Discussion: 'Big Fat Liar': WaPo Reports On White House Staff's Frustration With Kelly

But was Kelly ever a failure as a general? Flynn absolutely showed he was unfit to lead DIA (which is not really a military command).

As a civilian and novice politician Kelly sucks. I would have thought being a 4-star made him more savvy to Washington. But Trump hired him 'cause he knew he was an asshole deep down. Mattis and McMaster just seem like much more sophisticated people. Or maybe they are just not assholes.

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Wasn’t this guy the one Obama holdover? Watch the far reich blame Obama in 3, 2, 1…

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It’s not to late John. Resign today and schedule a lunch appointment with Bob & team tomorrow. Get it all off your chest.

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Stormy and Trey Gowdy will announce the bans of marriage shortly. Godzilla will not be best man and Mafia-Lago Don will not be invited.

We could just keep meals on wheels, its cheaper, has a positive social component, and produces less waste. But to your point, we could feed a lot of people for the cost of stroking tRumps ego. If that parade goes forward I might attend, or I’ll pay a vet’s rent for month so he/she can go hold a sign that says, “So Trump, how tiny is it?” across from the presidential stand.

I second that. The civilians, are supposed to run the military not the other way around.

Except, wasn’t the promotion Rob Porter was going to get was to “White House Chief of Staff” so it was already in the works, but now they don’t have a suitable a$$hole to replace Kelly?

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. “He was being considered for several other positions, elevated policy roles across the administration, as well as the deputy chief of staff role.”

I’d say Kelly doesn’t last another full week.

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Wow - liked x millions.

Meals on Wheels is an awesome program. I really can’t believe how awesome it is - the people who take the food to people love what they do and the people getting the food and the company are thrilled. A lot of elderly people are very lonely and sad and the fact that other people enjoy doing something about that is so wonderful.

Very true and necessary if we are going to maintain any semblance of democracy.

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Wow. They’re all milling around, slipping behind and shoving each other as the bus bears down upon them, while on board, the passengers crowd around the driver, laying bets on how many he’ll hit, who will have the most tire tracks after they back up for a second run and also front-side or back-side.

Especially given Chiselin’ Trump’s habit of lying about watching TV.

Too fucking funny in the sad pathetic way of the rest of Donald’s presidency

My God. Another school shooting in Florida. I believe they said there have been 12 so far his year, not including this one!!!

Sounds like there could be multiple victims. :pensive:

Mattis is very much more a thinker. According to his bio, he had a rep in OCS as an intellectual, and kept a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius with him on deployments. As for how he fits into Trump-world, so far Trump’s military interference has been mostly posturing, along with a missile strike and an ill-advised raid. So maybe Mattis is protecting them… or maybe he, they, and all of us, have been very lucky this moron’s immediate surroundings are filled with morons who are just as prone to self-inflicted scandal, and he hasn’t had the time to look at military action for his entertainment.

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One of Mattis’ other ironic nicknames was ‘CHAOS’. The irony?

It means “Colonel Has An Outstanding Solution[1].” Military guys have a certain image they like to maintain, though. :wink:

  1. Corrected after a Marine buddy of mine yelled at me for misremembering.
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I nominate Mark Meadows, who wouldn’t be considering retiring otherwise.

Kelly is worse than a walking dereliction of duty. He’s active and complicit.

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I like “Lying Sack of Shit” for John Kelly more than “Big Fat Liar”, which is demeaning to Big and Fat people.

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If the best people have multiple issues… all which would disqualify from serving in the Obama Administration. I think that is the ultimate litmus test for these creatures. None of them are fit to lick BHO’s boots.

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You mean like Dugout Doug? Or perhaps Rusty Calley or Curtis LeMay? Or that guy who invaded Florida against orders and hanged British citizens while he was about it—what was his name, now? Oh, yeah: Andrew Jackson.

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I used to be a substitute for them in Austin. Now I’m a recipient, and all five of my regular deliverers are best buds with Polly. One brings treats every Wednesday. All of them know all the pets on the route, and have pets of their own. The food is the least of it. Watching Polly dance to the door, arthritis and all, warms my heart.

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Sorry, but if the White House ‘staff’ (of all the best people) are that frustrated, upset, concerned - Oh wait, upset and concerned is what congress tries to claim - if they really feel that way, that strongly - then why are they still working there??? Does Dolt45 or Russia have kompromat on ALL of them? … SMH

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My focus was obviously more narrow. As a boy, my father went through a rigorous boot camp, got on some god forsaken transport, and wound up in Germany to fight for a quarter of the globe.

Trump certainly has no right to associate himself with those men. I’m glad I didn’t have to put my life on the line like my father did, like friends of mine did in Vietnam, like brothers deployed to the forgotten Mid East war.

To have people like Trump, and Kelly, and the Republicans claim to represent them is an abomination in the eyes of Lord, and every fucking conservative who still has a shred of honor knows it.

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