QOTD -- Another Toady Exits

Oh, really?

“Look at what has happened in two years with the United States on foreign policy. Now, the United States is respected.  Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do.”  

That was outgoing Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley yesterday, sitting next to her benefactor Donald "Rump" Trump. (She also volunteered that she'd be out campaigning for the groper- in- chief in 2020 -- if he lasts that long.  What a feminist!)

It's remarkable that Haley's managed to craft an image of herself as a moderate, "savvy" politician, who suddenly has "foreign policy chops" that she never possessed upon entering the job at the UN.  After dutifully reading statements crafted by career diplomats for two years, the "mainstream" media, including a number of "liberal" commentators, have declared her to be one of the "adults" in the Rump regime, and they talk of a presidential run in 2024. Glossed over or ignored entirely are the mountain of debt she apparently carries, and a possible ethics investigation into her accepting free corporate jet rides from South Carolina businessmen. She's really not that unlike the standard Rump appointee after all, is she?

Now, look at that quote again.  "Now, the United States is respected."

No, they laughed at your dimbulb leader right in front of you.  Another reality check:

BREAKING: UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns, declaring that the rest of the world couldn't possibly have more respect for Trump than it currently does pic.twitter.com/QJOuRpuyJv

— Richard Hine (@richardhine) October 9, 2018

Someone who lies so shamelessly to curry favor from a despot- in- waiting like Rump should never, ever be entrusted by the American people to hold any office again.

House Of Turds

With Nikki Haley's resignation as U.N. Ambassador today, the game of musical chairs begins. It was clear from observers of the awful national security team put in place by demagogue and Kremlin stooge Donald "Rump" Trump that Haley's opinion was not valued by the likes of loon and mustache support system John "Yosemite Bomb" Bolton, his national security advisor. Whatever the inside politics that motivated her resignation (a mountain of debt, or maybe a possible investigation into the seven private corporate jet flights she took), there are some shifts afoot, and here are some of the possible permutations. First, Rump is likely tempted to put the object of his incestuous lust true First Lady Ivanka "Complicit" Trump in Haley's job, since he's been groping grooming her over the past 18 months with appearances at foreign conferences as his stand-in. Of course, she's vastly underqualified for the job, but that's never stopped Rump from appointing his family members and friends to key positions. Rump sees his family as a royal dynasty, and would dearly like to see his main squeeze daughter as a future Presidential candidate. We know, try not to gag.

Speaking of his friends, shouty-faced little magnolia blossom, the disgusting Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham, fresh off his despicable performance in the Senate Judiciary Committee where he did Rump a solid by derailing the questioning of Brett "KavaNut" Kavanaugh before it got interesting, has the Attorney General position in his shameless sights. He would resign his Senate seat to take the AG position after hapless Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is fired, and Haley would be appointed to the Senate to fill out Graham's term by the Rethuglican Governor of South "Secession" Carolina.

A possible scenario, certainly, and it fits Rump's "give me loyalty and I'll give you something" authoritarian approach. It would be a further degradation of our democratic republican institutions.

(photo: Better keep your legs crossed sitting near President Pussygrabber. Getty Images)