Subject: It’s firing season at the White House
After making it a year without firing anyone, the backlog of cruelty and incompetence proved to be too strong a sewage current for even Donald Trump. Three homo sapiens horribilis were fired in quick succession:

Firing season is here.

Here is the fundamental problem, and it is one Trump will never solve because it is downstream of who he is: he picks people for loyalty, and loyalty in his world is inversely correlated with competence.

The kind of person who will say “yes, sir” to anything is, almost by definition, not the kind of person who can actually do a cabinet-level job. You cannot prosecute complex federal cases, run a 3-million-person military, manage a 22-agency national security apparatus, or direct the FBI on trolling, Truth Social posts, and asskissing

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