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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Will a last rat abandon ship? If, when?

One possible answer, sitting on that advisory thing, what's it pay?

Last year, Politico named the names, but not
the compensation or perks.

Would a host of payday evacuees be anticipated? Or is it pro bono service for higher purposes, money aside as an irrelevance? Dominionist goals, uber alles?

What? A websearch yielding no informative returns on what it pays, if anything. What benefit package attaches, if any. Despite a plethora of returned links. A simple question must have a simple answer. Reader help on the answer would be welcome.

Finally, first rat reported, first and only, so far:

NPR reporting Aug 18, 2017, this link.

And despite the image, not the esteemed Mr. Fallwell (second generation Fallwell in the business, comparable to Trump Jr. in having an inherited cashflow domain - indeed, similar to the Donald himself, that inheritance way).

___________UPDATE__________
More on evangelical charismatists, hanging on: here, here, here, here and here. The last item in that set is in language I understand, about the man featured and his pattern of laying on hands.

__________FURTHER UPDATE____________
The Atlantic, curiously leading with a pic of a front-and-center White House figure, while a word search of the full item is devoid of the figure's name. Not about him? Or about him with press indirection? Then, if the latter, why the kid gloves indirection? Who's calling shots that way? Has there been any reported mood of surviror's guilt?

How does that lead photo image fit the headlining "Untethered?" Not a single tether in the scene depicted that Trump can rely upon? What?

__________FINAL UPDATE____________
More from The Atlantic, stating in part [italics and embedded links are from the original]:

Already, Breitbart is on a war footing. “It may turn out to be the beginning of the end for the Trump administration, the moment Donald Trump became Arnold Schwarzenegger,” editor Joel Pollak wrote on Friday, referring to the actor-turned-California governor, who won office as a populist outsider and exited with a 23 percent approval rating.

Bannon’s next steps are being worked out with Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the billionaire Republican donors who have been some of Trump’s most important supporters and Bannon’s consistent patrons. Two of Bannon’s friends told me Bannon met with Bob Mercer this week in New York while Trump was in town.

“First he’s gonna figure things out with Bob and Bekah,” said one Bannon ally earlier on Friday. “Breitbart's certainly the likely landing spot.” This ally said that Bannon may also move to a Mercer-funded outside group, or even start a new one.

Smoke without fire?

At least, it appears so, until the money talks.