cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46845063

Hehehehe the video of him pumping his pool guys and then now claiming he doesn’t know them is hilarious.

Watch them not get paid and this whole fiasco ends with yet another lawsuit, just like I said.

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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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    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

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    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.

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        Reagan was so awful no one wanted to name anything for him so the republican pre-MAGAts formed a kind of Daughters of the Confederacy movement to astro-turf naming shit Reagan this and Regan that. Pretty much every one is either their work or knock-on MAGAtry.

        I expect nothing less from the shameless boot lickers of a demented rapist war criminal.

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      Notice how the The Onion is just bereft of content because this pedo just does and says crazier and crazier things everyday.

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      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.

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          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.”

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        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

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          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.

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    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

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      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.

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        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

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          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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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

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      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.

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      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.

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        That’s how close we are to our democracy slipping away

        Your democracy already slipped away, stop hanging on to the left over scraps

        That’s why people should really vote no matter who against the class system, we can’t afford another billionaire class stooge.

        WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY too late for that, there is literally no name or party in the ballot that is not exclusively representative of the class system… how Americans have not taken it to the street is just a glaring foghorn declaring the USA is over

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    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

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    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. .

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      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”

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        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.

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        The worst thing is the average voter will believe this and vote in a Republican next time. Rinse and repeat.

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    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.

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    Lol, they do everything like this, some things are more noticeable than others…

    Hows the strait war going? did it ends in a few days like he said?

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        unbased untruthful lies spread by the former administration to cover all the great things god is doing for america and the world.

        Edit: I meant Trump.

        Edit2: He didnt.