Donald Trump didn't even have the grace to fire Rex Tillerson in person. He sent out a tweet. This is not a surprise since tweeting is Trump's go to modus operandi but his cowardly streak is a mile wide and his manners are appalling. Then he moves Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State, a position for which he is probably even less qualified than Tillerson was, and nominates Gina Haspel to be director of CIA. Everyone is so excited that she will be the first woman director but the reason Trump likes her is that she likes to torture people. She ran the black ops detention center in Thailand where CIA tortured people early in the Bush years. To make that even more special, she was responsible for destroying the evidence when investigations about the torture started, and she did that with no qualms and without ever admitting her culpability or apologizing.
So when your kid steals from the store the thing to do is to pat her on the head and tell her how proud you are, maybe even raise her allowance. That's how to get ahead in this world.
And just in case you missed the addendum to the Tillerson firing--when Tillerson's top deputy was asked questions this morning, he told the truth about how it had transpired so Trump fired him too.
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