Even Bolton is fair game. Anyone who Trump sees as a threat to his primacy and fame is also out the door. Just look at Bannon.

We had a button back in '69.... "Where's Lee Harvey Oswald When You Really Need Him?"

Nitpick: That's not an old Chinese curse.

Correct.
It's a new Chinese curse.

Only if England between 1880 and 1950 is considered "New China". It's made-up... it sounded good. No Chinese I know has ever heard of it except in the modern context of furriners asking if they know the Old Chinese Curse.

It's like Sean Connery in "Entrapment"(it was just on TV this morning) attributing "You don't use a cannon to swat a mosquito" to Confucius. Man, he was good,... considering he lived in the sixth century BCE.

America ruining itself in a pointless war that cannot be won has to be Putin's wettest dream. There are plenty of ways for a ruthless third party dictator to take advantage of the mess. Plenty of countries will be majorly pissed by such a war, that's all potential partners for Putin.

Had a co-worker mention to me the other day that the tree of liberty is starting to look awful thirsty.

"Dryly understated English curse" works too.

But it should be , damn it....

I think Pruitt is next. He was caught living in the condo of an Energy Lobbyist.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclu...ry?id=54095310

Totally draining that swamp and keeping the lobbyists out.

Nothing wrong with that when you're in the MAGA administration. Trump'll want to give him a bonus.

Another button: "If you have to tell the world that you are not a complete idiot, then you are a complete idiot"

Really big button? Or really small type?

Tee shirt? Yeah. I could see it on a tee shirt.

Hope Hicks is out! Will we miss her?

That's been a while now....
But of course, Trump wants her spouse-abusing boyfriend back so I guess there's hope for Hope.

I think that the EPA spokesliar may be the first to go from this story.

From the linked ABC article:
This is Trumpworld, folks. He'll call up Murdoch and get himself another on-air hootchie. You don't decline to comment. It's a jump to the left... then a step to the right.... ** And pretty soon we're doing the Truth Warp Again.

**Don't forget the pelvic thrust. In this admin, where twerking can be listed on your c.v. as a skill, that's probably the most important for getting a chick job, amiright?

Mueller. Today. It's Firing Friday, after all.

Bold suggestion. Won't happen, but if it does, you win big.

According to ABC News, his daughter also stayed in the condo...

My apologies, Katie, I didn't realize she was still hanging around the WH and yesterday was her last day.

There's an opening in prospect on FoxNews. In the spirit of Holy Week, Laura Ingraham is getting herself crucified.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4...oting-survivor

Quote:

"in the spirit of Holy Week, I will apologize once my show starts hemorrhaging advertising money" https://t.co/6xOzcL0xPZ -- Mark Follman (@markfollman) March 29, 2018

A response to her tweet, quoted in the above article.

Well said. And possibly true on more than one level.

Conservatives have promised a counter-boycott. That is, they plan to boycott any advertisers who stop supporting Ingraham.

There are several problems with this. Most of Ingraham's audience is obviously right-wing, but most consumers for these businesses are going to be left or center. At that point it comes down to who cares more. So what is the counter-boycott supporting? Mocking a teen survivor of a mass shooting for getting rejected from some colleges and having a 4.1 GPA... At one time I would have said that it would be a slam dunk that people would care more about condemning such behavior than supporting it. However, the last year has shown that 80-90% of the remaining GOP is really that vile. That means now I don't know.

Business wise, that's a tough call for those companies. They obviously found value in advertising on her program before. Morality wise, better to make the call that hurts business a little more than support such bad behavior, especially when the business call is that close.

In the spirit of holy week I will eat twice as much chocolate on Sunday.

Pruitt will get nailed if it becomes embarrassing to Trump. Even faster if Pruitt gets on the cover of Time.

Well, now there's this...

https://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/v3/m...jpg&w=300&q=85
http://time.com/5220086/jeff-session...-keep-his-job/

So now Jeff's ugly mug is on the cover of Time magazine for real, unlike Donny's pathetic fake copies. Which will please the Orange Narcissist-in-Chief no end. So who thinks Jeff's position is still safe?

It cannot be an accident that Trump, on Friday, in addition to declaring this the Be Nice to Wominz Month, also declared it Hey Let's Let Bygones be Bygones Month and is supporting (for now) a bipartisan effort to make nice-nice with former prisoners and felons. Hang 'em High Jefferson the Traitor Elf has got to be totally against that effort.

Interesting story about ex-VA boss Shulkin in Politico.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...eterans-492877

It's interesting because if Trump fires Sessions he might want to replace him with someone other than Deputy AG Rosenstein. Of course, it would probably be someone who would fire Meuller.

Oh Jeffy won't get fired for this. He's going to have to stay around and get kicked in the groin in public for a while longer now.

LOL.

I dunno. Donny takes perceived insults like this very personally. Hence trying to wind back everything Obama did after the public roasting. And perhaps Sessions is having a little dig back at Donny with this. Jeffy may be an elf, but he is also not a fool. He will know this would rile the tangerine twat.

I think that's Craig's point. That a simple firing wouldn't be sufficient but he'd need to be humiliated beforehand.

That, and Jeffy needs to be out of town. Trump seems to be too chicken to fire someone to their face, and the higher their position the farther away he seems to need them to be when he does it. (Or more likely, has someone to do it for him.)

Surely, you jest. This is Donnie Johnny who gets chauffeurs to lie about him breaking up beat downs, who would've single-handedly won the war in Vietnam if not for those burn spores or whatever they were, who would've rushed into the school in Parkland even without a weapon, who won a scripted fight with Vince McMahon! Surely you're not saying our BatmanJohnWayneAudieMurphy president, who has balls the size of his hands, would be afraid to face down an actual real person.

Exactly, the evil little elf will have to burn in public for this transgression before Trump puts him out of his misery.

And, try as I might, it's really hard to do a mitzvah and feel bad about how these people are treated. I mean... we're talking about Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, The Mooch, Flynn, Paulie Ukraine.... I'm having a hard time mustering all that much sympathy.

It's possible to enjoy the watching of Trump's cabal circling the drain AND a bunch of smarmy insidious individuals getting their just desserts even if from the wrong source.

Most of The Hair's broken toys were either trying to use a Trump administration to enrich themselves (Manafort, Gates) or thought he would be a good vehicle for their own screwed up agendas. Unless there's more dirt on Sessions, it's unfortunate that the vile creature will probably come out a hero in all this.

That was my thinking.

Donny has already tried to grossly humiliate Jeffy from the day he recused himself. It's been pretty much non-stop so it's not like any added humiliation is going to make things worse. How many more times can he get kicked in the balls in public and still keep the joke funny? There's a point where the slapstick loses it's joke capacity, and the victim becomes an object of sympathy, or, at least, empathy, and the perpetrator no longer the jokester but a torturer. Donny, having no empathetic bone in his body, will have no clue.

So now the Elf has now managed to get himself on the cover of Time fer realz as a serious guy, while Donny hasn't except as political cartoon satire (or the "fake Times" covers). So while Donny gets pissed off at this, Jeffy continues to get sympathy votes the more Donny derides him.

ETA: IMHO neither Jeffy nor Donny are nice people. Neither should be anywhere near the reins of power.

Apparently Pruitt has gone from being a Trump favorite to being on the verge of being removed from office in less then two weeks.

So, pretty much a normal run for this administration, then?

I think the problem with Pruitt is not with what he did, but he was stupid enough not make a effort to conceal it. To use an old expression about sex,problem is not with what he did, but that he did in the middle of the street and frightened the horses....