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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, October 20, 2019

"You're Fired!"

While I am not supporting Biden at all in the primaries, I thought he had one of the better attack lines back in 2016.  In talking about how Trump got famous through reality TV, Biden wondered how anyone could gleefully express the line "You're fired."

Trump has, sadly, governed very much as his reality TV character.  The louche vulgarian has churned through staff at a truly astonishing rate.  The only remaining members of his original Cabinet are two people too confused to know what's going on (Carson and DeVos), Mnuchin and Sonny Perdue.  Dunno, maybe I'm missing someone who has held on, but I think we are the Nat Sec adviser #4, Chief of Staff #3 and God knows who else.  Is there even a White House Press Secretary anymore?

Anyway, it turns out Trump was going to fire Mick Mulvaney who holds half the jobs in the White House.  "Luckily" for Mulvaney, his role as a co-conspirator has saved his job.

These freaking people...

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