Showing posts with label George Papadopoulos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Papadopoulos. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

White House: a revolving door!

re·volv·ing door
noun
  1. an entrance to a large building in which four partitions turn about a central axis.
    • used to refer to a situation in which the same events or problems recur in a continuous cycle.

      "many patients are trapped in a revolving door of admission, discharge, and readmission"
    • a place or organization that people tend to enter and leave very quickly.

      "the newsroom became a revolving-door workplace"

Donald Trump dismisses FBI bigwigs (James Comey), fires former confidantes, turns against his most loyal early supporter (Jeff Sessions). and eats coffee boys (George Papadopoulos) for breakfast. 

Donald may turn to Temp Agencies to fill these positions.  He enjoys not adding USA Ambassadors to countries across the globe. No American ambassador presently assigned to South Korea.

The Donald keeps government employees on the unemployment line, denizens of the Deep State are stuck in basements, shooting pool or playing video games until things change.

Why Trump's rapid turnover. He has turned the White House into a revolving door atmosphere. If you grew up in New York City, you know revolving doors. They are found on the ground floor of high rise buildings.

Trump loves added his logo, the name Trump, to the top of these buildings. Revolving doors symbolize speed and efficiency. Maybe Trump's childhood visits to Manhattan made a big impression-- a regular primal experience.

"I'd love to send people flying through those doors when I grow up," young Donald may have thought.

Trump's dismissals of personnel are not always that-- and many resignations have been thrown in the mix.

Recent developments: Rob (accused wife beater) Porter fired... Hope Hicks resigned. Hope famous for being a Trump confidante. She answered to the Mueller investigators. Made a dash to the revolving door afterwards... Gary Cohn bolted. Cohn, Economics advisor, folded up his laptop and headed back towards Wall Street.

 Look-up The Art of the Deal, and see what Trump;s co-author Tony Schwartz had to say. Ain't a pretty picture. Schwartz's comments on Trump's short attention span bring to Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff.

Revolving Door. Let's get the invention facts:
American inventor Theophilus Van Kennel reportedly hated holding doors open for women, so he created energy-efficient revolving doors to cure his social phobia.
(Noah Friedman, Business Insider, Dec. 19, 2016)

And from Wikipedia:

Theophilus Van Kennel  was recognized for his invention with the John Scott Medal by the Franklin Institute in 1889, founded the Van Kannel Revolving Door Company, which eventually was bought out by the International Steel Company in 1907. International Steel Company is the parent company of International Revolving Door Company.
Van Kennel invented and owned Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1907.

Witching Waves is an interesting name for the amusement ride at Coney Island by Van Kennel.  
Mysterious waves lapping at the shore. Waves washing ex-White House staffers out to sea... Witching Waves describes America's continuous turnover rate at the top. 
Mr. Trump professes conflict is key to his management style. Hard to argue with the pugnacious president.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Mueller Investigation: Good Guys vs. Bad Guys

Mueller investigation. Everything moves at the speed of light these day. News at 186,000 miles per second… News stories cannot be connected at the speed of light.

So explains Marshall McLuhan, media prophet. I believe McLuhan and so should you.

Donald Trump is the perfect president for communications at the speed of light. His tweeting habit keeps pace with the new electronic environment.

Stories disappear. Tax changes benefit the wealthy… Mass shootings…Trump pays off Stormy Daniels ($130,000 hush money)… Trump pays off ex-Playmate Karen McDougal ($150,000 hush money). Eric Trump promotes Trump businesses in India… Stories won’t linger… won’t stick. Not at the speed of light.

Good guys. Robert Mueller has achieved American hero status. The Mueller investigation provides more entertainment than Celebrity Apprentice. We don’t know Mueller’s allies. The other good guys, the hard working investigators, have remained anonymous.

Mueller's investigation had been the one news story with a plot. Mueller manages the flow of information like a good screenwriter. The plot is building. We wait for denouement, a climax.

Bad guys help the narrative.  

Bad guy parade roll call.

Paul Manafort: campaign consultant and friend of all things Russian…busted.

Rick Gates… Manafort’s sidekick, possibly turning on Manafort…busted.

George Papadopoulos… wanted a place at the table, goofed up and spoke about Hillary’s pilfered emails… busted.

Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer was the bad guy for today. Looks like a European model for Luxxotica with those snappy European frames. Wasn’t seeing clearly when he lied to the FBI.


Feels like Celebrity Apprentice is still going strong in today’s White House. Rob Parker… Wife beater with a security clearance…Omarosa… Leaves kicking and screaming. Won’t stick…

Today’s winner… Sarah Huckabee Sanders… scores big as Press Secretary with enough attitude to hold the mainstream media at arm’s length.

Sarah Sanders does her best to squelch the accusations against Trump. Her denials may not really matter? Stories will last more a few days and disappear.

The huge open wound separating Left and Right is the chasm that threatens the American nation. It’s the real story that won’t go away.