This guy is a fucking rapist. Like we should believe anything he says. I don’t think so. If he’s so innocent, why is he hiding out in an embassy instead of making his case? Fuck this guy!
Megalomaniacs all tend to think alike.
I agree, but this sort of he said/she said badinage is far less important than this frightening report that I had to find on Gizmodo. Our mainstream press has degenerated into gossip mags operated by phalanxes of inane Hedda Hopper impersonators.
Trump Just Dismissed the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal
According to an official within the Department of Energy, this past Friday, the President-elect’s team instructed the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration and his deputy to clean out their desks when Trump takes office on January 20th.
Traditionally, all political appointees of an outgoing presidential administration turn in resignation letters effective on noon of inauguration day, January 20. But appointees in key positions—like the people who make sure our nukes work—are often asked to stay on in their roles until a replacement can be found and confirmed by the Senate, helping ensure a smooth transition and allowing our government to continue functioning. In fact, for the entirety of Obama’s first term and into part of his second, the NNSA Administrator remained a Bush appointee.
Trump, however, appears determined to immediately push out everyone who was appointed by Obama, regardless of whether or not he has anyone in line for the job. Or, as our source put it: “It’s a shocking disregard for process and continuity of government.”
The NNSA is the $12 billion-a-year agency that “maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.” It’s unclear when the two officials will be replaced.
“There are scores more appointees within the department,” our source told us. “Secretarial and administration appointments that don’t require Senate confirmation, mostly performing policy, liaison, and strategic advisory capacities in support of the agency they’re at. They serve at the will of the head of their agency. Those people are, theoretically, also out on inauguration day unless otherwise directed, which hasn’t happened yet to my knowledge.”
The source later added, “I’m more and more coming around to the idea that we’re so very very fucked.”
Whoa-fucking-nelly. You should email that to Josh Marshall. It should be front page news. We are soooooo fucked. I’m reaching my fill today. Don’t know if I can handle any more depressing news. I feel my inner-child is screaming in pain. There aren’t enough canned goods in the world that are gonna help see me through the nuclear winter we all might have to brace for. Trump is sooo ignorant, short-sighted and shallow.
I have to walk the dog and get some brisk air to clear out my head. Thanks for sharing that…I think?
So hidey man says they didn’t get the emails from Russia then prove it. If you don’t have the ability to cite your sources hidey man then you’re promulgating lies.