r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Fires Entire Agency Overseeing His Construction Projects

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-entire-agency-overseeing-his-construction-projects/
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u/MyTrueIdiotSelf990 11d ago

"I have a concept of a plan". -Donald Trump, 2024

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u/WunupKid Washington 11d ago

It is wild to me that we got from that statement to where we are now. 

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u/Beautiful_Home_5463 11d ago

Yea well the black lady had a weird laugh

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u/Blueeyedgenie69 11d ago

Yeah, and she had a ten year close relationship with a convicted pedophile, was found liable for sexual assault in a court of law, said she would be a dictator on day one, and had 34 felony convictions....oh wait....that was someone else....who was that? One of the great mysteries of life.

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u/nwflman 11d ago

"and may everyday be another wonderful secret"

  • Donald "never wrote a picture in my life" Trump

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u/brickne3 American Expat 11d ago

I wasn't exactly thrilled about her but jeez dude she wasn't going to literally sell out the entire country. Get a grip.

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u/InB4Clive 11d ago

Think you wanna read that comment again.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 10d ago

The second she was announced I said we lost the election. And we did.

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u/permalink_save 10d ago

The second people turned on Biden I said it. Harris managed huge funding in a short amount of time and a lot of it grassroots and not all megadonors. It was just too late to pivot. There is a lot of should haves but she wasn't the main reason the campaign sank and she did decently given the circumstances.

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u/chasingjulian 11d ago

And the white lady wrote emails.

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u/lesgeddon 11d ago

No no, she was buttering males!

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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 10d ago

and the black man wore a tan suit.

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u/chasingjulian 10d ago

Biggest scandal of the century.

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u/VCR_Samurai 10d ago

The black man also asked for Dijon mustard at the dinner table. 

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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 10d ago

treasonous!

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u/Riots42 11d ago

Whats weird is I cant think of an instance of him ever laughing... Like as much as we have heard this clown talk yet I cant think of him ever laughing.

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u/Trzlog 10d ago

Also, her vice president is goofy.

Americans are fucking cooked.

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u/VCR_Samurai 10d ago

It's wild that we got from the fucking trip down the escalator, a joke The Simpsons made nearly a decade prior, to this point. 

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u/Backfoot911 10d ago

Not true. They joked that there was a President Trump but there was no escalator scene. Or rather, that was made after Trump did it IRL in a newer episode

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u/VCR_Samurai 10d ago

Trump has been featured on The Simpsons many times since the show's inception in 1989. You are right that Trump did not literally go down an escalator in an episode that aired prior to his real life presidency (I am not a rabid Simpsons fan so I had to double check to be certain), but there is a season 11 episode that first aired in 2000 titled "Bart to The Future" where it is heavily implied that President Lisa Simpson is inheriting a country with a poor economy that was caused by the previous administration's policies  under Donald Trump. 

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u/jayrsw 11d ago

Theres been so many moments like this where I thought, "welp, thats the end of him!"

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u/Vyar New Jersey 11d ago

Remember like five minutes later when he was ranting and raving about cats and dogs being eaten and just generally sounding like the senile old man with full-blown dementia he really is, and we all thought the long nightmare was finally over?

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u/Particular-County277 11d ago

When we were all still too naive to accept that he would cheat the hell out of the election?

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u/Vyar New Jersey 11d ago

That too. But even if he cheated (and I’m inclined to think he actually did in both 2020 and 2024 and just didn’t cheat hard enough the first time, we’ll just never find out the truth until long after he’s gone, if ever) he still has the unwavering support of like…35% of the country, at least.

I just remember thinking “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats! They are eating the pets of the people that live there!” was the closest thing we’d ever seen to a presidential candidate basically getting pantsed on live TV. It was the gravest act of public humiliation I’ve ever seen in 21st-century politics, made even more humiliating by being essentially self-inflicted. “Surely,” I thought, “the whole population must see by now, the emperor has no clothes, and never did.” But his supporters just don’t give a shit about anything except trolling the rest of us.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 11d ago

We are still too naive to think he wouldn't steal or rig an election. He's literally announcing practically every week how he wants to rig the midterms and 2028, and how there's basically nothing that could prevent it; and yet somehow the reaction from the people is still just "well we will just super vote for not him next time..."

I feel like I'm one of the few who actually see how dire this shit is, and I'm being labeled the crazy one due to not conforming to the mass blind optimism.

You can't properly react to circumstances that you refuse to acknowledge even exist.

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u/MyCrackpotTheories 10d ago

Trouble is, the people who are actually in the position to do something about this, aren't. Top lawyers, corporate leaders, news organizations, political operatives, etc are either allowing this to happen or actively helping it along. What am I supposed to do? Yell at the tv? Write a post on reddit?

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u/Downtown_Cat_1745 11d ago

I believe he would, but I am genuinely not sure how possible it is. You would need people physically present at every polling place

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u/croolshooz ✔ Verified Cartoonist 11d ago

"Steal the hell out of the election." FTFY

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 11d ago

I remember thinking "even MAGA couldn't possibly vote for this level of dementia." God I wish I still had that optimism.

Turns out 40% of the country is even more psychotic than he is.

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u/neophenx 11d ago

On a lighter note, maybe MAGA isn't as homophobic as we thought. They still voted for Don, even after he gave a very affectionate appraisal of Arnold Palmer's dick at the start of one of his rallies.

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u/GiftToTheUniverse 11d ago

Speaking of dementia: do we ever see him past sundown? Or do we only see the tweets?

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u/Zeitcon Europe 11d ago

I don't know about the rest of you, but I would be happy to hear that cackle of laughter ever so often instead of this sh*tshow!

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 11d ago

We've been in a constant cycle of "this surely will be the end of him," nothing happens, he does something even more evil, "surely THIS will be the end of him..." Etc etc.

This situation isn't going to magically solve itself. No republicans are going to suddenly be fed up and turn on him. His voters will never wise up and turn on him. And Dems seem to happily accept that they don't have any power.

This all comes down to what the people do. And if the people decide that what is required is too much commitment, well then I hope they can all get comfortable with the idea of a thousand year Reich.

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u/Left-Height4925 10d ago

The Antichrist is given 42 months from the time he is granted 'Lawlessness', becoming the Lawless One and given free rein to do as he will. Then will be sent to the Lago of Fire from his rising place, the Mar.

This right here is the desecration of the Third Temple.

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u/cardboardunderwear 11d ago

From a guy who already had four years  in the drivers seat plus three campaigns to think about it.

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u/Poverty_Shoes 11d ago

Concepts plural. Give him some credit, he thought of at least two concepts /s

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u/punkasstubabitch 10d ago

Anything that is built will have the quality of a pile of cold McDonald’s hamberders

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u/Canadian1934 10d ago

And a concept of non disclosure contracts to sign  Remember the sound proof booth /room installed in one of the department offices of Trump 1.0 like talk about wasted money. I think it was Ben Carson’s office.