Reports: Acting Navy Sec Resigns After Railing Against Fired Captain

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has resigned amid controversy over his criticism of a fired captain who raised alarms about the coronavirus on his ship, according to CNN and Politico.


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Dude seemed like he had some personal issues based on his rant.

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Yet another nasty piece of work going out the door. Now if only he could drag the rest of the lot with him it would be a win win.

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Given his rant, I’m not sure that his family particularly wants to spend more time with him. Do they have an option to reject his resignation?

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Prediction: they’ll leave him dangling for several days while imPotus publicly muses about whether he should give him a thumbs up or down. It’ll be down, of course.

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Would that Donnie would take the same route!
Then the role modeling would be reversed.
Ah, justice!

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Just more-on of the same…

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Donnie seems to love holding out false hopes and stringing people along.
Kinda like his Covid response.

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A frantic sycophant got wayyyy too over zealous trying to display his desire to pleasure the idiot in chief

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Trump’s Cabinet car pools to an Oval Office meeting:

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Another of the most talented, smart, genius employees of the chief genius in charge heads out the door. I guess he wanted to spend more time with his family??

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Good riddance to a piece of excrement. So glad Tommy Modly did not get past the position as Acting Navy Secretary. Modly sounded like a foam-mouthed rabid dog from Abu Ghraib in that speech. Totally unhinged and demented comic-book villain. Totally unnecessary, uncalled-for stupidity.

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And the colossal dismantling of the Trump mal-administration continues. Who will be next to go?

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From Trump’s cowardly perspective, this will be the perfect outcome. He got rid of Captain Crozier for daring to imply things weren’t being handled perfectly, and he still gets to shit-can Modly for the decision, since it proved unpopular. All without the fact Trump essentially demanded the firing appearing in many stories, leaving him untouched.

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What a naive and stupid fucking clown.

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Modly must have been encouraged to go off the rails. Who did that?

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ass%20band

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Good riddance.

Any bets the next acting Sec. will be worse?

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Some good news today.

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This walking talking penis served five years or so in the navy and conveniently retired just before the first gulf war. Maybe he had bonespurs? Typical repug.

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