I can't wait till a real adult gets in there and unfucks everything this pedophile fucked.
If he hasn't already fucked it into submission.
Pre-Trump US is over. You can’t undo the damage he’s caused and go back to how it has been.
If there are fair elections and the Dems take the House and Senate investigations will begin and his crony’s will close ranks because they are just as culpable. Dems have no interest in a presidential candidate who is just going to ignore the crimes of the past administration like Obama or a wish to return to norms like Biden.
The left will want these people prosecuted and jailed when we return to power. The right will do whatever it takes to stay in power to prevent this from happening. The oligarchs will do anything to preserve their grasp on both parties so they don’t become targets.
No matter how it plays out the US will be a turbulent place for at least a decade after the 2028 election.
It’s over a year into Trump’s term and it’s still crickets from the leftists so I’m voting democrat in the midterms so we can at least slow down the damage he’s doing.
Meh, the US was founded by a bunch of slave owning wealthy protofascist genocidal fucks. You can't really recover from country designed by the wealthy for the wealthy.
Yea. This country was doomed from the start. This is just the inevitable end to our fucked up society. The world is better off without this Imperialist shithole helping to rot the world.
How's that? Every current democracy, including the decently functioning ones, started as an oligarchic system of some kind.
I was just commenting that pre-Trumplethinskin is an imaginary state as the US was fascist before we had a name for it. You can't harken back to a supposed better time when it never existed except inside the head of a misinformed person.
Even if we accept that, doesn't the existence of somewhat functional democracies that also started as oligarchies refute the statement that "you can't really recover"?
No, I reject your musing. Numerous studies have shown the will of the people is a false premise. We live in a fascist world that uses democracy as a window dressing for oligarchy.
Which study, for example?
That's a US-only study.
They have done similar studies around the world. From my research the biggest indicator is a wealth gap. While this alone does not confirm fascism what does is an ever increasing wealth gap where an extreme minority of the population owns the majority of wealth.
You gotta be careful or you'll cut yourself on all that edge
Please, that is just the tip of the iceberg. I will gladly bring receipts.
Meanwhile the right owns the supreme court and a lot of lower court judges, so good luck with that prosecution. It will drag out for years and result in nothing.
The lasting side effect is going to be the rest of the world continuing to think of the US as a joke and all the trade relations they are building now. When the US settles back down they will never again weild the power they once had.
Vote blue no matter who. If we can win enough of a majority in the senate and the house over the next two elections we may be able to expand and pack the Supreme Court.
When primaries start the following needs to be the litmus test for all candidates.
1 Do you support prosecution of criminals within the Trump/Republican regime.
Edit: Apparently what I’m asking for above is too radical for this sub and I can’t reply to comments. Please see my edit below for my response to only voting for leftists.
You’re not going to get a leftist Dem elected in red states like Iowa or Texas.
By adopting the stance that you won’t vote for a non leftist in the Dem party you will guarantee Republicans and facists control of the senate and house and you will remain a ineffective minority while the right clocks up more Supreme Court seats and makes it impossible to vote for any left wing or Dem. Candidate
*Vote in the primaries so you have a chance at a leftist dem, then vote blue no matter who.
This may not be reversible, some things he does especially involving painting granite, like the OEOB proposal, are not really fixable. So this thing is now coated forever unless it's torn up and replaced, and the coating will break down within years I'm sure.
The damage he’s done in a year is likely not going to be fixed in our lifetimes with the rate that we make progress in this country.
“The rate at which we make progress”
See: Backwards :/
You can't un fuck a child. Once child rape is done it's done and I can't believe I just said this about a sitting president in the United States
Undoing this damage will require the US to take a long hard look at itself and I don't think there is the impetus to do that.
Why would, for example Europe, want to get back in bed with the US as long as the GOP who caused all of the problems still exist? We could have 8 years of stability and then some other insane republican gets in and it's back to square one again. The better option is to just label the US's politically unstable, and not have anything to do with them anymore.
If you want the rest of the world to trust you again you're going to have to put these idiots on trial, give them serious prison sentences, and then change the stupid constitution so that convicted criminals are ineligible for office and the president isn't God emperor, they have some limits on power. Also having the president elect court justices is obviously stupid as well, fix that.
Of course none of this will happen.
The work was done by Atlantic Industrial Coatings from New Canton Virginia. Their website: https://vaspray.com/aic/
According to their website they have experience with liners, but there's no mention of using paint. My guess is that they placed an expensive liner in a pool on one of Trump's properties, but Trump doesn't want to pay that bill, so to compensate them, AIC got to do this cheap ass botch job for an inflated price for the us government.
With paint instead of a liner, they will have had to waterproof all the joints between the slabs as best as they could. That waterproofing will have become damaged when Trump's motorcade drove over it.
I don't think they have any experience I'm not even sure they have workers, no experience with that company, but the general scam is to get a dude with a contractor license to be the face and "subcontract" down to a bunch of people desperate enough to ignore the fact basically every labor law is being violated along with some other ones. I can guarantee anything removed during the construction of any of this is not going to be disposed of properly, it's just going to go where it's some one else's problem.
I do believe that it used to be a real company with a few real employees, they show a few old projects on their website and those seem well executed. Their old specialization seems to be small scale renovations on culverts and small industrial basins with lots of nooks and crannies. They did the kind of jobs that their bigger competitors would rather not do. Which is probably also how they ended up renovating Trump's pool: the actual pool companies didn't want the headache of working for Trump org.
But then this massive paint job is like you described it. Too big for the company, done with loads of temp guys, with materials that they have no experience with ... anything goes.
OMG that's the Lincoln memorial people. Is nothing sacred?
I'm too European to understand, I get that it's a Trumpism but what has he done this time
Just so you know, that's not concrete they are painting, it's slabs of granite.
Fucking fools.
This is the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, a treasured landmark seen in many iconic images and films. The mad king had it drained so that the bottom could be painted blue, adding an over-saturated "ocean" color.
He's not quite king yet.
He already is king in everything but title...
Why though?
So we are not talking how to dethrone a pedophile loser put in power by racist trash manipulated by oligarchs.
Emphasis on 'mad king'
To distract from his child rape in the Epstein files and enrich his fellow oligarchs at the public’s expense.
Is it working?
The US really does deserve Trump. I genuinely HOPE he will add his face to Mount Rushmore.
Please don’t advocate further disfiguring a holy site
It would literally be less disfigured if you blew it up. Adding Trump couldn't disfigure it any more, he's just as good of a president as the other four fuckers on there already.
Ah, fuck off troll.
No country on this planet deserves Trump, or anything like him. He's not even fit to run a McDonalds.
The first time, maybe. The second time, you knew exactly what you were getting and bought it anyway.
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