I think this is all about the purge Putin ordered
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But itās all laid out right here in the ACME How To Run a Government Newsletter. Paragraph three tells how to recover from last weekās disaster.
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Yeah, Drumpfieās spawn and their appendages do not get it and will never get it. Let 'em crash and burn. The more spectacularly, the better.
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Heāll also default on the national debt and refuse to pay all government contractors. In any case, he wonāt declare bankruptcy until after heās sold off all of the nationās assets. Whatās the going rate for a nuclear warhead on the open market these days?
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@the_loan_arranger āā¦there is no way in hell you can consider George W. Bush a success in business.ā
Well, he did get to be Presnit, so thereās that. /s
But seriously, a good number of his āassociatesā made out okay on that little Eye-rack deal.
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Oh shit. This is why we canāt have nice things. Like universal single payer healthcare, decent roads and a new power grid.
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Under budget, ahead of schedule.
Start with the Secret Service. Iāll bet you could get local security cheap if you post the gigs on Craigslist. Why hire expensive career agents that have to be flown from site to site when you will be in a location just a few hours or days? The savings on benefits alone would be huge.
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Thank god they put someone with maturity and experience in charge of the reform
Hell, I couldnāt carry it off even as a joke.
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All of this happens while Kushner is also solving the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Might as well ask him to solve cold fusion while he is at it. The fact that Trump assigns such undertakings to relatively inexperienced individuals (e.g., State, EPA, DOE, Education, etc.) shows how little appreciation he has for, or understanding of, the complex nature of government. And, as already pointed out, the US Government is not a business. Business leaders are not tasked to provide for the common defense or promote the general welfare and can declare bankruptcy when it is advantageous. Business leaders can be heartless robber barons and while that describes much of the Republican Party, it is not who we are as a nation.
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Or even a government.
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Not to mention having the mob and the Russians on your side.
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Pocketing the money.
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Be that as it may, Bush will always be known as the guy who traded Sammy Sosa.
That was all Cheneyās idea. The smartest thing you could have done after the 2000 election was buy Halliburton stock.
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I have less than vanishingly small confidence in this kidās ability to do more than act like heās a big deal, in his irritatingly humble and unassuming manner. FFS, his father bought his way into Harvard. The only thing in his āresumeā that I see as mildly redeeming is that he played hockey in high school. But Iāll wager he didnāt like to get hit, and probably whined to the ref if someone dumped him into the boards.
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Kushner lacks direct experience, but he is well read.
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Almost all the inefficiency of government results from laws and review regulations that ensure public participation and transparency ā accountability of those same bureaucrats. In other words, the same aspects of Public Service versus business processes that Rex Tillerson seems to be having such tdouble with.
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This move smells like the right-wing move to convene a constitutional convention. I wonder if the two are shoots from the same root, with lots wingnut financial support behind them. I canāt imagine Trump developing the idea or Kushner caring enough to promote it on his own. After all, all kleptocrats really want to do is klept.
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āPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.ā Groucho Marx
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Maybe heāll be running it from jail.
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It helps w bottom line if you stiff the contractors. Hidden savings.
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