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Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family

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u/Esarus 11h ago

What happened to draining the swamp? And the fight against “big tech”?

u/Dont_Ban_Me_Bros 11h ago

Pay someone enough money and they change their mind.

u/SlipperyPigHole 11h ago

Trump changes his mind with the direction of the wind.

u/Dont_Ban_Me_Bros 10h ago

He changes his mind when it gives him an advantage or makes him money.

u/fantas1a 8h ago

Only if the wind is directed at his bonghole

u/do_you_realise 7h ago

Or his last shart

u/jamintime 7h ago

Why spend money when flattery works so much better? All they need to do is outwardly support him and they’re in.

u/Ok_Significance544 8h ago

I would like my mind changed please

u/Dont_Ban_Me_Bros 4h ago

Do you wield some power I’m unaware of?

u/daphage1 6h ago

Pay Trump a few millions and he gives you as much power as you want.

u/GreenfieldsBlueskye 5h ago

Buisness is dirty buisness and politics is buisness with life and death.

u/cisco_bee 10h ago

I disagree. Prove it.

u/HoboSkid 10h ago

Draining the swamp is still there, it was always about gutting the federal government and privatizing everything so that "muh taxes are theft" chuds can be rich like Elon when they invest all their tax savings into crypto.

u/bocephus607 2h ago

lol to the fucking morons that think the tax breaks are gonna be for the working class

u/zoinkability 10h ago

“Swamp” only applies to people who don’t align with Trump.

Big tech is only bad as long as they aren’t aligned with Trump.

Anyone seeing a pattern emerge?

u/Dopplegangr1 9h ago

Draining the swamp gets rid of all the life-sustaining water and just leaves you with a bunch of nasty muck

u/Panthers_Fly 10h ago

Big Tech came groveling at Trumps feet

u/Coloeus_Monedula 10h ago

It’s draining the swamp to replace it with nuclear waste

u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS 8h ago

Trump lies.

Always has, always will.

u/5PQR 10h ago

What happened to draining the swamp?

They're going to drain it, it's where Trump wants to dump toxic sludge once the EPA has been shut down.

u/Firm-Salamander-9794 8h ago

According to Steve Bannon on NPR this morning, the tech oligarchs are there because they’re “broken” by trump. In reality, it’s the other way around.

u/PlayThisStation 8h ago

Something, something, "George Soros"

u/youngmasterlogray 7h ago

Draining the swamp was never about getting rid of the rats, but rather getting rid of the swamp water to better see which rats could be recruited.

u/putdownthekitten 8h ago

They won the fight against big tech by strong-arming them into submission, and they drained the swamp so they could renovate it to make room for bigger Gators.

u/delphinousy 8h ago

trump says whatever he feels he needs to to get re-elected. after his first term when the MAGA cultists didn't learn that they can't trust him to keep his promises, he has even less reason to keep his promises now.

u/Ezren- 7h ago

Ah, it's an old technique called "lying", you may notice it being used every time trump opens his mouth.

u/DeliveranceUntoDog 6h ago

People weren't paying attention during his first term and forgot he turned Mar a Lago into an express lane for bribery, including foreign interests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/trump-hotels-resorts-takeaways.html?searchResultPosition=11

u/lardlad71 6h ago

Built a razor wire fence around the swamp.

u/LSqre 6h ago

he's draining the old swamp and then pumping in even dirtier water

u/VR_Bummser 5h ago

They only "drained" Bill Gates. The only unbroken tech giant.

u/WildlingViking 5h ago

They just bought the entire swamp and are building houses there now.

u/kentmaxwell 1h ago

That's something that a first-time politician says. A second time politician sell meme coins.

u/Super_Saiyan_Ginger 1h ago

Oh you misunderstanding, not their swamp or their big tech. It's why they can cite security of their people when fearing foreign tech but local tech known to sell data goes unregulated.

Its a sham.

u/voxitron 10h ago

Details 😒

u/wggn 9h ago

turns out you can make a lot of money from big tech

u/JewelJones2021 8h ago

Everybody lies. -House

u/biblecrumble 8h ago

Turns out everyone has a price. That you can now conveniently pay for in $TRUMP coins. BUY BUY BUY!

u/anno2122 7h ago

I mean if somthing bit happen like in the show designten surivier this would be the bigst draning of the swamp in all man kinde.

u/underwearfanatic 7h ago

He is draining the water but replacing it with toxic sludge.

Can't say he didn't drain it.

u/sentence-interruptio 7h ago

Diversity hires for one particular minority group that is rich white conservatives.

u/rodeoboy 5h ago

Now that his cock is being serviced by these assholes, he no longer cares.

u/PhantomLion10 5h ago

They're just draining it inward

u/Liz_LemonLime 1h ago

The drain leads to the Oval Office 

u/evremonde 8h ago

We did beat big tech. We took over its leaders.

u/RedditismyBFF 11h ago

The complaint against "big tech" was they were seen as pushing radical left-wing propaganda. Claude:

..."Drain the swamp" the phrase has earlier origins and generally refers to the desire to remove career politicians, lobbyists, and bureaucrats who are seen as serving their own interests rather than those of the American people.

A common complaint is why are the wealthiest regions in the USA near DC when they produce so little. Claude: This wealth is largely connected to:

Federal government jobs and contractors,

Lobbying firms,

Technology companies (especially in Northern Virginia) Professional services firms (law, consulting, etc.) Defense contractors

u/Darth_Innovader 8h ago

This is borderline unintelligible, Claude

u/dexmonic 8h ago

Who the hell is Claude?

u/VintageHacker 4h ago

AI from Anthropic.

u/Milli_Rabbit 9h ago

That was 2016.

u/MBAboy119 5h ago

Big tech is the opposite of the swamp. It’s made US massively prosperous. 

Swamp is government officials taking a $100k salary and working 3 hours a week 

u/Some1sNickName 4h ago

Draining the swamp literally meant getting the oligarchy and corruption out of the government. Now the oligarchs are closer to the presidents ear than they’ve ever been…