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2017-07-02 Home Front: Politix
Could Trump Really Be Draining the Swamp?
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-02 02:58|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 I am surprised that this news leaked out. The stone walling media is appearing to lose its grip on news that they wish to control. Media staff reductions, lost revenue are all good signs of their failures. The Democratic party is the media. Catering to all the fringe groups and creating new ones is a finical disaster. The salad only protects its own. The welfare people have no money to contribute. The prestigious Universities will not have their donations as in the past. Yes, the swamp is draining. They will continue to maintain their shrill attacks in film, theater, and various media but with Trumps invitations to the conservative press media is a death blow. People want to hear good news. People want a strong country with good leadership. The public is starved for good news. So watch as each month the slowly dying gasps of a dying ultra left agenda.
Posted by Dale 2017-07-02 06:48||   2017-07-02 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Murdoch's WSJ is Buzzfeed without cat videos and bikini girl pictures. I dropped my subscription last year. Still, if they are printing this, the tide is taking a break, if not actually receding...
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-07-02 08:04||   2017-07-02 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 This makes my heart feel little like an alligator
Posted by Regular joe 2017-07-02 09:14||   2017-07-02 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Regular then turn the dowg damned music up!
Posted by Shipman  2017-07-02 11:30||   2017-07-02 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 As some background:

The career diplomats are disciplined via their own discipline board. During the Bush administration the board ordered a diplomat reinstated with back pay even though he was in prison(!) for embezzling money from his former employer. (i.e. the very same State Department.)

I personally would support zero funding the diplomatic corps until we get rid of all the thieves and traitors in the department.

Al
Posted by Chitle Sposh4338 2017-07-02 11:44||   2017-07-02 11:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I personally would support zero funding the diplomatic corps until we get rid of all the thieves and traitors in the department.

The Department of State is simply an 'action arm' of another more sinister, Deep State organization. As Mrs. Besoeker constantly reminds me, 'if you don't get the roots, the Carpetweed will simply return.'
Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-02 12:00||   2017-07-02 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Using the metric of USDS critiques of Israel (for trying to live) per a unit time, I tend to credit this article.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-02 13:22||   2017-07-02 13:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Could Trump Really Be Draining the Swamp? One can only hope. Empty offices are a good sign. Foggy Bottom had become bloated, ineffectual and very partisan over many years of accumulating moss. What was it they had, 70K+ employees in HRC's hayday?
Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-02 15:31||   2017-07-02 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Now all those poor ex-bureaucrats will have to find real jobs. What a shame.

Might smarten 'em up a bit.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-07-02 16:17||   2017-07-02 16:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Now all those poor ex-bureaucrats will have to find real jobs.

And with the decline in oil prices, all these "independent' think tanks are no longer hiring. Well, there are still universities.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-02 16:23||   2017-07-02 16:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Did anybody really think it would be easy?
Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-02 16:36||   2017-07-02 16:36|| Front Page Top

#12 ..short of one or two nukes, no. Those or a real French revolution with appropriate guillotines.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-02 17:05||   2017-07-02 17:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Filling that swamp back up with nepotism does not help
Posted by newc 2017-07-02 22:09||   2017-07-02 22:09|| Front Page Top

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