The Swamp Is Winning

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/04/26/the-swamp-is-winning/

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Ben Smith: “As the Trump administration scrambles to list the accomplishments of Donald Trump’s first hundred days, an awkward fact is becoming clear: To the extent that they have much to brag about, it’s because they’ve turned important roles and projects over to the swamp-dwelling Washington insiders Trump campaigned against.”

“Trump’s clearest major accomplishment is also the purest example of this trend: The appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court was a masterpiece of insider politics, steered by the longtime master of Washington conservative judicial politics Leonard Leo and guided through the Senate by the most Washington of Washington strategists, Ron Bonjean.”

“The nomination process was as slick as virtually everything else Trump touched was messy: Well-researched and coordinated, with an array of conservative groups feeding and sparring with the media and with Democrats. It was characterized by aggression and spin, but not overt lying or massive bumbles. And while it was hardly a rogue operation — Bonjean is close to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer — it was like an alternate universe from the chaos reporters are accustomed to coming out of Pennsylvania Avenue.”


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[Warpy]

1. This is what happens when you don't require pols to define their terms

To Dolt45, "draining the swamp" meant getting rid of all the inconvenient rules and regulations he saw as being inconvenient or injurious to business. How do I know this? Look at what he's been trying to do from Day One by appointing deadly enemies of agencies to head them and by cutting their funding to practically nothing.

It certainly didn't mean what dumb people thought it meant, ridding Washington of all the high paid foreign and corporate lobbyists and ending legal bribery.

Had they demanded to know what he meant, they might have voted a bit differently.

Republicans: speaking in the vaguest generalities to con and then fuck over the American people for over a century.

[applegrove]

3. That's why the GOP keep nominating dyslexics as their Presidential candidates. The Bushes,

Reagan and Trump all dyslexics. They speak in generalities and from the heart...making them seemingly presidential to those who read too much into those generalities. They are good at the big picture and bad at details. Good at sussing out the concrete and great at tearing down the fictions of others as they are good at the concrete not social constructs. Perfect political puppets.When Democrats elect dyslexics they are not puppets but the smartest: Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt was dyslexic too and played a major part in FDR's administration as his eyes and ears. Churchill was dyslexic too.

[MedusaX]

4. WTF does dyslexia have to do with speaking in generalities?

In my experience, dyslexia is often compensated for by the acquisition of a robust vocabulary which is accompanied by the verbal ability to express oneself quite thoroughly.

[applegrove]

5. Oh dyslexia is just a type of brain. You can be a genius and dyslexic. Of course Einstein

was dyslexic and even his colleagues who admired him were frustrated with his lack of study of details. But it is all relative. If you have a 140 IQ and are dyslexic you work for NASA. Look at it like pattern recognition. They pay attention to form not language. And if you have the 3D type brain it takes lots of brain power. So often you are describing the shape of something in your mind, how it relates to other things, not the details of it. It is called dynamic reasoning. Looking at patterns of the past to come up with patterns in the future. Why dyslexics are good at sciences, business, acting, and politics. And yes public speaking in many cases. (I am not).

[world wide wally]

2. I heard that asshole Wicow show on the radio today

They are celebrating the long term conservative court that will go along with anything Trump wants and drooling at the prospect of Trump getting to make another appointment because they know that will solidify the conservative court for generations.
Time to face the music.
America is dead and we are fucked.
The last thing we can do is plan an escape route.

Sorry to be so negative..... But FUCK