This is a missive from another dimension. The Swamp is a Washington newsletter put out by the Daily Beast, which is a credible source. They were riffing on Bill Pulte as Director Of National Intelligence and then they riffed on Pete Hegseth helming Education. Whut? Is this meant as satire? Because with this administration in office it’s hard to tell parody from truth, let alone prophecy. I’ll reprint the entire first part of the newsletter so no context is lost and you tell me what you think.
There is a controversial episode of the legendary comedy series Fawlty Towers in which Mony Python alum John Cleese plays a hotel manager trying and failing to hide his anti-German sentiment toward a visiting party from Britain’s World War Two foe.
The episode is called ‘Don’t Mention the War,’ and The Swamp suspects that is the very sentiment at the White House today after the president’s comically contradictory comments about his Iran War on Monday.
One moment he was promising a solution and insisting all would be well, then he was saying he didn’t really care, and the Iranians made all his remarks moot by pulling out of the peace talks, anyway, which confirmed the one thing we did understand about the impasse—it’s a bloody mess.
No wonder Donald Trump is keeping his head down for the second day running at the White House today … presumably so nobody can ask him about the war.
In the meantime, Trump has clearly been trying to amuse himself by mixing and matching the most ridiculous jobs. On Tuesday, he made his attack dog housing guy, Bill Pulte, the acting Director of National Intelligence.
Tomorrow, he’s putting Pete Hegseth in charge of the Education Department. At least, he is uniquely unqualified for both jobs…
On Thursday, RFK Jr. can combine HHS with the FBI to investigate his own conspiracies. Why not give him a third department? He can have Agriculture and oversee the nation’s zoos.
I realize how off the walls it sounds but look at the portfolio Marco Rubio has. Rubio isn’t quite where Jared Kushner was, Secretary of Everything, but he’s not that far off.
In all events, you tell me if our leg is being pulled because I wouldn’t put it past Trump. Not with all that we’ve seen. Why not have Hegseth run the Pentagon and the DOE? Trump wants to shut down the DOE anyhow, who better to run it into the ground?
OMG! I certainly HOPE this is parody!!! If it’s for real, it wouldn’t surprise me. We already know that each of tRump’s cabinet picks have been uniquely UNqualified for the position for which they are chosen, AND THAT’S THE POINT! Like the cruelty is the point with much of tRump’s agenda, the degree to which each cabinet position is UNqualified, combined with the fact that each one of them—including the dense billionaires—THINK THEY HIT THE LOTTERY, is astounding!! What a compliment to be selected out of so many (more qualified) candidates! This must mean that tRump thinks each of them is uniquely qualified to run the department into the ground…err…run the department most riki tik like a well-oiled machine! And why are those pesky Democrats fighting my approval in Congress? Lord almighty, Ursula, when is each one of these morons going to do so much damage, tRump can no longer stand them?? But then we get a guy (because precious few of them are women) with TWO FIRST NAMES RAMMED TOGETHER, like BillyBob or MarkWayne or… You get the idea. The kindergarten dropouts, the bully wannabes, the degenerate delinquents. Lord help us all, Ursula! It’s not just the Dumbing Down of America. It’s taking a ball peen hammer to the heads of these idjits!
the war is not as much fun as he thought it would be and he’s probably just bored with the rest of it so he’s trying to finish breaking the country just for kicks. maybe make the smiling dude secdef. plus it will all create a huge long term distraction from the trump/epstein files.