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Lighten up and laugh |
He served a purpose, but Marine Generals don't tolerate loose cannons. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
From an AP news article: "Kelly's success in a chaotic White House will depend on how much authority he is granted …" Leaders like Kelly don't wait for authority to be granted. They just take it. Serious about crackers | |||
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If GORSUCH is the ONLY thing that comes from the Trump presidency it will be worth it. That WIN right there is worth the price of admission all by itself. But it will likely be at least one more SC appointment and other victories also. Think of all the court vacancies that are going to get filled... The Obamacare battle makes a lot of press but there is a lot of good stuff happening with the Trump Admin. -------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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I really support Kelly and Trump doing whatever they feel is best, hiring and firing as they see fit. But this is all playing right into the Lefty-media's "Chaos!" narrative, and I am getting a bit sick of the chaos too. High hopes for Kelly! "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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I think you are ignoring the fact the media/left/GDC would portray anything using as negative terms as they could invent. Part of the notion of 'chaos' is suggested by the unwritten Swamp Rules of Order, that no bureaucrat is ever fired or job-switched regardless of performance....otherwise 'there would be CHAOS'....which they believe is much worse than incompetence/ill suited/inadequate managing skills. The Swamp operates on the Peter Principle. **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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I can't believe this is even a "thing" for some people. Who cares. It's just a media scrum about media. DWS is a hair's breath from prison. Should be interesting to see the important things play out over the rest of the summer. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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Such things make for good quotes but probably aren't the reality. The reality is Trump made the choice, and... had Trump backed Scaramucci instead the General would have played along or found himself the one on the outside. In the simplest sense, Trump decided the General was more important at this time than the other guy. Being a badass Marine probably has nothing to do with it all. | |||
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And yes - it's already and will forever be a successful Administration for President Trump. Hillary isn't President. Gorsuch is on the Court. Regulations have been rolled back. Small progress is happening on the Immigration front. The market is up, the economy improving. Leftists and foreigners are losing their minds. Every day is a parade. | |||
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Essayons |
You're kidding, right? Or have you been living under a rock for the past six months? Here's an off-the-cuff list of other things that are "right" that you're not acknowledging: Thank God we have Trump! Thanks, Sap | |||
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I disagree. I think Kelly made the decision. And if Trump had overruled him, Kelly would've resigned. Serious about crackers | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
That's absolutely right. And President Trump surely was not going to risk having another Chief of Staff gone in such a short time. This was all Kelly. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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There has to be a chain of command. Gen. Kelly told them how it was going to be, and Scaramucci apparently told him he reported to no one but the President, whereupon Kelly told him he was gone. Gen. Kelly has established the chain of command.  After the shit-show of the past week I'm glad to see it. We need some order restored and Kelly can do that."Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Bad dog! |
The big picture. The monkey has it. ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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'Be nice to the people you meet on the way up, because you will meet them on the way down.' Told to me many years ago, and it has served me well. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand "He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many." Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician | |||
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| No Compromise |
Umm, that was a joke, son.  But I assume you knew that.  I like this: 3 Do nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with humility consider others superior to you, 4 as you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others. -Philippians 2: 3,4  H&K-Guy | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
My opinion is that Kelly laid out the ground rules before he accepted the job. Specifically, as chief of staff he determined who worked there and with reasonable cause could fire any of them. Mooch was/is a loudmouth twit. Trump made a mistake putting him in there, assuming he is the one who made the decision. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Could it be that Trump brought Mooch in for a simple reason and that was to usher Priebus out? Sure looks that way with no blood on Trump's hands. And Mooch's mouth is what got him canned directly or indirectly Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Yup, per a CBS report, Kelly said something to the effect of, "Either I'm a chief of staff in name only, or I'm The Chief of Staff. " Q | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Those 50 Push Up's at 0500 straightn's them out in a hurry! 41 | |||
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It took me just a couple seconds to figure out why Trump fired Priebus -- he was probably hired in the first place to get the Reps in Congress going, and when that didn't work, he was useless. The only reason we're commenting on this, is that Trump is moving at a pace that is impossible for the average person to fathom. But hell, if that bothered me rather than encouraged me, I'd have voted for myself instead of Trump. MAGA! -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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