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Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence (www.cnn.com)

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[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

"I'm not sure what the dumbass is even trying to do in the end."

This might be a pedestrian opinion, but I wonder if being the world's nominally richest person isn't enough for him, or that he at least understands how ephemeral that status actually is. His wealth is largely based on speculations of the runaway success of his "revolutionary/visionary" businesses and "innovations," and he may be coming down from that high. Seeing as he's not going to actually colonize mars, the hyperloop is old news, and no one wants to buy a cybertruck, Twitter didn't pan out super well, etc, he might feel that the jig is up. Getting a foot in the door of more traditional power structures by being Donald's sycophant and the latest MAGA darling could be his attempt to concretize his "wealth" into actual power.