Unless he's found several cousins no one can recall him having I think one or the other is safe, for now. He can't replace both of his warhawks at once. And haven't most of the Kill Kill Kill brigade already been hired and fired? I suppose there's always hope that he'll find some Fox eye candy for one position or the other, but if he puts incompetent stooges in their positions, he's inviting an uber right militarist walk-out and maybe even a primary challenge.

But that's what Trump does. Nobody can be smarter than Godfather Donny. Or they gets the hard goodbye, see!

I can't imagine Bolton's happy about Trump's position with North Korea, either. He's more of a "fire and fury" type of guy. And a Chicken Hawk, of course.

Interesting that Bolton is also anti-Russian, and is convinced Russia interfered in the 2016 election. So that may be another reason Trump doesn't want him around from now on. ;) And he is also a shytehawk.

After his failure in Korea (which he likely views as a success) Trump may be happy with a nobody "acting" SECSTATE and let his nit who grew into a lice and her mate perform the role.

Have nit (!), must pick: The singular is "louse".

I stand corrected.

Overheard in a sports bar, couple of guys arguing current politics....

"Hey, one thing about Trump is that he knew how to party. A lot of what he says is just joking around. He's a fun guy."

"I don't want to be picky but it's "fungus" not "fungae"."

Alex Acosta is out.

I was thinking he had another week to go. But I guess Friday is trash day and you don't want it sitting around rotting for a week.

They’re Hoping the news gets buried in the weekend cycle.

Huzzah! We still have shame.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/...27347374878720

:D :D :D

Acosta says he will not resign his office. Given the record of Trump officials who have said that, he will be gone before the Holidays, if that long.
I posted before I saw Acosta was gone. I admit I did not think it would happen THAT fast.

I admit I share Bolton's opinion of Russia and Putin. But, yeah, the guy is gonerallay a moron.

I think you misspelled "expediency".

Moving my chips to DNI Coats

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/...122700800?s=19

all for Nunes moving to a position from which he can be impeached.

Peter Navarro, Exonomic Advisor might be in trouble with Trump rejecting Navarro's proposal to devalue the dollar in the Trade war with China.
Navarro is regarded, by almost all economists, regardless of political views, as a crackpot.
Many conservative economists consider his appointment to be one of Trump's worst choiches.

That's an unenviable distinction.

And a really low bar to crawl under.

Exit Dan Coats, enter John Ratcliffe.

To quote another great leader:

Poor old Devin! The guy's gone through a case of Chapstick in just over two years and whatever new slut catches Donnie's eye gets the available position. Is Devin holding out for Pompeo's or Bolton's job? They're both on thin ice.

He's not that anti-Russian or anti-Putin. He spoke at a totally fake Kremlin organised Russian "gun-rights" conference.

Not directly on his staff, but the highest ranking career intelligence official in the country has resigned after being passed over for the DNI position.


It was obvious why she didn't have much of a future.

Don Jon hates it when people don't tell him what he wants to hear and he especially if it is a woman doing so.

More than a few people in the IC are currently ******** their pants knowing that another critical grownup has left the administration.

Hard to believe that the beneficiaries of a foreign active measures campaign along with a handful of directed cyberattacks wouldn't be motivated to shore up our intelligence bureaus.

She wasn't his type?

Er, no. Ratcliffe didn't even make it to the dugout let alone a chance to hit out. Even the repugnant Repubs found him too horrible to contemplate. Buh-bye, we hardly knew ye...and a good thing too.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...withdraw-trump

We don't know that.

Yeah we do. They are the people who "advised" the WH administration that Ratcliffe would not pass even their Golden Slippery-dip vetting process that put "Bro" Kavenaugh in the SCOTUS.

As far as I'm aware, that was speculation.

I'm not trying to be disagreeable; I genuinely think if they told Trump his toadie wouldn't pass muster it would only make him double down. He's all about the self-destructive loyalty tests.

I find it more likely that someone from intelligence had a sit down with Ratcliffe and made it clear he would be completely in over his head in the role.

Your theory is every bit as speculative.

Never said it wasn't.

Sarah Sanders, meanwhile, has been promoted from the White House to the state news propaganda channel.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1164562899190341632

That's actually interesting, as she can't have quite the oppressive NDA all once-WH-now-Campaign officials had to sign.
When Fox gives her the green light, she might have a lot of juicy stories to tell.

Another loss from the White House:

From: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/polit...out/index.html
Madeleine Westerhout resigned as executive assistant to the President on Thursday after Trump learned she had shared information with reporters at a recent off-the-record meeting

Not exactly a political figure. But, she had apparently been quite loyal for several years.

But, apparently, not loyal enough.

It's going to become harder to replace people if the general perception is that his ship is sinking.

From what little I know about the situation (which admittedly isn't much), I don't think it was a question of 'loyalty'... I think it was more an issue of carelessness.
Trump's ship is not sinking, like the titanic... its soaring, SOARING I tell you, like the Hindenburg.