Gabbard Confirmed As DNS

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Gabbard overcame initial skepticism from some Republican senators about her nomination, underscoring Trump's grip on the party.

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"There is something wrong with Gabbard. The pull of conspiracism"particularly anti-American conspiracism"seems to be her overriding mental frame."
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Republican Cultist Senators worship Trump and fear Herr Musk... who now knows everything about them.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-12 12:28 PM | Reply

Once Sec Hegseth was confirmed, I came to the opinion that the GOP Senators are afraid to disagree with the apparent Musk/Trump co-Presidency.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-12 12:36 PM | Reply

Gabbard seemed like the only reasonable choice once I heard Putin was unavailable to take the role.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-12 12:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 6

Didn't Tulsi intern for Lavrov?

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-12 12:44 PM | Reply

Making predictions of doom is easy given this sort of sh--

Wars and mass terror attacks. Starting as early as tomorrow, if Donald is to be trusted.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 12:50 PM | Reply

Is Tulsi headed to Moscow so she can spend Valentine's Day with Assad?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-12 01:05 PM | Reply

"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within."

Nikita Khrushchev

#7 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 01:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Making predictions of doom is easy given this sort of sh--

Wars and mass terror attacks. Starting as early as tomorrow, if Donald is to be trusted.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 12:50 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Thank you Zed but that's what the last administration created that this administration is cleaning up.

#8 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-12 01:21 PM | Reply

Tulski is a Hare Krishna cult member, owned by Putin.

Thanks MAGA! We can't get enough of cultists owned by Putin.

#9 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 01:21 PM | Reply

This may be the very worst appointment of all. If they didn't already have to info, she will pass all of our nations sensitive intel to the Russians.

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-02-12 01:22 PM | Reply

That should end the US for good, or at least until next weeks outrage.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-12 01:24 PM | Reply

If they didn't already have to info, she will pass all of our nations sensitive intel to the Russians.
#10 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

I am sure of it!

And we don't even need proof any more, we can just claim it to be true. Because who cares about the truth when we have literally NAZIs in office.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-12 01:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Thanks MAGA! We can't get enough of cultists owned by Putin.
#9 | POSTED BY CHUFFY

Exactly! Russia Russia Russia! ---- Trump!

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-12 01:26 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Oh yes, Russia, Russia, Russia. Let me guess, Putin has a pee tape of her? She wants to build a hotel in Moscow? Which is it.
I love this sight because with people like Corky, JED and Chuffy it saves me from having to watch the View.

#14 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-12 01:30 PM | Reply

"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within."

Nikita Khrushchev

#7 | POSTED BY CHUFFY A

Chuffy's hitting on all cyclinders.

Trump wants us to bow to him, but we want him in jail!, which side are you on MAGAts?

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-12 01:30 PM | Reply

We are the laughingstock of the world, and Putin will drink a huge amount of champagne tonight, as his sleeper agents are all installed in the White House.

GOP Senators, how much have you been paid or threatened to vote for this outrageously unqualified Cabinet?

#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-12 01:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Enjoy the famine and disease, you MAGA idiots. Good luck with President Musk and his demented orange sidekick.

#17 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 01:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#15 Chuffy still believes that Adam Schiff has the evidence of collusion and that Elizabeth Warren is 100% Cherokee.

#18 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-12 01:32 PM | Reply

GOP Senators, how much have you been paid or threatened to vote for this outrageously unqualified Cabinet?

#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-12 01:31 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Unqualified because she didn't steal luggage at the airport?

#19 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-12 01:34 PM | Reply

It's understood that you don't have a clue, FISHPAW, you don't need to troll for an explanation from us. You watch The View? That explains a lot.

#20 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 01:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Thank you Zed but that's what the last administration created that this administration is cleaning up."

Which Fox News host said that? Doesn't matter really it still requires a complete idiot to repeat it!

#21 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-12 01:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#18 FISHPAW still believes that FDT is going to lower egg prices and make America great again, LOL

#22 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 01:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Thank you Zed but that's what the last administration created that this administration is cleaning up."

Which Fox News host said that? Doesn't matter really it still requires a complete idiot to repeat it!

#21 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-12 01:41 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Which host in outer space are you watching moonbat? Since you don't seem to know it there is a war in Ukraine and another in the Middle East right now.

#23 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-12 01:52 PM | Reply

Thank you Zed but that's what the last administration created that this administration is cleaning up.

#8 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

With Tulsi Gabbard?

What is this love affair you people have with traitors?

#24 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 01:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Since you don't seem to know it there is a war in Ukraine and another in the Middle East right now.

#23 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Two wars that Donald said that he'd end four weeks ago.

Guess he was lying. What's your take?

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 01:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#23 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

I've known you long enough to know when you're being defensive.

You're going to have to do much better than this to even get through the next six months.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 01:56 PM | Reply

Hey, hey, hey, Zed! Hold on a second...we all know that FDT's plan for Ukraine was to just cede it to Russia. Something Putin DEFINITELY did NOT want. He solved that problem with Hegseth today.

#27 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 01:59 PM | Reply

Great. Another DEI hire for the Gump administration.

#28 | Posted by anton at 2025-02-12 02:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hey FISHPAW, tell us what Tulski's qualifications are for DNI. Explain to us why she's the best person to take this role. What does she bring to the table that makes her special?

Seriously. Since we don't know how awesome she is, maybe you can enlighten us.

#29 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 02:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Since you don't seem to know it there is a war in Ukraine and another in the Middle East right now."

And which side is Tulsi Gabbard on for either one? It's OK that you don't know because no Republican Senator does either!

#30 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-12 02:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Present"

#31 | Posted by Futility at 2025-02-12 02:30 PM | Reply

With Tulsi Gabbard?

What is this love affair you people have with traitors?

#24 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 01:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

The only reason she's a traitor to you is because she refused to get in the DNC klown kar and ride with the morons.

#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-12 02:34 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

overcame initial skepticism from some Republican senators

LMAO! Yeah, that's what it was... HAHA! They "overcame" their "initial skepticism"! My sides hurt from laughing!

Great. Another DEI hire for the Gump administration.

Seriously? LOL! I got tears from laughing!
The "Gump" admin wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for their massive hypocrisy and complete lack of morals.

#33 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 02:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The only reason she's a traitor...

That's the only reason? I have 5 reasons she's a traitor right off the top of my head. Let me guess. You've loved her for YEARS and thought she was an AWESOME patriot! Right?

Naw. Didn't think so. When did you figure out what to think about her? After you were told what to believe and swallowed your cognitive dissonance?

Your "tell" is called "projection."

#34 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 02:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

The only reason she's a traitor to you is because she refused to get in the DNC klown kar and ride with the morons.

#32 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Gabbard is an admirer of Assad who is a client of Putin.

Both Putin and Assad are war criminals who hate this country and want to do it harm.

Assad has gotten a little bit of what he deserves.

Here's hoping for Putin's turn.

Then Gabbard's.

Then Donald's.

But, as usual, you people will make the rest of us suffer in the meantime.

Waiting for the first massive, destructive, unaccountable, deadly intelligence failure.

#35 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 02:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The only reason she's a traitor to you is because she refused to get in the DNC klown kar and ride with the morons.

#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-12 02:34 PM | Reply

Her one "qualification" is that she complained about Hillary Clinton. That's like crack to MAGAts. Hell, I've complained about Hillary Clinton. That makes me just as qualified for this job as Dullsi Gasbag.

#36 | Posted by anton at 2025-02-12 02:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#33 I'm not sure, but I think I may have created the opposite impression of the one I intended. Gabbard is an unqualified loon.

#37 | Posted by anton at 2025-02-12 02:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This, like everything else the toddler in charge is doing will not end well.

He has a vendetta to destroy the USA and is doing everything he can to do it.

Congrats GOP.

Special f**k you to McTurtle who had the chance to end him in 2021 and cowardly let him off the hook.

#38 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-12 02:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Posted by anton at 2025-02-12 02:51 PM | Reply

Apparently I am well qualified in that regard.

#39 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-12 02:56 PM | Reply

I heard rumors Benedict Arnold was their first choice, but they settled with Tulsi Gabbard.

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-12 03:01 PM | Reply

"Waiting for the first massive, destructive, unaccountable, deadly intelligence failure."

Does the failure of Trump's brain when he appointed RFKjr or Tilsi Gabbard count? Though I guess that could be more accurately attributed to his lack of intelligence rather than an intelligence failure.

#41 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-12 03:07 PM | Reply

Trump was going to appoint Julius Rosenberg but then he was told by a staffer that he was executed in 53. Trump said "so?"

#42 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-12 03:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Her one "qualification" is that she complained about Hillary Clinton.

Apparently I am well qualified in that regard.

#39 | POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

If that's the requirement then ... You are overqualified.

#43 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-12 03:16 PM | Reply

If that's the requirement then ... You are overqualified.

Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-12 03:16 PM | Reply

HAHAHA Ain't that the truth.

#44 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-12 03:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Its nice having a government of change agents rather than a government of incompetent corrupt axxxxxholes that Biden and Democrats prefer that would import the criminal world, ruin public education, dumb us down and steal trillions of everything. They want the records of treasury expenditures hidden so the thievery can be masked and hidden

#45 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-12 03:35 PM | Reply

That's cute. You think Musk and DOGE are part of the government.

#46 | Posted by anton at 2025-02-12 03:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Garbage confirmed as DNS.

#47 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-12 04:11 PM | Reply

As was said of Jeff Davis, another certified American traitor, she's "as ambitious as Lucifer and cold as a lizard".
I can't remember any time where a DNS was the least bit controversial. The offices too sensitive to play games or allow anyone below the standard of Caesar's wife.

The Trump supporters defending this are either too stupid to see the danger, don't care about the danger or both,

#48 | Posted by BluSky at 2025-02-12 04:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Gabbard was the first one to expose and destroy Kamala Harris. That's why she's disliked.

#49 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-02-12 04:52 PM | Reply

Harris?

Wasn't it Hillary who she went after?

#50 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-12 04:54 PM | Reply

She coulda been VP if she were a blonde.

Did you hear Trump quickly burp out, "NO!" when asked on Fox if Shady would be #48?

That was awesome!

#51 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-12 04:57 PM | Reply

www.cnn.com

#52 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-12 05:01 PM | Reply

expose and destroy Kamala Harris
Without accepting your premise, isn't it also possible that's the reason Trump picked her?
The list of credentialed candidates with the experience and clearance to do the job is small and shrinking.

#53 | Posted by BluSky at 2025-02-12 05:02 PM | Reply

#50

Tulsi Gabbard rips Kamala Harris' record on criminal prosecutions

www.youtube.com

Kamala was rendered helpless and then got rewarded with VP because DEI.

Biden wanted Sanders.

#54 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-02-12 05:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#53

Your premise suggests Trump puts thought into his selections. He does nothing of the sort. He picks the for their -- factor. Qualified? HA!

#55 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-02-12 05:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Just wow. I don't see how America survives this presidency. For the record, since I qualify I am applying for citizenship in another country as we speak. I am covering my bases for when this implodes.

#56 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-02-12 05:07 PM | Reply

- He picks the for their -- factor

Not to mention their F ME factor.

#57 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-12 05:13 PM | Reply

The list of credentialed candidates with the experience and clearance to do the job is small and shrinking.

Nobody has very high expectations, considering half the voting public decided on a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist to run the show. The bar is pretty low.

#58 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-12 05:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#14 | Posted by fishpaw

Does she hire russian assets like trump does? Or is she another russian asset that trump has hired?

#59 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-12 08:23 PM | Reply

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Right after Tulsi Gabbard endorsed President Trump, she was placed on a terrorist watchlist.

She now outranks the people who put her there.
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#60 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-02-13 06:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Tulsi is just another twunt in the never ending line of GQP Putinistas.

#61 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-13 06:43 AM | Reply

She now outranks the people who put her there.

Owning the libs, even if it means selling out our nation. All worth it, amIright?

#62 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 12:35 PM | Reply

I don't know how she will perform in this role. Having said that calling her a traitor is beyond stupid. She put her life on the line to fight for this country. I liked her back when she was solidly Democrat. Hillary libeled her as a Russian stooge and the lefties clapped and barked like carnival seals.

#63 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-13 02:11 PM | Reply

Glad you like her.
She's our DNI now.
Doesn't change the facts about her.
And why you think that once you've served you could never be seditious or even traitorous is humorous to me.
Especially given what your party did to John Kerry. Kerry was and is an honorable man that always has the best interest of the United States front and center.

#64 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 02:26 PM | Reply

John Kerry is neither a traitor nor an honorable man.

#65 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-13 02:41 PM | Reply

" And why you think that once you've served you could never be seditious or even traitorous is humorous to me"

She's never done anything traitorous or seditious.

#66 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-13 02:42 PM | Reply

#65 - you will never have the level of goodness, humanity, and moral backbone that Kerry has in just one finger. Am I surprised you'd say he is not honorable? No. It is who you are.

As to Gabbard, is she a traitor? That has a very specific meaning to me. I find her to be dishonorable, dangerous, and of extremely poor judgement. Let's take a look:
She love herself some good ol' Siddhaswarupananda!
She (not disputable) had week-long trip with "meetings" with Bashar al-Assad. She then came back and proclaimed that poor little Assad was a victim, just like Trump, of staging a 'regime change war' fueled by the West and aimed at removing the dictator from power.
She also pals around with terrorists. For real. Hindu extremists to be specific.
Her constant sharing of Russian lies and propaganda makes her, if not an agent of Russia, one of the biggest useful idiots Putin is blessed to have.
She definantly supports those that leak classified information about our nation, the sources and methods, and more.

But like I said, glad you like her. That's the woman that's now in charge of our Intelligence Agencies and briefing Dummkopf Donald.

#67 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 05:26 PM | Reply

no need to read ANY of this pile of --- either.

gloom and doom and it's the end of the world BS.

--suck it !!

congrats Tulsi on freeing yourself from the despicable trash called democrat politicians.

#68 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-13 06:17 PM | Reply

She's all yours now!
ENJOY!

#69 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 06:19 PM | Reply

She also pals around with terrorists. For real. Hindu extremists to be specific.

#67 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 05:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Whatever happened to that guy named Kashoggi?

Life's a bitch when you get chopped up, thrown down a well, and then under the rug.

#70 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-13 08:25 PM | Reply

"She (not disputable) had week-long trip with "meetings" with Bashar al-Assad. She then came back and proclaimed that poor little Assad was a victim, just like Trump, of staging a 'regime change war' fueled by the West and aimed at removing the dictator from power"

Right. The West has NEVER toppled a regime. Assad sucks but that doesn't mean her assessment is wrong.

If you haven't already done so, check out this book:

www.amazon.com

#71 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-13 09:16 PM | Reply

"Her constant sharing of Russian lies and propaganda makes her......" CONSTANT sharing of Russian lies and propaganda? GTFOH with that.

"She definantly supports those that leak classified information about our nation, the sources and methods, and more." Snowden? There is a fundamental difference between 'support' and not believing him to be a traitor for exposing a massive spy-system that has turned itself inward toward the American people. He blew the whistle. Granted, he didn't follow the established process for blowing the whistle but when I see how true whistleblowers are treated in this country, I can at least understand why he handled it the way he did.

"you will never have the level of goodness, humanity, and moral backbone that Kerry has in just one finger."

Kerry is a self-serving douche who pals around with true terrorists (the mullahs) and despises the 1st Amendment. He's a classic elitist globalist.

#72 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-13 09:21 PM | Reply

underscoring Trump's grip on the party.

BWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

every potus has a "grip" on the party.

that's how they got there..

well except for the brain dead vegetable just removed....

he didn't even have a "grip" on the handrail on AF1.....yuk yuk/

#73 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-14 07:17 AM | Reply

Now we know. All these years Republicans were gung-ho against Russia/the USSR not for patriotism, but for profits and the military-industrial complex. Distract Americans with the fear of communism while the tax rates for the wealthy dwindled from 90% for the first million to 13%. The Democrats were the genuine patriots against Russia, like JFK during the Berlin Airlift and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Look at these "patriotic" Republicans who avoided fighting the communists in Vietnam: Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Trumpf, Mitch Romney. All either got deferments or joined the Natl Guard to stay home.

#74 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-14 07:42 AM | Reply

"War for thee, but not for me" has long been the warhawks' mantra.

It's not that these flockers didn't go to Vietnam that sticks in my craw. It's the ease and glee with which they embrace ideas of sending others into death's gaping maw, themselves (as Cheney breezily explained) having excused themselves because the had "other priorities." And the arrant nonsense they spout to rationalize their disgusting behavior.

Ike nailed it: war is just too good for business and bought politicians.

#75 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-14 08:28 AM | Reply

I like to shoot bang-bangs, kill stuff.
I will sign on as a Field Marshal if they can locate Nixon's old SS uniforms.
A gift me a minimum of a kilo-sized bag of Peruvian marching powder for personal medication per day.
It's called "noblesse oblige."
No thanks necessary.
Shmucks.
~ Junior

#76 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-14 09:27 AM | Reply

Why bother with a backdoor to Russia when you can just install a door right out front?

#77 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-02-14 11:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1