RE·TAL·I·A·TION: Punishment of an employee by an employer for engaging in legally protected activity such as making a complaint of harassment or participating in workplace investigations. Retaliation can include any negative job action, such as demotion, discipline, firing, salary reduction, or job or shift reassignment. AR·RO·GANCE: arrogant is someone who is full of self-worth or self-importance and who tells and shows that they have a feeling of superiority over others.
On Friday night, President Trump fired the inspector general of the State Department, Steve Linick, on the recommendation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in what may have been an act of political retaliation over Linick investigating potential misconduct by Pompeo. A White House official confirmed to multiple reporters on Saturday that Pompeo had recommended firing Linick to Trump, and that the president agreed. Secretary of State Pompeo, meanwhile, has already repeatedly faced scrutiny for possible misuse of State Department personnel and resources, like having his wife accompany him on trips abroad (he calls her a “force multiplier”); he and his wife allegedly directing diplomatic security personnel to run personal errands for them, and Pompeo’s State Department-funded travel to and from his home state of Kansas — where many GOP leaders have been trying to convince the hyper-partisan former CIA director to run for a U.S. Senate seat. According to Politico, Susan Pompeo has no official role at the State Department, which has not responded to records requests regarding whether or not the Pompeos has reimbursed the agency for personal costs. (Intelligencer)
PATSY: (informal, derogatory) A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. Slang. a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker. a person upon whom the blame for something falls; scapegoat; fall guy. a person who is the object of a joke, ridicule, or the like. Almost every American English speaker recognizes the word “patsy” as an unflattering moniker for a fool, a fall guy; one who is easily duped. ... One simply makes “patsy” an alteration of an Italian word “pazzo,” meaning madman or fool.
Are we paying any attention to the rearrangement of the structure of law and order, checks and balances, DYING, as the realignment of TOTAL AUTHORITARIAN POWER, starts THRIVING at the instruction and demand by Donald Trump. Are we, as Americans to just assume, that ANYONE with the title of President of the United States, and his select cadre of cultists and co-conspirators of crime, CAN RETALIATE, demonstrating the utmost ARROGANCE against the people of this nation, knowing that because we all are one huge PATSY, the destruction of our CONSTITUTION, is no big deal, OR simply point the ART OF THE DEAL, is to INDEED deconstruct our CONSTITUTION? YA’AIN’T PISSED ENOUGH ALREADY, and now this!
