Shit, I’d be more comfortable with Roose Bolton.
Can we just switch John Boltons?
Swap in this John Bolton to run national security, and give the Mustache a gig drawing a graphic novel. I think Patrick Stewart got a job that way once.
Back in 1995, Bolton apparently said “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy… I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.”
Bolton turned 18 in November 1966, at which point he could have enlisted. He already considered Vietnam a lost cause in 1966? Guess he must’ve been actively protesting against the war during his time at Yale.
He’s a fucking chickenhawk.
All war, all the time, against everyone… but don’t ask HIM to risk anything.
Rocketman Kim pegged him right – human scum.
So we have a real choice of goodies here: 45’s White House further disintegrates into a spinning gyre and we stumble into a couple of wars with unimaginable consequences; or one or two of his appointees behave in a marginally sane and responsible manner, and people say “See, 45 wasn’t so bad, let’s re-elect him!”
You’re right, I prefer the latter. I can’t say I have actual hope, though.
Sorry, but that’s not the case.
John Bolton is a warmonger. He was a salesman for the invasion of Iraq, and he still argues to this day that it was good policy. He’s also known to have argued that Cuba was working on a WMD program of its own, a theory which was demonstrably false and discredited even by his right wing colleagues. This guy has a history of trying to use prevarication to impose his agenda, which is absolutely the worst kind of character for the role he’s about to undertake. He’s going to reinforce Trump’s ignoramus worldview, and when he’s not, he’s going to sell Trump (likely without any basis in fact) on his own crackpot theories of the Universe. Bolton’s foreign policy is one predicated on absolute American military dominance and supremacy. This is a nightmare we’re about to wake up to.
Seems James “Mad Dog” Mattis is the only voice of sanity left in that administration. I hope it’s enough to avoid a war with North Korea or China.
It’s weird, the only sane one apparently is the “Mad Dog”.
He’s a fucking monster. He’ll fit right in.
The best thing we can hope for, is either the entire administration gets sucked into a black hole of criminal convictions and imprisonment, or they all get together and do a Jim Jones style mass suicide.
But that won’t happen.