Marching orders
Decision-making at the government’s top level still appears to be haphazard, a full two months after the elections. A recent example was the way one of the top spooks of an agency got his marching orders. He was summoned to The Great Khan’s tent, where he was told in the briefest of meetings, that he had “one week” in which to dig out the dirt on The Man of Steel, his Talented Bro and other family members. The officer said he would, and was then told that he could now leave and get on with his job. In the very next meeting, our mole says The Khan met an even more imposing personage who advised him to replace the said spook forthwith. The Khan apparently agreed, and the same day the spook got his transfer orders – his one week’s leeway having gone up in a whiff of smoke.
Talent for mimicry
We’ve learnt that the White House’s current incumbent has a rare talent for mimicry and that he routinely does take offs of various world leaders. The most recent revelation has to do with India’s premier, who’s apparently a favourite subject of the POTUS (an acronym for President of the United States, while FLOTUS is an acronym for First Lady of the United States). This was revealed by India’s foremost conservative strategist, Bharat Karnad, who recently wrote, “Modi’s … unconditional love and admiration for America and his subaltern thinking have together imposed a low ceiling on India’s ambition. This explains why he has tolerated personal slights, from denial of US visa when he was Gujarat chief minister to … President Donald Trump making fun of him by frequently mimicking his accent in internal White House discussions.”