Discussion: Mooch Is Committing The Cardinal Sin Of WH Comms: Making Himself The Story

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Gotta love these Republican conservative family values.

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I don’t know about anybody else, but I read all of the Mooch’s statements as sounding like HE thinks he is Chief of Staff.

It is going to be absolutely fascinating to watch the intersection of Mooch and Kelly. Who survives?

And what thinking individual would WANT to be Chief of Staff to a President who makes half his decisions on his own, in the dead of night with no consultation with anyone and leaves his staff to clean up the mess and take the blame.

Groucho said it best: I wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member.

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tRump brought in Scarymooch as just another one of his fixers…but instead of simply taking care of the dead bodies, Scarymooch is killing off the competition first on his own and then dispensing with the carcasses.

“It tells me that he’s not doing the planning and the plotting out of how are they going to support the President’s agenda,

And…that’s because Pr*sident Putt Putt doesn’t really have any plans or specific agenda for the country for the most part. The more distrustful he becomes of everyone around him, the more insulated he’ll become. Pretty soon there will only be a handful of these lackeys left in the White House and then tRump can do his best Howard Hughes imitation and hire a bunch of traveling Mormons to take care of him.

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It appears the Scaramouch needs some coaching. He needs to dial it back and reestablish his credibility, find a mentor, a role model he could imitate, perhaps Sean Spicer (he’s available) or Tommy Flanagan.

Yeah, Tommy. That’s the ticket!

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No one can predict the future, but this Presidency is failing miserably. How it will end is up for grabs. Trump is a buffoon and an embarrassment to the nation and world. Loser!

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This is the classic problem that the WH doesn’t get. Russia and Mueller aren’t PR events. They are legal investigations. The Trumpers seem to think that if they put out enough shiny squirrels, they will just go away. The don’t. Its not, “Oh, look, the NYT is talking about Scaramucci…Mueller must not be doing any work today then”

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“Remember Joe Paterno? What would he say? You have to act like you’ve been there before. Act with honor and dignity and respect and hold the confidence of the presidency and his office.” - says the Mooch

Joe Paterno took a blind eye to his assistant coach Sandusky cornholing underage boys in the shower. Then covered it up. Little boys scared for life. That is who Mooch and the Trump administration hold dear.

“Honor and dignity and respect”, my ass.

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Likely someone already has said this: I think he was chosen to make Trump look not so bad.

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Great Moments in Honor and Dignity and Respect

“How’s Joe Paterno? Are we going to bring that back?”
— Republican front-runner Donald Trump, April 13, 2016, in Pittsburgh, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

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Well, the conservative movement has proven itself to be a fake organization.

It never has had any plan besides the tactics needed to gain power. Now, they’ve got it. And with it, they want our money.

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Tell me the story isn’t always about this guy, everywhere he goes. And does he think a mobbed-up Fonz is really a good look?

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Scott Baio has first dibs.

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This is what white privilege looks like. Imagine Eric Holder giving an interview like that New Yorker piece. I haven’t seen any articles about his fitness to serve in the WH. Yes Trump has set the bar low, but all I’m seeing is mild disgust. No one is saying this scumbag is morally unfit.

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To me it seems like he’s trying to come in as gangbusters

A few stray letters ended up in the middle of a word there. Fixed.

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O/t

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Think it’ll take that long?

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Perhaps in a WH that had an agenda, the comms director should indeed keep from distracting from that agenda. But if you’re comms director in a WH that has no agenda, distractions from that emptiness are good.

Quite aside from vacuity and from lack of any interest in public policy, Trump has this further problem, that he is obviously demented. In addition to memory lapses and inability to learn anything new, the dementia has made him incapable of turning the narcissism on or off when it would benefit or hurt him. He can only do full blast man-child narcissism 24/7.

Trump needs to have someone around who does man-child narcissism even louder, to make it look like Trump is just that way, that this is standard behavior in rich white guys from NYC, and not the result, in Trump’s case, of dementia. Trump needs someone around who is even more florid than he is, but is young enough that it looks like a personality disorder rather than dementia, because if that impression bleeds off on Trump. it’s all to the good. Dementia means removal under the 25th, while a personality disorder is just tough luck for people who have to work with him. Nobody has any sympathy for people who work inside the beltway. Narcissistic Personality Disorder Trump and Scaramucci are just desserts for anyone who works inside the beltway.

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You know, I didn’t really like this reality show when it first started, but with all the batsh!t crazy plot twists lately, I’m starting to get into it!

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Ya know what? Seeing/hearing what I know now (via tweets/CNN), I’m not sure if he’s gone that quick.

Now it says a lot that Preibus perhaps had two (maybe more) opportunities to go after Scaramucci and instead choose to be himself.

While I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy survives past my chosen month, but I have Scaramucci getting fired in late February/early March. Maybe it will take him and Kelly having a falling out to get to that point, however with Trump encouraging Vince McMahon like behavior, don’t be surprised if Kelly leaves, before Scaramucci does.

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