MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Mooch: "I’m not trying to suck my own cock"
By Michael Wolraich on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 6:24pm |“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” shouted communications director (ahem) Anthony Scaramucci to journalist Ryan Lizzie. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.”
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“Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ”
Heck of a job, Moochie
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http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon
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Also: "I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly."
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 6:26pm
Mike... That all fits neatly under this header at Dag...
Meet Mooch - The Newest Weasel Polishing The Russian Turd in the White House
Sun, 07/23/2017 - 5:41am
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~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 6:39pm
Yep, mini-Trump
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 6:44pm
So much for the idea that Mooch would be a smoother version of Spicer and Conway. Lots of us were wrong on that point.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 7:24pm
Yeah, unfortunately one can't judge who the gangstas are by their initial appearance anymore. It was so easy back in the days before Michael Corleone.
The Joker he is.
Meanwhile SNL writers are missing a golden opportunity being on hiatus.
Is actually interesting because makes me wonder if this kind of talk has become so standard on "Wall Street" (From Wikipedia: In 2011, Scaramucci received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award New York Award in the Financial Services category and[26] in 2016 was ranked #85 in Worth magazine's "Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance."[27] ) and they are so insulated from Main Street that someone like him doesn't even realize that talking like that is still considered offensive even though it is common in movies.
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 8:18pm
Classy! Bigtime! Bratva meets The New Yorker! Fuggedabout Tony Soprano and NYPost, moving on up!
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 7:33pm
While having a heart attack, Krauthammer screams: Being a New Yorker is no excuse
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 8:02pm
Onion Fact Checks: Anthony Scaramucci’s ‘New Yorker’ Interview
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 8:02pm
That was, excuse me, fucking hilarious
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 9:57pm
Sorry, what's wrong with sucking your own cock? Never will understand New Yorkers.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 6:55am
Makes me think Lizza recorded the conversation (or furiously made notes, as Mooch isn't denying anything) ... otherwise how could he quote him in such length? Best thing I've read in ages.
by barefooted on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 8:47pm
Yep, he said it's recorded
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 10:05pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 9:09pm
Pulitzer candidate for most quotable source. Is that a thing? It should be
Sure, the language is offensive/hilarious, but something about his whole attitude reminds me of that line about academic politics being the most vicious and bitter because the stakes are so low. I.e. it's only about vanity. it's petty, small-minded in all senses of the word.
To these guys in the WH, they are similarly vicious and bitter and unserious because, to them, nothing that really matters is at stake, other than their own vanity. The country can go to hell, the world can turn into a massive garbage fire, as long as "they" somehow get the better of whoever they see as a rival that day. They really really don't give a shit.
The republican establishment has long been asshole-heavy, but this is a whole different kind of asshole.
by Obey on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 5:50am
I didn't think it possible, but pussy grabbing now seems quaint. The Singularity seems to be coming way too fast.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 6:56am
You realize you describe pure Wall St. ethos here? See "Bonfire of the Vanities". Just sayin'
People who still think this way do believe it is the way of the world, that's why it's the stuff of good novels.
And yes, it is different from classic GOP version, there you had nobless oblige.
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 12:54pm
Following the "Bonfire of the Vanities" template, from the NYPost's infamous gossip page this evening, my underlining
Ironically, this is the very same "Page Six" that Donald Trump used to try to spin to his advantage back in the day of his divorces and on various business and "brand" related issues
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 9:24pm
Named 'Deidre' even. Getting Shakespearian. Richard III style, my favorite. Maybe Deidre will return on horseback to lop off the King's head. Vest thy words, mustn't say such things.
Can you imagine this loon at ExIm Bank?
So Scarface has made his mark as The Donald's spokesman, and he just put a General in as his "Chief of Staff" (meaning the "Big Dick", get it? staff? dick? such punnery), symbolizing a meeting of mafia and military coup/alliance we could have never posited. These are interesting times, without the Chinese's entry yet even...
5 boroughs, 5 families, can't wait. Game of Thrones is so last year.
PS - Oh my, "Lord of the Flies" as well.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 1:26am
It really is Bonfire of the Vanities, season 2: DC Dumpsterfire of Pomposity.
by Obey on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 6:30am
Not even pompous - decidedly low-brow, like when Paris and Ritchie went to the Ozarks - but with the Sopranos! Shame Chris Christie couldnt make it - is he still stuck on that beach, NJ reality show?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 7:55am
Where the scatological merges seamlessly with sophomoric entitlement?
Roll the Dice, baby:
by moat on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 12:02pm
I definitely see a very strong element of white DooWop culture in Scaramucci's rant. I was reminded of this by Obey bringing in the word pomposity, which made me think of Steve Miller's famous created phrase pompatous of love, the whole song "The Joker" riffs off DooWop culture some. New Joisy does have this deep in it, too, and I think PP's reference to Chris Christie also very apt. This is where Bruce Springsteen and Andrew Dice Clay cross paths: up yours, motherfucker!
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 1:34pm
Do you know Clay's "presumptious" joke? Used to be one of my standards until I realized people had trouble talking to me afterwards. Okay, that didn't stop me either...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 2:16pm
I don't know it, went googling, not sure. The one with the underage punchline?
(I don't know a lot of his jokes because I haven't listened much because mostly he doesn't make me laugh, not because it's dirty.)
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 6:51pm
Side note, I found the joke I mention on Reddit.com/jokes. They've got a great line for forums above the the sign in box, with the old Microsoft Clippie character asking: It looks like you're writing unsubstantiated nonsense. Would you like to turn on all caps?
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 7:07pm
Yes, that's the one - perhaps the only one I heard of his, perhaps the only one I liked. YMMV. Worried now that I should be writing in caps all the time, or perhaps cap-bold-italics...
"A pedophile and a young boy are walking into a dark forest. The boy says to the pedophile, 'I'm scared'. The pedophile responds, 'you think you're scared - I have to walk out of here alone.'"
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/30/2017 - 12:52am
I think this one is way funnier than that one and also more over the line, maybe it's funnier because of that. Makes clearer why I don't find Clay funny, his stuff is just standard guido type talk. I react like this: I don't get why people are laughing, haven't they met any stupid oafs that talk like this all the time?
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/30/2017 - 12:29pm
Comes to mind that maybe it is a male/female difference this way: women who have spent time in the bar pickup scene have all had had to deal with guys like the Clay character, really that disgusting. that try to pick you up with gross locker room and macho crap, as if they think you would find it attractive. And there might be a Anita Hill type effect going on, where guys go: really, guys actually do that to you?. There are a lot more of them out there doing that than less clueless men suspect. Men talk like Scaramucci with other men but they don't use that on women. But there are also a lot of clueless guys out there who do. Women see a lot of Andrew Dice Clay's in their life, so it's not as shocking, just: oh that, yuck.
Edit to add: and yes, the Trump "pussy" tape is exactly that. It is not amusing, it signals that this guy is: a real ass, doesn't get it. Hence the huge reaction with the women's protests after inauguration, even non-feminist. That is what signaled that he is that kind of guy more than anything else. The whole beauty pageant thing was another clue but not as strong. The billionaire taking of trophy wives is not the same thing, not all women react so viscerally to that, it is not signifying that: this guy is a clueless disgusting oaf that doesn't get it.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/30/2017 - 12:53pm
To be clear, "presumptious" is a guy's joke, usually to gross out other guys who wouldn't go that far. And I tell it better than Clay, perhaps because I'm not as stoopid, or maybe cause they don't think I'd be screwing my sister.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/30/2017 - 12:53pm
You actually got this right, very sophisticated and subtle understanding of greater NYC subcultures. He is actually not Tom Wolfe's Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue, Manhattan. That is WASP world, white shoe, one step above. What people don't get about "Wall Street" is many more Wall Streeters are slick tough Long Island gangsta types than the McCoy bond salesmen. Middle Long Island is not white shoe, even the Hamptons aren't. Long Island is all varying levels of nouveau riche, classier the farther east it goes, but still nouveau riche. Old money WASP's of Upper East Side Manhattan ("Park Avenue") mostly do not have second homes on Long Island, unless they are very old inherited estates, is considered tacky. Conversely, a Scaramucci type would never get lost in the Bronx driving from JFK airport to Manhattan, he would know all the exits and which ones to avoid.
Edit to add: should clarify the tacky thing.The eastern half of Long Island is not tacky looking at all, what is called "the Hamptons" is extremely beautiful territory, I myself think of it as heavenly. The ocean light beautiful suffuses everything, everything is manicured to perfection to maintain a small town picture book feel, not overdone. Somewhere in the middle of the island you cross over from McMansion world to heaven and you know it. I haven't read where the Scaramucci house is, but if that is where it is, I totally get a woman so lucky as to have a place there not wanting to give up life there for D.C. With major money, it can what Martha Stewart calls a "Fantin Latour moment" continuously. And also sheltered from all the crap that it takes to make that kind of money.
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 12:25pm