Bravo, Melania.

[kstewart33]

Geez, I would have fired the witch.

The Washington Post:

"As the East Wing prepared the flight manifest for the marquee trip to Africa, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel became angry that seats on the first lady’s government jet were assigned to a larger-than-usual security entourage and a small press corps with none for Ricardel or another NSC staffer, according to current U.S. officials and others familiar with the trip and its aftermath.

Policy experts from the NSC and State Department were advised to fly separately and to meet the first lady’s party on the ground, a practice the State Department had often used, but Ricardel objected strenuously, those people said. She threatened to revoke NSC resources associated with the trip, meaning no policy staff would advise the first lady during her visits to Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt.

...Last weekend, according to administration officials, the first lady’s office again asked Bolton to oust Ricardel. Others, including Kelly, have wanted her gone for months, administration officials said, with little success in overcoming Bolton’s objections.

Bolton declined again — and went to Asia."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-white-house-aide-picked-a-fight-with-melania-trump-the-first-lady-won/2018/11/14/d802dfdc-e822-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.74fefb6cd6c1

[dembotoz]

1. Sounds like mira is baseline travel staff

Perhaps malaria thinks she is even more brilliant than her pos hubby.

[hlthe2b]

2. Meh, I think this was a contest between two deplorables, including the very self-entitled Melania.

[NurseJackie]

15. I can see this happening...

[hlthe2b]

16. heh... I hope there is a "Omarosa" figure left there to video record it...

[blugbox]

55. Why is a shotgun

balanced precariously on the couch during that fight?

[NurseJackie]

61. Ha! I never noticed!

Very strange!

[blugbox]

69. Haha well it is an epic battle and very appropriate

I've never seen whatever it's from, so i wonder if that gun ever comes into play? It appears to be escalating from these GIFS lol.

I love the final one! The woman in the blue dress is doing like full on cartwheel arm strikes hahaha

Thanks for posting it! Lightened my frustrating evening coming back to this!

[BlueState]

59. Absolutely perfect!

I think you are right on the money with this post.

[Rorey]

29. Melania sees herself as some sort of royalty

I'm wearing my imaginary "I really don't care, do you?" jacket as I type this.

I wonder if this MELodrama is just to try to distract from some of the other drama in the WH.

[Cha]

3. Why are you saying "bravo" to that BirtherBarbie?

That Gaslighting Sociopathic that ".. Doesn't really care"?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Wondered the same thing!

[kstewart33]

6. I'm not a fan of black/white thinking.

... that any individual is all bad or all good.

Ricardel screamed at aides, insulted associates in NSC meetings, and in general, was a terror. No other agency would hire her because of her behavior and reputation.

In the same situation, I would have fired the witch.

[Cha]

8. Well the Asshole G.D. Birther is an Idiot.

[MrsCoffee]

20. +1

[MrsCoffee]

18. Using that sexist crap once wasn't enough for you?

[kstewart33]

43. Well, actually....

I wanted to use the 'b' word but there's too many curse words on this thread as it is (eg, ass....), so I picked the word that rhymed with it.

[MrsCoffee]

45. Proud of that are you?

Sexism and misogyny certainly aren’t limited to right wingers are they?

You think women feel comfortable in an environment like that? You think it makes for a good discussion site?

Do you care?

[brush]

53. All that is according to who, repugs? They lie, in case you haven't heard.

Believe maybe a tenth of what they say.

[NastyRiffraff]

56. The only problem is...

First Ladies do not ordinarily fire West Wing officials and staff. Nor should they.

There were processes she should have followed, for example going through the chief of staff, who actually wants Ricardel out.

But both these women are Deplorable, so while I think Ricardel is a POS, Melania is showing her stupidity. Again.

[stopbush]

11. Indeed. It should be "brava," not "bravo." Italian is gender specific.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Ricardel is one of Bolton's flunkies.

As awful as Melanoma is, Bolton, and anyone associated with him, is even worse. If she got another Bolton flunky out of the West Wing, she did us a favor, pissing contest or not.

[winstars]

41. Thats what I said after hearing she was his second in command. Less Bolton is good...

[brush]

57. What are you guys talking about? There are no good repugs.

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They all lie and steal and cheat and all of them—trump, Bolton, Melanoma, Kelly, Conway, Huckabee Sanders—every last one of them should be out of the White House.

None of these current repugs are better than the other.

[winstars]

62. Oh, thanks. I'll write down what you said so I can remember it.

[brush]

63. Not hard to remember. Do you have favorite repugs?

[winstars]

64. Abraham Lincoln was the only one. Thanks again.

[brush]

52. Yeah, seems like Melanoma should've been fired instead of Richardel.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. Ewwww... Trump's favorite thing... A female pissing contest!

Team Nobody for me!

[lagomorph777]

13. ...and this thread has a winner!

[flamingdem]

19. hahahahaha

[Rorey]

28. Perfectly expressed!

Thank you!

[smirkymonkey]

31. Touche!

[JHan]

51. lol

[underpants]

54. ✅

[ismnotwasm]

7. Soap opera level drama made public

Just disgusting

[BlueState]

60. All around.

Bad people behaving badly.

[APorter910]

9. ridiculous

need I say more

[LuvLoogie]

10. This is like a band from Manitowoc

playing on one of the side stages at Lollapalooza.

Don't care.

[rzemanfl]

26. That is a heavy insult. I should care, but I don't.

Why Manitowoc?

[LuvLoogie]

39. Because Paducah was already taken as a hypothetical small town reference?

[rzemanfl]

42. I suppose Mishicot and Valders were TOO small. n/t

[LuvLoogie]

49. A band out of Mishicot? Worth a three-day pass, as long as it included

a couple of Belgian Trippe with mustard on a bun and one of these...

[rzemanfl]

50. I don't know if Mishicot has a band, Valders either. Valders had Thorstein Veblen though.

I, unfortunately, no longer drink but that looks fabulous.

Do these band names mean anything to you? Robin and the Three Hoods. The Robbs, The Baroques, Sun Blind Lion, Underground Sunshine?

[LuvLoogie]

65. Those bands: vague recall of having heard of a couple...

But YouTube has me queuing up a few tracks for later listening. Those guys don't look cool like Floyd, but they sound cool.

[rzemanfl]

66. I was surprised to find them on YouTube. They're all from a long time ago.

I am too. What's your Wisconsin connection, if any?

[LuvLoogie]

67. I am from Chicago. I spent a lot of time in the great outdoors in Wisconsin and Michigan

as a kid in the 60s and 70s. Moved to the Chicago burbs in 71. Went to Devil's lake a lot. Then in high school, I met a Norwegian American family that had roots in Door County. Excursions to Sturgeon Bay (they had a house on Carp Bay) Salmon in September October, walking a mile out onto the ice in February at night. Camping trips to both states. I am back in Chicago now with my wife and two kids. Got married at 43, so a bit of a late start.

It'll be nice to go back to those states as we hose down our respective Capitols.

[rzemanfl]

68. I lived in Franklin Park until 1959, then my Dad got transfered to Milwaukee and I was

in Wisconsin until 1996 when I moved to Florida for the weather and low pay. I used to fish Sturgeon Bay every weekend for years from April to October and through the ice. Lived in Manitowoc for quite a while.

I'm sure you know what FIB means. I am over that.

[LuvLoogie]

70. Yes! I am a FIB and a flatlander. Ha.

I remember how we would drive up to Rock it North because you could drink at 18 and catch some decent rock shows. Of course tail-gating at Alpine Valley before the concert was always a blast.

[Leith]

12. A Pox on ALL Their Houses

It's like throwing Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers, Lord Voldemort, Alien, Predator, and assorted Bond baddies into a cage. Let them all kill each other.

[lagomorph777]

14. Fire them both.

[Sugarcoated]

21. Thick as thieves

is the way I see it

[Maru Kitteh]

22. JFC. Witch? Sexist language much?

Next are you going to tell us "both ladies must have been on the rag" or how about calling the NSA official an "old lady" or a "hag?"

[MrsCoffee]

23. Right?

FFS.

[kstewart33]

44. Let's make a deal.

You clean up your language (no more 'F' words - initials or spelled out) and I promise never to use the word w.... in my lifetime.
Except on Halloween.

[kstewart33]

25. Geez Louise, calm down.

I could have called her a warlock but that's the name for male witches.

I honestly do not see how the term 'witch' is in any way sexist. Perhaps there is a name for witch that is gender neutral.

If so, let me know and I'll edit my post.

Why do you assume that someone who uses the term 'witch' is the deplorable sexist you describe in your post?

That sounds witchy.

[MrsCoffee]

36. The way the word 'witch' has been used is fraught with violence and suppression.

It's not a new or harmless insult.

You could perhaps just google and read up on why it is considered a sexist term instead of doubling and tripling down.

[Maru Kitteh]

37. Asshole.

There ya go. Per your request you have now been introduced to a suitable, gender-neutral term and may edit your post as promised with your new word - asshole.

[kstewart33]

38. No can do.

Witches aren't necessarily assholes. Remember Glinda the good witch?

Let's limit suggestions to words suitable for 5 year olds to hear. Because they just love Glinda.

[MrsCoffee]

48. Nice try. You gave yourself away already in this thread.

No one here is that stupid.

[obamanut2012]

34. So much of this langiage on DU lately

[MrsCoffee]

46. In post 43 we hear what they really wanted to say.

Like we didn’t already know.

[ooky]

24. Melania trying to be relevant at something.

Anything.

When I think about Melania this song comes to mind.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Back In The Day...

...I insisted my band do that live version so I could play that Jon Lord solo.
The guitar struggled with the Blackmore parts, but I didn't care!
I got to play that great organ part!

[ooky]

32. That song

was my favorite on that album. Blackmore obviously was amazing but Lord's organ was the soul of that band. Great band. I wore out my "Purple Passages" cassette during my third and last deployment in the Navy.

[C_U_L8R]

30. Someone leaked the first lady's hotel bill. And it was obscene.

Someone named Ricardel?

[allgood33]

33. I really don't care. Do you?

[CentralMass]

35. Flying her anywhere is a waste of the taxpayers $$

[question everything]

40. Not a trophy wife?

But then she was born in 1970min Slovenia which by then was part of the Soviet Block. Has she been the mole?

[Afromania]

58. They are all completely awful and there is no high ground to speak of for either of them.

[treestar]

71. This is interesting

She threatened to revoke NSC resources associated with the trip, meaning no policy staff would advise the first lady during her visits to Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt.

Policy staff advising Melodrama? Hard to believe Melo cares about anything like "policy."