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  • #16
    Originally posted by Sparko View Post


    now you get your news and talking points from SNL?
    I found that ironic, too.

    Anyway, Trump's swamp draining project is off to a good start, but there is decades, maybe even centuries of scum at the bottom, so he has a lot of work ahead of him.
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      such as?
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      That's what
      - She

      Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
      - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

      I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
      - Stephen R. Donaldson

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
        now you get your news and talking points from SNL?
        Do you genuinely not understand the idea of posting a cartoon or funny vid about something because it's funny and true? Or are you just trolling as usual?
        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          Do you genuinely not understand the idea of posting a cartoon or funny vid about something because it's funny and true? Or are you just trolling as usual?
          sure but you used SNL as the "evidence" to your claim of Trump "building the swamp"

          As SNL noted in one of their great little skits, Trump seems like he's trying to build the swamp...
          and with you, who can be sure?


          (yes I was trolling )

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            such as?
            Such as what? Whats your question Sparko?

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            • #21
              Originally posted by JimL View Post
              Such as what? Whats your question Sparko?
              is your attention span that short? Scumbag lobbyists that trump is putting in his cabinet.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                is your attention span that short? Scumbag lobbyists that trump is putting in his cabinet.
                He is filling his administration with the very people he raled against in his campaign. He claimed T Cruz was owned by Goldman sachs, that Hillary Clinton was their shill, when all the while it was he who was connected at the hip with them. Steve Bannon, Jay Clayton, Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, Anthony Scaramucci, Dina Habib Powell, all Goldman sachs or ex Goldman sachs big wigs given top spots in his administration. Then he fills his cabinet with big Corporate donors to his campaign, like Linda Mcmahon, who gave 7 million to his campaign alone, and Betsy Devos, who donated over 200 million to republican lawmakers over the years, and corporate shills like Pruitt, Tillerson, and the crooked T Price, not to mention the unethical Jeff Sessions who has already refused to recuse himself from the ongoing investigatios into the Trump/Russia connections, etc etc. He scammed you all!
                Last edited by JimL; 02-19-2017, 09:35 PM.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by JimL View Post
                  He is filling his administration with the very people he raled against in his campaign. He claimed T Cruz was owned by Goldman sachs, that Hillary Clinton was their shill, when all the while it was he who was connected at the hip with them. Steve Bannon, Jay Clayton, Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, Anthony Scaramucci, Dina Habib Powell, all Goldman sachs or ex Goldman sachs big wigs given top spots in his administration. Then he fills his cabinet with big Corporate donors to his campaign, like Linda Mcmahon, who gave 7 million to his campaign alone, and Betsy Devos, who donated over 200 million to republican lawmakers over the years, and corporate shills like Pruitt, Tillerson, and the crooked T Price, not to mention the unethical Jeff Sessions who has already refused to recuse himself from the ongoing investigatios into the Trump/Russia connections, etc etc. He scammed you all!
                  Now give evidence that those people were lobbyists like you claimed.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    Now give evidence that those people were lobbyists like you claimed.
                    Even if they were Trump is forbidding them from becoming lobbyists as soon as they leave the government which is what the problem has been.

                    I'm always still in trouble again

                    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                    "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                    "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                      Even if they were Trump is forbidding them from becoming lobbyists as soon as they leave the government which is what the problem has been.
                      I have no problem with him putting business men and women in his cabinet. At least they know how to run a company. And I think the country needs some of that type of leadership right now. We need to make America "profitable" again.

                      When he said "drain the swamp" he was talking about getting rid of career politicians who just wanted to keep being reelected and never did anything for the country. It was just a pile of back slappers who kept everything tied up in red tape. Trump has done more in one month than all of Washington in the last 8 years. He will continue to get rid of those who refuse to work with him, and make sure things get done. That is draining the swamp.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                        I have no problem with him putting business men and women in his cabinet. At least they know how to run a company. And I think the country needs some of that type of leadership right now. We need to make America "profitable" again.
                        We do need people who see doing things under budget as a good thing rather than something that needs to be punished.

                        I'm always still in trouble again

                        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                          We do need people who see doing things under budget as a good thing rather than something that needs to be punished.
                          xakly.

                          If they were on the board of a failing company that was spending 10 times what it made and the employees were sitting around not helping, they would cut spending, fire the no good bums and reward the hard workers and turn the company around. That is what this country needs. Our whole society and country are based on business and capitalism, yet the government runs itself like a failing charity whining for more help.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            is your attention span that short? Scumbag lobbyists that trump is putting in his cabinet.
                            The Big banks and Corporations, such as Mnuchins Goldman Sachs and OneWest bank, don't do the lobbying themselves doofus, they pay big time to lobbying firms to do it for them. But Trumps transition team is loaded with those big time lobbying firms.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by JimL View Post
                              The Big banks and Corporations, such as Mnuchins Goldman Sachs and OneWest bank, don't do the lobbying themselves doofus, they pay big time to lobbying firms to do it for them. But Trumps transition team is loaded with those big time lobbying firms.
                              They are? I keep asking for evidence and all I get is more assertions. Do you even know what a lobbyist is?

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                              • #30
                                Rush Limbaugh made the point that Washington is full of lobbyists. You can't throw a rock in the street without hitting a dozen of them. It's virtually impossible for Trump to find people for his staff who have Washington experience but who aren't lobbyists. However, he is taking measures to limit lobbying in the future.
                                Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                                But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                                Than a fool in the eyes of God


                                From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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