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Jul 2, 2026
Jen Psaki makes the case that Donald Trump's failed "state fair" and his other calamitous projects at the seat of American government is an encapsulation of his entire presidency, from overblown vanity projects to sketchy budgets to utter incompetence to weaponizing his Justice Department to help feed his cover story.
jmbar2
(8,285 posts)See Jared Huffman's video on it.
malaise
(299,857 posts)When kakistocracies replace competent government.
These effers have no respect for or understanding of any or all matters knowledge, expertise or competence
Justice matters.
(10,254 posts)1. Fill up their pockets as much obscenely as possible with other people's money (actually, from the national credit card it will not be them to pay back plus interests, but the nation's grand kids and their grand kids).
2. Manage by all means necessary, including violence (as we've seen), to remain in power illegally.
Gas-lighting, coercing, blackmailing, fear-mongering propaganda is their tools to achieve those two.
malaise
(299,857 posts)Wealth, power, white supremacy and control over women
MLWR
(1,158 posts)yardwork
(70,087 posts)BonnieJW
(3,161 posts)llmart
(17,789 posts)The Republicans - every last one of them - are robbing our Treasury blind.
Wounded Bear
(64,887 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,866 posts)(And "NUTSHELL" is the perfect description of the White House during the Trump years.)