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EPA employees don't have to show up for work because they will be paid anyway. Doesn't that happen in most organizations?

Sarah Sanders will attend the White House Correspondent Dinner instead of our fearless leader. Most of past presidents never showed up for the dinner; right? It's not nice people are saying Sarah should skip the meal. Democrats are heartless right?

House Rep from Texas Blake Farenthold has decided to do the right thing & leave office like Democrats accused of sexual harassment. He will also pay back the 80k in hush money. We all wish him well right?

Evangelical leaders plan to have their flock say extra prayers for the president in hopes that Putin will not blackmail him like Stormy. Lord knows we all could use some extra prayers right?

We should all be happy that our president with the best memory in the world knows nothing about anyone being paid at any time for anything anywhere right? 

We all have plenty of money in our 401k plans & are happy to work until were 72 so we can retire comfortably. The roller coaster stock market is fun to watch go up & then down right? 

Boy are we lucky to have John Bolton. Who cares what baggage he has; we all have baggage right?

I don't trust this George Nader guy do you? I mean he's a convicted pedophile so he has a reason to lie about Betsy's brother right? Eric has helped  provide mercenaries to fight our wars overseas. He's a good guy right?

Why don't they leave that Paul Manafort guy alone? He's a businessman trying to make a living. So what if he has a  bunch of Russian friends. So does our president right?

Thank goodness the president shone the light on all the rapes taking place near our borders. No one else seemed to know these were taking place right?

Finally 150 National Guard troops have been sent to protect our  border until the Democrats give us the money to build that damn wall.

So what's the big deal right? Everything is fine

 

   


  

 
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Thank goodness everyone has stopped talking about seeing our president's income taxes right? Who cares if every other president shared there's with us. What makes everyone think he has something to hide? That's terrible; what could he possibly have to hide from us right?

Isn't it great that oil companies, mining interests, insurance executives, foreign investors & diplomats & defense contractors are flocking to that new hotel in DC a few blocks away from the White House? Even after a 32% price hike, rooms in that hotel are hard to get. Every small business in the area must be raking it in huh?

Isn't it amazing that the president's two sons can run his almost 500 business entities with no advice or conversations with Dad. I guess we all sold these two young fine men short. Who knew?

Don't you miss Jared & Ivanka? Wasn't it cool to watch the president look at his daughter with so much pride even when he invaded her personal space. What's the big deal right?

The American Petroleum Institute held its board meeting at that new hotel, where it met with EPA chief Scott Pruitt. A month later, Pruitt suspended drilling regulations. So why do people think there's any connection here? Move along; nothing to see here right?

A Turkish government council held its annual conference at the hotel. The group’s chair founded the company that paid $530,000 to former national-security adviser Michael Flynn for lobbying efforts. Mikey got a bad rap & shouldn't have been kicked to the curb right? What's the big deal?

E-cigarette-makers held their annual conference at the hotel. Ten days later, the FDA announced it will delay federal oversight of e-cigarettes until 2022. What's the big deal? No more lighters or matches will take space in pockets & purses across the country.

The president's administration opened offshore drilling in all but one state: Florida, where oil and gas exploration could hurt business at Mar-a-Lago. As a Floridian I love this decision. I wonder what the rest of the country thinks. No biggie right? We're good at cleaning up oil spills.

 



 
 
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No one is perfect right? Not everybody we hire is a superstar right? So our president has been let down by some former employees. He promised us that he would hire the best & the brightest. Give him some time. It's only been about 400 days right?

Weren't you upset when Carl Icahn stopped officially giving advice to our president? It's almost like Carl has more important things going on in his life. What could be more important than serving the president of our country right?

The president issued the travel ban but left off Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt — countries where he has significant business interests. His company was paid as much as $10 million for use of his name on a tower in Istanbul, and he registered eight new businesses in Saudi Arabia during his campaign. What's wrong with that right? He has the best interests of all Americans in the fore front of his mind right? What's the big deal?

The president, who owned as much as $5 million in bank stocks in 2016, ordered the Treasury secretary to consider ways to roll back regulations on banks. The value of bank stocks soared nearly 30 percent during his first year in office.Bank tellers & security guards got so excited to learn someone in government was watching out for them. What a considerate guy!

The president, who owned stock in large oil companies, allowed oil companies to hide the payments they make to foreign governments in exchange for extraction rights. The move came only two months after Exxon Mobil, which lobbied for the concession, donated $500,000 to the president's inauguration. These inaugural parties are expensive. Someone has to pay for it right?

Angela Chen, a consultant with ties to China’s ruling elite, bought a $16 million penthouse in a property owned by the president. Isn't it wonderful how someone from a foreign country gets a chance to purchase prime real estate at a very affordable cost? What a great country!

The president, who owns 12 golf courses in the U.S., rolled back a rule that limits water pollution by golf courses. Hey who doesn't like beautiful green fairways right? What's the big deal. Everyone benefits right? Exactly...

The Metals Service Center Institute, which pushed the Commerce Department for steel tariffs, held its annual conference at the president's resort in Miami. It just goes to show you that if you ask you shall receive with our president.

The president proposed slashing HUD’s budget — but retained a subsidy that  poured more than $490 million into a housing complex in Brooklyn where the president has a financial stake. Isn't he great? Providing affordable housing in his home town? Wow wee wow! You can't make this stuff up?

What's the big deal?
 
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3,000 word "nothing burger" avec formage.

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This thread could go on & on .... America is now a laughing stock....Lunatic sexual predator president 
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Looks like Zelo’s alter ego.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by HockeyTeeth:

3,000 word "nothing burger" avec formage.

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Her's more sauce for your nothing burger...

GEO Group, the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, held its annual conference at the Trump National Doral. The company poured $450,000 into Trump’s campaign and inauguration after Obama announced plans to end all federal contracts with private prisons. GEO also hired two of Jeff Sessions’s former aides, plus a former Trump Organization employee, as lobbyists. The investment paid off: A month after Trump took office, he ended the ban on private prisons. GEO received a $110 million contract to build a new immigration jail in Texas, plus $44 million a year to operate it. Earlier this year, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced it would slash some 6,000 jobs and transfer more inmates to private facilities. Now why would most people smell something fishy about his? It happens all the time right?

In a break with tradition, Trump personally interviewed candidates for U.S. attorney in the districts that cover most of his business dealings. For the New York position, he ultimately chooses one of his campaign donors. Well our president wants to keep his promises to his donors. You wash my pecker; I wash yours.

 A payday-lender lobbying group announces it will hold its 2018 annual conference at the Trump National Doral. Two months later, the administration announces it is considering scrapping a rule that requires payday lenders to stop taking advantage of clients who cannot pay off their loans. Our president pays all of his debts so why shouldn't everyone else right? What's the big deal?

Mississippi awards $6 million in tax breaks to a new Trump-branded hotel. Didn't all former presidents get these types of tax brakes from swampy states like this?

A firm founded by Melania Trump’s friend and adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff receives $26 million for helping plan the inauguration.  This is a perfect example of our president helping out a small business owner. What a guy!

During his confirmation as Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin failed to disclose a hedge fund he registered in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying federal taxes — the very thing he is supposed to collect as Treasury secretary. Haven't we all forgotten about money we've stashed around the world. What's the big deal?

During his confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price failed to disclose an insider deal he got on $520,000 in stock in a biotech company. As secretary, he was in a position to approve a drug the company has developed. Nicely played Tom. 

Congressional investigators reveal that Trump’s former national-security adviser Michael Flynn — who wanted to “rip up” American sanctions on Russia — failed to report $45,000 in fees he received from the Russian state media outlet RT. What's the big deal? Nobody watched RT right?

The White House stops releasing logs of visitors, concealing trips made by lobbyists and corporate executives. In Trump’s first two months alone, by one estimate, more than 500 executives and foreign leaders made unrecorded visits to the White House. Our president welcomes all influential visitors with open arms. He's just planning for his future & that of his family.



 
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson toured Baltimore — accompanied by prospective business associates being courted by his son. One administrator on the tour later offers Carson’s daughter-in-law a contract worth $500,000. Isn't that wonderful? Another dad looking out for his family.

New reports revealed that during his confirmation hearings, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed to disclose that a Russian shipping firm he owns a stake in has close ties to Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law. His new job puts him in charge of American trade policy with Russia.Give the guy a break, He's older & his memory doesn't always serve him well.

Under pressure from watchdogs, EPA chief Scott Pruitt terminated a $120,000 contract for a firm he has worked with in the past to dig up information on EPA staffers who had criticized him or his policies. This POS doesn't catch a break from me, Totally ethically bankrupt...

You all just got a lot richer,” Trump tells wealthy patrons at Mar-a-Lago hours after signing a massive tax give away to the super rich. The bill saved Trump $15 million in taxes and Jared Kushner $12 million. It also enriched much of Trump’s inner circle — including Linda McMahon, Betsy DeVos, Steven Mnuchin, and Rex Tillerson. Just a matter of friends helping friends right?

CDC chief Brenda Fitzgerald is forced to resign over her purchase of stock in one of the world’s largest tobacco companies. She bought the shares a month after taking over the agency tasked with reducing tobacco use. Well everyone was dipping into the cookie jar; why not her too? What's the conflict of interest here anyway?

Scott Mason, a key member of Trump’s transition team, returned to lobbying — one of nine transition-team members to violate Trump’s pledge that he would bar such revolving-door moves for at least six months. One of Mason’s clients, Peabody Energy, later helped dream up a coal-industry bailout promoted by Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Most lobbyist are decent people fighting for a righteous cause right?

Our president appointed Jeffrey Wood, a lobbyist for a coal polluter, to prosecute environmental crimes like coal pollution. Don't be so cynical; he'll be watching out for the public's best interests right?

Billionaire Carl Icahn, an unpaid adviser to Trump, submitted a regulatory proposal that raised the value of his investment in an oil refinery. During Trump’s first six weeks in office, Icahn made an extra $60 million on the deal. Not a bad gig if you can get it. Don't be so jealous.

Marcus Peacock, a policy expert in Trump’s budget office, took a job lobbying the budget office for the Business Roundtable, which represents 200 of America’s largest corporations. Trump made no move to enforce the five-year moratorium he vowed to place on such revolving-door moves. OK, so our president is in bed with the same lobbyists he promised to exile from DC. Bad habits are hard to break right?

A top aide to EPA chief Scott Pruitt, who oversees federal grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars, received permission to work as a consultant for private clients. Despite his influence over public policy, the identities of his clients will be kept secret. Nothing to see here. No transparency needed..


 
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Private Prison industry = Continued slavery ...Figures Trump is involved 
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Quote Originally Posted by bettingforfun:

Posted: Apr. 8, 2018 - 11:06 AM ET "Quote" Looks like Zelo’s alter ego.

what happened to the cut and paste man..... he run out of material after Obama’s left.

 

 
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talked to the plumber I work with today, he said his gas 1/2 inch gas pipe is up to $42 for a 20 foot piece so he had to raise his price to the builder and may lose the contract now.   Guess who he regrets voting for?
 
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Whitefish Energy, a Montana firm that employed the son of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, was awarded $300?million in a no-bid federal contract to restore storm-battered Puerto Rico. Nah no nepotism here.

Trump nominated J. Steven Gardner, a coal-industry consultant, to oversee enforcement of strip-mining regulations. The Senate ended up rejecting the nomination. They have some nerve not rubber stamping all of nominations.

Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, was guided through her confirmation by a lobbyist whose clients compete for DHS contracts. Privatizing the “sherpa” role in confirmations — work long performed by government staffers — opened up a brazen new frontier in corruption. The lobbyist, Thad Bingel, oversaw the drafting of official policy memos and was included on emails between the DHS and the White House, enabling him to exploit internal information for private gain. Among Bingel’s clients is an Israeli defense contractor being paid $145 million by DHS to build part of Trump’s “virtual wall” along the Mexican border. I thought lobbyists weren't going to be anywhere near this WH. This guy probably didn't get teh memo.

A photographer at the Department of Energy was fired after leaking a photo that showed Rick Perry receiving a confidential “action plan” from a coal magnate in March. The plan is a blueprint for the coal-industry bailout that Perry announced in September. This is the same freaking Rick Perry that wanted to abolish the Energy Dept that he now heads. You can't make this stuff up! But what's the big deal right?

Our president gave Kenneth Allen, a former mining executive who still profits from coal sales to the Tennessee Valley Authority, a seat on the TVA board. Sounds like we may another no-bid situation on the horizon. At least that's what Democrats are crying about. Everyone else says "what's the big deal?"

Alex Azar, a former lobbyist who worked his way up to the presidency of a drug company, was sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Services. Azar, whose company hiked the price of insulin and other drugs under his watch, is now in charge of making drugs more affordable. Wow! What a coincident! Kind of ironic huh?

Carl Icahn, who served as an unpaid adviser to Trump, sells $30 million in steel stocks just before Trump announces tariffs on steel imports. Our boy Carl has some impeccable market timing$$$.

Our president nominated Peter Wright, an attorney for Dow Chemical, to lead the EPA’s regulation of chemical spills. Dow has 100 polluted sites that Wright would be in charge of cleaning up. A LAWYER FOR AN OIL CO??? I wouldn't hold my breath on these sites getting cleaned up in our lifetime.

Ahhhh, what;s the big deal???
 
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Rex spent 12 million to consultants for ideas on how to reduce costs in the State Department. Hmmm, how about not hiring consultants??

Lordy are we lucky for Hannity & Pirro on Fox News. They are always available to bounce ideas of our president & some of the ideas actually become a declaration or a policy change.

How comforting to hear Larry Kudlow say we are not in a trade war. Larry is always right about our economy or so he says.

Michael Cohen.....enough said!
 
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How could I have forgotten this one..

Consumer Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney has hired at least eight political appointees since he took over the bureau in late November. Four of them are making $259,500 a year and one is making $239,595. That is more than the salaries of members of Congress, cabinet secretaries, and nearly all federal judges apart from those who sit on the Supreme Court.

Isn't he supposed to watching out for us?
 
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Thank you for this thread ...

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Hey wait a minute.....Michael Cohen has other clients right? Couldn't this be just a misunderstanding or a coincidence? 

Didn't Piggy tell everyone to ask Michael Cohen about Stormy? Wellllllll....

I think Cohen needs to get another 130k home equity loan to hire a lawyer. Right?

Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman said it best.."When the going gets tough you don't want a criminal LAWYER. You want a CRIMINAL lawyer."

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Jared loses security clearances. Cause he used the whitehouse to make banking arrangements so he could keep the double day building from going under. Cohens office gets raided by Mueller. In a great fishing excersise to take the lawyers paper work and get the evidence of how vast and far our first family is in bed with the Russian obliarque banking systems.

we have another gas attack on civilians in Syria. Next 12 to 24 hours Trump is going to announcements on our retaliatory intentions.

All the while Rex tillerson is somewhere Mia at this point Nicky Halley states we do not need the un approval to strike Syria in the security council at the UN.

 
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this crap happens all the time not just in politics.... this way of expressing yourself makes you look like a sore loser, a baby, a  see you next tuesday...  not being rude hear but  i have been reading your stuff and it sometimes comes across anti American yet your avatar includes the flag which I am proud of.. 
 
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Yeah ur being rude & just because you think it happens all the time doesn't make it right.

We have never had a president & cabinet as corrupt as what we currently have. Some allow this stuff to be swept under the rug but not me. That's too lazy & too easy to do. If you can't handle the truth don't read my stuff. Rarely does anyone challenge what I say because I have facts to back up what I share. If you read my stuff, your would know I regularly ask others to prove me wrong. 

Anti American? You are certainly not aware of my past, what I have done & what I have seen. I have one of the few avatars that proudly reflects who I am.

Not to be rude but go back to reading your cartoons.
 
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nor you have I....  I never said you were wrong, never said it was right to sweep under the rug.... just the way that it came across was strikingly similar to the media... and the media media more times than most writes checks its behind can't cash....  
funny thing is the point is this happens not just in politics...  and I do applaud your insight...  do you own a gun?  
what are your thoughts of JFK? LBJ?  
we have enough crap going on in our great nation, we really got to clean it up.... have a great day 
 
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“We have never had a president & cabinet as corrupt as what we currently have.”


F#ckin priceless.

 
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https://chicagocrusader.com/the-obama-years-scandal-and-corruption-final/

Great read.  One of many you can find.

Google “Obama administration corruption”
 
 
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“EPA employees don't have to show up for work because they will be paid anyway. Doesn't that happen in most organizations?”

Yes it does, apparently during the Obama years as well.


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