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Post by confuzzled dude Thu Nov 10, 2016 4:57 pm

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Post by confuzzled dude Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:02 pm

A couple of months ago, Trump railed against Wall Street and said hedge fund managers get away with murder, and guess what, today he wants to hire the same hedge fund managers to manage our govt/treasury dept.

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Post by confuzzled dude Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:12 pm

An organizational chart of Trump’s transition team shows it to be crawling with corporate lobbyists, representing such clients as Altria, Visa, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Verizon, HSBC, Pfizer, Dow Chemical, and Duke Energy. And K Street is positively salivating over all the new opportunities they’ll have to deliver goodies to their clients in the Trump era. Who could possibly have predicted such a thing?

The answer is, anyone who was paying attention. Look at the people Trump is considering for his Cabinet, and you won’t find any outside-the-box thinkers burning to work for the little guy. It’s a collection of Republican politicians and corporate plutocrats — not much different from who you’d find in any Republican administration.
Now to be clear, the fact that in some ways — hiring lobbyists, cutting taxes for the wealthy, gutting regulations — Trump is going to be little different from any other Republican president doesn’t mean that he isn’t uniquely dangerous. He’s reckless, impulsive, vindictive, hateful, and authoritarian, and his presidency is going to be somewhere between disastrous and cataclysmic, likely in ways we can’t even imagine yet.

But one thing it will not be is a threat to the establishment, or the system, or whatever you want to call it. The wealthy and powerful will have more wealth and power when he’s done, not less. There’s a lot that Trump will upend, but if you’re a little guy who thinks Trump was going to upend things on your behalf or in order to serve your interests, guess what: you got suckered.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/11/if-you-voted-for-trump-because-hes-anti-establishment-guess-what-you-got-conned/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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Post by Hellsangel Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:14 pm

Congratulations, Comrade! Now you have *two* objects of obsession.
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Post by confuzzled dude Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:22 pm

Hellsangel wrote:Congratulations, Comrade! Now you have *two* objects of obsession.
Nice deflection.

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Fri Nov 11, 2016 5:13 pm

Hellsangel wrote:Congratulations, Comrade! Now you have *two* objects of obsession.

oh come come now. The political pretzelling is priceless comedy. I wish we could just skip the lameduck session, swear the buffoons in, and get the clown circus started right away. Let's see what bright plans they bring to the table to replace Obamacare. And I am super anxious to see what the drained swamp looks like.
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