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Old 01-19-2017, 05:15 PM
 
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What a joke, yet another man of the American Aristocracy. A man inheriting a huge fortune is rewarded for it yet again. Betty DeVos inherited billions, gives Trump 10 million and becomes Education Secretary. This guy inherited billions of dollars and becomes ambassador to Britain. None of them are qualified except they inherited billions. This is the aristocracy at play. A tiny super rich elite rigging the economy to their benefit through a corrupt system of campaign finance.
Exactly.

Minions are telling everyone to just hush up about the looting.

Time to pull together you know.

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Old 01-19-2017, 05:18 PM
 
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If cronyism means bringing in people who can do the job sign me up.

Rick Perry can do a decent job of overseeing our nuclear arsenal and national labs?

That's ridiculous on the face of it.
 
Old 01-19-2017, 05:48 PM
 
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Can't wait for DeVos to start working for Americans and not the liberal agenda...
 
Old 01-19-2017, 05:52 PM
 
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Can't wait for DeVos to start working for Americans and not the liberal agenda...

Does that apply to LGBT rights? Am not sure about the wife, but her husband and much of the DeVos family are hardly onboard with marriage equality and other such matters.
 
Old 01-19-2017, 05:55 PM
 
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Does that apply to LGBT rights? Am not sure about the wife, but her husband and much of the DeVos family are hardly onboard with marriage equality and other such matters.
This is the department of education, not the department of justice...
 
Old 01-19-2017, 05:57 PM
 
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Well to be fair several "plum" ambassadorships (UK, France, several other European countries, and perhaps a few Asian such as Japan) have often doled out as favors or pay back of same by presidents to the wealthy and or politically connected.
Joseph Kennedy, Walter Annenberg, John J. Louis Jr., Anne Armstrong, Matthew Barzun, Robert H. Tuttle, and Philip Lader all come to mind.
Trump was supposed to "drain the swamp" of corruption and pay back as huge numbers of people bought the bill of goods that he was selling the voters; the "self-funder", lol.
 
Old 01-19-2017, 06:20 PM
 
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I love drain the swamp... but draining the liberals out is even better...
 
Old 01-19-2017, 07:57 PM
 
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Trump was supposed to "drain the swamp" of corruption and pay back as huge numbers of people bought the bill of goods that he was selling the voters; the "self-funder", lol.


Yeah, let me know how that swamp draining is going:
Peter Thiel may be tapped as ambassador to Germany | New York Post
 
Old 01-19-2017, 08:05 PM
 
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Yeah, let me know how that swamp draining is going:
Peter Thiel may be tapped as ambassador to Germany | New York Post
That would be fantastic!
 
Old 01-19-2017, 09:13 PM
 
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Yeah, let me know how that swamp draining is going:
Peter Thiel may be tapped as ambassador to Germany | New York Post
Peter Thiel has spent most of his professional life doing stuff in the Silicon Valley, not D.C.

Do you consider anyone that has accomplished something noteworthy to be part of the "swamp"?
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