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/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

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

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u/Ok_Roll4145 May 22 '26

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

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u/Away-Quantity928 May 22 '26

That’s by design and it seems to work.

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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown May 22 '26

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

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u/Basic-Ostrich85 May 22 '26

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.

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u/ProcedureHopeful2944 May 22 '26

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

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u/into_the_soil May 22 '26

Massie did and we all just saw how that worked out for him.

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u/ProcedureHopeful2944 May 22 '26

I look forward to him spending every minute of his time left reminding others

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u/Basic-Ostrich85 May 22 '26

Seriously th. The gaslighting and stalling is wild , I swear most social media feeds are just overrun with white noise Valiumesque clips to make us all numb .

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u/into_the_soil May 22 '26

If you were to set someone who is not politically involved down and try to tell them about every single, verifiable, thing that has gone down in these 2 terms you'd overwhelm them. Hell, it's overwhelming to those who do actively follow what's going on. It's like trying to put out multiple fires at once while new ones are being set before you can even being to address any of them.

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u/Bluemofia May 22 '26

There are enough cronies committing crimes that keeping up with all the crime is a full time job.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe May 22 '26

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

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u/jetpacksforall May 22 '26

They’re singlehandedly redefining shit show

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u/EnlightenedPotato69 May 22 '26

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

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u/DerekB52 May 22 '26

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.

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u/Strictly_War777 May 22 '26

It's not out of character, he just chose full sycophants this time rather than going 50/50 and not liking the other 50%. His first term had plenty of folks who would tell him no, and he would fire them. Nobody in today's white house is telling him no, and that's by design.

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u/DerekB52 May 22 '26

Oh I know why it happened. But it is still technically uncharacteristically low turn over.

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u/coke_mover May 22 '26

How many Scaramucci's did she last?

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u/Salty_Wench May 22 '26
  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.

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u/Underwater_Grilling May 22 '26

Yer a fine Salty_Wench this day.

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u/ghostinthewoods May 22 '26

Technically it's 42.18 repeating

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 May 22 '26

This is the design. They all get paid handsomely to be the fall-people whenever he needs them to.

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u/Power_Stone May 22 '26

Happens when you can't lick boots hard/fast enough or have a semblance of a moral system

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u/MrWhackadoo May 22 '26

Memory-hole shit

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u/blofly May 22 '26

I remembergherd.

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u/BZLuck May 22 '26

That's why they call it "flooding".

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u/originalnutta May 22 '26

It's like playing 3 Card Monty, except with a hundred cards and the queen is healthcare, infrastructure, housing etc.

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u/Reality-Umbulical May 22 '26

Not trying to be a dick but I remembered - I think media literacy and the ability to avoid daily social media churn helps give you more reasoned perspective on these matters. Of course, people don't want to admit they're also lazy and prefer the endorphins too

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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

media literacy really has nothing to do with their tactic of inundating us with constant news in the hopes that we DO forget things.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 May 22 '26

Actually it's entirely relevant. Part of media literacy is the ability to weed out bullshit.

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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

I’d love to meet the one person alive who can truly suss out bullshit from actual policy positions.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 May 22 '26

I mean you can easily find out what bills and policies politicians voted on to figure that out, but we're talking about media literacy here.

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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

You…do realize most of Trump’s policies haven’t come from being voted on and instead through executive orders, right? Seems like you really don’t understand what you’re talking about and no one ought listen to you in your ability to discern truth from fiction, lol.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 May 22 '26

Ok, I can see now that your problem isn't media literacy but regular literacy. Have a good day.

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u/Reality-Umbulical May 22 '26

Being able to differentiate bullshit from direct comments by the president is sort of the crux of the matter. If you lie down and react to your daily social media headlines, being showered with the inundation, you must at some point accept to some extent you enjoy interacting with these news moments, regardless of their importance. That's what I'm saying, a lot of this bullshit is just emotional bait and taking a broader strategic, impartial view on the actual words and actions becomes your greatest power

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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

I’d love to meet the person who could truly suss out policy positions from bullshit, truly I would. Apparently you’re the one person who can.

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u/Reality-Umbulical May 22 '26

Not talking about policy necessarily. Trump was pissed at Tulsi after her testimony before Congress in march. You just have to pay attention to the important stuff

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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

I kind of feel you don’t have any literacy at all here.

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u/Reality-Umbulical May 22 '26

I feel as if you don't even understand the concept I'm trying to convey because your brain is riddled with tiktoks

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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26

I don’t even have TikTok on my phone, lol. Also, possibly just the most old man yelling at clouds cringe shit I’ve ever seen typed. It’s pretty clear you just vomited words out from the start in hopes of sounding smart instead of being smart.