Or that’s at least how this news went public. Tweet.
Mr. ‘5,000 troops to Colombia’ is out. Good. Fuck that war mongering piece of garbage.
Very funny video clip (toward the top for now) in a response there, of Trump calling him “Mike Bolton”.
I’m glad to see the back of him. He’s a horror show.
I just worry how much worse the horror show gets going forward. And when one must worry about how bad things can get after John Bolton, one knows we are in serious trouble.
LOL, bobot, I can hear how that ran through his demented head: “Therefore, I’m firing Mike P – John Bolton!”
I’m not sorry Bolton is gone, but … was this anything close to a reasoned decision, or just Trump being impetuous? Were there signs Bolton was on his way out or did this announcement come out of the blue?
Damn it!
I’d been meaning to start a Trump administration death pool thread in Elections, and was going to put Bolton at the top of my list. Now it’s too late.
Dysfunctional fucking shitshow.
Trump has never made a reasoned decision.
Anyone who works for him ought to know by now that he will eventually turn on them.
Trump probably thought he had hired Michael Bolton, and it took him this long to figure out who the guy with the walrus mustache was that kept showing up.
Kudos to Trump for doing the right thing— by which I mean correcting his horrible decision to appoint Bolton in the first place, and doing so on a whim, for the dumbest, pettiest, most narcissistic and ill-considered reasons.
When you lay dying on Afghanistans plains… Bolton wanted to remian.
A co-worker just walked in and announced, “Trump finally did something right!”
I guessed “shot himself in the head,” but that wasn’t it.
Yes, I strongly opposed Bolton’s efforts to block Venezuela from being taking over by a dictator, protect democracy in Hong Kong, and treat the Taliban like partial instigators of 9/11.
Good riddance!
And don’t forget the constant pressing to go to war with Iran…
My guess is that he simply lost the Bolton vs Pompeo over-the-top battle royal grudge match.
It’s been said before, but this seems to be further proof — if any were needed — that CFSG loves it when his subordinates are at each others’ throats. Like a certain other historical autocrat whose name escapes me at the moment (Adelbert? Adramelech? …).
And Churchill believed that they needed to slap Germany on the wrist after they remilitarized the Rhineland.
One notes that Israel has destroyed a number of Iranian military possessions in Syria, near the Israeli border, as “slaps on the wrist” and those were effective and did not lead to war. They just stopped Iran from continually testing the resolve of Israel.
Asserting that X means war does not mean that X means war. That view needs to be backed by evidence and reason, not a personal animosity for military action, regardless of everything.
The current evidence is that Iran is rational. They take what they can get away with and stop when they can’t.
This is still what passes for good news these days.
You’ve got to learn to be more Moneyball about this - Bolton’s below his VORNSA because of the Iran thing, not because of any of those things.
Oh you beautiful goofball. Don’t ever change.