As per The Family Circus, it was undoubtedly Ida Know, Not Me, and/or Nobody.
And the dispatchers didn’t keep a written log? Bullshit.
Damn. That was a very moving article. It encapsulates very well, as Senator Duckworth puts it, “the difference between true patriotism and hateful nationalism”.
Reporting today claims that Cohen wasn’t sent back to prison because he was out in a restaurant but because he refused to sign an NDA prohibiting him from talking to the press and publishing a book he’d been writing in prison about Trump. More investigative reporting will be done but there appears to be no standing prohibition from writing and publishing a book while in prison, so this is being viewed with some suspicion regarding the source of the NDA condition being placed on Cohen.
Boo fucking hoo.
Callers on President Trump in recent weeks have come to expect what several allies and advisers describe as a “woe-is-me” preamble.
The president rants about the deadly coronavirus destroying “the greatest economy,” one he claims to have personally built. He laments the unfair “fake news” media, which he vents never gives him any credit. And he bemoans the “sick, twisted” police officers in Minneapolis, whose killing of an unarmed black man in their custody provoked the nationwide racial justice protests that have confounded the president.
Gone, say these advisers and confidants, many speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations, are the usual pleasantries and greetings.
Instead, Trump often launches into a monologue placing himself at the center of the nation’s turmoil. The president has cast himself in the starring role of the blameless victim — of a deadly pandemic, of a stalled economy, of deep-seated racial unrest, all of which happened to him rather than the country.
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Po-po Donnie.
Looks like Fauci might not be long for this administration.
Another “adult in the room,” who thought he could do good for the country by staying in public spotlight to be the voice of reason amid the chaos, is about to be shit canned for making the president look bad.
President, shit can yourself.
Why would he do that? None of this is his fault; nothing ever is.
And make sure to flush 10 times.
In fact, Donnie is the victim! (See my post above.) Everybody is just mean to him all the time!
I wish people who really should have known better (Fauci, Mattis, McMaster, etc) would have quit sooner and ripped his ass up in public a lot more vocally. Fuck protecting or respecting the office of the presidency. If 63 million dumb asses who voted for this bag of dicks didn’t respect the office, why should they. The point is to try to reach at least enough people in this group of 63 million and remind them that they made a potentially fatal decision to vote for this idiot. “Fatal” in the sense that real people are dying because of his incompetence and willful lying to the public on a daily basis.
Trying to make nice and all that is just rolling over and getting fucked. And lots of people are getting fucked by their own personal decision to take it in the rectum. Sorry for being so crude - not in the mood to write particularly good, thoughtful prose at the moment.
Correct me if I’m wrong – I thought Trump couldn’t fire Fauci.
He can order the HHS Sec to order the NIH Dir to fire Fauci. Or he can just bounce Fauci off the Corona task force. Which he has already effectively done.
Ignorance fought – thanks!
Covered in this article:
Under Federal law, he can be fired if he is found to have engaged in “misconduct, neglect of duty, malfeasance, or failure to accept a direct reassignment or to accompany a position in a transfer of function”, is or to be “less than successful [in his] executive performance.”
Contradicting Donnie or making him look revealing that he is stupid surely qualify as appropriate offenses.
He can’t fire him directly, but he can instruct him not to talk to the press without prior authorization and then fire him for insubordination if he defies that order.
No, he can’t. From the article:
However, prior to being terminated for performance or conduct, Dr. Fauci must be given the due process protections offered by 5 U.S.C. § 7543(b), which provides that he is entitled to:
- at least 30 days’ advance written notice, unless there is reasonable cause to believe the employee has committed a crime for which a sentence of imprisonment may be imposed, stating the specific reasons for the proposed action;
- a reasonable time, but not less than 7 days, to answer orally and in writing and to furnish affidavits and other documentary evidence in support of the answer;
- be represented by an attorney or other representative; and
- a written decision and the specific reasons therefor at the earliest practicable date.
In the unlikely event Dr. Fauci has to participate in this process, he has, in most instances, appeal rights to the MSPB, and the Federal Circuit.
Good luck with that. Last I heard, there are no board members on the MSPB to appeal to.