Ex-CISA chief slams MAGA 'manufactured outrage' after sudden West Point firing Jen Easterly has weighed in on the US Army Secretary firing her from a prestigious West Point teaching post a day after the US Military Academy announced the appointment. The termination, announced — where else — on X by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, seemingly proves the former CISA chief's comments about loyalty to the …
But if we had to guess, we'd say Easterly was fired because as CISA director, she advocated for election security, which includes securing voting infrastructure and fighting online disinformation, both the kind that originates from Russian troll farms and the home-grown kind.
Could be. Also could be something related to that "she" pronoun used throughout the article. Hegsweth has fired pretty much any woman he comes across.
"Easterly's predecessor, Chris Krebs, spoke out against the latter kind and also faced the wrath of the Trump administration. " Chris was a guy and was even appointed by the clown. No it is all about loyalty, blind absolute complete loyalty. Imagine that king with no clothes on and no one saying anything. That would be a true test of blind loyalty.
"Imagine that king with no clothes on"
I don't have to, I watched the entire South Park "Donnie Tiny Dingle" commercial. Thank (insert the god or devil of your choice here) there were no knitting needles around. However I am left wondering how many G & Ts it's going to take to wash those images out of my brain.
Wooaahh, so close! Driscoll just about failed his daily buttcrack caliper loyalty comptrol ... good thing Laura Loomer's vigilant digital feeler gauges were at the ready to right meatpuppet his feeble backside back into proper submission posture in that unique wrestlemania madministration move we like to call "the crassy invisible hand of the Deep proState" -- huh, I mean classy, of course!
Well, you know how it is in these days of great emergency, gotta "protect and defend, against all enemies folks foreign with half a brain and domestic guts" who might question the Ayatollah orange, defy the ideological institution of mandatory loyalty comptrols, and exhibit maturity and intelligence ... imho, and chihuahuas! Best of times!!! </nervous-breakdown>
Yeah, and seeing how Melania claims he's an orange germaphobe it's safe to assume he had a natursekt instead (or maybe a golden dusche) ... ;)
Indeed, somehow I don't think ICE's bully-boy techniques would work so well against professional, trained soldiers.
I presume ICE's training consists of - here's a gun, this is how you take the safety off, here's a mask, no need to wear a badge, uniform, ID number or even name of the organization, off you go
> He never did get them fully on board though, as the multiple assassination attempts by his own military showed.
Problem was that they never acted until it was way to late not to mention that the target was so unpredictable that they kept missing....sounds very familiar again.
Seeing a competent person fired based on the ravings of a far right nut job is a shameful and disgusting reflection on the the USA.
That the mad orange king needs to replace every person in the government who does not agree with his every fantasy just goes to show how insecure he is. While it's tempting to wish that he expires due to a McDonald's induced heart attack, that would make the toxic fool Vance president and that might be even worse...
"tempting to wish that he expires due to a McDonald's induced heart attack, that would make the toxic fool Vance president and that might be even worse"
But still, Epstein's Fat Orange Buddy and his hill-billy idiot sidekick were the duo the US people voted for. Mind you, looking at aggregated US polls (eg search Silver Bulletin Trump) there's been a steady worsening of the thin skinned bully's approval ratings amongst the US population, with approval decreasing pretty steadily at 1% a month. I wonder whether any voters (or non-voters) are suffering buyer's remorse?
I suppose the problem the rest of the world has is not tariffs and trade-policy-by-cretin, nor even Trump's blatant larceny, the first merely threatens a moderate global recession, the second damages America's reputation which is no immediate worry for the rest of the world. The bigger problem is that if the fat felon's approval ratings continue to slide at the same rate, then he'll have an approval rating of around 35% in the run up to the November 2026 mid term. And as a national leader, what do you do when your popularity falls and you've nothing to offer the nation? You hold a war. Wonder where it will be this time?
I'd suspect that once US retailers run out of the stock that they bunkered up on before the tariff madness started and prices for everyone start going up, we may see the mad orange king's approval ratings start going down much more quickly than 1% per month.
Nothing focusses the mind better than suddenly discovering that you can not longer afford to buy the things you could afford last month.
that would make the toxic fool Vance president and that might be even worse...
Well, the thing with deputies taking over from 'the boss' is that sometimes they have ability, and at other times you realise that they were originally hired as stooges so that no one would get rid of the top guy to put that person in charge. Vance obviously has ambition, but I very much doubt he can get anywhere close to Trump's level of chutzpah. I cannot imagine Vance getting away with half of what Trump has done to other world leaders on his own. The issue is whether you believe that Trump is better or worse than unguided chaos. And I doubt that Vance has as much as half the backing of the MAGA-ists that Trump has, even considering the Epstein scandal (that, incidentally seems to be distracting everyone from what Trump is doing to the US government and democracy).
Time will tell.
"I cannot imagine Vance getting away with half of what Trump has done to other world leaders on his own."
Except that Vance knew nothing when he started, all he's been exposed to, all he's seen, all he can have learned is Trump's rude, abusive, fact-free fuckwittery. Look at Vance's performance with Zelensky, a national embarrassment to USAians, but that's what Vance now thinks is "statesmanship". If we're lucky enough to see Trump choke on a burger and have a heart attack as he tries to cheat at golf, Vance is just going to be a few more years of the same, but without the comedy value that clings to Trump.
"The issue is whether you believe that Trump is better or worse than unguided chaos. "
Trump IS unguided chaos, and specifically because he's so stupid that he doesn't know how stupid he is, wrap that up with the orphan rich boy grievance and entitlement, and he simply will not and cannot take advice from people who do know things. So, chaos, unguided.
Seeing a competent person fired based on the ravings of a far right nut job is a shameful and disgusting reflection on the the USA.
See also: "Trump defends firing labor statistics chief by lying about her role in 2024 campaign – as it happened"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/aug/01/donald-trump-trade-tariffs-latest-us-politics-live-news-updates
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Speaking to reporters on Friday, Donald Trump defended his decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, and falsely accused her of having released reports just before the 2024 election that overstated the number of new jobs created by the Biden-Harris administration.
Asked by a reporter, “Why did you fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?” Trump replied: “Because I think her numbers were wrong, just like I thought her numbers were wrong before the election.”
The president then went on to give a wildly inaccurate account of the jobs data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2024.
“Days before the election, she came out with these beautiful numbers for Kamala, I guess Biden-Kamala, and she came out with these beautiful numbers trying to get somebody else elected,” Trump said, entirely misrepresenting the jobs report released on 1 November 2024, four days before the election, which in fact showed the US added just 12,000 jobs over the previous month.
At the time, the Trump campaign called the jobs report “a catastrophe” that “definitively reveals how badly Kamala Harris broke our economy”.
On Friday, however, the president offered a very different account of that report released just nine months ago.
“Then, right after the election,” Trump claimed, “she had an 8- or 900,000 dollar [sic] massive reduction, said she made a mistake.”
What Trump was misremembering is a Bureau of Labor Statistics announcement, on 21 August 2024, that updated data showed that there had been 818,000 fewer jobs added in the US in the previous year than it had initially estimated. That downward revision was large, but part of an annual process, in which the bureau updates its initial estimates when it gets better data.
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*We have another 3 years and six months of this to 'look forward to'. At this rate of self destruction will there still be a US government by then?
I would, at this point, welcome replacement of the current president (whose name I decline to mention) by JD Vance. While Vance presently appears as a shameless toady and imitator, it is not clear whether he sincerely holds any, some, or all of the views he expresses. We should not forget that not all that long ago he described the President as an idiot, a bad candidate, and a really bad person. Of course, we also don't know whether Vance held any of these opinions sincerely. He appears "flexible" and it is not clear whether he actually has any core beliefs.
But we know with reasonable certainty what we have, and it isn't all good; the next successor can hardly be worse and had the advantage of not having the booboisie (HL Mencken's term) so much in thrall. The second, probably more important, advantage of not being so able to demand unquestioning allegiance and loyalty from his political appointees, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. There is some chance he would be an improvement, and little chance that his accession would be worse.
The Dear Leader is always right. Contesting the Dear Leader is a CRIME against the people. Contesting the Dear Leader is TREASON.
New measures are in preparation to take care of the traitors and protect the Greatest Nation of the Universe, which goes to a BEAUTIFUL future under the BRILLIANT guidance of our DEAR LEADER.
HAIL TRUMP !
Keep in mind that the party that claims to "Defend Democracy" (nevermind that the US is technically a Republic, that's too complicated for the masses of peasants to understand)introduced the idea that elections could be anything less than secure. Also keep in mind that the opposite party used the same logic to march into the capital. Then ask yourself, why do both sound the same when THEY don't get the results they want. It's a croc of bullshit from each, conspiring to ensure that not one true patriot questions why they agree elections can be compromised. It's all rigged against YOU. And if you believe either party you'll always be screwed.
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