knapplc Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 "The best and the brightest." https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/824619919832715266 4 Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 It doesn't appear that America's actual "best and brightest" are interested in working for Trump. The State Department's entire senior management team just resignedSecretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don't want to stick around for the Trump era.Tillerson was actually inside the State Department's headquarters in Foggy Bottom on Wednesday, taking meetings and getting the lay of the land. I reported Wednesday morning that the Trump team was narrowing its search for his No. 2, and that it was looking to replace the State Department's long-serving undersecretary for management, Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy, who has been in that job for nine years, was actively involved in the transition and was angling to keep that job under Tillerson, three State Department officials told me.Then suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, Kennedy and three of his top officials resigned unexpectedly, four State Department officials confirmed. Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, followed him out the door. All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations."It's the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that's incredibly difficult to replicate," said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry. "Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector." EDIT - upon further review, it looks like Trump asked them to leave. "Any implication that that these four people quit is wrong," one senior State Department official said. "These people are loyal to the secretary, the President and to the State Department. There is just not any attempt here to dis the President. People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house." 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 So...in other words, the president doesn't understand the need to have experienced people in these positions. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 No you don't need experienced - you only need great. The best people. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 No you don't need experienced - you only need great. The best people. Yes. But usually those people are experienced. 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 No you don't need experienced - you only need great. The best people. Yes. But usually those people are experienced. Don't have to be if they're the greatest. Amazingly, incredible people - like our President. They will do great things - things like you've never seen before. You don't even know how amazing things can be when the best people do them. Do them like nobody has ever done them before. Faster, cheaper, better - our things will be the things that other countries wish they could do. America used to do the greatest things, and we're going to be great again, 3 million people told a Romanian kick boxer that used to steam with me at the Winter White House when he was at the Super Bowl last year. He's really an incredible kick boxer. I did teach him some things though, some pretty great things. I can kick box bigly. Link to comment
ZRod Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/824962673829957634Vox is a liberal rag. Don't believe their fake news. Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 The sad and scary thing is, too many Americans who are right-of-center will look at this and shrug, saying, "He's one of us." But he's not. He's FAR right of you. Dangerously far right. You should be very concerned about this. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 That is a very worrisome cartoon. 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Bannon is NOT a center-right dude. 3 Link to comment
ColoNoCoHusker Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 These people are just trying to make a living. Have you tried living in the D.C. area on the paltry income given to these civil servants? Seriously though, those private equity offers aren't going to purchase themselves. It's market stimulus... /s 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 The sad and scary thing is, too many Americans who are right-of-center will look at this and shrug, saying, "He's one of us." But he's not. He's FAR right of you. Dangerously far right. You should be very concerned about this. This action concerns me. I see no reason for him to be on the NSC other than a political reason. The NSC needs military and foreign intelligent experts and be as void of politics as possible. Our security is at stake and no decision should be a political decision on the NSC. 2 Link to comment
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