Do you remember General Tata?
After a career in the military, retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata entered the Broad Academy in 2009, launching a new career. He was soon hired as Chief Operating Officer of the District of Columbia Public Schools, when Michelle Rhee was chancellor. Then on to become Superintendent of Schools in Wake County, North Carolina, where a new school board hired him to dismantle one of the nation’s most successfully integrated districts. He managed to alienate and offend enough people so that the board that hired him was soon swept out by voters.
Mike Klonsky picks up the story of General Tata’s career post-education. As a noted Islamophobe and Trumper, he soon caught the eye of Trump recruiters and is in line for a powerful position in the Defense Department.
Klonsky writes:
FAST FORWARD…So quite naturally, who should pop up yesterday as Trump’s proposed appointee to the third-highest post in the Pentagon? None other than Brig. Gen. Tata himself. The job includes managing policy decisions on everything from Afghanistan and the Middle East to China, North Korea, and Russia, as well as artificial intelligence, hypersonic weapons, and more.
Tata would succeed John Rood, who was ousted as undersecretary for policy in February after being viewed as insufficiently loyal to Trump. He could even be next in the line if the secretary of defense and the deputy resigned or were removed.
Only this time, the recommendation caused the shit to hit the fan.
Among his notorious remarks: He called President Obama “a terrorist leader.”
Another notable citizen-rightwing nut job for this itinerant administration.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
INT – DAY – OVAL OFFICE
MARK: Mr. President, we’ve just received a report that there is a large extraterrestrial craft hovering over Washington, DC.
DONALD: How come there’s nothing about this on Fox?
MARK: Mr. President, look out the window. It’s not from this planet. It’s . . . its . . . it’s happening. It’s actually happening. Like in the movies.
DONALD: They probably just want to talk to me. Get some tips on running things back home. I had an uncle at MIT you know. Get them on the phone.
MARK: Mr. President, they’re aliens. They are broadcasting some mathematical signals. They appear to be attempting to establish communication. We have people working on it.
DONALD: Good. Good. Ask them if they can help with my reelection. I’m going to have to fire everyone after Tulsa. Priebus, Scaramucci, Cohen, Kelly, Nielsen, Bolton, Mattis, Sessions, Parscale, Kushner—who hires these idiots, anyway? I don’t know. I don’t know.
MARK: We’re going to have to move you into the Bunker.
DONALD: OK. OK. But just for an inspection. This is good. Obama never got aliens. Where they from, the moon? the sun? I tell you what. Send one of those stealth planes. The invisible ones that you can’t see. Get some pictures, OK? I like pictures.
MARK: Sir, the stealth planes are not actually invisible.
DONALD: I guess I have to explain this to you. I’m surrounded by morons. Stealth planes, Mark. You can’t see them. They can be right next to you and nothing. Not there. Send some cheeseburgers down to the Bunker, OK?
MARK: OK, sir.
DONALD: This will be good. I like it. I’ll be first.
MARK: Mr. President, what if they are hostile?
DONALD: No problem. We’ll build a wall.
MARK: A wall?
DONALD: Around the Earth. Tell Jared to get on it. Oh, and call up the Space Force.
MARK: Uh, OK. Certainly, Mr. President Sir.
Statement from Kayleigh Mc-a-Ninny, Whiter House Miss Communications:
From the beginning, the left-wing media in the United States has downplayed the threat to the United States posed by illegal aliens. Today’s appearance of extraterrestrial spacecraft above Washington, DC, simply vindicates what the President has been saying all along. I think that the media owe our President an apology.
Bob, another gem.
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There is a unlimited supply of bad actors willing to fill positions left by folks with even a nanosmidgen of integrity.
“Nanosmidgen of integrity”- read about Tata at Military.com.
His ex-wife had something to say. Media reported that the military investigated a convenient letter that benefitted Tata in a child support case – forged but, forger unidentifiable.
We have to fix this in November!