Who Needs Good Ideas on the National Security Council?

we all do, every single living person, that’s who

Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by President-elect Donald Trump’s team…

(quotes from AP: Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about commitment to his agenda)

Incriminating?! They mean not expressing loyalty to the Cheeto in Chief. That’s not a crime…but seems it will be in just over a week.

“… Florida Rep. Mike Waltz… [said the] intention [is] to get rid of all nonpolitical appointees and career intelligence officials serving on the NSC by Inauguration Day to ensure the council is staffed with those who support Trump’s agenda.”

So they’ll get everyone who knows how to keep our national security actually secure the heck outta there. Who needs national security anyway.

“…could deprive Trump’s team of considerable expertise and institutional knowledge at a time when the U.S. is grappling with difficult policy challenges in Ukraine, the Mideast and beyond.”

Let’s stumble forward blindly, what could possibly go wrong. Is that a mushroom cloud I see on the horizon?

“…national security adviser Jake Sullivan said…‘career appointees [are] “patriots” …[and] have served ‘without fear or favor for both Democratic and Republican administrations.’”

So people who have dedicated their careers to keeping all Americans safe are the ones they want to kick out. Yeah, by all means don’t let them keep doing the job of keeping us safe. I mean we’re not all actually dead or in the process of dying yet, and we gotta eclipse those body count numbers from Der Überdouche’s first term.

“Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly…said such vetting ‘threatens our national security and our ability to respond quickly and effectively to the ongoing and very real global threats in a dangerous world.’”

Strange he said that, since it is absolutely true. I guess we’re all gonna need that SPF 50,000+ sunblock to maintain that WW3 glow.

When the ICBMs come a knockin’ some lead paint we better be rockin’.

“Alexander Vindman [formerly on the NSC staff, now representing Virginia’s 7th Congressional District] said…‘Talented professionals, wary of being dismissed for principled stances or offering objective advice, will either self-censor or forgo service altogether.’”

Why would we want people who know stuff to help us not wander into global conflict? It’s not like people have wandered into global war before…except for WW1, and if we count the policy of appeasement to be wandering, then also WW2. Ok, so leaving good ideas out of the process has only helped cause global war every single time there has been global war, but third time is a charm, right? Not like the fate of every living thing over 30 pounds is in the balance or anything. Oh wait…

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