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Fund Manager #@$%*! Fired as Trump's Communications Director
Took a shower after watching that Mooch talked. Slick as a stock broker I dealt with in the distance past - not a pleasant experience until I read Warren Buffet books.
New Yorkers like to curse. I'll be honest. The thing that's so disappointing about Mooch and his boss is how bad they are at it. At least if they could get someone who was good at the dozens it would be more interesting.
Also, he refers to himself in the third person:
He cryptically suggested that he had more information about White House aides. “O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago,” he said. “This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys."
That's generally how crazy megalomaniacal people talk, as they think their persona is so vast it exists outside themselves. Who refers to himself as 'the Mooch?" Maybe this guy:
I had thought about that. But as you noted, he's bad at it. You have to recognize that he's just a Noo Yawker wannabe from Port Washington, Long Island. Not even bridge and tunnel (outer borough - NYC outside Manhattan).
@Ted That's pretty funny. I keep thinking of Seinfeld's Jimmy who refers to himself in the third person and, of course, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Given his name, it seems highly likely that one of Mooch's ancestors played the fool in the Commedia dell'arte. That's another cultural reference--Everybody Plays the Fool.
@MSF Yeah, that links pretty funny too. I miss hearing girls in my neighborhood call Star Trek "Shtaww Twekk." "For" was always "faw" as in "whacha do dat faw?"
Some of the exchange reminds me of Godfather. Sonny just arrived and he is gonna *** with their rival turf. Micheal demands loyalty and has his older brother robbed off in fear for his testimony to FBI.
These guys are New Yorker wannabes; real New Yorkers would eat them for lunch and breakfast, and do. And there is not a Michael or Vito (or Connie) among them; they are all Sonnys and Fredos.
While preparing for his move into government, Scaramucci struck a deal — which is still under regulatory scrutiny — to sell his stake in his hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital, to Chinese conglomerate HNA Group and another company. He assumed that he’d be put in charge of the public liaison office, a job that Valerie Jarrett held in the Obama administration. He had it all mapped out, according to the White House adviser. He identified 2,500 influential business leaders across the United States and had come up with a clever name for them: Trump Team 2,500. He believed these people would help pressure Congress into supporting the president’s agenda.
Priebus blocked Scaramucci from getting a top administration job in January, telling the president that Scaramucci “played” Trump, according to a source. Scaramucci now calls Priebus “Rancid Penis.”
But Scaramucci’s plans were foiled in early January. That’s when Priebus, according to a confidant of both Scaramucci and the president, told Trump, “He played you.”
“How’s that?” Trump asked Priebus, according to the same source, who has spoken to several people within the White House about the conversation.
Priebus then told Trump that he felt Scaramucci had been offered too much for SkyBridge by HNA Group. The deal, he implied, smelled bad — as if the Chinese might expect favors from within the administration for that inflated price. The source also said that Priebus mentioned there was email traffic between Scaramucci and the Chinese proving this.
The White House rejected this version of events and declined to make Priebus available for comment.
These guys are New Yorker wannabes; real New Yorkers would eat them for lunch and breakfast, and do. And there is not a Michael or Vito (or Connie) among them; they are all Sonnys and Fredos.
@Sven- Sorry about that- I looked at the top of the page on my browser, and there you were. Failed to notice that it was page 2, not page 1. I get the dummy award for today!
Yes, it was a rough week for him. His wife filed for divorce. Harvard listed him as deceased while he got fire before he officially to take his position.
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon
I swear, but I don't talk like that.
Also, he refers to himself in the third person: That's generally how crazy megalomaniacal people talk, as they think their persona is so vast it exists outside themselves. Who refers to himself as 'the Mooch?" Maybe this guy:
I had thought about that. But as you noted, he's bad at it. You have to recognize that he's just a Noo Yawker wannabe from Port Washington, Long Island. Not even bridge and tunnel (outer borough - NYC outside Manhattan).
Regards,
Ted
Judy Collins: Send In The Clowns:
@MSF Yeah, that links pretty funny too. I miss hearing girls in my neighborhood call Star Trek "Shtaww Twekk." "For" was always "faw" as in "whacha do dat faw?"
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_597b6e06e4b02a8434b63e5a
From the article:
Somewhere in DC, I'm sure Sean Spicer is giggling like a loon right now.
businessinsider.com/donald-trump-whiner-whining-president-2015-8
Note: He actually said this.
(Chris Hayes, msnbc, on Scaramucci)
Fund Manager WAS to Be Trump's Communications Director
Looks like the Marines sorted this one out nicely!
(yes, I am not a fan of this administration ... or any in recent memory, for that matter)
OJ
Who??