Mexicola wrote:Did anyone ever genuinely buy that Trump was going to 'drain the swamp'? I'd say he's a charlatan, but that's an insult to talented con artists the world over. Again, while I'd genuinely love to see a sea change in the political establishment, he was never it. You don't fix corruption and vested interests with more overt corruption and vested interests.
Wonder if the tweets were an intended diversion from the Flynn testimony?
Fox must be hours from showing a blank screen and playing military band music.
'...despite [Trump] becoming a swamp monster himself' - Valotonin.
Its all a puppet show anyway, people where losing faith in politics like never before because every candidate that was nominated was effectively the same person. Blank. And nothing ever changed. Every eight years they up the stakes in how much 'change' a candidate can offer and how radically different they appear to stop people losing faith in a corrupt system often mistaken for democracy.
The Clinton family and the Bush family work incredibly closely with each other and have effectively identical visions of a future where the common man has no human rights and no possessions, no right to free expression and is completely owned and used by their government. Remember the 'Patriot' act. It is all just a facade, one person uses a left wing persona, the other uses a right wing but together they are ensuring that the general direction is towards total authoritarian/ totalitarianism. The political spectrum is three dimensional, but as long as you can fool the people into thinking it is a polarised left/right scenario, you can take advantage of that to a pretty large extent to slip an authoritarian agenda through.
Did Trump originally have good intentions? I don't know. Only he knows.
All I know is that, regardless, he is one of 'them' now.
It happens to every president just before inauguration, they are briefed on something, something harrowing and painful that lets them know that they really aren't in power at all. You can always tell, the pale face as they emerge, the look of one having seen a ghost. You should be worried when a president doesn't have that look about them as they emerge for the Inauguration, it means that they where already aware of what their 'role' was as the biggest puppet on the stage.
Trump was a wildcard as far as they were concerned, they didn't know whether they could convince him to further the agenda of Totalitarianism on an Orwellian scale so they did everything they could to try and ensure plan Clinton came to be, but it didn't.
Luckily for them and unluckily for us, Trump is complying with their demands and is a now a swamp monster himself.
They are pushing both sides of this race relation tensions bullshit to try and create a massive political distraction away from the fact that people's human rights are being eroded away daily.
Using all of the horror stories about the Nazi party whilst creating the race tensions themselves to ensure that they can claim that it is the real agenda, the real boogeyman, further distracting people away from the fact that they have less and less control over their own lives with each month that passes.
Left or right, you won't have rights.
