Yeah I'm expanding the definition by using Trump's own words to define what the swamp is.

In reality it's whatever the person speaking doesn't like. It never had a real meaning. It's just like "socialism", another buzz word you can mold to whatever you want it to mean.

If you purchase a property that has water on it, you're in charge of how that water operates. In the case of a President, they've taken control of the Executive branch of the government. Everything from the Federal board of education to the EPA to the State Department, etc. makes up that "water".

When your property has a wonderful shining lake with (relatively) clean water and teeming life, things tend to thrive and be quite beautiful. When it turns into a brackish swamp, things tend to flood, life dies, and everything is choked out by rot.

"Draining the Swamp" from a Presidential sense, has stood for rooting out all the portions of the executive bureaucracy that has choked everything out and caused the rot.

Any reference to representatives, senators, etc. being "The Swamp" is completely unrelated to the Executive Branch. Those are State level swamps, which have to be handled at the state level. The most any President can ever do is point out the state swamps and encourage voters in those states to resolve them.

This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Dec 23 2020 01:12pm

didn't read lol

TIL: "The Swamp" is a narrowly tailored term meant to exclude anyone I like from inclusion in its scope.

same lmao

Or how most of us have understood the term in its current context.

Just read the new bill would take 43 pages per minute to read before they had to vote on it.

Except you have to exclude Trump's own words to get your understanding in the "current context".

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Dec 23 2020 02:01pm

Right, so Trump altered the current context to include himself and people like him in the definition. Makes sense.

And here's where you decide to cherry pick when you take him seriously or not.

Trump has, from the beginning, called out things and then done them himself, so it wouldn't be surprising if he was doing that here. It's totally within his expected behavior