Draining The Swamp
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I must admit I did not think that Donald J. Trump would ever reach the White House. Never in a million years would I have ever guessed it. Well, it shows how dumb I am.
I mostly loathe the Salamander-in-Chief, mainly because he's a slimebag, but personal feelings aside, he has done a masterful job at keeping his campaign promises. He's done so well in most, whoop-de-doo! but I would like to focus your attention to the topic of the thread at hand, namely:
Draining the Swamp.
Tom Price, the head of the Health and Human Services Department, lovely man and rotten scumbag:
Wasting taxpayer's money - uses PRIVATE JETS to fly about the country at the cost of an estimated $400,000 in five months. His predecessor, Kathleen Sebelius, in 8 years in office, took one such flight to visit 3 remote villages in Alaska. Price took one such trip from D.C. to Philly costing $25,000.00 - One flight. Now that is very "swampy."
SGG
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Gary Cohn, now Director of the National Economic Council, Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted From the Trump Administration
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/17/goldman-sachs-gary-cohn-donald-tru
mp-administration/
Trump was dumbfounded. “Is this true?” he asked. Was a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan likely to increase the deficit by a trillion dollars? Confronted by nodding heads, an unhappy president-elect said, “Why did I have to wait to have this guy tell me?”
Goldman Sachs had been a favorite cudgel for candidate Trump — the symbol of a government that favors Wall Street over its citizenry. Trump proclaimed that Hillary Clinton was in the firm’s pockets, as was Ted Cruz. It was Goldman Sachs that Trump singled out when he railed against a system rigged in favor of the global elite — one that “robbed our working class, stripped our country of wealth, and put money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.” Cohn, as president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, had been at the heart of it all. Aggressive and relentless, a former aluminum siding salesman and commodities broker with a nose for making money, Cohn had turned Goldman’s sleepy home loan unit into what a Senate staffer called “one of the largest mortgage trading desks in the world.” There, he aggressively pushed his sales team to sell mortgage-backed securities to unaware investors even as he watched over “the big short,” Goldman’s decision to bet billions of dollars that the market would collapse.
Now Cohn would be coordinating economic policy for the populist president. Cohn ran a giant investment bank with offices in financial capitals around the globe, one deeply committed to a world with few economic borders. Trump’s nationalist campaign contradicted everything Goldman Sachs and its top executives represented on the global stage.
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So are we moving toward: 2% of the people will control 90% of the money?
How did we get here?
How the Right Lost Its Mind and Embraced Donald Trump
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/09/29/right-lost-mind-embraced-donald-tru
mp-668180.html
While I was bemoaning that he'd won the election & was totally
unsuitable, a friend of mine told me that the GOP had gone nuts.
He blamed religion, though.
I feel that DJT will soon offend most of the Republicans.
Conservatives don't like to look so foolish, do they?
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LOL... well if we're just going to pretend that one party is the end of days for everybody else and the other party is a symbol of all that is good and right in the world then there is no debate to be had here.
I want to agree with you guys on things. I don't like being in the position of defending the establishment. It's not the side I'm usually on.
You sure don't make it easy though.
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6STRINGJOKER: "...and the other party is a symbol of all that is good and right in the world..."
Obviously, you're not addressing me. I didn't mention "the other party."
If you do address me, please don't try to put words in my mouth
or thoughts in my head. It's both rude & inaccurate.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
6STRINGJOKER: "...and the other party is a symbol of all that is good and right in the world..."
Obviously, you're not addressing me. I didn't mention "the other party."
If you do address me, please don't try to put words in my mouth
or thoughts in my head. It's both rude & inaccurate.
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Really?
Quote:
How did we get here?
The rest of your post then had "the Right", "GOP", "Republicans" and "Conservatives" in it. Stating that they have lost their mind, debating whether or not it was because of religion, and saying somewhat sarcastically that they don't like looking foolish.
Maybe you didn't use the phrase "the other side", but you used every available word for them in just a few short sentences, and you're obviously not on that side.
What exactly do you object to here?
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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
LOL... well if we're just going to pretend that one party is the end of days for everybody else and the other party is a symbol of all that is good and right in the world then there is no debate to be had here.
I want to agree with you guys on things. I don't like being in the position of defending the establishment. It's not the side I'm usually on.
You sure don't make it easy though.
On 1st read, I thought "we're" referred to me. But now,
I guess it refers to yourself & like minded friends.
I don't know who "you guys" & "You" refers to, but am I one of them?
But if none of those pronouns refers to me, I'm happy
& will not be offended. It was a misunderstanding. Yes?
Donald J. Trump as PotUS, I consider this a bad mistake. I'd say
the same if he were a libertarian, independent or democrat.
Did you read the article I linked to?
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Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:Quote:
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
LOL... well if we're just going to pretend that one party is the end of days for everybody else and the other party is a symbol of all that is good and right in the world then there is no debate to be had here.
I want to agree with you guys on things. I don't like being in the position of defending the establishment. It's not the side I'm usually on.
You sure don't make it easy though.
On 1st read, I thought "we're" referred to me. But now,
I guess it refers to yourself & like minded friends.
I don't know who "you guys" & "You" refers to, but am I one of them?
But if none of those pronouns refers to me, I'm happy
& will not be offended. It was a misunderstanding. Yes?
Donald J. Trump as PotUS, I consider this a bad mistake. I'd say
the same if he were a libertarian, independent or democrat.
Did you read the article I linked to?
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"We're" did refer to everybody who had already posted in this thread. My point is that I'm still not happy with how things are going almost a year in and this is around the time I'd like to get in on the action. But I'm not going to be flipping to be with a bunch of people who honestly think that Obama was a good president, Hillary would have made a good president, and the only thing wrong with the world today is Trump.
I tried to read your article, but he lost me at "On June 12, 1987, President Reagan was in West Berlin to deliver a powerful message to the evil empire, the USSR.", when Mr. Sykes unironically used the phrase "evil empire" as if we're living in a Star Wars universe.
Not having any clue who Mr. Sykes is, the whole piece seems to be written by a Democrat who thinks that this is what a Republican would sound like if they turned their back on the Dark Side.
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And now, Price "resigns" under fire. Good riddens, I say......and now on to the other stupid fucks trying to sneak by and do as Trump does.
real smart.
SGG
Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I must admit I did not think that Donald J. Trump would ever reach the White House. Never in a million years would I have ever guessed it. Well, it shows how dumb I am.
I mostly loathe the Salamander-in-Chief, mainly because he's a slimebag, but personal feelings aside, he has done a masterful job at keeping his campaign promises. He's done so well in most, whoop-de-doo! but I would like to focus your attention to the topic of the thread at hand, namely:
Draining the Swamp.
Tom Price, the head of the Health and Human Services Department, lovely man and rotten scumbag:
Wasting taxpayer's money - uses PRIVATE JETS to fly about the country at the cost of an estimated $400,000 in five months. His predecessor, Kathleen Sebelius, in 8 years in office, took one such flight to visit 3 remote villages in Alaska. Price took one such trip from D.C. to Philly costing $25,000.00 - One flight. Now that is very "swampy."
SGG
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Quote:That guy must have thought it was still the Obamination years, wasting government funds on air travel.
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:Quote:And now, Price "resigns" under fire. Good riddens, I say......and now on to the other stupid fucks trying to sneak by and do as Trump does.
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I must admit I did not think that Donald J. Trump would ever reach the White House. Never in a million years would I have ever guessed it. Well, it shows how dumb I am.
I mostly loathe the Salamander-in-Chief, mainly because he's a slimebag, but personal feelings aside, he has done a masterful job at keeping his campaign promises. He's done so well in most, whoop-de-doo! but I would like to focus your attention to the topic of the thread at hand, namely:
Draining the Swamp.
Tom Price, the head of the Health and Human Services Department, lovely man and rotten scumbag:
Wasting taxpayer's money - uses PRIVATE JETS to fly about the country at the cost of an estimated $400,000 in five months. His predecessor, Kathleen Sebelius, in 8 years in office, took one such flight to visit 3 remote villages in Alaska. Price took one such trip from D.C. to Philly costing $25,000.00 - One flight. Now that is very "swampy."
SGG
real smart.
SGG
Using government contracted carriers on government approved and bidded travel with government oversight endorsement and recommendation, that is just uncalled for - Obama and Moochelle never stooped to reasonable standards like that!
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