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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScaramucci fires back at Trump's tirade: 'You turn on everyone and soon the entire country'
....Trump started hurling out insults at Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci on Saturday night after seeing him on television talking not too fondly about the president.
"Anthony Scaramucci, who was quickly terminated (11 days) from a position that he was totally incapable of handling, now seems to do nothing but television as the all time expert on President Trump. Like many other so-called television experts, he knows very little about me.....
.....other than the fact that this Administration has probably done more than any other Administration in its first 2 1/2 years of existence. Anthony, who would do anything to come back in, should remember the only reason he is on TV, and its not for being the Mooch!"
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Scaramucci, not to be outdone, didn't take very long to respond to the president, saying he just couldn't support Trump anymore. He doesn't think Trump is good for the country.
"For the last 3 years I have fully supported this President. Recently he has said things that divide the country in a way that is unacceptable. So I didnt make the 100% litmus test. Eventually he turns on on everyone and soon it will be you and then the entire country."
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malaise
(269,187 posts)The Mooch should have completed that thought
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)I don't know if you watch Real Time with Bill Maher. My wife and I do every Friday when he is on, and this Friday he had the Mooch.
Maher said something interesting about rocks and about how you could hit a rock so many times and then it would shatter. So, when you hit it the 49th time nothing happens, but you hit it the 50th and it shatters, and that is Trump's supporters. He will shatter their support for him.
He also had an interesting guy on, Tom Nichols, the author of 'The Death of Expertise' in 2017 and 'No Use' this last year. That one is about nuclear weapons.
So, Nichols made an interesting point. He said, "We're making the mistake here of thinking that Trump has some kind of plan, but there's no plan. He doesn't even understand policy."
I thought that was painfully true. And the other guest, Richard Engel, is one of MSNBC's foreign correspondents. In what I thought was the most profound point made on the show, Engel said that this is an 'angry' country; we have millions of young men walking around in a rage all the time. The discussion moved on before the panel could speculate as to what is the root cause of this rage. I'm still thinking on that - I've got a bunch of ideas, but I think the root cause is the primacy of the shareholder doctrine - the idea that the only responsibility of a CEO is to generate higher earnings for shareholders.
I won't belabor it, but if you think that through, you can see why we have such wealth imbalance, why unions have been busted until they are a shadow of what they were in the fifties and sixties, why our world is approaching an irreversible slide to uninhabitability, and why companies continue to put out dangerous products because it is cheaper to just pay settlements than it would be to fix the dangers.
The root cause, then, is our penchant for profits over people.
malaise
(269,187 posts)turned me off completely. I rarely watch anymore.
Looks like Friday night was very good.
Love your post and agree profits for people is bad news. Society is not a market
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)because of what happened to him when he made that comment after 911 about how it is America's policies that have actually caused the terrorism, or something like that.
Everybody piled on and Maher was out for years.
So, now, he's very careful to be what he perceives to be 'politically correct' around Muslims.
What turns me off about him is when he gets going on religion and wastes precious minutes of his shows arguing against the existence of a divine power. Each their own, you know, but I don't want to hear his 'each.'
But we still watch.
malaise
(269,187 posts)but it's a personal position and I try hard not to impose my views on others
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)clearing.
That fabled clearing at the end of the path...or is that just a gateway? I can't tell you for sure...
malaise
(269,187 posts)We live and then we die - hopefully we did some good deeds along the way.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)jcgoldie
(11,650 posts)Could tell he was starting to straddle the fence a little on Real Time when the best defense he could muster for Trump on any topic was a rather uninspired "you just can't turn on your friends" (rather ironic!)
Great that he's seeing the light on Trump I suppose but unfortunately nobody on either side of any debate gives a fuck what he thinks.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)oasis
(49,410 posts)I don't think it will ever come off.
I will do everything I can do to remind people of Trump and his minions.
CrispyQ
(36,527 posts)I have family & acquaintances that I will never view the same way again.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Get up with fleas
Captain Zero
(6,826 posts)and the other dictators he so admires, and from whom he receives beautiful letters. Trump is a foreign intelligence asset. He has brought other assets for Russia, China, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Israel into the White House with him. Guaranteed.
machoneman
(4,011 posts)And our overall military leadership? Haven't they seen enough of this traitor's moves to cater to Putin?
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)Where do their loyalties lie? I think we find out that answer every day.
tanyev
(42,623 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)CrispyQ
(36,527 posts)Problem solved.
Thirty years of unchallenged right wing hate radio is largely responsible for that attitude.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)drumpf's disciples are finally openly retaliating.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)so called White House Position to enhance his wealth? Remember,he was trying to unload a ETF loaded Hedge Fund for two or three times value .
Met a ton of Mooch type people through the years,anything for a buck.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a walking talking Hustler. Just another Trump in training. Money talks and Bullshit walks and Mooch is the Latter.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)you're a fool to think you were one to begin with. He will turn on his voters soon, they just think he's one of them.
He's an army of one, always and that will never change. He's hated everywhere he's lived and Trump believes that's strength.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Then why did you hire him in the first place, pResident Dipshit?
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)he was never for "the country."
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Well, and money. And himself. I don't even think he'd be all that plussed if one of his kids died, certainly not Melania.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)Gothmog
(145,619 posts)This is amusing
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)Vinca
(50,310 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)He's lost all sense of proportion, 4 d wise.
Happened to Sharkey in that Laurie Anderson song, too.
shanti
(21,675 posts)must've JUST changed his mind on Chump, because he was still supporting him on Bill Maher Friday nite.