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that's how you get someone fired in this whitehouse

yeah but Kelly will take care of this.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/kelly-comey-phone-call-angry/index.html

By the way, did I read it right that Reince was one of the few in this WH that did *not* sign any sort of NDA? If he's out for blood, at all ...

Thinking about the Post piece I just linked to. There are only a handful of people on Air Force One who would be privy that what reportedly went down.

lol at NDAs, like they matter when you're in government

Well, you can still be sued, no?

I heard some pundit joke that the reason Trump prefers wealthy appointees is that he knows they can afford their own lawyers.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cant-legally-make-new-staff-sign-ndasyet

Reince's future is within the GOP, as he hasn't done anything else in life. He'll turn when the party does.

So, never?

Priebus is a shitty little ward-heeler who survived this long by kissing the closest ass and always being dumb enough to be unthreatening.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 28, 2017

which one of you secretly run the Nixon twitter

I couldn't have come up with "ward heeler."

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/03/13/anthony-scaramucci-skybridge-capital-tax-bill.amp.html

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/07/31/politics/white-house-officials-tricked-by-email-prankster/index.html

AZ senator Jeff Flake breaks ranks: My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump.

If by 2017 the conservative bargain was to go along for the very bumpy ride because with congressional hegemony and the White House we had the numbers to achieve some long-held policy goals—even as we put at risk our institutions and our values—then it was a very real question whether any such policy victories wouldn’t be Pyrrhic ones. If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it. If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?

this story is madness. imagine if the phisher wanted to alter policy instead of just 'prank' the admin https://t.co/QA1W7XP020 pic.twitter.com/i5xEi1A6cI

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) August 1, 2017

He still couldn't resist a dig at the lib'rals, I see.

xpost

having seen Flake's voting record, he can fuck off

https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/28128/jeff-flake

Flake flunks, editorial a fluke

nice work by bannon last week

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/27/scaramucci-show-unloads-nasty-attacks-to-oppostion-party/

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, July 31, 2017 8:23 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stuff like this is what puts the lie to so many nth dimensional chess claims... when folks like these actually attempt strategy this is how subtle it looks

actually can someone explain to me the 3d chess analogy? i keep hearing it but i don't get it.

or 4d chess, can't follow anymore.

any apparent fumbling is actually part of a comprehensive plan involving misdirection... they're losing strategic battles to win the greater war etc.

like, in theory it depends on being able to stealthily move your pieces into place while maintaining a ruse that puts your enemies at ease, but if subtle influence looks like that breitbart article...

I've also seen "n-D chess" used by Trump supporters to describe his business strategy of borrowing heavily, failing due to interest costs, and in bankruptcy proceedings taking advantage of banker's unwillingness manage the businesses to negotiate retaining a small ownership stake. The idea it seems is that he always pulls out a win of sorts from a losing position, if one ignores being blacklisted by all but Deutsche Bank and being forced into the Russian money laundering business.

The fake e-mail to Scaramucci reminds me of, if anyone remembers, the radio guy from Quebec who phoned Palin just before the 2008 election and pretended to be Sarkozy. "My special American advisor, Johnny Hallyday"--still brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEiR01QK7o

oh ok, it's just a way for Trump fans to continuously believe he can't possibly be 'losing'. lol.

Yeah it's a reference to a bigger picture that the rest of this dimension aren't aware of. So everything that looks immediately stupid actually places things in position for longer term strategy.
I think an actual fictional 3D Chess appeared in Star Trek and was then marketed in the early 70s. I think I saw a set, 3 layers with a transparent board.

When done right and not by a bunch of incompetent buffoons it's an ability to stay ahead by knowing all the relevant information and its relevance. Often through layers of connection and understanding consequences and weak points. & the interplay of both.
The higher the level of dimensions the further ahead of the game the designated player is thought to be.
n is a substitute for a given number so presumably higher than 3 or 4 if used here.

XP I think Franklin Mint or a related firm did collector's edition Star Trek 3D Chess sets in the '80s-'90s.

I actually was trying to describe the concept of 3D chess to my dad earlier today. To me it's always been a Star Trek thing.

Also all of this winlosing is to put Liberals at their ease before the big vans roll up to arrest the DNC for Pizzagate / Clinton Foundation / James O'Keefe's fever dreams.

don't forget this dws-awan thing

the email story is incredible! he punked basically everybody! good lord these fucking idiots

i know i said this already but i can't unsee most of this as a veep ep at this point. the mooch is jonah.

don't forget this dws-awan thing

Dude, I said Pizzagate! No, fair enough - and Seth Rich!

the email story is incredible! he punked basically everybody! good lord these fucking idiots

didn't some tech blog send bogus emails to a bunch of cabinet folks a while back, posing as one of their colleagues, and get an alarming number of responses? these people are crushingly stupid. it's amazing we're not all dead already tbh

Then again, there's nothing in that Scaramucci reply that he'd be too upset about being broadcast to the public. Not as if he'd replied the pin number for the arhead, etc.

I couldn't have come up with "ward heeler."

I could have! One of the great 20th-century American jobs.

x-D chess was also used by liberals re Obama who couldn't accept that he was a perpetual-war neoliberal

There was a Spy piece some years ago in which the author managed to get several people in Congress to comment forcefully on the civil war in Freedonia or some such.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12— What should the United States do to stop what's going on in Freedonia?

Asked that question, a number of House freshmen, clearly not fans of the Marx Brothers, offered answers that included "take action" and "it's a different situation than the Middle East."

Not one got the joke.

The joker was Spy magazine, whose staff revived the sovereign but fictitious nation of Freedonia from "Duck Soup," the 1933 Marx Brothers movie.

Posing as the host of a New York radio talk show, Spy's staff called about 20 first-term House members and, after a series of innocuous questions, asked, "Do you approve of what we're doing to stop what's going on in Freedonia?" or "Do you approve of what we're doing to stop ethnic cleansing in Freedonia?"

The responses, apparently based on the assumption that the questioner was asking about Bosnia, came readily.

Representative Corrine Brown, Democrat of Florida, said she approved of what the United States was doing in Freedonia, and added, "I think all of those situations are very, very sad, and I just think we need to take action to assist the people."

Representative Jay Inslee, Democrat of Washington, was candid. "I have to be honest with you, I'm not familiar with that proposal," he said. "But it's coming to the point now that a blind eye to it for the next 10 years is not the answer."

Representatative Steve Buyer, Republican of Indiana, said, "Yeah, it's a different situation than the Middle East."

Spy's national editor, Jamie Malanowski, characterized the responses as "completely understandable."

"In campaigning," he said of the lawmakers, "they are asked a lot of dumb questions, and they are all used to supplying answers."

Anyway. Has Trump taken credit for the Olympics in LA yet?

trump is against the olympics on principle - all those dumb athletes needlessly depleting their finite stores of physical energy. sad!

I don't know if Trump has taken credit yet but I did see some gloating on r/The_Donald about how it was something Obama couldn't get done. Only a matter of time until it trickles up and Trump is retroactively taking credit for the Lake Placid Winter Olympics or some shit like that

Could have sworn he preemptively bragged a few weeks ago ...

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account
@realDonaldTrump

Working hard to get the Olympics for the United States (L.A.). Stay tuned!
4:46 AM - 11 Jul 2017

By the way, the most shocking thing about Trump is that we've got some 70 year old idiot who probably can't use email boasting of his mastery of social media, and yet some internet savvy 12 year old hasn't clowned him yet. Grandpa+stupid+asshole you'd think would make him a pretty ripe target for bored kids.

That's when Mitt will re-enter the picture; since he couldn't talk about health care, that was his #1 selling point in 2012. He can be Trump's Olympics guy--there's no one Trump would love to jerk around more for a few weeks before firing him.

the smartest dumb move would be to offer some olympic figurehead role to caitlyn jenner

Probably a better than average chance Trump will be dead by 2028.

probably a better than average chance he'll take the rest of us with him