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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- The painting won't ever be completed.
- Nobody will get paid.
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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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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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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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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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Could have done it the easy way plus it would have been clean for 4 months.
Long gone are the days of, "the buck stops here."
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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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This pedophile is so insufferable.
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That is the best phrase to describe both failed terms of this failure of a human.
One of the funniest things I've seen is people that supported him in 2024 being all surprised at his idiocy: "he was not like this in his first term; it was actually rather good, what happened?"
And I just don't even know where to start....just what the fuck was "good" about that first term of his?
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When he saw the plaque that says "The buck stops here" he thought it meant, like, a dollar.
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