Don’t Worry About It

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If you’ve misplaced your favorite blankie, you might go into a tizzy for a spell and do all sorts of things to find it, like search your home.   But when you’re a total nutjob, and from there, naturally given the job of Homeland Security Secretary, and you lose your blankie on a plane, well you do what any normal, level-headed person would do…you fire the pilot.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem capriciously fired a pilot for an exceedingly petty reason but was forced to immediately reinstate him so she could fly home.

The Wall Street Journal took a deep dive into the chaos and dysfunction inside the Department of Homeland Security, where multiple sources complained on and off the record about Noem and her top adviser and purported romantic partner Corey Lewandowski.

“Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department,” the newspaper reported.

“The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter,” the report added. “DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary’s use.”

Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior staffers, demand polygraph tests for employees they don’t trust and routinely fire employees for dubious reasons – such as one incident where Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to sources familiar with that incident.

“In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident,” the Journal reported. “The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.”

A DHS spokeswoman did not comment directly on that incident but told the newspaper Noem has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.” – rawstory.com

Well, that settles it for me.  I mean, as long as Miss Noem is delivering excellence, what else could we ask for?  It’s kind of like the excellence she used when killing her dog and billy goat, not to mention the empathy she exhibited with standing up for the ICE dude who unloaded his gun into Renee Good.

In other strange but truly believable news given the current shit show we live in:

RFK Jr. Went ‘Dinosaur Bone Hunting’ with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Come on!  Who else would you go on a dinosaur bone hunting trip with?

And finally, the Mob Boss wants you to be reassured:

Trump Dodges When Asked About Land Strikes: “Don’t Worry About It” – newrepublic.com

After kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, threatening to cut off aid to Colombia, and calling for U.S. troops in Mexico all within the last few months, President Trump’s message to people concerned with further escalation is simply, “Don’t worry about it.”

“Are you considering land strikes on Mexico, Columbia, and Venezuela?” a reporter asked Trump outside the White House as he departed for Joint Base Andrews in North Carolina on Friday afternoon.

“What about it?” Trump said, unable to hear over the aircraft noise.

“Land strikes, are you planning them?” the reporter repeated.

“Don’t worry about it.”

Virtually every action Trump has taken in the region—from the “drug boat” bombings in the Caribbean Sea to the midnight abduction of Maduro—would suggest that land strikes on Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela are very much something to worry about.

Just leave the peace initiatives to the peace president.  No worries!

Have a great weekend!

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Tonight’s musical offering:

Desafinado · Stan Getz · Charlie Byrd

 

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