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yellow dahlia

(6,636 posts)
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 09:47 PM Tuesday

What if Bill Pulte is not an accident?

Last edited Tue Jun 2, 2026, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)

Who would want us to have a DNI who couldn't do the job?

Sure - he is a sycophant. Sure - he enacts the retributive schemes that please the grifter. BUT!

The grifter has a habit of appointing the unqualified to important positions. He often doles out appointments that amount to the fox watching the henhouse. But what if this appointment has a purpose beyond his usually obedience and buffoonery. Who gave the suggestion or direction to the useful idiot I call the grifter?

If the office of DNI is essentially removed from the equation, by virtue of Pulte being handed the position - what then? What happens when all manner of important intelligence is ignored by those who are incapable of or disinterested in analyzing it? There will no longer be "national intelligence".

Who benefits? This may be by design, and no accident.

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What if Bill Pulte is not an accident? (Original Post) yellow dahlia Tuesday OP
we are being unilaterally disarmed... ret5hd Tuesday #1
The entire US is being dismantled piece by piece. Irish_Dem Tuesday #5
The destruction is the point. yellow dahlia Tuesday #9
Yes this is the real agenda. Irish_Dem Tuesday #12
Sound the alarm! We are indeed being disarmed! yellow dahlia Tuesday #7
the dni job under trump seems to be blaming the 2020 election on foreign enemies? rampartd Tuesday #2
None of it is accident. It is all intentional and purposeful. Irish_Dem Tuesday #3
We are NOT fooled. We ARE watching. AND we call it out! yellow dahlia Tuesday #8
Yes. Irish_Dem Tuesday #11
We are the eyes of truth. yellow dahlia Tuesday #14
GMTA. Irish_Dem Tuesday #17
Let's make Tom Clancy fiction again. Amaryllis Tuesday #21
When the president is a foreign asset, the last thing he wants is an effective and impartial Intelligence Whyisthisstillclose Tuesday #4
Word! yellow dahlia Tuesday #10
It's all by design SheltieLover Tuesday #6
They found their useful idiot. yellow dahlia Tuesday #13
Indeed SheltieLover Tuesday #20
This is very, very bad. orangecrush Tuesday #25
From "The Atlantic." AverageOldGuy Tuesday #15
The Atlantic said it best, as always. yellow dahlia Tuesday #16
Thank you. Amaryllis Tuesday #19
Excellent article TommyT139 Yesterday #31
No accident? moondust Tuesday #18
We are being liquidated piece by piece. James48 Tuesday #22
Indeed! yellow dahlia Tuesday #27
He is setting us up orangecrush Tuesday #23
Do they think we're all fooled? yellow dahlia Tuesday #26
Authoritarian regimes orangecrush Tuesday #30
2nd No Kings Day is June 14. Be there, be heard and seen. ShazamIam Tuesday #24
Actually I think it's the 4th No Kings Day oberle Tuesday #28
Ot will be the 4th No Kings Day. I have been to the other 3. wnylib Tuesday #29

ret5hd

(22,633 posts)
1. we are being unilaterally disarmed...
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 09:54 PM
Tuesday

i have said this MANY times here.

WE ARE BEING UNILATERALLY DISARMED!!!

Irish_Dem

(82,732 posts)
5. The entire US is being dismantled piece by piece.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:07 PM
Tuesday

Military, science, education, healthcare, federal government, intelligence operations.
Courts, congress.
Corporations.

Our country is being destroyed and the enemies didn't fire one shot or drop one bomb.

Irish_Dem

(82,732 posts)
12. Yes this is the real agenda.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:21 PM
Tuesday

Even the White House and Washington DC monuments.
One by one, all being defaced and then destroyed.

rampartd

(5,246 posts)
2. the dni job under trump seems to be blaming the 2020 election on foreign enemies?
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 09:59 PM
Tuesday

i think he gets his intelligence briefings from fox and friends.

Irish_Dem

(82,732 posts)
3. None of it is accident. It is all intentional and purposeful.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:04 PM
Tuesday

The buffoon part is just a distraction to cover up the real agenda.
Which is as you suggest.

Who benefits from destroying the US intelligence apparatus?
Who benefits from all US classified data being handed out to the highest bidder?

4. When the president is a foreign asset, the last thing he wants is an effective and impartial Intelligence
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:04 PM
Tuesday

Community.

AverageOldGuy

(4,250 posts)
15. From "The Atlantic."
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 10:26 PM
Tuesday
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/06/director-national-vengeance/687408/

President Trump’s critics would have you believe that William John Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is not qualified to serve as the director of national intelligence, the job that Trump gave him on an acting basis this morning. They correctly note that Pulte, the heir to a home-construction company, has no background in national security, and that this would seem to disqualify him from serving as the nation’s most senior intelligence official, on the grounds of not only common sense but also the law, which requires that the DNI have “extensive national security experience.”


But what if the naysayers are looking at things all wrong? The president has shown no sign that he wants a DNI who can coordinate the work of 18 intelligence agencies and harness the power of a multibillion-dollar global-espionage network to provide senior government leaders the best up-to-the-minute information about threats to U.S. national security. No, what Trump has made very clear is that he wants a DNI who will selectively declassify government documents that help fuel conspiracy theories, use the authorities of the state to enact political retribution against his enemies, and try to persuade Americans that Venezuela and maybe the Democratic Party are rigging elections by fiddling with voting machines.

James48

(5,263 posts)
22. We are being liquidated piece by piece.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 11:06 PM
Tuesday

He is selling anything he can make money from, and dismantling anything that could stop it.

oberle

(438 posts)
28. Actually I think it's the 4th No Kings Day
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 11:25 PM
Tuesday

However it is mostly a listening party for A Concert for the 1st Amendment.

wnylib

(26,621 posts)
29. Ot will be the 4th No Kings Day. I have been to the other 3.
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 11:31 PM
Tuesday

This one on June 14 is the one year anniversary of the first one.

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