White House Accidentally Uploads Quite a Damning Trump Speech

My mistake, it was a metal tent stake, so functional rather than decorative, fortunately in more ways than one! These come from the supposition around Sascha Riley, he was _allegedly_ the one who did it.

America lacks both urgency and long term memory.  Our protests are fairs;  conventions; parades;  events we plan out for dates and times in the future, so we can get our affairs in order. In South Korea over 10% of the nation poured out into the streets when shit happened.  When leaders went from government buildings to party enclaves, word spread and people moved by the hundreds of thousands to those enclaves.    That doesn't happen here in the US, not even along the Northeast corridor.   And they certainly didn't need to wait until the weekend to get together, or to put a set day and time limit on how long they would gather. No, we say "Hoho, they're going to pay for that in 2 years when the next election happens." The other problem this country has is that it never gives Republicans lasting consequences for their f*** ups. They get kicked out, pivot further to the right, and then win elections 2 years later. Voters got upset at republicans for taking away abortion rights, but it lasted all of 1 election cycle. They continued to take away abortion rights, support their previous actions, further erode them, infrige on other forms of family planning and family health care, but you don't' really see voters punishing them for their abortion stances anymore. They've moved on. Accountability means there needs to be atonement, not just a few years of time out. They constantly try to take away health care, do the american people hold onto this knowledge and keep a grudge against the GOP?  No, they move on.    That attempt at repealing the ACA in trump's first term failed by one vote and people didn't hold onto it as a grudge.   The entire Medicaid system was down for about 12-48 hours across the United states in the first 100 daya of this term, through deliberate sabotage.   The American people have moved on.

I think it’s because once you’ve won the game, what’s left are the things you can’t buy. You can purchase the admiration of the poors, but you can’t fake it with the similarly wealthy. You can’t buy your way into genuine. Genuine respect. Genuine love. There are simply things that are not for sale and I expect that at a certain level of wealth, you see it. All the wealth and power in the world, and there’s still some clique you’re not going to be a part of. Because *they don’t like you*. And for a billionaire narcissist, this must be terribly upsetting. I wonder if Trump thinks that if he can just put his name on enough stuff, he’ll be able to fade into a more likable place in this country’s history.

Nah, Americans are petty and petulant. A large portion of us have grievances for things that are made up while lacking the critical thinking skills to discern the things actually making our lives worse. It's produced a population primed for capitalistic feeding. Our media, be it sensationalized news, inner-circle feeds, or collective memes, festers on our malcontent, feeding it like cancer feeds a tumor. Were Americans not a country half full of Karens we might recognize our short attention spans are holding us hostage in a permanent sense of semi-rage, but lo and behold the f****** truth of it all is we actually like being pissed off about being mildly inconvenienced so much more than we do being concerned about being f****** raped and robbed.

No one should have to sus out anything. Corruption and incompetence of this level by the President of the country should be headline news every single day.

If you mention wild shit Trump says to pretty much any conservative, they'll say they didn't see/hear it and try to move on. Being ignorant is more convenient for them.