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golikehellmachine.com • 33 days ago

this is their no scalps policy; when someone fucks up so badly that they can't stay in a job, they're going to shuffle them to some other job, all these people are going to be around as long as congress tolerates them, no matter how badly they fuck up

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Trump announces that Mike Waltz will be nominated as UN ambassador and Marco is the new intern national security adviser

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sylvia33.bsky.social•33 days ago

This is done to keep his mouth shut.
Nobody gets it???

reiveronethree.bsky.social•33 days ago

Normally I'd say Marco can't handle his current portfolio, let alone the NatSec role, but then I remembered none of these people actually work. It's just cosplay and Fox News gets.

Marco will be fine lol

delfinr.bsky.social•32 days ago

The Titanic shuffle.

delfinr.bsky.social•32 days ago

Gutless GOP congress. GOP = COP. Party Of Cowards.

dbpublisher.bsky.social•33 days ago

Guess that means DJT will eventually end up at USPS as President Miller does a major reshuffle.

ramsandhoosiers.bsky.social•33 days ago

So, um, when does it occur to them that the UN Ambassador DOES need a confirmation hearing?

jasoncheathawks.bsky.social•33 days ago

Trump administration running like the old boys club of the NFL.

jasoncheathawks.bsky.social•33 days ago

UN ambassador Brian schottenheimer

russellcohn.bsky.social•33 days ago

What does Pete Carrol get?

jasoncheathawks.bsky.social•33 days ago

NOAA administrator.

warrenterra.bsky.social•33 days ago

It is funny though that he can't be trusted with sensitive national security matters and secret communications so they're going to relegate him to managing our country's international negotiations in a building basically built to be an espionage playground.

cop-watcher.bsky.social•33 days ago

just like cops

constancethebadger.bsky.social•32 days ago

When you’re corrupt, you gotta keep em in the family.

craftyang.bsky.social•33 days ago

It makes sense Trump wants to be Pope. He's following the Catholic Church's playbook for dealing with problem employees.

cherylrofer.bsky.social•33 days ago

So they won't spill the beans to the press.

ozarkgraphic.bsky.social•32 days ago

I was going to say it’s a “no talkers just walkers” policy.

pjcrooks.bsky.social•33 days ago

Ah the catholic approach

squeakins85.bsky.social•33 days ago

Like pedo priests and shitty cops, they'll be shuffled around

indri4biking.bsky.social•33 days ago

Maybe Trump has run out of sycophants he trusts.

fripperskitter.bsky.social•33 days ago

it's not like he's got anybody good to call up

paul.ofthenorth.ca•33 days ago

It's like they're the Catholic church.

lolmao500.bsky.social•33 days ago

And they're trying to put a rapist who touches himself thinking of dead immigrants as the boss of customs.

cboyner.bsky.social•33 days ago

Sounds a lot like the Catholic church

jeffedu.bsky.social•32 days ago

well they can't just hand 'the libs' a win, can they? no sir, no way, no how

one of the primary operating principles of trump is 'trump never wrong', so if trump hires a complete f*** up...then maybe...MAYBE...trump only put the guy in the not-best position to serve trump

ellestad.bsky.social•33 days ago

It's like the Catholic Church (or any organization where white men are in power).

steve--c.bsky.social•33 days ago

MAGA rule: as long as the lips maintain contact with the buttocks you have a job within the administration

notgonnadoit4u.bsky.social•33 days ago

Agree. He knows they’re incompetent and that was never an issue for him.

mosheroperandi.bsky.social•33 days ago

This is what think tanks are for though. Shuffle him off to Mark Meadows' Institute for J6 Omerta or something.

Instead they're offering him up like a chew toy for the Senate.

I shouldn't be upset the fascists are inept. But I kind of am. It hurts how such imbeciles have gotten this far.

scalehelix.net•33 days ago

they get pleasure from feeding a shit sandwich to the senate and watching them eat it

isomorphism.net•33 days ago

This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

johnlk.bsky.social•33 days ago

It is crazy that he is willing to try for the UN position.

mosheroperandi.bsky.social•33 days ago

That said, I do think this accords well with the: "they are out of guys" hypothesis. That loyalists of that degree are literally irreplaceable. Stash him where he can't draw much heat, but with a Senate confirmation that'll let him come back and be Acting Whatever if needed in the future.

davidevanlovett.bsky.social•33 days ago

yeah, I agree; they are literally at the bottom of the barrel and I think it combines with the various bottomfeeders they have that explicitly don't want to have actual culpability, i.e. Musk & Miller. How many meatshields do they have left for contempt or scandal that are willing to eat shit?

golikehellmachine.com•33 days ago

yeah, it's still, like, less than 50 people running the entire federal government, most of whom are catastrophically unqualified to do so, all of these cabinet secretaries are going to have multiple positions before this is over

davidevanlovett.bsky.social•33 days ago

100% especially when there are going to be things that do demand scalps - SSI crash, hurricane or tornado & poor response, etc - despite the clear motivation and goal of 'no scalps'; they can't pick from the easy cast of Senators & Representatives any more, and the House was their crazy stockpile

kehlkeh.bsky.social•33 days ago

well that was trump corps in a nutshell. handful of core loyalists surrounded by a halo of disposable grifters

lizamazel.bsky.social•33 days ago

chat, is this a good way for how to do an autocracy

mosheroperandi.bsky.social•33 days ago

2027 Cabinet meetings just going to be a senile Trump asking where everyone is, and Rubio, the only other person in the room, patiently reminding him that they're all gone.

bananapantz.bsky.social•33 days ago

And Elon in the corner grinning like a drugged-up idiot under a pile of hats.

gsjphd.bsky.social•32 days ago

ironbound.bsky.social•33 days ago

That TNG episode where people keep disappearing and in the end it's just Beverly and Picard and he's telling her "no, this is normal."

daless.bsky.social•33 days ago

Like what is done with bad cops or molesting priests. Move them and avoid accountability.

tinyvomit.bsky.social•33 days ago

It's like the Catholic Church

doubtful-guest.bsky.social•33 days ago

Wonder what agency Hegseth gets to be in charge of next.

geekesq.bsky.social•33 days ago

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

clayranck.bsky.social•32 days ago

Marco's up to 4 jobs now (State, NSA, USAID, Archives) so by the end, the entire cabinet might just be him in a Being John Malkovich nightmare kind of way.

hellsbells105.bsky.social•33 days ago

Isn’t this a super common right wing complaint about government employees? That they “can’t be fired” so they just keep getting moved to new departments?

vintageliberal.bsky.social•33 days ago

To do otherwise would make him acknowledge he made a bad choice

yougoahead.bsky.social•33 days ago

he could TALK otherwise, you know

dr0923.bsky.social•33 days ago

They can’t fire someone and let the cracks show. 😂

lebrin007.bsky.social•33 days ago

Same process used by the Catholic Church with pedophiles.

islandnucks.bsky.social•33 days ago

It's hard to find people who will have unquestioned loyalty. Gotta keep those people around in some capacity.

langdongrant.bsky.social•33 days ago

But they'll be shuffled to jobs of gradually lower and lower prestige, power, importance, and influence, so by the end of Trump's term Waltz could well be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong.

lost-in-limbo.bsky.social•33 days ago

This regime doesn’t seem to value competence very much, so I’m still surprised they’re moving around.

rhonnie-72.bsky.social•33 days ago

I know a lot of people who fail upward because they're total boobs, but it is not politically expedient to fire them.

kdaniels.bsky.social•33 days ago

Recycle 🗑️

losttwocities.bsky.social•32 days ago

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domacoblue.bsky.social•32 days ago

Doesn't an ambassador require a security clearance? This guy obviously can't handle that responsibility .

cfun.bsky.social•33 days ago

Taking their strategy from the pedophile priest shuffle

rachelernst.bsky.social•33 days ago

Doesn't Rubio have like 5 jobs now?

swamplandtrq.bsky.social•33 days ago

Kind of like what the Catholic church did with the molesting priests: moved them to another parish, where no one yet knew how bad they were.