Well, that didn’t take long! Via the NYT:
Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role
WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.
Mr. Scaramucci’s abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New York financier was brought on to the West Wing staff, a move that convulsed an already chaotic White House and led to the departures of Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, and Reince Priebus, the president’s first chief of staff.
The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly’s request, the people said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.
It was not clear whether Mr. Scaramucci will remain employed at the White House in another position or will leave altogether.
Within hours of being sworn in, Kelly boots Mooch. That was the low-hanging fruit, as they say. But that’s not going to solve the chaos problem in the White House, which flows from the corrupt, unqualified, addled shit-stain in the Oval Office.
UPDATE: Ouch!
Anthony Scaramucci was escorted from White House grounds today after ouster, per source familiar with the scene
— Jackie Alemany (@JaxAlemany) July 31, 2017
Patricia Kayden
General Kelly doesn’t play. I guess Trump will be the last loudmouth to remain standing.
Oh, Mooch. We hardly knew ya!
Alain the site fixer
Good riddance and grr for beating me to the post!
SenyorDave
That was the low-hanging fruit, as they say. But that’s not going to solve the chaos problem in the White House, which flows from the corrupt, unqualified, addled shit-stain in the Oval Office.
C’mon, Betty, tell us how you really feel. But you are correct, as the saying goes, a fish rots from the head down.
One question, will the Mooch turn on Trump?
Shell
And here I thought the Donald just LOVED Mooch’s profane “NY” style.
Quinerly
I had by Friday in my local pool. Technically he wasn’t even supposed to start until 8/15. False start?
Cermet
Actually, that is very good news – that the new Chief of Staff has both the backbone and strength of character to face tRump and demand his way or the highway for how the WH and staff are controlled. Can’t make matters worse, for sure. At least there is a small check on the orange fart cloud..
Major Major Major Major
Weren’t we just asking yesterday how long it would be until Mooch was publicly humiliated?
eric
On the bright side, he has more time to spend with his family……oh.
ksmiami
you guys will get mad at my cliche, but “second verse, same as the first”…/goes to run and hide….
dmsilev
Huh. Would have guessed that it would have taken longer. Wonder who will be running the White House press operation now.
MisterForkbeard
Good for Kelly. I can’t really see this as endearing him to Trump, but I suppose it could:
* It makes Kelly look “strong and tough”, which apparently is something Trump respects so long as you’re not doing anything against Trump or making him look bad.
* Kelly could have told Trump that Mooch was really working for the Democrats, given his past history and his awful performance so far. Trump would be Presidential if he let Kelly fire Mooch.
I like that Scaramucci is basically a mini-Trump – he’s not even as bad as Trump is, in terms of communication fuckups and incompetence. So now we know that Kelly would probably fire Trump if he could. :P
Gin & Tonic
@Shell: Good thing you put it in quotes. It’s not NYC style, it’s Lawn Guyland style.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Who plays him in the inevitable comedy adaptation?
kindness
Low hanging fruit? Certainly.
Funny? I will let the late night comedians make what they can of it but I’m expecting yuks.
LAO
@eric: Damn it. I knew someone would get to that joke before me.
I’m still chortling away at my desk. People passing by are starting to stare.
Downpuppy
@dmsilev: Longer? No, consensus is that it was decided before Kelly took the job. Seems like the minimum anyone would ask for.
donnah
Ha ha ha ha! Fuck The Mooch. What a load of slime he is, and for once, a problem is solved before it got worse. Of course, other things can continue to get worse, but it’s good news for now.
Frank Wilhoit
1. Is Scaramouche going to un-delete his old tweets now?
2. Who is going to set Kelly’s firing as the condition for their own hiring?
LAO
And this too! What a Monday.
dmsilev
@MisterForkbeard:
Putting him in company with roughly 2/3s of the country, if latest polling is to be believed.
MisterForkbeard
@LAO: No shit. I’m not sure how anyone could have even argued Arpaio was innocent.
Librarian
Now watch the media fall all over themselves in orgasms about how tough Kelly is and how he’s going to put order into the West Wing. I can hardly wait.
JGabriel
NY Times via Betty Cracker @ Top:
Hunh.
If Kelly gets Mooch booted that fast, you got wonder how quickly he secretly wants to boot Trump.
—–
Edited to Add:
@MisterForkbeard:
Heh, two minds, same thought, MisterForkbeard.
schrodingers_cat
So who is going to head the DHS now?
zhena gogolia
@Shell:
Yeah, that’s how the NYT was normalizing it the other day. I threw the damn thing across the room.
Betty Cracker
@Cermet: I’m not convinced a more disciplined West Wing is actually good for the country. Kelly’s short tenure at DHS convinced me that he’s an evil fuck, so I don’t expect him to act as a check on the orange fart cloud so much as an enabler. The good news is that if Kelly really runs a tight ship, he’ll inevitably clash with Trump and get humiliated and cast aside himself.
Quinerly
MSNBC reporting that Mooch had no clue at 9pm last night.
lgerard
I suspect a few wingnut pundits are going to suffer severe vertigo from flipping to portray this as good news for trump
Ian G.
I’m beginning to think that even by the standards of reality TV imbeciles, the Trump White House is a disaster. As in, I’d expect President Ronnie from “Jersey Shore”, or someone from the most recent season of “The Bachelor” to have their act together as president better than this.
mai naem mobile
Da Mooch has had a bad July.A very bad July. Kinda like his former boss.
Jeff
Can Kelly fire trump?
LAO
@MisterForkbeard: The only thing that would make today even better, is if the Shkreli jury returned with a guilty verdict.
zhena gogolia
SNL didn’t even get a crack at him.
TenguPhule
Anything that makes Kelly’s position stronger isn’t exactly good news for the Republic.
Just saying.
gene108
I honestly don’t want this White House to be less chaotic and more focused.
They’re agenda is evil.
One of the things saving us from their evil is their lack of professionalism.
Also, too Kelly is someone, who is 100% on board with the Trump agenda. He implemented ruthlessly implemented Trump’s vision of deporting all the illegal immigrants, while at DHS.
He’s not a “good guy” trying to make things better. He’s just as much of an evil fucker, with regards to policy, as anyone else Trump has latched onto like Bannon, Miller, Sessions, DeVos, etc.
And unfortunately, the media, dying to make Trump “Presidential”, will look at Kelly maybe imposing a little bit of order as “the day Trump became President” or some such.
Gravenstone
That’s actually promising news insofar as it shows 1) Kelly is not inclined to have subordinate roles go around him and 2) at least on this one example, Trump backed him up. Granted, this still won’t bring the core problem of the administration, Trump himself, to heel – as Betty already noted.
TenguPhule
@Ian G.:
Beginning?
Evil Pauly Shore is running the country and we can’t get out of the movie theater.
Cheryl Rofer
Major Major Major Major
@Librarian:
Ugh, you’re totally right!
zhena gogolia
@TenguPhule:
And I wonder if he’s in cahoots with Bannon.
lgerard
As I suspected, this is exactly like when Poochie joined Itchy and Scratchy
JPL
@Betty Cracker: According to CNN, Kelly almost quit when Comey was fired. He didn’t though and now is in charge of the WH. That actually tells me something about his character.
If he cleans the house of the white supremacists, I’ll change my mind.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Easy, who is the worst person for the job?
dmsilev
@TenguPhule: The flip side is that the more good press Kelly gets, the more likely Trump is to can him in a fit of jealousy.
TenguPhule
@lgerard:
But without the violent hilarity.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Vichy Times intends to be the Pravda on the Hudson for the T regime.
LAO
Twitter is a riot:
Cheryl Rofer
It’s the being laughed at they can’t take. I was wondering about that last week when his interview broke.
different-church-lady
“NO CHAOS! NO CHAOS! YOU’RE THE CHAOS!!!”
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Kobach. Or Joe Arapaio.
TenguPhule
@JPL:
Yes, he’s John McCain with less honor and integrity.
The Moar You Know
Can’t upstage any boss, but especially not this one.
And Scaramucci was trying very hard to do exactly that. Or was on a lot of coke. Or both. History shall tell the tale.
schrodingers_cat
@JPL: His tenure at DHS indicates that he may be one himself, or at least sympathetic to their goals.
zhena gogolia
@Cheryl Rofer:
Oh, and Trump never uses any vulgar language. Right.
schlemazel
After Wilson had a stroke his wife and his secretary ran the government in his place. Would it be possible today to have a similar situation? Allow hair furor to be the potemkin President but have Kelly do all the work? It would allow numbnuts to continue doing what he loves but relieve him of all the stuff he hates
Cheryl Rofer
?BillinGlendaleCA
@LAO: Time to get ol’ Sheriff Joe some pink undies.
SiubhanDuinne
@MisterForkbeard:
?? Folks, here’s a story ’bout Moocher the Mini…. ??
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
My bet is on him.
Yeah it wouldn’t make any sense, but since when has that ever mattered with this fucked up mess?
JPL
@schrodingers_cat: THIS…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Oy that’s a scary thought, as is that trump’s ego is our best hope for driving Kelly out.
if not fire him, intentionally or unintionally insult or otherwise infuriate him on twitter.
mai naem mobile
Maybe DwTS can have an all star former Dolt 45 WH fired persons line up for next season. Flynn,Reince,Spicey,Mooch,Short,Yates ,Comey and Bharara.
Chris
What the hell?
different-church-lady
@Quinerly:
Oh, I think it goes a lot further back than that.
lgerard
@TenguPhule:
The guy who runs Customs and Border Protection, Ronald D. Vitiello
JKFJS
@Cermet: Do you really think Kelly will have any ability to “reign in” the orange shitstain? If so, I’ve got some great beachfront property in Wyoming I’d like to show you.
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
The horseshit is so fresh that you can smell the grass it came from.
Old Broad in California
I’m trying to decide whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing that Kelly is apparently taking a firm hand. I’m still rooting for chaos so they can’t get any of their evil goals accomplished.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: ?? Folks, here’s a story ’bout Moocher the Mini…. ??
: : applause : :
not least because just the idea of being a “mini” would drive The Mooch nuts
mouse tolliver
Best thing about The Mooch’s short tenure was seeing Blake Mitchell’s reaction after discovering Scaramucci follows him on Twitter.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He is under criminal indictment, though!
mai naem mobile
@schrodingers_cat: Arpaio was found guilty today in his trial. Don’t see that happening . I do think Dolt will pardon him.
ruemara
Kelly is evil and fairly competent. I will stand by that description until actual actions demonstrate otherwise. I’d much rather they kept the loud, boorish stereotype running around setting fires with his mouth that the admin had to put in addition to the vapid tangerine dictator’s hourly fuck-ups. This doesn’t exactly make me feel that happy. Just a bitter gallows level of humour. I hope that Kelly is inevitably brought down by any positive press he receives from this and any other competent actions. That will be an easy inroad for this circle of backstabbing thieves to remove him as he will be in their way and Donald’s ego will not stand for a rival.
TenguPhule
@schlemazel:
I thought we were supposed to avoid apocalyptic doomsday scenarios here?
Betty Cracker
@Cheryl Rofer: Sounds plausible to me. I just read somewhere that Kushner was the one who urged Trump to bring Mooch onboard. He was also the genius who convinced Trump firing Comey would be a popular move.
TenguPhule
@mai naem mobile:
Since when have criminal convictions been a disqualifier for Republicans?
Adria McDowell
I’m not giving Kelly credit just yet: Ivanka, Jared, Bannon, et al., still have free reign for foolery and fuckery. Mooch was too easy to boot out.
Spanky
Well, so much for Chris Kattan’s big comeback. At least Kelly had the decency to do it on Monday, giving SNL time to create a skit to fill the inevitable (and now pointless) Mooch skit.
different-church-lady
@Old Broad in California: Hardly matters: given the average half-life of this administration he probably won’t be for more than two months.
Chris
@gene108:
Have to agree with this, actually.
NotMax
Steve Bannon trucking in sandbags and stocks of freeze-dried food. Film at 11.
A Ghost To Most
somewhere, Chris Kattan is crying at the lost opportunity to get back to SNL. He coulda been a contender.
eta: and Spanky beat me to it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl Rofer:
HAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahaha!
(Gasp)
AAHHHHHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
(Wipes tears from corners of eyes)
sukabi
Kelley probably demanded drug testing of the WH staff, the Mooch decided he’d rather not participate….
That’s my theory.
Tony J
I bet The Mooch hasn’t been this surprised since he locked Ripley and the Colonial Marines on the wrong side of that armoured door only to find one of the Xenomorphs standing right behind him.
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady:
LOL
Frankensteinbeck
@Cheryl Rofer:
Okay, THAT makes sense. I didn’t realize Trump knew Mooch is a public joke. I don’t watch the networks enough to know if they’re laughing at him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cheryl Rofer: the trumps and vulgarity! Heaven forfend!
does vaguely make me wonder what Ivanka thinks the family’s image is, since I assume that leak originated with her
Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC going on and on about how General Kelly will not tolerate business-related conflicts of interest in the trump White House. Now spinning hard for Ivanka
Chris
@JPL:
If he was going to clean house of white supremacists, he’d have done it at DHS. That was a target-rich environment, and if he didn’t do anything there, I don’t see him doing more at the White House.
I’d settle for him cleaning house of Russian sympathizers.
SenyorDave
@gene108: I honestly don’t want this White House to be less chaotic and more focused.
100% in agreement, don’t want competency from the WH. Plus Kelly is totally on board with the whitafication of America.
LAO
FlipYrWhig
@Cheryl Rofer:
The Trumps didn’t appreciate how his vulgarity grabbed them by the püssy.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Pink underwear is what Sheriff Joe made his inmates wear.
oldgold
Do we get a dance-off featuring Priebus and the Mooch on DWTS this fall?
TenguPhule
@Tony J:
Thread won.
Pack up and go home people.
NotMax
Funds for The Wall diverted to install revolving doors in White House. Film at 11.
bystander
So does this mean Kelly is Harlequin?
japa21
@TenguPhule: The implication would be that the Mooch would “resign” no matter who was named to be CoS. Which actually may be true. I think Mooch pushed Priebus out the door hoping he would be named. But of course, it is obvious the the Mooch didn’t resign at all.
FlipYrWhig
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: So is this more “Ivanka picks up the phone to the press and winsomely says she did a thing” bullshit? So tiring.
SiubhanDuinne
So much has happened in the last ten days, and events have been moving so fast, that I truly can’t remember, but wasn’t Scaramucci someone that Javanka had been pushing for? Is our unpaid family members/advisors being marginalized?
LAO
Amir Khalid
If this were any other administration, we’d all be horrified that someone so obviously incompetent, lacking in discipline, and vulgar was considered for the job in the first place. And the administration would lose a great deal of the public’s respect and trust. But, this being Trump’s Administration …
different-church-lady
@japa21: Isn’t that the opening scene to “The Dark Knight?”
mai naem mobile
@TenguPhule: I don’t see Kelly letting his previous position be filled by somebody who just got convicted today,but I do get the point you’re making.
LAO
Yeah — definitely sounds like Mooch resigned. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
Suzanne
WTF IS GOING ON TODAY. Arpaio guilty, Mooch out…..what’s going to be the third?!?
I’m perversely heartbroken….WE DIDN’T EVEN GET TO THE SNL IMPRESSION!
Wapiti
@schlemazel: Kelly could run the White House, and just let Trump do the fire-truck riding chores… Just as long as Pence, the Cabinet, and the Congress were happy with what Kelly was doing. Once Kelly shifts to his priorities rather than theirs, the 26th Amendment would be used.
schlemazel
@TenguPhule:
Given the general deference hair furor gives Generals and Marine Generals ability to convince morons to do their bidding I could see Kelly selling this idea to the tired, beleaguered fart and him being all on board. “Donnie, you get to do all the fun stuff & swan around being important while I do all the hard work for you. You get the credit & if anything goes wrong you get to blame me!”
different-church-lady
@LAO:
SECRET SERVICE AGENT: “For the last time, Mr. Scaramucci, you must give the silverware back now…”
TenguPhule
@Suzanne:
Look the on the bright side, we still have The Late show to look forward to.
hueyplong
All. The. Best. People. Ten days at a time.
Yarrow
Just saw the news? Really? That was way faster than I thought.
I’m kind of bummed Kelly looks like he’s running a tighter ship. The chaos meant less likelihood bad stuff got done. Well, if it keeps us from starting a nuclear war because of bad communications, I guess that’s okay. Except Trump still has the phone and Twitter…
Hungry Joe
“Don’t worry, Gromit! Everything’s under control!” (Apologies to Wallace)
NotMax
@LAO
Exclusive video.
LAO
I can’t stop laughing. I really need a vacation.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Damn, I was betting two months for the Mouch.
Calouste
@Wapiti: Next steps for Kelly:
1. Get rid of Pence.
2. Get appointed VP.
glory b
@gene108: I agree.
I was listening to a repeat of the Dean Obeidallah radio show yesterday. He had an immigration attorney on who said that ICE agents are acting like storm troopers under Kelly, and he was frightened for the future of the rule of law as we know it.
Big Jim Slade
So, was he front-stabbed, or back-stabbed? I hope he tells us, in detail.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Looks like that leak came from Comey’s camp, trying to bring the Mueller issue to the for and make it part of the Kelly story. I hope it works.
ETA: I wonder if this guy getting the Medal of Honor from the Rough Beast knows the “VD was my personal Vietnam” story
TriassicSands
@eric:
yer meen (giggle)
We all feel for The Mooch. He’s a sympathetic guy.
LAO
@NotMax: Nice. (I love a Dr. Who reference)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Suzanne:
We all feel your pain.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I want two things on SNL – a slow vid tribute to fallen Trumpers set to McLaclan’s “In the Arms of an Angel”, and a Glengarry Glen Ross skit with Baldwin doing both “I’m here because Mitch and Murray asked” and Shelley Levine/Donald Trump – he can tell himself “coffee’s for closers”.
Gelfling 545
@Cheryl Rofer: and if they were capable of embarrassment they’d be back in NY running their real estate business.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@LAO: My Congresscritter has a great sense of humor.
randy khan
@mai naem mobile:
Or Celebrity Apprentice?
schlemazel
@Wapiti:
agreed. But my guess is Dense only hears rumors of what the tangerine tantrum is up to and the cabinet even less. There would be a dance done but really any CoS could pull this off with only a few insiders aware if there was a decent President. Given the current occupant the fact that he seems to not remember telling Sec something or having issued some order would surprise nobody so it would be every easy to do.
BTW – I am on the side of “no calm competence” domestically at least the insane shit is protecting us. Internationally it is killing us but we can fix that more easily once there is a sane leader as POTUS.
FlipYrWhig
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Haha, I was thinking of the Sarah McLachlan song too!
Spanky
@Wapiti:
OH NOES! EIGHTEEN YEAR OLDS VOTING!
(ETA – Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.)
TriassicSands
The Mooch screws The Pooch.
@Yarrow:
We’ll know Kelly is really in charge if Trump disappears from Twitter or his Tweets begin to seem almost rational.
Gelfling 545
@schlemazel: Trump’s remarks suggested that he was annointing Kelly the de facto president. All about “we have a great leader, etc. “
GregB
Maybe Mooch can join Chris Christie on a tour of stress eating and publicly berating recalcitrant citizens.
lgerard
This is one day I would not mind hanging out with Spicer and Preibus……they must be rolling on the floor
TenguPhule
@TriassicSands:
In Soviet DC, Pooch screws you.
different-church-lady
@Calouste: 3. Get rid of Trump.
JKFJS
@Spanky: It’s summer – SNL won’t have a new show until September.
Iowa Old Lady
I was at B&N writing and heard this news in my car on the way home. At first I couldn’t tell which man had resigned. Hey, Mooch, Kelly is reclaiming his time.
randy khan
So for those keeping score, the Jerry terHorst record for shortest tenure of a significant White House aide has been broken twice in the first 7 months of the Trump Administration, first by Mike Flynn (24 days) and now by an even more impressive margin of 11 days by the Mooch.
TriassicSands
@Suzanne:
Somebody at SNL is very sad today. Doing The Mooch would have been a full-time job.
different-church-lady
@Gelfling 545: This is how realignments happen!
TenguPhule
@randy khan:
I look forward to the first Trumpster hired and fired in the same tweet.
Gelfling 545
@Betty Cracker: One begins to suspect that Kushner does not actually like his father in law.
FlipYrWhig
@Gelfling 545: Remember that Kasich said Trump Junior told him that the VP would be in charge of foreign policy and domestic policy while the Prez took care of “making America great again,” which seemed to mean mostly holding rallies. Maybe that’s the gig he promised Kelly too.
LAO
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And so he does:
NotMax
76 sad trombones.
ET
Wall Street types always forget that DC can be just as brutal as Wall Street.
sharl
AprilDRyan @AprilDRyan 7 minutes ago
A source says @Scaramucci said I don’t report to you and the General said your gone and he is
Cermet
@JKFJS: With AGW, I’ll take inland NJ, though; as for putting the brakes on the orange fart cloud – I agree he can’t. Helping to fix the WH so that it functions better and that can help the media is likely. That his guy can reach the fart cloud on some policy matters might be possible (can’t be worse with that nut case at the Pentagon saying we can attack North Korea. That is scary. If Kelly can put some information to the rump on that subject might be possible since he is ex-military (and understands the cost of such a war) but no longer directly under the rump’s control. He can offer advice that the fart cloud might listen to. Even a small check on the orange fart cloud would benefit all of us. I bet Kelly handles replacing the media rep a bit better, too.
SFAW
Somewhere, Al Haig is saying “Fuck! I picked the worng moron to work for!”
TriassicSands
@SiubhanDuinne:
Daughters and son-in-laws are all fine, but I think Trump is in awe of generals. After all, they’ve spent their careers ordering people around and being obeyed. (Trump probably doesn’t know they didn’t start out as generals.)
different-church-lady
@TenguPhule: TRUMP: “I’M FIRING BILL O’REILLY FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR’S POST!”
KELLY: “Mr. President, you didn’t hire him yet.”
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
My apologies in case it’s already been mentioned, but is it the fabled Pivot?
SFAW
@TenguPhule:
Well, in this case, to give Arpaio some cover, they’ll call it a “youthful indiscretion.”
NotMax
White House quarantined due to ‘staff infection.’ Film at 11.
TriassicSands
@Gelfling 545:
Or, maybe, as has been reported, he’s really dumb. You choose. (Could be both.)
Cheryl Rofer
MomSense
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
different-church-lady
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: It’s “Reset Du Jour”.
TenguPhule
@SFAW:
Difficult to pull off since he’s old as fuck. Or efgoldman.
FlipYrWhig
@TriassicSands: Yup — Trump’s creepy masculinity hang-ups mean that he feels like a man by having generals around listening to him, even as he feels like less of a man by having generals around to compare himself to.
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
He won’t, because he’s one of them. His actions at DHS prove it.
SFAW
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Lying Littledick is so awesome, he’ll pivot a full 360 degrees! Those other losers can only manage 180! Sad!
Yarrow
@JKFJS:
True, but they’re doing primetime summer Weekend Updates starting Thursday, August 10.
Spanky
@TenguPhule: Oh hell, Sheriff Joe has about a decade on efg, Joe being 85 at this point.
TenguPhule
@SFAW: The Trump particle is actually a wave. You can know where he is at any given moment or his velocity toward sheer fuckedupness, but not both at the same time.
different-church-lady
@TenguPhule:
Please be aware of all internet traditions!
John Revolta
I’m loving this thread. Muy funny.
Iowa Old Lady
@randy khan: Since Mooch didn’t officially start until August 15, I think his number is negative.
TenguPhule
@Spanky: So older but definitely not wiser.
SFAW
@TenguPhule:
You trying to turn efgoldman from “beloved commenter” into “vengeful commenter”?
And in case Quinerly hasn’t hit her daily quota yet: what a time for Corner Stone to be absent.
Bruuuuce
WINS-AM (1010, NYC) reports that apparently the Mooch has asked to be reassigned to head the Import/Export Bank. If he gets it, it would be perfectly in keeping with the Administration’s policy of placing the least competent but most suited to destroy departments in charge of them
TenguPhule
@SFAW:
How would we tell the difference?
/Yes, I kid.
different-church-lady
@SFAW:
I’m happy for her/him: a life must be a wonderful thing to have.
Suzanne
@SFAW:
I miss him so much.
I cannot stop laughing. Dude didn’t even make it two weeks. Are we sick of all the winning yet? So much winning.
gene108
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The whole fucking 45 Administration, from the President on down, is nothing but conflicts of interest. It’s so overwhelming, and so large, we are ignoring it because we cannot grasp how utterly huge it is.
It’s like, when they first started noticing the hole in the ozone layer. Part of the problem recognizing it right away was the hole was so large, they hadn’t calibrated their instruments to recognize something that big.
That’s where we’re at with the 45 administration.
Ridnik Chrome
@MisterForkbeard: It would serve Arpaio right to do time in the Maricopa County Jail, right next to the cons whose lives he made miserable in every way he possibly could, for his own political gain. Then we could all see just how tough “America’s Toughest Sheriff” really is.
ETA: I really hate that son of a bitch. When the news about Abu Ghraib broke, I kept waiting for someone to point out that what went on there wasn’t too much different from what happens every day of the week in U.S. jails, Maricopa County under Arpaio being Exhibit A.
TenguPhule
@Bruuuuce:
Nobody could be possibly be stupid enough to let him have that position.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
TenguPhule
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
So Kelly intends a full on Coup then?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SFAW:
We should send a search party of pandas to find him.
Bruuuuce
@TenguPhule:
Are you suggesting that El Jefe is nobody? (Well, he is. But still…)
This Administration is proving that there is no such thing as peak wingnut; I don’t see why that insanity wouldn’t be within their grasp.
HeleninEire
WTF??? It’s like you can’t step away from your phone for a second. Just saw the movie Matilda. Cute. And then I come back to this. BWA HA HA.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
We don’t hate Pandas that badly.
SFAW
@TenguPhule:
Umm, I’m just going to move to the other side of the website … just in case. No, no, you stay right there, I’ll be OK over here.
gene108
@Bruuuuce:
I assume, as he built up a somewhat successful hedgefund, and has been on Wall Street for many years, he probably has some basic understanding of the finances involved in what the Import-Export bank does.
There could be worse hires than him for that job.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@TenguPhule:
Acting President Kelly, here we come!
He’s have to in order to not constantly be undercut by Trump
Inventor
@LAO: The news must have hit like a thunderbolt of lightning and was very very frightening.
TenguPhule
@gene108:
Hedgefunds are to banks what herring are to sloths.
jl
” per source familiar with the scene ”
I get it was ‘a scene’.
Was Mooch front-tabbed, or back-stabbed?
Chris
@gene108:
Trump: “Challenge accepted!”
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@SFAW:
True and the other losers can’t suck themselves off like the Donald can.
From some reason this reminded me of Beauty and the Beast:
“Gosh, it disturbs me to see you Trump
Looking so down in the dumps
Every guy here’d love to be you, Trump!
Even when taking your lumps
There’s no man in town as admired as you
You’re everyone’s favorite guy
Everyone’s awed and inspired by you
And it’s not very hard to see why
No one’s slick as Trump
No one’s quick as Trump
No one’s neck’s as incredibly thick as Trump’s
For there’s no man in town half as manly
different-church-lady
@TenguPhule:
TRUMP: “Hold my five-piece extra crispy bucket…”
Bruuuuce
@gene108:
Having worked for Wall Street (doing desktop publishing and graphics support) for over twenty years, I’m not convinced.
Maybe. But if there were, they’d already be in the job.
rp
Kelly may end up being a great COS, but the fact that he fired the Mooch doesn’t prove anything IMO. It’s the lowest of low hanging fruits.
HeleninEire
@Gin & Tonic: THIS.
lgerard
@gene108:
More like, since wingnuts have been agitating to get rid of the Import-Export Bank, why not put an incompetent buffoon in charge to insure that happens
Matt McIrvin
Meanwhile, Edward Luttwak explains that the Trump Reich will stand for a thousand years (well, 16), because EPA regulations are immiserating the masses, or something:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/trump-dynasty-luttwak/
(Note the effort to fuse purity-left and far-right concerns here.)
TenguPhule
@rp:
If Kelly is plucking the low hanging fruit of the poison tree, what happens after it passes through his system?
chopper
@Big Jim Slade:
can’t tell, the blade seems to have gone all the way through.
Yarrow
LOL. Things get better and better for him.
jimmiraybob
NOOoooo!! Not Smochi Spice! It’s too soon. Who’s in charge of checking on SNL writers?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
TenguPhule
@Yarrow:
The Russians obviously telegraphed it too early.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Inventor: Not only did we not get an SNL skit out of this guy, we’re not even out of “Queen” jokes yet!
jl
@chopper: I should have known a commenter had already asked that question.
The Mooch episode will make a boffo cameo in the movie. Nicholson and Pesci too old now, so not sure who should play it.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Matt McIrvin:
I knew he was full of shit when I read this:
Because it’s not like we haven’t had a gazillion bizarrely demeaning Trump voter articles.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yarrow: The article said the “the school was Crimson faced”, geez. Send that writer back to j-school.
Gelfling 545
@Suzanne: Courage! SNL could now cover his whole WH tenure in a 5 minute spot.
NotMax
@jl
Paul Reubens.
gene108
@TenguPhule: @Chris:
Just sayin’ with Trump you can always find someone opposed to the idea of what the part of government’s mission is the agency is supposed to do.
The Mooch probably isn’t going to use the ExIm Bank to start a trade war.
I’m sure Bannon is itching to get someone in who will.
The Moar You Know
@TenguPhule: Ve vill fix. No need to print new edition, no?
sacrablue
@schrodingers_cat: My son has a theory: move Sessions to DHS and then pick an AG that will fire Mueller.
Chris
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
There’s never a Blues Brother around when you need one.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: That’s some first class bullshit there.
Gelfling 545
@Calouste: and then comes the military coup!
TenguPhule
@gene108:
Hedgefunds operate in a shadowy world of practically no rules.
Banks at least have some regulation and oversight. For now.
/Pedant check
jl
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
” President Trump has defied all expectations by actually trying to do what he promised that he would try to do. ”
Huh???
Spanky
@NotMax: Waaaaay too tall.
Chris
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
I simply love the implication that the poor dumb blacks just don’t know any better than to support their appointed liege.
Why, you might even say Hillary’s “keeping them on the plantation,” if you were a certain kind of asshole.
sukabi
@gene108: hmmmm, as I recall Bernie Madoff was regarded as a ‘respected wall street wizard’ until he wasn’t.
Think it’s a suckers bet that the mooch is much different.
RandomMonster
Trump once again gets someone who was publicly critical of him, dangles an offer (or in this case gives him an actual position) to make the snivelling shitheel grovel a bit, then publicly humiliates him.
TriassicSands
Imagined Sean Spicer thought:
Yarrow
@sacrablue: Well, duh. Of course that’s what Trump wants to do. Sessions isn’t going to leave the AG job, though. He’ll have to be fired and that won’t go well for Trump. Congress isn’t going to approve another AG. The Senate is having pro forma sessions in order to avoid any recess appointments. Grassley, the head of the Judiciary committee, has already said their calendar is full and wouldn’t have room to approve an AG. Trump can say that’s what he wants to do but it’s not going to happen.
TenguPhule
Trump insists there’s no chaos at White House
Not sure if this is 1984 or Baghdad Bob.
Gin & Tonic
So now the WaPo is reporting that the new Harvard Law alumni directory lists Scaramucci as dead.
Great week for him.
NotMax
@Spanky
Hobbitize him via CGI.
different-church-lady
@Chris: BERNIE: “If we fix economic inequality, we fix racism.”
BLACK PEOPLE WITH JOBS GETTING SHOT BY COPS: “WTF dude?”
No, it entirely did NOT go down like that. It was invisible anti-Semitic cues. Yeah, absolutely.
TenguPhule
@Gin & Tonic: In all fairness to Harvard, the day isn’t over yet.
feebog
So the question now arises, who is going to be the next Communications Director? Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Col. Sanders? Yosemite Sam? Wolfman Jack? Jack Sparrow?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@feebog: Jared, he can do anything!
Chris
@different-church-lady:
Which only worked on black people, because apparently that’s the only demographic that’s big on antisemitism? We all remember Hitler’s skin color, after all…
Spanky
@NotMax: Now I’m picturing a
fourthreetwo-foot tall Peewee Herman.Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@jl:
Stephen Geoffries, aka Evil Ed from the original Fright Night
NotMax
@feebog
“We double-checked, sir. Father Coughlin is definitely dead.”
Gin & Tonic
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Bullshit. I found a lot not to like about Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s book Everybody Lies but his empirical evidence tying Trump-voting to racism is impossible to ignore. The cause has been discovered and explored quite well.
Chris
@feebog:
I say Morbo.
Chris
@NotMax:
“And so is Andrew Breitbart!”
Man, it still feels good to say that.
lgerard
@feebog:
Steve Doocy
TenguPhule
@Gin & Tonic: Did you catch the story of the hackers able to crack the voting machines in under 90 minutes when it was presented as a challenge event? I think Goku was hinting along those lines.
Yarrow
@feebog:
Another military person. Maybe even in uniform. Trump is keeping the military people and getting rid of the others. I wonder how long Bannon will last.
TriassicSands
@RandomMonster:
But, but, The Mooch got rid of all the anti-Trump verbiage he’d produced on the Internet. And Donald is a forgive and forget kinda guy…
Steeplejack
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Ben Stiller.
Mike in DC
Trump wants Sessions gone. Kushner wants Bannon gone. McMaster wants the Flynn holdovers gone. Bannon wants Jarvanka gone. This will go well.
Gelfling 545
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Only in the sense that a weather vane pivots at the slightest breeze.
sukabi
Robert Reich shared an interesting conversation he had with a repub member of congress
They want him gone before mid terms. Talking about 25th amendment…think he’s gone totally off his rocker.
TriassicSands
@feebog:
Odds are good it will be a white male. Maybe Kelly will do the choosing…
Gin & Tonic
@TenguPhule: Yes. That was at Black Hat. No machine lasted over 2 hours.
Haven’t been to Black Hat in years, unfortunately.
Gelfling 545
@Chris: Just that. I have every confidence that Trump will be able to find someone totally unsuitable.
NotMax
Eleven dimensional
chess52-card pick-up.ruemara
@Matt McIrvin: That is deeply, overwhelmingly stupid, in addition to multiple factually incorrect statements.
I’m glad so many of y’all are amused. This isn’t that funny.
sm*t cl*de
@sukabi:
Scaramucci’s elevator-pitch for his Skybridge was all about how hedge funds were the insider path to a safe reliable money-stream, accessible only to the super-rich, and how he was giving that same insider access to just any investor.
Similar offers turn up in my email several times a day.
pluky
@SiubhanDuinne: folks we have a winner!
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@sukabi:
It’s actually a former member of Congress. Don’t know how reliable a source he is but it’s giving schadenfreude and terror at the same time
Suzanne
@NotMax:
Here you go. Have your internet.
Dying.
Tears running down my cheeks, I am enjoying this SO HARD.
Frankensteinbeck
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
The Left seriously does not get that Sanders insulted minorities, especially blacks, repeatedly throughout the campaign and after. They think that one sit-in makes him more legitimately a friend to blacks than Hillary.
@Gin & Tonic:
Even here, people keep trying to get around it. It has been studied repeatedly and there is no getting around it. Trump’s supporters overwhelmingly chose because of racism. Not trade. Not the economy. Trump support links clearly to racism, and nothing else. My one caveat is that misogyny has not been part of the studies.
Wjs
@JPL: they are ALL white supremacists.
Miss Bianca
@LAO: If nothing else good comes from this shitshow of an administration, we will still have the mighty, mighty Democratic shade coming out now.
different-church-lady
@TenguPhule:
Oh. Then I guess we don’t need that wall you’ve been ranting and raving about all this time?
Ithink
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
The famed & fabled Pivot in the Trump administration is similar to the “Tomorrow” jingle refrain & chorus of “Annie” origin: its always (just!) a day away, super cute when any of its members recite it, but unbelievably annoying and dangerous when one recalls that the 350 million adult (and more adult acting individuals) on the other side want some damn action, resolve and YES, Love coming out of Washington.
sukabi
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: about the only thing I do know for sure is that every day since Nov. 9, 2016 has been an exercise of horrified embarrassments….every fucking day it’s something more horrifying than the last. Fucker’s going to take us all down with him when he goes.
Miss Bianca
@Yarrow: Tough day for The Mooch:
Erroneously? Or is it…foreshadowing?
Origuy
@Yarrow:
Kid Rock
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
The only people that pronounce “Long Island” that way are from Joisey, wise guy.
sukabi
@Origuy: they’ll remove all doubt about who they are and bring on Hannity.
PaulWartenberg
When Moochies die there are no comets seen
The heavens themselves blaze forth the deaths of Priebuses
http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2017/07/moochie.html
No One You Know
@Gelfling 545: I was thinking that, too. I turned the sound off to watch the body language. Trump looks twitchy, looking at floor a lot. Kelly, more like he’s steeling himself.
Shalimar
@bystander: Trump is Harlequin. Kelly is the Ticktockman. Scaramucci is no longer in the play.