Draining The Swamp..
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UncleBuck
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team trump is proving how fucking stupid and gullible his supporters (idiots like you) truly are.
a team of billionaires, lifelong washington insiders, DC lobbyists, and even foreign lobbyists.
not to mention the obvious pay for play.
any principled person who actually cared about "draining the swamp" would be pissed.
you're just proving that the only thing you voted for was the racism, dumbass.
Lucky Luke
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Can we say "Told ya so!" yet? or do we have to wait till he destabilizes whole regions?..o wait..
Fogdog
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Just put it on auto repeat and set the repeat cycle to whatever you like. Trump's going to give the skeptical majority plenty of opportunity to repeat that phrase.
The Simple Right have started re-interpreting Trump's words. "He didn't mean what he said, what he meant was xyz". They get to deny whatever Trump said using these 11 simple words. Didn't build the wall, well, "he didn't mean what he said, what he meant was better border security". Give special interests and Wall Street lobbyists the boot in Washington? "He didn't mean that he meant that he wasn't going to be influenced by them". Simple Right and very wrong.
Fogdog
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Congress reclaimed acreage to the swamp. Rolling back ethics oversight that was put in place in reaction to the Abramoff corruption scandal
"ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress" LOL
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-republicans-gut-their-own-oversight-233111
House Republicans gut their own oversight
In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted to gut their own independent ethics watchdog — a huge blow to cheerleaders of congressional oversight and one that dismantles major reforms adopted after the Jack Abramoff scandal.
The real story was captured in this line:
Monday's effort was led, in part, by lawmakers who have come under investigation in recent years.
"ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress" LOL
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-republicans-gut-their-own-oversight-233111
House Republicans gut their own oversight
In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted to gut their own independent ethics watchdog — a huge blow to cheerleaders of congressional oversight and one that dismantles major reforms adopted after the Jack Abramoff scandal.
The real story was captured in this line:
Monday's effort was led, in part, by lawmakers who have come under investigation in recent years.
That was started by Kellyanne Conway doing talk show rounds..and it's disturbing. Don't take him at face value..well how the hell are we supposed to interpret it?
'Let it be an arms race' was not to be taken literally..what he really meant was he wants to keep us safe'..that was her explanation.
Fogdog
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^^^True this
Right wingers have stolen a march on Orwell and eliminated even the need to erase past history. Just call historical record a lie and make up your own convenient truthy lies. Change them as needed.
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink." "
Orwell
Precisely that's why fake news is acceptable and propaganda not..it's all about the spin.
Justin-case
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This didn't last long. Although it's to early to say, but it appears Trump is claiming credit for the termination of the plan. I still can't help but to be skeptical about his true intentions, I just don't trust him.
Unclebaldrick
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Meanwhile back to reality..Ford Motors is saying they didn't cut any deal with Trump.
SneekyNinja
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Hope you guys have been exercising your right arms...
Theres gonna be a shitload of this:
Starting in a few years and you're going to need to be able to blend in...
Theres gonna be a shitload of this:
Starting in a few years and you're going to need to be able to blend in...
Unclebaldrick
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Do you think this is a black and white issue?
SneekyNinja
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She doesn't actually give any consideration to fact anymore since "Vermont-Jesus" lost.
Hopefully she'll come back from the Dark side someday.
Unclebaldrick
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I have no gripe against Bernie. I like the guy. "Vermont-Jesus" is funny.
Many of his supporters were a serious disappointment to me. They deserve Trump and will have to live with the consequences for longer than I will have to.
SneekyNinja
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I liked the guy too, but against Trump it needed to be someone who we've known 100% for a long time.
If he ran again and wasn't so God damned old next time I'd probably vote for him.
I'm not ageist, I'm a realist, old people are unreliable.
Fogdog
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Of course he'd take credit for them pulling the legislation. He didn't put the kibosh on this action, he just said he has other priorities. There was a shitstorm from outside of Washington of course, which is the real reason for pulling it.
The GOP is itching to rule rather than govern and we now see what they think of transparency in government. Congress policing itself. Yuck.