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Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com)
Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, and Glenn Thrush reporting for The New York Times: President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source), three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president's senior staff. Mr. Scaramucci's abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New York financier was brought on to the West Wing staff, a move that convulsed an already chaotic White House and led to the departures of Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, and Reince Priebus, the president's first chief of staff. From a report: Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director," the statement read. "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best." Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to brief the press corps, on-camera, at 12:45 pm PST. Scaramucci was given the job on Friday, June 21, and by Thursday, July 27, became something of a national laughingstock when The New Yorker reported his profanity-laced conversation with the magazine's Washington correspondent the night before. He was hired by the president to take charge of a communications operation in disarray, and his hiring coincided with the departure of White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Scaramucci, in his conversation with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, was extremely critical of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and predicted, correctly, that then-chief of staff Reince Priebus would be removed from his position. Following the publication of Lizza's article, it became an open question in Washington whether Scaramucci would keep his job.
He made a good decision here.
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Yeah, anything else gets delayed by days, to the point we're getting year-old stories. But Trump fired someone "News for nerds, stuff that matters"?
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Scaramucci strikes me as awfully similar in many ways to Trump himself - a foul mouthed, self centered narcissist. I guess Trump does not like to have others like himself around. What surprises me is that he did not realize what Scaramucci was like before appointing him. I guess, as usual, Trump failed to listen to those around him.
If I were to write a comedy skit about this presidency, no one would buy it because it would be too far fetched.
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Given the wealth that most of the cabinet and staff have in the current white house it confuses me why many of them would want to risk image issues or care to face the daily workload and headaches that these positions entail. Though many are earning a comfortable salary, the money pulled in is likely secondary to the access to impact decisions as well as access to information. Given the chaos and drama however we must be left to think carefully about what kind of corruption might be brewing behind this relatively opaque administration. Like a poorly tuned monitoring system there is so much noise in US politics right now it is difficult to pick out where the real harm to the world might be.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
1. The whole planet is sick of your so-called "left vs right" debates, you're all right-wing as far as the rest of us are concerned.
2. This is Slashdot, left vs right debates should not belong here.
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I'll agree. From OP "The majority of people don't want to be subjected to more leftist nonsense about affirmative action, about transsexuals, about -isms and -phobias, and about so-called "social justice" in general. They don't want to be subjected to virtue signalling. They don't want to read comment after comment full of pathetic insults like "Drumpf" and "orange skin" and "small hands" and "bad hair"."
I'll include I didn't want all the similar crap from rightists the previous eight years. But, as has been documented for thousands of years, people "reap what they sow".
I'm sick of it all. There's plenty of blame to go around. We need some adults in government. We need some adults here.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You may not like Trump (I don't) but laughing at his misfortune, is also laughing at your own, even if you are not a US citizen.
If the US goes down in chaos, so will the rest of the world. Laughing now at his misfortune, is only leading to your own. Sure you want your side to win, and the people who voted for the other side to loose, and loose so bad that they knew that they are wrong... But that doesn't happen, at least not without complete crippling defeat.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
This is partially a dumpster fire.
Remember that a dumpster fire is where you specifically would light the dumpster on fire behind the store and when everybody ran out to put the dumpster out (to keep the whole building from burning) the thieves would run in and rob the place blind.
We're so busy watching the dumpster burn we missed the part where the republicans after instituting the nuclear option have appointed hundreds of judges. Trump will be a bad memory but these ass clowns will be with us for a long time.
Yeah, a big chunk of the GOP leadership is aghast by what's going on the WH, but it's not stopping them from taking advantage of the situation.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Adams is exhibiting the same irony that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did. Doyle's creation, Sherlock Holmes, was about as materialist as one could be. He believed everything had a rational explanation, appeared to reject the idea of the supernatural (hence his deduction that the Curse of the Baskervilles was a silly piece of folklore being used to cover a crime), and yet Doyle bought into all sorts of spiritist claptrap, going so far as to defend those two fraudster girls and their "faerie pictures".
In other words, both Adams and doyle suffer that most peculiar of human conditions; cognitive dissonance. It's bizarre that Adams can't see that Trump is as good an example of the boss character in his comics as one could imagine,
As to Trump's accomplishments, yes he's signed some executive orders, but really, the big ticket items like the wall (which now looks from proposed expropriations will be little more than about 800 miles of more fence) and health care are bust. Just wait for tax reform. As it is, his political capital is so low, his own party clearly thinks he's either an idiot or deranged (or both), and at six months in, he's not accomplished anything of any great importance. Heck, there are a huge number of unfilled appointments that he hasn't got to, so he hasn't even been able to get anywhere near to completing one of the more basic aspects of his job.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"The fact that somebody like Trump could even get elected is a death-sentence. The problem isn't the guy in the captain's chair. The problem is all the guys who wanted him in the captain's chair"
This is point I've been making since that orange-tinted fucknut with the Pomeranian on his head descended down the golden escalator. Trump is entitled to be a raging lunatic asshole; that's his right in a free country.
The problem is that tens of millions of people chose him over 2 dozen Republicans of varying but largely superior qualifications to be their nominee and over 60 million wanted him as chief exec of the world's most powerful country.
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