Trump voters making up excuses why Trump isn't draining the swamp

[DetlefK]

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/02/fill-the-swamp-donald-trumps-voters-dont-seem-upset-by-all-the-wall-street-insiders-and-d-c-lobbyists/

“Better Trump’s swamp than Obama’s swamp. At least he’s gonna get us something,” 57-year-old Mark Ross of Unionville, Pennsylvania, told McClatchy. “If Hillary had won – and you know, she really is a swamp person – she would have had to pay back with favors all these interests that sent her money.”

Obama? Swamp bad.

Clinton? Swamp bad.

Trump? Swamp goooooood.

“Of course he’s going to take on smart people, doesn’t matter whether they’re lobbyists or not,” Walton said. ... “If he has to use swamp people to make America great again, why not?”

Harris and other Trump supporters also argued that Trump simply needed more time to drain the so-called swamp of federal government

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“I think what he’s done so far shows two things,” former Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss told CNN. “Number one: He has picked people that know how the system works and are willing to make the commitment to him and his policies to make sure the trains run on time and the train stays on the track, and I think that’s very important, particularly for someone who ran as an outsider. Secondly, I think most importantly, he’s picking talent.”

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There you have it. Trump's swamp-creatures are good because he's picking talent. His swamp-creatures are definitely not of the "payback" and "corruption"-kind. But Obama's and Clinton's swamp-creatures are.

Okay, he broke a campaign-promise before he even was inaugurated, but come on, you can't take him literal on that.

[Moostache]

1. IOIYAAR...or a hate monger.

They don't actually care about issues or things like truth, transparency or even handling of classified information at all.

They care about blaming someone, anyone, "the other" for their plight. And anyone willing to lie to them without shame will control them as a bloc. The results are obvious.

[Johonny]

2. baaa, baaa, baaa goes the sheople.

They make great pets.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Denial.

[Hugin]

4. The denial runs deep with these Trumpanzees.

They will spin excuses until the end of time rather than accept they've been duped. This is the primary reason con artists still exist... The trouble with internalized (gut) thinking rather than evidence based thinking is there is no alternatives everything is bipolar e.g. "yes-or-no" "on-or-off" "good-or-bad" "liberal-or-conservative". Since, they've internalized these beliefs, it's become personal and they are no longer able to make objective observations without taking a hit on their egos. They are totally unable to say, "I was wrong.".

[Silent3]

5. "make sure the trains run on time", huh?

What an apt choice of metaphor.

[ProfessorPlum]

8. missed it by that much!

great minds, Silent3

[ProfessorPlum]

6. chambliss might want to stay away from "trains running on time" analogies

given the small of fascism in the air. just saying.

[TwilightZone]

7. Well, they pretty much have to. Otherwise, they'd have to admit they voted for a lying sociopath.

And we can't have that.

[muntrv]

9. Reich wing corruption is not corruption. They don't even know they are being screwed.

[TwilightZone]

10. "At least hes gonna get us something"

Oh, Mark, you delusional fool.

[workinclasszero]

11. This is why I don' buy the BS that the Democrats lost because they ignored the "poor white man"

Obama? Swamp bad.

Clinton? Swamp bad.

Trump? Swamp goooooood.

These racist bastards voted for Trump out of hate and to slap down an uppity woman who dared to step out of the kitchen, IMO.

[anarch]

12. they're gonna stick it to the liberals, that's the main thing

kinda like burning down your own house to "get back" at your brother whom you resent b/c you think he's been getting more attention than you.

America, you're doing it wrong.

[smirkymonkey]

24. That's it exactly. God, how can people be so stupid

[skylucy]

13. +100 I agree with you!

[mitch96]

14. Herman Goering and Joseph Goebbels were right

Tell a lie often enough and the people will believe it..
The truth is the enemy of the lie... Block the truth, tell the lie and people will believe it..
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[NBachers]

15. Welcome to the Peewee Mental Contortion Olympiad!

[bucolic_frolic]

16. The Age of Peak Stupidity

begins January 20, 2017

Don't know how I'll survive it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. "he's gonna get us something" ?!! They ain't seen nothing yet! Buyer's remorse setting in, deepening

There are going to more and more.

By time the Electoral College votes, there won't even be enough supporters in the swing states to buttress those EC votes.

[MontanaMama]

18. Oh yeah...

Orange Hitler will DEFINITELY be getting you something. Don't worry your pretty little heads over it. You ALL have something coming. Just don't bend over.

[progressoid]

19. I wonder how long they can keep swimming in that denial river.

[Xolodno]

25. A really, really, really.....rrreeeeeeeaaaallllly long time.

Rush, et. al. will say its the Dem's fault for blocking some of his policies, mess inherited from Obama, "growing pains", etc. And they will eat every word of it up. Not until they are in a soup line at a soup kitchen with no job, living in a tent, etc. will they realize. And then, because they voted "tough on crime" laws, they will have a felony for a minor infraction and be banned from voting.

I pointed out to someone I know that Republicans are NOT actually anti-abortion, they just rely on Democrats for championing women's rights so they can court the dumb evangelicals. The last thing Repubs want is abortion made legal. The social costs would be a nightmare and all their pet projects will have to be scaled back to deal with the social costs associated.

He still refused to believe it. Hence why Economics isn't an exact science. It assumes people behaving rationally....too many don't.

[MrScorpio]

20. They don't have to make up excuses, they're unrepentant hypocrites

Everyone else knows it, even if they'll never admit it

[Kingofalldems]

21. Let's not mince words--these people don't care about any swamp.

They voted for Trump because they hate black people and anyone different than them

Fact.

[Solly Mack]

22. Well, duh.

Who didn't know they would think that way?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Only Republican I've seen raise an objection is Joe Walsh

The teabagger ex Congressman not the rock star. He's taken exception to Steve Mnuchin on Twitter.

[bettyellen]

28. I think he and Coulter are positioning themselves to be "sane voices" just for clicks....

They never had scruples before, they are in it for the attention alone.

[mindem]

26. They aren't draining the swamp

they are dredging it to make room for the 1 percenters yachts. The great extraction of middle class wealth is just beginning.

[guillaumeb]

27. There are good swamps and there are bad swamps.

And President Obama, being a Communist Muslim Nigerian Kenyan from Hawaii, created a bad swamp.

[LenaBaby61]

29. Aww, so cute ...

I hope that those folks in that McClatchy news interview and others like THEM enjoy the big, fugly, orange, p***y-grabbing "swamp monster" that will BE their president tRump, and their downfall.

Yeah not if, but WHEN, they lose everything, and are WAY down on the curb with the rest of us who shouldn't be there, they can sit back--and NOT be bitter or mad--Only reminisce fondly about the love affair they had with their big, fugly, orange, p***y-grabbing "swamp monster-in-chief."

[11 Bravo]

30. I guess that's easier than saying, "Damn, what a bunch of fucking saps ...

we turned out to be!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. This🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝

[kebob]

32. It's Really Quite Simple

Trump is the swamp, with all its fetid, noisome odors and repellent creatures. (See Appointments.) Why would he want to destroy his own domain?