So, is Susie Wiles about to be spending more time with her family?

My guess: No. For all of his fondness for bellowing YOU’RE FIRED, he won’t fire any of the hand-picked lackeys who fluff him all day. But my guess is, it will make the underlings regard one another with even fiercer and more vicious thoughts blazing from their eyes.

You know who I think about sometimes? Bobby Kennedy. Here’s a guy who has been catered to, looked up to and otherwise fluffed himself, all his life. But for these cabinet meetings, he has to bow and scrape and ass-kiss like the rest of those yo-yos. It must chap his ass like nothing else, sucking up to that pig. All of that swallowed bile has to go somewhere. I’m thinking the fallout, when all of this explodes, is going to be epic.

And that was just this morning.

I don’t know if Roy’s excellent Substack today is unlocked, but here are a few good parts (and you should subscribe):

In his first term Trump pantomimed some policy interests, but these were impossible to take seriously. You may recall, for example, his stupid “Trumpcare” alternative to the ACA that was so poorly conceived his factota in Congress dragged their feet on it, terrified at how voters would react if it were actually put into practice, until John McCain did them the favor of killing it in the Senate. And with COVID he mainly handed off the work to the health bureaucracy while yammering so nonsensically about it on TV that it killed his 2020 campaign.

In this second term you can see what Trump, relieved of any obligation to make it look good for political reasons, is really about, and it ain’t steering the ship of state.

Since Congress ended the subsidies that were keeping ACA premiums down, his approach to the chaos that ensued isn’t some new version of Trumpcare 2.0 — it’s just letting everyone know he doesn’t give a shit what happens (“Don’t make it sound so bad”). He is observably content to see millions of Americans lose their insurance as revenge for having signed up for something called “Obamacare” in the first place.

Revenge is a big part of what fills in for policy in Trump governance. His reaction to the rebuke he received from the electorate for his pandemic malfeasance, too, has been a pathological act of vengeance against the health care establishment — indeed, against the very idea of health care, with the appointment of an actual dangerous lunatic to run it.

Yessiree.

Not much more to report today. Got two-thirds of the work shoveled off my desk, and am tentatively looking forward to a pleasant holiday interlude, if you ignore all the bad news in the world.