Draining the swamp

[3RA1N1AC]

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/19/carl-icahn-declines-donald-trumps-cabinet-offer.html

Are you honestly going to try and say that trump voters knew who the fuck carl Icahn was a month ago?

Maybe 1 in a hundred. Maybe.

 

[Denny Crane]

Are you honestly going to try and say that trump voters knew who the fuck carl Icahn was a month ago?

Maybe 1 in a hundred. Maybe.

Yes.

Trump talked about Icahn in his speeches from day 1. I saw that much on CNN before they went batshit crazy.

 

[Denny Crane]

July
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.​

April
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.​

 

[3RA1N1AC]

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.

 

[Denny Crane]

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.

 

[Denny Crane]

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.

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.

 

[magnifier661]

Here's a question mags....if Trump wants to befriend Russia and pull out of the lifted sanctions in Cuba...isn't that doing the opposite of befriending Russa? Russia is a good friend of Cuba and Castro's dead? Why would you want to undo an American embassy a few miles from our shores and an open relationship with a neighboring country that loves baseball?

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.

 

[Denny Crane]

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.

No blind trust! No panties in a wad.

 

[HailBlazers]

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.

Hot Damn that's one Rich Bitch.

 

[riverman]

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.

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

 

[Rastapopoulos]

It seems to me he is making high profile picks that aren't career corrupted politicians, and who are very successful and sophisticated.

 

[Denny Crane]

Feel the Burn.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I'm like a dry skidmark....need a brillo pad and pressure washer to eliminate me!

So you're like you're own undies?

 

[Denny Crane]

Which Goldman exec?

Someone is being disingenuous at best, bald face liar more likely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/politics/steven-terner-mnuchin-trump-treasury-secretary.html

Trump Taps Hollywood’s Mnuchin for Treasury and Dines With Romney


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Mnuchin
In 2002, Mnuchin left Goldman and worked briefly for his Yale roommate Edward Lampert, chief executive of Sears. He also briefly worked for Soros Fund Management in their private equity division during the "Goldman" period with Jacob Goldfield and Mark Schwartz.

After this stint, he founded RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which produced a number of notable films, including the X-Men film franchise and Avatar.[8]


He worked for Goldman 15 years ago. Oh my!

 

[barfo]

He worked for Goldman for 17 years. That's hardly a passing fling.

For what it's worth, his daddy worked there too.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

He worked for Goldman for 17 years. That's hardly a passing fling.

For what it's worth, his daddy worked there too.

barfo

He's not going from Goldman to the West Wing. More like Left Coast to West Wing.

He made $40M in 17 years at Goldman. $2M a year, roughly. I wonder if he made $40M on Avatar, and each of the X-Men movies. He's a Hollywood guy.

 

[dviss1]

Draining the swamp!

I saw the guy sure was running against. Don't know shit about him (which is rare).

Looked like a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche....

They're not learning....

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[blue32]

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[Denny Crane]

I saw the guy sure was running against. Don't know shit about him (which is rare).

Looked like a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche....

They're not learning....

The meltdown crowd on social media are conspicuously silent. Hypocrite clowns that they are.

It's funny to see what's going on in their fevered brains. Hallucinations.

 

[Denny Crane]

Icing on the cake.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/308206-tired-dem-donors-feel-like-their-money-got-burned

Tired Dem donors feel like their money got burned


Democratic donors stung by Hillary Clinton’s upset loss in the presidential race feel like they just set their money on fire.

The sore feelings are a huge problem for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which is trying to rebuild its image and reinvigorate a defeated party in time for challenging midterm elections in 2018.

It’s also a worry for top liberal activists as they prepare for war with President-elect Donald Trump and a GOP Congress that is hell-bent on rolling back President Obama’s accomplishments.

Many Democratic donors still feel burned by the party’s 2016 election losses and what they see as dysfunction in the DNC, which will elect a new leader in February.

Adding insult to the injury: The names of many donors were released in the WikiLeaks hack of Democratic emails, believed to have come at the hands of Russian intelligence. It was a mortifying development that has rattled some of the party’s big-money men and women.

“They’re tired,” one DNC official told The Hill. “They’re upset about the election, and there was significant trauma surrounding the Russians. They’re upset and they’re tired.”

Democratic investors went in on Clinton to the tune of more than $550 million, believing she would dispatch Trump, deliver Democrats the Senate and help the party make inroads into the GOP’s House majority.

Many liberal donors also viewed the election as an opportunity to cement Obama’s legacy.

Instead, Democrats find themselves in the throes of a full-scale and expensive rebuilding project punctuated by a rudderless DNC that won’t elect a new leader until more than a month after Trump is sworn into office.

 

[e_blazer]

Got a kick out of this piece, if for nothing more than coining the phrase "outrage porn". That is fricking awesome!

"It is painfully clear that all our outrage didn’t work. And now there’s a danger of getting sucked into a vortex of what I’d like to refer to as “outrage porn.” Trump’s horrific statements aren’t going to stop. He’s going to keep tweeting about every sleight and alleged offense, from Hamilton controversies to unflattering Saturday Night Live sketches to the untold thousands of protests and articles and taunts forthcoming. And he will use these incidents to cement his reputation as a political outsider with his voters. He will weaponize these reactions, holding them up as proof of just how much know-it-all elites loathe his “deplorable” white base.

Far worse, he will use our indignation over cultural kerfuffles to distract from far bigger stories—like his settling of the Trump University fraud suit for $25 million or the sprawling ethical conflicts that have emerged from running the presidency and a business empire at the same time."

https://newrepublic.com/article/138996/liberal-response-trump-devolving-outrage-porn

 

[Nikolokolus]

FYI, worrying about corruption and the appearance of a conflict of interest really has nothing to do with so-called "Social Justice Warriors" Everyone should be holding the President-Elect to a high standard with respect to corruption and good governance.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I saw the guy sure was running against. Don't know shit about him (which is rare).

Looked like a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche....

They're not learning....

This guy is growing on me.

 

[blue32]

FYI, worrying about corruption and the appearance of a conflict of interest really has nothing to do with so-called "Social Justice Warriors" Everyone should be holding the President-Elect to a high standard with respect to corruption and good governance.

I honestly don't think Rasta is worrying about anything other than trying to troll the forums here w/his whining.. I am just trolling the troller; there is no particular method or reasoning to the pictures. I just google up something to bury his B.S.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I honestly don't think Rasta is worrying about anything other than trying to troll the forums here w/his whining.. I am just trolling the troller; there is no particular method or reasoning to the pictures. I just google up something to bury his B.S.

I'd say it's a bad habit to assume that anybody who says something that disagrees with your position is acting in bad faith.

 

[Stevenson]

Two nights before the election, I was playing poker with a few guys who were going to vote for Trump. When I asked why, among other reasons they said he would "drain the swamp." Clearly they were just parroting his words. When I tried to explain they were being sold a bill of goods by PT Barnum, they just kept saying "drain the swamp, drain the swamp!"

It was BS then, and BS now. What a bunch of hogwash we are going to get for the next four years.

 

[blue32]

I'd say it's a bad habit to assume that anybody who says something that disagrees with your position is acting in bad faith.

Sure, I can understand that. Go back and check out some of those posts from him though. IDK they just seem troll/spammy.

 

[Rastapopoulos]