Swampiest Washington ever?

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Re: Swampiest Washington ever?

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/02/carl-icahn-shares-sell-trump-steel-tariffs-announcement-timing

Ex-Trump adviser sold $31m in shares days before president announced steel tariffs

Carl Icahn sold $31.3m of shares in a company dependent on steel imports days before the commerce department mooted stiff tariffs on imports


These Trumptards can read that quote above and not connect the dots. They'll go into spin mode, or whatever the “F” hamstering they need to do in order to maintain their weird narrative that they elected a guy who is good for 'merica.

Ugh.

Day in and day out with this guy. It's pretty sobering what politicians can get away with.

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Man. I gotta tell ya. When The Guardian is more ethical than Joe American we have a problem. The level of dumbshittery is off the charts.

I think I'm going to take a break for the rest of the night.

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cinepro wrote:I don't know about "swampiest", but I've been really surprised by the turnover.

It's tough to compare the current Washington climate to past generations because there is so much more visibility into today's Washington, and so much less tolerance for "swampy" behaviors.


The level of tolerance for corruption in the Trump administration, in part because it is so extensive that people feel overwhelmed by trying to take it all in, is unparalleled in modern American history. It was recently unfathomable what Trump is currently doing with his business ties, in the open, with regularity. This toxic culture of corruption exists throughout his upper level bureaucracy. Congress is just shielding his presidency from accountability. This is one of those "180 degree the opposite of reality" posts.

You have to reach pretty much all the way back to the pre- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act to find a swampier Washington D.C.

This is why things will get crazy if Democrats manage to take one of the houses of Congress. There's so many fat targets for ethics investigations just sitting there.
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DrW wrote:
subgenius wrote:so the swamp is draining...got it!

Things would go better for you if you would bother to read for comprehension before making another comment.

So, the ones he sends in are getting too swampy and then leave?... So, the people Trump knows and that want to work for him can't handle the swamp that was already in existence before they arrived and so they leave?.... got it!
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Re: Swampiest Washington ever?

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subgenius wrote:So, the people Trump knows and that want to work for him can't handle the swamp that was already in existence before they arrived and so they leave?.... got it!

This leaves us with the question of how to extricate the toxic waste they left behind in order to return the swamp to its pristine muckiness.


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