I actually think we would have been better off if Christie had stayed in at the start. For the small parts of the executive branch I do have some visibility, the transition was a mess. At least he had a plan, even if it was probably one I didn’t like
The problem was it wasn’t a plan Trump liked either.
Trump Says Mulvaney to Be Acting Chief of Staff
The man is obviously talented. He can do it all.
Does the iDJiT expect Mulvaney to protect his finances?
It is easier to shoot them as they climb over the wall. When they get wise to that, mines can be placed to blow up the tunnels they dig.
Well, in some ways, the issue of “find someone who wants to join the Trumps” is still unresolved as Mulvaney will have to now be replaced.
However, OMB isn’t likely something in the crosshairs, so it will likely be easier to fill those shoes.
I haven’t seen any comment from Mulvaney, so I’m wondering if he—like the rest of us— first heard about it via Trump’s tweet.
Having read some of Trump’s depositions, in his legal suits, it’s pretty clear that his businesses are poorly run. And at least part of that stems from him having no particular concept of “ownership”. All of the people, jobs, etc. are fungible. Anyone can do anything, if they want to or he wants something done.
I expect that he came to that result, in his business, for much the same reason as he has in the White House, due to a labor shortage of people willing to work with him and because Trump doesn’t really care about managing things, just seeming like he’s managing things. So long as everyone gets his okay on anything, he doesn’t care too much what the solution was. And so long as everyone does what he tells them to, then they’re just a “go-getter” who doesn’t let anything get in their way. But ultimately, some things do need to get done, so eventually it falls to whoever actually has the ability and the work ethic to try and keep things afloat. (This is, in essence, how most things ran under Communism, as I understand it.)
I assume that Mulvaney was too far in over his head to feel like it was worth refusing the extra work. So long as you’re already drowning, why not.
But to the Deplo … er, Base … the goals will be anything but laudable. At least as far as the underlined element is concerned, it will be a LiberalSocialistCommunistAtheistMuslim assault on the free speech rights of large corporations.
OH NOES! sob
I took it that it was probably too much for work for him. Saw the job description and said “Whoa, you kidding me?” More lazy than smart.
I was ahead of the curve, it seems.
“I am in blood stepped so far
That should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as going o’er.”
I never understood the implied doctrine that if the pickiest eater wouldn’t eat something, then his siblings are free to tell their mother where to stick it.
I didn’t do a very good job with that meme. I was riffing off of “Mikey likes it,” but out of context. Can’t get away with a danged thing around here. 
Sure wasn’t like that when I was a kid. Everybody had to eat everything before anybody was excused to leave the table.
The idea of taking a job working for Individual-1 puts me in mind of this (NSF-Lunch).
These got-damn Millenials, I’m telling ya.
It Has to be on this board somewhere already, but I’m not finding it. I read the summaries, but I found it informative to watch the full video of the WH meeting with Schumer, Pelosi and Trump. On the one hand, Trump looks a little better than I expected in that he at least has a clear focus, if not a single-minded obsession, with the wall. He gratuitously repeated the word “wall” dozens of times, and whatever else you want to say about it, he did at least clearly communicate to the Dem leaders what he wants and how he intends to get it.
OTOH, :smack: It is really absurd to watch the POTUS wave around these ridiculous, oblivious um, ‘wall effectiveness statistics’ at Schumer and Pelosi. It is completely transparent, fooling nobody bullshit to the nth degree and I don’t think I can overstate my uneasy surprise that the POTUS acts on such a hackneyed, oblivious level. It was just the nakedest dishonest politics you’ll ever see.
The whole thing was more remarkable to contrast the behavior of the Dem leaders. I didn’t get a feeling for the flow of the tone of this meeting from the headlines. It starts out perfectly orderly and full of will to cooperate. Pelosi really is a competent and articulate pro, and she exuded a dignity and sense of gravity that we just don’t get enough of these days. I don’t think Trump sensed or appreciated that, because in no time he is talking over her, literally putting his palm towards her face and disregarding everything she’s saying to squabble about House votes, Senate votes for the wall as Pelosi politely tries to explain that he doesn’t have the House votes for the wall funding with the current GOP led House, let alone the House we’ll have next month. “We need to have an evidence-based conversation about what really works wrt border security and make a compromise, because you don’t have the votes”, she says, basically talking to, well, a wall.
Schumer seemed to fully grasp the stubborn sexist vibe of the exchange and apparently decided to just play that game. He’s a pushy bully counterpart to Trump’s pushy bully act, only glaringly competent. He straight up tells Trump that threats of a shutdown will not get him his wall funding and manuevers Trump into taking ownership of any shutdown. Wait, what? In these kinds of debates, most of the conversation is about blaming the other guys for the shutdown, but I guess Trump is too dumb to avoid stepping into that pile of poo poo.
The whole thing was so different from the endless circle-jerk of mutually reinforcing GOP lies we’ve had to endure for the last two years that I just had to come in here and tell you all about it.