US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

Mnuchin's fate is to wind up a background player on his wife's reality show.

Morale Low At State Department After Only Employee Fired https://t.co/83lq3P87zc pic.twitter.com/dxhehYwP3s

— Onion Politics (@OnionPolitics) March 13, 2018

An odd little detail

https://deadspin.com/uconn-trick-shot-qb-turned-trump-valet-fired-due-to-hom-1823731168

xp every time I see Mnuchin he seems nervously excited to be temporarily freed form bondage hood / human pony harness

it's true though

*Treasury Department photo with wife + bills bills bills*

Morale Low At State Department After Only Employee Fired By Only Employee At White House

btw, good on Tillerson for not meekly stepping aside when 'warned' by Kelly and instead making Trump publically fire him without apparent cause.

it'll look better once the trials begin

!!! 2:00 p.m. – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will make an On-Camera Statement in the Press Briefing Room

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 13, 2018

is trump in the right now? are we having a coup?

ICE Spokesperson resigns, won't spread lies for Trump administration any longer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/california-ice-spokesman-resigns.html

trump in the *air right now, i should have said

The President and Mr. Cohen have purposely ignored our settlement offer, thus doubling down on their efforts to muzzle Ms. Clifford and prevent her from telling the American people what happened. Time to buckle up. #basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) March 13, 2018

lookin a little Stormy outside today

Best wishes to Secretary KILLERSON.... he SEVERED our nation well! Eeeh hahahaaaa!!! Now boy and ghouls, here's another bone-chilling announcement from the FRIGHT House press office!! https://t.co/3RkbP8Y5fp

— Official Centrism (@pareene) March 13, 2018

Tillerson will probably do the whole cordial “it was a pleasure to serve” thing.

if anyone wants to watch, here's a stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMVAWPgXWqs

my hope that he's going to take a flamethrower to the administration is probably not going to be fulfilled

cmon rex didn't you ever learn the importance of being punctual?

Fredos Frodos and Fraudos all the way down still?

Trump asking for advice on Stormy Daniels situation. https://t.co/Ol1JXPGVzD

— US President News (@President) March 13, 2018

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE pic.twitter.com/0CouhAMXMJ

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 13, 2018

well that was underwhelming..

More changes expected include a McMaster departure soon, as NBC recently reported. Among replacements, Tillerson had expressed concerns about working with Bolton.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 13, 2018

xp: seemed like he was about to cry or have a stroke. Not sure which.

i imagine that he's pretty stoked to get back to making a ton of money at exxon again

“I hope Tillerson is sad because his ego is shattered and not because he believes with good reason that we are on the verge of World War III”-David Kilon

People close to John McEntee said problems related to online gambling and mishandling of his taxes prevented him from gaining the clearance necessary for the role as Trump's personal assistant. https://t.co/SNtxxdfi93

— Tim Hanrahan (@TimJHanrahan) March 13, 2018

was "No chaos, only great energy!" this month because damn that would've made a great thread title

Yeah, that was last week.

damn. time flies

I knew this administration would be a total shit show but I was not expecting it to be this consistent. like every single week brings "infrastructure week" jokes

An effort to rip off the bandaid fast

Huh. I thought Trump's main kink was pee.

JUST IN: Schumer says at this point he is not calling in Democrats to oppose Pompeo and Haspel, but wants to hear from them first pic.twitter.com/mY0DSYHF7D

— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) March 13, 2018

ok I'm starting to think Chuck might not be the person for the job

McEntee looks kinda like a young Charles Grodin.

isn't that what leaders do -- wait for their subordinates to issue orders?

Huh. I thought Trump's main kink was pee.

apparently he also enjoys BDSM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-the-stormy-story-more-damaging-than-we-thought

can't wait for the spectacle of large portions of the left pretending to get worked up about common sexual practices while the party of hypocritical moralizing bible-thumpers look the other way

Schumer is the Fucking Worst

I think the calculation is that you spend your energy fighting other battles. Pompeo and Haspel are not wholly unqualified, like DeVos is; they are just the abhorrent norm among officials approved by the Republican right wing. Since they'll be confirmed anyway, Schumer's letting Democratic senators pick their battles.

It does undercut any unified message of principled opposition, but the Democrats have never been good at that sort of thing.

Schumer held his caucus together impressively during last spring's confirmation hearings; I guess he figures he has other things on his mind.

can't wait for the spectacle of large portions of the left pretending to get worked up about common sexual practices while the party of hypocritical moralizing bible-thumpers look the other way

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:14 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't wait for a vocal minority of the left to go on about how it's more important to respect the rights of the kink community than to play judo with the self-conception of uptight or mysoginistic trads in service of the effort to bring down one of the most significant threats to world lives or even civilization.

Never mind the potential legal significance of such facts to maybe the biggest criminal investigation in American history

www.moovaughn.org

oh fuck off. trads and evangelicals could not be clearer that they hired a manager and enforcer and don't give a fuck what he does or says. they will not be shamed by hypocrisy -- have they ever? in our history? it will in no way bring him down. getting church lady on this shit will do one thing only and that's laugh at other people's lives.

i'm still not convinced President Pence will be better. Trump's incoherence and energy for nothing but boodling is about as good as we can hope for from unified GOP government

xp lol

I didn't say anything about hypocrisy

I need no convincing that Pence will be worse. Still no reason to keep Trump. It wouldn't surprise me if Mueller's waiting for Dems to pick up the House so he can formally bring his charges.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/trump-ordered-rex-tillerson-to-eat-caesar-salad.html

In a private room in China’s Great Hall of the People in November, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sat with President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials as their hosts delivered plates of wilted Caesar salad.

Mr. Trump, in the midst of a five-country tour of Asia, grew concerned the untouched greens would offend the Chinese, according to people familiar with the matter. So he ordered Mr. Tillerson to start. “Rex,” he said, “eat the salad.”

"..and then eat my salad. Because I'm not eating a salad. I'm the President."

Eat the Salad, My Ass (I Will Never Eat the Salad)

.@shearm & @maggieNYT capture how Trump 2020 campaign is becoming dumping ground for ousted WH officials - https://t.co/tnUM5tEZA3

— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) March 13, 2018

And what I am saying is that it's fair and right and good and effective to tell the kind of trash that gets off on "lock her up" and "pocahontas" and "very strong"/"very rough" etc., whatever sort of religion they may or may not claim (and many are not religious at all, let alone 'evangelicals'), that their hero gets off on getting peed on or slapped by women, especially when the stakes are as high as they are.

Maybe a large segment of Trump superfans will come out as kinksters themselves and we'll see a new element introduced into his arena rallies, and more likely the vast majority will yes dismiss it all as "fake news" (which doesn't mean they won't believe it, they'll just choose as much as possible not to acknowledge or even think about it), but if you think it will have no effect, you're kidding yourself just as much the strawman you think believes it will bring him down.