... Under new DNI Bill Pulte

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/odni-begins-firings-under-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence-rcna351290

“The deep state firings have begun,” the source said.

Bill Pulte was a businessman.

He was not a politician.

He is NOT a "creature of the swamp."

10 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

... Under new DNI Bill Pulte

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/odni-begins-firings-under-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence-rcna351290

“The deep state firings have begun,” the source said.

Search for the guilty.

Punishment of the innocent !

Both Dems and Republicans wanted Pulte's stint to be brief. Trump had other ideas. Once again Trump has thrown a fox into the henhouse. Good. I'm sure this thread will once again be taken over by those who have the irrational hate syndrome.

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Both Dems and Republicans wanted Pulte's stint to be brief. Trump had other ideas.

No, Trump said it will be brief and they are interviewing replacements.

He will become the most hated man in the US and then go retire in Pattaya.

A moronic clown without an accomplishment in his entire useless life---save for being born grandson to a successful businessman---who has zero intelligence experience, zero foreign policy experience, and zero public service experience, goes into a job about which he has a sum total of zero knowledge, and somehow...somehow...can determine in hours whom to fire?

It's a perfect example of MAGA in action: don't let abject ignorance get in the way of retribution for perceived slights.

Lots of people are no doubt happy about that: idiot Dunning-Kreuger-suffering MAGAs and their strange bedfellows, who include Putin, Xi, Kim Jong-un, the mullahs of Iran, al Qaeda, ISIS and ISIS-K.

Incompetence and petty vindictiveness have a cost. Without a doubt the US will be less secure and more vulnerable to terror attacks or being hosed by hostile foreign powers, as Trump has recently been by Iran.

8 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

No, Trump said it will be brief and they are interviewing replacements.

He will become the most hated man in the US and then go retire in Pattaya.

Not as brief as the Dems wanted.

1 minute ago, Wingate said:

A moronic clown without an accomplishment in his entire useless life---save for being born grandson to a successful businessman---who has zero intelligence experience, zero foreign policy experience, and zero public service experience, goes into a job about which he has a sum total of zero knowledge, and somehow...somehow...can determine in hours whom to fire?

It's a perfect example of MAGA in action: don't let abject ignorance get in the way of retribution for perceived slights.

Lots of people are no doubt happy about that: idiot Dunning-Kreuger-suffering MAGAs and their strange bedfellows, who include Putin, Xi, Kim Jong-un, the mullahs of Iran, al Qaeda, ISIS and ISIS-K.

Incompetence and petty vindictiveness have a cost. Without a doubt the US will be less secure and more vulnerable to terror attacks or being hosed by hostile foreign powers, as Trump has recently been by Iran.

So you favour the existence of the deep state or do you deny it's existence?

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Not as brief as the Dems wanted.

I suspect you know absolutely nothing about the intel community, but are just so captured by your membership in the cult of the moronic, that you somehow think Pulte will add value.

I pray to Zeus that if a terror attack is a direct result of expertise lost due to petty vindictiveness, that the victims are solely those MAGAs and their families, who think Pulte will add value. That would make it somewhat Darwinian in nature, as well as being fair.

4 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So you favour the existence of the deep state or do you deny it's existence?

Oh please !! I did not take you as a conspiracy theory nutjob !! but you have proven me wrong !

4 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So you favour the existence of the deep state or do you deny it's existence?

Anyone who uses the silly term "Deep State" simply broadcasts their abject idiocy for rational people to see. The dumber people are and the less they know about reality, the more certain they are they know something. Friggin morons.

I am continually amazed by just how dumb---with a "b"---MAGAs are, and how susceptible they are to any insane utterance or quote that spews from Trump's gaping maw.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but with MAGAs, often the opinion is so infantile and stupid that calling it out and belittling the idiot is a public service.

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5 minutes ago, MikeandDow said:

Oh please !! I did not take you as a conspiracy theory nutjob !! but you have proven me wrong !

NBC News is using the term "deep state".

So I'm not sure it's such a taboo expression anymore in 2026.

5 minutes ago, MikeandDow said:

Oh please !! I did not take you as a conspiracy theory nutjob !! but you have proven me wrong !

Yep. I'm a conspiracy theorist. I actually believe Covid-19 came from a lab. Oh wait! It did.

1 minute ago, save the frogs said:

NBC News is using the term "deep state".

So I'm not sure it's such a taboo expression anymore in 2026.

Who cares What News calls what ! do you !!

3 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Yep. I'm a conspiracy theorist. I actually believe Covid-19 came from a lab. Oh wait! It did.

What type of Paranoia do you have ??

Psychological research generally categorizes conspiratorial thinking into several distinct, structural types:

1. The Enemy Outside: Schemes alleged to be plotted against a community or nation by foreign or outside actors.

2. The Enemy Within: Conspirators operating covertly inside the nation, often indistinguishable from everyday citizens.

3. The Enemy Above: Powerful elites or institutions orchestrating global events for their own financial or political gain.

4. The Enemy Below: Lower or marginalized classes working to undermine or overturn the existing social order.

5. Benevolent Conspiracies: The belief that angelic, enlightened, or secret heroic forces work behind the scenes to guide humanity

6. Or just a plain old nutjob !!!!

4 minutes ago, MikeandDow said:

What type of Paranoia do you have ??

Psychological research generally categorizes conspiratorial thinking into several distinct, structural types:

1. The Enemy Outside: Schemes alleged to be plotted against a community or nation by foreign or outside actors.

2. The Enemy Within: Conspirators operating covertly inside the nation, often indistinguishable from everyday citizens.

3. The Enemy Above: Powerful elites or institutions orchestrating global events for their own financial or political gain.

4. The Enemy Below: Lower or marginalized classes working to undermine or overturn the existing social order.

5. Benevolent Conspiracies: The belief that angelic, enlightened, or secret heroic forces work behind the scenes to guide humanity

6. Or just a plain old nutjob !!!!

Nice attempt at deflection. As you must well remember all those who were saying that Covid-19 was a lab leak were branded conspiracy theorists. It's now the overwhelming consensus and Gabbard's latest release of files on Fauci cements it. BTW how about showing you used AI for your list or is this list your own definitions.

24 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

NBC News is using the term "deep state".

So I'm not sure it's such a taboo expression anymore in 2026.

How is the deep state defined? I have always understood it as government employees who act against the wishes of the current administration.

29 minutes ago, Wingate said:

I suspect you know absolutely nothing about the intel community, but are just so captured by your membership in the cult of the moronic, that you somehow think Pulte will add value.

I pray to Zeus that if a terror attack is a direct result of expertise lost due to petty vindictiveness, that the victims are solely those MAGAs and their families, who think Pulte will add value. That would make it somewhat Darwinian in nature, as well as being fair.

I agree, just like they fired all those folks that were determining the value of possible targets just prior to the "excursion" in Iran and tomahawked the girls school, plus more that 10,000 lawyers fired or quit under this DOJ and they still have not released the Epstein files are required by a Congressional law passed in December, plus putting someone in charge of the intel agencies who has never ever held a security clearance...another example was the senior CIA officer getting gold bars and currency delivered to his house and he too was never even security cleared as all these offices are now under manned IMHO. I was a govt employee and I know that not all employees are super workers but most do their job honestly and not openly corrupt like the current administration IMHO. The US has under this administration destroyed any positives in relation to our Allies IMHO while strengthening the orange one's fascination with autocrats IMHO. I sure don't know anyone in the US that is happy with the current situation.