North Korea launches yet another ballistic missile (& update: Trump wh's staff squabbles lead to Reince being pushed out)

When I woke up this morning and turned on the TV I expected news about the failure of #Trumpcare: instead I got this on my screen:

This morning's news about North Korea launching yet another ballistic missile puts the "the mooch" vs Reince war in perspective (if you don't know about that war: congratulations; just know they're two members of the white house staff). 

My main point is, Trump's white house's staff appears unable to get along among themselves. Which begs the question; how is this white house supposed to unite & project strength towards our enemies when a real crisis arises?

Now there's talk of Russia propping up the North Korea regime:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/07/25/2017072501303.html

'Russia has roughly doubled oil shipments and other exports to North Korea even as the international community is working to turn off the spigot for the belligerent regime.

Moscow is fast emerging as a powerful backer of Pyongyang at a time when even China seems to be having second thoughts, and has been at the forefront of blocking discussion of further sanctions in the UN Security Council.

A government official in Seoul said on Monday, "There's something going on that the traditional Pyongyang-Moscow friendship alone isn't enough to explain. Moscow seems to be trying to squeeze in between Pyongyang and Beijing to raise leverage in its relations with Washington and Seoul."'

Also today, Russia seized 2 US properties and ordered US embassy staff to evacuate. It appears Russia and China sense the weakness & unpopularity of president Trump, and thus they intend to take full advantage of it in order to advance their interests. Hence, Trump needs to get his house in order quickly, so he can then begin to face the formidable powers trying to overtake the U.S. in the world stage.

"Trump Chief Of Staff Priebus Is Out — In Biggest White House Staff Shake-Up Yet"


http://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/531082618/trump-chief-of-staff-priebus-is-out-in-biggest-white-house-staff-shakeup-yet

Update: as you can see from the link above, I guess old RRRRReince lost the war & now he's out. 

Trump prefers "the mooch". For now at least, since it reminds me of what Rob Sheffield from "Rolling Stone" magazine said about the Iron Throne from GOT: "Sitting on the Iron Throne is like playing keyboard for the Grateful Dead - life expectancy tends to drop drastically". If you think about "sitting on the Iron throne" as serving in the Trump administration. 

Not that anyone who's served Trump is killed (thankfully), but they do seem to get fired regularly: Flynn, Comey, Spicer, kasowitz, Priebus, etc. How long will "the mooch" last?