Elephants and Jackasses...

Eleven days. Eleven FUCKING days.

Has Trump hired Vince MacMahon to his cabinet yet? Or perhaps Mr. Burns. He's a successful tycoon who can run the show.

No sarcasm: the members of this message board could run the government better than what is in charge. If you got rid of every single one of the cabinet and replaced them with a critical thinker, the country would start simmering down immedietly.

 

Huh, Donald Trump isn't a great judge of character and had to fire a douche bag for going on the record talking about sucking cock, forgetting he's not in college?

Color me shocked.

Next youll tell me thats not the real hair of a 70 year old man...

 

Honestly: if you were directly hired by the President Of The United States, would your instinct be to continue talking like Brooks Bros. slime?

Your communications director-- of your entire country-- torpedoed himself in one, single solitary interview. My favourite part was the death threats. That one goes right up here. Right on the fridge so everyone can always see and laugh hysterically at it.

 

Here's thing thing: Trump was 100% ok with Mooch being a New York Piece-of-shit because Trump is a New York Piece-of-shit. The issue came when Trump tapped Kelly to be the new Chief of Staff, and as a military man Kelly wasn't going to put up with any of the shit that had been flying around the West Wing the last six months. He'll instill discipline in the office, but how long he can avoid conflict with Trump when Trump himself is the biggest source of chaos, incompetency and unprofessionalism in the WH is a question that remains to be answered.

 

The first time I read that interview was when it was posted in here. I still can't believe it's real. To pack that much Jose Canseco-level fuck-up into one conversation....it's as if he hired this guy by throwing at a dart board and it landed on "Worst Human Being Alive." He would make Gordon Ramsey walk off the set.

In six months the inner sanctum of this administration has gone through more employees than ten roofing crews. It's comedy. SNL doesn't need to exist anymore. Life has become art.

 

At this point, if I were directly hired by the President of the United States, I'd start wearing some sort of knife-stopping material on my back.

I'll give props where they are due: he's crammed 4 years of Republican fuckery (golfing, lies, scandals, staff changes, and general incompetence) into a few short months. I'm amused by the media response now which is basically: "here's what he did TODAY...we'll be back tomorrow with more 'why the fuck did we do this, unless he picks his phone up and more leadership falls from his haunches'"

I'm curious at what point simple fatigue of his bullshit sets in. Also, the fun part is watching the Russia investigation, because each time that takes a turn for the worse, Trump seems to swing for the fences with a ridiculous act by the most powerful man on Earth.

I am sincerely baffled by anyone that thinks Kelly can corral this gang and impose order. He might growl and pull some Marine corps tactics, but Mattis is smart enough to run his ship and keep the fuck out of the way....I don't think you can say the same for Kelly, he's diving head first into the snake pit. My bet is Kelly was hired to be the scapegoat for firing Sessions and neutering the Russia investigation, then Trump can just shrug and say "I didn't believe he was the best man for the job and look, someone agreed with me!". Communications director for our Chief Executive Twitter Twat is low on the list, and I'm wagering top of the list is a new AG.

 

You jest, but Vince McMahon's wife is actually on Trump's cabinet. She's the administrator of the Small Business Administration

 

This strikes me as significant: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake (R) goes after Trump full bore. Likens him to both the Biblical flood and to Mephistopheles, which are two incredibly blunt metaphors. Discusses the role of the Congress in checking an out of control President, which is at least dipping a toe in the impeachment water.

 

The XFL was awesome. But WWE is like Wal-Mart now where they simply destroyed all competition. Or their competition hired Vince Russo and destroyed themselves.

...I jest because Vince is Trump's friend, and also a giant blowhard billionaire asshole. I actually expect to see him have Trump's ear in the next 3.5 or so years.

Imagine if they made suplexes legal in congress again.

 

Also, coincidently, Jeff Flake wrote an op-ed like Aetius linked before. Just so happens to come out after Preibus is gone. They know the White House is a total wild card now.

 

It was but the GOP could reasonably rely on them to push their agenda. Now that he's openly shitting on them, they don't have much reason to keep him around for long. They are better off with Pence in office and trying to repair what scraps they have left.

 

That's what I'm thinking. They planned to squeeze every drop out of their elected orange but it's gone rotten on them. They're readying the trash bin.

 

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/31/how-the-trump-administration-broke-the-state-department/

I spoke to my buddy at the CDC last night, and he said just about the same thing: they are breaking things they don't understand. Also, with the budget cuts they are asking for it's going from cutting funding into actual attrition, where people are getting fired.

I dunno about the rest of you, but I kind of think the CDC's work is important and I wouldn't mind them having more resources than they need, especially when it comes to the dozens of folks with MPH's there.

We see the headlines, and shake our heads, but the folks living it are just in awe of how stupid this administration is regarding the work they do. My buddy contrasted the two HHS leads: the previous one would do his best to absorb as much as he possibly could, asking pointed questions and then soliciting education from his staff. This guy basically asks "what are the 2 main points I need to know and how to we avoid getting into trouble? I'll figure the rest out myself". That is the recipe for colossal ignorance and disaster. These are the people protecting us from AIDS, Zika, and reversing the tide of anti-vaxxing? Not to mention advising the rest of the government on how to administer the ACA? Christ help us.

 

Isn't FEMA currently without top level leadership? In case of emergency, we don't even have the mallet to break the glass.

 

There's a whole series on Mini Mooch. They're really well done:

https://i.imgur.com/u6bcRDE.gifv

https://i.imgur.com/yRXBaRA.gifv