Gun Nuts Have Knife Fight
Donald Trump has asked for top security clearances for three of his adult children. Melania doesn’t need one – she’ll just plagiarize someone else’s.
The Trump Royal Family is also finding entertainment is the usual ways — pitting people against each other to disgrace themselves and snitch on each other.
Donald Trump’s transition is being marked by sharp internal disagreements over key cabinet appointments and direction, both for internal West Wing positions and key national security posts, sources involved in the transition team tell CNN.
One source with knowledge of the transition described it as a “knife fight.”
I suspect that most of the knives are in the backs of the fighters.
And to everyone’s absolute expectations …..
Another source tied to the transition described the resulting confusion as “buffoonery.”
So if you bet on calm, cool, professional, adult leadership in these perilous times, you lose again.
In Name-That-Cabinet, today’s leading contender is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a man named after a Civil War general and President of the Confederacy, for Attorney General. Alabama’s contribution to the Build A Wall movement, Sessions was also turned down for a federal judgeship during the Reagan administration for racist statements while prosecuting African Americans in Alabama.
Hey, at least they are fighting each other instead of playing the with Nuke button.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Order more Popcorn, and Booze Lots and lots of Booze.
1Regarding the Nuke button, they don’t get the football until January 20 so we have until then.
2What can you expect from a snake oil salesman who has spent his life alienating everybody? Of course, like a good snake oil man, he knows when to turn on the charm so people don’t believe he’ll do stuff to them, which is why I think we’re hearing so much of the “give him a chance” line.
I think Garrison Keillor made some good points the other day in his WaPo article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-voters-will-not-like-what-happens-next/2016/11/09/e346ffc2-a67f-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html), but the best thing for me has been Kate McKinnon on SNL: We have to keep hope alive. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec)
Thanks for leading us, JJ (and El Jefe and Primo, too).
3Between their ineptitude, in fighting, and golf there is hope that they won’t be able to accomplish a thing.
4Remember Drumpf asked someone in his campaign why he couldn’t use nukular weapons. No, thinking the press is against you isn’t a good reason to push the button.
5Big surprise– you want somebody who’s never been part of government to run the government, you get a bunch of clowns who have no idea how to run a government. At least until the GOP establishment (you know, that establishment you thought you were voting against?) steps in and takes over. Happy now?
6Perhaps they should bring in a group of mediators to weigh the pros and cons for each appointment, and best match the person to the position.
Are the Kardashians available?
7Don’t y’all remember when he promised he would have only the BEST BEST people surrounding him when he was elected?
8isn’t it that you’re supposed to bring a gun to a knife fight? oops! i know james bond said something similar
9I’m not too worried about the establishment Republicans. The Donald is used to being in charge and I don’t think he is going to cotton to any attempts by Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan to tell him what to do. I can hear it now, “When was the last time you won a nationwide election, Mitch? Paul? Ok, then we do it my way.”
10I doubt his spawn can get clearance to attend press conferences. P***y grabber doesn’t know quality. Just look at pictures of the ghastly cheap furnishings in the Old Post Office. Those of us who live here are disgusted beyond words. As he can’t tell what a decent piece of furniture is why shoud his inability to discern what a decent human is. But then he buys all his cheap clothes from China and they look cheap.
11Clearances for the lot, after we see the Tax Returns, and documentation of a certified third party blind trust….some business called Trust Me LCC, with a Trump Hotel address
12May the Trumpkins rip each other apart till no one trusts anyone or tells anyone anything. May they tumble into total, incoherent, dislocated disarray. In other words – fork ’em.
13The trumplets say Bannon was a naval officer, as if there are no racist nationalist naval officers, or investment bankers.
14Sigh.
15@treehugger–As I recall it, those BEST BEST people are also “people you don’t even know.” Well, so much for that…
16A knife fight? Jebus! Where’s Benny ‘the blade’ Carson?
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