Itâs a gap the administration says it has been trying to fix but with limited success.
Trump said, âLet me tell you, the one that matters is me,â Trump said in an interview that aired on Fox News on Thursday night. "Iâm the only one that matters, because when it comes to it, thatâs what the policy is going to be. Youâve seen that, youâve seen it strongly. So, we donât need all the people that they want. You know, donât forget, Iâm a businessperson. I tell my people, âWhere you donât need to fill slots, donât fill them.â
Fuck you {AP}. I found that quote in 10 seconds.
This is the Emoluments Clause object lesson weâve been waiting for, but the MSM is failing completely and utterly to cover it as such. Theyâre more interested in the juicy details of the plot and the murder than the FACT that our POTUS is so deeply involved in personal business with the Saudis that he (a) knew ahead of time via intelligence sources, (b) will refuse to sanction them and, Š more likely than not, knew it was coming long ago, before intel did, had promised to turn a blind eye and received promises of lucrative deals that will magically materialize when he leaves office.
The Trump administration intentionally dismantled the State Department immediately after he took office. It is very hard to find quality applicants when he and his gang disparage anyone who wants to serve the public. I thought things might get better under Pompeo than under Tillerson, who was hostile to the notion of professional diplomats, but apparently that hasnât happened.
Who needs all those extra people when you have Jared?
Why is Pompeo even weighing in like this. Maybe Iâm forgetting something but I donât recall other SoS this political.
You must have been out getting a new shift key during the Kavanov coronation. Political is all there is.
"Run to the shelter, my baby, my baby
Run to the shelter, run to the shelter
Run to the shelter, my baby, my baby
Run to the shelter, run to the shelter"
â from âCheepnisâ by Frank Zappa
Itâs a gap the administration says it has been trying to fix but with limited success.
It almost makes you think knowledgeable people, especially seasoned diplomats not keenly interested in playing transactional politics for The Trump Organization *plus Jared!*⢠in dangerous â or even safe â places across the globe.
Itâs like some baffling, on-going brain drain is taking place; as if some corrosive was eating away at the structural foundation and institutional knowledge within the diplomatic corps that will take, conservatively, a generation to recreate.
Oy vey!! Jared âFull Metal Jackassâ Kushner is actually fulfilling his mandate to reorganize the federal government in his father-in-lawâs weird, twisted image. Heâs running it like a business!!!
Pompeo responded by again blaming Menendez for holding up more than 60 nominees and using them as a âpolitical football.â âWe need our team on the field to conduct Americaâs foreign policy,â he said.
previously on âThe Donald Trump Showâ
Well, Nicolle Wallace did cover this today.
Trump is running the country like a business, and look how successful heâs been doing that.
Silly monocled man. That was before the U.S. Department of State changed the acronym SoS from Secretary of State to Sack oâ Shit.
WTF have you been?
Seems like we could take time out of packing the federal courts to handle some of these nominees. Gee, I wonder who is in charge of the Senate calendar? Also, how can a member in the minority block all action on nominees?
So McConnell sets the Senate agenda, Corker is in charge of the committee, and itâs all the fault of Menendez? Who knew he had so much power?
Whatâs the point? Heâs just going to fill the diplomatic vacancies with vacant diplomats anyway.
Reuters is reporting that Saudi investigators have arrived in Turkey.
I bet that if King Mo Bin Salman (PBUH, aka Mo BS) has spoken to Preshitident Skanky-Manslut and Cuck Kushner, the Saudi investigation of the way that Khashoggiâs was tortured, chopped up and shipped in bite-sized pieces to Riyadh is going to look a lot like the FBIâs investigation of christian conservative rapist Brett Kavanaugh. It is possible that someone at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is already calling King Mo BS of Saudi Arabia and offering to write a glowing report for a price.
I think that someone on another TPM thread commented that Cuck Kushner talked extensively to the Saudi intelligence team prior to their Khashoggi mission and this indicates to me that he may have been part of the conspiracy and may even have approved the details of the gruesome plan. Remember, these folk are incredibly evil and amoral. Jared father sent prostitutes to incriminate and frame his brother-in-law.
We knew what was happening because Tillerson told us so in early April 2017. âCome to lightâ makes a better AP headline than âWhoa, Dudes, Who Knew Our Diplomatic Corps Has Been Gutted?â
Is this another message to those who speak against a certain orange-skinned dictator?
There is a species of businessman known as the vulture capitalist. Vultures, however, perform the useful task of carrion removal. Trump is basically a looter, a profession that has little redeeming quality.
Pompeo responded by again blaming Menendez for holding up more than 60 nominees and using them as a âpolitical football.â âWe need our team on the field to conduct Americaâs foreign policy,â he said.
Yo Mickie first you have to scout for a player, then youâre going to have to send the player to be vetted by the special squad coaches, then maybe youâll get some help. And hey how are all those specialists that the former coach sent to the equipment room doing? Ya know the ones that were set the task of researching and fulfilling FOIAs?
And the republican-controlled government is filled with them right now.
Drain the swamp. Itâs to laugh.
Vacuous too!