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OMG, it's not over yet!... sorry, I turned on the TV. Trump's speech wasn't over yet. I panicked.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Yay! Trump is going to give us unicorns if we just clap our hands and believe in Tinkerbell.
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Trump switches from masquerading as Annonymous Spokesman (John Miller, John Barron) to Annoymous Sources. Progress! ![[Linked Image from uploads.disquscdn.com]](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d52d1d9dcf112c45037c50a47c4ce128a9810f14c9abe15087c2ff627719f43e.png)
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Trump's idea of draining the swamp: Former lawmaker Heather Wilson refused to detail what she was doing for $20,000 a month at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Turns out the lady got a Trump Admin job just because she’s married to a billionaire who gave Donald Trump lots of money. This women is even griftier than Sarah Palin! Who knew that was even possible?!?  Way to Drain The Swamp™, Mr. President. 
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Turns out the lady got a Trump Admin job just because she’s married to a billionaire who gave Donald Trump lots of money.Way to Drain The Swamp™, Mr. President. Time for a little fact check. Her husband is Jay Hone a working attorney in NM. I dont know his net worth, but it unlikely he is a billionaire, Can you provide evidence of his so called billionaire status? http://www.lawyerdb.org She is a bit slimy re her consulting work, but her Wiki profile shows her to be actually qualified for this position, as opposed to most of the other Trump picks! https://en.wikipedia.org It didnt make sense to me that she would be busting her butt working so-called 100 hour weeks, if her husband was filthy rich, so I looked into it and found these items. It really looks like she got those consulting jobs because of her connections in Washington, that would be useful to Sandia. Tat
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It is curious that Mr. Trump delivers a speech- written by someone else- via his despised teleprompter. And it is then is deemed to be “reasonable” and “presidential”. Phew!
I suppose rising from the mucky dregs can be viewed-by some-as a positive turning point. Still-- I wonder what world we have descended into? And where we go from here...
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Turns out the lady got a Trump Admin job just because she’s married to a billionaire who gave Donald Trump lots of money.Way to Drain The Swamp™, Mr. President. Time for a little fact check. Her husband is Jay Hone a working attorney in NM. I dont know his net worth, but it unlikely he is a billionaire, Can you provide evidence of his so called billionaire status? http://www.lawyerdb.orgYou're right, I conflated two stories into one. I misread the article where I got the information from. I didn't realize they were speaking about two different ladies - I thought it was the same one.  The lady who's husband really is a billionaire just became Ambassador to Canada. My bad.  The other lady just hired for SecAF (original post above) made $20k a month at her previous jobs for sitting on her ass as her contract with her contractees stated that they were not allowed to ask her how she spent her time and earned her money. Wilson’s work involved using her contacts in Washington to try to gin up new federal business opportunities for the privately run weapons labs.
But the labs got into trouble by billing the government for her work, and one of them was accused of effectively using federal funds to lobby for more federal funds, a violation of law, according to the Energy Department’s Inspector General. The lab’s manager, the Sandia Corporation, agreed to pay a total of $4.7 million dollars to the government to settle the case, although it too denied any wrongdoing.
According to investigators, Wilson refused from the outset to provide a detailed accounting — at any time — of how she did her work while earning fees from Sandia and from the Los Alamos National Laboratory totaling $20,000 a month. ...from CFPI article above: “Ms. Wilson was very direct with him, stating that she was not going to account for her time in any detail.” Ms. Wilson sounds like a real walking, talking rectum, colloquially known as an arsehole. No wonder she has a (R) after her name! Sheesh!
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...and speaking of ol' Sarah... ![[Linked Image from uploads.disquscdn.com]](https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f1a401a87c38216dbd55d552cb5efd3089363fca1aff137af4ff8334f9d1f07d.gif)
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And so it begins. Maybe a record for the fastest formal call for a Special Prosecutor. Schumer calls on Sessions to resign
Vote 2022!
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Trump and Sessions terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, And, it's only just begun. When bad people got away with atrocities, we used to say, as a defense mechanism, that the Karmic wheel grinds slowly, butt ever so fine. This Karmic Grindr has shifted into overdrive. It couldnt happen to a more deserving cell! Sessions statement in less than an hour, on what they are calling a big news day. Talk an understatement! Tat
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