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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    The Mooch is kind of the Kato Kaelin of this administration. He's famous and nobody's going to quite remember why.
     
    FileNotFound, Sep 14, 2017
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  2. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    That would have been yet another great, and sad, story coming out of the WH.
     
    Vombatus, Sep 14, 2017
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  3. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Tell my mom too. You two probably have similar tales.
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Sep 14, 2017
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  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    He'll surround himself with the best people.
     
    JC, Sep 14, 2017
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  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    @Songbird just wants to know what happened to his Jemele and Mike thread. He started that thread months ago to show his appreciation of the two of them, not for any of your silly political arguments. Now it is locked. Poor guy.
     
    poindexter, Sep 14, 2017
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  6. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    How right was Mooch on Steve Bannon, though? Pretty dead on.
     
    Double Down, Sep 14, 2017
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  7. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Don't want to know how you ascertained that, but carry on.
     
    Big Circus, Sep 14, 2017
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  8. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Plus he recently showed his ass in public. Really poor guy.
     
    Vombatus, Sep 14, 2017
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  9. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    More like this:

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    MisterCreosote, Sep 14, 2017
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  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    I did what now?
     
    Songbird, Sep 14, 2017
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  11. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    The 60 Mins interview made it clear as every that Mooch was right, that Bannon's attachment to Trump was all about building his own brand, there was no ideological tether to it. I think the Mooch, as hilarious as he was to make fun of, might have actually been a really effective surrogate for Trump. Bannon wants to convince us he's some super genius "street fighter" when in fact he's really just a complete whore to corporate masters like the Mercers. That entire interview with Rose was a pretzel exercise in auto fellatio.
     
    Double Down, Sep 14, 2017
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  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I wish I felt comfortable telling more. ... but I once had breakfast with him to discuss potential business (the thing went nowhere), and I also did some work for his SALT Conference, which is a hedge fund industry conference he created, which gets heavy hitter speakers from Joe Biden to Ben Bernanke to Dan Loeb, Jeff Gundlach, etc.

    The guy is a born salesman, which particularly in his case comes with a VERY healthy dose of bullshit. ... and raw ambition that he doesn't disguise well. ... but I don't quite think of him as Kato Kaelin, who as far as I know has no discernible skills. Scaramucci had no place anywhere near the White House, let alone a communications job in the White House, but there are other settings in which he actually stands out in a room, if you have ever experienced it. He's really good at ingratiating himself to powerful people with a lot of money and big egos and getting them to work together to do things they they wouldn't have otherwise done. I know that will get eye rolls from some people on here who don't get it, but I find that to be a skill.

    I get what you are saying, FWIW. Most people have no clue what Skybridge Capital was or what the SALT Conference is, and in the carnival / mess of the Trump administration, he quickly became a caricature and a joke.
     
    The Big Ragu, Sep 14, 2017
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