MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Tillerson presides over abrupt shakeup at State Department
By artappraiser on Fri, 02/17/2017 - 9:40pm |Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reassigned a majority of the staff meant to work most closely with the top US diplomat in what career officials at the State Department fear is the start of a major reorganization.
The news sent shock waves through the agency and has left career officials on edge, in part because of its abrupt nature -- taking place before their assignments end this summer and replacements have been found -- and in part because these officials help the secretary, a government novice, work with policy experts throughout the building.While Tillerson was on his first overseas trip at the G20 in Bonn, Germany, his aides told the entire staff in the offices of the deputy secretary of state for management and resources and the State Department counselor that their current assignments were prematurely coming to an end, according to senior aides [....]
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Bewilders the World
By Robin Wright, News Desk @ The New Yorker, Feb. 17
The Administration’s policies vary, literally, by the day, often on the biggest issues—baffling friends and foes alike.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/18/2017 - 4:40am
This is how a barbarian horde sacks a capital city, purging and exiling all potential resistance. Trump has made it a government-wide strategy. The loss of experience, knowledge and institutional memory will cripple every federal department for decades to come. Might as well loot the museums and burn the libraries. Won't make America great again, folks.
by acanuck on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 2:27pm
It's the swamp " his " people wants drained.
Keep in mind, he's a " CEO " and they're known for hiring people to perform a single task and once it's complete, the employee either willfully resigns or he fires them then looks for someone to do his next bidding/task.
So don't be surprised if there's a lot of people being hired and fired so Trump can make his corporate presidential executive officer position fit the image his base imagines.
by Beetlejuice on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 6:29pm
First, Tillerson is currently on the NATO and European Apology Tour and should be getting an earful from those with whom he talks with Trump has created serious tectonic activity in a once stable and placid landscape that knew the direction from where the threat to their environment should be coming from. And he should also be getting hints the region doesn't take too kindly to allies who send mixed signals that aren't easily decipherable and has lead them to believe the US is looking for a quick exit without giving them a time table to pick up the slack when the US withdraws.
These are just a few of the issues he should have been briefed on by his staff ... those career officials whose duties are to keep him abreast how current US policy and/or actions and/or tweets are being interpreted by those with whom he will be meeting.
Rest assured, if he back tracks on any reassurance he's given, Europe will respond in kind and it won't be pretty for Trump or the US.
by Beetlejuice on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 6:23pm
The Eurotrash may act tough when dealing with the Greeks but they know what it means to be vassals of the Hegemon. Trump has told them in clear terms that they need to pay their fair share for the defense security they enjoy under NATO. They may continue to run around like frightened children but they will eventually calm down and meet their obligations. Of course their spineless politicians need stroking to reassure them we won't sell them to Putin or decide that NATO is obsolete.
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 7:39pm
Red Don and his coterie of nutjobs are vassals of Vlad the Hegemon and Infowars.
The set up frees the Orange Buffoon from doing anything but play golf, (six times since inauguration).
He also amuses his dementia ravaged brain by babbling delusional nonsense at 'victory' rallies, the Whiner in Chief press conference and on twitter.
While Ryan and the Greedy Old Party finalize cutting taxes on the rich, ending regulation of Wall Street and destroying affordable health care for millions of working Americans.
by NCD on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 8:43pm
Excellent response, NCD. You've nailed Peter, and I like it!
by CVille Dem on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 6:27am
hah I was thinking about commenting how well NCD can imitate lefty ranting style but then you beat me to it.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 11:29am
Thanks to both of you. Appreciate both of your comments and contributions here, and links (esp. AA).
by NCD on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 11:49am
It seems NCD needs stroking, just as badly as the Eurotrash, to keep parroting these exaggerated talking points. Trump doesn't have autocratic powers so he has to deal with the Banksters and industrialists who have already started to honor their end of these bargains with thousands of good jobs staying in the US and more to come.
The lovely ACA was already starting to become an economic black hole with rising prices and insurers running for the hills. The congress has a very difficult task ahead dismantling this time bomb saving what's useful and delivering the dross to Obama's library site for legacy display..
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 12:40pm
Congratulations! You made a comment without your usual vitriolic attack on Hillary!
Which of Trump's Goldman Sachs/billionaire guys is your favorite?
For me it's the foreclosure king, who kicked a 92 year old Granny onto the street because she was 27 cents short on the mortgage, plus he 'forgot' he stashed $100 million in loot in a Cayman Islands tax shelter.
by NCD on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 3:17pm
Depending on unverified or contextualized pearl clytching fables about the foreclosure crisis leads to faulty uninformed opinions. One West Bank performed over 100,000 forclosures while Mnuchin was the CEO and i think some 27 of those were determined to be unsupported or in error. All of those cases were remedied in court and OWB paid for their mistakes.
I don't often think about the Loser Red Queen but because you brought her up i'll comment. Trump's latest rally with its famous chant seems to still drive some snowflakes to distraction and i think i understand that hysteria better now. It's not that the few thousand people at the rally demanding justice are so frightening but that they represent much of the 60 million Trump voters who are all still chanting 'Lock Her Up'.
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 3:56pm
How did you like Melanoma's latest plagerism? I mean, THE LORD'S PRAYER!!!!!
by CVille Dem on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 7:38pm
Sorry but that comment has two hysterical rants on Hillary. Congrats withdrawn.
Hating and chanting mobs never made any nation prosperous or great.
Those are, however, well known and essential parts of the toolkit for despots and demagogues. And the end trajectory under rulers like that is disastrous.
An apt description for our prospects under a Trump administration and his bunch of delusional power mad loons and avaricious billionaires.
by NCD on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 10:03pm
60 million voters calling for justice and the rule of law is my kind of group of citizens. The Clintonites are the mob rule or rule of men proponents today as they plot their petty coup plans.
Democratic popular demands are frightening for people who ars conditioned to be led like Clintonites. You must have noticed that it is the chanters who are encouraging Trump to represent their demands for justice.
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 10:30pm
The party and person you support try to suppress minority votes. At the end of the day, they are white supremacists who care little for democracy.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 11:12pm
You seem to have missed the memo. Clinton's political career is dead. To make sure, I stopped by the grave last week and treated myself to driving a stake through the corpse.
Hence, move on to a new category of straw person--"Clinton--istas/ites/aleros" is so 2016.
by jollyroger on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 12:31am
Hate is all they have or want.
Trump provides the changing targets....rich elites like him for who he will slash taxes, 'regulators' of Wall Street, Wall Street (in the campaign, his cabinet is replete with them), illegals, Muslims, media, the truth, the National Park Service (crowd size), the EPA, Chinese, climate researchers, ethics offices, any entity or person that doesn't worship him etc
by NCD on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 1:14am
When i visited here right after the election there was a frenzy of 'i hate' postings, it was disgusting. Trump and the various people the snowflakes blamed for their loss were their emotionally charged targets. .
Trump shows no signs of hate but he does dislike some groups intensily such as criminal illegal aliens and actual terrorists and the lies and subtrifuge of the Clintonites and their minions is beginning to draw his attention to that anti-democratic group.
Some activists at the EPA and some scientists have been acting out much like other Clintonites but Trump doesn't need to waste the heavy depressing emotions of hate on these minor irritants. He seems to be leaving the hating to the Clintonites where it drags them down exhausts them and exposes their crude nature to everyone else.
by Peter (not verified) on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 10:39am
Ah, the incredible lightness of Trump:
This is who I voted against.
Your narrative that subsumes all reaction to him as the sensation of electoral loss can be easily corrected by leaving your bunker and talking to people.
by moat on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 11:36am
I tend to think that some folks who proudly consider themselves unverified (is that the same as undocumented?) just like pinning the tail on the donkey for fun. It's the perfect game for a blindfolded spinner searching for their ass.
by barefooted on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 11:58am
One rather noxious whiner at CP is trying to deflect any attempt to hold a mirror up to Clintonites by calling it Humiliation Porn. Humiliation is certainly involved and deserved but there is little pleasure in this process even if it was self inflicted.
Clintonites would be tolerable if they played the victim and continued their usual games but too many of them have become reactionaries and have joined with truly reactionary forces in the state and private spheres so more people will come forward to challenge their behavior.
by Peter (not verified) on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 3:04pm
You're missing the message your masters want to convey. The new B your masters want you to hate is Elizabeth Warren.
Republicans need a new campaign villain — and Elizabeth Warren is looking increasingly like their choice.
Republicans are in search of a figure so reviled by the conservative base that he or she motivates donors to open their wallets and voters to go the polls.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/22/2017 - 3:23pm
Speaking of dross...
by CVille Dem on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 3:54pm