John Kelly can't stop internal White House wars as Trump factions have "gone to the mattresses"

[Miles Archer]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/john-kelly-cant-stop-internal-white-house-wars-as-trump-factions-have-gone-to-the-mattresses/

Apparently, new White House chief of staff John Kelly is unable to stop the war, or is siding with McMaster against Bannon. The Weekly Standard says the two camps are, “going to the mattresses,” the famous phrase from Mario Puzo’s The Godfather on mob caporegimes setting up secret apartments with mattresses for soldiers to sleep on, “whenever a war between the Families became bitterly intense.”

McMaster has been on a firing spree of Bannon loyalists. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council who provided information to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) about ‘unmasking’ during the Barack Obama administration, was ousted today. Derek Harvey was ousted last week. Rich Higgins was ousted two weeks ago. Former Breitbart.com columnist Tera Dahl was ousted last month.

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“On Wednesday, radio host Laura Ingraham tweeted a months-old article from the New York Times about McMaster’s ‘break with the administration on Islam,'” the Weekly Standard explained. “Meanwhile, blogger Mike Cernovich has been tweeting links to a website called McMasterLeaks, which contains a single blog post with multiple examples of how McMaster is undermining Trump.”

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“For some time, Steve Bannon has been considering leaving the White House. One of Bannon’s closest buddies in the West Wing was Reince Priebus, now gone,” the Weekly Standard revealed. “A newly emboldened H.R. McMaster, purging Bannonites with the backing of John Kelly (and the president), could hasten his exit.”

[BigmanPigman]

1. I hope Miller goes along with Bannon. Good riddance!

[rpannier]

2. Which Miller

Stephen or John. Or both
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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I'd say both, along with John Barron. Fuck that guy too!!!! .....

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[gordianot]

4. I trust no one who is willing to work for Trump.

This smells to me of the "Night of the Long Knives" or Operation Hummingbird. A would be American dictator is being normalized. So far there have not been actual deaths or blood shed as involved in Trump's foreign allies standard procedures.

[Paladin]

5. Nice to see things coming apart for these evil bastards. Hope it continues. (nt)

[DemoTex]

6. I wonder if Kelly can order Bannon to get ..

I wonder if Kelly can order Bannon to get a shave and a haircut.

[pangaia]

7. What about a shower.

[Big_K]

11. What color shower?

[syringis]

10. He looks

disgutting.

Not only the beard or hairs. As if he needed a shower too.

[TrogL]

13. He should get that rosacea and those skin cancers looked at

[vlyons]

12. Big red-nosed drunk

Big bug-eyed swollen eye drunk. Looks like a damn serial killer. What a slob.

[FSogol]

14. I'm pretty sure I gave Bannon a dollar and an orange at the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station last week.

[DK504]

18. He has less self esteem than the Dump himself.

How long will Kelly last? Longer than Rinse and Repeat or The Mooch?

[dobleremolque]

8. Grammar twitch here...

Hey, Weekly Standard: The phrase is "gone to the mat" to indicate a struggle. Although in this White House, "gone to the mattress" may be more appropriate.

[unblock]

16. i've seen both expressions used, with slightly different connotations

"go to the mattresses" was used in "the godfather", and tends to mean simply all-out war between rival factions.

"go to the mat" tends to mean to strongly defend, advocate, or stick up for someone or something.


both expressions mean all-out fighting, but the "mattresses" version tends to imply more aggression than defense, and doesn't generally imply that there's any cause or reason for the fighting.

at least that's my take on it.

[Sgent]

9. At this point

other than the fact its a military coup, I'd rather leave Trump on the golf course and the actual governing to the (former) generals. Washington, Grant, Ike were pretty good. Most of the rest were middling except for Andrew Jackson.

[DK504]

19. What will the military do if he orders military strikes on No. Korea?

This is what scares the shit out of me and the reaction by his rubes.

[zipplewrath]

20. Grant?

He's usually at the bottom of the "worst presidents" lists.

[Sgent]

23. Depends on the list

Although he's usually at the "top" of the bottom 10, more than a few lists have him in the 20's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

[AwakeAtLast]

15. UPS can't bring enough

[jalan48]

17. Now that the military is in charge perhaps things won't look so embarrassing.

[GoCubsGo]

21. May it be mutual destruction. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

22. Claw claw Claudius

Martin short as John hurt as Caligula