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Draining The Swamp
In looking at the election vote, only 4.4% of Washington DC residents voted for Trump vs >90% for Clinton. This reflects the huge population of government workers who live in DC, aka, “the swamp”. Clearly many of these people were protecting their gravy train by voting Democrat. Very telling statistic tells the whole story about which is the party of big government. This also explains the Washington Post’s editorial bubble and the echo chamber that feeds it.
If Trump plays this right, he should clean house on all of those agencies that have been undermining Republicans for years. GWB was undermined from the inside at the CIA and other Federal agencies. He was too nice about it and allowed his presidency to be picked apart from the inside. Under Obama, the IRS was clearly weaponized against conservatives. The heads of all of those agencies should be summarily fired and replaced in order to prevent obstructionism from the inside. Trump should also fire all of the attorney generals and replace them with a more loyal bunch. -
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I think your analysis is off.
The DC vote is skewed that way due to the poverty so prevalent in the city. Most of the .gov workers don’t live in the district and all of the political appointees and military maintain their voting residence wherever they come from.
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Georgetown is not in DC? How about Foggy Bottom, Penn Quarter/Chinatown West End, Kalorama, Foxhall, Palisades and Wesley Heights? The Maryland suburbs and Virginia suburbs are also heavily Democrat.
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as the ex-Virginia governor and his wife learned–firing people does not get a good outcome–this also applies to rads( groups lose hospital contracts/ whistleblowers)
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You’ve gotta admit that Trump acted and sounded unhinged during some parts of the campaign. At the end there was talk that he had to be sworn off of Twitter for his own good.
“Drain the swamp” is a great campaign talking point but time will tell whether he’s draining or has drained the swamp. Instead of Reaganesque team of the best we’re seeing team of the usual dyspeptics like Giuliani, Bolton, Sessions,etc. Instead of a we’re-all-American, city-on-a-hill inclusive rhetoric like Peggy Noonan used to pen, it’s alt-right.
Like I said, time will tell but the early signs are not encouraging.
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Georgetown is not in DC? How about Foggy Bottom, Penn Quarter/Chinatown West End, Kalorama, Foxhall, Palisades and Wesley Heights?
The fact that there are a couple of nice neighborhoods in northwest does not negate the fact that the other two quadrants (NE/SE) are pretty miserable.
Median family income in DC is 67k when the surrounding counties are between 95 and 112k. Poverty levels in DC are two to three times that of the suburban counties. There have been many efforts to qualify ‘district residents’ for jobs in the federal government but few of them do. The scarcity of federal jobs that don’t require a graduate degree is one of the big challenges for the district.
I just dont think that your premise that the voting behavior of district residents indicates the voting behavior of federal government employees holds true at all. They are just not the same group.-
No jobs except for loyal Party members, Alda?
Sounds like Communism is your ideal government, Alda, not Democracy.
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the Brookland area( catholic university, the basilica( little rome is the nickname), Franciscan Monastery( a hidden gem where if u visit on the weekend u will run into various wedding parties) and the area surrounding Providence Hospital up to abutting silver spring,MD( south dakota ave/Michigan Park area and rhode island avenue area that leads to MD( US route 1)) is NE DC and those sections have always been middle class–especially now with Gentrification
St. Anselm’s is in NE DC –I hate to see people who have never lived in DC make ignorant statements concerning what areas are miserable
Heritage Foundation Headquarters is in NE DCQuote from fw
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Georgetown is not in DC? How about Foggy Bottom, Penn Quarter/Chinatown West End, Kalorama, Foxhall, Palisades and Wesley Heights?
The fact that there are a couple of nice neighborhoods in northwest does not negate the fact that the other two quadrants (NE/SE) are pretty miserable.
Median family income in DC is 67k when the surrounding counties are between 95 and 112k. Poverty levels in DC are two to three times that of the suburban counties. There have been many efforts to qualify ‘district residents’ for jobs in the federal government but few of them do. The scarcity of federal jobs that don’t require a graduate degree is one of the big challenges for the district.
I just dont think that your premise that the voting behavior of district residents indicates the voting behavior of federal government employees holds true at all. They are just not the same group.-
I’m trying to find the reference but I thought I saw last week that he was having appointments sign off that they won’t become lobbyist for 5 years or something after they serve. I think that would be a nice touch. I’d like to see him step up and do some ethics reform.
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I’m trying to find the reference but I thought I saw last week that he was having appointments sign off that they won’t become lobbyist for 5 years or something after they serve. I think that would be a nice touch. I’d like to see him step up and do some ethics reform.
A pledge means nothing without a mechanism to enforce it.
There is a federal law, but it is toothless and can be waived by the agencies. The revolving door is how the town runs.-
To what extent can the president be held to laws made by Congress regarding presidential appointments or conflicts of interest? It’s an interesting constitutional question. I doubt SCOTUS would rule on such a political question and that many of the laws regarding presidential appointments don’t really mean much.
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I love how all of these guys who said Trump can never win also now have predictions on how he’s not going to do anything, and he’s not even president yet. You guys are such amateurs. At least, wait a little bit.
Oh, and you see Mexico’s leaders lately? It’s amazing what you can do when you have a real leader in there. They’re already scared shtless because they know, [b][i]just like I said a long time ago[/i][/b], we have so many pressure points on them, they would be absolutely retarded not to listen and behave. Again, pussies were used to people who weren’t savvy, or couldn’t make deals. So they thought we could never do such a thing.
Get your minds straight, this is common sense stuff. Seriously, it’s really obvious when you have a competent person in there who knows what he is doing, which is what we have.-
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I love how all of these guys who said Trump can never win also now have predictions on how he’s not going to do anything, and he’s not even president yet. You guys are such amateurs. At least, wait a little bit.
While I agree we should wait a little to pass judgement Would you like to Wager on the Coal jobs and Steel jobs that Trump said he would bring back
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What kind of doctor uses the word “retarded”? I think a podiatrist has infiltrated radiology’s most trusted blogging site! Imposter!
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I’m trying to find the reference but I thought I saw last week that he was having appointments sign off that they won’t become lobbyist for 5 years or something after they serve. I think that would be a nice touch. I’d like to see him step up and do some ethics reform.
A pledge means nothing without a mechanism to enforce it.
There is a federal law, but it is toothless and can be waived by the agencies. The revolving door is how the town runs.I think it was more contractual. If you server Trump administration then you sign here, and you can’t become a lobbyist for X years. I’m not sure what would happen if someone were to break the contract.
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the Brookland area( catholic university, the basilica( little rome is the nickname), Franciscan Monastery( a hidden gem where if u visit on the weekend u will run into various wedding parties) and the area surrounding Providence Hospital up to abutting silver spring,MD( south dakota ave/Michigan Park area and rhode island avenue area that leads to MD( US route 1)) is NE DC and those sections have always been middle class–especially now with Gentrification
St. Anselm’s is in NE DC –I hate to see people who have never lived in DC make ignorant statements concerning what areas are miserable
Heritage Foundation Headquarters is in NE DCI see you haven’t been back in a while.
But you are right. There are a couple of islands of ‘decent’ in NE.
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islands–cra cra talk–like how big is DC–St. Anselm’s sits on 40 acres alone in NE DC..
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the Brookland area( catholic university, the basilica( little rome is the nickname), Franciscan Monastery( a hidden gem where if u visit on the weekend u will run into various wedding parties) and the area surrounding Providence Hospital up to abutting silver spring,MD( south dakota ave/Michigan Park area and rhode island avenue area that leads to MD( US route 1)) is NE DC and those sections have always been middle class–especially now with Gentrification
St. Anselm’s is in NE DC –I hate to see people who have never lived in DC make ignorant statements concerning what areas are miserable
Heritage Foundation Headquarters is in NE DCI see you haven’t been back in a while.
But you are right. There are a couple of islands of ‘decent’ in NE.
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Companies finding their ads on Brietbart to their horror. They remove their ads & Breitbart is launching a boycott of these companies.
[link=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/business/media/breitbart-vanguard-ads-follow-users-target-marketing.html]http://www.nytimes.com/20…-target-marketing.html[/link]
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All of this has resulted in the kind of publicity and political repercussions brands were hoping to avoid. After Kellogg said it would stop advertising on Breitbart because the site was not aligned with our values as a company, pointing to publicly available marketing guidelines, Breitbart started a #DumpKelloggs boycott campaign. Larry Solov, Breitbarts chief executive, said in an editorial that the cereal maker has shown its contempt for Breitbarts 45 million readers and for the main street American values that they hold dear.
The uproar about Breitbart with the separate issue of fake news sites has sent advertisers to online ad verification companies like DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science. On Thursday, DoubleVerify added an Inflammatory Politics & News category to a list of more than 75 categories that advertisers can choose to avoid. If selected, it will block ads from appearing on sites including Breitbart, Rawstory.com, WND.com, LibertyWritersNews.com and YoungCons.com, the company said.With the surge in these new sites that are living on unsubstantiated stories that are oftentimes very politically charged, large brands are coming to us and ensuring that their ads dont appear on those kinds of sites, said Wayne Gattinella, the chief executive of DoubleVerify.
A Macys banner ad on the Breitbart website.
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I think your analysis is off.
The DC vote is skewed that way due to the poverty so prevalent in the city. Most of the .gov workers don’t live in the district and all of the political appointees and military maintain their voting residence wherever they come from.
There are a fair number of wealthy districts in DC too. I agree the majority is poor, but still doesn’t explain this level of discrepancy.
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No jobs except for loyal Party members, Alda?
And wasn’t it recently under Bush where the Feceral Prosecutors were fired for not being loyal enough & playing ball with prosecuting those who the Republican Party decided had to be removed for political reasons regardless of what the Law required?
Sounds like Communism is your ideal government, Alda, or Fascism, but not Democracy. Definitely not Democracy.
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I’m not seeing much swamp draining
Just the same old republican establishment elites in power for the most part looking to reinstate the trickle down and spending policies of the past
I think trump pulled a fast one on the rural rust belt voters that put him in office
There is not going to be any sweeping change
No steel mills or coal mines will begin hiring. The auto industry will stay the same
The swamp is intact with pretty much the same critters living in it aside from a few new predators
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The Trump administration is going to make the Clintons look like amateurs when it comes to grift and cronyism.
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Wow Alda is releasing his inner Putin
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I concur.
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It is not unprecedented for presidents to replace all of the Attorney Generals. Reagan did it and Clinton replaced all 83 AG’s. Bush didn’t and it caused him a whole lot of political headaches.
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Alda, you are the only person I have ever come across who somehow interprets “drain the swamp” to mean “get rid of all of the professionals and pack Washington DC full of political hacks who bow to my every whim”.
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I think it was more contractual. If you server Trump administration then you sign here, and you can’t become a lobbyist for X years. I’m not sure what would happen if someone were to break the contract.
Iow it’s meaningless. They are federal employees, the only entiity with standing to sue them over this contract would be OPM. OPM won’t enforce a contract that is not based on a regulation.
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well here is an old story with respect to federal employees:
Linda Tripp was a White House employee in George HW Bush administration;-she kept her job with Clinton during 1993 and she was subsequently transferred to the Pentagon where her salary increased to $20,000
The last day of the Clinton administration( 1/19/2001)-Tripp was fired from the pentagon–she sued the Department of Defense for releasing information from her employment file to the media–later she reached a settlement with a one time payout of 595,000, a retroactive promotion and retroactive pay at highest salary for 1998,1999 and 2000 and got a pension and was cleared to work for the federal government—
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Just for the record.
Firing Preet Bharara is [i]not[/i] the way to “drain the swamp”.-
every person fired will haunt this administration primarily due to the way it was done–both Yates and Preet were told initially to stay on
and so happy with SNL Ivanka complicit skit
the swamp is there–and soon will overtake themQuote from dergon
Just for the record.
Firing Preet Bharara is [i]not[/i] the way to “drain the swamp”.
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Just for the record.
Firing Preet Bharara is [i]not[/i] the way to “drain the swamp”.
Does anyone really think that the corruption investigations are tied to the person at the top of the local office ?
Trump was just giving him a hand in his run for governor.
Bharara got canned for the same reason Sessions got canned by Reno. Nothing personal, just business.
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Preet will not win Governorship—the voters for him just are not there–same as why Arnold pulled out CA senate race–the numbers just ain’t there
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Just for the record.
Firing Preet Bharara is [i]not[/i] the way to “drain the swamp”.
Does anyone really think that the corruption investigations are tied to the person at the top of the local office ?
Trump was just giving him a hand in his run for governor.
Bharara got canned for the same reason Sessions got canned by Reno. Nothing personal, just business.
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Preet will not win Governorship—the voters for him just are not there–same as why Arnold pulled out CA senate race–the numbers just ain’t there
With trump in office, the democratic party could nominate a broomstick for NY governor and it would get elected.
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Just for the record.
Firing Preet Bharara is [i]not[/i] the way to “drain the swamp”.
Does anyone really think that the corruption investigations are tied to the person at the top of the local office ?
Trump was just giving him a hand in his run for governor.
Bharara got canned for the same reason Sessions got canned by Reno. Nothing personal, just business.
[b][url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-12/democrats-ask-doj-about-settlement-involving-trump-linked-lawyer]DOJ Settled case with Russian lawyer linked to Trump Jr[/url][/b]Democrats are interested because one of the lawyers involved in the case was Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with President Donald Trumps son in an encounter arranged with the promise of damaging Russian government information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The U.S. agreed on May 12 to take $5.9 million to settle the lawsuit tied to a $230 million Russian tax fraud, avoiding a trial that was set to begin the following week.
The 17 House Democrats asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Wednesday letter whether the involvement of Veselnitskaya, who they called a “Kremlin-connected attorney,” may have helped prompt the settlement, given her meeting with Donald Trump Jr. The presidents son said Veselnitskaya didnt share anything related to Clinton and that the discussion centered mostly around adoption policy.
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btw …. Preet Bharara was working the case …. before he was fired.
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I read that yesterday. Strange coincidences. Case is resolved in two months after Preet gets canned. DOJ has refused a judge’s order to hand over Sessions clearance form also. I forget which group sued to get access. The deadline just passed this week.
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If we’re going to talk about “loyalty”, Trump should fire himself.
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Said broomstick would be more effective sweeping out corruption than Trump has by appointing respective swamp creatures to his Administration.
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So sorry you’re gonna have to deal with the sweeping change for 7+ more years
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no insight by these one sided tribalists
just live your life, this is all a manipulated game, and you are allowing it, which makes you even more pathetic than your puny understanding of any of it-
I’m not allowing it, I’m resisting Trump & his supporters.
Get over it. It’s called the 1st Amendment.
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[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/31/white-house-grants-ethics-waivers-to-17-appointees-including-four-former-lobbyists/?utm_term=.fb8081638586]White House Grants Ethics Waivers to 17 Appointees[/url]
The White House disclosed Wednesday evening that it has granted ethics waivers to 17 appointees who work for President Trump and Vice President Pence, including four former lobbyists.
The waivers exempt the appointees from certain portions of ethics rules aimed at barring potential conflicts of interest. In letters posted on the White House website, the White House counsels office wrote that the waivers were in the public interest because the administration had a need for the appointees expertise on certain issues.
The rate at which the Trump White House has handed out waivers is far faster than that of the Obama administration, which issued 17 exemptions for White House appointees over eight years.
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Shocking, simply shocking to think there is corruption in the White House & Trump is behind it.
The worst part is that he’s not even aware. Trump must not have read the memo; guess his name was not prominently displayed several times. Th morning briefings are not filled with SQUIRREL! but rather TRUMP! TRUMP!, then he reads them. But only to see how wonderful the name looks in print, the meaning still escapes him.
covfefe
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John Brennan spied on the Senate Intel Committee, Trump didn’t have anything to do with that, LOL
Yet the Russians interfere with our “democracy”?
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tick tock tick tock–the intelligence community–US/Europe are maintaining their investigations on the orange one
discussions on Ryan/ I swear he is paid by the Putin McCarthy on THe last word–who is taping whoQuote from Dr. ****er
John Brennan spied on the Senate Intel Committee, Trump didn’t have anything to do with that, LOL
Yet the Russians interfere with our “democracy”?
You guys are certifiable.
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[url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/democrats-trump-ban-oversight-requests-239087]Trump informs agencies to ignore Democrats’ oversight requests[/url]
This effort is sometimes being aided by Republicans on Capitol Hill, or undertaken at their behest. For instance, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) has asked federal agencies to refuse to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests designed to find out what data his panel is seeking from those agencies.
But the latest initiative by the Trump administration backed by a May 1, 2017, opinion drafted by the Office of Legal Counsel of the Justice Department has crossed a once unthinkable line, Democrats argue.
Under this new policy, Democrats as the minority party would be limited in their ability to get information from the agencies unless the request was supported by a Republican chairmen. Since the GOP controls both the House and Senate, this would effectively give Republicans a veto over such information requests.
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Trump and Republicans prove the system is rigged, much as Republicans always prove government doesn’t work. Because if you break it, it doesn’t work, which proves the statement. Even retroactively.
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File this one in the swamp. Taking cancer charity money into Trump golf.
[link=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#4f28d3bb6b4a]https://www.forbes.com/si…business/#4f28d3bb6b4a[/link]
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the swamp gets bigger
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File this one in the swamp. Taking cancer charity money into Trump golf.
[link=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#4f28d3bb6b4a]https://www.forbes.com/si…business/#4f28d3bb6b4a[/link]
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File this one in the swamp. Taking cancer charity money into Trump golf.
[link=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#4f28d3bb6b4a]https://www.forbes.com/si…business/#4f28d3bb6b4a[/link]
The Trump family are a real bunch of class acts …
[b]NOT![/b]-
The swamp is overspilling
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Whoever just grilled Sessions gave him an absolute beat down. The highlights should be good if you missed it
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Angus King?
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Angus King?
He’s a wounded duck. Apparently he has the memory of a gold fish. Like he doesn’t remember if he communicated with Trump in writing.
This was Kamala Harris I heard when I was driving. I guess she was the AG for California. She sounded much more knowledgeable about DOJ policy than Jeff Sessions. She hit him with some quality shade about him being the top lawyer and unaware..
[link]https://youtu.be/CHM0dShjIWE[/link]
“…………..did you review with the lawyers in your department if you as the top lawyer are unaware of what the law is on what you can share with us………….” -
Frumi- first of all you have no idea what my skin color is. SLN is the one playing race games. She seems to have a hatred of white males………if they are conservatives. She could say ” angry conservatives ” but chooses to say ” angry white males “.
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Or she replies with white male privilege – the only person I see on this site that continues to mention race.
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he admits that he left Comey in the room alone–unacceptable since Flynn was under investigation–he should have spoken up
and he showed he was an angry nasty white male lashing out at Kamela Harris
worst AG in history–racist -liar and now ?traitorQuote from DICOM_Dan
Whoever just grilled Sessions gave him an absolute beat down. The highlights should be good if you missed it
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SLN – I guess you would have no problem with someone calling you an an angry black?
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and they would be wrong in that characterization on 2 fronts–I am biracial and I am not angryQuote from Ben Casey
SLN – I guess you would have no problem with someone calling you an an angry black?
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So you don’t consider yourself or Barack Obama black?
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I don’t comment on what other people consider themselves –given the topic of the thread -I will not comment on your line of questioning–you must be at a very down point in your life to be focused on me and my post–get better my friend
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So you don’t consider yourself or Barack Obama black?
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[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ethics-office-will-press-white-house-on-undated-conflict-of-interest-waivers/2017/06/02/5700719c-47b0-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html?utm_term=.785cc78db775]Ethics Office Will Challenge Unsigned Waivers[/url]
The Office of Government Ethics plans to press the White House to clarify when it issued a slew of ethics waivers giving its staffers permission to interact with their former employers or clients, an indication that the exemptions might not have been properly granted.
Ten of the 14 waivers publicly disclosed this week by the White House are undated and unsigned, raising questions about when they were put in place.
Particularly troubling, ethics experts said, was a blanket waiver allowing White House appointees to communicate with media organizations where they previously worked that was described as retroactive a maneuver that the ethics office said was not permitted.[/QUOTE]
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Trump’s administration IS the swamp.
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You can deny your race and be self hating if you like. You cannot deny or ignore the fact that you are clearly a racist. Very sad…..
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stop projecting —
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You can deny your race and be self hating if you like. You cannot deny or ignore the fact that you are clearly a racist. Very sad…..
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Review some of your posts. You can disagree with someone’s opinion or ideology without hating the color of their skin…..
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projecting-girl bye
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Review some of your posts. You can disagree with someone’s opinion or ideology without hating the color of their skin…..
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Ben,
What are you playing, race games? Obama is mixed race & identifies as black, Noah is mixed & doesn’t affirmatively state any race she identifies with & you declare she hates the color of her skin? Biracial people have to identify as black in your book or they are self-hating? That’s race baiting & besides, you have no damned idea of the color of her skin. She does not identify what bi-races she is that I recall.
I hope you are not of the mind that people are classified by the purity or dilution of their “blood,” bringing back terms like mulatto, octoroon & such. In this day of people getting DNA tests, “purity” is a silly concept as often the skin color & features vs DNA tests of genealogy belie one another.
I’d give you more credibility if you questioned Jan the Third who prefers “European looking” people. Is Jan a believer in the Curse of Ham?
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Center for Public Integrity: [url=https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/06/22/20938/trump-appointee-saudi-government-lobbyist]
[h1][b]Trump appointee is a Saudi government lobbyist:[/b][/h1] [h2]Richard Hohlt earning six figures from kingdom bent on influencing Trump[/url][/h2]Since January, the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry has paid longtime Republican lobbyist Richard Hohlt [link=https://www.fara.gov/docs/6384-Supplemental-Statement-20170613-1.pdf]about $430,000[/link] in exchange for advice on legislative and public affairs strategies.
Trumps decision to appoint a registered foreign agent to the Presidents Commission on White House Fellowships clashes with the presidents vow to clean up Washington and limit the influence of special interests.
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God our country looks weak in France–Macron is throwing him deep shade on all this crap
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If it wasn’t for the USA the French people would currently be speaking German. So I’m not sure how we look weak in France.
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he looks weak and starts talking about the other guy’s wife shape–the misogyny
he is always rating women on looks–not Presidential –like oh I heard u were so much older than Macron
did he expect her to be obese like himQuote from DICOM_Dan
If it wasn’t for the USA the French people would currently be speaking German. So I’m not sure how we look weak in France.
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If it wasn’t for the USA the French people would currently be speaking German. So I’m not sure how we look weak in France.
That was then under Roosevelt, this is now under Trump. Making America Great Again, what it used to be under Roosevelt only Trump doesn’t know how & it’s also not in his nature.
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[link=https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/10/house-will-hold-hearings-return-earmarks/]House Will Hold Hearings on Return of Earmarks[/link][/h2]
The House Rules Committee said Tuesday it would hold two hearings next week on whether to restore [link=http://politicaldictionary.com/words/earmarked/]earmarks[/link] in what GOP aides characterized as a long-delayed fulfillment of Ryans promises, the [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-praises-spending-earmarks-and-capitol-hill-again-erupts-in-debate/2018/01/09/f6e950ba-f57b-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.0e3672f1ba17]Washington Post[/link] reports.
But years after their abolishment, the subject of earmarks generates a fierce split that does not fall along party lines. Appropriators from both parties bristle, arguing that Congress has essentially ceded authority to the executive branch and lost the grease that kept their bills moving across the Hill.-
Bring back the Bridge to Nowhere & save Democracy!
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But years after their abolishment, the subject of earmarks generates a fierce split that does not fall along party lines. Appropriators from both parties bristle, arguing that Congress has essentially ceded authority to the executive branch and lost the grease that kept their bills moving across the Hill.
Probably some truth to it. Some ‘job development center’ here and a ‘multi-modal-light-rail-interconnect’ over there would have gotten a 1 year continuing resolution through the senate in no time.-
Cock of the swamp might be the best line in a while. Thanks Mooch..
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That Mooch & his way with words. Like the last time he described Bannon.
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Scaramucci on ‘The Swamp’ in [link=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/the-mooch-recalls-his-10-days-in-the-swamp]Vanity Fair[/link] :
I want you to imagine the worst person that youve met on Wall Street, the most ruthless and the most diabolical. Thats the best person in Washington. Thats the Eagle Scout of Washington.
On how White House chief of staff Reince Priebus who he called Rancid Penis promise to help him land a job: He did say this because hes a Washingtonian. Thats what they do to you, they say, golly gee to your face and they act like Richie Cunningham to your face. Theyre Richie Cunningham and theyre Opie from [i]The Andy Griffith Show[/i], but theyre the fucking Sith Lord behind your back. Theyre hitting you with a lightsaber behind your back.
[b]On Steve Bannon[/b]: I helped Bannon through the three months that he was on the campaign, and we had a good relationship. But Bannon turns on me, because Bannon is ultimately railing against the swamp, but hes actually a cock of the swamp. Hes the creature from the Black Lagoon, Bannon. He acts more swamp-like than any person thats ever become a Washingtonian. So for all of his railing on the swamp, he is literally the pig in George Orwells [i]Animal Farm[/i] that stands on his two legs the minute he gets power.
[b]His final takeaway:[/b] I learned that the swamp is probably a gold-plated cesspool with no drain. You understand what Im saying? You cant drain the fucking thing. Its a gold-plated cesspool, and you got cesspool operators in there that know how to slow down disruptors like Donald Trump.
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