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I don't remember it in the news at the time, but the reflecting pool had a major rebuild relatively recently, in 2010-2012. In-progress photo.
That is, it was extensively rebuilt during the Obama administration.
And now I wonder if that has something to do with the president's obsession. Painting over and taking credit for his predecessor's work. Seems too on-the-nose, really.
Seems too on-the-nose, really
Trump doesn't do subtlety. Hell, I doubt he can spell subtlety.
Easy! He spells it suddeltea.
We went from Dan Quayle being universally shamed and humiliated for misspelling "potato" via an incorrect flash card provided by a teacher to.... whatever the fuck this is.
Honorable mention for Howard Dean getting similar treatment and exiting the proverbial stage due to "making excited noise that sounded weird" lmao
From that to "grab em by the pussy, you can do anything" and the response being success is some wild shit.
If anyone wrote a story about an awful fascist president who left behind a legacy of desecrated American landmarks, we'd be accused of a lack of subtlety. It's ridiculously on the nose.
I’m honestly shocked they haven’t put shit head’s shit head on Lincoln’s body yet.
Notice how the The Onion is just bereft of content because this pedo just does and says crazier and crazier things everyday.
There was a season of '24' where the President was the baddie and that guy was a better president than Trump.
Lex Luthor was a better President.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho was (will be?) a better president.
Camacho wanted to make things better for the people.
New York writer Fran Leibowitz put it this way.
"I ride the subway almost every day, and I've never seen anyone on the subway who wouldn't be a better president. The baby in a stroller? Better president. Homeless schizophrenic? Also a better president."
"That turd in the corner? Better president, and smells better, to boot!"
I think Gregory Itzen was nommed for an Emmy for that role.
What's even more fucked up is he was "convicted" but served out his "sentence" on a palatial ranch somewhere in pure comfort until his batty wife, whom he never gave a shit about, stabs him in the neck for being a criminal traitor
If you go back to the Nixon pardon you'll see that even hard-core Nixon haters like Hunter Thompson were not seething over the President dodging jail.
The feeling was that humiliation was punishment enough.
Not this time.
How the fuck is this project facing "cost overruns" when it's just some guys spraying paint into concrete with a $100 million budget?
I know the real answer to this question, but still... Jesus christ
Because they're embezzling money. . . .
the regime is so inept, they can't take on a no risk landscaping project without making a mess… and Americans thought "these are who I want in charge of my whole country" TWICE
If it's any small consolation, a guy at work who always wore his MAGA hat finally stopped lately. I won't forget he voted for the man three times but at least even some of his most diehard supporters are starting to abandon him. It still won't make a difference now though, he's gonna try to make himself dictator to avoid any responsibility for his crimes eventually.
It makes no difference, that colleague will vote for Vance or Rubio or a putrid garbage bag left to rot in the sun as long as it hurts the people they hate... which is everyone that has made better life decision than themselves
No doubt about that. Republicans will always be voted in, their propaganda game is strong and their supporters' minds are too weak to think twice about them.
No change in them though, he'll vote for Trump's successor or even Trump again if the Democrats run a candidate.
Rather red than dead
As they say.
They can act ashamed of him now and then when November comes and he has a real opponent they're gonna say "well i couldn't vote for that other guy"
They all still truly believe Harris would have been worse.
Fwiw my idiot work MAGAt just digs in deeper every disaster. It’s all the essential freedom work of a true genius.
It’s insanity.
They're not inept, they're very deliberately embezzling as much money as they can.
If they were not inept, they would embezzle without it being so completely obvious
The sad thing here is that this is how America finally finds out there are no laws for the rich... yet they remain meek
Land of the free, home of the brave was a heck of a marketing scheme... as true as and I and AI
So inept that they don't understand that the Reflecting Pool isn't a fucking swimming pool, it's a mirror and painting it ruins the effect.
Surprised it doesn’t already have golden, big-boobed mermaid fountains all over it.
Now just imagine a regime that isn't so inept. That's how close we are to our democracy slipping away. That's why people should really vote no matter who against the class system, we can't afford another billionaire class stooge.
Oh trump will definitely get paid. He's happy to pay the bill when it isn't his money and the money is going to him.
It'll get paid because the US government pays its bills (at least they did before now).
Trump's fine paying for things when it's not his money.
And at this point, he's just burning through all of our money, like it's his money.
Could have done it the easy way plus it would have been clean for 4 months.
It wasn't supposed to get done right, or get done at all. He doesn't care if it sits there, a broken mess in the middle of DC. He's a slumlord, he's doesn't even see that sort of stuff.
It was all just a standard kickback scheme. He gets his "pool guy" from Maralago to take the contract, keep a couple of mill for himself for his trouble, and the rest goes to Trump. The pool l guy will do some basic work, maybe even get it operating, but it will be shoddy work, with inferior products, every corner cut hard, no permits, no inspections, a couple of bribes, etc. He'll walk away with a bunch of money, and a nefarious secret he shares with the President, that he can call on when he needs it. .
And if a Dem gets in in 2028, within the first month of taking office focks nooz will never shut up about how "the left can't even fix pools"
Yeah, Citizens are going to have to get used to screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP" at MAGAs. We don't owe them anything, no respect, no listening to what they want, etc. They are corrupt, treasonous pedophiles, and they have no say in ANYTHING that happens in America in the future. We have a civic responsibility to be as hostile toward them as possible for the rest of their lives.
The worst thing is the average voter will believe this and vote in a Republican next time. Rinse and repeat.
Can someone just shoot this guy in the fucking head already?
I would do it but I don't know if I have the gun skills and I have a one and a half year old son who I don't want to grow up without a father
Is there something in print? I get that Ms Psaki needs to read this super-slow for some of the audience, but I read way faster and I am dyin' when they all do the slow and measured reading.
