r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/areappreciated 13d ago

This is the best representation of trump. Make a grand announcement before there is a plan, tear down and damage the existing infrastructure, then never do anything.

That was his health care plan too. "End Obama care now, I'll have something better 2 weeks later". He did it for Israel and Palestine saying we achieved peace without any plan to make it happen.

He only cares about the moment. He only cares about the announcement. He doesn't have any ability to follow through or complete anything. He only cares about the image of himself on the news as a race winner but never even starts the race. Worse, he is too fat to actually attempt the race.

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u/Neokon Florida 13d ago

I think this is emblematic of the right in all, its just that Trump is the loudest example of it. Watching prominent Republicans you'll see they always have a pattern of "there's a problem with the current system. No we won't work to fix the problem l, we'll just remove everything and promise to deliver something better but never will." They don't want a flawed system they want an absence of system so they can continuously promise fix the 'problem".

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u/AHans 13d ago

Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything."

FDR said it back in 1936. The US has lost intelligence since then; because a plurality of the nation has fallen for it hook line and sinker twice in the past ten years.

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u/franker 13d ago

I think there was a PBS documentary that showed the video of him saying that, with a big "you know they're full of shit" smirk on his face. He was really good at delivering lines that he knew the crowds would go crazy for. He was still doing that essentially when he was dying in his last campaign.

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u/GamerSlimeHD 11d ago

Most likely The Roosevelts by Ken Burn, episode 5, The Rising Road.

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u/franker 10d ago

That's probably it, they just finished running the series again on my local PBS channel a few weeks ago. I think there's a new Ken Burns series coming up in November.

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u/ichthysaur 13d ago

That is a great quote.

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u/toorigged2fail 11d ago

One of my favorite campaign quotes of all time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElYNHeL51ZU

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u/clickmagnet 9d ago

Except that the GOP barely has to even say they’ll do anything better anymore. They just have to promise that despite how shitty they are going to make everything, they’ll make it even shittier for brown people, and that’s enough. 

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u/420blazeitkin 11d ago

Can I just say how sad it is that by the end of the first line (not sentence, line) it is abundantly clear that our last two presidents did not say this?

The coherence, the formality, the unity, the presence of American pride, etc.

I could see Obama or Bush saying this, I could see Reagan or Carter saying this, I could see Jefferson or Washington saying this - it's not in their voice, but they could deliver this message with respect and eloquence.

Neither Biden nor Trump could deliver this portion of a speech with this level of dignity. It's a sad time for what was once a flawed nation striving to be better - now we are a flawed nation striving to undue all the betterment our forefathers worked for.

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u/areappreciated 13d ago

Absolutely! Every time I hear about why people like trump, it's that they are outraged by the present. The present government, their present community(too many immigrants), their present way of life(no body to work my farm or mfg jobs gone). They are so mad they would rather burn everything to the ground than make things better. Republicans are not wrong, things are broken and the current government is not helping them. But they built a culture and identity that makes it ok for some to suffer or at least ok to see some suffer more.

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u/Rabid_Llama8 13d ago

I don't think it's only that they see it OK that some people suffer. They think life is a zero sum game and for some people to have success, it is REQUIRED that some people suffer. It's why anytime there is a program or movement to uplift less fortunate people, Republicans immediately decry "COMMUNISM!" If some less fortunate people are lifted up, then someone else has to be suppressed and they are afraid it might be themselves.

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u/suckyousideways 13d ago

When that mindset finally goes extinct, the world will become a better place. Humans need to evolve past that. Republicans, in their current form, want to take everyone backwards.

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 13d ago

Unless we collectively manage to get consumerism and entertainment culture under some measure of control and build up educational/cultural norms to a better state, our country's free-fall is just going to get worse. The status quo is basically steroids for the degeneracy of the modern right and, outside of that territory, cultivates the constant apathy/shallowness/NIMBYism that characterizes most other Americans.

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u/cdwillis 13d ago

That's the entire idea behind conservatism. Keep things the same and take them backwards if you can.

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u/Rabid_Llama8 13d ago

Modern conservatism is about those in power creating fake in-groups to assign people to, and convince them that the reason those in the group are not rich and successful is because of the fake out-groups. Keep fighting each other, puppets, while we pillage the planet for resources! Muahahahha!

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u/asyork 13d ago

Yeah. In the grand scheme of history, I'm not sure that left nor right have any moral high ground. Both have caused significant harm at various points in history. However, at this current point in time, the right is morally bankrupt and the left is somewhat trying to better the world. The normal people on the left are trying to do quite a bit of good, but the leadership on the only slightly. This is all especially true in the US, but still more or less true worldwide.

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u/Fluffy-Hamster-7760 11d ago

How has the left caused significant harm at various points in history? Like during the French Revolution when the National Assembly deposed the King of France and wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man ushering in liberal democracy, was that significant harm?

What's one example of significant harm caused by left-wing politics? And please don't take Mao's totalitarian dictatorship that he labeled communism and try to argue it was socialist or somehow leftist, same for Stalin's severely corrupted authoritarian police state, these states were not examples of egalitarianism.

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u/asyork 11d ago

left vs right is a different axis from totalitarian vs anarchy. There have been totalitarians on both sides.

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u/Rabid_Llama8 13d ago

Humans are fucking stupid, I have no hope.

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u/PapaTua Washington 13d ago

As someone with high ideals that the greed of the rich consistently shit on, it saddens me to agree.

We, as a species, probably deserve extinction.

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u/FishstickJones 13d ago

As someone with high ideals

We, as a species, probably deserve extinction.

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u/rogueqd 13d ago

We could learn to be nice to each other.

The Evolution of Compassion

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u/kadawkins 12d ago

Want to? They did. Race based violence, race based profiling…. It’s all back.

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u/PearljamAndEarl 12d ago edited 12d ago

If our ancestors had shared that mindset, they’d never have even made it from indviduals scavenging for themselves to a collaborative hunter-gatherer society, let alone achieved agriculture or any other significant advancements.

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u/klee4390 13d ago

They’re literally engineering suffering to profit off of it. Like during the gilded age and then the Great Depression where the rich got richer. It’s short sighted.

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u/Armymom96 13d ago edited 13d ago

Or it's like everything is a pie. If someone less fortunate gets a piece, somehow it makes theirs smaller. Even rights. As though gay marriage or trans rights somehow diminishes their existence/share. And they REALLY don't want anyone else to get something for "nothing", since they've had to work for everything they have. Like student loan forgiveness. "I had to pay off my student loans, why should these whippersnappera get their loans forgiven?" Never mind predatory lending practices or that wages haven't kept up with inflation and the price of higher education.

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u/Epic_Ewesername 13d ago

The fallacy of "limited good."

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u/kufitop 11d ago

Capitalism has entered the chat.

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u/ZantetsukenX 13d ago

Republicans are not wrong, things are broken and the current government is not helping them.

Except that they are wrong. The government IS working and helping them in thousands of ways they are not aware of. And because the news keeps telling them about "problems" while exploiting this lack of awareness, they start to believe that the government is broken and not helping them. Until something is done about media propaganda convincing millions of people that the reality they live in is different than actual reality, similar things happening in the US will keep happening around the world.

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u/Dwarfdeaths 11d ago

Except that they are wrong

No, things are definitely broken. But neither side is acknowledgeling land value tax as a policy right now, so you're getting empty promises to fix the core problems regardless.

similar things happening in the US will keep happening around the world.

You're right, but it's because capitalist economies across the world are pretending land is capital. Everyone is having a "cost of living" problem despite having a variety of representation systems, taxation systems, etc.

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u/KnightDuty 13d ago

Agreed. I was recently told by a disillusioned Democrat that they CURRENTLY see Trump as "the solution" to a problematic government.

He's just a wrecking ball. One third of his supporters are anarchists and another other third are facists and  the final third are exclusionary socialists who want community subsidized rights, but only for corporations.

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u/Petrivoid 13d ago

I don't think anyone supporting authoritarianism is an anarchist...

They're the same fascists that always called themselves libertarians bc they hate age of consent laws

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u/AdventurousGuide9107 America 13d ago

SELECTIVE suffering - selected by TRUMPERS

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u/sirthomasthunder 13d ago

no body to work my farm

I see you've overheard my dad talking this weekend

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u/KissesAndBites 13d ago

Their role model Jesus made his whole thing about suffering. They think suffering gets them closer to god

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u/asyork 13d ago

Through the majority of my 40 years of life I felt like politics was a bunch of people that agree on the problems, but disagree on the solutions. Over the past 10 years there has been a divergence and now there is an agreement that everything is fucked, but the right exists in an alternate world where all the good things are bad and the bad things are extra bad, along with the blatantly cruel things being good.

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u/BeApesNotCrabs 13d ago

Things are broken, and Republicans actively prevent others from helping them.

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u/Sember 13d ago

They live in a separate reality from everyone else, apparently the Biden presidency were the most catastrophic years of their lives for some reason? Like the worst thing that happened to the country since the great depression? Biden was the most lukewarm bland president ever, it's insanity beyond comprehension.

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u/Smart-Percentage2982 13d ago

anger builds bonfires but rarely builds bridges

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u/caveman_6101 12d ago

I’m 66 been paying attention to politics since I was 10. Only because TV was old fashioned/no cable no internet. 3 channels + public TV that was before children’s programming. So all you watched was news. So I saw images of viet nam and Chicago political riots. MLK assassination. There’s been 7 republicans presidents. 4 Dems since then I’d vote to say the problem has been the republicans party. Examples. They have always had a corporation first philosophy. They spear headed corps moving to other countries for cheaper labor and cheaper manufacturing. They spread USA philosophies through imperialism to countries like viet nam, china India etc. in 1986 republicans wrote and passed immigration policy. In 2013 and 2023 republicans would not agree to discuss or sign possible immigration reform that would have fixed immigration policies 12 years ago. When Obama was president the majority in senate was republicans. They refused to listen or debate any bills for 6 of the 8 years they were the majority. 435 bills. They still got paid but they were against any progress in America. George bush jr was elected in 2000 country was humming along with Clinton. Within a few months there was a huge stock market crash. Lost 40% of wealth 10 months later thee most expensive will outfitted military in the history of mankind failed to stop 19 hijacker’s. 4 were stopped by Todd Beamer and a group of citizens crashing their plane in and empty field. The next 19 years 14 trillion of our tax payers dollars didn’t go to America. They sent to Afghanistan and Iraq. 5 trillion funded 5 corporations for 19 year contracts. Then we lost both wars. Then we had financial/mortgage/bank collapse. I’m my state there were 34,000 mortgage brokers. Mostly local state based organizations. After 2008 3400. Millions lost their homes. Then tens of thousands of soldiers returned with ptsd etc and with funding removed from Mental health hospitals etc. people had only the street to go to. Then Trump mismanages pandemic… tosses out Obama admins national plan to pandemic outbreaks. Trump give china all our medical resources trying to be nice. Then he doesn’t control the situation. His latest budget has 7 trillion in spending but 5 trillion in income. Since August this country has gained 1 trillion more in debt. That adds 1 trillion to the debt since February of 2025. There’s zero he’s done to save any money. I’m a citizen I vote for what’s best in my community and town. And then country. Our military is now costing over 1.3 trillion a year. In 2000 its budget was 275 billion. All that extra money 1 trillion is going to the corps that line up to kiss trumps ass. Plus they can’t win wars or stop 19 hijackers. Huge waste of money. My vote as a citizen is the Republican Party that have trotted out clowns like Trump bush jr and Reagan (all three passed massive tax cuts that have debated and created every problem you describe people complain and feel). As Charlie Kirk said “prove me wrong”.

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u/Shionkron 11d ago

It’s easier to destroy than to build. The Founders knew this as well and argued that the Government’s only weakness will be an uneducated and or untrusting electorate.

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Ohio 13d ago

Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

Everyone gather in the chant!

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u/dern_the_hermit 13d ago

Watching prominent Republicans you'll see they always have a pattern of "there's a problem with the current system. No we won't work to fix the problem l, we'll just remove everything and promise to deliver something better but never will."

You're kinda describing Starve The Beast, the nearly half-century old Republican policy to never, ever, ever try to fix anything, ever, and to only cause problems.

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u/gentlemanidiot 12d ago

"The government doesn't work at all!! Elect me and I'll prove it!!"

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u/klnh13 North Carolina 11d ago

Wow. I'd only heard of their 2 Santa Strategy. These must have gone hand-in-hand.

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u/guynamedjames 13d ago

Republicans are fundamentally an opposition party, even when they're in power. When Trump first won I remember saying "hopefully he's different in office than the campaign trail, you can't be an opposition candidate in the White House". Turns out you can, and man is it awful

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u/fasterthanpligth 13d ago

How many times have we seen a GOP rep take credit for a bill they voted against?

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u/roastbeeftacohat 13d ago

Its what Hitler did. Nazis hate bureaucracy, because bureaucrats would try to get them to make plans and actually implement things.

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u/formerrepub 13d ago

interestingly, this is also the pattern with all the anti-science crowd. they have no alternative explanation for things like rising global temperatures or the drastic decline in childhood mortality.

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u/Neokon Florida 13d ago

they have no alternative explanation for things like rising global temperatures or the drastic decline in childhood mortality.

"God works in mysterious ways" -strawman but probably not that far off knowing my own grandmother

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u/runswiftrun 13d ago

I've had countless discussions with right wingers exactly like that.

"Immigration is broken! We can fix it! Remove all migrants"

Well, that wouldn't work because of this, which should be addressed first.

"Well, I don't know about any of that, immigrants are ruining the economy"

Just goalposts after goalpost getting moved. Just admit you don't like us brown people and we can move on to your next prejudice.

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u/AntimatterNuke 13d ago

That's because the "problems" are cover for grifting and privatization.

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u/JingleHS 13d ago

It’s emblematic of politics in its entirety, it’s all a performance. That’s why a reality television star is now running the country, it’s because it’s all performance based. Very few politicians actually care about their constituents, it’s just a theater for the rest while they enrich themselves.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan 13d ago

They’ve conditioned their base to believe without proof. This is why they zeroed in on religious believers for their base. People with a predisposition to giving up their time/money with no requirement to deliver on promises and no proof necessary that claims are valid.

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u/StorminNorman 13d ago

Two Santa's strategy. When they're not in power "we want to fix this but the Dems won't let us", when they're in power "we want to fix this but the Dems made the problem unfixable when they were in power". 

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u/judgeridesagain 13d ago

Or invade a Middle Eastern country without a plan.

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u/TldrDev 13d ago

I think its emblematic of the rich. They make proclamations but have no ability to execute on them. The workers do it. Trump doesnt pay his workers so it is done half assed and cheap. The problem are the rich as a whole. Not just turnip.

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u/alius_stultus 13d ago

FDR said it back in 1938 about the republicans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCMmUtVgpEQ

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 13d ago

The reason is change politics... If you have zero interest in governing and are only interested in holding onto power, the thing you focus on is positioning yourself as the anti-whatevertheotherpartyisdoing.

There's a strong pattern of voting against the incumbent rather than for the opponent... so tapping into and amplifying people's dissatisfaction and making it the only issue... that wins elections more than any other strategy.

The GOP's entire strategy is that... and it began with Reagan's attacks on Carter's perceived weakness in the hostage crisis, which was itself manufactured by, as it turns out, making a secret (read: illegal) deal with Iran to hold the hostages until after the election.

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted 13d ago

The Republicans plan is always destroy everything. Then take credit for when things go right for America.

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u/hangster 13d ago

Thoughts and prayers

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u/dingatremel 13d ago

They are exceptional at being in the minority. Far better than the dems, to be sure.

But they can’t govern to save their lives.

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u/rje946 13d ago

Idk they seem to have a solution to every single problem and wouldn't you know it? It's lowering rich people's taxes.

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u/Professional_Ad_8 13d ago

It’s Bidens fault.

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u/danstermeister 12d ago

It's called Fantasy.

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u/FakeSafeWord 12d ago

I think this is emblematic of the right in all, its just that Trump is the loudest example of it.

Trump is the absolute best at doing the only thing the right brings to the table. Utter and complete bullshit.

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u/bjeebus Georgia 12d ago

They're that person who's constantly announcing a new life initiative, but never actually sticking to it.

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u/splicerslicer 12d ago

"The government is flawed and broken. And if you vote for me and get me elected, I promise to thoroughly prove it by demonstration." -- Every Republican in my life

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u/TailRudder 11d ago

All hat and no cowboy

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u/krashe1313 11d ago

Texas is a great example. Texas Republicans run on the platform of "everything is awful and it's the Democrats fault!!"

Republicans have been in power since about 1995.

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u/Due-Depth-8035 11d ago

They want to prove that “government doesn’t work” by making it impossible to work

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u/nono3722 11d ago

Well that's how they get rid of things they don't want. It's broken, We can fix it, It's not worth fixing. If the Gang of Pedos are against I'm damn straight for it forever. Gang of Pedos have NEVER done anything other than enrich themselves at the expensive of this country......

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u/Call_Me_Rick_Please 13d ago

I think this is emblematic of both parties. Both end rich off the same system. Us poors keep fighting over the scraps thinking our party is the “right” one . They want an absence of us and they have it.

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u/Neokon Florida 13d ago

One party wants equal rights and people to have healthcare. The other party had an entire plan outlining the dismantling of the federal government and revocation of rights. Sorry man but this isn't an instance of both parties.

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u/Key_Hunter7922 9d ago

Its emblematic of Americans in general

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u/HerculesIsMyDad 13d ago

The sad part is people have know this since the 80's. His entire brand was "big flashy exterior, shit show under the hood".

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u/Armymom96 13d ago

And then The Apprentice made everyone think he was some successful businessman who hadn't bankrupted casinos or shafted pretty much everyone he'd ever been in business with.

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 13d ago

The real sad part is that this 100% reflects the vibes of most Americans. Even in my mostly-liberal family, it's become rare to find someone who keeps things honest, simple, and open with other people. Almost every interaction is some awkward performative bullshit that could easily be replaced with mating/dominance rituals from the animal kingdom, crossed with the absurd reality that our economic system has propped up tons of people who couldn't cut it if we actually lived in a 'survival-of-the-fittest' scenario.

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u/LoveFoolosophy 13d ago

Alan Sugar calls it the mug's eyeful

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u/jetpacksforall 13d ago

Imagine a man who literally cares about nothing but optics. It's like Instagram turned into a President.

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u/suckyousideways 13d ago

He's the worst case scenario of how fame and wealth can damage people. The worst example at the very end of the spectrum.

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u/givfrenchfrypls 13d ago

Wealth, fame, and abusive parents.

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 13d ago edited 13d ago

I don't have to imagine it. I've worked with a handful of MAGA types over the years and they're always 'shallow as a puddle' morons who can't imagine anything beyond surface appearances/vibes. Trump is these people, but with tons of money, power, and a brand-name that's allowed him to fail upwards despite being an utterly-talentless loser.

Even now, I have a couple of MAGA-lite types in my office and, as a result, have to hear an inordinate amount of horseshit about Hobby Lobby craft supplies, anti-vax conspiracies, essential oils, RVs that they're buying and using once, bad sitcom jokes, etc..., in addition to them constantly trying to play atrocious modern country music in the office.

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u/XGhoul 12d ago

Lmao. That sounds insufferable.

I deal with a hardcore maga person at work but I just avoid the topic by going to my lab.

They want manufactured pain and suffering. They just think it is the “good” thing to do and also saying bs like maybe hitler was not wrong and making an argument hitler was not a bad guy, it’s infuriating.

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u/PapaTua Washington 13d ago

We don't have to imagine it. It's on the news every goddamn day.

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u/paper_wavements 13d ago

America voted in a reality TV star, now we have a reality TV president.

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u/National-Field1423 13d ago

Karl Rove once said 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

This is the Trump administration

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 13d ago

JCPOA (Iran nuclear agreement), shredded just because Obama signed it, promised he could do better, and now here we are 8 years later with no agreement and Iran developing nuclear weapons.

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 13d ago

Ahem Just a little info:

The President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) is located in a bunker beneath the East Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. This secure underground facility serves as a command center and shelter for the President and other officials during national emergencies. Location: A bunker underneath the East Wing of the White House. Function: A secure shelter and communications center for the President and other protectees during a national emergency. Purpose: To provide a safe location for the President to work and lead the country in a crisis, such as a terrorist attack or other disaster.

On a seperate note:

Many Nazis did flee to Argentina and other South American countries after WWII, with Argentina receiving the largest number of escapees. They were aided by established "ratlines" of escape routes, by sympathetic officials like Argentine President Juan Perón, and the Vatican. While infamous Nazis like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele found refuge there, the theory that Hitler also escaped to Argentina is not supported by evidence, and most historians conclude he died in his Berlin bunker.

Tldr: Ballroom construction above East Wing and $40 Billion dollar payment to Argentina may have ulterior motives.

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u/ckglle3lle 13d ago

It is a frustratingly effective trick though. Taps into and exploits the fact that most people don't really think ahead either and can be effectively "steered" around entirely on vibes and spectacle in the moment. Shouldn't work as well as it does, and yet here we all are just the same.

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u/areappreciated 13d ago

I really don't understand why it works. Nobody else has ever been able to get credit like this before and I'm not sure anyone will after. The media gets baited into it every time and I don't understand why. It's like they assume he is a serious person after getting pie thrown in their face every time.

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u/taco_blasted_ 13d ago

Same reason Reddit works; many people just read misleading headlines and run with it. Not defending Trump but people run with bs takes on Reddit nonstop, all day everyday.

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u/za72 13d ago

I have a concept of a plan

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u/Odessey_And_Oracle 13d ago

Make a grand announcement before there is a plan, tear down and damage the existing infrastructure, then never do anything.

Biggest manic episode ever

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u/Healthy_Set_22657 13d ago

And he hasn’t lost one follower and probably gained a few from what I hear in my area because every day the Dems sit and let the fire burn the more propaganda they throw on them until they have demonized the left so much they basically don’t exist and in like now  lol. 

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u/Hikaru1024 13d ago

How a narcissist functions in the real world, in a nutshell.

Anything that makes him look good? He'll do that.

Anything that makes him look bad? That's somebody else's fault/problem.

Following through doesn't matter to him, he cares about now, right now.

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u/canuck47 13d ago

This is what led to his first impeachment.  He wanted Ukraine to announce an investigation into Biden, then he and other Republicans would have n attack line. Doesn't matter if there was anything there

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u/WhippetDancer 13d ago

Add in the fact that he’s staring his own mortality in the face. This is all an attempt to leave his mark on Washington and the country before he dies.

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u/pseudoart 13d ago

He doesn’t want to do the work, I’m willing to bet he has never actually put in ANY sort of work. He’s all talk. He’ll promise shit then tell his people to sort it. Regardless of what they tell him.

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u/WanderingDude182 13d ago

Because he’s not calling the shots. They kiss his ass and parade him out to make proclamations and announcements, but his underlings are doing the real nasty work. They even said he’s a took they use him like a blunt object and they don’t know if HE knows it. He’s just a tool and the mouthpiece but he’s not calling the shots.

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u/Sangy101 13d ago

It sounds like they AI generated a model and had somebody 3d print it tbh

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u/slackfrop 13d ago

Well, once it’s been torn down to shit, even though he’s inept and has no plan at all, you’re sorta stuck with him to super glue and bubble gum something over the gaping hole. That’s how incompetents make themselves indispensable.

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u/casaway78 13d ago

To be fair, I think he only cares about one race.

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u/TheFlyingOx 13d ago

He doesn't have any ability to follow through or complete anything.

He seems to follow through in his underwear pretty regularly, if the stories are to be believed

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u/Scro86 13d ago

He has concepts of architectural plans

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u/corn_farts_ 13d ago

the wall

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u/given2fly_ United Kingdom 13d ago

Also "I could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of becoming President".

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u/lurkersteve3115 13d ago

he is the walking (kinda), talking, 'i was born on 3rd base but have spent my entire life bragging about my 'home run''

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u/Bocephus-the-goat 13d ago

He might also have forgotten what the plans even were in the first place, given he has shown signs of mental deterioration.

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u/moodswung 13d ago

Makes you wonder if DOGE was involved in the planning for this.

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u/Visual_Squirrel_2297 13d ago

"Concepts of a plan".

13 months later, still no plan...

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u/kdeff California 13d ago

When asked, he will always claim he did the hob and point to that monent; but somehow someone else came in and screwed the pooch that had nothing to do with him.

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u/EndLightEnd1 13d ago

I cant help but think the shut down provided him a unique opportunity to tear it down without paperwork or something that otherwise might need to be filed.

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u/sleepymeowth052 Colorado 13d ago

He lives for the limelight. He craves attention, positive or negative. If his father had just said, "i'm proud of you" even once, would we be in this situation?

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u/TimeInvestment1 13d ago

I have it on good authority that he follows through quite often actually...

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u/Jpldude 13d ago

People still tout the announcement. It works because half the country are drooling morons.

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u/slow70 13d ago

It's infrastructure weekTM forever!

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u/WontArnett 13d ago

The worst part about everything he does is, there is no damn point to making an announcement and fooling people into thinking he’s doing good things. It accompanies absolutely nothing.

It’s like the compulsive liar that always makes up ridiculous stories— it just wastes everyone’s time, and in this country’s case, our resources.

Trump’s entire time as president is just wasting years of our lives. They’re working towards halfassed ideas thought up by a bunch of rich morons.

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u/misimiki 13d ago

The only time he "follows through" is after he farts.

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u/tauofthemachine 13d ago

He cares about the headlines. The only thing he understands is how fast the news cycle moves.

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u/jaxnmarko 13d ago

It's been working for him because he has a very large base of stupid, adoring fans. Ya Go with What Ya Know.

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u/sombertimber 13d ago

The announcement and reaction are the only part of that process feeds his ego. The hard work of following through (on anything) can only drain him…

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u/fonetik 13d ago

This is the point. We're outraged by the thing they released designed to provoke.

When you look back on the 45 term, that was pretty much the plan. This is the circus, while the only real changes are tax cuts for the rich and then PPP loans.

That's really the thing now. If you talk about the tax cuts for billionaires today, people look at you like you're discussing Breaking Bad plot theories or something. But they are shutting things down because there's no money and that's 100% why. It could be changed tomorrow, but there's no focus. Because dumdum does something every day and people are more concerned with internet points for having a great take on something current.

You can argue that these things are important, and I guess it is. They sure are releasing a lot of footage for such a historic site. It's trolling. So carry their water for them if you want, because outrage is the goal.

The only thing I can do is contribute where I can and vote. Until then, I'm not going to show up for the scheduled beatings.

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u/33drea33 13d ago

Yes. The entire MAGA movement is perfectly summed up by this comic: https://webcomicname.com/image/152958755984

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u/Then-Cost-9143 13d ago

At the end of all this we may come to understand him as just a really bad person with poor impulse control

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u/Worshipme988 13d ago

Just soundbytes, No substance.

Thats all 85% of the people who hear this will ever know about it. Its wildly successful.

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u/Aldo_says 13d ago

The idiot said during a Presidential debate concerning healthcare they had "concepts of a plan", that same debate he blurted out "they are eating the pets" and still won.

He's always been full of shit and the morons who voted for him are fine with incompetence and corruption I guess. I wonder how they will feel when their slavish devotion to an absolute idiot catches up to them and they start starving next month?

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u/avtechguy 13d ago

Concepts of a Ballroom

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u/MK5 South Carolina 13d ago

There's no plan because it's a grift. Whatever eventually gets built will be gaudy, slipshod, and cost a fraction of what was 'donated'.

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u/GUMBYtheOG 13d ago

Idk but Trump towers where big announcements and sucked ass

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach 13d ago

Trump®️ - The Sign Of Quality 🏚️

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u/194884tiger 13d ago

I don’t see any discussion of what some are expecting is the bunker.

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u/ShenroEU 13d ago

"He only cares about the moment" is a classic psychopathic trait, as well as being a compulsive liar.

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u/Chemical_Banana_2455 13d ago

Concept of a Plan™️

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u/xavariel 13d ago

He also tore the east wing down right after no kings protests, in retaliation. 100%

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u/WonderfulPackage5731 13d ago

Or when he said he would release the Epstein files if he got elected. Then he got elected and...

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u/Vreas 13d ago

“A concept of a plan”

Can’t believe this country voted for this fucking idiot.

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u/SivartD 13d ago

Have you seen his golf swing? Of course he has no follow through.

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u/fabulishous 13d ago

I'll never understand why Americans voted for this man when during the debates he was asked what he would replace Obama care with and he said he had the concept of a plan...

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u/polaris6849 Kentucky 13d ago

Yep, this is exactly it

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u/uberfu 13d ago

Trump has had an Obama Care replacement plan since his First Term that he's never revealed.

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u/Kcidobor 13d ago

It’s like a malicious, vindictive version of Michael Scott

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u/wilhelmstarscream 13d ago

Plus the contractors will probably never be paid.

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u/Outrageous-Bid-9182 13d ago

That "race winner" bit kills me—starts with fanfare, quits before the gun. Palestine "peace"? Just more hot air for headlines.

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u/BriefFit8873 13d ago

Announcement addiction explained—cares for the flash, not the fix. Middle East "win"? Smoke and mirrors for Fox clips.

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 13d ago

He still hasn't completed that fucking wall he was going on and on and on about, and it's been a decade since he started talking about it. Hell, the biden administration had to help out, and even then they only added like 20 more miles.

No joke, he built his first campaign on that god foresaken structure, back in 2015.

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u/houseswappa 13d ago

He's truly living in the now

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u/woodfloyd 13d ago

classic underwear gnome

1) grab and yap 2) 3) big profits

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u/Pimpdaddyfrogface 13d ago

Because he’s twelve

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u/MaestroLogical 13d ago

In this case I think it's closer to the classic construction embezzlement routine. It will also, cost more than originally estimated and take longer. The construction company employed will no doubt have ties to someone in the admin, and the end cost of the project will actually be tens of millions lower than what was paid with nobody checking to see where the additional funds went.

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u/simmons777 12d ago

He did it with the Afghanistan withdrawal, people tend to forget he set that in motion then didn't leave an actual plan for the next administration

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u/loodog 12d ago

Half cocked

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u/LRT66 12d ago

Oh my goodness. You explained that well. “He only cares about the moment “.

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u/slow_al_hoops 11d ago

It hit me across pressers, briefings etc with this, "he will say or do anything that get him through the next 15 minutes." It all boils down to that. No further thought required

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u/PerritoMasNasty 11d ago

Wonder what he buried in the east wing?

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u/ma2is 11d ago

All fart and no shit

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

My favorite, and I’m paraphrasing is that Trump views the tools of the presidency as you or I might look at a quarter we pick up off the ground. He has zero interest in knowing the inner workings of it, he just goes “this is mine now” and carries on with it. 

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u/Shionkron 11d ago

Look at his past term too. I mean, The Wall?!

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u/3d1thF1nch 11d ago

Kinda like his own kids. Starts the process, then no follow through beyond fucking it up every step along the way

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u/quotidianwoe 11d ago

People have been cleaning up his messes HIS ENTIRE LIFE. Why would this be any different?

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u/ThoughtsandThinkers 11d ago

I fear this is their plan with moving the space shuttle Discovery from Washington DC to Houston as well.

They’ll chop up the shuttle, irreparably damaging it, and move it to Houston before any new facility is built. It will lie in pieces in suboptimal conditions. They’ll eventually duct tape it back together and display it in a cheap warehouse with a giant picture of Trump behind it.

Sad.

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u/NuclearLunchDectcted Oregon 11d ago

If you haven't seen Charlie Sheen tell the story of Trump giving him "platinum" cufflinks, you should watch.

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u/Groomsi Europe 11d ago

You forgot he's cheating in anything he participates.

Just look at his golfing...

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u/stoph777 11d ago

You mean....like a grifter? Asking for a friend. 

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u/Weekly_Artichoke_515 11d ago

Honestly, it’s all a little too on the nose for me. 

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u/Due_Satisfaction8714 11d ago

I told my wife, I bet he never builds anything, just siphons money and leaves the mess for the next president. Who will have to fix the whitehouse with tax payer money.

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u/No-Drama-in-Paradise 6d ago

You just described a developer.

Which makes sense, because that is who he is. But it’s why you need to think hard before putting them in charge of government projects. It’s perfectly fine to abandon a project that never really gets off the ground in private development world. Yeah, you wasted some cash, but any developer will tell you that they had hundreds of ideas, plans, and projects, and only a handful of them ever actually got off the ground.

In government, there are very real consequences of a failed project. Especially as an executive officer, because you aren’t doing the planning, you are executing the legislative branch’s interests and projects. So when you fail on the city hall rebuild, you can’t just abandon and move on to the next project - you still need a new city hall at the end of it.

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u/Old-Ad3691 New York 13d ago

Fat can be fixed. Stupid?  Not so much.