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CIA Director John Ratcliffe invited Elon Musk to meet with him next week, suggesting the nation’s top intelligence agencies won’t be exempt from the tech billionaire’s efforts to slash government spending.

“Director Ratcliffe has invited Elon Musk to meet with him at the Agency to discuss government efficiency,” a CIA spokesperson told POLITICO.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

SMH. This is such a stupid timeline. Why does anyone think that fElon is qualified for any of this shit?

He isn't even qualified to run xitter, FFS.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

Can't have personnel costs if you get all your agents killed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Expect him to walk out saying:

"I've investigated and the CIA is operating with perfect efficiency!"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

if this were a movie it would be a set up to get whacked, like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I lost all faith in the CIA being anything more than an engine to keep America’s international capitalist interests intact. If they were actually trying to keep the US safe and stable Trump wouldn’t be president because the all powerful CIA of lore would have ended him

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, if the CIA ever wants to talk to you, you're not in for a good time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Unless you are a chemist in the 1950s and 1960s, that just means they need more LSD for weird and fucked up experiments. Also they used it all while watching The Thing from Another World.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

“you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you're in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, ‘Roll the film.’ And it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before … that looks suspiciously like it's from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president, ‘Any questions?’… ‘Er, just what my agenda is.’”