Slide, Kelly, Slide

     This is WH Chief of Staff John Kelly yesterday during Donald Trump's "Talk Like a Pirate Day" speech at the United Nations. I'm unsure at what part of the speech Kelly did this epic face palm. It could've been at the point where Trump called Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man" or threatened to completely destroy North Korea. Or it could've been when he was bragging about Trump Tower across the street. Or it could've been when Trump, in true right wing fashion, began ragging on the UN for not pulling its weight.
     It doesn't matter. Donald Trump's entire sham presidency has been nothing but an endless highlight reel for late night comedians (Oh, Jon Stewart, why did you retire just as Trump announced his candidacy?). Just a couple of weeks ago, it leaked out to Business Insider that Trump lawyer Ty Cobb wrote an email saying "me and Kelly (sic)" were the "adults in the room." The jury's out on whether or not Cobb qualifies as an adult but Gen. Kelly certainly fits the bill.
    That leaves two questions for the half-assed political analyst: If Kelly is so mature and competent, how the hell did he ever get hired by Trump in the first place? Trump's the guy who invited professional right wing assclowns Kid Rock, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent into the Oval Office, who installed Joe Pesci's Goodfellas character as Communications Director, made the daughter of a drug lord who was caught with nearly 100 pounds of cocaine on one of his ships Transportation Secretary, made a witless, grinning charter school fuckstick billionaire his Education Secretary and shoehorned Savonarola 2.0 as Chief of the CIA.
     With such a track record for creating such an unprecedented kakistocracy that belongs in some work of dystopian fiction by Sinclair Lewis or George Orwell, you have to wonder how such a capable man found himself in this government that's straight out of Idiocracy.

     The second question we must ask ourselves is, What the fuck is keeping this man in this government? Indeed, when you look at Kelly's face at Trump's public appearances, such as his "many sides" speech about Charlottesville, one gets the feeling he's the First Mate who, instead of helping passengers on the lifeboats, was just ordered by the captain to shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic just after it collided with the iceberg.
     And sometimes, as Kelly showed in Phoenix, he refuses to share the stage with Trump.
     If Kelly's smart, he's thinking of a way to slide out of this government while he still has some credibility left. After all, look what the Bush White House did to Colin Powell after his now infamous presentation to the UN Security Council.

     Yeah, if he's smart, he's weighing his options.