Scaramucci fires back at Trump's tirade: 'You turn on everyone and soon the entire country'

[kpete]

....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 it’s not for being the Mooch!"

.............

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 didn’t 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]

1. Soon the entire country will turn on the Con

The Mooch should have completed that thought

[Wounded Bear]

16. No, they won't, but I hope it'll be enough...

[PatrickforO]

20. Seemed like he was leading to that, didn't it?

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]

22. We used to watch him but his non-stop attacks on Muslims

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]

23. I've often thought Maher is so down on Muslims now

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]

24. I'm an atheist myself

but it's a personal position and I try hard not to impose my views on others

[PatrickforO]

25. Well, yeah. Everyone follows their own path. In the end I suspect those paths all end in the same

clearing.

That fabled clearing at the end of the path...or is that just a gateway? I can't tell you for sure...

[malaise]

26. LOL

We live and then we die - hopefully we did some good deeds along the way.

[SMC22307]

36. Not the perpetually insane 30%. (n/t)

[jcgoldie]

2. Poor Mooch

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]

3. Blah blah blah

[oasis]

4. It'll take Mooch years to rid himself of Trump's stench. nt

[mgardener]

15. If ever

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]

29. The stench will forever remain on anyone who voted for this asshole.

I have family & acquaintances that I will never view the same way again.

[UpInArms]

5. Those who lay down with dogs

Get up with fleas

[Captain Zero]

6. It could be argued that Trump has already turned on the entire country with his embrace of Putin

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]

8. Why haven't the intelligence agencies moved to squash the Trumpbug? Really....

And our overall military leadership? Haven't they seen enough of this traitor's moves to cater to Putin?

[Boomerproud]

9. I thought they took an oath to protect this country.

Where do their loyalties lie? I think we find out that answer every day.

[tanyev]

10. +1000. Dump turned on the country some time ago.

[uponit7771]

18. +1,

[CrispyQ]

30. If only we could send everyone who would rather be a Russian than a Democrat to Russia.

Problem solved.

Thirty years of unchallenged right wing hate radio is largely responsible for that attitude.

[democratisphere]

7. Looks like drumpf has taken things too far.

drumpf's disciples are finally openly retaliating.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Did Mooch use his

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]

19. I think he just wanted to be famous and close to power. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

21. Mooch is just

a walking talking Hustler. Just another Trump in training. Money talks and Bullshit walks and Mooch is the Latter.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Fuck you Scar...you have earned scorn from more than just Agent Orange. nt

[Corgigal]

13. Trump doesn't do friends,

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]

14. "a position that he was totally incapable of handling"

Then why did you hire him in the first place, pResident Dipshit?

[Wounded Bear]

17. Trump can't "turn on the country"...

he was never for "the country."

[SMC22307]

27. The only thing that fucker Trump cares about is "being on TV."

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]

28. Moochie, Moochie, Moochie... You didn't read the fine print.

In return for untold riches and professional satisfaction, employee agrees to kiss Donald Trump's mammoth ass 100% of the time. Any lesser percentage is unacceptable and grounds for immediate termination.

[Gothmog]

31. trump has lost the Mooch

This is amusing

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Yet two nights ago he was kissing Trump's ass on Bill Maher.

[Vinca]

33. Too little too late. The Mooch will always be a subservient ass kisser

[Mc Mike]

34. Soon the entire country? He seems to have become unstuck in time.

He's lost all sense of proportion, 4 d wise.

Happened to Sharkey in that Laurie Anderson song, too.

[shanti]

35. The Mooch

must've JUST changed his mind on Chump, because he was still supporting him on Bill Maher Friday nite.

[UniteFightBack]

37. rump is successful at fucking the American people over and he'll do it one by one if he has to. nt