Someone once said, Nobody believes a rumor in Washington DC until it’s been officially denied.
Everyone has a plan, until the leopard eats their face.
You can always try to save your own face by persuading the leopard to eat the face of the person next to you. But then when it’s licking its lips and still peckish…
Face-eating leopards are never sated.
Truer words were never spoken.
Indeed. (not sure to put this here or in schadenfraude thread)
Toxic ditz Leavitt could be on the chopping block.
By definition, nothing bad that happens can ever be trump’s fault in trump’s “mind”. So if there is bad news, there must be some underling who caused it.
Whether that bad news is Iran failing to surrender at the first shot, the stock market tanking, the price of oil exploding upwards, the price of everything else soon following suit, trump’s popularity tanking, or his hemorrhoids acting up, somebody traitorously did that to him, and that somebody is going to pay.
I think the purging of top brass in the Army specifically is a bad sign. I suspect they’ve been telling him loud and long that a land invasion of a Middle Eastern country is a really bad idea, and Iran is one of the worst countries to pick for that particular fool’s errand. Since that’s not what the toddler tyrant wants to hear, he’s going to keep firing until he gets some sergeant newly promoted to Chief of Staff who’ll tell him what he wants to hear. Then we invade.
I can’t see the upside to Bondi or Leavett or Hegseth or any of these other ghouls getting under bussed. They need to be in jail. At the end of the day, this is all happening on Trump’s terms, even if he’s being pressured into it.
The only thing that’s going to give me hope is if any of them are impeached and removed. I keep holding out hope that here’s a line that will be too much for even the Republicans in congress.
Barring that, we’re just seeing the faces change but not the underlying problem. Even Trump dying won’t change anything as far as I’m concerned, although I know that’s not a popular position.
Huh? Unlke Steve Rogers, I do NOT understand that reference.
It’s probably for something as shallow as getting “fat” (i.e. pregnant). He wants eye candy.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term “no scalps” in reference to it, but I think the idea is that, up until recent weeks, Trump II had not featured the kind of revolving-door churn in the cabinet and senior staff that the first go-round did.
Part of that, I think, is that in 2017, Trump’s advisors seemed to have convinced him to hire people who weren’t necessarily die-hard Trumpists, but who were nominally good at doing the jobs (remember people talking about “the adults in the room?”)…and Trump canned them once they showed evidence that they weren’t sufficiently loyal.
This time around, he’s hired only sycophants and true believers, but now that things aren’t going well, and his poll numbers don’t look good, he’s looking for fall guys (or gals).
So, the first time he hired for competence, not loyalty, and fired for disloyalty. The second time around, he hired for loyalty, not competence, and they lasted longer, until the incompetence started having affects indistinguishable from disloayalty, at which point they got fired.
@gnoitall, every word of this post (nitpick: except for the typo in “effects” to read “affects”, oh, and the extra “a” in “disloyalty”) should be engraved over the door of the eventual Trump “Presidential” “Library” in letters of gold. Well said.
I don’t think he’ll be next - I think Leavitt will be - but Solicitor General John Sauer’s days are numbered. As soon as The Supremes rule against the White House’s birthright citizenship case, Sauer’s gone.
That’s what I get for posting while distracted, on a phone instead of a computer.
But it’s just sad for this nation that this president is doomed to always get minions that will always disappoint, because loyalty to his “principles” guarantees crippling incompetence.
Maybe if you’re grading on a curve. I might buy the argument that the first time he largely hired for loyalty, but nominally and occasionally hired for a bit of competence as well; the second time, he hired entirely for loyalty.
Yeah, I was going to mostly agree with @gnoitall, until I just looked back at his first cabinet in 2017 and saw names like Betsy Devos, Rick Perry, Sonny Perdue, and (gulp) Ben Carson. Much more loyalty than competence in that austere group.
That, or Mar A Lago Face.
Unlike the bear, with a leopard, outrunning someone else isn’t enough.
Yeah, in 2016 after Trump won the presidency, he had to staff an administration without knowing the kinds of people who could make the government work, so he leaned on the establishment Republican party for recommendations for staffers, with a personal emphasis on those who declared early and often that he was their man. He didn’t know any better, and a lot of them turned out to have varying levels of scruples* that he considered inconvenient, so he fired them. He filled in from those who had proven their loyalty over the course of that administration, such as how Kash Patel’s authorship of the Nunes memo almost got him appointed to “CIA Acting” if the people planning to override the results of the 2020 election had gotten their way.
But in this administration any vestiges of influence that the Republican establishment has had on personnel have been swept away. The more slavish devotion and loyalty you have for Donald Trump, the better - and if you’re not competent to do anything right on your own hook, you’ll be even more to the president, so the bigger screwup you are, the more he’s going to like you.
* Still way less than a public servant should have, but something like a limit beyond which the would get fed up and leave, or defy the president and get fired. Heck, even Jefferson Beauregard Sessions got to a line he refused to cross.