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re: Director of National Counterterrorism resigns due to Iran conflict

Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:02 pm to
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:02 pm to
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udtiger


The rest of that post... interesting read.

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Imagine the fricking symmetry of it all...

Joe Kent resigns on March 17, 2026, in a theatrical spasm of “moral opposition” to the Iran theater, pinning the blame not on Tehran’s apocalyptic centrifuges or proxy bloodbaths but on the invisible hand of Israeli lobbying.

A week.

One goddamn week later, he’s slithering onto Tucker Carlson’s stage...the very altar of isolationist sophistry, the traitor’s confessional booth where weakness is liturgy and America First is bastardized into Fortress Solipsism.

What are the fricking odds?

Zero.

Because this isn’t coincidence; it’s choreography. A danse macabre of disloyalty scripted in the psychology of the ambitious coward.

Kent’s resignation isn’t conscience; it’s the classic narcissistic injury masquerading as virtue.

The man who once embodied the Spartan code...kill the enemy before he kills you...now fractures under the weight of actual power, revealing the underlying pathology of the performative patriot.

Philosophically, this is straight out of Nietzsche’s abyss:

the slave morality that inverts strength into “moral clarity,” where duty to the collective survival of the West is reframed as some Zionist puppetry.

He doesn’t oppose war; he opposes winning it on terms that expose his own irrelevance.

The timing? A venomous tell.

One week grants him the martyr halo without the scrutiny of a full audit trail, the perfect incubation period for the media virus to metastasize.

Psychology 101:

betrayal is rarely spontaneous; it simmers in the ego’s petri dish, fed by resentment at being sidelined, by the siren call of Carlson’s audience metrics, by the sweet rot of relevance regained through contrarian grift.

And Tucker...the arch-priest of the traitor’s show...welcomes him not as journalist but as enabler, two symptoms of the same metastatic disease.

Carlson’s platform isn’t analysis; it’s a philosophical abattoir where America’s lethal imperative is carved up for clicks, where profound understanding of great-power competition is reduced to “why die for Israel?” while Tehran laughs and sharpens its knives.

Kent doesn’t appear to confess; he appears to recruit.

To sow the seeds of fracture in the very administration that elevated him, turning a national security post into a launchpad for the dissident right’s self-cannibalization.

This is no accident of scheduling; it’s the predator’s precision...strike when the wound is fresh, when the body politic is still bleeding from the resignation headline, when the venom can spread before antibodies form.

In the end, it’s pure evolutionary pathology:

the movement’s immune system identifying and expelling the parasite that mistakes retreat for wisdom.

Kent isn’t a whistleblower; he’s the Judas with a podcast deal, trading the Green Beret’s oath for the couch commando’s catharsis.

Tucker isn’t exposing truth; he’s the vector, the sophisticated vector of division that philosophy warns us about since Plato’s Republic...demagogues who erode the guardian class from within.

frick the odds.

This was inevitable the moment Kent chose ego over empire
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Posted by RollTide4547
Member since Dec 2024
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Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:03 pm to
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SlowFlowPro
Frick Off Loser.
Posted by DyeHardDylan
Member since Nov 2011
9787 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:05 pm to
Joe Kent is a good guy and he’s right
Posted by Wraytex
San Antonio - Gonzales
Member since Jun 2020
4036 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:10 pm to
I'm sure he was happy to see the USAID funds dry up.
Posted by dickkellog
little rock
Member since Dec 2024
2961 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:11 pm to
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Joe Kent is a good guy and he’s right


you didn't even know who the phuck he was, but finally something to give the panican's and rombots a new hope!

break out your rape whistles boys! panican's rally!

medic! medic!

Posted by ole man
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
18049 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:31 pm to
He just told you who he is
Posted by HeadSlash
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Member since Aug 2006
56000 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:33 pm to
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Iran should have been dealt with years ago.


THIS
Posted by RohanGonzales
Pronoun: Whatever
Member since Apr 2024
10707 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:33 pm to
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He just told you who he is


yep, the next piece of shite "former Republican" we will be seeing on cable.

Why didn't he quit at the start?
Posted by tigerlion
Member since Jul 2009
2322 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:45 pm to
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Does the administration understand how incompetent they look with this "Known Leaker" narrative?


As I knew several months ago (April 2025) those 3 advisers in the Pentagon (boys with Hegseth) who were let go weren’t actual leakers either. The “leakers” aren’t usually leakers. They’re just the non-yes men who know too much.
This post was edited on 3/17/26 at 1:59 pm
Posted by TulsaSooner78
Member since Aug 2025
3006 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 2:15 pm to
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Good riddance.....you pussy!


Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
24894 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 2:17 pm to
Poor, poor baby
Posted by UtahCajun
Member since Jul 2021
5818 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 2:40 pm to
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So what does “should of” mean?

You from Louisiana? If so, you should know it stems from the accentized should've. Kinda how trout line came from trotline.
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And why are you so offended? I wasn’t talking to you initially, but I sure seem to have hit a sore spot

Not as offended as you seemed to be. You felt it neccessary to call out the dude. Either offended or trying to feel superior...whatever. Makes no difference to me. I just shite post the shite posters.
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Speaking that way makes you seem uneducated and ignorant. Perhaps that impression is accurate

Educated enough to know that language has always been fluid and always will. Educated enough to realize why it changed and to understand it when it does. Maybe it is you who are lacking in that dept.

If this were professional world, my view would be different. Casual setting, frick grammer nazis. Dey small minded yeah.
This post was edited on 3/17/26 at 2:41 pm
Posted by Hayekian serf
GA
Member since Dec 2020
4215 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 2:50 pm to
I don’t see it that way. If anything, Pericles himself wasn’t exactly a model of restraint—he helped set the stage for a war Athens ultimately lost, even if he didn’t live to see the end, so it’s hard to pin all the blame on him. And for what it’s worth, Trump does share his fondness for walls.

That said, I do think there’s a real strategic parallel people overlook. Pericles’ approach was essentially: avoid getting dragged into your opponent’s strength on land, sit behind the walls, and leverage naval dominance to apply pressure and control the broader conflict. If you squint, you can see a similar instinct—leaning on power projection and avoiding certain types of entanglement rather than fighting on unfavorable terms.

Of course, the contexts are completely different, and Pericles was operating within a much more defined long-term strategy, whereas today’s global landscape is far more complex.

My main point is just that the underlying geopolitical realities—and the patterns of power—are still there, just as they were back then.

Posted by TigahJay
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2015
11396 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:12 pm to
This board told me last week Israel had nothing to do with us bombing Iran. Interesting…
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
28182 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:22 pm to
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udtiger


Yes, I'm sure LHGrey from X has the inside scoop.

"Femme Fatale. Artist & Writer. Gay. Alpha count. Exorcist of the Narratives. Visceral. Hellbitch. MAGAz. Atheist. TAKEN By My Babydoll "

She's doing what the board retards have been doing for 15 pages; attacking the man and not what he said. It's all half of them are capable of.
Posted by RohanGonzales
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Member since Apr 2024
10707 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:25 pm to
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She's doing what the board retards have been doing for 15 pages; attacking the man and not what he said. It's all half of them are capable of.


I am not attacking him, I am attacking where his profound moral principles for the first couple of weeks of the conflict were hiding.
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
28182 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:27 pm to
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I am not attacking him,


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yep, the next piece of shite "former Republican" we will be seeing on cable.


Ok.
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
28182 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:27 pm to
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This board told me last week Israel had nothing to do with us bombing Iran. Interesting…


I don't know why you'd listen to them when the Secretary of State said otherwise.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
63801 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:36 pm to
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You from Louisiana? If so, you should know it stems from the accentized should've. Kinda how trout line came from trotline.


Ok, you should just stop. I asked what does it mean by reading the words, not what someone who uses it is trying to say.

Also since “trotline” has nothing to do with the incorrect “trout line”, I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, other than that both instances make someone sound uneducated and ignorant.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
37609 posts
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:37 pm to
Lots of parallels in the lessons to be learned . The circumstances are not exact, I'll give you that. Trump sounds like Cleon but operates a little like Pericles but could see himself ultimately facing Heraclius fate 1100 years later. You win and as you recover and take your victory lap and attempt to recover a new power moves in. The only difference is that the new power is known . Heraclius did not see the new power building until it was too late.
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