Who will be next out of Trump's kakistocracy?

[4321lynx]

Who will be next out of Trump's kakistocracy?

I guess it's too early to hope that it will be the Don himself?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Rand Paul says no to Haspel and Pompeo. It seems hard to believe McCain would vote for Haspel. And that leaves us Collins. Both of these nominations could fail.

 

[funinspace]

I read that Cohn has no successor as his asst. had already resigned.

And the bad news is, Larry Kudlow may take Cohn's position. Kudlow is a supply side moron who has never been right about anything even remotely connected to economics. But he has been on TV quite a bit so Trump likes him. Trump could not find a worse choice.

I thought it would be good to refresh our memory of something Kudlow said back in Dec 2007, as Kudlow is now Don the Con's man. He wrote this piece ironically, the month that the National Bureau of Economic Research later declared as the starting month for the great recession.

https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/kudlows-money-politics/bush-boom-continues-larry-kudlow/

There is no recession. Despite all the doom and gloom from the economic pessimistas, the resilient U.S economy continues moving ahead’”quarter after quarter, year after year’”defying dire forecasts and delivering positive growth. In fact, we are about to enter the seventh consecutive year of the Bush boom.
<snip>
Incidentally, Democrats have not offered a single spending cut proposal during their time at the helm. Not one. That’s just one reason why’”not to mention what I expect to be continuing growth in 2008′” I believe the economic pendulum will soon swing in favor of the GOP.

There’s no recession coming. The pessimistas were wrong. It’s not going to happen. At a bare minimum, we are looking at Goldilocks 2.0. (And that’s a minimum). Goldilocks is alive and well. The Bush boom is alive and well. It’s finishing up its sixth consecutive year with more to come. Yes, it’s still the greatest story never told.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I thought it would be good to refresh our memory of something Kudlow said back in Dec 2007, as Kudlow is now Don the Con's man. He wrote this piece ironically, the month that the National Bureau of Economic Research later declared as the starting month for the great recession.

https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/kudlows-money-politics/bush-boom-continues-larry-kudlow/

There is no recession. Despite all the doom and gloom from the economic pessimistas, the resilient U.S economy continues moving ahead’”quarter after quarter, year after year’”defying dire forecasts and delivering positive growth. In fact, we are about to enter the seventh consecutive year of the Bush boom.
<snip>
Incidentally, Democrats have not offered a single spending cut proposal during their time at the helm. Not one. That’s just one reason why’”not to mention what I expect to be continuing growth in 2008′” I believe the economic pendulum will soon swing in favor of the GOP.

There’s no recession coming. The pessimistas were wrong. It’s not going to happen. At a bare minimum, we are looking at Goldilocks 2.0. (And that’s a minimum). Goldilocks is alive and well. The Bush boom is alive and well. It’s finishing up its sixth consecutive year with more to come. Yes, it’s still the greatest story never told.

To his credit, if not for the coordinated global effort, it would ​have been a 'depression' and not a 'recession'.

 

[braces_for_impact]

I thought it would be good to refresh our memory of something Kudlow said back in Dec 2007, as Kudlow is now Don the Con's man. He wrote this piece ironically, the month that the National Bureau of Economic Research later declared as the starting month for the great recession.

https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/kudlows-money-politics/bush-boom-continues-larry-kudlow/

There is no recession. Despite all the doom and gloom from the economic pessimistas, the resilient U.S economy continues moving ahead’”quarter after quarter, year after year’”defying dire forecasts and delivering positive growth. In fact, we are about to enter the seventh consecutive year of the Bush boom.
<snip>
Incidentally, Democrats have not offered a single spending cut proposal during their time at the helm. Not one. That’s just one reason why’”not to mention what I expect to be continuing growth in 2008′” I believe the economic pendulum will soon swing in favor of the GOP.

There’s no recession coming. The pessimistas were wrong. It’s not going to happen. At a bare minimum, we are looking at Goldilocks 2.0. (And that’s a minimum). Goldilocks is alive and well. The Bush boom is alive and well. It’s finishing up its sixth consecutive year with more to come. Yes, it’s still the greatest story never told.

Kudlow has missed the mark on just about everything, but he spouts the holy ideology of the right: supply-side economics.

 

[Keith&Co.]

A president chooses the members of his own cabinet? That's never happened before. Never ever.

You would have loved 1930's Europe.

No one's questioning that Trump is allowed to pick his cabinet members.
But allowing him the right to craft the cabinet does not exclude us from noting the choices and wondering what the fuck he's trying to do...

Or watching something like the cabinet meeting where they went around the table, kissing Trump's ass.
I've never really been The Honcho, but I have often been the guy with the job of keeping The Honcho from making a horrible mistake. Even if your boss never actually does make a mistake, you have to have the confidence that you could express dissent. FFvC seems bent on surrounding himself with yesmen who won't piss off Putin.

 

[ElectEngr]

Which begs the question..."How long will Nikki Haley stay at UN?"

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[Keith&Co.]

Which begs the question..."How long will Niki Haley stay at UN?"

Later,
ElectEngr

I dunno.
Is Trump saying she's a loose cannon, or is he happy with her work, showing full confidence in her job performance?

 

[Elixir]

Which begs the question..."How long will Niki Haley stay at UN?"

Later,
ElectEngr

I dunno.
Is Trump saying she's a loose cannon, or is he happy with her work, showing full confidence in her job performance?

The death sentence is "We'll see."

 

[Ford]

And it's another "adult" doing the walk of shame out of the Board Room on Celebrity President!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-decides-to-remove-national-security-adviser-and-others-may-follow/ar-BBKh907?li=BBnb7Kz

President Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing potential replacements, according to five people with knowledge of the plans, preparing to deliver yet another jolt to the senior ranks of his administration.

 

[braces_for_impact]

And it's another "adult" doing the walk of shame out of the Board Room on Celebrity President!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...r-and-others-may-follow/ar-BBKh907?li=BBnb7Kz

President Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing potential replacements, according to five people with knowledge of the plans, preparing to deliver yet another jolt to the senior ranks of his administration.

Shit is actually getting scary now.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

"I'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn on Tuesday, moments after announcing Tillerson's firing.

link

What, was he going off someone else's list for cabinet the first time?

 

[Toni]

"I'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn on Tuesday, moments after announcing Tillerson's firing.

link

What, was he going off someone else's list for cabinet the first time?

I actually heard him utter those words <<<shudder>>>--the emphasis was on 'and other things I want.' Truly, truly scary.

 

[beero1000]

Trump has complained that McMaster, a three-star Army general, is too rigid and that his briefings go on too long and seem irrelevant, the Post reported.

Translation: Fact-based, longer than 30 seconds, and not about Trump.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Why Trump Slayed His Own Masters of the Universe

Donald Trump swept into the White House on a promise to run the government like a business and stock his administration with titans of industry.

The partnership hasn’t worked out.

Just over a year into Trump’s presidency, those titans are leaving, driven out by a chief executive who doesn’t want to hear no, doesn’t trust anyone but himself and can’t stand to share the spotlight, even with those he once hailed as “the best people” on earth for these jobs.

Trump humiliated Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former chief executive of oil industry giant ExxonMobil whom he once described as “the embodiment of the American dream,” firing him by tweet. He repeatedly rejected the advice of National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, driving the former president of Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs nuts with his stubborn insistence on tariffs and hastening Cohn’s exit.

And he went ice cold on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, reportedly telling the Wall Street legend that his understanding of trade was “terrible,” as West Wing aides leaked stories about Ross dozing off in meetings. Remember those CEO councils Trump initially set up to get advice from America’s top executives? They shut down in August.

Trump’s penchant for publicly and privately torturing powerful leaders in his administration extends to military brass. National security adviser H.R. McMaster is likely on the way out with chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star general, possibly to follow. But it is Trump’s break with his Masters of the Universe that undercuts most clearly a central premise of his appeal as a candidate: He knew what it took to be successful and he would hire people in his own image. The breakup, say White House officials, outside experts and even the president’s close friends, was inevitable.

Trump for decades ran a private real-estate and branding empire where he was the only star. He ran a personality-driven campaign where he said and did whatever he wanted, a strategy that resulted in stunning primary wins and a general election victory that few saw coming. And now Trump is even more fed up with strong-willed advisers who tell him he shouldn’t declare trade wars, or take it so easy on Russia, or decide on a whim to stage a summit with a nuclear-armed North Korean dictator who it turns out might never have extended the invite in the first place.

Trump is simply returning to who he’s always been, a one-man reality show who prefers to be surrounded by admirers who will praise and fawn over him and confirm that all his instincts are correct and brilliant and certain to succeed. The wonder is that anyone is surprised.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...slayed-his-own-masters-of-the-universe-217651

 

[Opoponax]

The wonder is that anyone is surprised.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...slayed-his-own-masters-of-the-universe-217651

I think I've misquoted you---I understand the quote is from the article, but I'm too lazy to fix it.

Anyway, it's not so much surprise as it is that Trump is able to constantly fuel shock and outrage. The very fact that he's in the White House is shocking and outrageous and he's never done anything to mitigate that.

And each step, each firing, each statement carries with it an ominousness that's impossible to look away from because there's an incompetent, petulant, easily angered dimwit at the helm of the most powerful nation on earth.

 

[starwater]

John Dowd bites the dust.

 

[ElectEngr]

John Dowd bites the dust.

Hang on to your hats, it'g gonna get ugly(er)

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[starwater]

John Dowd bites the dust.

Hang on to your hats, it'g gonna get ugly(er)

Later,
ElectEngr

A race to the bottom.

 

[braces_for_impact]

Reports are that it's possibly over Mueller's interview. Trump's dumb ass wants to interview vs. any decent attorney ever that knows this is a horrible idea. As far as I'm concerned, this may come to a conclusion much faster now. Trump has some serious issues. 1) He's pretty much viewed as insanely guilty. 2) He has a bad reputation for not paying his legal bills. 3) Trump has even a worse reputation for not being able to shut his own mouth and follow the advice of counsel.

Most attorneys worth the name have turned him down, this latest one he wants to add is a conspiracy theorist...yeah, it's going to get ugly alright.