The Best People Strike Again

So we just had a huge double whammy of "inside the White House" shenanigans revealed with the excerpts released from Bob Woodward's new book, Fear, yesterday, about working inside the White House, and an anonymous White House Senior Official publishing an Op-Ed in the New York Times this afternoon.

First, let's have some excerpts from Woodward's book.

In one National Security Council meeting that took place on January 19, Trump questioned why the U.S. was spending money on having a military presence on the Korean Peninsula, which included an operation that would detect a North Korean missile launch in seven seconds. Defense Secretary James Mattis told the president, “We’re doing this to prevent World War III,” according to an excerpt from the book published by the Post. 

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After Trump left the meeting, Woodward recounts, “Mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president acted like — and had the understanding of — ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.’

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Kelly: He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had.

The thing is, this shouldn't surprise anyone who has been paying attention over the past 18 months. But still.

And now the New York Times Op-Ed, by an anonymous White House senior staff member. This is an unprecedented act by any Administration Official.

The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

Allow me to interject at this point. Excuse the French, but FUCK this dude and his associates.

If they want to do the right thing, go public. Expose all of Trump's craziness and demand that Congress do something. Stop enabling this monster and actually take a stand and work on ending his presidency. They think that this makes them heroic, the "adults" in the room, when in reality, they want to have their cake and eat it too, which makes them opportunistic assholes.

Oh, and fuck this too:

Don't get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.

There are NO bright spots to this administration. They are looting the country, giving everything to the wealthy and corporations, screwing over American workers, alienating our allies, gutting the environment and the amount of graft and corruption is staggering.

Let's review another item in the news.

Obama, whose administration had ZERO convictions of major officials for eight years and who was elected twice by millions of votes, didn't get to have his Supreme Court pick confirmed during his entire last year of being President. While Trump, who LOST the popular vote, has had dozens of confederates indicted and several convicted of felonies, and is known by his own cabinet and White House to be a mercurial, narcissistic, petulant moron gets his Supreme Court pick rushed through the Senate by traitorous Republicans who would rather protect the Republican Party than act like patriotic Americans.

This was a BIG week in Trumpland. The wheels are coming off bigly.