Drain the swamp (lol)

[Hindsight was 2020]

Goldman Sachs, Exxon, and the freakin WWE are in the Trump cabinet so much for draining the swamp

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Original! Great take!

This is exactly what I felt promised. The savviest people from the business world to manage inefficient government and win win win big league. Live it!

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

For some reason I always got the impression that Vince was always more liberal than his wife.

[Heisenberg]

I view "the swamp" as meaning people with decades of public sector experience. These picks have private sector experience and are giving up good jobs to serve the American people.

[Gass3268]

I view "the swamp" as meaning people with decades of public sector experience. These picks have private sector experience and are giving up good jobs to serve the American people.

Serve the American people = fatten their wallets

[Illiniwek]

Don't forget Amway...

I view "the swamp" as meaning people with decades of public sector experience. These picks have private sector experience and are giving up good jobs to serve the American people.

That's fine that they have private sector experience but if you think these picks will change Washington and make it any less corrupt you are so sorely mistaken.

[Xing]

Clearly, we're not interpreting the word "drain" correctly...

[Hermit For Peace]

I view "the swamp" as meaning people with decades of public sector experience. These picks have private sector experience and are giving up good jobs to serve the American people.

This is what I question.

Do you really believe this? Really?

[Hermit For Peace]

The mental gymnastics of Trump supporters is pretty pathetic

It's like a battered housewife who defends her husband because "you don't know him like I do...what he really means"

Exactly. They are in denial. And they are also delusional. Sad.

[Mr. Smith]

Groupp*$$ in the swamp seems more apt at this point.

[Maxwell]

They're going to rob this country stupid. Watch.

[justfollowingtheelections]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows.  The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.
The Bush administration had many people from the public sector, especially from the oil industry and the construction sector and we all saw where that led us (these were probably the only two industries that benefited from the war in Iraq).

[Santander]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows. The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.

You expect people to take your post seriously by saying this?...

[justfollowingtheelections]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows. The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.

You expect people to take your post seriously by saying this?...

Certainly more seriously than a post such as yours which lacks any substance whatsoever.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows. The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.

You expect people to take your post seriously by saying this?...

...yes? Corporations are literally not ALLOWED to be run for any other reason in this country.

[Deblano]

Wrestle In The Swamp!

[Santander]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows. The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.

You expect people to take your post seriously by saying this?...

...yes? Corporations are literally not ALLOWED to be run for any other reason in this country.

Destroying shareholder value by conducting business illegally is how businesses are supposed to be run? Read the original post again.

Also, there is a big difference between maximizing book profit and shareholder value.

[DrScholl]

Trump voters are getting exactly what they voted for.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows. The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.

You expect people to take your post seriously by saying this?...

...yes? Corporations are literally not ALLOWED to be run for any other reason in this country.

Destroying shareholder value by conducting business illegally is how businesses are supposed to be run? Read the original post again.

Also, there is a big difference between maximizing book profit and shareholder value.

It pains me so much to be a leftist right now when people make arguments devoid of facts. It's getting incredibly difficult to rationalize lately.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's not really surprising he would hire CEOs of large corporations.  This is Trump's world and these are the people he knows. The problem with this of course is that working in the private sector where your job is to maximize profit even if that means breaking laws (or finding ways so that the laws don't affect your business) is very different than being a public servant where your job is the exact opposite.  You're basically asked to switch from being selfish to being selfless and I'm not sure how easy that is or how willing they are to do it.

You expect people to take your post seriously by saying this?...

...yes? Corporations are literally not ALLOWED to be run for any other reason in this country.

Destroying shareholder value by conducting business illegally is how businesses are supposed to be run? Read the original post again.

I read the original post. Conducting business illegally is only damaging to shareholder value if you get caught.

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I know that but people are allowed to talk colloquially about these things.

[Santander]

I read the original post. Conducting business illegally is only damaging to shareholder value if you get caught.

That reads like the job description of a mob boss, not a CEO. (and please, let's not equate the two)

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I view "the swamp" as meaning people with decades of public sector experience. These picks have private sector experience and are giving up good jobs to serve the American people.

Do you think the American people will be served stuffed or deep-fried?

[Hermit For Peace]

If we don't like what Trump and his crony's do, then we can take to the streets. We have power collectively. We don't have to take abuse sitting down. We can always revolt. Even grannies and grandpas have their breaking point, especially when you try to mess with Social Security and Medicare.

[Indy Texas]

If we don't like what Trump and his crony's do, then we can take to the streets. We have power collectively. We don't have to take abuse sitting down. We can always revolt. Even grannies and grandpas have their breaking point, especially when you try to mess with Social Security and Medicare.

Most of them voted for Trump. As far as I'm concerned, they can die quickly if it means they won't be voting in 2020.

[Meclazine for Israel]

It's "Build the Swamp" silly.