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Trump.."Drain the swap" slogan disowned? some background from rallies
mypookey | Tophat9000

Posted on 12/21/2016 9:59:49 AM PST by tophat9000

So I'm listening to Rush and they're talking about rumors that Trump wants to quit using the "drain the swamp" promise

And it sounds like some thinking this is a red flag breaking a campaign promise

But I think it's not what they're talking about is just getting rid of a slogan

Reason I say that and I want to know what other people's experiences are at the Trump rallies before me

I was at Trump's last rally in Phoenix before the election..

and anyone that goes to Trump rally knows that he does Vamp Off the scrip... in other words he just starts talking to you about different things

Oddly the "drain the swamp" slogan came up at that time

Trump start talking about how the campaign came up with that slogan how his people came to him with it and they tested it and how he described he really hated the "drain the swamp" slogan

Trump went on and said he says yes I want to get rid of all these corrupt people in Washington he said but he really didn't like this "drain the swamp" slogan to describe it ...but he tried it inter Alia and people seem to like so they kept using it

So this is all stuff he was discussing the rally

he wants to be wants to do with the slogan implies he just never liked the slogan and it sounds like now he's saying yeah I really don't like this slogan and I want to use something different

So when people are getting all concerned he's backing off a campaign promise, really from the rally, it sounds like he just doesn't like a slogan he still intended to do exactly what the implied which is get rid of the corrupt people in DC

Let's face it certain things in campaigns are marketing slogans Trump some marketing guy never particularly liked the slogan but he still wants to sell you the give you the product which is get rid of the crap people in DC

I'm curious if anybody else that went to these Trump rallies ever had had him discuss different things like this and even mention he didn't like the "drain the swamp" slogan for some reason


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KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; trumptransition
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To: lodi90

don’t just drain it...pave it over; in fact, it could be the new Vegas East!
;)
GyG!
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21 posted on 12/21/2016 10:19:39 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: proust

never heard of that before but I stopped listening to Rush for years NOT because of what he has to say about Cruz etc but I got educated for the past 20 years listening to the radio back in canada and it turned me into a conservative..

actually im a right wing mofo, just an upgrade from being a conservative..


22 posted on 12/21/2016 10:20:30 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: HokieMom

Newt should know.


23 posted on 12/21/2016 10:21:44 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Hey Rush was not dogging him on it.. it was a sound bit from Newt.. and Newt was a really not dogging him..

Ok sound like people get it just a slogan for cleaning out corruption as long as they clean out the corruption I don’t give a damn what they call it ...

But just a head up because i bet the left will make a big deal

Have you see the left memes about “build the wall”?

...because Trump has now said “the wall” might be a fence in some spots...

The left and the media make the claim Trump is all ready breaking campaign promises to build “the wall” because now he says the wall might be part fence....

I know that’s a silly argument you know that’s a silly argument but that’s what the left is trying to put it out there that’s what the fact checkers trying to say is breaking a campaign promise


24 posted on 12/21/2016 10:21:59 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: tophat9000

He’s just learning to play the game — after having already mastered it.

He’s adapting to Teddy Roosevelt’s speak softly but carry a big stick schtick.

Any look at his cabinet picks and you know he’s arming for war both internal and domestic.


25 posted on 12/21/2016 10:26:03 AM PST by Fhios
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To: tophat9000

Campaign slogan.

Campaign is over.

More appropriate wording is all that is necessary now.


26 posted on 12/21/2016 10:28:25 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: HokieMom

Pretty much my take.


27 posted on 12/21/2016 10:28:50 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: bigbob

California is only “already gone” because of the massive voter fraud practice of mobilizing illegal aliens to vote. Current projections are in the 2 to 2.5 million votes range. Then add the other voter fraud mechanisms openly practiced by the DNC such as bus loads of college kids going from precinct to precinct voting mutliple times throughout the entire county. In every county. The dead being registered to vote. Ballot box stuffing. Etc. so on and so forth.

This happens because the GOP refuses to confront the issue.

Give up California and the plague simply moves east.

The side not willing to bleed in defense against evil is already defeated before the battle starts.

Once California is surrendered, say hello to the destructionists beginning their grab for the next chunk of territory.


28 posted on 12/21/2016 10:29:58 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: HokieMom

Perhaps Trump is going to stop talking about it and just do it.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This. The time for slogans is past. We need action from Day One, Moment One.

I don’t think we’ll be disappointed.


29 posted on 12/21/2016 10:31:51 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: tophat9000

If he wants to call “get rid of corruption” by the name “get rid of corruption”, then I’m fine with that.

That’s what drain the swamp meant to me, anyway.


30 posted on 12/21/2016 10:34:13 AM PST by xzins (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Spot On Bump!


31 posted on 12/21/2016 10:34:52 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: tophat9000
If we do not march on DC in support of Trump, there will not be a swamp draining.
I fully expect that before this time next year we will be plotting for a new party along with Trump and figuring out who needs to be primaried for the mid term elections.
32 posted on 12/21/2016 10:36:01 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: tophat9000

Great. This just validates all the worries about Tillerson, Goldman Sachs, etc


33 posted on 12/21/2016 10:36:37 AM PST by ari-freedom (You can't be America First by putting G-d last)
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To: TakebackGOP

I heard him at a rally say that Sinatra didn’t like “My Way.”


Yeah I heard him say the same thing exactly when he was describing how I didn’t like the Train the swamp slogan that Sinatra didn’t like “My Way”

Okay I’m getting it back to her but he gets what’s going on it’s no big deal but I was just being pre-emptive make sure something stupid didn’t get traction does again

Because I guarantee you if they do so quit using the “drain the swamps” slogan the left in the next few days we’ll make a deal out of it and the left will try and sell it to low-information voters

I think Trump supporters and people have been to the Rally’s need to always be prepared to counter the left

I’ve heard it said that the trumps opponents the left in the media always take him literally but not seriously

And Trump supporters take him seriously but not literally

So fellow Trump supporters you’re always going to have to be prepared for battle to shut now the foolish left make a big deal about Trump not following literally what he said

face it of some on the left and low information voters are so stupid that when they hear Trump say he’s going to “Drain the swamp” they actually claim he promised to go and physically drained a physical swamp in Washington DC


34 posted on 12/21/2016 10:36:39 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: tophat9000

It’s time everyone, ESPECIALLY Trump supporters, realize that Trump’s MOA is to “just do it.” He doesn’t telegraph strategies, he engages in lots of misdirection before acting, and usually goes where no man has gone before.

I would warn against reading ANY story or putting stock in ANY predictions or “analysis” that Trump himself hasn’t confirmed with utter certainty.

For my part, I can get short, 1-2 word answers from Team Trump on specific questions, but I can’t submit a broad, “So, what are you going to do about draining the swamp” and get an answer.


35 posted on 12/21/2016 10:40:57 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Is there a site where the transition can be discussed and applauded?


36 posted on 12/21/2016 10:42:23 AM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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To: txhurl

Not that I know of.


37 posted on 12/21/2016 10:42:56 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Rush was an establishment shill for the ineligible Canadian Ted Cruz, so I don’t really give a crap what he has to say.
38 posted on 12/21/2016 10:47:08 AM PST by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: petitfour

Good question, but I’d say they’d love living in their little echo-chamber and bubble, where everyone “thinks correctly” and in harmony under the all-knowing all-seeing all-powerfful eye of Government. In contrast, we (conservatives, libertarians, Republicans, et al) are a mangy bunch of misfits always challenging those who “know best” and think they’re smarter than the rest of us.


39 posted on 12/21/2016 10:48:17 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: petitfour

Good question, but I’d say they’d love living in their little echo-chamber and bubble, where everyone “thinks correctly” and in harmony under the all-knowing all-seeing all-powerfful eye of Government. In contrast, we (conservatives, libertarians, Republicans, et al) are a mangy bunch of misfits always challenging those who “know best” and think they’re smarter than the rest of us.


40 posted on 12/21/2016 10:48:18 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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