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Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com)
CNBC reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly resigned Friday after opposing President Donald Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. The president asked Spicer to stay in his role, but Spicer said appointing Scaramucci was a major mistake, The New York Times, citing a person with direct knowledge of the conversation. NBC News confirmed the resignation with two people familiar with the matter. Spicer tweeted later that he will continue to serve through August. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was said to have advocated naming Spicer as press secretary. The two worked at the Republican National Committee before joining the administration. Following Spicer's resignation, Priebus said he supports Scaramucci "100 percent," according to news reports.
I had to check to make sure this wasn't fake news, but seems to be true; it's reported elsewhere: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/21/...
Melissa McCarthy is signing up for unemployment benefits. So much for the Trump economy.
Now that he doesn't have to spin (which is a really, really generous way to put it since it was more like bald-faced lying) to cover the outburst of five minutes ago knowing he'll be undermined by the ill-considered revelation of five minutes hence.
I also find it difficult to believe Spicer will find a less respectful, less loyal boss wherever he goes next, given how often he got thrown under the bus.
Finally.
Seriously... Biggest crowd ever on day one? "It's not a travel ban" when Trump was calling it just that on Twitter? “Not even Hitler” employed the use of chemical weapons? Has there ever been a US press secretary so ill informed and/or prone to lying?
Yes, poor poor Donald Trump. What's a man to do?
Oh, that's right, try to find ways to fire the special prosecutor and indemnify himself and his close cohorts by pardoning the whole bloody lot.
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Cousin Gert may give his opinion on Spicey's departure when the new season starts.
Here's hoping.
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He was the villain in a James Bond movie.
Have gnu, will travel.
He's got well-developed shoulder and bicep muscles, which will be useful for shovelling the shit.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I think it's a little silly to think that Rather knew the Killian documents were fakes-- believing that the documents were real killed all respect for him in his chosen profession. and made the capstone to his long career in television the fact that he was a dupe. The exposure of fake documents very plausibly led to George W. Bush's election, so if he ran with the story because he "hated George W. Bush", he did exactly the opposite of what was intended.
A more real interpretation, however, is that since the faked documents confirmed the worst of exactly what he already believed, he failed to use his journalistic skepticism and just ran with it.
The take-away lesson is to continue to be skeptical even when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe-- in fact, to be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe.
Or, in the words of scam-busters: "if it's too good to be true... it probably isn't."
You can't trust anything Reince Priebus says when you don't even know his real identity! Reince Priebus is just an anagram for his secret luddite society: Beeps Incur Ire! ;)
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It's here because it will get gobs of page views. This really is in no way related to technology at all though and is particularly egregious even by modern /. standards. I can see big political or world events getting reported on, or finding the tech connection, but tying this to technology or nerdy things requires the kind of stretch found only in advanced yoga.
Got a source for that pardon claim?
Can Scaramucci do the fandango???
Or Spicer's ego was hurt.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
"...citing a person with direct knowledge of the conversation."
Uh huh... And who is this *fly on the wall*?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Because that's the most serious thing happening in US politics going on right now.
If you don't like these kinds of stories, why do you bother to open them and comment? I think the answer is obvious; you do care, it makes you angry, and you feel compelled to open such stories, comment on how they don't matter and yet still try to throw out some red herring about the other team.
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Because political campaign slogans are SO very important that your whining over them doesn't make YOU look tone deaf.
We get it, you don't want to hear or talk about the fuckups in the White House that Trump is stinking up, but trying to distract us with a pointless complaint? Whatever.
Go check out some other slogans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_slogans
Politics on Slashdot goes back to Al Gore inventing the Intertubes.
What does this have to do about technology?
Well, of course; he was demoted to Aku's number three assassin, after all.
(As seen from Bucharest) At least with Sean Spicer the Trump presidency was humorous. Dark humor, but humor nevertheless. Now it's just plain sad.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever ones.
I know that the "lie is true" even though there's no evidence for it, 'cause I'm psychic!
There have been political stories on /. since I was started posting here (circa 2003). In other words, if you don't like the story in question, then don't open it up. It's really simple, and doesn't make you sound like an arse.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Try to stop being butthurt that this is news that makes Dems happy instead of news that makes Republicans happy. Maybe if you hadn't elected Trump the news would go your way more frequently.
Anyway, continuing to stand solidly behind Trump as he constantly shows himself to be inept and corrupt is just going to hurt your party in the next election cycle. At some point, you're going to have to admit you were wrong.
Which, by the way, doesn't mean you're turning into a Democrat, or that you're calling for the destruction of the Republican party or its fundamental policies. It means you recognize you screwed up and put the wrong figurehead on your organization.
Kind of like the Democrats screwed up by trying to build a Clinton dynasty with Hillary and condescendingly brushed off the disenfranchised voters who ultimately flocked to Trump.
Every second you dig in your heels instead of correcting your mistake is hurting your party AND your country further.
I was pretty happy when Trump was elected, because finally the press would be paying attention to things the president did...
However they have dialed it WAY TOO FAR towards over-coverage when on my technical news site I am getting stories about a press secretary resigning.
At this point any real news is going to get lost in the seas of mundanity, which rather defeats the point of covering actions.
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John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Don't stop me now!
You are welcome on my lawn.
I don't mind truly important non-tech news being here so I can keep away from regular news outlets and still learn everything I need to know about the world events from fellow nerds but this doesn't cross the threshold of importance for me either.
Trump says he's for jobs and then shortens SNL's Melissa McCarthy's set list
Oh you gonna take me home tonight
Oh down beside that red fire light
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Political political political political political?
Yes. But Fox News is permanently attached to it.
Have gnu, will travel.
1. If some intramural staffing change is now "the most serious thing" then it's amusing that you just admitted all the B.S. about Trump being a robot built by Putin actually is a lie.
Well I would disagree that a WH Press Secretary resigning 182 days after taking the job is "some intramural staffing change". The last person to last less than a year was Jake Siewart who lost his job after 112 days because Bush was elected and Clinton left office. Before that George Stephanopoulos left after 138 days but stayed with the administration in other roles. It appears that Sean Spicer will not only leave the position but the administration as well. So how do you call it "some intramural staffing change"?
How is Sean Spicer quitting a job prove or disprove that Trump is in the pocket of Putin? It doesn't say anything about Trump; it just says Spicer has had enough.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
..fleeing the sinking ship that is the Trump 'administration'. Any bets on how many of them decide to take a 'vacation' to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S.? xD
Thunderbolts and lightening, very very frightening ME!!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Think about the future Sean Spicer has on SNL. Who better to play Trump? Who would be more motivated to lampoon the guy?
Or cable TV political commentator (they let anyone do that nowadays).
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
According to the Post, Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the Russia probe. Trump's lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers, a second person told the newspaper.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
In orther words, you got a whole lotta nothin', but you just *know* there had to be something going on.
Kelly Ann? Unfortunately, for every bulshitter that quits there are three waiting in the wings
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Look at the url - it's politics.slashdot.org. You can avoid it by (do I dare say it? Sure, why not, it's Friday evening) using your HOSTS file to block the subdomain.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Okay, I give up. Why was this moderated funny? Lack of a "stupid troll" moderation?
Really getting desperate for something actually funny on Slashdot. If this topic isn't a target-rich environment for humor, nothing is.
If I wanted to pretend to have a discussion with Putin's troll, then the obvious tech link is the struggle between direct IT use by #PresidentTweety versus an actual and rational "communications strategy". In this battle, it looks like the tweeter-in-chief thinks he won, but he thinks a lot of BS.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I also started posting here in '99. And in the year 2000, the conversation was a whole lot more complicated than just "This guy is now POTUS." Bush v Gore, remember? Slashdot had three postings just that evening, with a stream of follow-ups before we finally got a "This guy is now POTUS" announcement three weeks later.
But the whole while, I found the ongoing discussions very diverse and informative.
Reuters has a pretty good rep for getting it right. If that's the only argument you've got, you've got nothing.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
....are leaving the sinking ship.
Well it is, so I guess you'll have to suffer it. One possible remedy at your disposal is not to open such stories.
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I would think this would be news that would make everyone happy, actually. Spicer has been one of the most cringe-worthy press secretaries to grace the podium in a long time. He won't be missed, except perhaps by masochists.
the problem is Comey proved that even if you hand Trump victory on a platter he'll drop you like a bad habit at the first sign of trouble. I mean, Comey basically gave the election to Trump with that Oct surprise of his and Trump couldn't even understand that he had nothing to fear from him. Trump's dangerously unpredictable for all involved.
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there won't be a next Democratic president. Remember, the hardliners voted for him because they like Authoritarianism...
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Trump's core appeal is socialist style populism. The mistake Hilary and the Blue Dog Dems made was not listening to him. He promised Health Care for all, Jobs for all, education for all and a return to American greatness. Basically all the things Bernie was promising but without any specifics. But the fact is the majority of Americans _want_ the government to take a larger role in improving their lives. Trump played to that and the media played along and let him talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Make no mistake, the Dems lost because they tried to have their cake (big money donations) and eat it to (populist left). It didn't work. They had to keep their mouths shut about any left wing policies and just pray Trump imploded. He didn't.
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they just don't talk about it because, well, it's awful. It's basically shutting down medicare, funneling the money into tax cuts for the .1% while slashing regulations that keep food, air and water safe and clean. You can't exactly get in front of national TV and talk about that stuff. Hell, he can't even claim he saved jobs. They gave Carrier $14 mil in tax breaks and the jobs are still on their way to Mexico.
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Do you hear the fandango?
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Though on many of his days Spicer looked like a really dull object, I think #PresidentTweety's only use for Spicer was as a distraction to confuse the REAL news.
Alternative Subject: How to collaborate with the Russians without even trying!
Think about it. Trump obviously has no real communications strategy and his supporters could care less about White House press briefings.
Trump only has a FAKE communications strategy based on Twitter. Now if you were a clever and cunning Russian spy, and you noticed this, how would you take advantage of it?
I think Mueller's investigation should be extended to Twitter. Specifically, I think he should investigate Russian tampering with the election via Twitter. I even have a few ideas how it could be done. Putin's hackers would have begun by analyzing Twitter to find the most influential retweeters for election-related topics. Just focusing on one side of it, they would try to help the pro-Trump tweeters. For example, if a reliable pro-Trump tweeter was sleeping when Trump tweeted a juicy one, they would keep tabs and make sure the tweet was called to his attention when he came back to Twitter. You can actually extend that even farther to put more thumbs on the scales. Break the influencers down by specific interests and constituencies. If a particular Trump tweet will appeal to that specific tweeter's audience, then make sure he gets it, but if it would offend some of his target demographic, then you give it a pass. These sorts of activities should leave traces in the Twitter records, but I'm betting no one has looked for them. Yet.
Sean Spicer? Just a distracting clown. The only surprise was that the clown actually grew a backbone at the last minute. Or maybe not. Maybe Spicer wasn't standing on his principles but just pragmatically decided he wants to sell the first kiss-and-tell book from the inside?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
See The Singing Trump on America's Got Talent with 4 men dressed as Secret Service Agents. The Singing Trump says who he loves.
Be sure to watch the 2nd song of that performance. Look at the laughing when he says, "Am I sexual?"
Comment from one viewer: "This is most original act I've seen on AGT and it's also best comedy act on AGT in [a] long time."
Watch the 1st audition.
Well, I'm sure Beelzebub is setting aside a whole lotta devils for a certain someone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's Scaramouche baaaayybeee!
Someone had to do it.
The GOP loves Pence maybe, but the Dems don't, and the GOP doesn't have *that* large of a majority in Congress IIRC. What if the Senate Democrats refuse to vote to impeach Trump, knowing that Pence will take over? I get your comment about blue dogs, but I'm quite so cynical there yet.
If Trump had business dealings, loans, etc.. from Russia the Federal Government would know. He does not need to release his long form to the public for the Government to know whether or not his business dealings are clean, and who they are with. The business registry and financial disclosure forms give information to not just the IRS, but DHS, FBI, State Department, CIA, DOJ, and a few other agencies as well.
I have no idea how all of you people can live under the same rock. I can suggest you come out for air on occasion, because the smothering suffocation is making you all brain dead.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I just knew that if I said the magic incantation, you'd pop up. It's magic! :-)
How's life? Thanks for asking. I like volunteering, but it's not a replacement for a job or a career.
I'm in the midst of sessions with the same therapist who helped me with PTSD, in the hope of putting my life back together, taking into account that my vision is always going to be an issue (currently legally blind in one eye, but it *will* be fixed up as much as possible at some future date, until the next time and/or the other eye again).
When she asked me what I wanted to do if I had a choice, I said I would like to code again. Unfortunately, tried again today, it's just not coming back even though I know what I have to do, remember everything, but just can't put it all together into something meaningful when behind the keyboard. I find I don't want to. I guess the events of the last 6-7 years had too much of an impact, especially when combined with how crappy the whole tech industry has become since the turn of the century. I got to see first-hand how women are treated, and that is something I really don't want to expose myself to again. 20 years ago I sat in a meeting and watched the guys engage in pissing contests. Afterwards, I asked the only woman present why she didn't speak up, because I knew that she could wipe the floor with them in terms of capability, and that the guys were heading off into the wrong direction. Now I know why she kept silent. And it's become worse. It's just not worth the hassles, so I guess part of it is the instinct for self-preservation finally kicking in. Deleted the linux vm about an hour ago. Not happy about it, but ç'est la vie.
In the meantime she suggested that I contact the Montreal Association for the Blind. They have experience with job options for people with deteriorating vision, so I'm waiting for them to get back to me. It feels like good advice. I've tried to learn how to use a screen reader on my own, and it is not easy. And the linux screen reader is absolute crap, so there is no real reason to keep a linux vm around. Maybe it will be there in another decade.
As long as I can walk the dog and ride my bicycle (surprisingly, I can even with only my bad eye, which is now 20/400, so who cares, right?) I'm good. So time to knuckle down and get back to writing to see what I've got left in the gas tank.
You?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
more drama from #crazytown. - Wake me up when The Donald sets the Whitehouse on fire in a raving dementia paranoia attack.
Not going to happen: for starters, The Donald doesn't play the lyre! http://www.phrases.org.uk/mean...
Benghazi...
Will not let it GO!
When will Trump realize his damage and incompetence, and resign himself?!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
So your defense is a logical fallacy.
And I'll just add; Deep Throat. That is all.
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At worst it is speculation. I remember when your type were declaring any collusion with Russia to be a lie, until Jr. himself admitted he had tried to do just that.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
NOW - Whatever is bugging you it appears you're taking it out on me (or trying to)!
Nothing in this thread warrants such a reply, sooooo - that's one of the reasons I am against net anonymity - it's hard to prove that any particular post is from who they claim it is. Or even from the same user/account. So I'm going to ignore this outburst
It'ss ridiculous on its' face. Either it's some troll pretending to be apk or it's not, but either way it's a troll, so what do I care? (except to make note of it for those following along trying to figure wtf is going on).
What a waste of oxygen.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Look at the url - it's politics.slashdot.org. You can avoid it by (do I dare say it? Sure, why not, it's Friday evening) using your HOSTS file to block the subdomain.
... such a terrible thing? If you're that touchy, you're touched. And I don't see Zontar anywhere above or below, so really, if that's what you want to do, knock yourself out. I really don't care - you're just making a fool of yourself.
But if you want to be known as yet another transmisogynist, you're entirely free to do so. After all that's what brogrammers are known for. I guess next time people claim gender discrimination is not an issue, I'll use you as yet another example of how sick and warped the IT culture is in its treatment of women, or for that matter, anyone who isn't white and male.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Badger, badger. badger, badger badger, badger. badger, badger badger, Donald!
Gotta just love the way I get under your skin just by existing. When I post, you jump. Awesome. Or sad. Whatever ...
I would love to get a bunch of you into a proper study to find out just what damaged you in such a strange way that you became a transmisogynist. It's most likely part of a generalized misogyny but you feel it's safer to express it at targets you feel have been traitors to your gender. Considering the lack of equivalent levels of transmisandry, I'm more likely right than wrong. Deep down, you think women shouldn't be seen as equals to men. No wonder I'm such a threat.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
So you admit that what I wrote in this thread didn't justify your attacks. Thanks for making that clear to everyone.
Seeing someone for help in career decisions because I can't see well enough to code any more doesn't make me "touched." It just makes me a reasonable person doing what anyone in a similar situation should do. That you think otherwise shows just how out of touch with reality you are.
As for "normal" - who wants to be "normal?" I'd rather be exceptional.
Also, keep in mind that "what I did to myself" will add at least a decade to my lifetime. The benefits include (and have been backed up in my case with extensive testing over the last 6 months) an abnormally great level of good cholesterol, a level of bad cholesterol so low that there's more good than bad, blood cells that live longer than the normal range, 3d radioisotope and ct scans done before and after stress testing that show my cardiovascular system is great. Now lets throw in the increased protection against both heart attack and stroke, more flexible blood vessels, and protection against dementia, and no history of lifestyle diseases, and I'm quite happy with the consequences.
I have a half-decent shot of making it into the triple digits. That's pretty extraordinary. You don't.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You aren't "confronting" me. You're just making a public fool of yourself again. You don't get it - you have zero credibility.
The only positive value you bring here is (1) entertainment, and (2) target practice.
Speaking of which, Bombs Away!
You sound like Trump, attacking someone over a physical handicap because I'm seeing someone to help me with it. BOOM!
It must really piss you off that I can legally pee in every woman's washroom in every state that has passed a bathroom bill. As a matter of fact, I'm required to. They all say I have to go into the bathroom which belongs to the sex on my birth certificate, which says I was born female. So even the crazy states have to treat me as a woman. And nobody can object because that's the law. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Oh, and a tip of the hat to the anonymous troll with the negative mods. Even allowing for the fundamental brokenness of the Slashdot moderation system, the feedback on what really cut your gut is sort of helpful. Mostly by proving you lack any other stronger response.
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I'll start simple, just to show how full of shit you are. No members of a foreign Government purchased Obama's books? Prove it! You can't! If you truly believe such a foolish notion, your outrage needs to be at every single President who has ever served in the office. Once again, the point is to protect the US from a coup, not prevent business people from entering politics.
It is illegal for a President to take money or titles from a foreign Government due to the unique position of the President to turn over our Military to that foreign Government. A valid fear at the time the clause was written was that a President would take a princely title and turn over the US to England. The founders were as infallible as every other human who walked the Earth (depending on your Religious views there may have been 1 infallible person in history). There is a history around the emoluments clause, despite your ignorance (feigned or otherwise).
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.