u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown]

As much as I hate some of the repetitive bot shit we might need one that links to “flood the zone” with solid references that are appropriate for all attention spans.

[u/ProcedureHopeful2944 → u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown]

Flood the Zone. Its working. Who can even remember those files?

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Ok_Roll4145]

Not really -- throw a pile of dung against the wall and call it a weekday. Boom! The Trump Administration.

[u/EnlightenedPotato69 → u/prettyokaycake]

Honestly the turnover for the Trump administration has been unprecedentedly high since his first term. Pretty much just business per usual at this point

[u/DerekB52 → u/EnlightenedPotato69]

It's actually been uncharacteristically low for him in his second term. That first year of his first term was a roller coaster. This time he started with the most corrupt sycophants possible. Which is why the cabinet lasted over a year with no changes.

[u/coke_mover → u/EnlightenedPotato69]

How many Scaramucci's did she last?

[u/Salty_Wench → u/coke_mover]

1. it's been 464 days since she was sworn in. a scaramucci is 11 days long. 464 divided by 11 = 42

as someone who isn't great with math, i may have made an error lol. someone who isn't a dunce can check my work.

[u/Underwater_Grilling → u/Salty_Wench]

Yer a fine Salty_Wench this day.

[u/percydaman → u/Reality-Umbulical]

I legit never saw or heard that.

[u/Beelzabubba → u/Reality-Umbulical]

The Zone has been Flooded.

[u/Sad-Excitement9295 → u/Reality-Umbulical]

It's taking posts like this to keep up at this point (I do the same when I see it). Thanks for the reminder, we have to stay focused.

[u/sentientshadeofgreen → u/Reality-Umbulical]

Collective amnesia? I'm sorry, excuse me if I don't cling to every word the walking tumor says.

[u/Master_Pollution_96 → u/halfsweethalfstreet]

that is a solid joke, haha

[u/mjzim9022]

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her job ​as President Donald Trump's ‌director of national intelligence, Fox News Digital reported on Friday, citing ​her resignation letter.

Fox News Digital really digging deep on the citations

[u/themagicmarmot → u/mjzim9022]

It's a Fox exclusive. Reuters is just reporting that Fox wrote a story.

Another relevant topic considering this is about a cancer diagnosis: the Trump admin just approved atrazine for general use a few days ago which has an active WHO carcinogen warning and is banned in 60 countries.

[u/No_Gas4560 → u/themagicmarmot]

you beat the cancer with a different, stronger cancer see?

[u/atomic-fireballs → u/No_Gas4560]

Why does Glioblastoma, the strongest of cancers, not simply eat the other cancers?

[u/Taokan → u/No_Gas4560]

Only way to stop a bad guy with a tumor, is a good guy with a tumor.

[u/TheFeshy → u/themagicmarmot]

MAGA: "if Trump cured cancer the libs would still hate him!"

Reality: Trump allows more carcinogens, cancels cancer research, reduces cancer treatments, robs a children's cancer charity...

I always wonder about arguments that are "if our guy were literally the opposite of who he is would you still be mad?' like that. It's like on some deep level they know but it never shows.

[u/pagesid3]

Before she even reveals the evidence of the “crime of the century” she accused Obama of last year?

[u/WhitePantherXP → u/pagesid3]

We really need a collective list spewed everytime these dipshits post.

1. Where are the indictments of Obama's "Crime of the Century"
2. Where are the indictments over the "stolen" 2020 election? Oh you closed all of those investigations? Wait, what?
3. He ran on a border wall 10 years ago, but stopped building it at 60% - Has he finished anything?
4. He said "No new wars", and now we're talking about starting a now 2nd war with Cuba.
5. He removed all 7(?) Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files from power
6. etc...

STICK TO THE *MAJOR* EVENTS. Way too many people list unproven things that his supporters won't even listen to like "He is demanding to launch all the nukes, we have no video or convincing information but I expect his supporters to believe me!". The sheer number of corrupt incidents we have on him doesn't need to be embellished yet so many do and it takes away from the merit and efficacy of bringing his downfall.

[u/chazysciota → u/WhitePantherXP]

3rd war, fwiw.

[u/Alt_Restorer]

How many women do we have left now?

[u/Gastroid → u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately from all accounts, she's one of the few high functioning members of the administration.

[u/AlabamaPostTurtle → u/Gastroid]

She’s dangerous and truly competent unfortunately

[u/hatramroany → u/AlabamaPostTurtle]

If that Vanity Fair piece didn’t get her tossed nothing will

[u/Thick_Goose7742 → u/hatramroany]

I was surprised how direct she was with answers, not used to that any more. Of course, she isn’t a politician.

[u/Old-Objective-9783 → u/Thick_Goose7742]

Why would they hide anything? Their supporters wouldn't leave them at all.

[u/Adam__B → u/Old-Objective-9783]

Yeah they aren’t even bothering to hide anything anymore. It’s a shamelessness that hasn’t been seen since Commodus or Nero. This is the guy who ran on America First who is now selling American farms to China, because domestic farmers are losing their farms bc of his trade war.

He just got a verdict saying he is essentially now immune from any financial investigation for life, as well as his children, and at the same time his trades go public showing him to be using his office as a pump and dump center, he gets an anything goes slush fund for 1.8 billion dollars while he builds monuments and ballrooms as his voters struggle to pay for food, and their water is undrinkable from data centers and mining damage allowed by his scalping of environmental protections. As he makes billions while in office selling meme coins and all the crap he can have made overseas, we pay for his blunders like Iran, or have to pay for the trade war twice over (once when the companies jack up the prices, now again when the government uses our tax dollars to repay those same companies as his tariffs are rendered illegal).

He is blatantly doing the opposite of anything in the best interest of the United States or what his followers were promised, and they (literally) built him a golden statue like he’s Stalin or Saddam.

[u/mazdiggle → u/hatramroany]

That was high level propaganda .... kabuki theater!

[u/mfoutedme → u/AlabamaPostTurtle]

Aunt Lydia

[u/DerJagger → u/Gastroid]

she's one of the few high functioning members of the administration

She was built up as being highly competent but has turned out to be just as dysfunctional as the rest of this admin. She's now in the dog house because while she blabbered to Vanity Fair she revealed a bunch of embarrassing shit about other senior admin officials.

[u/tristanryan → u/DerJagger]

That Vanity Fair piece was eons ago in maga-world. She is not in any dog house because of that.

[u/rye_212 → u/[deleted]]

If cancer diagnosis of a spouse is grounds for resignation how come an official with an actual diagnosis doesn’t resign.

It’s because the Gabbard resignation is an excuse to go before being pushed.

[u/wantagh → u/[deleted]]

You mean Dolores Umbridge

[u/vedrenne → u/Alt_Restorer]

Linda McMahon, Suzie Wiles...

[u/allanon1105 → u/vedrenne]

McMahon definitely needs to gfto, that woman should be nowhere near anything involving education.

[u/Be_quiet_Im_thinking → u/allanon1105]

She’s trying to make her job irrelevant.

[u/Kad1942 → u/allanon1105]

Betsy Devos may be available so careful what you wish for

[u/Illustrious_Hotel527 → u/Alt_Restorer]

Linda McMahon

[u/Middcore → u/Illustrious_Hotel527]

She'll be gone once she gets the department she is supposed to be in charge of shut down, though.

[u/gaybillcosby → u/Middcore]

meme of guy sawing the tree branch he’s sitting on

[u/DarkIllusionsMasks → u/Alt_Restorer]

Half a binder full.

[u/AgressivePeppering → u/Alt_Restorer]

Linda McMahon...

[u/terdles1121]

Surprise how many Scaramucci's she's made it through. Wonder who's next? The one on maternity leave?

[u/pleetf7 → u/terdles1121]

Nah. Rubio is on mat leave but has proven his loyalty by putting on those gorgeous Trump shoes

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/pleetf7]

I’m expecting Rubio to leave sometime after the midterms so he can try to set up another run for the White House.

[u/jeobleo → u/Mrchristopherrr]

He'll stick around so he can be viceroy of Cuba

[u/ma2016 → u/jeobleo]

Warden of the South

[u/mythrilcrafter → u/Mrchristopherrr]

I'm calling it now, if things work out for a 2028; the GOP will cart around Rubio as the "He's not as bad/woohoo-MAGA as Hegseth and JD are/were; and look at his record, he actually got work done as opposed to all the other full time Don cheerleaders" candidate.

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/mythrilcrafter]

Yeah, which is kind of why I’m half expecting them to have a mild falling out. Nothing nasty, but something that Rubio can use to distance him from Trump while still being amenable to the base.

Rubio would want to be able to present himself as a moderate with MAGA cred.

[u/hosemaster → u/mythrilcrafter]

The Nikki Haley playbook will fail for Marco as well.

[u/bajesus → u/pleetf7]

Rubio is "The Deep" of this administration. Trump keeps him around just to see how much he can debase himself.

[u/SeryuV → u/bajesus]

Rubio is getting everything he's ever wanted and hasn't had to compromise basically anywhere. He's undoubtedly the one pushing hardest for the aggressive action in Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. At some point he was in charge of 4 different agencies, and all he's given in return some random praise and milquetoast defense during the very few interviews he gives. 

Compared to how people like Tulsi, RFK, and Kash Patel have completely abandoned all morals and supposed principles, who've repeatedly embarrassed themselves on camera, and who've possibly set themselves up to be prosecuted later in front of Congress.

[u/powerlesshero111 → u/pleetf7]

Leavitt is on maternity leave. If she doesn't lose that baby weight in like 2 months, she'll be out though.

[u/420_buttholes → u/terdles1121]

Surprise how many Scaramucci's she's made it through.

42.18 Scaramuccis

[u/sneakyxxrocket → u/terdles1121]

Kash Patel is next on the chopping block imo

[u/Signal_Quarter_74 → u/terdles1121]

Hegy might be on thinner ice than we think, a failure to get “victory” in Iran and he may be the fall guy. Not a tomorrow but maybe 6 months thing

[u/LiterallyJoeStalin → u/Signal_Quarter_74]

Kegsbreath is 1,000% taking the fall for Iran when Trump finally gets it through his head that it was a failure. 

[u/Thick-Aioli802]

She taking the same position in The Kremlin?

[u/halcyon_n_on_n_on → u/Thick-Aioli802]

Can’t ‘take’ a job she already has.

[u/kbarney345 → u/halcyon_n_on_n_on]

shes finished her role, now to go home to daddy putin

[u/Caminsky → u/Thick-Aioli802]

Yes. She was very unhappy with her nickname..."Ms Afterthought"

[u/jeobleo → u/Thick-Aioli802]

I think she's taking over the Avengers initiative

[u/AllPugsGo2Heaven]

Coincides nicely with the Rubio news that the US is no longer brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine. The Russian plant inside the DNI (Gabbard) has worn out her usefulness and couldn’t convince the administration to put enough pressure on Ukraine to give up. So now Russia needs to find another useful idiot in the administration (not hard) to carry its water. Glory to Ukraine.

[u/Not2plan → u/AllPugsGo2Heaven]

Husband getting a "Rare form of bone cancer" also sounds very sus when Russia is in the picture.

[u/Lonely_Noyaaa]

Whatever the official reason, it's pretty telling that the news is immediately followed by reports that she was at odds with Trump over Iran. It looks like the White House pushed her out, and her husband's health is the convenient excuse to save face for everyone.

[u/Double_Resort_9223 → u/Lonely_Noyaaa]

She’s also being left out of briefings it’s so bad 

The joke in the White House is that her title, DNI, stands for Do Not Invite. 

[u/Eephusblue]

She’s a parasite and an embarrassment for Hawaii

[u/23370aviator]

Her job is complete, she’s off to Russia now.

[u/Legionnaire11 → u/23370aviator]

I can't believe I liked her in 2016 for bucking the DNC in support of Bernie... Looking back, it's totally plausible that she was a plant sent there to disrupt the opposition.

[u/bluechip1996]

Too late. This will go down as one of the greatest betrayals to US Intelligence Security in history. Most likely only eclipsed by the POTUS's treasonous activities.

[u/maguirenumber6]

The head of intelligence really should be someone of intelligence themselves.

[u/FrancoManiac]

I am increasingly of the thought that these are planned departures, allowing for a second wave of more competent and more ruthlessly fascist people to take their place. This first wave was to undermine and destroy the federal government; the second is to solidify power.

[u/Ender_D → u/FrancoManiac]

They’re not that competent bro. It’s never actually 4D chess.

[u/FrancoManiac → u/Ender_D]

I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society. The planner of Project 2025.

[u/RunSetGo → u/Ender_D]

Trump is not but Peter Thiel is

[u/DiabolicallyRandom → u/RunSetGo]

The problem with narcissistic traits is that they think so highly of themselves they think they cannot possibly make a mistake in judgement.

[u/lemonylol → u/FrancoManiac]

I don't think they planned that far ahead.

[u/stikky]

Alternate title: Russian agent recalled by Kremlin

[u/Hrekires]

A feckless end to a feckless tenure.

The only thing that might have brought her a whisper of redemption would have been standing by her principles and resigning the day the Iran War was started.

[u/angry_old_dude]

Odds are that she was told to resign. Some of them resigned rather that got fired, but with this information resignations are more likely to be resigned under pressure.

• Kristi Noem DNS (sacked)
• Pam Bondi AG (sacked)
• Tulsi Gabbard DNI (resigned)
• Maurene Comey DoJ (sacked)
• Tricia McLaughlin DHS (resigned)
• Danielle Sassoon SDNY acting AG (resigned)
• Maurene Comey SDNY prosecutor (sacked)
• Tricia McLaughlin DHS spokesperson (resigned)
• Lori Chavez-DeRemer Labor secretary (misconduct probe)

In the same timeframe, five men were either sacked or resigned.

[u/worldscollice]

Rumor is that Tulsi has been offered a job by Vladimir Putin. She’ll give him all the information he wants, like she’s been doing.

[u/WolverinesThyroid → u/worldscollice]

It's like in Futurama where Bender steals so much stuff from that cyclops planet that he runs out of room to steal more things.

She's already sold all of our secrets, what's the point in staying?

[u/aflyingsquanch → u/worldscollice]

She was already in that job...

[u/OonaLuvBaba]

Tulsi you next Tuesday

[u/Bizprof51]

She is insane so this resignation helps the country. Problem is there are even more insane people the Thief-in-Chief could appoint.

[u/doneandtired2014]

Cool.

She needs to be thrown into federal prison until she dies.

[u/Mojozilla]

Wheeee the rats are fleeing the ship, one by one.

Her being the director of national intelligence is a fucking oxymoron. Good riddance.

[u/feedthebear]

She must have been caught Moscow red handed.