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highplainsdem

(60,008 posts)
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 09:50 PM Apr 2025

"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pose like doofuses by the CIA seal in the lobby at Langley...."

The photo of doofuses below was tweeted by Ratcliffe and then Musk earlier this evening.

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"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pose like doofuses by the CIA seal in the lobby at Langley...." (Original Post) highplainsdem Apr 2025 OP
Those numpties shouldn't be seen anywhere near the word "intelligence." Ocelot II Apr 2025 #1
Looks like he's got a crotch rash or something Zorro Apr 2025 #2
That's what's called a power pose. One of them, anyway. Meant to convey self-confidence and highplainsdem Apr 2025 #9
Elon is going full Neo. He thinks. dchill Apr 2025 #3
I hope there are patriots in that building willing to Stinky The Clown Apr 2025 #4
My bet would be bet your ass, and elon knows it... Volaris Apr 2025 #10
Musk looks like a Pixar bad guy. Solly Mack Apr 2025 #5
Not Pixar -- James Bond localroger Apr 2025 #12
I'm sticking with Pixar. Solly Mack Apr 2025 #13
How fucking embarrassing. Swede Apr 2025 #6
He was probably there hard-wiring a direct data link to the Kremlin. LudwigPastorius Apr 2025 #7
Remember, Eloon: Tom Cruise does his OWN stunts. rsdsharp Apr 2025 #8
Come on HAB911 Apr 2025 #11

highplainsdem

(60,008 posts)
9. That's what's called a power pose. One of them, anyway. Meant to convey self-confidence and
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:17 PM
Apr 2025

dominance. He'd probably be standing with arms akimbo as well (superhero pose) if Ratcliffe wasn't right beside him.

Stinky The Clown

(68,924 posts)
4. I hope there are patriots in that building willing to
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:00 PM
Apr 2025

do what is necessary to save our country as it tries to withstand the assault of the Tangerine Titan and the illegal border jumper Afrikaner Fascist.

Volaris

(11,401 posts)
10. My bet would be bet your ass, and elon knows it...
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 08:30 AM
Apr 2025

It's why they started with USAID and HHS, because if one of his boytoys had tried to plug in an outside drive into anything at CIA or DoD (let alone a main data server) that person would have been rightly shot in the head.

localroger

(3,776 posts)
12. Not Pixar -- James Bond
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:19 PM
Apr 2025

Actually the parallels between Musk and Bond villain Hugo Drax from Moonraker are uncanny, particularly since Moonraker was made when Musk was still a child.

Swede

(38,347 posts)
6. How fucking embarrassing.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:10 PM
Apr 2025

Musk has no right to be there. How many patriots struggled and died for their country. And he just gives it all away.

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