Ex-CIA Officer Tapped to Replace Gabbard Blasted 'Toxic' DEI Culture

[lostincalifornia]

Aaron Lukas, the former CIA officer selected to replace Tulsi Gabbard as spy chief, aligns with some of President Donald Trump’s most ardent beliefs, including that intelligence agencies have become infected with wokeness, and that allegations of a Russian operation to sway the 2016 election are a hoax.

Trump, who announced in a social media post on Friday that Lukas would replace Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence in an acting capacity, praised him as “highly respected.”

In his confirmation hearing to be Gabbard’s deputy last year, Lukas warned that the American intelligence community, which comprises 18 agencies, had become “aimless, bloated, risk-averse, and disconnected at times from the core mission of intelligence.”

He praised Trump and Gabbard for “getting rid of a toxic diversity, equity, and inclusion political dogma that at best was a distraction and at worst pitted IC officers against one another.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/gabbard-replacement-as-us-spy-chief-blasted-toxic-dei-culture

Another white trumper, against diversity, excuse me, correction, another racist asshole wanting to join the racist, sexist, bigoted trump administration.

[Zelda_Orchid]

1. Expecting White men to compete on a level playing field is "toxic". Sure.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. Sure it is!

For them.

(They can't compete, that's why they cheat.)

[Roy Rolling]

2. "Intelligence"

Really? This is who the GOP says is intelligent?

[nuxvomica]

3. So he favors uniformity, unfairness, and exclusion

Which are the opposites of DEI. Why don't they present themselves that way? Why not tell people what they are for instead of always saying just what they are against?

[lostincalifornia]

9. Yup. The problem many do not even understand what DEI is, and

unfortunately take rethug distorted talking point definition

Democrats in general haven’t adequately pushed back to explain this , but realistically our MSM doesn’t adequately give Democrats the opportunity to. Either.

The FCC trumper argues equal time isn’t given to rethugs to push back on programs that are critical of trump, and threatens. them with license suspension, but completely ignores the fact that 80-90% of the radio airwaves are right wing propagandists without “equal time” given to opposing views.

That equal time standard was destroyed by the Reagan administration, and was the beginning of the propagation of the right wing take over of the airwaves.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. So many garbage people

[GiqueCee]

5. The only thing that is...

... "TOXIC" in this discussion is YOU, Lukas, and every malignant pus-bucket like you.

[B.See]

6. Yet another white guy Trump pick, replacing a woman

but here to tell us how DEI has treated them so badly.

[Chasstev365]

8. And it will be REPUBLICANS WHO CONFIRM HIM!

They never get the blame they deserve for confirming all these lunatics to run the government.

[mopinko]

10. r they gonna use google translate now?

how r they gonna have enough language experts drawing only from the pasty white?

[Javaman]

11. Sausage fest

I wouldn’t be the least surprised if it’s leaked that they are all having manly sex together. Not gay sex, because that’s a no no in the right wing manosphere of toxic masculinity. Manly sex

[Botany]

12. D.E.I. explained the short course: there are 8 billion people* on the planet and just about everybody you will ...

…. meet will not look like you, speak your language or even if it is the same language and in the same
country example somebody from Rutland, Vermont vs Boloxi, Mississippi will not sound the same, believe
or not believe in some kind or kind of Deity or Deities as you do, have sex like you do, will enjoy what
you do, has family or friends like yours, or have your genetic make up. So what? Move on. If you have
a problem with D.E.I then the problem is with you not D.E.I.. Being anti D.E.I. has to do with your racism,
your sexism, your homophobia, or just being proud of your ignorance.

Lukas is just a bigot. End of story.

* BTW one thing all human beings on the planet has in common is that we are all out of the Great Rift Valley in East Central Africa from back in the day.

BTW 2.0 my World would be much better if everybody would get up in the morning and say this,
“What can I do to make Botany happy today?” And make me some good meals too.

Botany =