Woke is rather pervasive in all DC organizations. The DC area is 90% liberal and looking for any excuse to get rid of the other 10%. I just put it down as to why Hunter Biden's laptop has been in limbo for years, and Guliani gets raided.

Is it working? Did they recruit a bunch of young people?

I’m sure it will benefit the CIA to recruit a cadre of younger millennials who can endlessly engage in the woke internal discussions of the sort that are currently tearing Basecamp apart.

Didn't the Dept of Justice advertise that their jobs would not be subject to testing for mental acuity?

I'm tellin' ya: Reasoning Deficit Disorder is real.

As real as ADHD, Asperger's, autism, etc.

You saw it here first.

The CIA is a group that lies professionally. Hiring the woke makes some sense in that context. They want to hire experienced liars and see if they can add the professional stuff later instead of starting with professionals and teaching them to lie.

which will explain how 'enhanced interrogation' is actually super woke

That's frightening. Think about it: 10 hour struggle sessions until you talk. Do not be surprised if we hear from those subjected to them to say I'd rather been water boarded.

> You saw it here first.

Oh, wait.

great - and how long will it be before one of these woke spooks decides to leak personal information about everyone voted for someone they don't like, or belongs to the wrong organization, or has simply spoken to the wrong person?

these people are very dangerous, people have to get past the idea that they're just misguided but 'well intentioned'. Most of them are actually self absorbed bigots.

"great - and how long will it be before one of these woke spooks decides to leak personal information..."

Considering that's their mission, about 3 seconds.

I know from person contacts, most of the people working for the CIA are office drones. Low level paper pushers.

You get access to classified data on a need to know basis.

OTOH, when everyone coming out of college with a liberal arts degree has been politicized, into socialist workness, I am sure that actual spy recruitment pool is about an inch deep and draining fast.

I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder

Because that's what you want in a spy, an over-arching sense of anxiety and worry. Actually.... No. Maybe. Well....

Still, this doesn't seem like a good mental condition for a spy or spymaster or even an analyst to have.

"I get paid to be suspicious when I've got nothing to be suspicious about." ~ Wilford Brimley in The Firm

> generalized anxiety disorder

Hi Hill....

"Because that's what you want in a spy, an over-arching sense of anxiety and worry. Actually.... No. Maybe. Well...." ~Conan

Did no one think to cast Woody Allen as a James Bond knockoff?

Who would have known these kids would end up working for the CIA?

https://imgur.com/r/TheNewRight/LFeMWwO

I wonder if she knows that's what she's getting set up for.

The Firm was Brimley's best role, and completely unexpected. We coulda used two fewer scenes of Hackman and two more of Wilfred.

"Intimate acts… Oral, and such...."

That moment when you realize you can't remember a single other Brimley movie besides Cocoon, which was also the last time anyone ever heard from the Welch girl.

I remember him as the Grandpa from "Our House". He saved the dog from a fire.

…in the middle of the street?

okay NM

…in the middle of the street? ~ Crid at May 7, 2021 11:15 AM

This is Madness!

"It's exactly this kind of communal street life the high-rise block is destroying." ~ Mike "The Cool Guy" (from The Young Ones)

Thank you for preventing a profound generational humiliation.

(There was something Beatle-ish about that tune.)

Also, I was in an 11-story building, 200+ units, from 8 to 14… And it was international, like the United Nations. The one thing we had was community, especially that one summer when the A/C broke and it took six weeks to get parts from Georgia, and we kept all the doors open.