I think you might need to re-read the post to which you were responding, which was making precisely this point.
Emphasis mine. Part of the whole clusterfuck that was DOGE is that there was no oversight, and AFAIK, no one in its leadership – not Amy Gleason, not Steve Davis, and certainly not Musk – was ever subject to a Congressional confirmation hearing, much less a confirmation vote.
Didn’t they also drive a motorcade over it before filling it?
It’s unusual for a Republican to be paying attention, but he seems to have noticed that 1) this looks bad in his constituency and 2) it sets a precedent that might result in Cubans getting sent back too. Enlightened self-interest, as it were.
Yes, on May 8th.
D’oh! I miscounted the preliminaries. Of course he’s not a great man of history.
Caligula maybe. Does he have a horse he can induct into the Senate?
Judging by the number of horse’s asses surrounding him, he has plenty.
Thanks. I completely forgot Rip van Simple loves to fill positions with “acting” individuals so he doesn’t have to do that whole responsible governance with checks and balances thing.
Yes but, as much as some folks want it to be the case, it’s not likely to have done much damage. This is one of those cases where it’s not far from a left wing conspiracy theory that driving over it was responsible for any of the issues.
The real issue is hiring total incompetents on a no bid contract. The sorts of companies who actually knew what they were doing already told them (1) using a dark color was a bad idea because of the algae and (2) there was no way to do this properly in the timeframe they wanted.
And they needed to drive cars on it because…?
Because Trump wanted to see it, and he can’t walk that far.
Good gravy.
Given that Trump has had people arrested for the damage, it does matter.
I realize this is the post-truth era but come the fuck on. Facts and science are supposed to still matter.
Sure, criticize him for driving on it. That was unnecessary, especially given the terrible job they did. But don’t make up fake stuff too. We’ve already got way too much of that going around
I think you’re being a bit too sweeping here. Sometimes self-appointed debunkers get carried away with their mission to defend facts and end up being too dismissive of genuinely debatable issues.
Of course nobody should be assuming that the Trump motorcade was definitely or solely, or even primarily, the cause of the pool liner damage. But knowledgeable experts have opined that it might have played a role.
So, all that whining (literally years worth of whining) about Trump really winning in 2020 were just the GOP and MAGA trying to circumvent the will of God?
Yeah, that tracks.
That’s a CYA statement.
“Can’t definitively eliminate it as a possibility” is a very careful way of saying they can’t 100% rule it out. It’s science speak with tons of qualifiers and no firm statements.
The followup is the important part - focusing on any single thing as a proximal cause is not something experts should do without actually looking into the matter. And yet, that seems to be what people have done - focus on the motorcade.
The most likely (but not 100%!!! verified) cause is known - this was a company that had not done much work on stone or at scale before and had limited experience with vinyl linings at all and screwed up the prep and application of it. Sure, driving over it might have made a difference but it’s not likely (another one of those pesky qualifiers!) to have been “the” cause.
But measured, qualified statements don’t play well on social media, so here we are.
J.D. Vance is like Donald Sutherland’s character in the 1978 remake of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Spoiler alert: the person fighting against the pod people becomes a pod person himself eventually.
At least when that came up with FDR he sent Eleanor to scope out whatever needed a look.
But then… the Roosevelts were competent and actually gave a damn about the US.
Highlights from today’s unscripted dementia ramble;
“They used to go in and rob the restaurants. You wouldn’t feel safe in a restaurant. It was like the old Wild West – they’d say, 'Sick ‘em up. Give me your money.’ The whole restaurant is handing them money.”
“Should we put on a little music? Yes? This way you don’t have to talk to each other. We’re gonna put on a little music – the Trump Playlist.”
YMCA starts playing
“You have a couple of guys who went short. Those poor bastards – they’re in big trouble. They’re being wiped out. The short guys. I never liked short guys because they’re betting against the country.”
“The best thing and the biggest thing we’re doing is we’re building a ballroom,and a tremendous military center. That was supposed to be to top secret, but it’s no longer topic secret, because whatever you do you get sued.”
“Glass windows that can withstand any form of shot, rifle, drone, nothing gets through. Steel walls. Steel ceiling. Extra strength. It’s really an amazing thing. And yet all of that security made it more beautiful. We’ve actually taken security and made it a beautiful thing.”
“Every question is a kill! You know that, right? Every question is a kill”
“I always got helipads. Other people don’t. Very hard to get. The hardest thing to get is a helipad. There’s no harder zoning thing to get. And I had like 7 of them.”
“You know who the number one person on Tic Tac is by far? Trump. Me. Taylor Swift was number 11.”
“I’m friends with many doctors because of what I’m doing as president. They’re great – as long as they tell me I’m healthy. When they tell me I’m healthy – so far, so good. Where’s a piece of wood?”"
“The famous Strait of Hormuz – nobody ever heard of it”
“She is a fantastic person and she is a woman that is respected by everybody and she has got real talent, Nicki Minaj. Nicki, stand up, please”
“They say now progressive. Liberal became so tarnished but now it’s communists, you know, they say social democrats, no, social Democrat is a communist”
“The girls are working to work. And the guys are walking to work. A lot of the guys here can’t walk but they’re rich as hell.”
“The only thing we have a hard time stopping is a crime of passion. Do you know what that is? Anybody? This is a group that probably knows something about crimes of passion”
“Windsor Castle. It’s the longest building I’ve ever seen. But I said to Charles, “Who built this? This place is incredible.” William the Conqueror. I said, “Oh, William the Conqueror—was he a nice man?” Charles said, “No, no, he was extremely strong and very tough.” I said, “I figured with a name like William the Conqueror, I would think… what do you think? I think you’d be tough.” I said we have to come up with a good name for you, maybe Charles the Conqueror.”
And Charles in Charge was sitting right there, too.