Ha! Right? Still on the hustle, even on their way to the (figurative) gallows.

I prefer the Danica Roem approach: Don’t ask people to vote for you because of who you are, ask people to vote for you because of what you can do for the state.

“Tillerson seems mostly incompetent, while Pompeo seems outright malevolent.”

It must be the initials. That’s how I describe Trump and Pence.

Lunch, you forgot Betsy! I fully expect she will be fired and replaced by a fourth-grader who demands school lunches are replaced by ice cream (chocolate only, and just one scoop for the brown kids, and a third scoop for the Trump family). Actually, all things considered, that kid might be better qualified for the…

My take on Tillerson is that he came into the position with the idea that he’d run the State Department like a corporation, and then just dug in his heels when it became clear the organization wouldn’t work like that. He’s done incredible harm to the organization, even if he hasn’t been a grandstanding clown…

Nah, Tillerson was malevolent. When a guy with deep ties to Vladimir Putin guts the State Department that’s been highly adversarial to Russia and drags feet on implementing sanctions for election meddling, that’s not mere incompetence.

You have constructed some imaginary scenario within which Trump and Tillerson have carefully vetted the senior career diplomats at State, found them somehow lacking in loyalty to the Constitution, and forced them out to make way for fresh talent. NONE OF THAT IS TRUE. Trump and Tillerson are not replacing these…

These are solid choices. Which is why Cap and Bucky choose each other.

The idea of Mattis as a sole check on anyone frightens me greatly. Not because Mattis is bad at his job or dishonorable, but because he is a classic “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” kind of guy. My brother is a relatively high-ranking military officer careerist and he talked about writing…

I hate how they all feel the need to tell us what they’re going away to DO. Motherfucking, I don’t care what you do once you go away, I just want you to get fucking gone.

That was my point. Tillerson is sane only relative to rest of the halfwits in the Trump Administration.

Here’s the real mess: while everything you say is true, he’s being replaced with Mike Pompeo. Who is being replaced in his role at the CIA with Tom Cotton.

Yup. Posted similar reply above before seeing yours.

It’s depressing. With all of her connections and clout, he still wasn’t afraid of her.

The Department of State is being horrendously hollowed out by Trump and Tillerson, as an oped in today’s Washington Post by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright points out. Neither Trump nor Tillerson believes in diplomacy, and Tillerson recently made the ludicrous argument that cutting the department budget…

Tillerson was awful. He’s been systematically dismantled the State Department for months, to the point where retired senior staff members have cried foul from the past three administrations have cried foul. Even top Republicans like Bob Corker are sick of this stuff, to the point where Corker admittedly recently that…

It bears noting that Jenny Lumet is major Hollywood Royalty. She’s the daughter of Sidney Lumet, director of 12 Angry Men, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, Murder On The Orient Express, The Wiz and more, every film a classic and regarded as one of the great 20th Century masters. Her grandmother is the legend Lena Horne.

Well observed.

“I desperately wanted to keep the situation from escalating.”

This can’t be called anything less than kidnapping and rape. The hubris he displayed in doing this to such a genuine grade-A member of Hollywood Royalty boggles the mind. He actually thought he could get away with doing that to the granddaughter of Lena Horne/daughter of Sidney Lumet (both were still alive and…