Mark Esper is out

[Fanatical Meat]

President has fried him

Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become acting secretary "effective immediately."

www.cnn.com

 

[Zorba]

The next 2.5 months will be a shit show.

 

[eelw]

First act of lame duck president

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I can’t wait until Biden is able to not bother getting cabinet approvals, he can just staff every department as “Acting”

 

[cytg111]

I can’t wait until Biden is able to not bother getting cabinet approvals, he can just staff every department as “Acting”

this

Just Skip The Senate To Install A Cabinet, Progressives Urge Joe Biden

Activists are urging the president-elect to look closely at a 1998 law called the Vacancy Act.

www.huffingtonpost.ca

"The first option is a 1998 law that allows a president to temporarily fill vacant executive branch positions that typically require Senate confirmation with “acting” secretaries. "

 

[Homerboy]

Super.

 

[hal2kilo]

this

Just Skip The Senate To Install A Cabinet, Progressives Urge Joe Biden

Activists are urging the president-elect to look closely at a 1998 law called the Vacancy Act.

www.huffingtonpost.ca

"The first option is a 1998 law that allows a president to temporarily fill vacant executive branch positions that typically require Senate confirmation with “acting” secretaries. "

Trump and his Republican enablers set the precedent.

 

[Captante]

Trump and his Republican enablers set the precedent.

Good news is this is surprising to exactly nobody including Biden.

 

[K1052]

Head of NASA resigned.

I assume Wray, Barr, and others probably to come.

Obligatory:

 

[Fenixgoon]

Head of NASA resigned.

I assume Wray, Barr, and others probably to come.

why do i get the feeling this is going to get real ugly...

 

[Paratus]

Head of NASA resigned.

I assume Wray, Barr, and others probably to come.

Obligatory:
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Bridenstine says he’ll step down from NASA when Biden takes over. So I didn’t take it as he’s leaving now.

He’s been a fairly good administrator.

 

[K1052]

just great stuff here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1325870595238748160

 

[K1052]

Bridenstine says he’ll step down from NASA when Biden takes over. So I didn’t take it as he’s leaving now.

He’s been a fairly good administrator.

I'd assume a canning is coming given the mood of the president.

 

[hal2kilo]

I'd assume a canning is coming given the mood of the president.

Some people are tired of waiting for the big Orange baby to face reality. They need to move on and make plans.

 

[Paratus]

I'd assume a canning is coming given the mood of the president.

Possibly, but again the president hasn’t normally had a beef with him. Plus in a roundabout way he said he wouldn’t work with the next president which I’m sure Trump would take favorably

(Offering to step down when a new President comes in is also normal, so I actually think he’s trying to thread the needle here)

 

[pauldun170]

just great stuff here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1325870595238748160

Any kid who took a job in the Trump White house who did not figure out by 2017 that it is basically a shitshow temp job should be thinking "career change".
Preferably any career that does not require judgement or basic common sense.

 

[Jaskalas]

Is it too dark to think Mark Esper refused an order to deploy US troops on American soil?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Is it too dark to think Mark Esper refused an order to deploy US troops on American soil?

Yes

 

[Captante]

Yes

Not likely that order would have been obeyed by the all the "suckers and losers" actually IN the military anyway.

 

[trenchfoot]

I'd assume a canning is coming given the mood of the president.

You nailed it with that descriptive. It's the Trump Administrative Shitcannery being brought online giving Trump an assembly line style of efficiency from which to get revenge on any disloyal career administrator that made him look bad going back to 2016 yet had to put up with because that too would have made him look bad.

Fauci must have already packed up with one foot out the door.

 

[Captante]

Fauci must have already packed up with one foot out the door

I have a sneaking suspicion he won't be out of work for long!

 

[PowerEngineer]

Getting fired by Trump is a badge of honor.

 

[Stokely]

This guy was a real radical.


He had the wacky notion that deploying the military domestically should only be a last resort (this coming up around the protests).

He wasn't going to allow military bases to display the Confederate flag--which as we all know, was not the flag of a bunch of traitors who fought against America so that they could continue using slave labor.

Again, a real radical. I'm sure he had some Republic values of course, having been hired in the first place.

 

[Zorba]

Is it too dark to think Mark Esper refused an order to deploy US troops on American soil?

I know (I think) you grew up in a "the south will rise again," but I think you'll have to keep waiting for the civil war to start.

 

[feralkid]

Getting fired by Trump is a badge of honor.

Usually only if you were already there in 2016.