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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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Is someone at Slashdot pushing a political agenda?
Man this crew is setting some records! I wonder how many more they'll set before the summers out. All this entertainment and still haven't passed anything of mention.
Trump will finally have a staff in place that can run the White House.
...gets to spend more time with his fandango!
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.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Trump is making a mockery of democracy. If there were ever going to be a time for America to finally give up on the tired old notions of "every man for himself" and get with the 21st century, perhaps it is now.
You're FIRED!
And you're fired!
And you're fired!
You're ALL GETTING FIRED!
LOL, in a whistling past the graveyard way...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Three more Communications Directors and Trump gets a set of steak knives.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Hiring and firing is what Trump does. He hires people, has conflict in public with them, and either they go back to work or he fires them. He's done this for ages. Remember back during the campaign, when he fired his campaign manager several times, and everyone said his campaign was in chaos? Trump just needed to resign, hand over the Republican nomination to Jeb! and get some rest because he was tired and unhealthy. Turns out, he had the right campaign manager for every segment of his campaign. He won the election.
The public intellectual forum is being manipulated with intimidation and coercion and you are being lied to. The media is not doing its job, and the scientific community is not playing its proper public role as truth-seekers, as a method transmitting knowledge to the public, or in fostering an open and fair intellectual climate. Both are abusing their power and authority to do the opposite of their honor bound social and intellectual roles; facts are being distorted in service of values.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Finding God in a Dog
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
Most business organizations I've witnessed tend to thrive when there's a level of stability. For example, people know they should talk to Person X in charge of Process Y directly to get the real deal on things. It's good to get people out who are pretty toxic, but doesn't government work the same way? Don't companies and wealthy people use the back-channel methods to actually get work done?
We'll see what happens...I'm hoping that there's just a ton of drama, things basically get parked for 4 years, and other countries don't see it as an opportunity to get ahead while everyone's distracted.
Thanks for channeling Charlie Sheen in the White House.
or... This could be a ruse to see who is leaking what.... If so... pretty ironic....
Agreed, but wow. As others have pointed out, Mr. Trump does not appear to be a good judge of character. Or perhaps his team of advisers are not. Either way, this administration seems unable to keep its (White) house in order. Is this how they conduct all of their affairs? This should be simple as this is a process where they control all/most of the factors. What happens when this administration is dealing with another country, or sensitive situation, where they do not control many/most of the factors?
At every turn, all I see is people looking to get their name tied to national politics, and a leader looking to hand out personal favors, seemingly without the understanding that real consequences and real harm can be done. And don't get me wrong, I think most people who go into politics on both sides of the aisle do it because they are power-hungry assholes. But most of them seem to realize what's at stake.
This lot seems to think of all of this as a popularity contest and resume-builder, like they've been elected to student council.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
is it a good thing to have:
a. 'worked 10 days under Trump'
or would it be better to have
b, 'worked X month / the whole presidency under Trump'
in your Résumé ?
To be frank, the whole thing is kind of scary for a non-American.
Seeing how much time and money is spend on total bullshit by the current president and his party, one gets really worried about what 'those folks' will do once something important needs to be taken care off,... (declaring war by twitter without telling the military beforehand doesn't seem to far fetched,..)
"Will you do the FANDANGO? Thunderbolts & lightning, very, Very FRIGHTENING!"
There might be some truth to this.
Both Alexa and Google Trends show very discouraging downward trends.
Those just quantitatively reinforce the widely held belief that Slashdot of today is much worse off than the Slashdot of a decade ago, which itself was just a small shadow of its former glory. The disastrous Slashdot Beta episode really didn't help the situation.
So I wouldn't be surprised if we're seeing the Slashdot editors trying to jump onto the leftist bandwagon, trying to imitate the success that other leftist media venues have had.
Of course, the saddest thing about this is that the pendulum has already started swinging back to the right! People are utterly fed up with leftism. That's why the Republicans are seeing so much support in the US, not just at the federal level, but at all levels of government. That's why Brexit is going ahead.
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".
So if there is some concerted effort to push leftism here, it will likely backfire, and just reinforce the downward trends this site is already apparently experiencing. It looks like Slashdot may be jumping onto the same leftist bandwagon that all sane people are currently jumping off of, if they were dumb enough to have ended up on it in the first place!
If Slashdot is heading to the left, then it is just looking for more of the same decline it has been experiencing for so long. If Slashdot wants success, it will need to reorient itself to head to the right. That is where the future is.
Every other story here is days or weeks old. Trump staples some papers and immediately gets posted.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Entrumpy: In Chaos We Trust
Table-ized A.I.
This is killing me. I was really looking forward for more of Mario Cantone as Scaramucci on The President Show.
With the potty mouth remarks Anthony Scaramucci made late Thrusday he coudldn't of lasted. On CNN that same morning Anthony Scaramucci watched what he said while making it apparent he has a long time hatred of two members of Trumps staff (and what I watched).
When his nemesis Reince Priebus was fired Friday and Trump said nothing of Anthony Scaramucci, I figured it over for Trump. Put in another postion (couldn't define removed) I figure he's on a clock.
Go figure. I don't do political post, so the one I do - if you read around this post alone could be/become seen as anti-trump and charitable under some old/new rule/law.
Too bad, I was hoping to see him do the Fandango.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
In the future, everybody will be a member of Trump's cabinet for 15 minutes.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Trump impeaches Trump, then has him removed from the Presidency.
But seriously, this admin has higher turnover than a freakin' MacDonalds.
Though in the particular case of Scaramucci, I fully support this move.
Hey, fugettaboutit.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
Personally I think Scaramucci's firing came down to his refusal to do the Fandango.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
C-SPAN: William Browder Testifies before Senate Judiciary Hearing Russian Meddling US Election 7/27/17
"Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!""
Sam Harris had a podcast with him which was mildly interesting. Scott basically agrees that Trump lies out his ass but is fine with it because he's convincing. Scott views Trump as a master manipulator which—for some reason that I cannot fathom—is a good thing for this country. He doesn't even think Trump is going good things beyond conning everyone into believing he is.
now they want power.
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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.
Every time I hear that name I start hearing Freddie Mercury singing
I see a little silhouetto of a man "caned"
Scaramucci, Scaramucci, will you do the Fandango "win't play nice with others"
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening " that sums up the entire administration"
And it's oh so very, very frightning
What? The Mooch is ALREADY gone? Poor #PresidentTweety!
My next speculation is that they'll call the clown car back and Sean Spicer will be allowed to hang around for a while.
All of this AFTER I wrote a GREAT rant? I'm so OBE? I'm SO sad. NOT.
Oh well, just for the off-record, here's part of the rant that could have been funny history:
Welcome to the Bungling Brother's Flying White House Circus with ringmaster the Mooth!
The Mooch has already fired Reince Preibus out of the Bannon Cannon, and tomorrow's show will be a cage match between the Mooth and General Kelly! No ref, because #PresidentTweety (the Bungling Brother himself) doesn't want to get involved in the squabbles he caused! Smart money says Kelly will win, but when has anything smart happened in this White House? If the Mooch wins, his next targets will be Mad Dog Mattis, McMaster, Tillerson, and even the YUGE Bannon!
Get your tickets and popcorn now! It's the YUGEST unGREATEST show on earth, right before they blow up the planet!
My next plan was to work in this latest footage of discussions at the White House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
And Trump wouldn't accept his resignation. The conversation was leaked.
Scaramouche: Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Trump: Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
Scaramouche: Let me go!
Trump: Bismillah! We will not let you go
Scaramouche: Let me go!
Trump: Bismillah! We will not let you go
Scaramouche: Let me go.
Trump: Will not let you go
Scaramouche: Let me go.
Trump: Will not let you go.
Scaramouche: Let me go. Ah
Trump: No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Scaramouche: Oh mamma mia, mamma mia, mamma mia, let me go
So because this represents a break from the norm, it's not news. Okay. You know what? It's fine. The cognitive dissonance these days is pretty tough, and we know you're worried too.
The WH Reality TV show was getting boring. This morning I was thinking, wow, nothing happened on Sat/Sun/Mon, time to change channels, and then bam, right back to crazy. When does Ivanka start showing some boobies in see thru's like Paris & Kim? That will certainly up the ratings.
... (Trump) and hit team too!!!
Ever work under a little Caesar, a bully?
I am pretty confident a national lottery would pick a better president.
Unlike narcissist obama, Trump at least is competently putting forward people that work hard and get things done. narcissist obama put syncofants and fellow narcissists in positions of power and then was amazed when they needed to go. stupid liberals gotta stupid, as usual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you pay close attention, you'll notice the big dog himself flopping down on the right side while his minions run around barking and panicking.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
ahhh, we all thought we were ALL GOING TO DIE in five minutes the whole time the sainted Reagan was in office.
The difference is that Trump lets it all hang out for everyone to see.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Margin of Error is a term in geopolitics measuring how much room a country has for making mistakes. It consists of two parts: how much danger the nation faces and how much power it has. US probably enjoys the largest margin of error of all developed nations. (Israel for example has a small margin of error.) So we're going to come out fine. Like Jeff Bridges, I'm rooting for Trump to do well by the country. Stranger things have happened.
Sure this guy is a jackass and we can't wait for him to screw up so badly that he gets kicked out. But I am already very well informed about his progress in this direction from other sources. In fact I stopped watching CNN because hearing about one guy 24/7 is just not that interesting. You do realize you are just feeding the troll with all the free attention right? There must be other interesting and nerdy things happening in the world, that can be discussed in this unique place rather than echoing the rest of Internet.
There's no 'plan'. The only 'plan' is for Donald Trump to make himself "the bestest Presidesident ever! I will be Yuge and there will be so much Winning that people will beg me to stop Winning!"
Donald Trump is going to leave behind a municipal landfill where the Whitehouse was, he will declare himself a Winner, and then some poor schmuck (from either party) will have to clean it up.
...can't even assemble a basic team of people in his cabinet.
It's no wonder Pence is already measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.
*sigh*
You got me to wondering if this entire thing is a countercoup by the military after Putin's coup. Interesting that so many of them are from the Marine Corps. I find that especially worrisome insofar as the Marines' tradition is personal loyalty to the captain of the ship, not loyalty to such higher entities as the nation, the Constitution, or even the ship itself...
Also worrisome that Kelly might be following the dictum about the impossible merely taking a little longer. Curing #PresidentTrump or making him fit to serve as president is as impossible as anything gets. Potentially dangerous delusion?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Hire someone to get rid of people (Priebus, Spicer) and then fire them. Seen it done twice at companies I've worked previously.
In these dirty days, there's no longer any restraint, or fear, about dirt.
Let's play along with your "analysis" - and ask why, then, he hasn't prosecuted, given all the campaign rhetoric. Why is that?
Hardly. Actually, between giggles, the rest of the world is seeing this as a great opportunity to pursue whatever agendas they have that ordinarily would have offended US hegemony.
... it looks increasingly like you guys have some day-by-day ever more batshit crazy shitshow of an adminstration going on over there. A pretty bizarre sight, if you ask me.
Hang in there guys, and please don't let this get out of hand too far, ok? ... Just saying. ... Good luck.
My 2 eurocents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
He's driving the libruls nuts.
Health insurance is for losers anyway.
Seems like this was always the plan. Bring him in to create major drama, push out Priebus and Spicer, and then fire him. With the bonus of more big drama and distraction, and then his own planned ouster. This seems pretty obvious.
Mission Accomplished
The constant drama as planned distractions seems to be working, because the drama is nearly the entire focus of the conversation.
The Trump regime has turned your government into a reality TV show, but instead of going to the green room to bad-mouth the other contestants in private they just go on CNN or Fox or Twitter.
The only real upside is that the whole this is so ineffective it can't do as much damage as people feared. The wall can't get funded, Obamacare is still there... The closest they have come to actually doing something is the half-assed travel ban, despite Trump's best efforts to screw his future self.
HAPPY.
He makes George W. Bush seems presidential.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
"This guy, this guy is such a giant asshole douchebag, he insults people, he threatens them, and he's a big joke! Everyone in the general public and the media is making fun of him, and worst of all, he's embarrassing himself, the administration, the federal government, the nation, the world, the species and in fact, all organized multi-cellular life not only here on Earth, but throughout the universe, wheresoever it may happen to exist!!! THAT'S MY FUCKING JOB!"
He didn't think we could hear his thoughts but... yeah.
Yeah, I saw a news segment about the firings, and they also showed quick flicks of the actors that just lost their income streams, such as Melissa McCarthy as Spicer.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain