tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post2656794586534203810..comments2024-03-28T15:58:56.369-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Trump needs warriors, not perfect gentlemen, to winagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-77415835178399710862017-08-03T19:07:29.599-04:002017-08-03T19:07:29.599-04:00Blind Gossip has an interesting article about Trum...Blind Gossip has an interesting article about Trump's staff:<br /><br />"Gordo, The First Guy, thought he was destined to be The Hand Of The King. He tried to pull focus to himself practically the first day the ascension was announced… and was quickly given a big push out the door.<br /><br />Scooter, The Second Guy, did not try to steal the limelight from the King. However, his quirky behavior caused the public to focus on (and ridicule) his behavior rather than focus on the King’s message. Pulling focus from the message and inciting ridicule are as big of sins as pulling focus from The King himself. Buh bye.<br /><br />Wimpy, The Third Guy, was named Hand Of The King, but he was ineffective and disloyal. The latter is the worst thing you could be. See ya.<br /><br />Slimy, The Fourth Guy, kissed up to The King more than anyone else, but his big undisciplined mouth immediately thrust him into spotlight and pulled focus from The King’s accomplishments and The King’s message. Dumb. Next.<br /><br />The secret to succeeding in the Royal Household?<br /><br /> DO. YOUR. F*CKING. JOB! [The King’s] world is chaotic so he counts on you to bring order and discipline. Your job is not to create drama or be the star! Your job is to serve. Those who do their jobs quietly and effectively and methodically and loyally without pulling focus from [The King] OR [The King’s] message will do fine.<br /><br />Steely, The Fifth Guy, has all the desired qualities, and we predict he will succeed as Hand Of The King."<br /><br />The Guesses are<br /><br />Gordo: Chris Christie<br />Scooter: Sean Spicer<br />Wimpy: Reince Priebus<br />Slimy: Anthony Scaramucci<br />Steely: Michael Kelly<br /><br />Interestingly, the article mentions "wimpy"(Reince Priebus), as being disloyal.<br /><br />http://blindgossip.com/?p=86355#more-86355<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-59412105497544981402017-08-01T16:32:01.243-04:002017-08-01T16:32:01.243-04:00Matt Well, top pick to replace Mooch (per Cernovic...Matt Well, top pick to replace Mooch (per Cernovich), is a GOPe hack. Part of Swamp group (45committee) that targeted Gray in the primary for GA special election, and favored Handel instead.<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-is-first-battle-in-the-civil-war-between-gop-outside-groups<br /><br />Gray was squishy on Trump in 2016, but in special election ran on being the most willing to align with Trump -- willing to adapt. Handel was a NeverTrumper, and remained so during special election. Gray was a businessman, Handel a career politician.<br /><br />Matt Well did work in the "war room" during transition to hype up Trump's nominees, but most of them were Establishment-friendly anyway. When it came to Trump faction vs. GOPe faction in an internal GOP primary in GA, Matt Well chose the GOPe side.<br /><br />Matt Well's policy pursuits are standard corporate Republican BS like tort reform. Did PR for the SEC.<br /><br />So in place of a pro-Trump outsider like Mooch, we get an anti-Trump GOPe Beltway hack. And Priebus' replacement now seals off access to Trump, so that even Bannon reports to CoS rather than directly to the Pres.<br /><br />Shift toward the worse so far.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7295888933099577522017-08-01T13:29:13.315-04:002017-08-01T13:29:13.315-04:00Trump was amused by the NY-er interview, so his in...Trump was amused by the NY-er interview, so his intuition was that Mooch's Bannon remarks were just shit-talking between rivals in the workplace.<br /><br />Trump only got uneasy when the negative media coverage started piling up.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-62073616116525852582017-08-01T08:42:51.042-04:002017-08-01T08:42:51.042-04:00Good reminder, Ag. But that was far beyond a lick...Good reminder, Ag. But that was far beyond a lick and it sounds like Bannon is redeemed in having intuited something about the guy. Not to hate on him, no, or even say he's a bad guy. But when Cernovich came out with #MoochMemes and was all loving on this man who just dissed so badly and baldly one of the *good guys*... it was weird and where I'm from, this man would have been beaten within an inch of his life for what he said.<br /><br />We only see the tiny tip of the iceberg, but visiting that kind of public humiliation on someone is a giant tell that something is a bit off.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1037961023837359722017-08-01T02:05:03.151-04:002017-08-01T02:05:03.151-04:00Bannon was already gunning for Mooch to be gone, l...Bannon was already gunning for Mooch to be gone, long before the NY-er interview. Along with Priebus, Bannon was dead-set against Mooch becoming the Comms Director. They both intensely lobbied Trump not to hire Mooch to begin with.<br /><br />Trump hired him over Bannon's objections.<br /><br />So if anything Mooch was just getting some licks in at the guy who tried to keep him from the Comms job. The sucking-his-own-dick remark did not provoke Bannon -- he was already provoked by Mooch even having the chance of getting that job, let alone once he got over-ruled by Trump and Mooch appeared to be there for good.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84776519448816591262017-08-01T01:07:08.338-04:002017-08-01T01:07:08.338-04:00I'm listening to Cernovich going on about how ...I'm listening to Cernovich going on about how devastating the Trump firing of Mooch was...<br /><br />I'm 14:00 in and there is nothing about Mooch's interview where he trashed Bannon and Priebus. Yeah, it was entertaining, but in the real world, you won't get away with that. What kind of a man would allow another man to say he sucks his own you-know-what and get away with it?<br /><br />I read that interview and knew the man was a goner. You *cannot* do that to other men. Unless he's a total cuck, you're not getting away with that. Donald Trump is too much of a Culture of Honor man to have countenanced it.<br /><br />Another thing: the idea that Trump loves an obsequious person is way oversold. In fact, it's the opposite: he's wary of such people. "What's their angle?" "He's false." Trump is no different than anybody else is liking to be flattered (and he famously flatters himself), but people wrongly deduce he likes flattery more than most. He values loyalty more than most. Not the same thing.<br /><br />I am *very* anxious about Kelly, but the idea that the guy who said the things he did -totally meaning for them to be heard, by the way- wasn't going to pay a price? For a man to think Mooch could get away with that...he does NOT come from an honor culture. It doesn't matter -just interesting- but it's a tell that the Game/Pua/persuasion crowd doesn't come from a Culture of Honor.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1621836094675606562017-07-26T15:01:18.128-04:002017-07-26T15:01:18.128-04:00Flynn was a doer -- that's why he was kicked o...Flynn was a doer -- that's why he was kicked out by Obama. He uncovered the fact that we were arming the jihadists in Syria, and tried getting that info out there to stop the practice.<br /><br />He also went on RT and more or less said that the 2013 chemical attack in Syria was a false flag by the jihadists to try to get the Pentagon to strike Assad. The matter was brought up in a question/comment, and he did not deny it, and said yeah it's possible, we know that they do that kind of thing all the time, and kept his answer going for a good minute or so, rather than a quick dismissal.<br /><br />He also re-organized the National Security Council when he was the Advisor, demoting the usual Pentagon and CIA Deep Staters, and elevating guys like Bannon. He wanted to re-organize and purge a lot of the intel community.<br /><br />Plus talking with Russia to pave the way for "getting along with Russia".<br /><br />Because he was such a doer rather than a talker, the Deep State coup took him out first, almost immediately. The NSC reverted to its old structure, demoting Bannon and re-elevating the CIA / Pentagon brass.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6109789473740515502017-07-26T13:04:43.865-04:002017-07-26T13:04:43.865-04:00The difference between Flynn and Mattis is that Fl...The difference between Flynn and Mattis is that Flynn is a media figure who has written a book(about how to win the war over Radical Islam) and appears on news shows. He has other interests, like selling his books, or his private equity consulting, and is just more dedicated towards his persona of a no-nonsense tough-talker.<br /><br />"Prior to his short-lived role in the Trump Administration, Flynn consulted for private equity firm Francisco Partners – owner of Procera Networks, which was controversial for its work with the Turkish government.<br />Flynn also was a paid advisor for Francisco portfolio company NSO Group, an Israeli cybersecurity company whose software was used by the Mexican government to spy on journalists and anti-corruption advocates. This past weekend there was an Israeli media report that The Blackstone Group is in talks to buy a 40% stake in NSO, while ClearSky would purchase another 10%."<br /><br />https://www.axios.com/michael-flynn-returns-to-private-equity-consulting-2464643201.htmlCurtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84093456111699152102017-07-26T12:15:15.993-04:002017-07-26T12:15:15.993-04:00"Persona-crafting aside"
This is the pr..."Persona-crafting aside"<br /><br />This is the problem, in that politics in general selects for personality-types that are good at crafting a certain type of image - farmers/abstract-oriented. Even Flynn may have been more of a phony type, just willing to go farther to preserve the false image.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-51042812969694886312017-07-26T07:27:17.248-04:002017-07-26T07:27:17.248-04:00In a small economy the big pay off for a civil ser...In a small economy the big pay off for a civil servant is promotion to Brussels and the EU. So the authorities push the Poz but the 93 IQ Paddy is as natural a Shit Lord as you will ever find. He just needs a worthy leader to step forward and he'll be goose stepping past the G.P.O. in no time.<br /><br />A dirt poor peasant who is a bit dim compared to the locals, newly landed in the US, has to lean heavily on his ethnic network. Who else is going to support a Mick? A Wasp, a Jew, a black?<br /><br />Other West Europeans assimilated because they didn't have the numbers except for Italians. Germans didn't want to draw attention to their ethnic background because of the Wars. Irish were able to keep up their ethnic pride because a population of 5 million potato farmers is a threat to no one.<br /><br />Every Irish American I know is unabashedly proud to be American and their Irish pride is countered by an strong belief that America is vastly superior.<br /><br />The idea that they haven't assimilated because they identify as Irish and cooperate is like claiming mormons haven't assimilated.Ulick McGeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-51990000681153259252017-07-26T02:13:24.105-04:002017-07-26T02:13:24.105-04:00Persona-crafting aside, Mattis is a company man fo...Persona-crafting aside, Mattis is a company man for the Pentagon.<br /><br />Flynn was more of a warrior type.<br /><br />Anytime you hear the media gushing over someone's "broad bipartisan support" and "impeccable credentials," they're an inoffensive gentleman type.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38456374478738177312017-07-25T23:04:03.158-04:002017-07-25T23:04:03.158-04:00In the novel "The Fourth K", by Mario Pu...In the novel "The Fourth K", by Mario Puzo(the author of "The Godfather"), an Attorney General conspires to assassinate his president. The FBI keeps a list of all individuals who have publicly threatened to harm the president or any other politician; the Attorney General simply goes into that list, and removes the name of the lunatic he considers to be the most dangerous - which results in an assassination.<br /><br />I don't actually think Pompeo would do that, but its interesting that mentioned it.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52599756937072697362017-07-25T22:59:51.227-04:002017-07-25T22:59:51.227-04:00MattisMattisAndy Krausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02330495038046047163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-74855113914096492782017-07-25T21:48:05.141-04:002017-07-25T21:48:05.141-04:00Roger Stone on Alex Jones says Trump is mulling Mi...Roger Stone on Alex Jones says Trump is mulling Mike Pompeo to replace Sessions. Pompeo, the CIA Director, is a Deep Stater who would be a million times worse in the most important role of the AG here-and-now -- repelling the Deep State coup.<br /><br />Adding Pompeo would immediately raise Trump's risk of assassination by an order of magnitude -- like Reagan having to bring former CIA Director George HW Bush on as VP.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-85883942531908942602017-07-25T19:25:27.956-04:002017-07-25T19:25:27.956-04:00"And their Motherland counterparts are more a..."And their Motherland counterparts are more anti-immigration and Euroskeptic in Italy vs. Ireland"<br /><br />Doesn't this have to do with historical conflicts? NW Euros have mostly fought other whites, historically. So that's why Irish and Anglo Brits blow each other up, while there's no where near as much hostility to Muslims.<br /><br />And this plays out in America, too, wherein many whites feel greater hostility to whites of other regions than they do to complete foreigners.<br /><br />One could put this down to PC, but then, why is sometimes violent animosity between different white ethnic/regional groups still apparent after decades of growing PC?<br /><br />Mediterranean and Slavic whites, having fended off Muslims and Mongols at various points in the past, are more willing to judge and confront non-whites.Ferylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01336057631877941839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-34472139830252554512017-07-25T16:02:51.741-04:002017-07-25T16:02:51.741-04:00Gowdy is a just an kabuki actor -- what ever came ...Gowdy is a just an kabuki actor -- what ever came of the hearings about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, etc.?<br /><br />And he's the Chair of the Oversight Committee at a time when the Deep State is staging a coup in plain sight against the President of the Chair's "own party," while the Chair's colleagues on the Intel Committee allow the witch hunt to proceed as though coups were totally normal in America.<br /><br />If he's complicit by inaction, while holding an influential role, he cannot be trusted. agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2405386743021428742017-07-25T15:41:09.786-04:002017-07-25T15:41:09.786-04:00A general rule is "more Italian-Americans&quo...A general rule is "more Italian-Americans". They're more pragmatic than ideological, more territorial than permissive, and more from a Culture of Honor than a Culture of Legalism (especially "an eye for an eye").<br /><br />If there were Scotch-Irish hillbillies willing to infiltrate the Swamp, recruit them too, but they tend to want to stay in their homeland. As do the Italian-Americans, but their home turf includes the ACELA corridor.<br /><br />We flipped so many Democrat strongholds up and down the East Coast, where working-class and middle-class Italian-Americans live. Like Suffolk County, Long Island (population 1.5 MILLION -- not a rural revolt), right next door to Scaramucci's home town.<br /><br />Aside from Mooch and Rudy, there's Roger Stone, Tammy Bruce, Mark Simone, Joe Piscopo (not Chris Christie, the only one who should be barred), Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and so on and so forth.<br /><br />Throw in the Near Eastern Christians too, they're similar enough. Taleb, Judge Jeanine, Walid Phares, Ralph Nader (head of Antitrust Division at DoJ), and the Levantine cheerleader squad on Twitter. Taleb said the only bad one is Peter Daou, a Hillary hack.<br /><br />No Greeks, though -- they have resisted assimilation, and still refer to themselves as "the Greeks" rather than "Greek-Americans". They're still kneejerk Democrats. The Podestas, Stephanapoulos, Nomiki Konst, and even the half-Greek rat Reince Priebus.<br /><br />No Irish either. They too have largely refused to assimilate if they came over during the Ellis Island era. Even the Republican ones like Sean Spicer, always referring to "the Irish" rather than "Irish-Americans," calling the Prime Minister by the Celtic title Taoiseach, etc.<br /><br />Too sentimental, and also too bullheaded for its own sake -- willing to get into a brawl no matter if it leads right over a cliff, rather than brawl toward a purpose. Bannon can be the token bar-room brawler; in general we need laser-like hitmen.<br /><br />Way too many Ellis Island Irish are still kneejerk Democrats, like Tammany Hall never ended. The Joe Biden kind of garbage.<br /><br />And their Motherland counterparts are more anti-immigration and Euroskeptic in Italy vs. Ireland. Even the populist mayor of Rome, a mixture of the Bernie and Trump movements (or if Macron and Le Pen fused together), wants to keep immigrant hordes out of her city.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-91781193341181108162017-07-25T15:13:44.144-04:002017-07-25T15:13:44.144-04:00Scaramucci is another New York hitman who's tu...Scaramucci is another New York hitman who's turning out nice so far, firing a GOPe traitor who slithered his way into the WH after abandoning Trump during the campaign like the rest of the Establishment. A top Priebus ally, Michael Short.<br /><br />Great troll too:<br /><br />' “This is the problem with the leaking,” [Scaramucci] said. “This is actually a terrible thing. Let’s say I’m firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.” '<br /><br />That's proof that he's loyal to Trump and not the Establishment, whose candidates he backed at the beginning of the primary (Walker and Bush). But he's a non-ideological money man, so he only wanted to bet on the winning horse, not try to ram through a deeply unpopular agenda against the American people.<br /><br />Giuliani was pro-sanctuary cities -- but then proves loyalty to Trump's vision and away from lax immigration by crafting the Muslim ban.<br /><br />If they were just moles or plants for the GOPe, they never would have fired on their own like that. It's like testing whether a new member to Gang A is loyal, or a potential saboteur from Gang B -- have them kill a known member of Gang B, and if they refuse, they're an infiltrator.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-31561324762580135492017-07-25T13:07:30.615-04:002017-07-25T13:07:30.615-04:00Trey Gowdy would be a good AG. He's Doberman-W...Trey Gowdy would be a good AG. He's Doberman-Wolverine hybrid. I like Sessions at Homeland Security; this is where I thought he would be appointed in the first place.ConantheContrariannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-13160341915728276242017-07-25T13:02:39.147-04:002017-07-25T13:02:39.147-04:00"People need to put aside their concerns over..."People need to put aside their concerns over their personal image, and do what's best for the team to win against the advancing army with guns drawn."<br /><br />Good luck finding a politician like that, LOL.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38844381665131368392017-07-25T10:12:14.665-04:002017-07-25T10:12:14.665-04:00Sorry, that last sentence isn't clear. Trump ...Sorry, that last sentence isn't clear. Trump making Sessions AG might show that Trump never conceived that his opponents would be so ferocious (or even exactly who they are and the nature of their beefs). It's been clear to me for awhile that the ideological mind is very foreign to Trump, but they make up nearly 100% of the MSM and many of his politician-detractors. He's learning very quickly.Dahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-42296409754021840232017-07-25T10:07:51.224-04:002017-07-25T10:07:51.224-04:00Yeah, it's very simple: the Trump administrati...Yeah, it's very simple: the Trump administration has to become even more working class New York. The brawlers have to be brought in.<br />I suspected from the beginning that Trump balked on Sessions as veep because he sensed he was too soft. If true, then even Trump must have been surprised by the ferocity of his opponents, making him AG, especially since Trump doesn't have that crippling, ideological mind.Dahlianoreply@blogger.com