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[EarlG]

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[niyad]

1. THIS john kelly--what a . . . . one more deplorable in der drumpfenfuhrer's staff of horrors

He questioned President Barack Obama’s decision to open combat jobs to women.

In January 2016, the Pentagon said it was opening combat roles in the military to women. Kelly, who was heading up U.S. Southern Command at the time, expressed concern over the decision, namely that the military would have to lower its standards to accept women in these roles.

“There will be great pressure, whether it’s 12 months from now, four years from now, because the question will be asked whether we’ve let women into these other roles, why aren’t they staying in those other roles?" he told reporters around the time of the announcement. “If we don’t change standards,” he said, “it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers — any real numbers — come into the infantry, or the Rangers or the SEALs, but that’s their business.”


He oversaw the Guantanamo Bay prison.

As head of Southern Command, Kelly’s area of responsibility included the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he facilitated the prisoner swap for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, according to Defense One, a move he called “unusual.” He has swatted away criticism about inhumane treatment of prisoners, the New York Times reported. Force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike, for instance, was a humane approach, according to Kelly.

He also insisted that one of the arguments for closing the prison — that it serves as a recruitment or propaganda tool for terror groups — is a nonsense argument.“Bombing the living shit out of ISIS in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, that would maybe irritate them more than the fact we have Guantanamo open,” he told Defense One.

[PatSeg]

2. Tick Tock Tick Tock

How long will this one last?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. AND, who will he hire to fire Kelly???? n/t

[PatSeg]

14. Barron?

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Or Jim...I think it could be Jim.

Better yet, maybe Trump will HIRE Jim.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Great graphic, as always. But out of date already. Scaramucci is out. . . nt

[flygal]

5. seriously how fast do things change?!

it's why I'm addicted to twitter!

[Binkie The Clown]

4. Need to add another frame for the Mooch. Only lasted 10 days. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. TODAY was his official start date.!!

How the hell you pull that off, I have no clue, but I think we all realized quickly that Mooch was not long for that job.

[NCjack]

6. Priebus was "resigned" because he was caught leaking WH stuff. What stuff, and

leaked to whom? I think that Priebus was the major leaker, and he was not fired for leaking petty crap about WH staff and their antics. Trump likes crap such as that -- why fire a senior aide for it? Instead, I believe that Priebus was leaking WH strategy to Speaker Paul Ryan on #45's plans to pha-screw Ryan and McConnell. Mooch found Priebus' info pipeline to Ryan and got him "resigned". When COS Kelly finally gets a belly full of Trump and doesn't care if the prez is successful, Kelly will set up his own info pipeline to Ryan and McConnell; and, it will run through professionals that know how to protect a pipeline. The leaking is not going to stop because #45 deserves the leaks.

[George II]

7. You should have waited an hour for this, you could have included "the Mooch"!

[flibbitygiblets]

9. May I humbly suggest an edit: "Death to Moochy"

FIRED negative 15 days until official start date.

That's some world-class winning right there.

[longship]

8. Pic of the minute! Scaramanga out as comms dir.

Poor EarlG! Going to have to work overtime to keep up with these clowns.

Poor Drumpf. Things move fast when one is incompetent. Things are literally falling apart around him.

[krispos42]

10. Wow... overtaken by events within minutes

This is quite a month.

[2naSalit]

12. Naw...

he just says them bigly.

[uppityperson]

13. Pre Moochie

[Kali]

17. are you on vacation from these?