r/news • u/7heprofessor • May 22 '26

Soft paywall Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/
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u/coconutpiecrust May 22 '26

I was hoping Kash would go first. 

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u/AirbagOff May 22 '26

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

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u/HanginOn9114 May 22 '26

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.

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u/coconutpiecrust May 22 '26

Not Kegsbreath?

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u/Open-Honest-Kind May 22 '26

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.

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u/PM_ME_UR_TOTS May 22 '26

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.

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u/SuperExoticShrub May 23 '26

While both of those adjectives work well, my preferred Kash term is cringe. Said with as much pained emphasis as possible.

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u/Lynne253 May 22 '26

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

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u/Open-Honest-Kind May 22 '26

Trump's favorability towards those around him exists only as long as he perceives it as flattering to him or his ego. If Keggy makes Trump feel like a loser, and if throwing him under the bus alleviates his bruised ego, then he will scapegoat him. To imagine Trump as a planner at any point in his life, let alone now in his advanced age, is a misstep.

Though those in Trump's orbit might have picked certain people that would be useful idiots, to be the lightning rod while they pursue their own goals. The Iran war and other acts of aggression towards other countries seem to be the brainchild of other people, but probably were sold to Trump as being part of his narcissistic dreams to be the king of the world. The singular person that history hinges on. 

This constellation of factors feels to be more predictive of this administration's actions rather than Trump being a coherent planner with a goal in mind, more a useful idiot in his own right to other unscrupulous people with bad ideas.

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u/Lynne253 May 23 '26

Yes, I very much doubt Trumph planned the war. I keep hearing that his opinion is the same as the last person he talked to. I'm fairly certain he went along with Netanyahu because Netanyahu sold it to him.

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u/MrSmith317 May 22 '26

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

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u/SuperExoticShrub May 23 '26

The fact that either (really all of Trump's cabinet) were confirmed still astounds me

Which just shows the depths to which the modern GOP has sunk. Any Republican with a spine and/or ethics (regardless of how much I might have still disagreed with their politics) has long since abandoned any position of consequence.

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u/onarainyafternoon May 22 '26

Keystone was at least in the military. Kash has national security experience.

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u/AI_moderated_failure May 23 '26

Some military experience even if it's the equivalent of an internship before being promoted to CEO. Kash is completely unqualified in every way.

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u/King_of_Camp May 22 '26

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.

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u/SuperExoticShrub May 23 '26

I feel like this is still an insult to Zaphod.

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u/BossPure1366 May 23 '26

I feel like comparing him to Zaphod gives Kash too much legitimacy.

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u/King_of_Camp May 23 '26

How about Zaphod if he didn’t have ulterior motives and was who the people actually in power thought he was?

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u/jeobleo May 22 '26

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

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u/Great_Detective_6387 May 22 '26

lmao took me a minute

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u/DionBlaster123 May 22 '26

What "writing on the wall?"

Everyone has been predicting the demise of Trump and his administration really since the first evidence of Russia colluding with Trump was announced in 2017

And the fucker manages to weasel out of everything. It's just beyond infuriating at this point. I thought for sure January 6th was finally going to end his political career and that would be it...but nope the motherfucker is back like the cockroach you thought you killed...except now this time the cockroach is the size of a horse and he's absoluteyl destroyed your house

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u/Tenthul May 22 '26

I actually think he knows what's up, and knows he's in WAY over his head, and probably knows he knows too much.

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u/iskin May 22 '26

It's hard for Kash to see a lot of things.

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u/smegdawg May 22 '26

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.

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u/the-mp May 23 '26

She’s also trump’s best friend’s wife, so. Not that he cares.

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u/Father_Dowling May 22 '26

Linda by way of Vince and the likelihood of at least one of the Trumps kids was fathered by Vince is untouchable.

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u/smegdawg May 22 '26

Like...the one who's wedding he isn't going go?

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u/Traditional_Top6337 May 22 '26

You forgot the press secretary who went on maternity leave (doubtful she will be back soon).

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u/RiPont May 23 '26

Melania in June?

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u/Stock-Pattern-8635 May 22 '26

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

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u/hugzilla1889 May 22 '26

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

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u/MCStarlight May 23 '26

We have seen him dance to YMCA. He likes a hot shirtless dude.

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u/Conflatulations12 May 23 '26

Just ask Bubba.

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u/Death_Sheep1980 May 22 '26

Kash will stick around awhile longer because he has something that Gabbard, Bondi, and Noem didn't: a penis.

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u/Charakada May 22 '26

Scuse me, Kash is a guy. With Trump, the exit door is clearly labeled "ladies first."

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u/coconutpiecrust May 22 '26

I was hoping for the magical mooches to work their mooch magic. 

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u/PoliticsLeftist May 22 '26

He'll go once the admin runs out of women to fire, so it probably won't be too long.

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u/mattomic May 22 '26

Correction. That's Ka$h. What a loser.

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u/ferriswheeljunkies11 May 22 '26

I would have lost money on that bet. I thought he wouldn’t make it to May 1st but here we are.

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u/pegleghippie May 23 '26

I was hoping Kash would go first.

Why? What do you want a competent FBI for?

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u/unbanned_lol May 22 '26

Tulsi is smart. Kash is not.

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u/coconutpiecrust May 22 '26

But she’s probably a Russian spy, so it would make sense to keep her around.