Tulsi Gabbard

Unfit


POST 1199

A Look At Just One

Here are Tulsi Gabbard’s responsibilities, per Steve Schmidt. Note that a similar listing of gravely important duties can be made for all Cabinet positions.

Tulsi Gabbard is the director of national intelligence [DNI], who oversees 18 different three-letter espionage agencies.

They are as follows:

Civilian Intelligence Agencies (8):

    1. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) – coordinates and leads the entire IC.
    2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – focuses on foreign intelligence and covert operations.
    3. National Security Agency (NSA) – responsible for signals intelligence and cybersecurity.
    4. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) – provides geospatial intelligence (maps, imagery).
    5. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) – designs, builds, and operates spy satellites.
    6. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Intelligence Branch – handles domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
    7. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI) – focuses on drug-related intelligence.
    8. Department of State – Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) – provides intelligence to diplomats and policy makers.

Military Intelligence Components (8):

    1. U.S. Army Intelligence
    2. U.S. Navy Intelligence
    3. U.S. Air Force Intelligence
    4. U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence
    5. U.S. Space Force Intelligence
    6. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – military-focused intelligence and support for defense policy.
    7. Department of Homeland Security – Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) – focuses on threats to homeland security.
    8. Department of Energy – Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence – focuses on nuclear security and energy-related threats.

Department of the Treasury – Office of Intelligence and Analysis

    1. Provides intelligence on financial and economic threats, including terrorism financing and sanctions evasion.

Coast Guard Intelligence (part of DHS)

    1. Provides maritime-related intelligence, particularly around border security and drug interdiction.

All of that responsibility lives in the office of a woman who has literally zero intelligence training, zero intelligence experience, no history of operational action, education of or even a familiarity with the awesome responsibilities that attach to the nation’s security. Oddly, Trump and Tulsi say she’s right for her job.

Yer kidding, Trump and Tulsi, right? It’s a joke, right? And the rest of the Cabinet pretenders, too?

The qualifiers for any Trump appointment are:

Absolute loyalty to Trump. Willing to shed principles and integrity. Willing to display boundless emptiness just to be in the orbit of the cult leader. Willing to say patently absurd things and promote phantasmagorically destructive notions in order to expand the leader’s power and wealth. Think: nominations of judges and justices. This is the primary demand of dictators.

Is telegenic – looks good on TV, in press conferences and while lying to a roomful of Senators or Representatives in a Congressional hearing. Adept at claiming to have no memory of events that aren’t self-aggrandizing and is facile at making up rabid idiocies.

Will pursue any Trump policy including illegal or unconstitutional actions and will ignore court orders. Will promote any Trump lie, manipulation or temper tantrum and will aid in seeking retribution for all fantasy wrongs done to Trump, like others disagreeing with him.

Because of the great lapse of time, is unable to answer this question:

What was it like before your soul left your body? – source: probably Rick Wilson

These qualifiers stand as the gatekeepers to anyone seeking high appointment in a Trump administration or the judiciary. There is never consideration given to likelihood of honoring the oath of office, fitness for duty, skills, intelligence, training, ability to lead a high performing staff or the chance of doing something positive for America and the American people. All that is needed for appointment is listed above, leaving our nation in constant peril.

It’s also useful to be

– 2 generations younger than Trump, female and sexually attractive to him

– or a billionaire who can be exploited

– or a judicial candidate slavish to Trump.

Unintentionally Offered Wishful Thinking, From Consumer Reports

Hey, wait a second: Is that code for someone or for something specific? Who are the “pests and animals” they speak of? Are these the well known names of domestic terrorists who are attempting to invade our homes and nation in order to subjugate us? Are these the No Policy barbarians whose only purposes are to “tear it all down” and replace it with their absolute rule? Are these the vandals heaping over-the-top cruelty on thousands, even millions of people and dropping bunker busting destruction on our bedrock values and the societal ways we count on? Could they be the lawless perps who abuse the rights of everyone and do so in our name, as though we approve? Who are these “pests and animals?”

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if some garden spray could rid us of these “pests and animals” to allow for the restoration of our national habitat?

It’s not that power corrupts; it’s that corruptible people seek power. – author possibly Frank Herbert

Reader Comments And The Risk of Public Opinion

Opinion is what I do. And I’m enormously grateful for readers’ comments and opinions, too.

Occasionally, I receive – let’s call them “cranky” – comments clearly intended to pick a fight or to own the libs through cruelty and to put me in my place. Because these comments are designed only to destroy, I never let them go live. (See Fine Print #6 below.) But recently one caused me to think about “putting it out there” and what that means.

We all like pats on the head, but in writing opinion pieces, including comments to these posts, more than that is dared. That caused me to pen the following for both of us, meaning for you, too, when you post your opinions. It’s to the tune of Ricky Nelson’s Garden Party.

    • If you’re gonna hang out your opinion
    • For everyone to see,
    • If accolades are all you want
    • Better brace for reality.
    • .
    • But it’s all right now.
    • I learned my lesson well.
    • You see, you can’t please everyone
    • So, you got to please yourself.

I encourage you to comment on these posts – to please yourself, of course, and perhaps to help others see and understand.

The Deconstructing Trump* Corner
.
  • [He] was his own world,
  • and nothing that concerned anyone else
  • was important to him . . .
  • and nothing that touched him unimportant. 
  • Kathleen Thompson Norris, 1933
  • Look at [his] comments . . .
  • They prove that the senator speaks his mind,
  • and that he is not working with much when he does so.
  • Anna Quindlen, 1993

_____________________________________________

  • * Deconstructing Trump by Mardy Grothe explores The Trump phenomenon through the lens of quotation history.
    Mid-Term Election
    Countdown Timer
    Goes fast, doesn’t it?
    .

  • Did someone forward this post to you? Welcome! Please subscribe at no charge – use the simple form above on the right. And pass this along to three others, encouraging them to subscribe, too, because it’s going to take ALL OF US to get this job done.

    And add your comments below to help us all to be better informed.

    Thanks!

    The Fine Print:

    1. Writings quoted or linked from my posts reflect a point I want to make, at least in part. That does not necessarily mean that I endorse or agree with everything in such writings.
    2. There are lots of smart, well-informed people. Sometimes we agree; sometimes we don’t. Search for others’ views and decide for yourself.
    3. Errors in fact, grammar, spelling and punctuation are all embarrassingly mine, but I do wish that I could blame someone else. Glad to have your corrections.
    4. Book links to Amazon are provided for reference only. Please purchase your books through your local mom & pop bookstore. Keep them and your town or neighborhood vibrant.
    5. Clicking on most pics in these posts will take you to the source information.
    6. Comments offered by readers, whether in agreement with my opinions or opposing, are encouraged and greatly appreciated. All are reviewed prior to going live. I reserve the right to edit for length, readability, punctuation, typos and voluntary idiocy and to exclude those I deem inappropriate or intentionally cruel. If you must post something cruel, stop reading these posts immediately and instead invest your time with a good therapist.
    7. Responsibility for the content of these posts is unequivocally, totally and unavoidably mine.

    Click me

    JA


Copyright 2025 by Jack Altschuler
Reproduction and sharing are encouraged, providing proper attribution is given.

Administration Deportations


POST 1162

CAUTION!

This post contains well-placed snark likely to displease Constitution violators.

The Correct Renditions

You know that last week our brave president and his brown shirt action figures rounded up over 230 migrants, claiming without any evidence that they are Venezuelan gang member terrorists. Note that I claim, similarly without evidence, that they are Norwegian flower salesmen.

They were put on airplanes bound for El Salvador where they were accosted by guards, who dragged them to an overcrowded super-max concentration camp. The administration claimed that they are the worst of our immigrants and that the American people are now safer. Trump agreed to pay the El Salvadorans $6 billion to incarcerate those deported, an inventive international extension of our prison-industrial complex.

WAIT: Wasn’t El Salvador one of those “shit hole countries?”

All of that was done without probable cause, without accusation or evidence of any specific crimes, without charging, without trial and without conviction of any crime. The name for what was missing is DUE PROCESS OF LAW, as required by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which apply to all “persons,” not just “citizens.” Look that up via the links.

While those airplanes were flying south a federal judge heard arguments and ruled that the disappearing of those men was both illegal and unconstitutional. He ordered the administration to cause the planes in the air to turn around and come back to the U.S. and that a deportation plane that had not yet departed remain on the ground. Our bold, chest-thumping administration then did what no administration had ever done before: they ignored the judge’s ruling. The 230 remain locked up in El Salvador.

“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” – Vice-President of the United States, JD Vance

Yeah, they are. It’s in the Constitution. You could look it up, you fauxbilly.

“We are not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think” – Border Czar Tom Homan

It’s great for Homan that he’s in America where he can believe and say stupid things. In an authoritarian country like Hungary, Turkey or Singapore, he’d be locked up and forgotten for saying such manly man strength and idiocy. That’s the America Trump is working to create.

BTW: How did we end up with czars? It started with Dubya.

“What we are expecting is the Supreme Court to say what has always been the case, which is, when the president is using his powers as commander-in-chief, those determinations are not subject to judicial review .  .  .”   – Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

Oops. Once again Stephen “The cruelty is the point.” Miller got it wrong.

All of that flies in the face of 248 years of precedent, established law, the separation of powers, the Constitution and more. Plus, it’s factually wrong, as all but the angry chest thumpers know quite well. Note that it not known if these Administration officials themselves are Venezuelans or even Americans, but they are known Trump gang members.

These are the first administration officials to be accused of un-American acts by your Disambiguation Agency (“DA”), which so far is still not invaded and violated by Musk and his abhorrent flying monkey tech criminals.

The DA will order them to be shackled, hooded and jammed into an airplane bound for rendition, as were the 230. They will remain ineligible for recourse or a pubic hearing, this by virtue of the Habeas Stupidus Act proscribed by Project 2025.

It Isn’t Just Federal Perps

Here’s another flamer. From Daily Docket, March 20, 2025:

[North Carolina] GOP challenger Judge Jefferson Griffin is refusing to concede [the election to the state’s Supreme Court, which he lost].

Griffin sits on the Court of Appeals [where his case now sits], and he wants his colleagues to retroactively change election rules, throw out tens of thousands of votes in Democratic counties and declare him the winner.

  • North Carolina has a long standing and proud tradition of Republican malfeasance and dirty tricks. Stand by to see if they get away with this one, Meanwhile, Griffin has a reservation on that rendition airplane. So does Arizona loser Kari Lake, and for much the same reasons.
  • We cannot end this section without considering Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He went to Samoa and trumpeted his groundless poo-poo indictments of vaccines, convincing many people to forego vaccinations, resulting in thousands of confirmed cases of Covid-19 and dozens of deaths. A similar situation is playing out in the U.S. on children whose parents were persuaded by Kennedy to refuse their kids the measles vaccine. At least 2 children are now dead. with third death under investigation. Prior to Kennedy’s baseless attacks on vaccines it had been 20 years since the last U.S. death from measles.  That’s plenty of evidence to cause Kennedy to be shackled. muzzled and perp-walked onto that rendition airplane.
  • Expect regular additions to the manifest for these flights.
  • ACTION

  • There will be a huge demonstration in DC on April 5 organized by Indivisible, 50-50-1, mobilize.us, Women’s March and many more organizations, all demanding of TrumpMusk, “HANDS OFF!“

    The beauty is that you don’t have to be in DC to stand and be counted. There will be rallies that day all across the nation. Stand tall. Make your voice heard. Being passive is the same as making yourself a victim and losing everything. You don’t want that to happen.

  • Click here or on the map to the right to find a rally near you. Then SHOW UP on April 5!

  • REBEL!

Continuing Quote for This Century

From Mark Elias’10 Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy:

10. Don’t give up hope

Our best political movements were hopeful. John Kennedy insisted that “we should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.” Bill Clinton was the man from Hope. Barack Obama ran a campaign based on hope and change. Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to give up hope. Despair and cynicism fuel their movement. We must always, in the words of Jesse Jackson, “keep hope alive.”

Best Headline of the Week

From the NKC Occasional Update of March 21:

Hakeem! Chuck! Don’t make me stop this car!

Who will lead?

Late Addition Sunday Dark Cloud

From David Corn of Mother Jones’ Our Land of March 22:

And Tulsi Gabbard, [Trump’s] director of national intelligence, not only cheered on this decision [to silence the Voice of America, VOA]; she boosted the Russian critique of VOA. When Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysia-based right-wing podcaster who has written for RT, the Russian propaganda outfit, hailed Trump’s demolition of VOA and echoed the Russian line by claiming it had “perpetuated pro-war narratives against Russia,” Gabbard shared his post. Here was the top intelligence official in Trump’s administration accepting and spreading Vladimir Putin’s take on VOA.

What could possibly go wrong?

Did someone forward this post to you? Welcome! Please subscribe – use the simple form above on the right. And pass this along to three others, encouraging them to subscribe, too. (IT’S A FREEBIE!) It’s going to take ALL OF US to get the job done.

And add your comments below to help us all to be better informed.

Thanks!

The Fine Print:

  1. Writings quoted or linked from my posts reflect a point I want to make, at least in part. That does not necessarily mean that I endorse or agree with everything in such writings.
  2. There are lots of smart, well-informed people. Sometimes we agree; sometimes we don’t. Search for others’ views and decide for yourself.
  3. Errors in fact, grammar, spelling and punctuation are all embarrassingly mine, but I do wish that I could blame someone else. Glad to have your corrections.
  4. Book links to Amazon are provided for reference only. Please purchase your books through your local mom & pop bookstore. Keep them and your town or neighborhood vibrant.
  5. Clicking on most pics in these posts will take you to the source information.
  6. Responsibility for the content of these posts is unequivocally, totally, unavoidably mine.

Click me

JA


Copyright 2025 by Jack Altschuler
Reproduction and sharing are encouraged, providing proper attribution is given.

 Scroll to top