Now what? They keep doing it. The swamp is deep. It didn't fill overnight, or over a few years, and it wont drain that way either.

are we about to witness a mass red pilling of planet earth?

I hope so. My biggest fear is that something massively horrible, like a world war, will happen before that red pilling is allowed to accelerate.

Does the swamp involve like everything now? Cause the term originally was about getting the cronies out of politics. But Trump got in there and lined his entire cabinet with establishment cronies, donors, and his own family. The healthcare fraud bust was good. I'll wait to see what the sealed indictments are all about. I know Sessions has been really been cracking down on drug crimes and immigration, so it's not a huge surprise that we see a spike in arrests this year.

Did you read the comment? The term was meant to rile up a crowd against the political establishment. Now if literally anybody gets arrested for doing something bad, people are like oh shit, Trump is totally draining the swamp. Meanwhile his entire cabinet is the swamp.

There’s literally nothing in your comment that’s real other than giant nipples.

Right because Jeff Sessions, John Bolton, Betsy DeVos, and Mike Pomeo are total non seamp members right?

Sorry, Gigantic Nipples.

You're either unwillingly conflating unrelated things to "draining the swamp"or willing doing it. We aren't stupid everybody watched has seen his rallies and now what he was describing as the "swamp" and it wasn't this

Painting Trump in a positive light by changing the definition Trump himself gave for "draining the swamp". Which was getting crooked politicians out of Washington. This dealt with healthcare fraud and if I read the comments correctly this has been going on since 2012

You can celebrate it just not connected to Trump for draining the swamp because thats not what this is.

You can celebrate whatever you want. Doesn't mean it's logically consistent.

Oh you poor child that's not what logistics is lol

None of these people would drink a beer with any of us.

Well, Trump doesn't drink alcohol, so no he wouldn't. But you get the point.

You say that like you're implying there's no politics in the drug industry

I didn’t vote for trump either and I think he saved america from Hillary and her pay to play cronies.

Fast and Furious has nothing to do with Hilary Clinton. It was a program started in 2005, under W Bush, and Obama continued it.

There’s plenty of true things to criticize Hillary for, but this isn’t one of them.

Out of the frying pan and into the ~fire~increasingly fascist autocracy.

Fascist autocracy? Is that what you see in real life or what's presented to you on TV. Personally I'm out everyday talking to people not seeing anything that relate lis yo fascism.

Yes... because everyone knows it’s the fascists that want to prevent the government from taking ours guns away and are strong supporters of State’s rights... if only Hillary had won, she could have stopped these fascists!

Wait a second...

As if the USA hasn't been a fascist nation for decades at its core. Fascism = the merger of state and corporations according Mussolini.

Natural news is bullshit.

Amen!

The guy tries to establish a free video platform at the moment with "real.video" due youtube censorship. That's something worthwhile.

It will just be bullshit too.

It just occurred to me that Trump's ego is it's own reward for any good he does.

This is of course a good thing but equating it to draining the swamp is a stretch. Also it’s best to use the actual source and not some biased opinion piece trash.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/national-healthcare-fraud-takedown-results-charges-against-601-individuals-responsible

When you force a narrative your ‘red pill’ is more like a red placebo suppository. Make sure you get it waaay up there.

The actual release has really good info. The charges are mostly lying to FBI and audit related offenses. I bet most of these fall into to fine and loss of license categories.

The investigation dates go back as far as 2012. I think this is the culmination of a long investigation.

I agree and some will probably do time but I bet many will skip and go directly to plea bargains.

Yes but it’s always about bang for the buck. The option for fine and loss of license is quick and simple.

Things like this get low priority and minimal resources and budget. That’s really the only thing Trump did, he have it priority and attention. If you do the actual cost benefit from a government dollars POV I bet it’s a negative return. That is the cost to investigate, prosecute and enforce will waaaaay out way the funds recovered.

Of course the political returns and the marginal win in the opioid “war” will offset some but that’s it.

Fix the problem as opposed to treating the symptoms.....

I agree there is a ton of wasteful spending. Some of us do pay attention.

But you were the one that said this was a “drain the swamp” event. I think it’s business as usual with little to show for it other than a sound bite.

Blip on the radar but still good.

trump is going after his enemies and creating spaces to be filled in the bureaucracy for his friends

after which the looting will continue after which all the proceeds will go to trump and his foreign creditors

do not be naive about trump, he is a criminal and one of the worst people in the history of the world

It's the ideological possession. Trump isn't ideal, but if you're a leftist, nothing in the world will ever let you see him do good. If he jumped in front of a car to save an old lady, the left would find a way to blame him for the old lady being in the path of the car in the first place.

I should have said "If one is a leftist."

Maybe I'm a romantic (in the classical sense, not the entertainment or relationship sense), but I don't agree that Trump is one of the worst people in the world. I don't think you can even come up with a list of "worse people in the world" that would be objectively true to all observers.

While the media pushes to divide an conquer using identity politics, many of his supporters see him do no wrong, and his detractors see him do no right. They can't both be correct. The truth is somewhere in between.

I understand why TheRiseofMindhawk feels that way, and I understand your response, but what just happened there was an example of ideological possession, where your beliefs on a matter are so entrenched that instead of thinking and engaging, you react and respond with responses that shut down discussion.

he is a criminal and one of the worst people in the history of the world This is hyperbole. A supporter reading it will dismiss anything TheRiseofMindHawk says following the statement.

What the fuck are you smoking right now cause I dont want any. This is reactive and aggressive. Any discussion that follows with be an argument with the goal of each respondent to simply shut down the other person rather than come to an understanding.

I applaud your attempt to not put yourself in a box, but it's not as simple as saying "I don't follow politics." That your response was a defense of Trump makes this statement false. You follow politics enough to at least have a positive opinion of Trump and to the point of having a willingness to defend him.

So, Trump is going after his enemies. This much is obvious. The questions that follow should be: * are his enemies my enemies * will eliminating his enemies benefit me or my "tribe" (those you care about) * will eliminating his enemies benefit those outside my tribe to my detriment

If the answers to the first two questions are yes, then you're probably a Trump supporter, but if the last question is also yes, then are you still going to support Trump? If the last answer is yes and you become a detractor to your own detriment because hurting your opposition is more important to you than benefitting yourself and those around you, then you suffer some degree of ideological possession.

It's like the SJW movement supporting authoritarianism and anti-fa, even though both of those things are antithetical to the progressive movement, but both of those things hurt their opposition.

mmhmm

you reveal what you really are

im not your bro

bye

As do you. :)

it's impossible for someone of my abilities to not reveal who i really am unless i live in a cave and avoid all human contact.

do you see what just happened? spiritual war, someone i have interacted with before, said something totally uncharacteristic and agit-prop and dickish, and then when I pointed it out he deleted the comment rather than explain

spiritual war is a fake account, that means the entire cemex incident threads here that he managed, were government operations, which I already suspected.

this is spooky stuff, better be sure you're on the right side.

i know i am.

It's true. Look at the unprecedented rate of regulatory capture going on. Skyrocketing ceo salaries. Trump camps full of kids. A cabinet full of Goldman sachs. The devos family with hands in everything.

This isn't draining the swamp.

This is for the person that asked me IF I REALLY BELIEVE that doctors purposefully get patients addicted...Ummmm yes. I honestly thought that it was in an ebb at this point but I guess not by these numbers. Sad....Now there will just be more doctors in addiction medicine making money of medicaid and patients dolling out methadone and suboxone. Call it a day?

Yes and methadone or LIQUID HANDCUFFS if you will is a harder road to come back from than the dope...But people desperately want to get back to the world of functioning addicts and they choose this path and end up doing opiates for sometimes decades longer.

I mean if you have to say get straight back to work to feed the kids then yeah but the sad thing is ITS A BUSINESS so very few clinics treat it as a taper or even mention the lengthy process for getting off. They let you go as high as that particular clinic allows with virtually no mention of the plan for the future. They use the whole you arent there yet so best not to get ahead of yourself with that talk just yet. Before you know it you have a few take homes to help you continue in the path and years have passed with still no mention of a taper. I mean if you are on say 150mg and the average taper is 2mgs a week then you are talking nearly a YEAR AND A HALF JUST TO GET OFF! But I guess its better than seeking so long as when you begin you do so with an end time frame in mind as to not go so high on the dosage when they are leveling out your required dosage. That withdrawal makes H seem like a walk in the park in summer. Anyway keep coming back folks!!

It's a good start, but that's not really very many doctors and nurses, all things considered. I worked in a nursing home for 6 years and there were AT LEAST 3 nurses stealing opioids who were fired. One even tried to frame another nurse who was pregnant at the time.

I feel like there is a lot more to be done. The numbers in the article look good if you don't realize how many doctors and nurses the average city hospital employs, and how many hospitals a city might have.

But these numbers are HUGE if you live in a small town.

Damn, your post is so good it’s even got them working on Saturdays!!

Thanks for pointing this out. I saw something about this in passing the other day, but haven’t looked into it because I didn’t see much else about it. I’ll have to dive in.

I'll be happy when I see bodies hanging

Wtf?! Arresting doctors and nurses is not "draining the swamp". The swamp got drained alright. It got drained right into trumps cabinet!!

Natural News is a fake news site that just makes shit up. Zero credibility.

You can celebrate it just not connected to Trump for draining the swamp because thats not what this is.

Fast and Furious has nothing to do with Hilary Clinton. It was a program started in 2005, under W Bush, and Obama continued it.

There’s plenty of true things to criticize Hillary for, but this isn’t one of them.