Draining The Swamp

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OONJERAH

Saturday, October 28, 2017 2:00 PM

Need to Impeach
Tom Steyer (1957) is an American hedge fund manager,
philanthropist, environmentalist, progressive activist, & fundraiser.

Trump Slams Tom Steyer as ‘Wacky,’ ‘Unhinged’ Amid Impeachment Campaign
The progressive activist has launched an eight-figure television campaign that aims to build momentum for Trump’s impeachment.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-10-27/trump-sw
ipes-at-billionaire-tom-steyer-amid-impeachment-ad-campaign

Trump says Democratic donor airing impeachment ads on TV is ‘totally unhinged’
... “A Republican Congress once impeached a president for far less, and today people in Congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger,” Steyer says in the ad, which directs viewers to a NeedToImpeach website.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/27/trump-
says-democratic-donor-airing-impeachment-ads-on-tv-is-totally-unhinged/?utm_term=.7db77ab0194f

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from the Tom Steyer Fan Club

SECOND

Saturday, October 28, 2017 6:17 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

It just goes to show that being rich and being smart aren't related. More about that in a bit ...

Do you have any idea where Norway's sovereign wealth fund money came FROM? It came from Norway's nationalized oil industry.

Say, SECOND, how would you like your gas wells nationalized? If not that, which industry or industries do YOU suggest that the United States government nationalize, in order to get non-tax revenues for this sovereign wealth fund that you recommend?

Just as a reminder, the Federal Government once owned most of the land west of the Mississippi, but it gave away the very best parts. There was your sovereign wealth fund. That give away of land was the origin of the swamp in Washington. The greediest Americans become owners of free land from the Federal Government. And it has worked very well for people like me. Maybe no so much for the other 99%.

There will eventually be another big give away that is even more valuable than all that land and doing nothing about it works best for the 1 percenters.

Can you image a solution to the following problem? A 1 percenter can and it would be to do nothing more than let them own everything. That has always been the default solution in Washington, because the alternative solutions require decades for the majority of the other 99 percent to coalesce around an alternative to doing nothing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/you-will-lose-your-job-to-a-robot
-and-sooner-than-you-think/
I want to tell you straight off what this story is about: Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job.

I don’t care what your job is. If you’re a magazine writer, a robot will write your articles better. If you’re a doctor, IBM’s Watson will be a better doctor than you. Artistic types? Robots will paint and write and sculpt better than you. Think you have social skills that no robot can match? Yes, they can. Within 20 years, maybe half of you will be out of jobs. A couple of decades after that, most of the rest of you will be out of jobs.

In one sense, this all sounds great. Let the robots have the damn jobs! No more dragging yourself out of bed at 6 a.m. or spending long days on your feet. We’ll be free to do whatever we want to do. And a century from now, this is most likely how things will turn out. Humanity will enter a golden age.

But what about 20 years from now? Or 30? We won’t all be out of jobs by then, but a lot of us will—and it will be no golden age. Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty. Working-class job losses played a big role in the 2016 election, and if we don’t want a long succession of demagogues blustering their way into office because machines are taking away people’s livelihoods, this needs to change, and fast. Along with global warming, the transition to a workless future is the biggest challenge by far that progressive politics—not to mention all of humanity—faces. For conservative politics, it is NOT a challenge other than what are 1 percenters, who will own most of the robots, going to do with their enormous piles of money? I look forward to that day, but the other 99% might not.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SHINYGOODGUY

Saturday, October 28, 2017 6:58 PM

Let me cut to the quick...

Trump is out to destroy the country, with Russia's help.

Anyone supporting that lying sack of shit, is doing the same. His is not about making this country great "again," it's always been great. You do have several lying sacks of shit from all sides - including and especially the alt-right.

That's it.

SGG

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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I'm going to need time to unpack this......whatever you call it, response.
But I felt the need to comment, however briefly, on a few things...

And what exactly does this mean:
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Hell just froze over. Again!

It means that you agreed with me, and I agreed with you, again. For a second time. That doesn't happen very often!

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I don't view Trump as an honest, or even competent, politician.- SIGNY

I agree except, I think Trump is the worst of politicians. At least the parts he plays at. - SHINY
So, you prefer politicians say all the usual soothing things and who convince you that it's for you own good as they jam you with a stick? 'Cause I agree, Trump sucks at that part!

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But when you bring your own swamp with you, the OLD swampers don't let go of power without a fight.- SIGNY

I agree. Hell now will freeze over.- SHINY
Again!

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Establishment" Republicans were just as reluctant to allow Trump to the ascendancy as Democrats. Even now, the support that Trump has from the GOP is grudging, and Dems downright hate him: he's a DC outsider, an interloper. - SIGNY

An interloper he is, an outsider he's not. Interloper because nobody wanted him; for good reason...He's an idiot. He's made money in business, but he's a destroyer. He uses the system to "steal" his millions through chicanery and intimidation. It's a whole new ballgame when it comes to politics; of which he knows little, but he has pursued the presidency and has played the game (poorly, but he's played). He even said so himself; while addressing the US Coast Guard Academy recently - "No politician has been treated worse" in regards to the media attention(May 17, 2017).- SHINY
You're saying so many things in the comment, each one needs to be addressed independently.

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... nobody wanted him; for good reason...He's an idiot.

The swamp didn't want Trump because he's an idiot?
Baloney.
Trump could be a blithering idiot, like brain-burned GWB or pre-dementia Reagan, but ONLY if Trump didn't mind having someone's hand up his ass turning him into a sock-puppet ... like Cheney did to Bush II, and Bush I did to Reagan. If Trump allowed himself to be the human skin of the swamp, the swamp wouldn't mind HOW stupid he was! In fact, really stupid Presidents are more conveniently manipulated. IDIOCY is not the problem.

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He uses the system to "steal" his millions through chicanery and intimidation.
Unlike the Clintons, who apparently used every office they ever had to enrich themselves, leaving an unlikely trail of dead bodies behind them; finally using the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in a pay-to-play scheme whereby the Clintons stole BILLIONS from their "charity"?

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It's a whole new ballgame when it comes to politics; of which he knows little
Therefore, he's an outsider' you just said so yourself. Which do you prefer, SHINY: the person who smoothly convinces you that it's for your own good, as you get butt-fucked? Or the person who doesn't know how to whisper sweet nothings in your ear?

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"No politician has been treated worse" in regards to the media attention
This is probably true, but being treated badly by the press is not a reflection of ANY person's moral character, since the press is a duplicitous lying sack of corporate interest. The fact that the Press printed so many lies about Trump .... which btw is slowly coming

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1KIKI

Saturday, October 28, 2017 9:17 PM

And STILL no evidence.

HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?

SECOND

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 4:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And STILL no evidence.

HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?

There is plenty of evidence about what Trump is doing. Congressional Republicans can't stop talking about how Trump is the President who will make their dreams come true: House Speaker Paul Ryan said that “nothing is going to derail what we’re doing in Congress.” As far as he’s concerned, small matters like the integrity of the American political process and the rule of law are unimportant compared to the greater good of tax cuts for rich people and large corporations.
http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2017/oct/30/ryan-tax-reform-is-essential/

This should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Ryan’s history as a fanatical Ayn Rand acolyte. Ryan is a guy who states openly that he’s dreamed since his youth of depriving poor children of medical coverage.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-
keg

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SHINYGOODGUY

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 4:59 PM

Not to worry, Trump is about to keep his word about Draining the Swamp, although not quite the way he had in mind when he declared his run for the Top Man in all the land.

He's getting a great assist from a man called Mueller.

Drain the Swamp!

SGG

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And STILL no evidence.

HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?
There is plenty of evidence about what Trump is doing. Congressional Republicans can't stop talking about how Trump is the President who will make their dreams come true: House Speaker Paul Ryan said that “nothing is going to derail what we’re doing in Congress.” As far as he’s concerned, small matters like the integrity of the American political process and the rule of law are unimportant compared to the greater good of tax cuts for rich people and large corporations.
http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2017/oct/30/ryan-tax-reform-is-essential/

This should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Ryan’s history as a fanatical Ayn Rand acolyte. Ryan is a guy who states openly that he’s dreamed since his youth of depriving poor children of medical coverage.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-
keg

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:55 PM

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Let me cut to the quick...
Trump is out to destroy the country, with Russia's help. - DULL

Let ME cut to the quick: Anyone who believes that is as gullible as those who believed that Saddam had WMD, that Noriega was a major drug runner, that Qaddafi was massacring his own people, and that the NSA respects the Constitution.

There are a lot of issues about which I vehemently disagree with Trump, and many campaign promises that I know he can't keep or hope he won't keep, and I have to say that he is probably the least Presidential man to be elected in recent history (although there've been a few drunkards and rowdies in the past).

But of all of the bad things you might believe about Trump, this is the one that I don't worry about. At all. The only thing I worry about is that a bunch of idiots will believe the propaganda and take their eye off the REAL ball, which is our common economic and social interests.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THGRRI

Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:57 PM

As the title suggests the swamp is being drained. The reality of it though is that it is Bob Mueller that is doing it not Trump. Trump and his crony crooks are the ones being flushed.