Tillerson, according to one source cited by Politico, was “quite clear” that he wanted autonomous control over the State Department.
Dream on, meatpuppet. You gave up any shred of independence when you agreed to work for Donald Trump.
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He is there to set up oil and mineral contracts all over the world and make money for himself and his oil buddies. You may consider him an adult but he’s just another greedy grifter. He is not working for America.
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Did Tillerson suck up during the infamous cabinet meeting? If so, guess it was’t enough. If not, guess he needs to join the program.
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Tillerson does not want to have his job
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For his part in protecting Exxon’s bilking of responsibility in the Valdez, Alaska oil spill, T.Rex ought to be shackled to the Alaskan shoreline to help feed the injured wildlife habitat. That may be a harsh statement, due to his lack of proportionate body fat, he just wouldn’t amount to much assistance.
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Tillerson should demand autonomous control, or walk out. He’s gone from being the well-respected leader of one of the largest corporations on the planet, to the person being blamed for the destruction of the State Department. Unless he wants that to be his legacy, he needs to start implementing major changes on Monday morning, or walk out the door and leave the destruction of the State Department to his successor (assuming Trump can find someone willing to take the job. Probably Putin can provide some ideas).
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Tillerson serves at the pleasure of Donald Trump. If he didn’t realize the dysfunction within Team Trump before signing on, then he messed up big time. Anyone in court and/or stiffing the help as often as DJT has isn’t to be trusted. He can demand all he wants, but Trump’s advisers will meddle and he can’t leave until ExxonMobil is drilling in Russia.
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Nothing is anatomically impossible for Trump and his followers.
This is why they are so screwed up.
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The Rule of Holes is in in play and we are just supposed to watch
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Substitute “$500 utility bill” for “$500 billion deal” and I’m right with ya.
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Seems that anyone with actual diplomatic experience (a) wouldn’t be asked, and (b) wouldn’t take the job anyway. So what the hell, let’s give it to Ted Nugent or Alex Jones and see what happens.
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Tillerson probably isn’t long for the Trump Admin., which would create its own problems for the State Dept.
Tillerson is used to being in charge. More importantly, he’s used to a single focus: profitability. When you can’t make money in a position, but are forced to save money (diplomacy v. military aggression), it’s an entire world-view change.
It’s worse when you can’t bring in your own people, but are forced to have every significant employee pass Trump’s “loyalty test,” which at the very least introduces unnecessary delays.
Hey, Rex Tillerson, the MOST significant and impactful move you could make right now would be to resign. It’s not as if you need this shit. Let Trump’s psychotic admin implode. Would that be worse than letting it wait for “loyalty tests?” I don’t know. You tell me.
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Or “fifty bucks for groceries,” at times in a person’s life. Some of us have had a few lean years since 2008. : )
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I hear Sarah Palin is looking for work. She’d be a good fit with Russia so close to her house.
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Makes him relatable as far as crap you put up with for your job. Who among us hasn’t said, “Boy, if it wasn’t for that $500 billion dollar deal I’m looking to get back on track I’d be outta here so fast…”
[/quote]And Tillerson doesn’t want the young White House punks and the idiot-in-chief screwing that payday up for him. I’m still looking for the guy who got in the way of my $500 billion (actually it was $500, but relatively speaking it was a bunch).
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And think about it—he might have imagined the fix was in and those sanctions would go away the first few weeks. Got to be a disappointment. 
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Ha ha. Jokes on him. He thought he’d cash-in by St. Patrick’s Day. Now he’s stuck with a job he’s not happy with, just like a lot of regular folks.
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You can hardly blame a man of Tillerson’s stature for refusing to be pushed around by a pipsqueak like Miller. What he imagines himself doing in this meltdown mess of an administration in the first place is beyond my comprehension.
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The administration has from the beginning wanted the political commissars in charge or at least with veto power over the administrative people. This will not go away. Tillerson hasn’t gone along, so far. His handling of the State Department is another issue which, from what I read, is not going well. Maybe we can say he wants to be able to fuck it up in his own way. But I also think that at some point, he walks away.
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Our State Department is in shambles. Lifers reached the crying stage already in March. Now it’s July and still nothing works. The three-month greencard process for example just continues to lengthen (now at over 12 months), our embassies around the world are operating in life-support mode and the US mighty soft power tool, which is greater than our nuclear arsenal or any of our armed force, has rusted out and gone to shit. Rex might escape blame by taking an early retirement, but there is nobody in the Americanist wing of the GOP who would fix things at the Moscow West branch office.
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