Well, Kennedy had been there since GWB, so it is not normal.
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“Hello, State Department. May I help you?”
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I figure this administration will either be around for 6 to 8 weeks, or 20 years. I don’t realistically see anything in between.
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Issues? He has a fucking subscription.
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I see why they quit, but I’m of two minds about it. Obviously you don’t want to be a party to pure evil. I also feel that senior management owes it to their subordinates to fight for them, because the rank and file civil service is in trouble, bigly.
“Excellent news comrade Tillerson! The purges can now proceed unabated.”
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Compared to what’s coming? Fuck yes, it was.
Except, as pointed out, the storms in the US with the large death-toll and damage - pleas for help from those states being ignored by this Administration. That’s what we can expect - anything that can be ignored, will be. Situations that require a response will provoke chaos from the administration.
Well, actual doctors are increasingly alarmed as well:
I just saw a bunch of recent tweets by mental health professionals and those who work with dementia patients who are recognizing familiar signs…
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Well, this is your chance to feel both, because as it turns out in this update they were fired:
Senior administration officials told CNN’s Elise Labott that four top State Department staffers were informed in letters sent by the White House that their service was no longer required. The pro forma resignation letters typically submitted by the heads of federal agencies at the start of new administrations were accepted
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or were they???
Anything from “Senior administration officials” from last Friday onward are lies.
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Do you see who you’re quoting as proof.
As of 3pm ‘they were all fired’ according to the Administration. But at 11 AM they all quit, according to them.
Stockholm Syndrome is a hell of a drug.
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I’m wonder who will lead the provisional government after Bannon detonates his explosive vest when President Pence tells him he has to go.
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This creates a massive leadership vacuum at State. Most Republican foreign policy specialists were #nevertrump so the administration was already struggling to fill all the political appointments. Now it looks like not only will Tillerson not have any number twos when he shows up to work, he’ll also be missing number threes.
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To be perfectly honest, I’m all for sending our allies the clear message that the American people aren’t behind the current government.
We won the Revolution in large part because of France, and Russia helped tip the balance of the Civil War. If it comes down to it, we’ll be needing more help than the Democrats can give us.
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“This morning we informed the White House that I will not attend the work meeting planned for next Tuesday with the POTUS,” Pena Nieto said on Twitter, referring to Trump.
Trump said Thursday afternoon, “The president of Mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting”
Who needs a State Department, when you have twitter?
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Even before inauguration, Trump was talking to leaders of other countries and just winging it. State Dept. offered assistance and guidance, and Trump team never took them up on it. I guess they figure that they’ve got Wikipedia, so they’re good to go.
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Survival anxiety is for the rest of us plebes who haven’t worked in DC.
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Assuming they’re always lying is almost as dangerous as assuming they’re always telling the truth. The reasonable response is just to treat what comes directly from the administration as completely unreliable one way or another, more noise than signal.
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