What: A Bingo creation event for AFTG content creators of all kinds!
Where: All posts and updates will be reblogged onto this Tumblr, and fics posted on AO3 will be under the AFTG Bingo Collection. The Tumblr tag being tracked is #aftgbingo.
When: Bingo cards will be released on the first week of October 2018 (my target is October 6, GMT +8, 10:30 AM), and the creation event will run for two whole months: November and December 2018. No specific deadlines!
Why: Bingo is fun. Nora Sakavic’s book series is even funner. Creativity is the funnest of them all. I wanted to combine all of that.
Here is probably the most interesting part of the article.
It is common policy, however, that politically appointed ambassadors resign at the start of a new administration. It is less common to have no replacements in line.
As many as 80 ambassadors for countries, agencies and issues – such as the ambassador for global women’s issues – have been discarded at once.
The move now threatens leaving many countries without Senate-confirmed envoys for months and cutting off a direct line to the President, and some in countries which have sensitive relations to the US.
Wait… seriously?
Seriously and it’ll take a while to fill those spots.
apparently what happened (if i’m not mistaken) is that these ambassadors traditionally offer up their resignation at the start of a new presidency but almost always keep their position, like the resignation is just a symbolic gesture? but trump’s team didn’t realize that and they actually accepted people’s resignations but they can’t admit that the trump admin is actually that fucking stupid so they’re just….going with it
we gone full isolationists now
its almost like he has no political experience and wasn’t fit for the job or something
!!!!!!
oh, no, let’s be clear: this was not done in error. from the article:
[Trump’s] transition team had said on 23 December there would be “no exceptions” for ambassadors requesting to extend their postings past Inauguration day, in contrast with other Presidents
as in: they decided a month before the inauguration that they were going to oust these individuals and then did not come up with a plan for replacing them
Nothing but My Aching Soul 