leaks saturates the WH from day one. What I want to hear that the staff at the WH are ready to oust the shithole.

Like this has not been something we have known since day 2 of this POS being at 1600 Pa?

If MF45 is an incurious lazy idiot, who spends 60% of his work days goofing off.( and he is)..WHO IS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT?
Who is doing the actual work of presidenting, because, given the 12 to 16 hours a day put in by Barack Obama...I have been led to believe that this job requires all of ones' time and attention. Who is doing the heavy lifting?

i am certain it is no one that the people have elected. Is. it Jared... Stephen Miller, Ivanka...WHO?

I would like to see some intrepid reporter go undercover in the West Wing to answer the wquestion of who has taken over the actual Presidenting.

think the presidency is about hurling insults and doing Twitter ... endless golf and trips to Mar-a-Lago. So often I've wondered who is really performing the functions of the presidency, if anyone.

We don't actually need a president, because I guarantee you, that fat pile of crap hasn't touched a single nut or bolt holding the federal government in place since the day he arrived.

They are hollowing out the government from the inside. Obviously trying to get federal workers to quit in droves or scare potential workers into never applying. One of Bannon’s goals was to “tear it all down.” This is what that looks like. What does the shutdown look like if it were orchestrated by a known Russian agent ?

imo
It would require a surrogate for the reporter, one who is already part of the inner circle or near by in order to succeed. My fantasy has a Mossad like agent able and willing to save this country step in for an intervention. Nothing violent, just a pro at counter intelligence and sneaking it out of the WH.

Have we not seen the incompetence? Nobody is performing the job of president, half of the appointed positions remain unfilled.

That's how anarchists tear down a government from the inside.

There is nobody running the U.S. Government, it is a ship without a rudder, burning fuel and drifting.

And even when Trump is in the office he's tearing down the government by withdrawing from climate change treaties and nuclear missiles treaties.

100% of the time Trump and his henchmen are working to break the U.S. Government.

He is evil enough but it takes some level of smarts to control the message.

others involved too. But it's all pretty lightweight.

There are long time republican operatives who are controlling the idiot in the WH.
Trump, et al are just the window dressing.

This is PUtin's plan, drumpf is just in place to implement it. That's why he's so determined about the wall, it's not about the base, it's about Russian steel. He has to buy tons of (probably defective) Russian steel from DEripaska, so he will declare a national emergency, place the order for the steel within minute of doing that, then he doesn't care if the courts stop it, the steel will be bought and they won't issue a refund and he's off the hook. Now he may also shutdown the government as well, he is that hate filled and vicious, but hopefully he won't because it will be bad for him and his party and he knows it. Guess it comes down to which is more important, fucking over our Federal workers and subcontractors and our nation's economy or having Repugs elected and re-elected.

Makes sense.
Possibly also with complicit politicians who are controlled with Russian dirty money.

McTurtle is just as ethically and legally compromised with Deripaska as drumpf is and is colluding as hard as he can to block this information from being acted on. I pray Mueller has him in his sights for at least campaign finance and conspiracy charges.

He's as obsessed about Iran as Moron is about The Wall.

He's bonkers.

to be outed or to be brought into the forefront he is a manipulator, he's behind the whole immigration thing and believes in the MAGA mantra. Goebbels incarnate.

president of the US. Exactly, Goebbels incarnate!

Quite honestly, even in a highly engaged administration, it is the cabinet that "runs the government". The White House is the "crossing guard" that settles disputes and gives directions. But the actual job of "running" the government is done by the cabinet. In the absence of direction, they'll just act. There are exceptions of course like signing legislation, declaring emergencies, making appointments, etc. It's why I pay as much attention to whom presidents appoint and hire as to what they say. It's why Arne Duncan was such a disappointment.

It is those that surround the president that form and guide what happens. In that process certain ones move to the front of the group.
I also liked your comment about Arne. PRESIDENT OBAMA's work/leadership in education was my biggest disappointment in his administration.

Cabinet heads and civil servants will just do what they think best without the President. It's what used to happen in the Middle Ages when the King was insane. This makes the government weak and messy, especially in a crisis, but hopefully we will muddle through.

I feel so much better now... NOT.

On the plus side, the mad King is stealing less than he could have if he were sane.

Stuff just isn't getting done because there's no one there to do them. Now, it's just too hard to reunite refugee families. It's too hard to pay attention to Puerto Rico. It's too hard to use diplomacy in South America. It's too hard to work on defusing violence in the middle east. It's too hard because there's no one in charge who wants to address the everyday governance. Trumpy is watching TV.

And everyone is just going along for the ride - their only interests 1) What turns them a buck 2) What turns someone a buck who gives them a buck 3) Advancing the deranged "conservative" agenda (blowing this country up). When they aren't doing that, they are doing nothing, fucking things up.

and a few others.

BTW, what is this "if" shit? You know Trump is an incurious lazy idiot.

Also note: (and he is).

the "palace intrigue" seems to leave Pence out of the equation...but...you never can tell...

Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

This isn't news.

Dump wanted Kasich or someone like him, to do the actual presidenting while he wrote scripts and did photo ops for his reality presidency. Since he couldn't get Kasich or even Christie in there to do the actual work, it fell on Bannon and such. Those guys hit the bricks long ago as well. So all that's left is his incompetent kin, and Miller. Bet your ass that's who's in charge. Because Dump has no clue; he thinks this is all a reality show.

1. He has the irreversible disease of Alzheimer's.

2. In addition to his Alzheimer's, he has life-long psychiatric issues that are getting worse because of his Alzheimer's.


The GOP simply refuses to relinquish their political power, as it is they who elevated Trumpy to the White House. They could have shut him down before the primaries, but they wanted to ride his bombastic coattails into dominance and increase the wealth of the wealthy. It's was a Faustian bargain and they've yet to pay a fraction of the cost.

When experts are saying that Trumpy is unteachable, or is incapable of learning new information, THAT'S A CLEAR SIGN OF DEMENTIA. That's what happens to people when they have cognitive decline!

So millions of us have our hair on fire, while the politicians and pundits are repeating the words, "unprecedented", "unusual", "not normal", etc. But those words are impotent. It means nothing without action.

Some psychologists and psychiatrists have tried to warn us.

By installing Trump. Sowing chaos and division, creating more of a budget deficit , sanctions lifted, etc. Trump will leave the country in tatters when he leaves office.

if he was in another country wouldn't have lasted this long.

thinking about the US.

Somehow, the Republicans managed to lose the Cold War a quarter century after we won it.

... we can fix it - just as long he leaves in cuffs.

Karma. So sad.

That begs the question: What are they worried about coming out?

I mean there's been reporting about what these schedules show, so a large part of us already speculated his schedule was like this, so this leak is no real surprise.

What are they so scared of coming out?

I thought this thread would be about the pee tapes.

It says a great deal more about the work ethic and incompetence of their boss.

So don’t listen to her spin babble.
I think she really is afraid of what Trump is capable of.
But, she’s in too deep to quit.

Um... the guy who cheated his way in there, with the help AND intervention of a hostile foreign power that DOES NOT wish us well, is the source of that chaos.

The leak is just a symptom, and a biproduct of having this level of lazy-ass world-class jerk at the top.

They all need a psych evaluation.

Back during the runup to the *election*, she was overheard telling someone that after exchanges with tRump, she felt she needed to shower. It's clear that she has no respect for this cretin, but she was hired primarily to be his chief media rep. Insofar as that goes, she does her job. It's laughable, but somebody's got to do it, and she must be being well compensated to keep drivel coming, but behind the scenes, she's got a long knife drawn. And while she's (probably) undermining him and leaking to the press on the down low, her husband is blatantly criticizing Shitler on Twitter. It seems to me that she's no happier with this idiot than her husband is.

Vipers are far more efficient and, in many ways, nicer.

in that it is the new "in" word that is grossly overused and makes me a little nauseated.

Good on whoever released his schedule though. That's the kind of shit that makes him crazy.

For Sims: What does it mean that the people inside are genuinely scared? Scared for their jobs? Scared that their boss will bomb China? Scared that he'll actually start working? More details.

For Haberman: Okay, how do the people in the WH feel about trump? No one wants to be quoted. I get that. But some specifics comments would bee welcome. He's insane. I'm terrified. He's breaking things. He's throwing dishes. I'm concern about my future job prospects. Details.

These sort of off the cuff remarks are just not enough. It's just lazy journalism.

Haberman: Do your fucking job and fuck access to trump. You're a coward.

Sims: You've burned your bridges. Why stop now. Details.

He lied even if the truth was more beneficial to his goals. He just wanted to control the narrative so he could control the workplace. These types are not usually very bright. That's the other reason they want to control reality. They know they can't measure up to the competition.

I used to drive him nuts. I knew how to handle his type. Incongruously belittle these fools and they have no idea how to react. They just melt into tiny puddles of what they truly are - and those tiny puddles, they don't smell very good.

It was so exhausting I finally found another job. But not before leaving a parting shot from which he's very likely still recovering.

If I could get a job in the trump White House, I'd have that fool drooling on the Oval Office carpet within a week. That's what I didn't understand about all those heroes like Kelly and Mattis, etc. How could they allow a clown like trump to control them and publicly humiliate them?

Then I realized. They're pubicans. And you can NEVER trust a pubican. The entire pubican party has proven that point over and over again. Especially since the advent of trump and the magats who they are enabling and supporting.

If you support a traitor you are a traitor.

This thought keeps me awake at night. Literally. Mueller is a pubican too.

"Mueller is a pubican too." for us ?

Because you provide no support for that comment, there's no logic to follow. Your assertion, in light of all that has transpired, doesn't hold up.

Quite simple. Mueller is a pubican. And my golden rule is; never trust a pubican.

(I use the moniker pubican the way pubicans use Democrat Party. You see, one should be very careful removing letters from one's name when one's name includes the letters pubic.)

I loath cheap shot artists.

I loath pubicans. They're the true cheap shot artists. I'm just reacting.

Surprising you'd rather attack one of your own that return cheap shot fire at your true enemy.

to put that criminal in the WH and his fellow traitors (including his evil spawn) where they belong.

I do not consider Bob Mueller a "true enemy." Why do you ?

Again, would you care to explain your post and stop evading the question ? If not, don't bother responding. I have far more interesting things to occupy my time.

I'm just pointing out that you can NEVER trust a pubican. And Mueller is a pubican.

What's taking him soooooo long? If I had his power and I had airtight evidence we had a traitor in the White House and traitors throughout the GOP I can guarantee you I'd have done SOMETHING by now.

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's best not to expect anything. That way you won't ever be disappointed.

Mueller is a pubican just like Fishman was a pubican and he let chris christie off the hook like he was an endangered species instead of the pure felon he is.

Mueller has been indicting people left and right. Many of them - when confronted with what Mueller had on them - plead guilty. Some of them are now in jail and more are headed there.

Expectations ? I'd say that Bob Mueller has been exceeding expectations. And he isn't done yet.

Comparing him with Fishman is folly at best, foolish at worst.

You may want to stay awake past 5pm, tune into the news on occasion.

Bye.

Mueller's indictments of ancillary players. LOL

Yeah, right, like Fishman indicted the little people in Bridgegate while letting all the big fish get away off the hook. Including one very guilty whale.

Fishman was a pubican. Mueller is a pubican. Just sayin'. Past is prologue.

Hmmmm. Anyone check under the tables yet?

because it's also a security breach.

President Duh Donald has some firing to do.


rocktivity

Troop locations. House travel plans. Military Ops.

Traitor.

is NOT DOING the business of the United States. WTF is he doing...who is he talking to?

n/t

This is what happens, and its just the beginning. When all the trials start, they'll be a huge number of people willing to tell all about him and his criminal ways exposing him, and all involved.

Came back for 15 mins and then went back home again.