You know, it would be really nice to see Sessions end up with nothing. But having him gone just makes things worse. It’s like every choice you can consider in this Presidency has no upside. Get rid of Trump, end up with Pence. Get rid of Sessions, end up with god knows what. Repeal ACA, end up hurting millions. Don’t repeal and end up having the Republicans destroy it anyway and hurt millions.
Well, sure, but then if you’re going to pick and choose your similarities I could also say you can run a business like a government, or run the government like a hockey team, or run a school like a car assembly plant. “Run the government like a business” is one of those phrases that doesn’t really impart any wisdom.
Trump would have to know something about the electoral process to do that with intent. He’s far too clueless so it only happens if somebody happens to mention to him. Or it shows up on Fox News.
Not if he signed a non-disclosure agreement, which is SOP for Trump employees.
A subpoena would trump that.
Agreed. Not without some clarifying colloquy, anyway.
Looking at how Rrump ran his businesses (into the damn ground), …
welllll …
WTF did anyone expect from him.
Between the two, I’d vastly prefer Christie. To hell with Giuliani (and I come from NYC).
Is this the sort of thing that impresses even Trump supporters? I don’t get it, he talks himself up as this master dealmaker, the only guy who is tough enough and smart enough to cut through the bullshit and change the system, etc. But it’s always just this pathetic crying and moaning about how it’s so unfair, everyone’s out to get him, waah waah waah.
Sessions serves at his pleasure. Trump can call Sessions up and tell him what to do any time of the day or night. Admittedly if what he wants is for Sessions to do showy public investigations of Trump’s enemies and quash any investigations into himself, it might be illegal for him to ask that and certainly unethical, but it isn’t hard. And he can then fire Sessions any time if he doesn’t like his answers. It’s absurd and unseemly for Trump to give these constant passive-aggressive public digs at the man, giving public interviews that he regrets nominating him and thinks he only endorsed Trump because Trump was so popular. Fire him or STFU already, this shouldn’t be a reality TV show with the stupid manufactured drama.
Many people who know Trump from his business career have commented that he seems reluctant to fire people. He just makes them so miserable that they quit.
Today Trump gave a typical Trumpian speech to some boy scouts. Dwelling a lot on his against-the-odds great victory etc., but he also threatened to fire Tom Price if ACA repeal/reform didn’t pass.
Rex Tillerson is said to be thinking of quitting, as is HR McMaster. Possibly one or two other guys as well.
One big difference is that in business you have the option of walking away from bad deals. Government is a series of deals with no good options, the art is identifying the least bad option and knowing how to dress it up.
It’s kind of like a bunch of stupid people elected a guy that’s never flown a plane to be their pilot, because they liked his description of the destination. And they thought - “he won’t be alone in the cockpit, he’ll let other people help with the technical plane-flying stuff.” But he won’t and he keeps pressing random buttons and stuff and if someone tells him he’s flying the plane wrong he throws them out the door so the ones that are left are scared say anything- although he manage to sneak messages to reporters because they think someone should know what’s happening in the cockpit.
And at this point it’s not even about the destination, I just want the plane to land before something happens. Because the plane actually can fly on autopilot in normal circumstances but sooner or later something real will happen ( like a natural disaster or market crash ) and the agencies we need are understaffed and headed by morons. And Trump would have no idea what to do, other than hold a campaign style rally and blame Obama and Hillary.
Can he require that of cabinet members? Would it be legal? It’s not like they are private employees and there might be conflicts with public record and transparency laws. Then again, IANAL.
Fasten your seatbelts! Scaramucci is a slickster and he’s going to be kicking up the crazy a couple of notches with his “Let Trump Be Trump” philosophy. MSNBC rumor has it he’s going to fire or push out a lot of the “grown-ups”. I have no idea where this is heading but it’ll be bumpy. I have to wonder whose side Scaramucci is on - or if he just likes to stir things up for his own amusement.
Christie has the closing down of the bridge to attack someone he didn’t like, and that whole beach incident where he used his privilege as governor to override the ban he put on everyone else.
He does not come off as particularly concerned with ethics at all to me. Maybe the Christie who praised Obama for his help seemed ethical, but now it seems just like a political ploy, since I couldn’t imagine him doing anything like that now.
So, on July 19, 2017, the America-hating fuckstick (for some reason) sits down and talks with the “failing” New York Times, and a story containing the following excerpt results:
Thing is, the probe the Sessions recused himself from didn’t even start until, what January? February? Yet the Fuckstick[sup]TM[/sup] received an acceptance of his AG offer in November. How was Beauregard to know that something from which he might recuse himself was going to come up.
Unless the Fuckstick[sup]TM[/sup] knew to anticipate something, and mentioned it to Bo…
(ftr, I don’t think either of them anticipated a recusal opportunity. I offer this simply to make fun of the Fuckstick’s[sup]TM[/sup]“thought” processes.)
I’ve seen reports that Spicer signed one.
Actually many states have their own treasonlaws. Granted nobody’s actually been tried under one since John Brown.
The actual special election to decide who serves the rest of Sessions’ term isn’t until December, and even if Sessions misses the primary he could still try & run as an independent.
(totally wrong therefore, didn’t happen.)
IMHO it is worth clarifying this as to “run like a family business.” The way Trump has run his *family *business has very little in common with how a global 100 company runs their respective businesses. Two completely different animals.
It is important, this observation.
I think it is even permitted to say, that it is not like any well-structured non-family company, not just to speak of the global 100.
It is like the pure family business with no structure surviving on the chances and the good luck.
Yet another example of the fact Trump is a living embodiment of the Peter Principle, as well as my Customer, Employee, Competitor theory of Trump.
Tom Price isn’t in charge of Congress, for Christ’s sake. He doesn’t get to tell them how to vote on the health care bill. He has about as much influence in the Senate as Vincent Price. It’s Price’s job to execute the programs funded and authorized by Congress, not order Congress how to vote on them.
Even if Trump was “joking,” and honestly I don’t think the guy’s ever told an honest to God pure joke in years, the joke doesn’t make sense.
This.
And this is what I just don’t understand: Trump is now obviously out of his element, blatantly incompetent. A lot of the working class people who voted for him probably know beyond the shadow of a doubt by now that he’s not really much of an administrator and that they’d probably do a better job of running an actual business than he would.
I think this confirms that a lot of those who live in Trumpland just delight in seeing progressives twist themselves into knots over the new batches of outrage that seem to come out on a daily basis. They’re also probably of the opinion that as long as a conservative is in the White House they’re safe because government never does anything good when it tries to. In their worldview, it’s completely fine to have a government that shuts down and a President who basically runs around in circles - that way the big bad gubmint can’t actually accomplish raise their taxes for programs dedicated to people they don’t really like.