Guess I should have seen it coming: due to Trump’s innate inability to vet any of his appointees for anything other than whether they say nice things about him, the Whittaker appointment is rapidly turning into Scaramucci II, with a side of Trump University Redux.
Yeah, most of the time the spectacular incompetence of the current White House is a cause for weeping, but that’s leavened by occasional bursts of hilarity like the above.
A recent article in Rolling Stone almost deserves its own Pit thread. CFSG is installing decent, upstanding Christians in important positions in the Department of Health and Human Services. Those good people who have a much better handle on how you should be behaving than you do. It begins by talking about an official making inquiries to a doctor about what would happen if a woman had taken an abortifacient and failed to take the second dose in the prescribed time (which was totally not about a person in custody at the border – I mean totally).
I got through a dozen paragraphs of the article before I decided I wanted to keep the dinner I just ate. It is that disgusting.
And he’s the best guy. Because I’ve got the best people, the best. I’m very good at people! And this guy and me, we’re close, we’re so close, you wouldn’t believe it. You wouldn’t believe how close we are.
Have Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone ever been so… political? I remember the occasional politics-related article on the cover of the Spanish edition of RS, but it’s usually something that’s got some relationship with music and the arts (interview with Minister for Culture, Education and the Arts, for example), and not along the lines of “this guy is a clown”. We’ve had our share of clowns (with my apologies to circus workers) and they didn’t make the cover of RS.
Either his dementia is progressing rapidly, or he’s just so unaware of what a bad liar he is that he thinks he can get away with claiming he doesn’t know the man he just (illegally) picked to run the DOJ.
I’ll repeat what I said: it’s the Christian warriors we should fear. Donald Trump is aligning his administration with hardcore Christian fanatics. He is giving religious zealots unprecedented access to power, because it suits them and it suits him. They get unprecedented access to power, and because of that, they will go to extraordinary lengths to protect him. They don’t give a god damn about the Constitution or the rule of law. He’s going to load the government with Christian nutters. Imagine what happens when he starts front-loading our military with zealot generals.
Can’t speak for VF, but much of Rolling Stone’s early reputation was made on on political content, particularly the immortal Hunter S. Thompson’s dispatches during the '72 Presidential campaign. See Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
Well, mainly the World Patent Marketing thing mentioned by another poster, although the (apparent) FACT non-profit scam seems to be a contender as well. As I understand it, Whittaker has been appointed in part to oversee an agency (the FBI) that is currently investigating a company that the Justice Department’s new boss was deeply involved with. Even for Trump’s merry band of reprobates, that’s a bit much. Guess we’ll see if Whittaker ever even makes it to a confirmation hearing.
Has the white house come forward with an official explanation as to why Sessions was fired? I mean its obvious that it was about the Mueller investigation, but I’m curious what the official word is (if any). When a reporter asked this directly, she was lambasted by the president for asking a stupid questions (which was distracting enough that in the process he forgot to answer it) but they can’t avoid the obvious question forever.
Or he understands his base. Lying to them is like lying to your dog. They’ll believe anything he says even if what he says today contradicts what he said yesterday.
Trump’s problem is he doesn’t grasp what people outside his base are thinking. He goes to a rally and thousands of people are cheering for him; he then mistakenly believes that they represent the nation as a whole.