# Is Scaramucci really this fucking stupid? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265 "2017-07-27T15:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/241 "2017-08-01T00:22:00Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Plus, Kelly has no insider Washington experience, and is likely going to make more than a few enemies if he goes in with military bluster and “Follow my orders you scum!” attitude. His experience is limited compared to someone who’s been a long service Washington insider but it’s not nonexistent. He was the USMC Commandant’s Liaison to the House and later served as the Commandant’s legislative assistant during his military career. He was also the senior military assistant to SECDEF (Leon Panetta). Service as a COCOM (Pacific Command) would have required managing cross departmental issues (especially with Dept of State and the National Intelligence Community). It also would have required interfacing with Non-Governmental Organizations and military leaders from partner nations who were not subject to his formal authority. In addition COCOMs are either directly involved, or closely tied to JCS/SECDEF involvement, in reporting to Congress conducting oversight and budgeting. We can also throw in 6 months of a Cabinet level post since retiring. He’s clearly not well prepared for the environment. He doesn’t have the personal connections Priebus had with Reps/Senators from supporting campaigns as RNC Chair. In some areas he’s better qualified for the environment of the job than Priebus was. If he went into most of his duty positions while still in uniform with a “Follow my orders you scum” attitude the chance of making it as far as he did was low. Relying on a direct and in your face use of formal authority is only one tool in a successful military leader’s tool bag. Like a 20 lb sledgehammer it’s a tool that should be reached for sparingly while aware of the repercussions. Unsurprisingly, the Hollywood fueled popular notion of what military leadership looks like is wildly off base IME. An officer that tries to follow that Hollywood norm, especially with his senior NCO’s, should have a good backup plan for an early transition to a civilian career. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/242 "2017-08-01T00:36:24Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > By now, “Drain the Swamp” has resulted in more Trump appointees getting sacked than Obama’s. Trump is a full-service kinda guy: first he stocks the swamp, _then_ he drains it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/243 "2017-08-01T00:54:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Trump is a full-service kinda guy: first he stocks the swamp, _then_ he drains it. Supply side economics. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/244 "2017-08-01T01:31:45Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Karl Marx, 1844: “The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money’s properties are my – the possessor’s – properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness – its deterrent power – is nullified by money… I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless?” > > Just sayin’. You say that like it is a Bad Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/245 "2017-08-01T01:35:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Trump is a full-service kinda guy: first he stocks the swamp, _then_ he drains it. It’s the klein bog. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/246 "2017-08-01T02:11:12Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s supposed to be a written statement soon. > Is there anyone left who can write? Or is Trump just going to tweet it out? I think [Baghdad Bob](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf) may be available (the article mentions someone who claimed to be a) him and b) dying in 2014, but it refers to him in the present tense). I’m not sure how he could be much worse than we’ve seen, and he’d sure as hell be entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/247 "2017-08-01T02:21:02Z")
Does anyone here really think that The Mooch got fired because of Kelly? He got fired for the one truly fatal sin in the Cheeto’s Administration. Two Scoops doesn’t like rivals for attention. Da Mooch never really stood a chance… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/248 "2017-08-01T02:30:19Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Trump will have to do it himself. He’ll come right out and say that no one can do it as good as he can do it, so he doesn’t need someone else to talk for him. > > After a couple of days of hilarious mistakes, he’ll be hiding in the White House looking for someone else to sell their soul for a week or two of being humiliated on national TV and screamed at by him. I’d love to say that he won’t find anyone, but we all know there will be a line out the door. Omarosa? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/249 "2017-08-01T02:53:56Z")
> **[Harvard accidentally lists Scaramucci as dead in alumni directory](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-accidentally-lists-scaramucci-as-dead-in-alumni-directory/)** > > Harvard Law School issued an apology for erroneously listing former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci as dead in their alumni directory Damn. Divorced, Fired, and reported dead all in one week. For a NewYawker, he sure lives like a man in a country song. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/250 "2017-08-01T03:14:30Z")
Head hurts, feet stink, and don’t love Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/251 "2017-08-01T03:32:35Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > [Harvard accidentally lists Scaramucci as dead in alumni directory - CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-accidentally-lists-scaramucci-as-dead-in-alumni-directory/) > > Damn. Divorced, Fired, and reported dead all in one week. For a NewYawker, he sure lives like a man in a country song. And nowadays, he can’t even play the LP backwards to get it all back. Technology! ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/252 "2017-08-01T03:45:50Z")
From [some tweets](https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/7/31/16071536/anthony-scaramucci-mooch-firing-twitter-memes): > [@](#): > > Let he who hasn’t started a new job, divorced, cussed out his coworkers on tv and gotten fired in 10 days throw the first stone. > > Between being canned this week & his wife filing for divorce last week, #Scaramucci is one dead dog away from becoming a country music song. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/253 "2017-08-01T03:55:39Z")
Mamma. Prison. Trains. Getting drunk. Ways to go, yet. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/254 "2017-08-01T03:59:25Z")
His dog ain’t even died and his Benz ain’t been repossessed yet! Slacker. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/255 "2017-08-01T05:17:48Z")
My favorite [meme](https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/the-internet-has-plenty-of-how-to-lose-a-guy-in-10-days-for-scaramucci/). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/256 "2017-08-01T05:30:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Mamma. Prison. Trains. Getting drunk. Ways to go, yet. Prison’s probably out. I figure with just ten days as part of this administration, there’s only about a fifty percent chance he committed any serious crimes. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/257 "2017-08-01T05:42:34Z")
That’s just federal. He’s a New York financier whose business practices apparently met the Donald’s approval. Give the AG NY some time… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/258 "2017-08-01T06:21:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Mamma. Prison. Trains. Getting drunk. Ways to go, yet. …rain, pickup truck,… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/259 "2017-08-01T13:19:01Z")
Although I can’t recall this being mentioned in any country song, the Harvard Law alumni directory lists the Mooch as having slipped this mortal coil: [Harvard Law alumni directory lists Anthony Scaramucci as dead](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/08/01/harvard-law-alumni-directory-lists-anthony-scaramucci-as-dead/23059297/) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/260 "2017-08-01T13:56:26Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Trump will have to do it himself. He’ll come right out and say that no one can do it as good as he can do it, so he doesn’t need someone else to talk for him. > > After a couple of days of hilarious mistakes, he’ll be hiding in the White House looking for someone else to sell their soul for a week or two of being humiliated on national TV and screamed at by him. I’d love to say that he won’t find anyone, but we all know there will be a line out the door. **I’ll do it!** I’m unemployed, my wife already hates me, and my professional reputation is lower than whale shit already. Fuck it! Pony up that money and I’ll stick with it for at _least_ 2 weeks! (Before being fired. It’s okay. I’m used to it.) Maybe I parlay that into a reality show or at least a few 12-packs of beer? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265.md?page=14)