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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#174101: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:10:41 AM

Trump really didn't think things through when he ran for presidency didn't he?

he is learning the hard way being the president isn't a position where everyone can hand hold him to help him with his tasks and leave everyone else to do the hard work.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
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#174102: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:12:51 AM

Numerous news outlets are speculating now that Trump may finally be throwing Flynn to the wolves; even Trump couldn't come up with a defense of his recent Russia escapades.

Given how things are going his replacement will probably be worse.

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#174103: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:19:18 AM

[up] One down; literally Hundreds to go.

At least he's getting rid of some of the more dangerous lackeys.

EDIT: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), instead of focusing his attention on Trump and Conway, will instead focus on removing Assistant Suicide from D.C.

Not a fan of Assistant Suicide, personally, but the District made it legal, and the Congressmen shouldn't just make it illegal for moral reasons.

edited 13th Feb '17 8:26:30 AM by DingoWalley1

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#174104: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:23:59 AM

Apparently there are no plans to fire Flynn just yet.

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#174105: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:39:36 AM

I've yet to see any momentum on getting rid of Sean Spicer either, despite the fact that I keep hearing repeated insistence that Trump wants to dump Spicer and give Conway more to do.

For a man who made a living on the words, "YOU'RE FIRED", Trump's dragging his heels on actually fulfilling any of the rumors of him considering dumping people. I'll believe it when I see it.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#174106: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:42:21 AM

If he starts firing people left and right, he'll be facing a shortage of people willing to come and work for him/ruin their careers. He's already dangerously low on manpower, bastard doesn't even have a fucking legal team yet.

Maybe that's a good thing, the Trump admin is just too poorly run to destroy democracy.

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#174107: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:44:10 AM

I think the lack of momentum in firing these people is due to a combination of Trump not being as dissatisfied with their performance as the leaks might suggest, and being in a position where he can't just fire people without some political blowback. Remember that this is the first position in his life that doesn't come with nigh-dictatorial authority; his grumblings are ultimately empty unless it actually happens.

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#174108: Feb 13th 2017 at 8:57:51 AM

Spicer is already doing two jobs, so if he's fired Trump will have to get two replacements.

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#174109: Feb 13th 2017 at 9:00:36 AM

I also wonder if the people Trump won't fire know a little too much then they should. They all might have some dirt on him of varying degrees that will make him look worse with the public (although he already looks bad to the public). I know for a fact that Sean Spicer would sell out Trump if he got fired, although I doubt he knows a lot.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#174110: Feb 13th 2017 at 9:08:59 AM

[up][up]Assuming that Trump is competent. Spicer shouldn't be doing all that shit in the first place.

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#174111: Feb 13th 2017 at 9:20:58 AM

Honestly, it's past time that "When will the Donald salvage his non-salvageable administration and start serving the American people?" is a worthwhile or even relevant discussion. He's a failure as a leader, administrator, and human being and always has been. Really, the focus should be on dismantling him, not wondering whether <insert random scandal here> will be what finally makes him a more worthwhile leader.

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#174112: Feb 13th 2017 at 9:30:36 AM

Well, all of us already knew this would be the case well before he got elected. Nothing that has happened so far during his term has been particularly surprising.

Unfortunately too much of the american public didn't get that memo.

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#174113: Feb 13th 2017 at 9:44:02 AM

[up][up][up]Trump is known to cheat his employees.

So Spicer still being paid the cost of one job despite doing two isn't surprising.

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#174114: Feb 13th 2017 at 10:01:24 AM

Colbert talks about the grumblings of dissatisfaction with Spicer and the likelihood of him turning on the Trump Administration if he gets fired.

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#174115: Feb 13th 2017 at 10:07:11 AM

The thing is, at some point we can expect the Trump Regime to get better at this sort of thing. It may take awhile, and lots of pie in the face in the meantime, but they wont be this incompetent forever. This is going to be a four year struggle at minimum.

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Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#174116: Feb 13th 2017 at 10:42:27 AM

I dunno. Old people are not generally great at acquiring new skills, and the particular old person in question has a known tendency to blame everyone else for his mistakes, ensuring they're never be too many other people with meaningful experience around him.

Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
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#174117: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:17:56 AM

[up][up]It's not likely to be four years anyway. It's not even a month in and he already has a lot of The People fighting him and his own people at one another's throat. Either he turns around quick, or he's done and Pence is in charge. I have the sickening feeling they might charge Donald with treason, put him in prison, and either wait out his old age or quietly have him executed while we're reeling from whatever Pence does for the remainder of his term.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#174118: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:21:31 AM

On Oroville, seems like the situation is easing a little as lake levels drop. That said, more rain is expected over the week, so they better fix these spillways quickly.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#174119: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:24:42 AM

[up][up]I can't help but feel "quietly executed" sounds a tad extreme, not to mention unlikely.

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Overlording the Underworld
#174120: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:35:35 AM

Yeah. I did say MIGHT in that. I veer between extremes in my thinking. Which is why my actions are milquetoast and lukewarm at best. [lol]

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#174121: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:40:46 AM

Treason is a capital offense. If they convicted him with that, they could have him publicly executed and no one would bat an eye. We still shoot traitors in the U.S.

But it's extremely difficult to prove, especially outside of an active war scenario. Far more likely is that he'd simply be impeached when he became too much trouble to effectively manage.

edited 13th Feb '17 11:42:44 AM by TobiasDrake

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#174122: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:48:42 AM

I still stand that he Republicans will dump Trump not over corruption but over a mad celebrity style scandal that makes him such a laughingstock that they will never win an election with him again. My personal theory is a sex tape being discovered, possibly one of him and his daughter.

The impeachment (should it come, which I think it will) may officially be about corruption and backhand deals, but it will in truth be about him having turned the Republican Party into a laughing stock even internally.

To top it off I don't see Trump resigning nor do I see Pence pardoning him, which would likely lead to an angry Trump using what dirt he has on Pence when Pence runs for re-election, with said dirt likely being someone related to LGBT people.

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#174123: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:54:03 AM

If they dump Trump, he's taking them down with him. He is an extremely petty man and would not let an affront to his ego slide.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#174124: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:55:36 AM

You can't exactly fix a three hundred feet wide and growing sinkhole in a spillway that's in constant use quickly. So uh... more praying that it doesn't get worse.

Regarding the post about Chaffetz on the previous page: I'm betting that at least part of the reason people are angry about this particular stunt is that it's yet again an instance of the federal government overruling the city's decisions regarding itself. Congress basically has total control over it; the city government can only do what Congress either allows or chooses to ignore, and the people living there are probably pretty sick of it. And shit, for people who supposedly support local control, the Republican party has been very disrespectful of them. There was that shit a few years ago about trying to overrule DC's gun laws regarding people coming in from Virginia.

[up][up]Can we please not speculate about parent/child incest? That's a very gross and extreme line to cross and as weird as Trump's behavior is this is just really gross rumor mongering.

edited 13th Feb '17 11:58:32 AM by AceofSpades

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#174125: Feb 13th 2017 at 11:58:14 AM

The idea has been floated that the Unholy Trinity (Pence, Pribus and Miller) might conspire to invoke the "Donald is unfit to perform his duties and we are forcing the chain of sucession" provision of the 25th amendment.

Impeachment still looks a long way off. The congress critters being mobbed at townhalls are finding it too easy to fall back on the "paid protestor" excuse and just naked outright disdain. There was a clip passed around of one of those events where the guy tried dragging out the old "death panel" lie about the ACA. The crowed was pissed and he had the audacity to reply with a condensending "settle down, childen". ::grr:;

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edited 13th Feb '17 12:01:07 PM by Elle


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