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Scaramucci to Reporter: Tell Me Who's Leaking, Or I'll Just Fire Everyone

I'm not sure if this is crazy or if this is necessary, or if it's a bit of both.

“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he’s inherited in his new job. “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”

In Scaramucci’s view, the fact that word of the dinner had reached a reporter was evidence that his rivals in the West Wing, particularly Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, were plotting against him. ...

[H]e has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers if he discovers that they have given unauthorized information to reporters. Michael Short, a White House press aide considered close to Priebus, resigned on Tuesday after Scaramucci publicly spoke about firing him. Meanwhile, several damaging stories about Scaramucci have appeared in the press, and he blamed Priebus for most of them. Now, he wanted to know whom I had been talking to about his dinner with the President. Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.

“Is it an assistant to the President?” he asked. I again told him I couldn’t say.

“O.K., I’m going to fire every one of them, and then you haven’t protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks.”

I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. “I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,” he said. “They won’t do it.” He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source.

Okay, then he turns to Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon.


“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said.

...

Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.”

Okay, definitely kind of crazy. Still, maybe the leakers need to know a crazy guys is just itching to fire them.

Posted by: Ace at 07:10 PM




Comments

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1 Crazy stupid, I'll get the corgis

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2017 07:00 PM (pPKG5)

2 I'm loving Scaramucci. Fire them all, if need be.

Drain. That. Swamp.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:01 PM (PY9jH)

3 Fire everybody. I need the entertainment.

Posted by: Very Undude at July 27, 2017 07:02 PM (2X7pN)

4 Martha McCallum just said, "There's an awful lot of pent-up resentment between Scaramucci and Reince Priebus."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:02 PM (PY9jH)

5 Use a blowtorch. Set it to 11.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2017 07:02 PM (Mouru)

6 I'll poke you in the eye with a soldering iron.

Posted by: Moochie at July 27, 2017 07:03 PM (5wSNN)

7 I've got popcorn, go ahead

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2017 07:03 PM (pPKG5)

8 Drop as many megatons as you have to.

Posted by: Hikaru at July 27, 2017 07:03 PM (Vevy5)

9 nothing crazy about it at all. the whole platoon will be punished if Pyle keeps fucking up.

Posted by: The Original REAL Galactic Lord Sir Covfefe at July 27, 2017 07:03 PM (nFwvY)

10 Scaramucci
Scaramucci
will you do the Fandango?

Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 07:03 PM (DQ4Fv)

11 Scaramucci reminds me a little of Tom Hagen in The Godfather.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (PY9jH)

12 Sounds like he'd be a great leg breaker for Gazzo.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (mQ0Mc)

13 There are a lot of questionable black diamonds in the blurb.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (Mouru)

14
"Today the Golden Scalp Weasel Family settled all its debts..."

Check the end of Godfather I and fill in the rest for yourself!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (TUknV)

15 Thunderbolt and lightning,
very, very fright'ning

Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (DQ4Fv)

16 Too much Red Bull and cocaine.

Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (mcI77)

17 Posted on this earlier.

Tony Mooch just did the equivalent of drunk blogging on the ONT with hilarious results.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:04 PM (+7/1f)

18 Watch out Mooch, no one can out shine the Trumpster showman.

Posted by: WisRich at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (OAlmw)

19 This is the kind of crazy we need in The White House at this moment. We need rabid dog crazy. I like it.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (2qHjF)

20 I'm rooting for Scaramucci. He seems to understand that this is theater.

Posted by: Caliban at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (QE8X6)

21 Funny? Do I make you laugh? Like a clown?

Posted by: Tony "Greasy Thumb" Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (Mouru)

22 Is Mooch just a fuck-up or was there any design to his calling Priebus a "fucking paranoid schizophrenic" and Bannon a self cock-sucker?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (+7/1f)

23 Mooch has got an NYT juice boxer's head on a vice.

'Don't make me be the bad guy here. Tell me who it is.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (fA1SL)

24 The New Yorker is stealing my ideas.

Posted by: ziggy at the complaints dept. at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (nlbfN)

25 Would really like to see a couple in the Fed pen though.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (pPKG5)

26 "Scaramucci reminds me a little of Tom Hagen in The Godfather."

That's what Rush has been referring to him as since he was appointed

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (jm1YL)

27 This is all kinds of awesome.

Mooch is like a Mafia capo out of central casting who's going to lay down some enforcement for the boss.

Trump is done with the establishment and now is going outside. About time. That's where his base is. It's who elected him.

Godspeed, Mooch.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (XsVWn)

28 Is Mooch just a fuck-up or was there any design to his calling Priebus a "fucking paranoid schizophrenic" and Bannon a self cock-sucker?


Forget it. He's rolling.

Posted by: Boone at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (Mouru)

29 No, not really crazy. Fire everyone. Fire them all dammit. You can rehire the ones who are useful and replace the others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (39g3+)

30 When you walk into a fucked-up shop, you have to walk in swinging. No one is indispensable, and a few heads will have to roll, just to show what motherfucker is in charge. Por encourager les autres.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (17QyB)

31
"Scaramucci reminds me a little of Tom Hagen in The Godfather."



That's what Rush has been referring to him as since he was appointed

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (jm1YL)


Are you kidding? I seriously had no idea. Haven't listened to Rush in a while.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (PY9jH)

32 HAHAHAHAHA Trump tried to play nice, he tried to do it the Washington way, but noooooo. Now he's doing it the Queens way.

Posted by: DFCtomm at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (50gG9)

33 Sometimes you just have to have a mean ass pit bull to get shit done.

I will use "the Mooch" with respect after having it used it for so long in reference to the great grifter.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (evw2O)

34 I like the cut of this Scaramucci's Jib

Posted by: Publius Redux at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (FjOVH)

35 This works for me!

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (hZ+us)

36

With all that has happened and is happening in the WH and in D.C. , it may very well be time for a designated 'crazy guy' in the WH.

Just hope the 'crazy guy' has decent target acquisition .

Posted by: Malignantly aggrieved at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (oBuXO)

37 Buddy is off the rails, but Two Scoops needs an enforcer and usually the goombah who has that job is a crazy fuck. At least this one has his own money so it'll be more difficult to buy him.

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (kD8Fh)

38 Rinced Penis was hired solely for the reason of whipping Congress to pass Trump's agenda because he was tight with Ryan and teh GOP.

That dickstain has failed and should be fired after the summer.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (2qHjF)

39 I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own cock

If you have to try, you just aren't long enough. Should be easy for those Hung Like Trump.

Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (DQ4Fv)

40 What Happened?

Posted by: fly gal at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (8pMfI)

41 I love the 'no comments' from Priebus and Bannon--probably too stunned to know what to say. LOL

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (XsVWn)

42 Crazy like a crazy fox.

Posted by: Dr Spank at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (4e+hS)

43 He continues to do his Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross impersonation.

"Third prize is...fuck you, you're fired."

"Coffee is for closers!"

Posted by: DNC at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (2mC6G)

44 any minute now, the concerned conservatie pearl clutchers are going to show up and tell us this man is not one of us, oh dear, listen to his language, he MUST go.

personally, I'll ok if horses heads start showing up in people's beds.

/because "blue collar Detroit, fuck yeah."

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (aT+Bx)

45 They can't say they weren't warned.

Posted by: Lily (formerly fom HotAir now from AoSHQ) at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (vfC/C)

46 27
This is all kinds of awesome.




Godspeed, Mooch.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (XsVWn)

That. We didn't elect no stupit communications team, kapiche? Fire them wise guys.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (tbOMB)

47 What Happened?
Posted by: fly gal at July 27, 2017 07:07 PM (8pMfI)
---
That's what I've been asking....

Posted by: HIC (Hillary I. Clinton) at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (2mC6G)

48 I cannot bring myself to call Scaramucci "Mooch." I see a fat, angry black woman when I type that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (PY9jH)

49 Tony No Scoops.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (PY9jH)

50 This is a cold civil war?

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (m9X4Y)

51 Here's the thing, sometimes a motherfucker needs to be called a motherfucker.

I'll be blunt, this is what I want, someone from outside DC who comes in and goes full me level rantflailing ARE YOU EVEN SERIOUS WITH THIS BULLSHIT YOU CUNTASTIC GOAT SCROTUM LICKING TWATWAFFLES!

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (dEQP3)

52 Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:05 PM (+7/1f)

That's just Queens talk for "dweeb" and "weirdo".

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (kD8Fh)

53 "I cannot bring myself to call Scaramucci "Mooch."'

Ok, Tony Three Nipples

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (+7/1f)

54 Cic, a porta!

Posted by: Tony "Greasy Thumb" Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:10 PM (Mouru)

55 'concerned conservatie pearl clutchers'

Paging Dr. Krauthammer....

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:10 PM (XsVWn)

56 48 I cannot bring myself to call Scaramucci "Mooch." I see a fat, angry black woman when I type that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (PY9jH)

I see aunt Esther when I see Mooch.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:10 PM (Ri/rl)

57 AtC, that was beautiful. *sniff*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:10 PM (PY9jH)

58 If he's loyal - this is the guy Trump needs.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:10 PM (fiGNd)

59 HAHAHAHAHA Trump tried to play nice, he tried to do it the Washington way, but noooooo
---
THIS.

They want to use the Marquis of Queensbury Rules.

Trump has now gone cage fight death match.

/yes. hell yes.

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:10 PM (aT+Bx)

60 Don't trust or like anyone that supported Obama for President. I'll wait for this guy to explode.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (IDPbH)

61 Picture Miss Lindsey, clutching his pearls, spooning with McCain.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (PY9jH)

62 I'd prefer a full Braveheart on the Penis. That guy still reeks of GOPe to me.

Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (mcI77)

63 Scaramucci: I hope you don't mind the way I keep going over this leaking business.

Reporter: No, not at all.

Scaramucci: It's an old habit. I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (5VlCp)

64 I see aunt Esther when I see Mooch.

--

I see Geraldine.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (mQ0Mc)

65 Thank you, Jane.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (dEQP3)

66 Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (dEQP3)

ATC for deputy enforcer?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (tbOMB)

67 This is exactly the type of private citizen politician the founding fathers imagined. They will try to destroy him.

Posted by: DFCtomm at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (50gG9)

68 I guess my bad, but I laughed.

I like him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (J5mzk)

69 Jeebus, Fox. Juan Williams? Really? Shouldn't he be sitting in a park playing dominoes?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (PY9jH)

70 We need someone like him in charge of ALL the agencies: fly right or you're fired. Clean out your desk.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (39g3+)

71 [H]e has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers

I take exception to this remark and forthwith will initiate a call to my cousins Vinny and Ray-Ray. They'll know what to do.

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (kD8Fh)

72 concerned conservatie pearl clutchers
------------------
That should be in scare quotes unless you want to say ' concerned conservative pearl clutching mobies'

Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (m9X4Y)

73 Based on the news concerning 'Fusion GPS', it's an open question whether Scaramucci is paranoid and crazy enough.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (6FqZa)

74 Something may await Priebus in his bed tomorrow morning...

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (XsVWn)

75 "but Two Scoops needs an enforcer and usually the goombah who has that job is a crazy fuck. At least this one has his own money so it'll be more difficult to buy him."

There ain't no crazy like NYC crazy.

So which one of Tony Soprano's henchmen is Scaramucci most like?

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (jm1YL)

76 50. By request - with bonus Pinochet content:

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (IuKH8)

77 https://youtu.be/yy9VvAuCCEg

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (IuKH8)

78 If the way the swamp runs things is sane, then I want as much crazy as we can get.


"I'm here to serve the country." is exactly what I want to hear a lot more of.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (Mcvvl)

79 AtC- The only other person that could have done this job. Rantastic!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (evw2O)

80 Anybody whose leaks is dead. You talk toos the media, dead. Look at Trump wrong, alsos dead.

Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (4e+hS)

81
Ryan Lizza and the New Yorker.

Be very careful you don't get punked.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (S/hVx)

82 Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (dEQP3)

You're just grumpy because you haven't found a good personal groomer yet.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (fiGNd)

83 Picture Miss Lindsey, clutching his pearls, spooning with McCain.
---

Boehner is near the door, crying like a 8 year old girl who just accidentally killed her pet bunny. Fyan is next to him, weeping as well.

Jason/Freddie Kruger/ Donald Trump is at the door...

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (aT+Bx)

84 Mooch is supposed to be representing Trump. Mooch likes the attention too much, and is creating a bad impression.

You want to put someone's head in a vice, do it in private.

You don't call fellow staffers -- who, you know, actually did something to get Trump elected -- fucking paranoids and cocksuckers.

Mooch needs to be gone. And I wanted him to work.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:14 PM (+7/1f)

85 Mooch [Reading New Yorker article]: F*&king C*&k Sucker, I forgot to say 'off the record'".

Posted by: WisRich at July 27, 2017 07:14 PM (OAlmw)

86 So which one of Tony Soprano's henchmen is Scaramucci most like?

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (jm1YL)


I don't know baby. I only made it through half the first episode before I switched it off forever.

Too close to home.

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:14 PM (kD8Fh)

87 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Posted by: GuyfromNH at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (ZIcf1)

88 I miss Sean Spicer. *sob*

Posted by: John Acosta at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (8pMfI)

89 The Drudge photo of Scaramouche with thumbs hooked and death rays out his eyes at Piebus is the best.

Posted by: Lester at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (LfJIn)

90 Nonplussed in Pokepshie: I can take genuinely concerned regulars like Maritime who deliver honest arguments on why Trump might not be getting it right. the host of Acts17Apologetics didn't vote for Trump and is also wondering if he's stupid or a genius.

I'll argue with those people politely, or even agree with them.

What brings out the asshole in me is when the commenter snarks "you must not know any women" or something equally belittling and content-free. Especially in a thread full of moronettes arguing the opposite point; then it's just funny.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (6FqZa)

91 Priebus' first clue things are bad, is when Scaramucci asks him if he'd like to go on a boat ride on a lake.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (PY9jH)

92 I see Geraldine.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (mQ0Mc)

That made me laugh. I had forgotten about Geraldine.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (Ri/rl)

93 He didn't want the dinner leaked because Jefe said he wants three scoops for dessert.

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (HgMAr)

94 81
Ryan Lizza and the New Yorker.

Be very careful you don't get punked.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (S/hVx)

No denial from Scaramucci.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (IDPbH)

95 Anybody whose leaks is dead. You talk toos the media, dead. Look at Trump wrong, alsos dead.
---

I bet things would calm down stat if that was the policy.

/look honey, Obamacare is repealed, we have a lower tax rate and the budget is balanced. We're increased manufacturing 200% in the US, welfare is down and unemployment is almost nonexistant. What do you think President Trump will do next week?

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (aT+Bx)

96 You're just grumpy because you haven't found a good personal groomer yet.
Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:13 PM (fiGNd)



Maaaaaybe.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (dEQP3)

97 Lmao at his slights. Christ that's hilarious.

Posted by: thathalfrican - back at it at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (w7vAg)

98 Here's the thing, sometimes a motherfucker needs to be called a motherfucker.

I'll be blunt, this is what I want, someone from outside DC who comes in and goes full me level rantflailing ARE YOU EVEN SERIOUS WITH THIS BULLSHIT YOU CUNTASTIC GOAT SCROTUM LICKING TWATWAFFLES!

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:09 PM (dEQP3)


That's how a goddess speaks. lol


Btw, happy birthday.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2017 07:16 PM (aMlLZ)

99 Ace,

Why do you believe one fvcking word that Ryan Lizza says?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:16 PM (wYseH)

100 Imma 'bout to take some of these leaking yutes to da fuckin' cleaners.

Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (4e+hS)

101 Thank you, Berserker.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (dEQP3)

102 Perhaps Scar is just trying to get the chickenshits to run.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (oVJmc)

103 Starting to like the cut of The Mooch's jib..

Posted by: Donkey Joto at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (0D9O2)

104 I like this crazy. This is the "burn this bitch down" kind of crazy.

Posted by: S at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (poT2p)

105 'You don't call fellow staffers -- who, you know, actually did something to get Trump elected -- fucking paranoids and cocksuckers. '

You know, at this point, I think you do. You want 3.5 more years of this crap?

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (XsVWn)

106
70 We need someone like him in charge of ALL the agencies: fly right or you're fired. Clean out your desk.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (39g3+)









NEVER let them clean out their own desk. Have full-on Blackwater/Xe/Academi security waiting for them when they walk in their office, frogmarch the cocksucker out past all the underlings' cubicles, and toss him out the front door. Have LOYAL managers clean out their desk and FedEx their personal belongings from the office.

Defenestration is optional, but desired.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (iFZVz)

107 boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM

I have automatic skip over eyeballs that don't even see most of that stuff anymore. I actually have to scroll back up the thread to see what people are talking about.

Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (m9X4Y)

108 "Boehner is near the door, crying like a 8 year old girl who just accidentally killed her pet bunny. Fyan is next to him, weeping as well."

Rush was talking about Boehner yesterday. Said the rat gave a talk to some group where he admitted he had to sneak in to see Obama so the right wing media wouldn't find out. Also said there is no way Ocare was going to be repealed. I was fuming.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (jm1YL)

109 @56...I see the daily go-rilla in Oregon Muse's mornings.

By the way, Oregon Muse, I laugh every time I see the photo. It reminds me of libs listening to that Fluke hag or the Coughing Pneumonia Seizure Hag.

So much mocking, so little time on this wild ride we call Thursday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (J5mzk)

110 Jeebus, Fox. Juan Williams? Really? Shouldn't he be sitting in a park playing dominoes?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (PY9jH)
............

He is rather unnecessary.

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:18 PM (HgMAr)

111 Posted by: S at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (poT2p)

"let it Burn" was a recurring meme on this here smart military blog, since about 2008, I think.

Looks like we're all finally getting our wish.

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:18 PM (kD8Fh)

112 I'm betting Bannon's in on all of this...

Posted by: Jackal at July 27, 2017 07:18 PM (NiR1r)

113 Imma 'bout to take some of these leaking yutes to da fuckin' cleaners.

Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:17 PM (4e+hS)
........

Don't forget the concrete overshoes.

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:19 PM (HgMAr)

114 I cannot bring myself to call Scaramucci "Mooch." I see a fat, angry black woman when I type that.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:08 PM (PY9jH)


Yeah no way, I'm not going to do that either.

Plus, I'm Italian, so I'm going with Tony the blowtorch. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2017 07:20 PM (aMlLZ)

115 Scaramucci acting out Joe Pesci in Casino when he puts the guy's head in a vise.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 27, 2017 07:20 PM (4ErVI)

116 I see aunt Esther when I see Mooch.

--
I see Geraldine.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at July 27, 2017 07:11 PM (mQ0Mc)
---
I see dead people.

Posted by: Haley Joel Osment at July 27, 2017 07:20 PM (2mC6G)

117 Mooch on Sunday shows is now must-see TV

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:20 PM (XsVWn)

118 So which one of Tony Soprano's henchmen is Scaramucci most like?


Furio

Posted by: the dandy at July 27, 2017 07:20 PM (9OMtu)

119 117. #23 - yep. Great minds.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (IuKH8)

120 I like this crazy. This is the "burn this bitch down" kind of crazy.
---

You know, I voted for Trump as a big FU to the Deep State.

If you read up on him, Scaramucci is Goldman Sacks. He's Harvard. He's a "financier."

But somewhere in his background they taught him to be a foul mouthed longshoreman.

I like that. Especially in DC.

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (aT+Bx)

121 @kallisto

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house!
Burn down the street!
Turn everything red and the dream is complete...

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (6FqZa)

122 "Scaramucci reminds me a little of Tom Hagen in The Godfather."


Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (jm1YL)

Tom Hagen wasn't a wartime consiglieri.

Doesn't anyone around here know the movie?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (wYseH)

123 Pinochet literally did nothing wrong.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (2qHjF)

124 I thought this might be a parody, but the Mooch admitted it by tweeting that he "sometimes uses colorful language."

If Preibus or Bannon have been leaking when they shouldn't, then you put their heads in a vice in private.

For the real leakers, you don't call them names, you put them in jail.

What Mooch did was a bad fuck-up. He'll be gone in a week.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (+7/1f)

125 I still say he looks like Tom Hagen. Harmless, mild mannered, gentlemanly.

And then, BOOM!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (PY9jH)

126 You talkin' to me, George? Hey, you talkin' to ME?

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (XsVWn)

127 No denial from Scaramucci.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:15 PM (IDPbH)


And what if it's all true ? All of it.

Then Scaramucci is a really damn useful tool with a short use-by date. There's value in that. And probably quite a bit of value in the current situation.

Maybe Scaramucci came to take names and kick ass for about three months. That could be EXTREMELY useful.

Imagine that shit. Somebody so fucking eager - absolutely chomping at the bit because it gets them off - about DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB that they don't get two shits about KEEPING THEIR FUCKING JOB.

Gotta' admit - I'm kinda' that guy. I like nothing better than telling those in charge what they don't like to hear when I know I'm right. Don't like it ? Fine - I'll walk. I'll have another gig in four weeks. Tops.

But when I know I'm right ? I'm a dick. OK - sure. I'm always a dick. But when I'm right ? It's a show.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (fiGNd)

128 So does Scaramucci have a couple of assistants who go by the names Vito and Knuckles?

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (HgMAr)

129 I believe in 3 things : 1) America, 2) New York, and 3) Taking people to the fucking cleaners.

Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (4e+hS)

130 That made me laugh. I had forgotten about Geraldine.

--

CaliGirl, here ya go. And I dare anyone to say this isn't an outfit Mooch wouldn't have worn...to a Medal of Honor ceremony or Easter Egg Hunt at the WH.

http://tinyurl.com/y7nf36re

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (mQ0Mc)

131 Perhaps people could call him "Scary" because everytime someone mentions "Mooch" I think of Michelle Obama, since that was a frequently used name for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (iVOAv)

132 Jeebus, Fox. Juan Williams? Really? Shouldn't he be sitting in a park playing dominoes?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (PY9jH)
............

He is rather unnecessary.

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:18 PM (HgMAr)


That guy makes me want to punch the tv, what an idiot. He can't even keep up with the discussion

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (M+Lyo)

133 125. And the dude threw amazing parades.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (IuKH8)

134 This is part of the "distraction, set hair on fire" time.

This guy is smart. Maybe new to game and did not ask for off the record...but he is going after leakers and he is a wee bit po'd.

I am sure there will be a CNN lede of "Trumps New Communication Director Threatens Staff with Murder."

At this point I just don't care what or who is mowed down. Bite moi. xoxo

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (J5mzk)

135
Ace, at this stage, I think "crazy" is not such a bad thing in someone - especially if that someone is on our side.

I am so sick and disheartened that the President is essentially being stabbed in the back and blockaded, most vehemently by those allegedly in the GOP (our party, ha). So to hell with everyone.

Fire everyone. Even if it short-dicks every cannibal in the fucking Congo.

WAR. No, Really. WAR.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (mbhDw)

136 "I'm betting Bannon's in on all of this..."

Oh shit, the whole bunch of them are probably in on it. These are not stupid guys sitting in the White House. Sewing the seeds of chaos and watching them grow.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (jm1YL)

137 This is another reason why I know teh Marxists and soft Marxists are mentally ill. They should be terrified of the Pinochet memes, and the thought of Pinochet.... And they aren't.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:23 PM (2qHjF)

138 OT a bit but the comments remind me of how much I dislike making organized thugs into some kind of folk heroes.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:23 PM (IDPbH)

139 "Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac," Scaramucci said.

LOL.

Well, if your parents named your Reince you'd probably be paranoid, too.

BTW, I never trusted the Rinsed Penis, anyway. He was VIchy GOP all the way.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:23 PM (rZ+mb)

140 Plus, I'm Italian, so I'm going with Tony the blowtorch. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2017 07:20 PM (aMlLZ)
.......

Bingo. Tony, Vito and Knuckles.

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:23 PM (HgMAr)

141 87 So which one of Tony Soprano's henchmen is Scaramucci most like?

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:12 PM (jm1YL)

I don't know baby. I only made it through half the first episode before I switched it off forever.

Too close to home.
Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:14 PM (kD8Fh)


Are you in that kind of family?

Asking for a friend. Who I, uh, haven't seen in years and totally don't know his whereabouts.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (sdi6R)

142 Leakers are the new wreckers, but in this case, they are wrecking.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (dZ756)

143 You know, past days, situation like this, I kill everybody. Everybody who works for me.

Frank Costello - The Departed

Posted by: vbmoneyspender at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (+VSf4)

144 Pinochet did know how to throw a parade. I'm a bad man if I yearn for this in America?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (2qHjF)

145 All this comparisons of Scaramucci to the mob and no one has yet implied that Trump's obvious connections to the construction rackets in NYC and Atlantic city and all his casinos means that Trump can bring in some heavy hitters into these federal agencies and start making some changes?

Maybe this is why the Deep State is so afraid of Trump. They know how Obama and Hillary operated. Now it's Trump and the mob large and in charge. Shades of History we have seen before.

Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (m9X4Y)

146 He's right...

He talked to his staff, about not leaking, and the next thing that happens, is a leak.

It really does not matter what the leak was about... it was the Act itself.

Start firing people... oh.... and I'd also cut off normal Press Access to ANY reporter who publishes Leaked Information...

THEY need the access.... they will come to heal pretty quickly if you do that.

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (NgKpN)

147 All these tut-tut tutters and harumphers still don't get it. We don't love Trump, some of us don't even like him. But he's the only weapon at hand to murder the GOP. I want them dead, I don't care how he does it. Murder is usually quite messy, and the GOP won't go quietly.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (Jj+59)

148 "So does Scaramucci have a couple of assistants who go by the names Vito and Knuckles?"

Another named Paulie Walnuts.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (jm1YL)

149 It's alexthechicks birthday?

Happy Birthday!

It was my best friends birthday Sunday. We went to the lake, and a concert Saturday, she also went to Kid Rock Sunday and tonight she is going to the Garth Brooks show.
Busy week for birthday girls.
I hope yours is as fabulous.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (Ri/rl)

150 Yeah, we just got a rush order from the White House for like 100 horses' heads.

Anybody know this . . . Tony Scaramucci guy?

Posted by: filbert's equine abattoir at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (s5o+q)

151
Reminds me of the scene in THE WIRE when the newly elected mayor of Baltimore told the DPW guy he saw an abandoned car on the street on the way over to the department and wanted taken care before he sees it again on his return trip.

The DPW guy is like okay but what street, Lord Baylish?!? Little Finger just walked away.

Mayor Little Finger, get this, never told the DPW where the abandon car was (maybe he never even saw one!) so that his lazy-ass DPW would hit the bricks And Tow ALL The Abandon Cars Off The Street to make sure they get the right one, which is their job anyway.

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (DPKvM)

152 But when I know I'm right ? I'm a dick. OK - sure. I'm always a dick. But when I'm right ? It's a show.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (fiGNd)

Yeah, it kind of sounds like a play to purge the useless Priebus klingons.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (tbOMB)

153
That's how you fuck with people Like A Boss.

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:26 PM (DPKvM)

154 If the Marxists and Soft Marxists were openly meming Mao, Stalin, and The Killing Fields of Cambodia towards the right..... I'd be a bit worried. Not going to lie.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:26 PM (2qHjF)

155 And what if it's all true ? All of it.

Then Scaramucci is a really damn useful tool with a short use-by date. There's value in that. And probably quite a bit of value in the current situation.

Maybe Scaramucci came to take names and kick ass for about three months. That could be EXTREMELY useful.

Imagine that shit. Somebody so fucking eager - absolutely chomping at the bit because it gets them off - about DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB that they don't get two shits about KEEPING THEIR FUCKING JOB.

Gotta' admit - I'm kinda' that guy. I like nothing better than telling those in charge what they don't like to hear when I know I'm right. Don't like it ? Fine - I'll walk. I'll have another gig in four weeks. Tops.

But when I know I'm right ? I'm a dick. OK - sure. I'm always a dick. But when I'm right ? It's a show.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (fiGNd)

Yep. This is Donald Trump. You pick the right guy, let him do the work, and then he goes. Get used to it we're going to see more of it.

Trump gets reelected he's going to bring in Anton Chigurh to clean house.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 27, 2017 07:26 PM (4ErVI)

156 Mooch is Joe Pantoliano's Ralph Cifaretto. A good earner who's self-destructive.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:26 PM (+7/1f)

157
I want nothing less than a full scale Piranha Brothers cleansing ...

... They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.


http://www.montypython.net/scripts/piranha.php

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2017 07:26 PM (TUknV)

158 I like this guy already.

Posted by: Wicklow at July 27, 2017 07:26 PM (uH65w)

159 TrumpMichael Corleone: I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, TonyTom. Just my enemies.

"Got it, Mr. President."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (PY9jH)

160 OT a bit but the comments remind me of how much I dislike making organized thugs into some kind of folk heroes.
--

When you're being screwed every which way by your so called "Betters" your only real options are to lay back and enjoy it or take what you can from organized thugs who might, in the end, make things better.

Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (aT+Bx)

161 It's alexthechicks birthday?


I'd hit it.

Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (4e+hS)

162 Fire everyone. Even if it short-dicks every cannibal in the fucking Congo.


I have no idea what this means, but I'm definitely in favor.

Posted by: pep at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (LAe3v)

163 Yeah, it kind of sounds like a play to purge the useless Priebus klingons.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (tbOMB)


Yep - and you know - a mother-fucker that came to take names, kick ass, and is all out of Juicy-Fruit might be EXACTLY what the doctor ordered.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (fiGNd)

164 On second thought, his threat was not meant to reveal the leaker because he didn't give the reporter any incentive to divulge the name. If he did reveal his source, the source is fired. If he doesn't, they still all may be fired (but unlikely) and the reporter has his credibility that he won't rat out a source,
.

This sounds like Scaramucci wanted this published to scare everyone into shutting the hell up

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (hZ+us)

165 As I said a couple threads ago, it's the New Yorker, there's nothing they could write that I'd believe is true. They lie, that's what they get paid by foreign governments to do. The only question is how much is a lie. how much is just twisted, and how much intersects with reality.

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (d3wbb)

166 How about this, Morons: maybe only a couple of people knew of the dinner and who was there. Scarymoochie ruled out himself as a leaker and all signs pointed to a gope leftover stinking up the fridge.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:28 PM (J5mzk)

167 This sounds like Scaramucci wanted this published to scare everyone into shutting the hell up

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (hZ+us

yeah, either he is an idiot, or he planned on it being published

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:28 PM (M+Lyo)

168 Cuthbert wants to know if we can just call Scaramucci

THE HUMONGOUS

All caps bold.

Standing in the waste land belching is demands over a loud speaker.

Yes.......it has begun.

Lets hope it continues.

People in my office whispering under their breath...."He can't do that its so unpresidential". Hey dumb-ass...He just did.

These poor delicate souls.

"Why won't he just stop tweeting"

Its the source of his power. He won't stop....why don't you see that?

It has begun.

It's going to be a marathon of dick kicking and slaps to ears and cheeks until they submit to his authority.

Have you ever noticed PDT looking tired? No. The fight makes him stronger.

There is a whole generation of reporters and politicians on one side of the aisle who have never been in a fight for their survival. Just another Thursday for PDT.




Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 27, 2017 07:28 PM (7+qdf)

169 What Mooch did was a bad fuck-up. He'll be gone in a week.
Posted by: Ignoramus

lol. no.

Posted by: The Original REAL Galactic Lord Sir Covfefe at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (nFwvY)

170 Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (mQ0Mc)

I think Mooch got her fashion insparation from Geraldine. Mooch got her facial expressions from aunt Esther.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (Ri/rl)

171 I pray Trump throws a Pinochet type parade just to see the Marxists and TruCons piss their pants. It would be so worth it.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (2qHjF)

172 Posted by: shibumi at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (aT+Bx)

I'm the last guy that sits back and takes it but I'm no thug because I don't have to be and I don't accept their help.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (IDPbH)

173 Good grief ... I screwed up the saying.

Kick ass or chew bubble-game - and I'm fresh out of Juicy Fruit.

Dumb Ass.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (fiGNd)

174 My birthday was yesterday but I will accept continued good wishes.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (dEQP3)

175 167 As I said a couple threads ago, it's the New Yorker, there's nothing they could write that I'd believe is true. They lie, that's what they get paid by foreign governments to do. The only question is how much is a lie. how much is just twisted, and how much intersects with reality.
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (d3wbb)
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Generally, I'd agree but the Mooch put out a tweet saying he'll refrain from using "colorful" language in the future. He didn't deny any aspect of the article.

Posted by: WisRich at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (OAlmw)

176 Tom Hagen wasn't a wartime consiglieri.




because he was...IRISH!

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (kD8Fh)

177 Good grief ... I screwed up the saying.

Kick ass or chew bubble-game - and I'm fresh out of Juicy Fruit.

Dumb Ass.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (fiGNd)


Try again ... Juicy Fruit is gum but it isn't bubble gum.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (rZ+mb)

178 Personally I like this very much. I want to see heads a rolling.

Posted by: Bosk at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (n2K+4)

179
OT a bit but the comments remind me of how much I dislike making organized thugs into some kind of folk heroes.


It's as American as Chevy and apple pie

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (lKyWE)

180
alextehchick is pregnant?

Congratulations!

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (DPKvM)

181 the comments remind me of how much I dislike making organized thugs into some kind of folk heroes.

Yeah its easy to kind of romanticize the mob, but they were awful scum. Worse than you think. They were basically gang banging street trash with better clothes and music. Rape, murder, betrayal, nothing was beneath them to get money. The only code of honor was don't make the boss mad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (39g3+)

182 WAR. No, Really. WAR.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (mbhDw)


Can you 'shop a pic of Tony Mooch holding the Eddie Munster/Paul Ryan dolly?

PLEEEZE...

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (kD8Fh)

183
because he was...IRISH!

He was German-Irish.


(please someone come through and don't let me down...)

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (DPKvM)

184 176 My birthday was yesterday but I will accept continued good wishes.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (dEQP3)


Happy birthday, toots. Love to meet you one of these days, in a non-threatening collegial way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (mbhDw)

185 "Joe Pantoliano's Ralph Cifaretto. A good earner who's self-destructive. "

Remember the episode where Tony has Ralph killed and Christopher and the guy from Naples(Furio I think his name was) run his body parts through a meat grinder to get rid of him? Talk about black comedy.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (jm1YL)

186 168 How about this, Morons: maybe only a couple of people knew of the dinner and who was there. Scarymoochie ruled out himself as a leaker and all signs pointed to a gope leftover stinking up the fridge.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:28 PM (J5mzk)

===========================================

Yep, and the statement about Bannon? Deflection I'd bet.

Posted by: Jackal at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (Mo6Qu)

187 Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:24 PM (2qHjF)



Your name makes me laugh every time I see it.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (hZ+us)

188 It's alexthechicks birthday?


I'd hit it.
Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July




Again?

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (0wem/)

189 And meanwhile, as the storm is raging, Sessions keeps on quietly burrowing.

The genteel southern gentleman and the Long Island brawler.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (XsVWn)

190 Juicy Fruit was in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (sdi6R)

191 Look!

A very rare photo of ace!

http://bit.ly/2eScxGJ


Please don't ban me, ace.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (dEQP3)

192 Huh. I, um, well...huh.

Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (0mRoj)

193 184 WAR. No, Really. WAR.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:22 PM (mbhDw)

Can you 'shop a pic of Tony Mooch holding the Eddie Munster/Paul Ryan dolly?

PLEEEZE...
Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (kD8Fh)


Ooh. Request-eses.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (mbhDw)

194 It sounds like Scaramucci slices like a hammer and you don't want to make a maniac out of him. But at least the guys get shirts.

Posted by: bananaDream at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (BHl6T)

195 because he was...IRISH!

He was German-Irish.


(please someone come through and don't let me down...)

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:31 PM (DPKvM)


"Okay, my kraut-mick friend ..."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (rZ+mb)

196 I think they always knew it was Rinced Penis. They just needed him to give them a reason to fire his ass and make him radioactive so nobody ever hires the douchebag again.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (2qHjF)

197 It ain't over until Scarmucci slams a knife through Penis' hand and it's pinned to the bar. Then it's over.

Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (mcI77)

198 'Have you ever noticed PDT looking tired? No. The fight makes him stronger.'

The GOPe is baffled--their sole instinct is to give up.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (XsVWn)

199
"Okay, my kraut-mick friend ..."

Well done.

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (DPKvM)

200 Organized thugs? Nah, dese are just my boys.

Posted by: Jefe El Donaldo at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (HgMAr)

201 alextehchick is pregnant?



Congratulations!

Posted by: Soothsayer

That's how I roll.

Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (4e+hS)

202 Stupid question but, What would Pubis have to gain ?

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (M+Lyo)

203 Oh, and, wowzer. The FBI attorney under question is the one in charge of the FISA masking?

I am starting to feel I cannot keep up.

So far a pretty busy week, no?

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (J5mzk)

204 "yeah, either he is an idiot, or he planned on it being published"

I don't think he's an idiot.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (jm1YL)

205 Pretty obvious at this point that rinsed penis is a leaking sack of shit.

Posted by: james the deplorable disciple of kek at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (jxw6R)

206 I support term limits at all levels.

Posted by: Hate Has No Afro at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (psH+N)

207 alextehchick is pregnant?



Congratulations!

Posted by: Soothsayer

That's how I roll.
Posted by: Anthony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (4e+hS)


Who leaked?

Posted by: filbert's equine abattoir at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (s5o+q)

208 176 My birthday was yesterday but I will accept continued good wishes.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:29 PM (dEQP3)

Well then, Happy Belated Birthday and may all your birthday wishes come true.

Did you turn 29 like the rest of us?

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (Ri/rl)

209 I feel like I should bookmark this thread for the inevitable moment when one of the Horde says "Mooch was always an asshole".

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (RrhD2)

210 Never realized how sensitive Italians were about the mob references. Even in the Midwest.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (0wem/)

211 169: I don't know him, but he's probably not an idiot.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (hZ+us)

212 Raunch Pubis, what a name

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (M+Lyo)

213 209
Who leaked?
Posted by: filbert's equine abattoir at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (s5o+q)


Du-Rex (Tillerson?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (mbhDw)

214 I have never been a fan of Status Quo. We should do it this way because that's the way it's always been done. Decorum/Harrumph.

That thinking is why we are in the shitstorm we are in.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (evw2O)

215 So does Scaramucci have a couple of assistants who go by the names Vito and Knuckles?"

Another named Paulie Walnuts.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:25 PM (jm1YL)
---
And they all work for "The Don".

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (2mC6G)

216 Okay, definitely kind of crazy.

Trump was definitely kind of crazy for thinking he could beat the GOPe and win the presidential election.

Thank God for such a kind of crazy.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (ILitO)

217 At the running of the bulls in Pamplona there is a drink they serve called Calimucho. I'd pay money to see a pic of The Mooch drinking a 'Mucho

Posted by: #neverskankles at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (vyHiq)

218 "[H]e has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers if he discovers that they have given unauthorized information to reporters."

And Scaramucci is the crazy one why again?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (H8S+R)

219 When Mooch said he'd fire his entire staff if the leaking didn't stop I said great. But those leaks aren't the big ones.

If Priebus is leaking fire him.

Mooch said that Bannon is self aggrandizing, but the guy hides out of view. Mooch says "I'm not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President." when that's exactly what he's doing by giving coked-up interviews.

Mooch is a self-aggrandizing little prick. He's tarnishing Trump's brand with petty public bullshit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (+7/1f)

220 I like this guy!

Posted by: Memories at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (mwcEF)

221 219 At the running of the bulls in Pamplona there is a drink they serve called Calimucho. I'd pay money to see a pic of The Mooch drinking a 'Mucho
Posted by: #neverskankles at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (vyHiq)


And then, there's the Running of the Corgis at the call of "nood."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (mbhDw)

222 @191...he is burrowing in El Salvador of all places.

I am quietly waiting, as a Redneck Queen, for him to suddenly indict a bunch of people I despise. In other words, I have not given up on AG Sessions and the twinkle in his eyes.

Bite moi.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (J5mzk)

223 213 169: I don't know him, but he's probably not an idiot.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (hZ+us)

Those are the only possibilities that I can think of

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (M+Lyo)

224 make him radioactive so nobody ever hires the douchebag again.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe


Radioactive douchebag -- isn't that what Hillary's gynecologist recommended to completely eliminate her "down there" infection once and for all?

Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (DQ4Fv)

225
Sad news:

Jokey Smurf is mort.

Rocky the squirrel is also mortadells.

Cindy Lou Who is mort, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (DPKvM)

226 Happy B-Day AtC.

Ummm, I had ice cream...but I ate it so I got nothing.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (4ErVI)

227 What would Pubis have to gain ?

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (M+Lyo)

Last man standing.

He gains respect and power as people leave and he remains.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (wYseH)

228 Du-Rex (Tillerson?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (mbhDw)


Hmm . . . I guess given the raptor rapture . . . hmm . . .

Posted by: filbert's equine abattoir at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (s5o+q)

229 Evening

Fire them all and let G-D sort them out

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (SjImc)

230 Yep - and you know - a mother-fucker that came to take names, kick ass, and is all out of Juicy-Fruit might be EXACTLY what the doctor ordered.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:27 PM (fiGNd)
*************************************

Oft times slacker, laggard workers will perceive an new person who is fixed on achievement as crazy. All the better for the achiever.

Posted by: gNewt at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (tm6wE)

231 When in doubt, whack 'em out.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (rznWS)

232
June Foray, amazing voice actor, 99, Rest In Peace

Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (DPKvM)

233 Awesome! Kicking asses right out of the gate.

Posted by: starboardhelm at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (hOtJL)

234 Donnie Two-Scoops (on Twitter): Sessions has been a huge disappointment to me

Donnie Two-Scoops (to Sessions behind closed doors): Are we misleading CNN enough..?

[hope that's what's going on]

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (ILitO)

235 Can he fire Senators?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (SjImc)

236 Try again ... Juicy Fruit is gum but it isn't bubble gum.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (rZ+mb)


Doesn't matter - that's how we say it here.

A related expression is "I ain't giving nothing away but hard dick and bubble-gum ... and I'm fresh out of Juicy Fruit".

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (fiGNd)

237 What would Pubis have to gain ?

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:33 PM (M+Lyo)


What have the French ever gained when they back-stabbed an ally?


Nothing. They do it because that's who they are.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (rZ+mb)

238 You talking 'bout me? You better not be talking 'bout me. You better forget you ever saw me.

Posted by: Jefe El Donaldo at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (HgMAr)

239 225 213 169: I don't know him, but he's probably not an idiot.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (hZ+us)

Those are the only possibilities that I can think of
Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (M+Lyo)

He did support Obama in 2008. Not too bright.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (IDPbH)

240 Mooch is a self-aggrandizing little prick. He's tarnishing Trump's brand with petty public bullshit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (+7/1f)

Yes. we get that you don't like him.

perhaps you can see it from another perspective. That he is making a very public threat that he will go ballistic on any disloyal staffers, and he doesn't care who they are.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (wYseH)

241 I saw Vagina Dentata open for Radioactive Douchebag at DeathMetalFest '98.

Posted by: zombie at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (DQ4Fv)

242 Happy Birthday AtC.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (Jj+59)

243 When is the IRS commish going?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (SjImc)

244 "I always knew it would be delicious. I never knew it would be THIS delicious." -- Dennis Miller

Posted by: Iwontsubmit at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (122Gu)

245 140 OT a bit but the comments remind me of how much I dislike making organized thugs into some kind of folk heroes.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:23 PM (IDPbH)


Tell me about it. My parents are Italian immigrants and it's really disturbing to me and some other immigrants/children of that a lot of pop culture consumers glamorize thuggery. Wiseguys IRL are NOT attractive people.

However, in the context we are currently discussing, the ORGANIZED MOB IS THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.

So Anthony Scaramucci Harvard educated from Queens may proceed with my blessing endorsed by St. Anthony (the Mob Saint.)

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (kD8Fh)

246 235 Awesome! Kicking asses right out of the gate.
Posted by: starboardhelm at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (hOtJL)


I'd like to see him force the 7 traitors to vote YES on straight repeal.

Or their brains will be on the contract, a la Luca Brasi. Rush called him Tom Hagen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (mbhDw)

247 *flamethrows thread*

And, yes, I am now 29.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (dEQP3)

248 I'm Sicilian....I don't get the outrage. Just sounds like a family reunion to me...

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (Enq6K)

249 Oh God this is the awesomest thing that ever schadenboned

Posted by: Popcorn futures at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (onJdc)

250 now hear this: when you refer to Mooch, please be clear if you mean Scaramucci or Michelle Obama. One Mooch might want to run for the Dem nomination for president, and I don't mean the guy who was successful on Wall Street.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (ILitO)

251 Donnie Two-Scoops (on Twitter): Sessions has been a huge disappointment to me

Donnie Two-Scoops (to Sessions behind closed doors): Are we misleading CNN enough..?

[hope that's what's going on]
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:37 PM (ILitO)


Donnie: Maybe you can get one of the CNN assholes aside for an "off-the-record" conversation and tell them what a prick I am?

Sessions: Will do, you prick!

(laughter)

Posted by: filbert's equine abattoir at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (s5o+q)

252 I have to say that so far the Trump Administration is more entertaining than I had any right to expect.

That the stakes are so high only amplifies the entertainment value.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (sdi6R)

253 Put the fear of God (or worse) into the entire West Wing.

I'm trying to imagine Jared Kushner and the Mooch having a conversation....

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (XsVWn)

254 212 Never realized how sensitive Italians were about the mob references. Even in the Midwest.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (0wem/)


It is just "family" Thank you.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (P/kVC)

255 While we're at it, fire everyone who was hired prior to January 21st.

Posted by: Hate Has No Afro at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (psH+N)

256 this guy should just show up with a shovel, big blue tarp, and a bag of lime. love it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (KP5rU)

257 Yeah its easy to kind of romanticize the mob, but they were awful scum. Worse than you think. They were basically gang banging street trash with better clothes and music. Rape, murder, betrayal, nothing was beneath them to get money. The only code of honor was don't make the boss mad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (39g3+)


Yeah, I was never into that mob crap. I don't even watch mob movies, and I never actually watched the god father from beginning to end, but I seen it all from bits a pieces over the years while flipping through the channels. I just don't give a shit. I'm not Sicilian. I did watch good fellas, and was kinda glad when pesci got whacked, he was a scumbag, they are were. Yeah, I'm Italian, but American first, and those fucks are knuckle draggers.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (aMlLZ)

258 "Tom Hagen wasn't a wartime consiglieri.
because he was...IRISH!"

Irish mobsters in NYC were crazier than the Italians, but weren't as organized and didn't bring their sons into the business. e.g., even into the 1970s the Italians hired the Irish to do their wet work. Murder Inc. was run by Jews.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (+7/1f)

259 Axeman: "And they all work for 'The Don'."

This is so perfect.

'Don' Trump. Outta New York.

This has the makings of a fine movie. And a relatively righteous enforcer didn't even need to help form a friendly government in Cuba to do it.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (H8S+R)

260 "Scaramucci reminds me a little of Tom Hagen in The Godfather."


Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:06 PM (jm1YL)

Tom Hagen wasn't a wartime consiglieri.

Doesn't anyone around here know the movie?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:21 PM (wYseH)


He comes across more like Sonny.
"Hey, a hundred button men on the street twenty-four hours a day. That Turk shows one hair on his ass, he's dead. Believe me."

We'll have to see if beats the shit out of Prebius with a garbage can lid.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (auHtY)

261
June Foray, amazing voice actor, 99, Rest In Peace
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered


But that trick never works!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (IqV8l)

262 249 *flamethrows thread*

And, yes, I am now 29.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (dEQP3)


Easy baby. That's overkill.

Just a small pair of scissors. Some baby-powder. And some TLC.

No flames needed.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (fiGNd)

263 Look!



A very rare photo of ace!



http://bit.ly/2eScxGJ



Please don't ban me, ace.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:32 PM (dEQP3)


That's funny as all hell! Please don't ban me, ace.




Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (PY9jH)

264 osted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (ILitO)

Thanks; I'm glad someone else noticed that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (iVOAv)

265 I heard Scaramucci last spring on the wireless with I think it was Savage and he came across as a level headed, energetic guy who was gonna work as hard as then candidate Trump and win the White House. He sounded like he and then candidate Trump were pretty tight, like he was Trump's go to guy for getting something done.


Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (5VlCp)

266 260 "Tom Hagen wasn't a wartime consiglieri.
because he was...IRISH!"

Irish mobsters in NYC were crazier than the Italians, but weren't as organized and didn't bring their sons into the business. e.g., even into the 1970s the Italians hired the Irish to do their wet work. Murder Inc. was run by Jews.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (+7/1f)

Still crazier.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (IDPbH)

267 "These are my dogs and they wear my collars" Lizzy1

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (evw2O)

268 He's going to shoot Spider in the foot.

Posted by: gobagoo at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (A/saJ)

269 260 Murder Inc. was run by Jews.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (+7/1f)


"You rang, bubby?"

- - Abe "Kid Twist" Rellis

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (mbhDw)

270 Murder Inc. was run by Jews.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:40 PM (+7/1f)

Well mid level management. Albert Anatassia was the "Lord High Executioner"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (SjImc)

271 However, in the context we are currently discussing, the ORGANIZED MOB IS THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.


The Communists vs the Mob? Seems like there is some historical precedent but my failing memory doesn't retain the details. I don't remember how it turned out.

Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (m9X4Y)

272 @191...he is burrowing in El Salvador of all places.
...........

Where the beaches are not polluted with fecal runoff and the cuisine is to die for.

Posted by: El Salvador Tourism Bureau at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (HgMAr)

273 258. 'Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (IuKH8)

274 by the way, did we all see McCain earlier today saying that we need to be bipartisan to fix Obamacare? Translation: the Dems get most of what they want and we get a commemorative penny with McCain's mug on one side.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (ILitO)

275 249 *flamethrows thread*

And, yes, I am now 29.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (dEQP3)

As we all are.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (Ri/rl)

276 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (5VlCp)

? He supported Bush and called Trump an idiot around that time? IIRC

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (IDPbH)

277 'We'll have to see if beats the shit out of Prebius with a garbage can lid.'

A lot of Caan's performance was spontaneous and off-script; I think that was one example

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (XsVWn)

278 Trump oughta done been taught since January what type of weasels he's been dealing with. He ain't a politician so he's not a weasel. He needs better advisors though and that's for certain. I'd say somebody in the mold of say, Josey Wales.

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (zLDYs)

279 The mob gave better payoffs on the numbers than the government does.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (rZ+mb)

280 And, yes, I am now 29.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (dEQP3)


A belated Happy Birthday, Empress!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (gwPgz)

281 I saw Radio Active Douchebags open for Pussy Riot at
at the Dome in 2000.

Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (mcI77)

282 by the way, did we all see McCain earlier today saying that we need to be bipartisan to fix Obamacare? Translation: the Dems get most of what they want and we get a commemorative penny with McCain's mug on one side.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (ILitO)


Ah, the High Holy Word: Bipartisan.

Posted by: filbert at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (s5o+q)

283 The Communists vs the Mob? Seems like there is some historical precedent but my failing memory doesn't retain the details. I don't remember how it turned out.

Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (m9X4Y)
---
Anybody ever make a Mobsters vs. Aliens movie? I think that could be pretty cool.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (2mC6G)

284 Sometimes diplomacy is useful and sometimes it's just talking with a mouth full of shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (evw2O)

285 Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!"

Pearls: Clutched

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (PY9jH)

286
Yeah its easy to kind of romanticize the mob, but they were awful scum. Worse than you think. They were basically gang banging street trash with better clothes and music. Rape, murder, betrayal, nothing was beneath them to get money. The only code of honor was don't make the boss mad. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:30 PM (39g3+)


Yeah so was the James gang.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (lKyWE)

287 242 Mooch is a self-aggrandizing little prick. He's tarnishing Trump's brand with petty public bullshit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:35 PM (+7/1f)

Yes. we get that you don't like him.

perhaps you can see it from another perspective. That he is making a very public threat that he will go ballistic on any disloyal staffers, and he doesn't care who they are.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:38 PM (wYseH)

Exactamundo.....

Did this in the military a couple times when taking over a new unit...

Publically make a scene, so they really don't know just how crazy, or good, you might be.

Think Sgt. Major Plummer in 'They were Soldiers'...

EFFECTIVE tactic...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (NgKpN)

288 273 However, in the context we are currently discussing, the ORGANIZED MOB IS THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.


The Communists vs the Mob? Seems like there is some historical precedent but my failing memory doesn't retain the details. I don't remember how it turned out.
Posted by: Nonplussed in Pokepshie at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (m9X4Y)

==================================================

IIRC, La Cosa Nostra played a part behind the lines during the invasion of Sicily in WW2. They might have also been part of the effort to suppress the reds after WW2.

Posted by: Jackal at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (NiR1r)

289 re 272: and yet Meyer Lansky in his memoir described how Jewish mobsters in the 1930s would bust into German-American Bund (that is, American Nazis) meetings and kick ass.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (ILitO)

290 279 'We'll have to see if beats the shit out of Prebius with a garbage can lid.'

A lot of Caan's performance was spontaneous and off-script; I think that was one example
Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (XsVWn)


GOP will visibly miss his head. Pass blow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (mbhDw)

291 Trump: I tried it your way. Now we're going to do it my way.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (XsVWn)

292 by the way, did we all see McCain earlier today saying that we need to be bipartisan to fix Obamacare? Translation: the Dems get most of what they want and we get a commemorative penny with McCain's mug on one side.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 27, 2017 07:42 PM (ILitO)



I saw that he and other Vichy Republicans now say they won't even support the "skinny" repeal. They don't want to get rid of it period. It really is a uniparty

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (auHtY)

293 this guy should just show up with a shovel, big blue tarp, and a bag of lime. love it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 27, 2017 07:39 PM (KP5rU)

lol, reminds me of the cleaners in John Wick

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (HgMAr)

294 A lot of Caan's performance was spontaneous and off-script; I think that was one example

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:43 PM (XsVWn)
---
Caan is one of the greatest actors of his generation. No doubt about that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (2mC6G)

295 287 Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!"

Pearls: Clutched
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (PY9jH)


Lesson: Scaramucci is doing EXACTLY what should be done.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (mbhDw)

296 287 Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!"

ScoggDog sez I wouldn't cross the street to piss on that fuck if he were on fire and I'd just drank a barrel of rainwater.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (fiGNd)

297 "That he is making a very public threat that he will go ballistic on any disloyal staffers, and he doesn't care who they are."

He's fired one mid-level staffer and yelled a lot on major media. His actual bailiwick is small.

What he called Priebus and Bannon are fighting words. This won't end well.

For the record, I'm a Bannon guy

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (+7/1f)

298 In "Back to School", Dangerfield asks his driver if he looks fat in a commercial for his Tall and Fat clothing store. The driver says yes ... Rodney says ... hire me some fatter guys next time.

So Trump is looking too wild and crazy with these tame and timid guys around him like Priebus and quiet Sessions. So he is getting a really wild and crazy guy to make him look more normal?

And while it was claimed to be a vulgar rant, I'm guessing we heard the worst of it, without a lot of context. And perhaps he thought it would not be reported verbatim. The writer said "he didn't say off the record", which seems to indicate she didn't ask something like "can I quote you on that" just to be sure.

and New York values ... ha. A lot of strong willed characters talk like that routinely.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (HQuBO)

299 Wow, it's like the Ace of Spades only BIGGER

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (ZTRlp)

300 224 @191...he is burrowing in El Salvador of all places.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 07:36 PM (J5mzk)


Where MS-13 hails from.

Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (sdi6R)

301
It is just "family" Thank you.

We are family.
I got all my mobsters with me.

Posted by: Sister Sledgehammer at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (IqV8l)

302 Caan is one of the greatest actors of his generation. No doubt about that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (2mC6G)


He was sort of a midget, wasn't he? His kid is a true midget, with a big friggin head. Huge.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (rZ+mb)

303 287 Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!"

Two words for that shit necked hippo. Drop. Dead.

Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (mcI77)

304 Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (NgKpN)

Yes I have seen that work and work well. It has the opposite effect on me though.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (IDPbH)

305 karl rove is appalling beyond belief. who asked that fucking toad anyway?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (KP5rU)

306 Scaramucci isn't Sicilian. His ancestry is from Campania: think Naples and Pompeii. Specifically Volturara Irpina.

If Scaramucci was Sicilian there's be a lot more dead people I think

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (6FqZa)

307 "Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!""

Karl is a "has been" and he knows it.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (jm1YL)

308 What he called Priebus and Bannon are fighting words. This won't end well.

Assuming what this news outlet is reporting is remotely true. I find it unlikely that a White House top guy called a newsie out of the blue and went on a demented rant. No, really he just called me up, woke me up in the middle of the night and went off, it was the craziest thing...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (39g3+)

309 305 287 Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!"

Two words for that shit necked hippo. Drop. Dead.
Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (mcI77)


May G-d turn him into a chandelier - so he can swing by day and burn by night.

(sounds a bit more poetic in the original Yiddish)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (mbhDw)

310 I'd prefer perp walks and prosecutions to firings ... but -- aside from Scooter Libby -- it doesn't seem like anybody in D.C. gets prosecuted for their crimes in recent memory.

Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (ZcAbN)

311 Career Bureaucrat: "So, that's it? After 25 years, 'Good bye and good luck'?"
Scaramucci: "I never said 'and Good luck'."

Posted by: FaCubeItches at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (rznWS)

312 Tucker Time is coming up. From El Salvador.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (PY9jH)

313 What he called Priebus and Bannon are fighting words. This won't end well.

For the record, I'm a Bannon guy

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (+7/1f)

Unless.... like the Apprentice.... a lot of this IS scripted...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (NgKpN)

314 lol, reminds me of the cleaners in John Wick

Posted by: wth at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (HgMAr)



What a great scene!
We need some of that at the national level!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (gwPgz)

315 Liked a comment over on Twitchy: "Well, he can do the Fandango"

We've all been thinking it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (2mC6G)

316
Surprise! Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!"

Did he draw it on a whiteboard?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (IqV8l)

317 *** Should have added that Scooter didn't commit any crimes ***

Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (ZcAbN)

318 Yes I have seen that work and work well. It has the opposite effect on me though.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (IDPbH)


Honestly - me too.

But fuck what those dicks in DC like or don't. Couldn't happen to a better bunch.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (fiGNd)

319 No, really he just called me up, woke me up in the middle of the night and went off, it was the craziest thing...

So, basically, Penthouse Forum, except not as credible.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (6FqZa)

320 308 Scaramucci isn't Sicilian. His ancestry is from Campania: think Naples and Pompeii. Specifically Volturara Irpina.

If Scaramucci was Sicilian there's be a lot more dead people I think
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (6FqZa)


The "Nabla-don" contingency should not be fucked with. Go see the movie "Gommora" on Netflix.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (mbhDw)

321 My take:

-Trump thought he needed some Washington insiders on staff to move his agenda through Congress. Hires Priebus/Bannon.

-They were no help with Congress and especially the GOPe.

-Trump says to himself "Why keep these a-holes if they can't help me."

-Trump hires the Mooch to get rid of them and make sure their embarrassed on the way out.

-Mooch goes to work planting stories (some false) as the enforcer.

Posted by: WisRich at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (OAlmw)

322 I'd kill to see Sessions in El Salvador wearing a black t-shirt and ammo coiled around his shoulders.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (PY9jH)

323 Not sure what to make of this Scaramucci thing. Lizza is MFM so who knows how much of this is true. Still, Hell of thing to make it all up. I get it, he's a Wall Street BSD kinda guy. I don't tremble when I hear bad words. And I kinda think "Yeah, let me go, though, because I've gotta start tweeting some shit to make this guy crazy." is funny as heck, and "What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people" is an admirable sentiment. But, yeah, he's the comms guy, thinking that calling up a liberal and calling top guys in the WH cocksuckers in a rant is perhaps - perhaps - a little over the top. This isn't Goodfellas.

Though not from this article, Scaramucci described himself as more of a "front stabbing guy" earlier. So maybe I am more on his side of his fence.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (jHrzU)

324 308 Scaramucci isn't Sicilian. His ancestry is from Campania: think Naples and Pompeii. Specifically Volturara Irpina.

If Scaramucci was Sicilian there's be a lot more dead people I think
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 27, 2017 07:47 PM (6FqZa)

Because you never go up against a Sicilian, when death is on the line....



Thunk....

Posted by: Vicinni.... at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (NgKpN)

325 Now bring in Bolton to clean up State and call it a week.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (XsVWn)

326 *** Should have added that Scooter didn't commit any crimes ***

Posted by: ShainS at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (ZcAbN)


... other than being called "Scooter".

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (rZ+mb)

327 CBD- you tried masterfully but there seems to be a disconnect here.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (evw2O)

328 So its only words so far, hope he can do the fandango

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (pPKG5)

329 The 1st Pinochet documentary for those intereted..... I know I am. The trailer is the 2nd link. 1st link is the film....free on YouTube. Chile: Hasta cuando.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eZu4ereAzAQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYP0CzyOJs

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (2qHjF)

330 But fuck what those dicks in DC like or don't. Couldn't happen to a better bunch.
Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:49 PM (fiGNd)

I imagine the politicians speak exactly the same way behind closed doors as do their staffers.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (Ri/rl)

331 Hey that's an idea. Caan is conservative. Bring him in to the White House as an enforcer. Sonny's greatest hits:



No, no, no! No more! Not this time, Consigliere! No more meetin's! No more discussions! No more Sollozzo tricks! You give 'em one message - I want Solozzo. If not, it's all-out war, we go to the mattresses.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (auHtY)

332 @287: "Karl Rove sez Tony Scaramucci's comments are "appalling beyond belief!""

Ay, Karl, you still here? I thought I told you to go fuck your mother.

Posted by: Tony Scaramucci at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (rznWS)

333 Sessions is being loyal.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:51 PM (PY9jH)

334 270
He's going to shoot Spider in the foot.

Posted by: gobagoo at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (A/saJ)

Well, if Spider would have taken my damn drink order, I would not have had to shoot him.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at July 27, 2017 07:51 PM (DxWUs)

335 331 I want Solozzo. If not, it's all-out war, we go to the mattresses.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (auHtY)


Casper?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2017 07:51 PM (mbhDw)

336 305 Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:44 PM (NgKpN)

Yes I have seen that work and work well. It has the opposite effect on me though.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (IDPbH)

Oh yeah.... very hit and miss...

Worked best on the kids.... but the older guys didn't need it anyway.... they were already clued in, or lost causes anyway...

Posted by: Vicinni.... at July 27, 2017 07:51 PM (NgKpN)

337 Listening to John Denver's Thank God I'm A Country Boy. It always puts me in a good mood.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:52 PM (hZ+us)

338
Two words for that shit necked hippo. Drop. Dead.
Posted by: Article V at July 27, 2017 07:46 PM (mcI77)


shit-necked hippo -- perfect!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2017 07:52 PM (TUknV)

339 313 What he called Priebus and Bannon are fighting words. This won't end well.

For the record, I'm a Bannon guy

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 27, 2017 07:45 PM (+7/1f)

Unless.... like the Apprentice.... a lot of this IS scripted...
Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM (NgKpN)

Bannon is in on the Script. Rinced Penis not so much.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 27, 2017 07:52 PM (2qHjF)

340 there seems to be a disconnect here.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (evw2O)

Ya think?


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2017 07:52 PM (wYseH)

341 Sessions is being loyal.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:51 PM (PY9jH)


Interview with Tucker now underway . . . it does sound to me like the "rift" between the two has a very large component of stagecraft.

Posted by: filbert at July 27, 2017 07:53 PM (s5o+q)

342 tony should just tell them hey you brought a knife, we brought a gun. no we're gonna get in your face. fuck em all.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 27, 2017 07:53 PM (KP5rU)

343 Nood

Posted by: Denny Crane! at July 27, 2017 07:53 PM (4bjXi)

344 Mooch Obama?
Is there any other Mooch?
How can there be two Mooch's?

Posted by: Moochers have to mooch at July 27, 2017 07:53 PM (tm6wE)

345
No, no, no! No more! Not this time, Consigliere! No more meetin's! No more discussions! No more Sollozzo tricks! You give 'em one message - I want Solozzo. If not, it's all-out war, we go to the mattresses.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 27, 2017 07:50 PM (auHtY)

If he holds his next press conference in a Mattress Firm...

Posted by: josephistan at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (ANIFC)

346 @258: "Murder Inc. was run by Jews."

And about half-staffed by them, too.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (rznWS)

347
What Mooch did was a bad fuck-up. He'll be gone in a week.

Posted by: Ignoramus

===


Yep.

Definitely an early night.

Posted by: Biill VVynn at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (3j2Y3)

348 without a lot of context....

So, yeah - I am not sure that there is a contextual help for "I'm not trying to suck my own cock."

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (jHrzU)

349 nood depressing thread

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (PY9jH)

350 Listening to John Denver's Thank God I'm A Country Boy. It always puts me in a good mood.

Posted by: LASue at July 27, 2017 07:52 PM (hZ+us)


Yes, that and "Country Roads"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (gwPgz)

351 Never realized how sensitive Italians were about the mob references. Even in the Midwest.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 27, 2017 07:34 PM (0wem/)


Probably because we're tired of being asked if we have mob ties, or automatically assuming we do. Personally, it don't bother me, because I'm not from there, my grandparents were. My brother likes to joke about it, because he is a more convincing Italian than me.

He always makes jokes about sending Rocco and Nunzi to deal with shit. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (aMlLZ)

352 Posted by: gobagoo at July 27, 2017 07:41 PM (A/saJ)

Well, if Spider would have taken my damn drink order, I would not have had to shoot him.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at July 27, 2017 07:51 PM (DxWUs)

Spider grew up to be Christopher Moltisanti.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (Ri/rl)

353 Interview with Tucker now underway . . . it does sound to me like the "rift" between the two has a very large component of stagecraft.
Posted by: filbert at July 27, 2017 07:53 PM (s5o+q)


That would be awesome.

I will so enjoy being wrong about this.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (fiGNd)

354 rickl-Good call. Take your gangsters back or a can of whoop ass for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2017 07:54 PM (evw2O)

355 Okay, embarrassing admission time.

I used to sort of like Juan Williams. This was years ago prior to being fired from PBS for admitting that not all Republicans are literally Hitler.

Since his firing and being hired full time by Fox, the man has gone full retard.

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 27, 2017 07:55 PM (v3DL/)

356 o man I forgot Alex's BDAY! (same day as my sons) and I knew that..
takes off alex's sandals and starts a relaxing belated foot massage.

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 07:55 PM (FKrah)

357 >>>Unless.... like the Apprentice.... a lot of this IS scripted...

Maybe they should be spending time scripting a legislative strategy rather than scripting HS drama.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 27, 2017 07:56 PM (RrhD2)

358 Happy BirthDay to You!
Happy BirthDay to You!

kisses hugs and foot massage heck i'll evenshave your legs for you.

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 07:56 PM (FKrah)

359 'Listening to John Denver's Thank God I'm A Country Boy. It always puts me in a good mood.'

For all the criticism he gets, Denver was actually a skilled pop craftsman. That 'back to the country' mid-late 70's phase was some of his best-'Back Home Again', for example.

And his Christmas album is very much underrated--'Aspenglow' is always required listening during the holidays.

Posted by: phineas gage at July 27, 2017 07:56 PM (XsVWn)

360 I forgot cake.

Posted by: willow at July 27, 2017 07:58 PM (FKrah)

361 From the movie, Patton:

Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: You know General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting.

Patton: It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know.
.

Posted by: OCBill at July 27, 2017 07:59 PM (df+Zi)

362 I read this New Yorker article just before stopping in here; as is my custom as a lurker.

Step back for a minute and consider time you have ever had an on-record conversation or been interviewed. There has to be at least some element of trust right up front, or I simply do not give the interview. The entire article was a violation of the core of any meaningful trust. To be sure, as you follow the article it unfolds as a well-crafted piece by an individual who appears to get a real kick out of letting as many people as he can know who or what he knows. The problem with individuals like this reporter is that you have no idea whether they write primarily fiction, non-fiction, or some weird hybrid of the two.

My takeaway? Under no circumstances would I ever engage in any form of communication with this clown of a reporter.

Posted by: DCox at July 27, 2017 08:01 PM (hqgb1)

363 Twenty third.

Posted by: gNewt at July 27, 2017 08:02 PM (tm6wE)

364 Unless.... like the Apprentice.... a lot of this IS scripted...

Posted by: Don Q. at July 27, 2017 07:48 PM

I think Vince McMahon wrote this "plot". Scaramucci is the "heel".

Posted by: Lester at July 27, 2017 08:05 PM (LfJIn)

365 The Mooch is fucking crazy in all the right ways. Fuck how we've been doing things in D.C. and all accepted wisdom related to it. Look at us! Congress is flat-lining in public perception. GOP "leaders" are exposed as utter lying fraudsters with failure to send Trump the same repeal/replace bill they sent to Obama.

Burn it all down. I like Mooch's spirit. If you have power, then fucking use it. Fire everyone in Comm department, then pick another federal agency, starting with DOJ, and threaten to fire every single person hired since Obama took office on Executive Authority under war powers. Trump is dealing with dangerous North Korea issues and can't have people leaking the President's private conversations on same. Next week, threaten to fire every single Obama appointee to another agency, say HUD or EPA. Fire them all under Executive War Power authority and then settle-back and defend the law suits over time. Pro-tip: Supreme Court gives President LOTS OF ROOM under President's inherence war powers. Full. Fucking. Offense. Go Mooch.

Posted by: ProtoPublius at July 27, 2017 08:07 PM (P5ag/)

366 What does that even mean-"I'm not trying to suck my own c***?" I'm not trying to be self aggrandizing?
I'm sorry, but aside from here perhaps but I don't recall I've never seen anyone use that expression.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2017 08:08 PM (iVOAv)

367 I saw a theory recently that the reason Italy hasn't had as many muz jihadi attacks is that the Mob has been taking care of business.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at July 27, 2017 08:08 PM (hMwEB)

368 177,

Okay, but I did check just now, to make sure it was his real Twitter account and not the parody one.

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 27, 2017 08:09 PM (d3wbb)

369 It moved.

Posted by: Thursby at July 27, 2017 08:13 PM (/HbGD)

370 I will laugh, laugh, laugh my skinny posterior right the hell off if tomorrow morning, Muuch comes out on Twitter and says, "Yeah, I said all that shit in that New Yorker fag's article. What?"

Ver-mutha-f*kkin'-batim.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2017 08:13 PM (hcyUh)

371 New York Post is going to have "Survivor - White House" on the cover tomorrow.

I chuckled.

Posted by: WisRich at July 27, 2017 08:29 PM (OAlmw)

372 Probably because we're tired of being asked if we have mob ties, or automatically assuming we do. Personally, it don't bother me, because I'm not from there, my grandparents were. My brother likes to joke about it, because he is a more convincing Italian than me.

He always makes jokes about sending Rocco and Nunzi to deal with shit. lol
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July




lol

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 27, 2017 08:33 PM (0wem/)

373 @141- rickl just saw ur question. There was a time in S. Philly when it was really hard to avoid those types. But the fringe benefit was the neighborhood was safe. Random criminals didnt dare perpetrate on their turf. My dad was approached to have justice done on his behalf but he declined because he knew he,d be expected to return the favor down the line.

Posted by: kallisto at July 27, 2017 08:41 PM (eO2Z0)

374 It will not be surprising if we someday learn that Bannon, Priebus, and Sessions are part of Trumps operation to drain the swamp.
This is all theater to help Make America Great Again. Trump is a patriot who surrounds himself with patriots.

Posted by: Speculator Who Speculates at July 27, 2017 09:04 PM (wWXpD)

375 Well...
Up to now I've been inclined to think that Trump's histrionics were calculated and designed towards certain ends - distracting media attention, creating perceptions, smoking out swamp critters and such.
But this...this feels like the White House is going off the rails for real. Scaramucci looks and acts like something our of one of those 80s Mafia comedies; "Ey! You lookin' at me? You, lookin' at ME? You think you're tough eh? A Tough Guy! We gotta Tough Guy here! I'll show you tough, Tough Guy! I'll show you tough up yer fuckin' ASS Tough Guy! Yeah!"

Is this what Trump wants running his communications operation? Really?

Posted by: jbspry at July 27, 2017 09:32 PM (WujO7)

376 I found it far more offensive that Beyonce was in the Situation Room.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 27, 2017 09:48 PM (J5mzk)

377 I've been suspicious of Priebus for a while, now.

First off, there's his BFF status with Paul Ryan and Scott Walker, both of whom very publicly dipped their toes into the #NeverTrump waters and then suddenly clammed up when that didn't stop Trump.

Then, of course, as Chairman of the RNC, he had to have earned his bones with the GOP establishment (and, it seems more clearly every day, with the Deep State, as well).

And then we have all these leaks to the media from "anonymous sources" that implicate everyone close to Trump with one glaring exception... his Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus. For some reason, these fake sources cited by the fake news never, ever have anything to say about the President's frickin' Chief of Staff.

Why is that? Keep in mind that this is exactly the role Karl Rove played in Bush the Younger's administration. Why would Rove be so denigrated by those who go into a spittle-flecked rage at the mere mention of the word "Republican", while Priebus just sort of flies under their radar?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 28, 2017 12:31 AM (3YxFh)

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