Desperate to the point of delusion in my opinion if they believed reality tv debutant Donald j trump ever cared about anyone but himself and enriching his family

FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d

Yes, obviously. That's how a lot of cons work. The con man finds a group of desperate people and tells them what they want to hear.

notgold@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 19d

To pay the wage of a child rapist?

M137@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 19d

I disagree, most of the people who voted on him are even dumber. And it shouldn't be possible to be as dumb even as him.

bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 20d (2 replies)

That wasn't obvious?

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 20d (1 reply)

It bears repeating.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 19d

Bears tore up the pool?

Jumi@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 20d (9 replies)

Tells a lot about the country and its people

RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 19d (1 reply)

Only 23% of the total USA population voted for the current Piece Of Shit. But far more just didn't even vote so the true winner was Apathy. It's the apathy of a population mentally beaten down by the relentless flood of mind warping bullshit. Yes, they should have known better. But I think the blame doesn't fit squarely there.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 19d

Not voting was support of Trump.

motruck@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 19d (6 replies)

Yep. 350 million people and they are all obviously just like trump. It is like Europeans don't understand that Hungary represens them also, now imagine if the world insisted the rest of Europe was just like Hungary.

I'm not saying America doesn't have problems but these sweeping generalizations of 350 million people make you look like the ignorant one.

Jumi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d (5 replies)

Most Americans are just dumb and uneducated so they're well represented by that orange moron.

slackassassin@piefed.social · 1 pts · 18d (4 replies)

It's always disappointing to see such blatant xenophobia on an otherwise progressive platform.

Jumi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 18d (3 replies)

They worked hard to get that reputation

slackassassin@piefed.social · 0 pts · 17d (2 replies)

Spoken like every other bigot ever. Doubling down to boot.

Jumi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d

Oh buhu

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 18d

Let's not forget the dumb people that are letting him do anything he wants.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 20d (16 replies)

A while ago I saw the old video before it got filled...

Literally while they were still painting/sealing it, trump full on drove his full motorcade into the reflecting pool so he could see the color and speak at reporters.

I immediately figured that's why it got fucked up.

"The Beast" that the president rides in is a fucking tank and insanely heavily, driving normal SUVs would have been dumb, but there's no way that thing didn't fuck it up.

Swordinferno@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 20d (6 replies)

I've heard it contested whether 'The Beast' was used, so I went and Found a video myself.

I personally don't see 'The Beast' out there.

That said, I do think any of those massive Cadillacs could have caused the damage.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 20d (1 reply)

https://youtu.be/cVa-a2ZFEGE?t=69

That may not be "The Beast" but it's just as heavily armored and started from a larger frame, so I think it's a safe bet to equate the two even if that's not officially "The Beast".

Like, I don't think it's been one vehicle thru all these administrations.

I always took "The Beast" to refer to a heavily armored vehicle the president routinely travels in. Like how "Marine 1" is just whatever helicopter the president is using, or how trump got off Air Force 1 and got one a different air force 1 a few weeks ago.

While a lot less official "The Beast" isn't a single vehicle either.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20d

The beast specifically is the limo, but you're right, there are 2 of them.

foudinfo@jlai.lu · 22 pts · 20d (1 reply)

I'm dead, this is so ridiculous.

10 pickups driving directly inside the pool for a single orange guy...

huppakee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 20d

Even more crazy is to now see the news show videos of a person who had his hand underwater as proof the pool was sabotaged

Fondots@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Ever if "The Beast" itself isn't used, I'm pretty sure a lot ,f the rest of the motorcade vehicles are all armored with various additional bells and whistles so they probably outweigh standard SUVs by a good bit. I'm pretty sure one of the motorcade vehicles usually has a mini gun turret that pops out of the roof.

Also, I haven't seen anything specific about it, but I do believe the beast is at or near the end of its intended service life and i saw a few months back some article that pointed out that he was seen in an Escalade-looking vehicle instead of the beast at some event, so there might possibly be a new beast making it's way into service, but they weirdly haven't made any major announcements about it yet (I wouldn't be too surprised by any other president being a bit tight-lipped about it, but trump absolutely would not be the type to shut up about "his" new custom Cadillac.)

Ariselas@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 20d

Maybe the Saudis will buy him a new car to go with the jet

YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 20d (4 replies)

He had to be driven because he can’t walk more than 10 feet without collapsing?

redlemace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d (3 replies)

He had to be driven because he can’t walk more than 10 feet without collapsing?

He had to be driven because he can’t walk more than 10 feet without collapsing!

ftfy

YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 19d (2 replies)

Ah. I hadn’t seen that story!

redlemace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d (1 reply)

There are plenty examples of him waiting for a golf-cart. Frequently abandoned by others who take a walk rather than a wait and being seen in a golf-cart

YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 18d

The use of “Abandoned” warms my heart.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d (3 replies)

trump full on drove his full motorcade into the reflecting pool

I assumed this was some kind of typo or something. They drove into the pool?

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d (2 replies)

To be fair:

It was while there was no water in it.

And trump obviously wasn't in control of the vehicle directly, but I'd put money on them at first trying to park next to it, and trump being so lazy he ordered them to drive into the reflecting pool

Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d

I'd bet he did it as a stunt to show how durable the liner is.

"Look, the liner is so strong, the strongest, so strong that I can drive a car, not a car really, a limo, but a big limo, a big beautiful limo, more tank than limo if you ask me, but I can drive, I drive the best, ask anyone, but I didn't drive, I have people to drive for me, they drove my limo, tank really, onto the reflecting pool, it's gonna be beautiful, believe me, it's beautiful already, and I know a thing or two about beauty, well they drove my car, all my limos, onto the reflecting pool, that's a funny word, limo, is short for limousine, did you know that, I bet you didn't know that. Limousine, like magazine, a big beautiful magazine, this reflecting pool will be in magazines, they'll see it and go "oh, it's beautiful Mr. President, we want our whole magazine to be picture of your pool" they wouldn't do that though, the mainstream media, they wouldn't report on how strong and beautiful this pool is, they just want to attack. They want to attack me for trying to fix it. 168 million dollars. Obama had 168 million dollars and we did it for 8, or maybe 14. It's going to be perfect, believe me. It's perfect."

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d

I want to say it would have been better if he'd driven through it while there was water in it, but it's nowhere near deep enough for that to be true.

Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 76 pts · 20d (4 replies)

No photos in the entire article. Brilliant.

turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 46 pts · 20d (3 replies)

There are some tweets at the bottom so you can click and be presented with an X login wall which I am certainly not going to be able to get past, not having an account to that nazi owned site. I just love twitter journalism these days.

joyjoy@piefed.social · 4 pts · 20d (2 replies)

use a nitter mirror

Linktank@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 20d (1 reply)

No.

joyjoy@piefed.social · 6 pts · 20d

fair 'nuf

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 20d (1 reply)

More effort has gone to an investigation into Trump being embarrassed than Trump raping children. Never forget who sits in the white house or who continues to make that possible. They use the law for self interest, not to build us a better world.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 20d

MSMS, its by design, they are all owned by epstein likely related ceos, and that last thing they want is reporting epstein files. they quickly quashed all news negative of trump(report it for a few days, then vanish). ELLison, murdoch, they learned thier lesson when reporting on luigi, Mandamni , and the ice raids , give it too much attention, everyone will be instantly aware, instead its flood the network with nonsense(trumps gaffes, this also includes iran wars of distraction)

frongt@lemmy.zip · 51 pts · 20d

So he wasn't wrong, it's just that he himself was the vandal.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 47 pts · 20d (2 replies)

Everything he touches...

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 22 pts · 20d (1 reply)

The Mierdas hand.

Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 20d

Underated joke

xangadix@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Are the Epstein Files in the pool? No? Then I don't care about the pool.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 20d

as soon jean e carroll recieved 5 million judgement from trump, he does something drastic in the news.(such as the 20% hormuz toll he since rescinded), plus the convenient news of mitch and mcconnels and lindseys death and health.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 20d (7 replies)

Oh come on! Stop it! This will put The Onion and all other satirical sources out of business.

Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 20d (6 replies)

Info Wars is the new source to follow

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 20d (5 replies)

Is it finally from the Onion now? I keep hearing it is, then to hear it isn't.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 19d (3 replies)

Yeah they've been putting out videos on the infowars YouTube page.

In case you hadn't heard, Alex Jones popped like a balloon in his car. Seems like other news outlets are afraid to report on it...

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 19d

Yeah makes sense. His fat red frustrated head has been on the brink of popping for a while now.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d

It's weird how Richard Linklater either makes movies that I love (like Slacker and Dazed and Confused) or movies that make me want to find him and hit him in the head with a brick. Waking Life was probably his worst movie ever (only Blue Moon is a contender) and it's just bonus points that it also happened to introduce the world to Alex Jones.

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d

I told them this would happen. I told'em!

Yeoldetelephone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 20d

They are operating under a "realinfowars" brand across some of the major socials.

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 20d

And the crack the Pedo-in-Chief said was there? That is the drainage channel.

Dumb as fucking dirt...

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 19d (2 replies)

Remember when we used to elect people who were fit for the office of president?

yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 19d

Idk, while yes trump is delusional, I can think of a lot more unfit politicians for high office than fit ones.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 19d

There was never a fitness test.

axx@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 19d (3 replies)

Who cares about the pool, it's a distraction of the most obvious kind.

What I'm wondering now is whether the USA can recover from this utter disconnection of the executive from truth and reality.

There is now a undeniable precedent of just lying continuously while in office, to essentially no consequence.

This sets a new floor for what you can do while in power. How this doesn't break US American politics durably, I don't know.

Edit: well this is on topic: https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 19d

We broke.

No denying that brother.

theneverfox@pawb.social · 3 pts · 19d

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Our democracy has been hacked and dismantled, if we want it back it must be rebuilt

o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 19d

A distraction from say... The TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)?

tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 20d

This article is about posts on nazi owned platforms X and Truth Social for those who would like a reprieve.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 19d

What a comedy of errors. You couldn't make this shit up.

socsa@piefed.social · 15 pts · 19d

The best proof that the gash doesn't exist is that they haven't plastered pictures of it everywhere, and seem to have actually put black fabric over the fencing to block everyone's view of the empty pool.

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 19d

The only morons who will give a shit about this damn reflecting pool are the MAGA dumbfucks. Use it as a urinal until the regime changes.

osanna@lemmy.vg · 13 pts · 19d

President Donald Trump drained the pool Monday, insisting vandals had left a 300-yard gash in its lining. But reporters and on-the-ground onlookers told CNN they saw no gash.

Holy shit, trump... lying?!?! NO WAY! He would NEVER lie! he's such an upstanding old gentleman!!

::: spoiler spoiler /s just in case :::

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 20d

"How many Escalades does it take to break a pool?"

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19d

I saw some video thumbnail - can't find it now - talking about how Donvict's 900 foot gash was the drainage system?

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 19d (8 replies)

Is my browser just blocking it or is this yet another article that doesn't actually show any thing that they are talking about?

drmoose@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 19d

They have Twitter embedded links rather than just posting the photos directly. So tired of this.

alanjaow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d (3 replies)

Near the bottom, there's pictures from the post the article is describing. Also a lot of (blank for me) ad spaces to get you to see ads before the content you're looking for.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 19d (2 replies)

Nothing there. Interesting.

SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 19d (1 reply)

You’re probably (rightfully) blocking twitter. It’s basically showing this twitter post.

https://nitter.net/joeflood/status/2076666082606080410

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 19d

Thanks and yes that makes sense.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 19d (2 replies)

must be on your end, shows content as expected for me

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 19d (1 reply)

I guess so it's not there for me.

anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d

Not for me either, but I also have a lot of anti intrusive anti ad anti tracking stuff installed.

Go figure.

kshade@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d (1 reply)

FAKE NEWS! But I have a great idea here, maybe it is the best one folks, just fill the whole pool up with beautiful, highly reflective mercury. Or, as they call it, quicksilver. You know what quicksilver is? They used to have it in thermometers before they made them woke... And and I also hear that the algae don't like being in it very much! Just like looser liberals with box cutters. But if they want to reform, and I told JD about this already, we can do patriot baptisms in there as well! It's going to be great! The only thing that would be greater is if we filled it up with liquid gold, but we can't afford that now. Not after what OBAMA did. So the silver will have to do.

osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 19d

omg. that's the perfect depiction of dumpy mcshitpants I've ever seen.

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 20d

Careful. Now that the pool is drained you can be arrested for NOT touching the water.

They're also going to give the death penalty for double parking.

pitaya@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 19d (12 replies)

There isn't much about this administration that could be less newsworthy than the shitty renovations to the fucking pool. Why the fuck is anyone interested in this

bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 19d (5 replies)

Because it shows very plainly the absolute incompetence of this government, not only for this project, but as a whole. I mean renovating the pool shouldn't really be that difficult, should it? Just get a reputable company to do the job, and that's it. But the government can't even do that.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 19d (4 replies)

He doesn't care about that, only that you're focussed on this, not his failures & grifting.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 19d (3 replies)

You can focus on a lot more than one thing. People like to point and laugh about this.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 19d (2 replies)

True, but given what he has done & is continuing to do, is it really ok to laugh about?! I get that it can feel like there's not anything else to do, but sometimes you've got to check yourself. Laugh at something else, not him.

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 19d (1 reply)

Fscists are thinned skinned and being mocked for obvious failure is the only thing that works. You can't shame them for they have none, but they can be infuriated for their incompetence. Even during WWII there were caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini people used.

As well it's cathartic given the mountain of bad news and proverbial shit they shove into all channels.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 18d

Fair points, definitely understand the need for cathersism, just take care not to lose sight of all they do. It'll be needed one day! All the best for getting through it all.

Redfox8@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 19d (1 reply)

They're not, it's a distraction from the Epstein files & Iran. The media is bought & paid for.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 19d

as soon news hit about Jean e Carroll getting 5+mil, he whips a distraction.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d (1 reply)

It was truly North Korea level propaganda when they sent some Faux State Regime Media lackey down there to stand in front of a puke green swamp and claim it was "American flag blue".

The next thing is they'll hold up 4 fingers and demand we see 5.

MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19d

Lights*

Sorry, not sorry

axx@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 19d

It's called staying on top of the news cycle: if you can put story Y after story X, you make it harder for someone else to put what they want / real news after story X.

mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 18d

In the media, to avoid talking about the more serious shit.

On places like lemmy, because humor is a coping mechanism and it's way easier to make jokes about this than the more serious shit.

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d

Personally, I'm just kind of surprised that there was a motorcade in the damn thing to begin with. Nobody even puts boats in that, let alone cars.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18d

So has the DoJ has put out a warrant for Trump and his staff for "terrorism"?

thejoker954@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d

Fake news - the tires of the motorcade were part of an Antifa sleeper cell.

FishFace@piefed.social · 2 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Maybe there are better photos somewhere but the ones in the article look nothing like tyre tracks.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 20d

Yeah I kinda doubt that you'll see the tracks of an ancient city in Lebanon in D.C.

This is a stupid joke.