If the dominos start falling…….

 

Honestly I am not sure if we are there yet, but if Greg Bovino’s ouster is the first domino, it might get crazy fast.

And many of the dominos will need to be knocked down. So where do we start?

Kristy Noem looks like the next domino and whether she fights it or resigns won’t matter. She is probably gone and soon. The better half just said there is some Senate Hearing she is scheduled to attend in March. If she makes it that far I will be surprised.

So let’s look at some other potential dominos.

First though you see some people still running cover for President Trump hoping to give him some wiggle room to stay on. There is a secondary issue involved with Trump and I will get to that in a minute.

And let’s look at the some of Trump’s cover provided by the lovely Laura Loomer. Apparently she is laying this at the feet of Vance in some sort of new(?) conspiracy rant. I question the new because she may have brought up this conspiracy before in some shape form or fashion. I don’t follow her so going by second hand knowledge.

I am of the opinion that Vance always thought Trump was circumspect so let himself get on the train hoping for either getting ahead post Trump or being the rational one if Trump’s world collapses.  So I don’t think he is forcing this madness as per Loomer, but hoping for it.

So let’s go look at some potential other dominos. I think if Stephen Miller gets put in the domino line he will fight it big time. He has much riding on the success of Trump’s immigration policy so he will try and find ways to convince Trump that what they are doing is still the right path, just need to ride out this current hiccup.

In general Pete Hegseth will stay on as Defense Secretary until forced out in some way. And it may or may not have anything to do with the ICE situation.

Marco Rubio may be the first one to jump ship and find some facing saving way to resign.

Pam Bondi is an interesting situation. Even though the Epstein files are not in the headlines right now, sooner or later people can pick that back up and make it front page news again. Once that happens Trump may tire of her. And I won’t put them on paper just yet, but my brain’s imagination just went crazy and there are some crazy outs for her. And most don’t do Trump any favors. So let’s leave the conspiracies to the conspiracy theorists for now. And she may also be impacted by the current ICE and general immigration fall out specifically the voter rolls threat.

Kash Patel may just wake up and ask himself why did I sign up for all this. He may resign also. I don’t think he can successfully come up with a face saving way, but who knows. Or he is completely hopeless and ends up going down with the ship.

I think Scott Bessent and maybe Howard Lutnick jump ship. They have/had careers in the financial world they may want to salvage and if things start to really sour they may run for cover.

Tulsi Gabbard is so far out of the spotlight now that she may be able to quietly walk away. Who knows?

There are a few other Cabinet members such as Labor Lori Chavez-Deremer and Education Linda McMahon that have their own issues or embroglios they may go down on their own as the ship falters.

And now to get back to Trump. Trump is 79 years old and stress eats up healthy human beings. The stress he must be feeling or is about to hit him may be too much. I wrote a previous post talking about some of these people need to figure out what to do in a post Trump world. I don’t wish bad on anyone, just want accountability, yet Trump’s health may take a huge hit if he for one second realizes how bad his world is about to implode. There is much potential for high stress health events to happen and everyone near him and his supporters in general cannot be surprised if something does happen. He is just not a man in excellent health no matter what he tells himself and the American people.

There is going to be a fall out even if Trump stays healthy. And things will get worse before they get better. Unfortunately the Democrats are still clueless and maybe only a couple can cobble together enough of a plan to get us to 2028.

Secondarily Mike Johnson needs to resign as Speaker so we can move forward faster. I am not sure who should be Speaker, yet if the Republicans do hold the majority for the rest of the year, someone from the centrist group should be elected as Speaker. Hakeem Jeffries would be a disaster. Yes I know all the Democrats think they are ready to be the heroes, yet the amount of fall out from the collapse of this administration is going to take some real leadership and some real ingenuity to get us to 2028 and beyond.

And why do I say 2028 and not the upcoming midterms? If Trump falls, then Vance is rightfully the President and he has managed to stay away enough from the immigration and Epstein disaster it would be hard pressed for the Democrats to try and impeach him. They might try, but no one will have the stomach to convict him or at least not enough so he offers I won’t say stability, but a placeholder until 2028. And then hopefully someone can come through and chart us a new path forward.

And once we get to 2028 and hopefully a new path forward, let’s hope it is someone who truly understands the gravity of the moment and knows if he or she does it right they probably won’t be elected in 2032. Too much real painful work will need to be done to right this ship.

Anyway there is sparkling wine (we are Americans) on ice so to speak, but not even close to being open. We will see what happens.