It’s a shitshow in a flaming clown car driving on top of a runaway train which is about to jump the tracks and crash into a schoolbus full of nuns. That’s the nicest way I could describe it.
Mooch, we hardly knew ye…
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I. Cant. Even. Right. Now.
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Not a good few days for the Mooch. Wife divorces him, misses the birth of his son (his own doing), gets fired after 10 days, and now is going to be on the hook for millions in cap gains taxes on the Skybridge sale. He was like a guest star on a Sopranos episode.
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Trump Learns Unqualified Communications Director Is Unqualified After Hiring Him
Weren’t we promised a bunch of management competence because, you know, Trump Is a CEO, right?
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Oh my God that’s funny! Brilliant
At least we know one thing with absolute certainty. Scaramucci isn’t trying to suck his own dick.
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The BIG question is this, guys…
Will Trump take the advice and recommendations of General Kelly…and not contradict and blindside him with Tweets?
We’ll see.
Actually, I think both could be true. I think Trump could be so utterly shambolic that a move against centralised federal power of the type that currently exists would receive wide bipartisan support. But I am a silver lining type of chap.
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Actually gutted Scaramuchi is gone. He was the comedic silver lining of this train wreck. The brightest stars burn out so quickly.
Who else will accuse Bannon of autofellatio now that the Mooch is gone?
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I thought this was why everyone who voted for him did so… I think it may take another sham or two to accomplish much, though. Let’s have an avowed socialist in 2020 or 2024!
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Note this is written by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ):
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442
If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it. If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?
Meanwhile, the strange specter of an American president’s seeming affection for strongmen and authoritarians created such a cognitive dissonance among my generation of conservatives—who had come of age under existential threat from the Soviet Union—that it was almost impossible to believe. Even as our own government was documenting a concerted attack against our democratic processes by an enemy foreign power, our own White House was rejecting the authority of its own intelligence agencies, disclaiming their findings as a Democratic ruse and a hoax. Conduct that would have had conservatives up in arms had it been exhibited by our political opponents now had us dumbstruck.
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If you elect a clown, don’t be surprised if you get a circus.
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From Senator Flakes Book:
“…If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it. If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?”…”
Scaramucci is gone.
You guys tired of winning yet?
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In addition…will General Kelly lead to that “pivot” in the President; from childishness, narcissism and paranoia; that many (myself included) have been waiting for? Or is that just who the President is…and no number of Generals will change that?
Again…we’ll have to see.
We are all already aware of the answers to those questions. There will be no pivot.
From the article:
“But we conservatives mocked Barack Obama’s failure to deliver on his pledge to change the tone in Washington even as we worked to assist with that failure. It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime. It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us. It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued. To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties.”
That is a remarkably frank, and politically brave, article. Kudos, Senator Flake.
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Too honest for public consumption, too scalding for his peers to tolerate.
If he can’t emerge as a leader of the party he’s done.
(just speculation, of course)
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Serious question, T (and others):
General Kelly should bring “something”, right?