Thx

He just needed a bigger gun. I'd suggest something in the 120mm range. That should at least make the bear pause and ponder.

I hereby nominate Jeff Sessions. Who is simultaneously trying to explain why he can't remember being in meetings with Papadopolous where Russian collusion was discussed and being criticized by Trump & Co for not locking her up.

No worries for Jeffie though. After Roy Moore is expelled by the Senate the governor can nominate him back to his old seat.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017...ump-idiot-dope

MR McMaster maybe the next out now. We'll see. For some reason The Hair dislikes having his intellectual deficiency pointed out to him. Not sure why; it's perfectly obvious.

Wow. If that's on the level (or if Trump just believes it is) I can't imagine McMaster lasting much longer. It it's true, I'm not surprised that he'd feel that way about Trump, but I am surprised that he'd be so reckless about spreading it around.

Tillerson soon to be out?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/u...peo-trump.html

Conway is moving on to become some sort of opioid czar but I don't think that counts.

There was supposed to be some kind of "suicide pact" between Tillerson, Mnuchin and Mattis...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7984151.html

I expect that it will prove to be so much hot air.

All the hot air is what keeps them afloat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nl_most&wpmm=1

White House readies plan to replace Tillerson with Pompeo at State, install Cotton at CIA
The plan, hatched by White House chief of staff John F. Kelly, is expected to be set in motion over the next few weeks.

Looks like Tillerson is a good bet for next.

So is she working for Kushner or was this taken off his plate?

Tillerson has been a disaster at State. He should go. He’s likely be happier too since he considers Trump a moron.

Trump needs Tillerson more than the other way around.

Best keep it there for now.

Completely off-topic, and I'm really asking nobody, but... why is that filed under "Culture > Film > News"?

Agreed but Tom Cotton at the CIA would be a even greater disaster.

But what are the odds anyone else would actually improve the situation?

Good question. I recall he was made responsible for a whole raft of things, but don't recall what any of the others were. Strange how long ago that seems now.

Does anyone recall who was going to plug the leaks at the White House? Was that one of Jared's? Or was it a Kelly mission?

Since he has to go, better he go now while things are quiet on the diplomatic front, thanks to Pax Trumpicus. The new guy can settle in over the Xmas-New Year season when nothing much goes on back in the office.

How's this going to weave into the Russia investigation and obstruction of justice tapestry? (Rhetorical.)

It doesn't. He's just a pro-torture psychopath.

And replace him with Sarah Sanders! After all, we don't need somebody at the State Department with ambiguous credibility.

He's my top pick for the next figure the Mueller investigation turns its attention to, what fortuitous timing...

"Oh, you want to go back to the private sector and make fat stacks, huh? Have a seat right over here..."

Kushner is looking a lot like he's going back to New York to take care of the family business. Mueller is closing in and there's no upside for him to stay in Washington.

Kushner is an enigma to me. He has been given the most plentiful policy portfolio of all ("peace in the ME" anyone? And several more of that caliber), yet is so far back in the background, we famously don't even know his voice. Well almost. What is it in Trump's head that makes Kushner so yugely, bigly important? Is he expendable?

He is such a light weight, any ill breeze ought to whisk him away.

I am not sure Kushner is next, even though he is clearly in Mueller's crosshairs. Too attached to the POTUS's next of kin.

I still say: Kelly! :D

I'm not a big fan of Tillerson, but I don't think he's deep in the mud here. Perhaps I could be wrong, but he wasn't an integral part of the campaign or transition, far as I recall, and that's the time that is the focus, no?

Trump only hires the best people, but government is so slow and inefficient that we can't get the NEW best people in fast enough.

I imagine someone has been talking Tillerson into staying. He should have left after he got undercut when he was trying to talk to the North Koreans while he was in China.

Trump will probably keep Tillerson now just to prove the news is fake!

That was what I was thinking

Maybe for a week or two.

True, not firing someone who is known to be contemptuous of Trump must be eating him inside...

ETA: Firing Tillerson will vindicate "Fake News", not firing him means Tillerson has got away with calling him a moron.

Where will Trump's ego force him

Tillerson can resign and have enough loyalty not to admit Trump ordered him to do so. Trump can then say he's sorry to see him go.

And what about the alleged suicide pact? ;)

Even if it existed (and IMO they were a pretty unlikely trio to tie themselves thusly) it would require senior Republicans to behave in an honourable manner.

If I put in enough laughing dogs to properly comment on that statement, I'd likely break the internet.

More yelling about Hillary on Twitter as an absolute minimum.

Seems the most insipid of them all (Aside from the boss) is leaving. Omarosa.

Omarosa is out!

Escorted out of the building! (I don't know if that's in a good way, or like "escorted out" by security.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/o...q52#.kx3jApDep

From Ray Dalio's Principles, page 328:

Ray Dalio is a real successful business leader, and not the Reality Show version of a successful business leader.

Too much showboating?

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I AGREE

Omarosa has now been fired twice by Trump. The first was on Trump’s TV show.

Of all of the Trump butt kissers, Omarosa was one about the most public of all of them and now she has been given the boot.

Good riddance to her.

Fixed. She was fired twice previously (once on Apprentice, once on Celebrity Apprentice).

Apparently she really did need to be physically escorted out. I assume she wasn't manhandled and dragged out, but they were ready to if necessary.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/omaros...-she-was-fired

Holy cow.

Dontcha gotta wonder how she's going to keep working there if her pass has been terminated?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...94961482780672

:(

The escort is possibly just a formality. You'd have to surrender your credentials at the security station and from that point on, need an escort to move around the facility.

ETA: Not a whole lot of weight to "storming" the residence either, necessarily. A moment of hot-headed impropriety before being stopped at a checkpoint and reminded she doesn't have access to that part of the building and a few irritable words could have been all it was. I don't like to feed into the "fake news" thing, but it is a profit-driven business and sensationalism sells. Given the personalities in this administration, its not hard to find a few people happy to give quotes indicating a contentious stand-off as (conveniently anonymous) parting blows.

But that doesn't make good television, and this is the first reality television based administration. So can't she raise her game just a bit for the sake of ratings?

I think they are basically saying she attempted to storm the residence. But you are 100 percent right. My guess is she had a temper tantrum at a checkpoint and then was asked to leave the entire White House grounds and an escort accompanied her to the gate. Having seen the childish way Omarosa acted on The Apprentice, nothing would surprise me about that woman.

I know the angle, don't get me wrong.

No, I mean the literal angle. This would call for a low, up-angle tracking dolly shot as she marches down the hall with a grim expression. Cue low, dissonant tone. Cut to: hand-held over-the-shoulder follow shot from Omarosa, key on guard. Cut to: static over-the-shoulder from guard, key on Omarosa. Tones rise, still dissonant, to crescendo, one more beat of tension as she reaches the checkpoint, aaaaaand commercial break.