Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Exit Stage Rex

Rex Tillerson out                           Mike Pompeo in 

I am sure many on the left will get their undies in a bunch over this move.  Obviously there has been tension between Trump and Tillerson for some time. I think the main message will be that if you want to work in the Trump Administration, that you better sort of be a Trump person.

Interestingly this has been a standard normal operating procedure throughout our political history. Pretty much every Administration has chosen to employ people who are pretty much like minded with the President.  Those who work for the President are generally expected to do the President's bidding.

Think Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gates, Ridge, Thompson, Paulson, Wolfowitz, etc...
Think Clinton, Kerry, Gates, Holder, Lynch, Sebelius, Napolitano, Rice, etc...

But in the case of Donald Trump, there has become sort of a warped sense that those who work in the Administration are somehow there to provide a check to the President, not to work for him. We have never seen more emphasis on the idea of major cabinet players being "independent" than we are seeing today. I fully expect that eventually the President will find people who want to work with him, rather than provide resistance. Then we may finally see more stability.

54 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a Yuge upgrade.

Anonymous said...

HB, you had the President lasting less then a year.

What happened?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Tillerson is out. I beat you

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Tillerson was blindsided despite what the White House leaks

Loretta said...

Big deal.

Anonymous said...




time for an alky-lanche of copy/paste tillerson articles.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump thinks that he knows what he is doing and doesn't need anyone to tell him what to do.

Loretta said...

"Trump thinks that he knows what he is doing and doesn't need anyone to tell him what to do."

Sure drunkard.

Sure.

Anonymous said...

Have you all seen the Hillary stumble. She is in I'll health and mind.

Too funny.

Anonymous said...

Alky, you had President Trump out of office by now, what happened?

Anonymous said...



Blogger Roger Amick said...

Trump thinks that he knows what he is doing and doesn't need anyone to tell him what to do.



alky, for all you know he was advised to fire tillerson.

you know, someone telling him what to do.

has maggie haberman published an article about this citing several anonymous sources?

i'm sure you'll copy/paste it when she does.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He's increasingly isolated because he thinks that he knows what he's doing.

I don't hate Trump, but his belief that he and he alone, knows what to do, is well, I hope that he's got it.

But, yes but, he's been a reality show host and a mediocre businessman. He never reads his intelligence report, and spends too much time expressing his emotions on Twitter as well as foreign policy on Twitter also.

I'm praying that he won't fuck it up.

Loretta said...

"Have you all seen the Hillary stumble. She is in I'll health and mind."

Drunk or drugs.

Take your pick.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

rev, take your personal insults and shove them up your fat ass.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

What the fuck are you talking about,

Probably hot air, Breightbart etc

I haven't read about the firing. I've been watching this disaster of President Donald Trump turn into the swamp he said that he would drain

Anonymous said...



But, yes but, he's been a reality show host and a mediocre businessman.


says the "tab A into slot B" union tool who drank himself to liver failure.


He never reads his intelligence report

according to several anonymous sources.

sure, alky.

sure.

Anonymous said...



Have you all seen the Hillary stumble. She is in I'll health and mind.


she's a fucking mess. i don't know which was worse - her stair stumbles or her comments.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

drank himself to liver failure.

The lie never dies.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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Myballs said...

Isolated my ass. Trump has had a very successful first 14 months. Success makes many friends.

And onxet again Trump surrounds himself with strong successful women.

Myballs said...

Hillary is losing her marbles over losing an election that was so rigged in her favor.

I love seeing her so crazed about it.

caliphate4vr said...

her stair stumbles or her comments.

Was that the 87th reason she lost? None of course are because she’s such a horrible person and terrible candidate,

Anonymous said...

Was that the 87th reason she lost? None of course are because she’s such a horrible person and terrible candidate,


the next time the drunken hag starts to take a header on a long flight of stairs those around her just need to let her go.

Anonymous said...

Who is "rev" and why is Roger Raving.

"Roger AmickMarch 13, 2018 at 9:34 AM
rev, take your personal insults and shove them up your fat ass."

Anonymous said...

Hillarydrunk, drugged, shit probably both.

To think that failed granny almost win..

Anonymous said...

Hillarydrunk, drugged, shit probably both.

To think that failed granny almost win..

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ok rog, let me see if i can help you out.

here you go -


Scaramucci: Maddow should take a 'suppository' for 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'

"But you can tell she has a little bit of that Trump Derangement Syndrome, which I like. I’m hoping one of these comedians will come up with an anti-anxiety medication for these liberals. Just take one tablet a day, maybe a suppository, and take it easy. It's morning, had to wake everybody up with that," Scaramucci added.


http://thehill.com/homenews/media/377588-scaramucci-maddow-should-take-a-suppository-for-trump-derangement-syndrome




Anonymous said...

she's a fucking mess. i don't know which was worse - her stair stumbles or her comments"RRB

Her comments, a paid speech, where reminiscent of Genghis Khan Kerry and algore after they lost.

Anonymous said...

Did jane defend and side with the Vice President Pence and against Mr. Joy Bahar?

"ABC News star Joy Behar apologized for mocking Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith on Tuesday, ending a month of outcry stemming from remarks she made that have been called “slander” and “anti-Christian bigotry.”

Commonsense said...

If you want to define isolation, check out Hillary Clinton, the 2018 broken and bitter tour.

Anonymous said...

She so wanted it, it was hers. HB convinced himself she was going to win in a walk. After all Alky told us she "Had it all", Bill the rapist, plastic black Jesus and endless CASH.

Myballs said...

I'm reading the the new female cia chief nominee is a former undercover operative who was alleged to have done some torturing. Don't know if she'll be confirmed but she sounds like a badass either way.

Anonymous said...

US Labor Participation Rate Increases ,president Trump did something that did not happen during the Black Plastic Jesus Lost Years.

Anonymous said...

We knew it was Liberal BS.

The so called "Kids" that organized the #neveragain BS. Well,they didn't.
It was done by the woman March against Trump.

wphamilton said...

"US Labor Participation Rate Increases "

Eh, it's 63% about the same as a year ago, and the same as the average since 1953.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

ABOARD A U.S. GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT — Hours before being ousted as secretary of state, Rex Tillerson called the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent in the U.K. “a really egregious act” that appears to have “clearly” come from Russia.

Trump loves Putin. Tweet storms !

Anonymous said...


On his way back from a trip to Africa, Tillerson said late Monday that it was not yet known whether the poisoning "came from Russia with the Russian government's knowledge."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tillerson-says-u-k-spy-poisoning-clearly-came-russia-n856056

Loretta said...

lol

Anonymous said...


Blogger Loretta said...

lol


either the alky has committed a lie of omission, or he's as sharp as a fucking billiard ball.

wphamilton said...

So the sequence on this is

Tillerson said on Monday that the attack appears to have clearly comes from Russia

Late that night he said that it was not known whether the poisoning was "with the Russian government's knowledge

Trump makes a more equivocal statement, demurring until "we get the facts straight" and then "if we agree with them" (evidently holding open the option of disagreeing with the facts after we get them straight LOL)

Trump fires Tillerson early Tuesday.

I don't really see your beef with Roger here. It looks to me like Tillerson reacted rather strongly at first, got reigned in by Trump, and then replaced. It's not that much of a leap to connect Tillerson's initial criticism of Russia (there was quite a bit more) with adverse action by Trump.

Loretta said...

"either the alky has committed a lie of omission, or he's as sharp as a fucking billiard ball."

Not just him, TDS is strong with our other liberal friend.

James said...

Trump fires all his intelligent advisors.
He prefers people like himself.

James said...

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Good! James said...

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Teresa Dulyea-Parker said...

James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile and admits it.

Stormy Daniels said...

Loathsome lying lesbian Loretta is a cunt.

Teresa Dulyea-Parker said...

James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile and admits it.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The undersecretary of state, issued a statement saying: "The Secretary had every intention of remanit... The Secretary did not speak to the President this morning and is unaware of the reason".

Goldsteien was fired shortly after.

This is not how a real President handles situations like a petulant child, but this one does and gets praise from the Truthers at rocket speed.

Anonymous said...

Wp, lost years labor participation rate
2009 Jan. 65.7%
2017 Jan. 62.9%

PNC said...

In any other business, this level of staff turnover would be seen unequivocally as a sign of the manager's incompetence.

Anonymous said...

President Trump labor partisipation rate reversed lost years.

wphamilton said...

Cherry picking the year after the financial meltdown doesn't fool anyone.

Anonymous said...

Hb is proud of Plastic Jesus Union record in CA. The Lost Years.
Union Membership in CA
2009 Jan 17.2 %
2017 Jan 15.9 %

Lol @HB

Anonymous said...

WP, how you doing?