"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
August 01, 2017, 01:30 PM
Rey HRH
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Originally posted by parabellum: Dey whacked 'im and there's nuttin' anybody could do about it.
Great line.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
August 01, 2017, 01:30 PM
BamaJeepster
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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by deepocean:
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Originally posted by Crom: With Mattis and Kelly now both in the Cabinet
Does anyone know if those two like each other?
Perhaps we can arrange a play date and observe them from the kitchen.
They did serve together - Mattis was the 2 star commander of the 1st Marine Division in Iraq and Kelly was his 1 star assistant commander. Each recommended the other for SecDef when they initially met with Trump.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
August 01, 2017, 01:31 PM
deepocean
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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
They did serve together - Mattis was the 2 star commander of the 1st Marine Division in Iraq and Kelly was his 1 star assistant commander. Each recommended the other for SecDef when they initially met with Trump.
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
August 01, 2017, 02:52 PM
threefeathers
He reminds me of a character in Godfather. I graduated from High School with two of the Bonanos who were actually nicer than this guy.
Scouts Out
August 01, 2017, 02:57 PM
rusbro
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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by deepocean:
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Originally posted by Crom: With Mattis and Kelly now both in the Cabinet
Does anyone know if those two like each other?
Perhaps we can arrange a play date and observe them from the kitchen.
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
August 01, 2017, 03:23 PM
jsbcody
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Originally posted by deepocean:
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Originally posted by Crom: With Mattis and Kelly now both in the Cabinet
Does anyone know if those two like each other?
I don't know for sure but they both came to the funeral for a Marine who died on Tarawa and his body was just recently found:
That’s pretty much the message from abruptly ousted would-be White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.
For those that missed last week’s events (or who just can’t hear it enough), Anthony Scaramucci, after a filthy diatribe to a reporter with the New Yorker, where he called then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus a “f***ing paranoid schizophrenic,” and suggested chief strategist Steve Bannon committed some obscene act of self-pleasuring, was booted from his position and escorted from the White House grounds after less than two weeks on the job.
A CNN reporter tweeted the events shorter after it all went down: AprilDRyan ✔ @AprilDRyan "A source says @Scaramucci said I don't report to you and the General said your gone and he is"
Yeah. When I’m stressed, lately, I just come back, read this tweet, and laugh and laugh and laugh!
Well, the Mooch is speaking up now, and he wants to explain the interview that resulted in John Kelly treating him like an obnoxious welp, and pulling him out by his ear, like Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp and the bested Faro dealer, in “Tombstone.”
And if you don’t get that reference, please remedy that by watching the movie, Tombstone immediately. Val Kilmer’s “Doc Holliday” portrayal will change your life.
Said Scaramucci of the shocking piece:
“Most of what I said was humorous and joking,” Scaramucci told Huffpost on Tuesday. “Legally, it may have been on the record, but the spirit of it was off. And he knew that.”
Seriously, nothing about that piece seemed “humorous” to me.
He went on.
“The Lizzas and Scaramuccis have been friends for over 50 years,” Scaramucci told Huffpost on Tuesday. “My dad knew his dad from construction, and we were building a personal relationship.
Oh.
So what does Ryan Lizza, the reporter who broke the offensive piece say:
“I’ve only known Anthony in his capacity as a Trump surrogate and then White House communications director,” Lizza told Huffpost. “We are not and have never been ‘old family friends,’ though I think our fathers knew each other, so maybe that’s what he’s talking about. (The Long Island Italian world in that generation is relatively small.) But again that would not be a reason to suppress an explosive on-the-record interview.”
That makes sense. More sense than “Our dads knew each other. You owe me.”
Scaramucci also spoke about the conversation with now-chief of staff John Kelly, that ended with his being escorted out.
“It was a very polite conversation,” Scaramucci said.
He said he spoke with Trump later Monday over the phone after leaving the White House.
“The president told me he knows I have his back, but he has to try to tighten the ship,” Scaramucci said.
A polite conversation?
Polite conversations don’t usually result in being escorted off the premises, but I guess he’s got to say that, doesn’t he?
Saving face can be exhausting, after all.
Meanwhile, the Mooch promises that after a period of “going dark,” he’ll reemerge as – - himself.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
August 02, 2017, 10:49 AM
Gustofer
Ah...the old "I was just joking" excuse. Riiiiiight.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
August 02, 2017, 10:56 AM
parabellum
Stick to your guns, Ant'ny. Don't make excuses. It makes you look weak.
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
August 02, 2017, 11:25 AM
jhe888
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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Rather Trump make the right call to remove/replace someone as soon as it is appearant that they are not/no longer fit for the position, then to be wishy-washy and let them do damage.
That is decisive leadership.
Or as RhinoWSO always sez:
It would be even better leadership not to give the job to a tool like The Mooch in the first place, and to recognize that you can't give someone in that position unfettered access in derogation of the Chief of Staff's responsibilities.
In other words, Trump shouldn't have given the Mooch the job in the first place and especially with that power. That is poor leadership.
I do hope that Kelly imposes some discipline on that hot mess. That would allow them to get more shit done.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
August 02, 2017, 11:31 AM
jhe888
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Originally posted by Sig209:
If GORSUCH is the ONLY thing that comes from the Trump presidency it will be worth it. That WIN right there is worth the price of admission all by itself.
I sure as hell hope we aren't comforting ourselves with that at the end of Trump's presidency. I hope better appointments, and that Kelly is one of them, will help the White House get more of its agenda accomplished. We have had a decent start, but they could be doing much more.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
August 02, 2017, 11:33 AM
46and2
Mooch spoke more truth in his Bannon comments than most have heard in DC in ages.
