Critics zeroed in on photos of tire tracks scarring the floor of the newly drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where the presidential motorcade drove weeks earlier.President Donald Trump drained the pool Monday, insisting vandals had left a 300-yard gash in its lining. But reporters and on-the...
Who cares about the pool, it’s a distraction of the most obvious kind.
What I’m wondering now is whether the USA can recover from this utter disconnection of the executive from truth and reality.
There is now a undeniable precedent of just lying continuously while in office, to essentially no consequence.
This sets a new floor for what you can do while in power. How this doesn’t break US American politics durably, I don’t know.
Edit: well this is on topic: https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold
A distraction from say… The TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES ™?
We broke.
No denying that brother.
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Our democracy has been hacked and dismantled, if we want it back it must be rebuilt