• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    Of all the agencies that I thought would capitulate quickly, I’ve got to admit I’m a bit shocked by this one.

    At the same time, I’m sure this is not the whole story.

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      19 days ago

      the TLAs are the feds standing in the emperor’s and lord diaper’s way the most. justice is locked-down, as is enough of the courts; half of congress is in a daze and the moron majority is eating the orange poo; but the TLAs have off-the-book ops and funding to do ‘things’.

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      18 days ago

      Yeah, they killed Kennedy over a lot less, and this time they’re all at risk of losing their jobs and they’re just going to shrug it off?

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        18 days ago

        Kennedy fired the architect of the CIA and planned to significantly cut their budget. What has Trump done that antagonizes them at anything close to that level?

        Y’all just think because you personally don’t like Trump, the CIA must not like him either. But the CIA does not share your interests or values, in fact, they’re pretty much completely opposite.

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      19 days ago

      Well it is the CIA, it is plausible they’re just playing the game to stay on Trump’s good side. Maybe they ‘buyout’ a Joe and ‘rehire’ a Joey that just so happens to know everything Joe did, but ‘adores’ Trump for reasons

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        19 days ago

        My first thought was: everyone in the CIA “retires” and gets “consulting” gigs with shell companies nobody has heard of.

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          19 days ago

          Yeah, but who are those shell companies working for? A big selling point in the general buyouts is, “we want people out of govt service and in the private sector where they can do thier best work!”

          I’m thinking we don’t want a bunch of freelance spies contracting to the highest bidder

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            19 days ago

            I think the joke was the shell companies are all owned by the CIA. Hence the quotes around “retires” and “consulting”.