{"id":352672,"date":"2018-03-18T01:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-rexless-abandon\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T01:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:25:02","slug":"roaming-charges-rexless-abandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-rexless-abandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Rexless Abandon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>+ Before attempting to see things from Trump&#8217;s point of view this week, I consulted the great EM Cioran: \u201cChaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0I mourn Rexxon&#8217;s passing. He was the least lethal Secretary of State of my lifetime. Tillerson was no Kissinger, Haig, Powell, Clinton or Albright and that was fine by me. Even though he was the former CEO of Exxon, Rex fought to save the Paris Accords. He stood up to Israel and the Saudis on Iran. He quashed McMaster&#8217;s &#8220;bloody nose&#8221; plan for North Korea. And he outed his boss as a &#8220;fucking moron,&#8221; and never apologized.<\/p>\n<p>+ When John Kelly called Tillerson to let him know his firing was imminent, Rex was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-was-on-the-toilet-when-i-told-him-hed-be-getting-fired\">the toilet<\/a>, probably still straining to discharge that <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/politics\/rex-eat-the-salad-internet-donald-trump-rex-tillerson\/\">wilted salad<\/a> Trump forced him to eat.<\/p>\n<p>+ Tillerson may get a little cold revenge from the fact that his nemesis HR McMaster&#8217;s head appears to be next on the chopping block, with other &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/14\/politics\/ben-carson-cabinet-white-house\/index.html\">deadweights<\/a>&#8221; in Trump&#8217;s \u00a0Cabinet of Curiosities to follow soon: Shulkin, Carson, DeVos, Sessions and Kelly. Of course, the real punishment is to be left behind, condemned to serve the entire four year term with no early release or parole.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0There&#8217;s only one person I can think of who is consistently wrong about more things that he claims to know a lot about than Bill Kristol and that would be the person Trump just picked to replace Gary Cohn as his chief economic advisor, Larry Kudlow. Kudlow, an economic fabulist who helped concoct and implement supply-side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/16\/roaming-charges-rexless-abandon\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+ Before attempting to see things from Trump&#8217;s point of view this week, I consulted the great EM Cioran: \u201cChaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.\u201d +\u00a0I mourn Rexxon&#8217;s passing. He was the least lethal Secretary of State of my lifetime. Tillerson was no Kissinger, Haig, Powell, Clinton or Albright and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}