The meeting didn’t go well

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Ophelia Benson

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Kirsten Nielsen has quit (“resigned”). Jake Tapper was watching.

He’s frustrated with the laws, and he wants people who work for him to break them.

So, she quit or Trump told her to “resign.”

So that’s where we are.

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3 responses to “The meeting didn’t go well”

  1. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Best tweet…

    https://twitter.com/forbiddencomma/status/1115036602668077056

  2. Kevin Henderson Avatar
    Kevin Henderson

    That’s where we’ve been. Integrity is dead the White House. It has been since Trump. Trump has no loyal supporters, only those who remain because they think he’s entertaining.

  3. Omar Avatar
    Omar

    … only those who remain because they think he’s entertaining.

    Entertaining? A new dimension there altogether.

    I dunno. Something in the discussion here to date has caused me to recall this from Friedman::

    Look around the world and not only do you see a democratic recession — the number of democracies abandoning their democratic bona fides with sham elections is steadily mounting — but you see something much more grotesque: Leaders are grabbing power for life, murdering or jailing even the mildest of critics and shamelessly building coalitions with openly racist and bigoted parties.

    Most important, they’re doing it with utter impunity — confident that either no one is watching or no one will meaningfully call them out.

    This is what happens when people think America isn’t looking, doesn’t care or worse, has a president, himself having uttered over 9,000 lies and misleading statements, who has zero moral authority to call out others. When it comes to being a global watchdog that tries to enforce some basic norms of decency, America under Trump is out to lunch — and a lot of people have figured that out, and so anything goes.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/trump-netanyahu.html

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