Grifters, grifters, never were there such devoted grifters
I worked for an organization that ran a lot like this. The owner played golf all the time, and meddlesome grifters would get his ear at the country club and be given huge consulting contracts or positions in the outfit. This money was available because the people who created the value were paid starvation wages. Every day you ground your teeth while these clowns treated our means of livelihood like their own little sandbox. Youâd put up with it until it started affecting your mental and physical health and then youâd leave. Eventually we formed a kind of alumni association that would get together to drink and trash that owner. It was a pretty large group after a while.
Meantime just help the Democrats how you can and we can start getting committees looking into this crap. Unbelievable.
This is stunning and disgusting. I supposed we should be grateful that it wasnât the Koch assholes running things. Of course, theyâre probably running several departments and we just donât know about it yet.
I know how busy all of you are and having you be there in person, and so present, was truly a gift,â Shulkin responded. âI found the time we spent, the focus that came out of our discussions, and the time we had with the President very meaningful.â
And then they âsouredâ on him. He didnât kiss ass hard enough.
You know, sometimes I get to thinking all that talk about how Republicans love and support the troops isnât genuine.
Welcome to the U.S. Oligarchy where country clubs run government and government is run as a country club.
Maddow did a great piece last night on Paul Manafort apparently attempting to sell the position of Secretary of the Army to Steven Calk, a bank president, in exchange for multi-million dollar âloans.â
The three are hardly random.
âThree Random Mar-a-Lago Members Are Quietly Running the VAâ
This headline is puzzling. Does TPM actually think there is anything "random" about the composition of the triumvirate exercising influence over the VA? If it wasn't Moskowitz it could just as well have been the owner of a West Palm Beach auto dealership? Trump didn't arrange for Perlmutter's involvement, the club chef accidentally slipped his name into the arrangement instead of the director of the local yacht club?UmmmmmmâŚnot wishing to be the grammar police, but could we please have âin effectâ rather than âeffectivelyâ??
âEffectivelyâ generally implies âcompetentlyâ or âcapablyâ, whereas âin effectâ is more in the line of âfor all intents and purposesââŚ
I am pretty sure what was meant here was âfor all intents and purposesâ and not âcompetentlyââŚespecially when we are talking about Spankeeâs golfing buddies.
ETA: oh, yeah, forgot to add: this âpresidencyâ will go down in history as the most shocking and appalling example of cronyism in the history of the US, hands down.
Remind me again how trump was way better than that Hillary lady?
Spankee wasnât Hillary. That was all that mattered to the Trumpsters.
A preemptive congratulations provoked this response: âBruceâthis was not the confirmation voteâit was a committee voteâwe still need a floor vote,â Shulkin wrote to Moskowitz.
This sums up the problem with the Trump administration, they donât understand basic civics and they donât care. They are after a quick hiest.
Three ârandomâ ? Dumpy NEVER picks at random .
Another plot to privatize. âIt will be tremendous, believe me.â
People that have risked their lives and lost limbs and suffer from PTSD are proof that TrumpCare (or PutinCare, if youâd like), doesnât work. Trump couldnât give a crap about former military personnel! It is only the ones that can still participate in combat, that he is concerned about. After service, vets are the rusting cars in the junkyard⌠Trump will probably start up âTrump Hospitalâ to see how much further he can rip off these people.
Wow. They are like junk food. Saccharin ingraciation, salty petulance and no substance whatsoever. I think Iâve developed three cavities just reading this!
Any Russian connections to this triumvirate?
Is there nothing these grifting aholes canât just leave alone???
Her emails.
There were copies of some of them.
Rich, idle and not that well educated.
Iâm sure once this reaches wide exposure, and the arrangement goes to shit, Trump will have to piss and moan about why in the hell didnât the NSA or FBI vet Perlmutter, Moskowitz and Sherman more thoroughly.