I want to be clear that I think and know that these people are professionals and patriots. But I cannot not think that suddenly firing lots of people in the natsec and intel spaces for stupid and arbitrary reasons creates real vulnerabilities for the country as a whole.
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Please don't do this anymore, I'm begging you.
I am not joking when I say we should deport Elon
MAGA philosophy is clear: why shouldn’t they get theirs?
But why so pushing the professionalism and patriotism of those doing it?
I am constantly befuddled by those saying the people doing bad are essentially good because I think and know it. Show it
✅Money
✅Ideology
✅Compromised
✅Ego
Hmmm, ticks all the boxes…
Ideology - Trump had a tantrum and cutoff sharing intelligence with Ukraine. I’m going to back-channel intel to Ukraine through an ally.
Ego - I’ll show Musk & Trump how wrong it was to fire me by leaking all this information to the press.
Lots of active recruiting going on in my DC suburb.
I had to make a diagram to figure out your meaning.
Most of us probably agree that Josh is tireless and we're glad he's on this stuff. Just occasionally there's one of these baffling posts to decipher.
TPM is not part of the democratic party, and they can be more analytical and opaque if they want. There are plenty of flavors of political news to choose from.
Such a statement, undecipherable, might be misunderstood and do more harm than good.
But.. I think he's using this as his think-out-loud scratchpad. Many of his posts, while grammatically clear, are hard to grasp out of the context of the stream from that day or week. Reader beware.
Many still don't seem to accept the reality that Trump is an extension of Putin, and is an enemy of the United States and the west.
Bad idea to make enemies of such people.