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Quietly lost in his barrage of stupid Twitter drama is the fact that Trump is bending over for every corporate interest and billionaires repeatedly now that's he president. Aside from having his cabinet littered with Goldman Sachs bankers, which is pretty well known at this point and secretary of state who's only real job experience is working as CEO at Exxon Mobil:

1.) Confirming (barely) Betty DeVos a grossly unqualified billionaire heiress as education secretary. She wants to defund public schools and push the interests of lobbyists of big money private schools (because it's not enough that people are crippled with debt from college, we need to suck them dry from elementary and junior/high school now too). 

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/betsy-devos-defunding-public-schools/2017/01/17/id/769099/

2.) Trumps Turns into a Teddy Bear when meeting with Big Pharmaceutical companies after promising to leverage them into lower drug/medicine costs for the average joe, he meets with their lobbists and backs off this demand:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14453740/trump-medicare-prescription-drugs

3.) Trump backs big banks like JP Morgan in scaling back/doing away with regulations that were put in place to protect against another irresponsible economic collapse like the one that happened in 2008:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Trump-Congress-Dodd-Frank-Financial-Regulations-412666963.html

4.) Trump is pushing for the scaling back of rules that were put in place to prevent Wall Street fat cat investors from ripping off their clients by allowing them to invest people's money in high risk investments and dropping the fidicuary duty they had before to operate in their clients best interests. 

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/06/donald-trumps-executive-order-will-let-private-equity-funds-drain-your-401k/

5.) Gutting the FCC So Huge Companies like AT&T and Verizon Can charge more for Internet and TV Service:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2017/02/07/trumps-fcc-is-quietly-gutting-efforts-to-keep-the-internet-affordable/#136c30921552

On top of promised massive tax cuts for ultra-rich, the biggest in decades. But keep telling yourself this billionaire who's never worked a day of manaul labor in his life and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth was going to seriously go to bat for the "middle class". Not if it's not a PR photo op. 



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With AfD not yet in the german Bundestag i've got at least seven and a half months full of political jokes left until i can very likely laugh at our own parliament.



I mean, he's a billionaire who ran as a populist. And people bought it.



Veknoid_Outcast said:
I mean, he's a billionaire who ran as a populist. And people bought it.

It's like that bad sitcom episode where the jock who asks the geeks if he can "borrow" their new bike and he promises he'll be their friend at school if they let him do it and then predictably they get suckered in the end. 



And what else is new?



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vivster said:
And what else is new?

Keep in mind this is also only 2 weeks in. 



captain carot said:
With AfD not yet in the german Bundestag i've got at least seven and a half months full of political jokes left until i can very likely laugh at our own parliament.

All other parties pretty much confirmed that there will never be any colaboration with the AFD, so I barely think that they will get anywhere.



Bet with PeH: 

I win if Arms sells over 700 000 units worldwide by the end of 2017.

Bet with WagnerPaiva:

 

I win if Emmanuel Macron wins the french presidential election May 7th 2017.

palou said:
captain carot said:
With AfD not yet in the german Bundestag i've got at least seven and a half months full of political jokes left until i can very likely laugh at our own parliament.

All other parties pretty much confirmed that there will never be any colaboration with the AFD, so I barely think that they will get anywhere.

Hopefully it will stay that way. If you look behind all that populist BS there isn't much behind it. And almost nothing for the working-/middleclass.



He'll just call it fake news and claim the media hasn't reported enough terrorists attacks. Keep the attention on the travel ban, everything else is fake news!

Speaking to troops at MacDill Air Force Base, the President claimed: “All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported.
“And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”

Reality is stranger than fiction!



To be fair to him, he is just an idiot who doesn't even know whats going on. #puppet