Hobbling our intelligence agencies for Putin isn't going to win anyone over.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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Daddy Putin will be very happy.
Hmmm. I wonder why they would gut intelligence agencies at the same time as they are gutting elections oversight, foreign influence, and internet intrusion detections agencies....
America downsizing intelligence seems very on brand.
Anything to weaken America and make it more vulnerable to its enemies.
The Republican way.
The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs. This is the MAGA Party. We need to tie all their treason and corruption directly to them for all of history to remember.
Our enemies are about to fuck around and find the fuck out.
I was saying that immediately after the Alaska meeting, we would hear HitlerPig spouting Russian Propaganda, and pro- Russian policies would suddenly become important.
Here we are.
Putin: Goood . . . Goooood.
The Dead Sea Effect hits national intelligence.
That's gonna be a hard one to fix.
Lmfao hahahahahahahha
Saboteur and traitor.
I’m happy that the intelligence office has been slashed to be proportional to the amount of intelligence in the federal government right now. I’d argue that perhaps they need to slash more to be proportional
So we are still paying for something, paying even more than we used to in fact, and we aren’t going to get it.
I wonder where all that tax money is going. Hmmm. It is a mystery.
How apropos of this administration. No intelligence.
That red carpet in Alaska rolled right on out to red square.
I'm actually ok with this one. There wasn't much intelligence happening in that department anyway
I'm happy with this news, but I do happen to hate America and everything it stands for (except the Bill of Rights, that's cool) so it's weird that I'm happy with the decisions of a nationalist regime.
