Hard To Imagine Trump Resigning... But The Mooch Knows Him Better Than I Do

The Mooch says Republican senators will pressure Trump enough over the next 3 months that he'll resign by March. Yesterday he told Yahoo Finance that "When you talk to elected Republicans privately, they can’t stand the president. They know the president is a lawless person and basically a criminal."

Scaramucci said Republicans can’t ignore the new polls from Fox News and NBC/Wall Street Journal which show a growing number of Americans, 49%, want Trump removed from office. “I predict that’s now going to have to go to 60 and when it’s 60, Republicans are going to have to cut and run.”

Scaramucci recently filed paperwork to create a political action committee (PAC) which will use its funds to defeat Trump if he fails to leave office before the 2020 presidential election.

“I am in the process of raising the assets and I will make an announcement in early January the number of assets we’ve raised and where we are going to target the thing,” he said.

Scaramucci’s PAC will focus on 11 swing states like Ohio, Michigan and Florida targeting suburban voters, “to explain what the president is doing actually to their children,” he said. “You can’t have somebody that is lawless at the top of the food chain, who is supposed to be the number one law enforcement official in the United States.”

Scaramucci suspects voters are turned off by the presidents “repetitive lying” and “bullying.” Among Republican voters, Trump’s approval rating has fallen eight points since September to 74%, according to a recent ABC News Washington Post poll. But 61% strongly approve of Trump’s performance as president which is essentially unchanged. It’s one reason Scaramucci says Republican leaders still defend Trump publicly but trash him privately.

“The president tries to shame people. He'll bully people,” said Scaramucci. “Remember, we have to be 100% loyal to him like he's David Koresh, or Jim Jones from the Jonestown Kool-Aid punch. If you're not 100% loyal to him he flips out.”

Scaramucci said Republicans should have acted sooner despite what he calls their fear to act.

“The stink of the president would have lasted a little while, but not that long. I mean, they're overestimating his power of intimidation,” he said. “And they're underestimating how good they could be post his departure.”

Sherrod Brown was on with Colbert yesterday and the Ohio senator told him that "Most Republican senators, when you talk to them individually, quietly, will acknowledge that Trump is a racist. They’ll acknowledge that Trump is a misogynist, they’ll acknowledge he has trouble telling the truth... It’s pretty clear that Republican senators, I mean they’re not going to go down as profiles in courage. It’s pretty clear that they like the tax cuts that Trump gave them. They like the attacks on the environment and on labor rights, and they like the young right-wing judges. And they’re all scared of their base. They’re all scared of a Republican primary from a Trump supporter that could take them out." Moscow Mitch wasn't on with Colbert, but he said that "I’m pretty sure how it’s likely to end. If it were today I don’t think there’s any question-- it would not lead to a removal. So the question is how long does the Senate want to take? How long do the presidential candidates want to be here on the floor of the Senate instead of in Iowa and New Hampshire?"

As much as I'd love to believe it, I think The Mooch is dead wrong on this and that McConnell has it about right. The Mooch may know Trump better than I do, but me and Moscow Mitch know Capitol Hill better than he does and there just aren't enough Republican senators with big enough cajones and enough integrity to go to Trump and tell him to retire. It's easier for them to make a bad bet that he'll come through this whole mess fine and they'll all live happily ever after.

The Mooch Is Back In The News-- And It's Hilarious

Scaramucci is campaigning against his old pal-- and boss-- Señor Trumpanzee. Look at this clip of him yapping it up on Fox New with Howie Kurtz today. What a laugh fest! Trump and The Mooch are throwing shit at each other like a couple of crazed monkeys. Trump is so funny-- he's like a TV cartoon character; he should go on a stand-up comedy tour.

I think Anthony is really somebody that's very much out of control. He's a nervous, neurotic wreck," said the Projector-in-Chief. "He called so much, and I said, 'Anthony, I'm sorry. I can't do that. I can't take you in.' And I said, 'You got to stop all these phone calls. Too many calls Anthony.'

Scaramucci was laughing when he watched. It was all in Trump's nervous, neurotic wreck of a brain. The Mooch thinks the GOP should dump him in 2020 and that most people who work for him agree but are too scared to say so publicly.

"He's gone off the rails. He's acting in a way that is completely unstable," The Mooch said about Trump, as though he is different today than he was when The Mooch was supporting him and working for him. "He's literally the opposite of George Washington. When he looks at a news feed or a news search, he's focussing on the name Trump and not the name the United States of America. The guy has completely lost it. As it relates to the culture of leadership inside the White House, the cabinet, the people that he's leading, he doesn't lead them. He thinks that his personal charm is going to fix the China situation, the North Korea situation... when in fact it's the very opposite. Now we're in this perilous situation where he's blending racism into the leadership culture..."

"We recognize that the president is a clear and present danger to the American society, to the American culture. The there many people inside the White House, the cabinet... I would ask the left to lets create an offramp for those people. When you're trying to deprogram people from a cult, one of the first things you have to do is allow them to change their mind..."

If You Cooperate With Trump, Your Grandchildren Might Ask Why-- Or Maybe A Judge Will

Elton, back when he was "straight" in the 1970s

Elton John's just a couple years older than I am. I met him when we were both in our 20s. It was before he was famous, let alone Sir Elton. And it was before he had come out of the closet. Everyone around him knew-- or thought-- he was gay but he was still trying to cover it up as a part of his career strategy. Empty Sky had been released in the U.K. but no one in the U.S. had ever heard it. (It came out in the U.S. about 6 years later after his career was already taking off in a significant way. I met Elton in London, at the home of a mutual friend, He was just trying to climb the ladder. I was living in Amsterdam at the time and some of my friends liked his debut album and the song "Skyline Pigeon," which didn't do much for me-- although I remember thinking he had some potential. I was more impressed with another unknown I met at the same house and who was also trying to get a career going, David Bowie.



When Your Song came out, he started getting famous, really famous. And then Tiny Dancer came out a couple years later and-- at least in Amsterdam-- he became a household name. He was a star. Hey I met that guy when he was just a kid! Honky Cat and Rocket Man were so massive that I can't even think of my years in Amsterdam without those songs playing in my mind. He was still pretending to be straight though, even getting married to a woman so people wouldn't think (know) he was gay. In 1976 he claimed to be bisexual. And that was big news. And it didn't hurt his career at all. In fact, just the opposite. He and his "wife," Renate Blauel, were divorced in 1988, the year Candle in the Wind was so huge that no one who liked "alternative music" could ever listen to him any more for fear of grooving to the same tune as their grandmother.

Scaramucci smooches a president

Anthony Scaramucci, a crooked bankster and Fox News personality is a Trumpist and a member of the presidential transition team executive committee and a vice chair of the presidential inaugural committee. Scaramucci claims that Trump "will be the first American president in U.S. history that enters the White House with a pro-gay rights stance and that having Elton play at the big inaugural concert on the Mall "shows our commitment to gay rights."

John, who referred to Trump as "a barbarian" during the election and supported Clinton, had his spokesperson tell CNN yesterday that Scaramucci was making it up. "He will NOT be performing at Trump’s Inauguration!" Scaramucci says Elton has been pressured to change his mind but an Elton source says Scaramucci may have dreamed about it but it wasn't ever something that Elton John was going to do.

Yesterday Gaius asked the question How Much Democratic Cooperation Is Collaboration? If you haven't read it yet, please do. At a time when patriots all across our country are working out what resistance is, sooner or later every American-- not just Berniecrats-- is likely to have to figure out what collaboration with the monster is all about for them. Elton John certainly made the right decision. We all must... until this nightmare is over.

Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist! Do not collaborate! Stick together and help each other. Stay hydrated. Stay calm. Remember: most voters did not vote for Trump.