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Let's drain the swamp and flood the zone with shit ..."
Donald J. Trump

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Drain the swamp
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the idiomatic phrase. For the actual process, see Swamp § Impacts and conservation.
Drain the swamp is a phrase which has frequently been used by politicians since the 1980s and in the U.S. often refers to reducing the influence of special interests and lobbyists. The phrase can allude to the physical draining of swamps which is conducted to keep mosquito populations low in order to combat malaria,[1] prevalent during the time in Washington, D.C., on supposed swampy grounds.[2]

Examples
It has been used as a metaphor by:

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) who wrote that to "clear the swamp" (the first obvious step to reclaiming "poisonous and swampy wilderness") was an apt metaphor for how to start addressing "the disgrace to us of the present condition of our Indians".[3]
Winfield R. Gaylord (1870–1943) to describe the socialist desire to "drain" the "capitalist swamp".[1]
Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), who in his book Broadsides referred to changing the capitalist system as "drain[ing] the swamp".[4]
A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) and Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) in A Freedom Budget for All Americans (1966), argued that "The breeding grounds of crime and discontent will be diminished in the same way that draining a swamp cuts down the breeding of mosquitoes, and the causes of discrimination will be considerably reduced."
Ronald Reagan, who called to "drain the swamp" of bureaucracy in the federal government in 1983 when commissioning the Grace Commission.[5][6]
Pat Buchanan during his 2000 presidential campaign, when he invoked the saying in opposition to the dominant political parties: "Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp: it's a protected wetland; they breed in it, they spawn in it".[7]
Jessica Stern in "Preparing for a War on Terrorism" (November 2001), where she calls on the U.S. to see failing and failed states as sources and sanctuaries for terrorists and terrorism (the swamp) and to use foreign aid and soft power to combat them (the draining).[8]
Nancy Pelosi in 2006 while announcing her 100-Hour Plan in response to more than a decade of Republican rule.[9][10]
Donald Trump to describe his plan to fix problems in the federal government.[1][11] In the three weeks before the 2016 election, he tweeted "Drain the swamp" 79 times, usually as a hashtag, and he tweeted the word "swamp" another 75 times in the four years following that election.[12] His 2020 campaign's senior advisor, Jason Miller,[13] and his 2020 campaign manager, Bill Stepien,[14] referred to the Commission on Presidential Debates as "swamp monsters". Protests against the role of Goldman Sachs alumni in the Trump administration also used the metaphor.[15]
Traditional Unionist Voice on the front cover of their manifesto for the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election[16]
Henry Bolton, the leader of UKIP when referring to its National Executive Committee (NEC) on 22 January 2018.[17]
See also
Campaign finance in the United States
Corruption in the United States
Inside the Beltway
Lobbying in the United States
The Swamp (documentary)
References
 Harrington, Rebecca (November 11, 2016). "Here's what Trump means when he says 'drain the swamp' – even though it's not an accurate metaphor". Business Insider. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
 Widmer, Ted (2017-01-19). "Draining the Swamp". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
 Jackson, Helen H. (1881). A century of dishonor: a sketch of the United States Governments dealings with some of the Indian tribes. Harper and Brothers. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-4047-3354-1.
 Berger, Victor L. (1913). Broadsides. Social-Democratic Publishing Company. p. 107.
 Garcia, Eric (October 18, 2016). "A History of 'Draining the Swamp'". Roll Call. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
 "Reagan still draining the swamp (March 12, 1983)". Chicago Tribune. No. March 12, 1983. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
 Clines, Francis X. (March 17, 2000). "THE 2000 Campaign: The Reform Party; Buchanan Wraps Himself In McCain's Flag of Reform". The New York Times. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
 Stern, Jessica (November 2001). "Preparing for a War on Terrorism". Current History. 100 (649): 355. doi:10.1525/curh.2001.100.649.355. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
 Espo, David (October 6, 2006). "Pelosi Says She Would Drain GOP 'Swamp'". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
 Allison, Bill (November 10, 2016). "Trump Rhetoric Fails to Damp K-Street Hopes of Renaissance". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
 "How might Trump 'drain the swamp'?". BBC News. October 18, 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
 "Trump Twitter Archive". trumptwitterarchive.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
 Walker, Hunter (1 October 2020). "Trump campaign calls debate commission leaders 'swamp monsters' after group floats rule changes". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
 Grynbaum, Michael M.; Haberman, Maggie (8 October 2020). "Trump Objects to Commission's Virtual Debate Plan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
 Jaffe, Sarah (January 18, 2017). "'The swamp is Goldman Sachs': how the bank is rewarded for putting profits over people". The Guardian. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
 "Assembly Election 2017 Manifesto" (PDF). Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV). Retrieved February 13, 2017.
 "Defiant UKIP leader Henry Bolton aims to 'drain the swamp'". BBC News. 22 January 2018.
Categories: American political catchphrasesDonald Trump 2016 presidential campaignSayings2016 in American politicsNeologismsCulture of Washington, D.C.
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'Flood the zone': Trump's clown car Cabinet attempts to overwhelm the limits of public attention
NBC
Wed, November 20, 2024 at 12:34 AM EST
Alex Wagner looks at how Donald Trump has returned to the tactic Steve Bannon described as "flood the zone," by overwhelming the capacity of the media and the public at large to process the sheer volume of inappropriate behavior and decisions that might cause a bigger scandal in isolation.


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flood the zone
1. In sports, to apply a large amount of pressure to a particular area of play.
Their left safety is shaky, so let's try flooding the zone with the tight end and both wide receivers on the next play.
We know she's going to flood the zone with high fastballs, so lay off 'em.
It's a must-win game for them, so you know they'll flood the zone with shots right from the puck drop.
2. To put forth or provide a large quantity of something.
We need to flood the zone as best we can to get this story heard. That means I want everyone posting about it on social media, blogging about it, anything to get it out into the public consciousness.
His opponent flooded the zone with ads that proved devastating to his chances of reelection.
We couldn't get anywhere near City Hall because protestors had flooded the zone.
See also: flood, zone


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This infamous Steve Bannon quote is key to understanding America’s crazy politics
Brian Stelter
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business
 
Published 11:09 AM EST, Tue November 16, 2021

A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.

While watching the news coverage of Steve Bannon’s initial appearance in federal court on Monday, I kept thinking about his 2018 confession to the acclaimed writer Michael Lewis. His quote is like a compass that orients this crazy era of American politics. “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

That’s the Bannon business model: Flood the zone. Stink up the joint. As Jonathan Rauch once said, citing Bannon’s infamous quote, “This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.”

So, with that in mind, here’s what Bannon did: He streamed his arrival at an FBI field office, to turn himself in, on his GETTR account. He told his fans to “stay focused and stay on message” despite the “noise” of his indictment. He proclaimed that “we’re taking down the Biden regime.” He used the scene for all the publicity, and presumably political donations, that it was worth.

Inside the courtroom, Bannon was “a lot different,” according the CNN’s Evan Perez, who added that he “answered respectfully to the judge when the judge advised him of his rights.” But after his appearance in court, Bannon came back outside to the cameras; vowed to fight the criminal contempt of Congress charges; claimed that Democrats “took on the wrong guy this time;” and said “we’re going to go on the offense.” He told Vice’s Elizabeth Landers that he “100 percent” plans to continue podcasting: “They’ll never shut down The War Room.”

That’s how he floods the zone – by spinning lies for his podcast “posse” on a daily basis – and by attracting outside and outsized attention. Throughout the day on Monday, I noticed journalists and social media commenters wrestling with this issue. As Charlie Warzel said in 2019, “content creation and shamelessness” is a “potent combination.” That’s even more true today…

The “disorder” report
Aspen’s Commission on Information Disorder report landed on Monday. You can delve into it here. The commissioners are urging big fixes to the “federal approach” to disinfo, among other recommendations.

NiemanLab’s Joshua Benton said it’s a “solid report” that “had me nodding a lot more often than shaking my head,” but he was less than wowed by some of the proposals. “I just think the ‘information disorder’ is both (a) a very real issue that naturally attracts the attention of Big Commissions and Big Think Tanks and Big Reports, and (b) a problem that is uniquely immune to Big Commissions and Big Think Tanks and Big Reports,” he wrote.

Indeed, the report notes this challenge several times, pointing to broader societal ills that are “exploited to promote false information online.”

“The Internet is an amplifier,” Benton wrote in his reaction column on Monday. “It increases both the reach and awareness of society’s ills. As long as the root causes exist — and as long as there are people who seek power, wealth, or fame through exploiting them — things will keep getting louder.” Or to put it another way, the zone will be flooded with more and more shit…