The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.
The Trumpy lie followed by definitive proof of it being totally false is becoming increasingly rapid-fire: bait and switch, bait and switch… seems he can’t conceal his trickery long enough before the next news cycle anymore. It’s quite astonishing.
A large part of the cult mentality is consistently reinforcing that your group is in on some big secret that the rest of the world is clueless to. It quickly becomes a self-sustaining feedback loop where the cult will go along with wild things just to keep up the idea that they’re in the know.
This is further reinforced with messaging that the outside world is hostile, and safety can only be found within the cult. This is actually a large part of why Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses do their door-knocking. They have already been primed to expect hostility from the people answering the door, and that hostility only reinforces the idea that the outside world is dangerous and ignorant. And we see this with modern MAGAts now, because they have been primed to expect hostility whenever they try to bring up anything that outs them as MAGA.
Yeah, it’s not like he’s some evil genius. Serial abusers aren’t trained manipulators. It’s just kind of built into their character. It’s automatic. And it’s not even like he’s intentionally hiring smarter people to be evil for him. His shit personality just draws those kinds of people to him.
None of this is sophisticated. It’s just that a terrifying percentage of Americans are dogshit stupid, so low effort evil works.
No, owners of company pay bribes to Trump so they get paid a rediculous amount to do a shoddy job and fill the pool with algae, which they can then get paid to remove
They owners of the company have done similar things in other businesses in the past
The Trumpy lie followed by definitive proof of it being totally false is becoming increasingly rapid-fire: bait and switch, bait and switch… seems he can’t conceal his trickery long enough before the next news cycle anymore. It’s quite astonishing.
There’s literally no interval between bait and switches so short that it won’t work on conservatives/regressives.
He could tell them dogs aren’t real and 30 seconds later tell them they are real but that cats aren’t and they’d be fully onboard.
It’s a cult thing.
A large part of the cult mentality is consistently reinforcing that your group is in on some big secret that the rest of the world is clueless to. It quickly becomes a self-sustaining feedback loop where the cult will go along with wild things just to keep up the idea that they’re in the know.
This is further reinforced with messaging that the outside world is hostile, and safety can only be found within the cult. This is actually a large part of why Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses do their door-knocking. They have already been primed to expect hostility from the people answering the door, and that hostility only reinforces the idea that the outside world is dangerous and ignorant. And we see this with modern MAGAts now, because they have been primed to expect hostility whenever they try to bring up anything that outs them as MAGA.
“trickery” implies he’s clever and doing things intentionally.
Yeah, it’s not like he’s some evil genius. Serial abusers aren’t trained manipulators. It’s just kind of built into their character. It’s automatic. And it’s not even like he’s intentionally hiring smarter people to be evil for him. His shit personality just draws those kinds of people to him.
None of this is sophisticated. It’s just that a terrifying percentage of Americans are dogshit stupid, so low effort evil works.
He intentionally hired “greenwater services” a firm whose owners have a history of paying bribes to fill the pool with algae
Huh? The owners of the company pay bribes to… pool owners so that they can fill the pool with algae? Why would they want to do that?
They probably bribe individuals to hire them on behalf of a company (or country)
No, owners of company pay bribes to Trump so they get paid a rediculous amount to do a shoddy job and fill the pool with algae, which they can then get paid to remove
They owners of the company have done similar things in other businesses in the past