Donald Trump was running on a pledge to “drain the swamp” of
pernicious influences – lobbyists, corporate titans, Washington insiders and
other influence peddlers.
And can you believe he's not?
Trump’s nominee for secretary of the treasury, Steve
Mnuchin, comes straight from Wall Street; he was a partner at Goldman Sachs for
17 years. He later co-founded a bank called OneWest that took advantage of the
devastating financial crisis to make millions off folks who were already
hurting. According to Politico, OneWest once foreclosed on a 90-year-old woman
over a 27 cent payment error.
Merry Christmas.
“In a world where nothing is true, the only real choice
available to voters is between competing fictions,” Ned Resnikoff writes in a
brilliant essay for the ThinkProgress website. “Trump offered a particularly
compelling set of fictions, but he also found various ways to telegraph that he
knew what he was doing. ... If everything is a lie, then the man who makes his
lies obvious is practicing a peculiar form of honesty. The president-elect is
speaking the language of dictators.”
Good work, Vlad Putin.
OneWest used to be IndyMac Bank, which screwed my wife out of her equity on a refinance. He wasn't involved at the time, but OneWest's foreclosing over a 27 cent payment error shows that the culture of the organization survived the name change.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this one's personal for me.
I think if Snidely Whiplash was available Trump would find a spot in the administration for him. I try not to be overly pessimistic. Can't find my way to give the new prez much of a chance, tho.
ReplyDeleteEven if Snidely Whiplash were real, he wouldn't be available. He's Canadian.
ReplyDeleteOops, I forgot that. It's just so inconceivable that a Canadian could be so evil.
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