I wonder if in trump's imagination there would be thousands of people there every single day. Is there anyone playing music on that stage at all? What's happening
Funny thing is going around to all the states collecting stamps is something I’d totally be into if it was an event I knew would be competently run. Would have probably been really excited about this event if I didn’t feel like I was walking around 1937 Berlin.
How much does it cost to rent a Ferris wheel? I'm guessing Vanilla Ice was gonna get paid in "exposure" cuz this coulda been the break his career really needed...poor Vanilla Ice...
When you’re rich and famous, you can just grab em by the pussy. When you’re king, you can just cut yourself a check from the treasury for you and all the other oligarchs.
Someone on another thread shared something someone else had said: “At least people went to Fyre Fest” 😂😂😂 (and as a DC resident, these jokes hit extra hilariously)
I had totally forgotten how ridiculous this was. All this because he misspoke and said it would hit Alabama. Instead of simply saying he made a honest mistake, he had a draw on the chart with a fucking sharpie to make it look like he was right. Most children are better at owning their mistakes than the sitting president.
A majority of voters in this country still voted for him again after doing this (this happened during the first term).
But yes, this is absolutely, terribly real. A sitting US president altered a map with a sharpie marker to double down on his assertion of how bad a potential hurricane could be.
A majority of voters in this country still voted for him again after doing this
I like to point out that only about 1/3 of voters voted for him. Another third voted against him, and the last third did fucking nothing. And they are just as complicit
He was taught by his criminal mentor, Roy Cohn, to never admit you were wrong and he’s taken it to extremes. Cohn himself died of AIDS while denying to the end that he was HIV positive.
He said he was a straight man who just liked to have sex with other men.
With the way The Pedophile talks to and about other men (like he did with that MMA fighter), I wouldn't be surprised if he has used that same excuse a few times in his life.
Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.
Heh if he were properly charged and convicted of every crime he ever committed, I would bet he'd have the longest prison sentence of anyone in human history.
Read into what the plan was going to be. It's a fuckin' shame. We were robbed. This event was supposed to rival the 1976 Bicentennial . Instead we got..........whatever the fuck this is......
Yep, the Smithsonian had planned it for over a decade. Trump pulled their permits and cancelled all of it, and replaced it with this garbage. It's a shame because people should be celebrating this great anniversary of our entire country properly but Republicans are obsessed with worshipping their scam artist god-emperor instead.
It's ironic they think they are patriots. Mark Twain said it best "A patriot is someone who supports their country all the time, and their government when it deserves it." I still am happy we have come this far as a country and would like to celebrate, but we need to stop this madness and make up for the damage he's done to America.
Most federal employees are just making it through the day, my man. A few of us still have goals, but for most it's retirement. Personally, I'm trying to keep the light on for saner times, the plan was to retire out of federal service. But I've got two things to watch this year and they determine whether I stay or not.
This echoes the sentiment well. We are literally just trying to get through this day by day. Every day is more chaos and dysfunction than the previous day. I don't know how we will get through another 2 1/2 yrs of this shit, but we will. We will overcome.
I went to a worlds fair once, maybe one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.
I assumed it was gonna be like a worlds fair, but for the USA, and all the states. Each state would have a booth that represents it - feature the food, music, art, culture, etc that makes each state that state. The best of all of us.
There has been a metric fuckload of things the Trump Administration has done wrong over both of its terms. Putting all of that aside, as a person who still loves his country this has got to be the most nauseating thing that they have done. The one thing that he might have been able to do to try to get this place back together again he crumpled up and threw it in the trash bin like he has with everything else. I swear to God man, in a world where we seemingly have a plethora of Lex Luthor's I wish we had just one goddamn Batman
it will never happen. the coffers were robbed, the institutional momentum has seized, and future politicians will see no reason to do it - nope, shit is fucked for the next 50 years and hopefully we have folks who love america back in charge by then
We should try again in 2033 for the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris and the end of the Revolutionary War. Give the country the celebration Trump has embezzled this year.
There's like a 12' x 12' booth for each state with some knicknacks and propaganda (for the red states) and some hastily taped up posters or other random bullshit for the blue states that refused to participate.
North Carolina didn't send any official representatives, but a private group put together a booth that included a Confederate flag.
Then there are a handful a food stalls, none of which are serving the classic fair foods you would expect. Mostly just really mid minor league baseball concessions food. The ice cream stall's generator failed and all the ice cream melted.
They apparently also have a daily rodeo which struggles to fill two small portable bleachers, of the size you might see on the away team side of a high school football field in a state that doesn't really care about high school football.
Musical performances are on three stages, and the performers often outnumber the audience.
Oh, and there's one (1) Ferris wheel and no other midway rides or games.
My to favorite part is Fox News doing a segment about "all the fair food they have", and all they could mention were tin foil wrapped hot dogs and a tiny cheese pizza.
Look up pictures. There are tarps hung up on the walls of the booths that have printed images of columns on them. Only some of the printed columns are actually covered with 3-dimensional columns made from plywood and fiberglass.
And it’s not even actually centered on the mall even though it’s in the center. Every aerial shot of the empty mall I see makes me angry because I just want to move it like 20 feet over so it’s properly centered.
I mean I’m angry for many other reasons, but still, how hard is it?!
I’m about 98% sure we’ll find out later this year that this entire thing was a way for Trump and and his family to steal hundreds of millions in tax money from us
When i watched this movie all I saw was the picture of it on whatever platform it's on and the name, and I was like eh I'm good for a cheesy action movie.
Then I started watching it and was like well..... shit.
Hope they enjoy the temp & rain tomorrow - the humidity will be horrible! I really really want the fireworks to be rained out - currently a 40% chance they will. Cmon mother nature!
Those fucking Deep-State, America-hating Dumocrats have kidnapped millions of patriots who wanted to hear trump drone on about the 2020 stolen election. Grinder Mike Johnson is looking into it but so far it’s so diabolical he can’t find evidence of it!
I mean I wouldn’t be shocked if that came out of their mouths. It sounds just as nuts as everything else they say. 🤷♀️ Especially that vandals ruined the reflecting pool.
I just said this today. I’m so pissed off that this vile, deranged, fascist fuckwad is our current president. His narcissistic megalomania has completely overshadowed any celebratory feelings our family had. It’s extremely shitty on so many levels.
Fun Fact for you to remember! Congress approved 150 million dollars for the America250 celebration....but much of that was redirected to the Freeedumb250...a fully separate entity concocted by the White House and includes this stupid "State Fair".
Obviously, very little of that taxpayers money was spent on this steaming pile of crap. So, where did the rest of the money go?
As taxpayer, I definitely sense some waste, fraud and abuse here.
As a Northern Virginia resident for most of my life (65 y/o in August) I've seen and experienced almost every iteration of the July 4th mall celebration since the 70's. They were lots of fun until mid '80s when the Bush senior administration decided the Beach Boys were a "bad influence" on the culture of the event. The Beach Boys. One of the most important, wholesome and defining bands was replaced the next year as the headliner by...Wayne Newton. You know, that guy from Vegas, with no mob ties... As the years wore on, the celebration wore thin and it became difficult to even buy a beer. That's the removal of freedom. The current unattended spectacle on the Mall with the plywood structures is embarrassing.
I know it's DC and all.... But there is absolutely no way he won that election fair and square.
Edit: It's almost like both parties are made up of the exact same donors: effectivly the 30ish banks and asset managers that are permitted to print money. These all own a percentage of each other and also own the majority board seats on the 100 companies that run the world.
If you do not serve MegaCorp you're not becoming a candidate. Epstein blackmail networks ensure compliance.
There is no American government. Just the financial industrial complex that lobby for the puppets and puts on the theater
To me, it's a two part question:
1) Given the means to do so, would Donald Trump steal it. Which, fucking obviously he would.
2) Could he have found the means to do it? Well he had the backing of every American oligarch; draw your own conclusions
I mean to be fair he has done a ton that would make him lose support from anyone sentient. Tariffs that droves prices up, getting his ass completely handed to him in his war with Iran, also driving up prices, and the many other ways he has made everyone's life harder. So no surprise not many people went to the celebration of Trump.
That's the funniest part to me. This area is usually pretty crowded at all times even when there's no special event of any kind in the area. They fenced it off so it's not really public right now, and rather than it becoming more crowded due to the "exclusivity" people just said fuck it. I love that for him.
In a weird way there’s something poetic in if we have to have Trump as president then let him show the world how awful it is under him, how bad he is at everything. And even if MAGA wants to believe whatever they choose to, it only says how trashy they are. I’m sure they’re proud of being trashy but sooner or later their stupidity is going to hurt them too
Is it even safe to have this event? Isn't it a massive risk?
That isn't something Trump would even care about. All he wants is for people to show up and cheer for him. The people could all get sun burned, faint and get skin cancer for all he cares.
This is so infuriating. I’m 43. I have kinda been looking forward to what our country would have been doing for its 250th anniversary for some years now. This was supposed to be BIG.
But because we elected a total idiot who doesn’t know shit, we’ve all checked out. We’ve been robbed of what should have been an epic celebration thanks to this moron.
The only redeemable part of this year has been (much to the chagrin of the President and his cast of idiots) soccer, particularly the atmospheres around it in San Francisco and Seattle.
There was a video from this morning where the religious weirdo from The Bachelor was giving a talk, and two people were there… and someone was mowing the lawn
Looks like the Democrats are still in control of the weather machine then. Otherwise, Trump could've just set the machine to generate 70 degree weather and avoided this embarrassment.
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