This Donald thing is starting to blow up.

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115. He's Not Going Anywhere...

...for one very important reason: his Cabinet. He will cover for them and they will cover for him.

I've been involved in politics for a lot of years and then in the IT consulting business for even longer so I'm a little jaded but even I was surprised at Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State. Baker, Cheney and Condi recommended him but I figured Bolton because KT was already on board and they're sort of a pair like a set of American Tourister luggage. If you have one, you have the other.

Someone else in Trump's inner circle is a young lady named Hope Hicks. That's important because she's an SMU grad. I went there for a year in the nineties to get certified in systems engineering and it is the ultimate southern rich kids school. Her grandfather ran PR for Texaco in the seventies. Oil, gas and real estate have multiple seats at the big table in this administration which means the alternative energy folks are gonna be dog shit real soon. That also happened after Carter. I worry about Berkeley Lab, given that all they seem to work on over there is green stuff. Maybe their workload will shift.

A lot of what's happening reminds me of the early Reagan days but most of these people are more conservative than anyone Reagan ever dared to nominate. Wilbur Ross? Betsy DeVos? Rick Perry? Jesus! I almost choked on my sandwich. Okay...but they own everything and with all those Senate seats exposed in 2018, new census numbers not due until 2020 and reapportionment until around 2022, they're gonna get away with it.

Here's the really big change you definitely want to keep your eye on: the next Fed chairman. I would bet you a one hundred dollar bill that it's gonna be this guy:

http://www.johnbtaylor.com

Everything I have seen so far points to it. Taylor has been on the Republicans' short list for Fed chairman for ages just as I believe Pryor will be Trump's nominee to replace Scalia. Scalia was a strict constructionist and Pryor is a strict constructionist. Scalia was a gun guy and Pryor is a gun guy. It'll happen.