Draining the swamp

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  1. riverman

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    I'm like a dry skidmark....need a brillo pad and pressure washer to eliminate me!
     
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    In the cold war Cuba was a valued friend to Russia. Cuba has nothing that Russia wants.
     
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    vodka and blondes ......Russian tobacco is the worst...Cuban cigars the best....that'll stop a cold war!
     
  5. Denny Crane

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    Nonsense.

    He spoke of draining the swamp in terms of ending the corruption and cronyism in Washington. Stick up for your boy by defending his picks, not shifting the goalposts.

    Maybe he will reign in lobbying or help fix it, but don't bring that vague unquantifiable nonsense talking point garbage out to play here, it's terrible.
     
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    It seems to me he is making high profile picks that aren't career corrupted politicians, and who are very successful and sophisticated. People who don't need to take bribes.

    He talked about Carl Icahn for his cabinet all along. His picks are pretty much what he promised and people voted for it.
     
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    I don't remember him promising any picks, I must have missed that.
     
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    He may be draining the swamp, but he's replacing the water with raw sewage and road kill.
     
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    Yes.

    Trump talked about Icahn in his speeches from day 1. I saw that much on CNN before they went batshit crazy.
     
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    http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/288817-trump-starts-considering-cabinet

    Donald Trump recently floated former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin as a possible choice to head the Treasury Department, a development first reported by Fortune. Mnuchin serves as the national finance chairman of his campaign.​

    Icahn, one of the nation’s savviest investors, said last year he was not interested in heading Treasury.​

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    http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/277961-trumps-cabinet-who-it-might-be

    Trump has long suggested that Carl Icahn, a major investor and fellow businessman, would be the perfect fit to head his Treasury Department. The GOP front-runner suggested Icahn as a possible Treasury secretary back in June, alongside other business hotshots Jack Welch, the former head of General Electric, and Henry Kravis.​
     
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    I'm sorry Denny, but if you are saying that everyone voted for trump because he mentioned carl ichan a few times, that's just plain ludicrous.
     
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    Never a peep about this.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420574/nancy-pelosi-wealth-liberal-hypocrisy

    Nancy Pelosi’s Life in the 0.1 Percent

    Nancy Pelosi may be one of the most liberal members of the U.S. House, where she runs the Democratic caucus, railing against income inequality and the avarice of the 1 percent. But she also happens to be one of the body’s wealthiest members: In Washington, she lives in a multimillion-dollar Georgetown condo; she owns a 16-acre vineyard in Napa Valley and a 3,700 square-foot house in San Francisco’s tony Pacific Heights, according to her May 2015 financial disclosure statements.

    Her May 2015 financial-disclosure statements,showing income that places her in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans, may surprise some in light of the concern she’s expressed about income equality and the distribution of wealth.

    ...

    Though financial-disclosure forms list only ranges of assets and liabilities, Pelosi listed between $42.4 million and $199.5 million in assets in 2013, which was enough for Bloomberg Business to deem her the richest member of House leadership from either party. By 2014, she and her husband, investment banker Paul Pelosi, were doing even better: She reported between $43.4 million and $202 million in assets.
     
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    I don't claim to read their minds. You seem to have that insight.

    What I do know is he told everyone what kind of people he'd hire. Named names. Jeff Sessions among them. Huge audiences wherever he went and said these things.

    'Everyone" didn't vote for Trump. His voters knew, or they weren't paying any attention at all.
     
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    I'm not sure I follow. Trump made it very clear that America is first and being friendly with Russia puts our country first. Last person we want war with is Russia. As far as Cuba is concerned, when the country decides to treat their people fairly, they get love.
     
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    No blind trust! No panties in a wad.
     
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    It's their country....I'm not talking about whether we like their govt or not..we have trade and embassy's spanning the globe with those conditions ..why not Cuba? Ho Chi Min did pretty much what Castro did but over a longer period of time...in the end, he got the Riviera properties and farms and factories yet we have an embassy there and trade...I don't get the double standard...Russia isn't famous for humanitarian treatment of people. The way to help Cuban people is to trade with them...sanctions don't hurt the wealthy in Cuba....only the poor
     

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