The revolving door on the clown car that is this administration spins again.
The scary thought is that maybe, once again, the *less *batshit guy is out.
It is just possible that there is actually no worse American to have in that role than John Bolton. Anyone more qualified will be a blessing and anyone less qualified will have even less sway. He was in an uncanny valley of being remotely qualified but also a total nutjob which made him really dangerous. We should count our blessings that he was incapable of being sufficiently sycophantic to persuade Trump to launch any new wars.
Glad he’s out. One of the absolute worst people from the Bush administration.
And according to each of their Twitter pages, he and Trump have differing things to say about how it ended. So the administration’s credibility is where it’s always been.
Gonna be hard to find someone more batshit that John “We HAVE an army, why don’t we use it?” Bolton.
I hate him so much I actually don’t even care about the circumstances of his departure. It’s a huge relief. The guy was really, really horrible. I would take a Trump cabinet with the turnover rate of an Applebee’s, over George W. Bush and his very stable and predictable menagerie of stone-cold evil.
I fucking hate, HATE Trump, but if a guy like John Bolton is unable to work with him, that’s a point in Trump’s favor as far as I’m concerned, loath as I am to say it.
There are a lot of things to hate about Trump. But the Bush era foreign policy was 100x worse.
Well… “We HAVE nuclear weapons, why don’t we use them?”
So I’m curious. Was Bolton too hawkish for Trump, or not enough?
And thus we see the difference in reaction between incompetent evil and very competent disdain.
I’m torn between being glad that this chicken-hawk nutcase is gone and worried about whatever obsequious toady trump will find to take his place.
Whoever it is will be on an “acting” basis. He sees no need to bother with Senate confirmations anymore.
Trump doesn’t have stable views about the world. He doesn’t fire people because he disagrees with them. He fires them because they step on his narcissism. Bolton probably didn’t behave as Trump wanted for some Fox News segment or refused to stay at Trump properties while traveling.
Trump knew Bolton was a warmonger when he hired him. So all the talk about them diverging on policy is just some post hoc rationalization for what will turn out to be some petty bullshit.
Your statement sums up my feelings exactly.
I see a dual role appointment for Mike Pompeo in the near future.
He was always being sold in the MSM as the guy who wanted war with Iran, so I am guessing “too hawkish”. But who knows? It’s not like the press is going to label anything Trump does as a good idea.
Regards,
Shodan
On hurricanes. :rolleyes:
The press? You mean “The enemy of the people” We all know that Trump is full of fantastic ideas, the best. And it’s only “The Press” who talks them down all the time.
Trump has the best ideas. Everyone says so. Just the other day, a general came up to Trump and said “Sir, Mister President Sir, you have the best ideas, and everyone in America knows it.”
Supposedly this has to do with a planned meeting at Camp David between representatives from the Afghan government and the Taliban. Bolton was against the peace talks.
I don’t know enough about the current situation to say whether these talks are a good idea or not, but as a few others have noted I think Bolton almost certainly would prefer war over peace. Trump seems to have lucked into the correct decision this time.
I would guess too knowledgeable. Bolton was a dangerous, jingoist war monger but he was at least knowledgeable about foreign policy. I would imagine Trump’s random shifting pronouncements based on his gut and what he saw last night on Fox and friends must have eventually been too much for Bolton to handle.
This is a common sentiment, but I am not sure I agree. Bush’s warmongering was at least partly reactionary, and public opinion was much more hawkish than now. Give Trump the same set of circumstances and there’s no way he shows restraint.
In fact, note the way Trump casually throws out threats of “fire and fury” and admiration of nuclear weapons. No-one should kid themselves that we’re in the safe zone of foreign policy now.