Discussion: Reports: State Dept. Official Fired For Statement On Tillerson's Firing

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Steve should walk out the door and straight to an employment lawyer.

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Wasnt this a gag in some Monty Python credits once?

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I have a feeling that Mr. Goldstein doesn’t give a fuck and knew this would probably happen.

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Wow. Just. Wow.

Even Banana Republics do a better job of corruption than this.

The only reason to claim that Tillerson was fired on Friday (or the decision was made then) is to keep attention away from Tillerson’s comments regarding Russia, which just happened to coincide with him getting fired shortly after.

Are we still in the USA? Or are we officially part of the USSR now?

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The truth has in fact set him free

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“Mr. President, do you really think the beatings should continue until morale improves?”

“Hey – it works for me!”

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is this what a coup looks like?

ETA:

so yeah, soft coup underway.

need moar cat videos pleaz.

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Night of the Stubby Cheeto instead of Night of the Long Knives

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Who would have thought that would be a question today?
Maybe something Joe McCarthy would have said in the 50’s
Joe you were 60 years ahead of the times
You would be in your glory in 2018
It appears the government is in fact chocablock full of Russian sympathizers and you wouldn’t need innuendo to track them down

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Russians kill man associated with Steele dossier/peepee tape with chemical weapon on our closest ally’s soil. Trump and whitehouse refuse to comment on it. Trump and whitehouse fire everyone saying it was Russia. Nunes says no collusion.

Republicans ground the government to a halt because a black man was president. Can’t someone shut things down until we figure out how many traitors there are to America in the whitehouse? This is beginning to look like the future of our democracy/republic thing is on the line.

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That was exactly my first thought. He may have even meant to make it happen.

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So right now there’s basically zero believable evidence that Tillerson was fired for anything but supporting England over Russia’s attacks on residents. Putin is systematically murdering people associated with that dossier, and Trump is systematically failing to indicate it’s a problem. One blessing deep within it all you have to count, though: It still doesn’t seem normal. It really, really doesn’t.

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I don’t think he’d get very far with a lawsuit because the prez probably is well within his rights to fire any executive branch employee he likes, the same way that Bush the Lesser fired all the US attorneys. Even if it got to the discovery stage, what would we learn that we don’t already know?

But I don’t think DT is doing himself any favors with the Caligula persona.

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March 13, 2018…

-Russia given ultimatum by Britain to tell whether they poisoned an ex-spy and his daughter, or they are just careless with chemical weapons (possession of which would be in violation of bans).
-Sec. State Tillerson backs the statement that Russia clearly has to be responsible.
-Sec. State is fired.
-Under-Sec. State is fired when he doesn’t back-date Tillerson’s firing until conveniently before the Sec. State’s comments.
-Stormy Daniels’ buddy listened in on phone calls with the Donald, providing a witness.
-Nunes’ Republican sychophants release statement saying ‘nothing to see here’ regarding Russian interference.

… And it’s only halfway through the day…

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I’m pretty sure he served at the pleasure of the president. But hey, if he’s got money to burn…

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“Come and see the beautiful telephone system!”

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I dunno. Don’t remember any scenes where Caligula was getting dominated and peed on by women, but then it’s been years since I’ve seen that movie.

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…and more dead Russians.

Holy Fuck what is going on in the world today???

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