Posted on 12/21/2018 2:12:39 PM PST by detective
As has been the case in the Trump era, the Washington “establishment” — politicians, the media, and the commentariat — are in a tizzy over recent personnel changes undertaken by the president, up to and including the two most recent changes.
Earlier this month the White House announced that Chief of Staff John Kelly would be leaving early next year. Kelly’s announced departure has now been followed up this week with news that Defense Secretary James Mattis has either been fired or has resigned, though it seems more likely it was the latter, given the lengthy letter he wrote to POTUS.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
General Mattis was traveling and in a meeting when an aide passed him a note telling him that the Pentagon had announced his replacement as head of Central Command. It was news to him — he hadn’t received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House,”
When Obama fired Mattis without even telling him, the media, the Democrats and the Washington establishment thought it was great.
When Mattis announces he will retire in two and a half months and there will be an orderly transition everyone in the media screams about how they are "panicked."
Mattis was fired by Trump, but in a civilized manner. He was asked to resign. Obama just gave him his walking papers.
It was pretty amusing reading the headlines prompted by Mattis’s departure. You’d think we were at Defcon 5, the way they’re going on. First, they say he’s in the pocket of friendly/hostile powers for business reasons. Now they are afraid he’ll blow up the world. O think they’re just a bunch of bozos having a multi year panic attack.
Pat Buchanan as Secretary of Defense, i.e. not Secretary of Offense or Secretary of Imperialism.
I will be the first to admit that we alternately mocked and berated Obama throughout his eight years. But there was no apocalyptic we are all going to die tomorrow aspect to it.
“... we all...” did not mean 90+% of the media.
And speaking for myself, I never called for any violence against him, and never attacked his family. I attacked his obvious ineligibility, his functional communism, and his manifest deceitfulness.
Correction: we all = we alternately.
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