Just who's pulling the strings.
Been quite a week for Little Marco, who has had his soul up for sale for decades ago, and which Trump has now picked up at remaindered prices from the bargain bin of failed Republican saviors.
First, there's this goon named Pete Marocco who was (allegedly) one of the mob who stormed the Capitol on January 6th. That guy was just appointed by Little Marco to run the U.S. Agency for International Development.
This thug's first act as "acting deputy administrator for management and resources" was to empty out the agency.
From Media-Ite.
Trump Official Who Allegedly Stormed Capitol Places Aid Workers on Leave: ‘You Are Not to Enter USAID Premises’
Remaining staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development were placed on administrative leave, Tuesday by a Trump administration official accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In a memo titled, “PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE,” acting deputy administrator for management and resources Pete Marocco advised USAID employees they were “being placed on excused absence (also known as administrative leave) with pay effective immediately.”
Next up, Little Marco puts an out-and-proud wannabe Klansman in charge of [checks notes] "public diplomacy."
From MSNBC:
Senior State Department official haunted by his scandalous record
"Haunted"?
Nah.
"Proud of".
Yep.
But please continue.
In theory, revelations about Darren Beattie's recent past should end his State Department tenure. In practice, it might not be that simple.
In 2018, officials in the Trump White House started receiving media calls about a speechwriter and policy aide named Darren Beattie. Journalists wanted to know whether Beattie’s colleagues were aware of his role at a conference regularly attended by well-known white nationalists, and soon after, he was fired.
Eight years later, Beattie is back, serving under Rubio as an acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. NBC News reported:
Beattie has a history of making inflammatory remarks, including a post on X in October that said: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” Beattie’s site promoted a baseless theory that the attack on the Capitol was the handiwork of the FBI, or has he put it, a “Fedsurrection.”
On a related note, Beattie also spent part of Jan. 6, 2021, telling various Black people — including Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA”
The agencies and functions Little Marco is gutting at the behest of Il Douche are the faces we show to the rest of the world. Providing food and medical care to the sick and starving. Promoting democracy in oppressed corners. A beacon to others in dark places.
And now Little Marco is putting a Klansman's hood on the Statue of Liberty --
-- and making absolutely sure the rest of the world knows that the bare plurality of bigots and imbeciles who now govern this country never gave a fuck about any of that.
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