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...
There isn’t much about this administration that could be less newsworthy than the shitty renovations to the fucking pool. Why the fuck is anyone interested in this
In the media, to avoid talking about the more serious shit.
On places like lemmy, because humor is a coping mechanism and it’s way easier to make jokes about this than the more serious shit.
It’s called staying on top of the news cycle: if you can put story Y after story X, you make it harder for someone else to put what they want / real news after story X.
It was truly North Korea level propaganda when they sent some Faux State Regime Media lackey down there to stand in front of a puke green swamp and claim it was “American flag blue”.
The next thing is they’ll hold up 4 fingers and demand we see 5.
Lights*
Sorry, not sorry
They’re not, it’s a distraction from the Epstein files & Iran. The media is bought & paid for.
Because it shows very plainly the absolute incompetence of this government, not only for this project, but as a whole. I mean renovating the pool shouldn’t really be that difficult, should it? Just get a reputable company to do the job, and that’s it. But the government can’t even do that.
He doesn’t care about that, only that you’re focussed on this, not his failures & grifting.
You can focus on a lot more than one thing. People like to point and laugh about this.
True, but given what he has done & is continuing to do, is it really ok to laugh about?! I get that it can feel like there’s not anything else to do, but sometimes you’ve got to check yourself. Laugh at something else, not him.
Fscists are thinned skinned and being mocked for obvious failure is the only thing that works. You can’t shame them for they have none, but they can be infuriated for their incompetence. Even during WWII there were caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini people used.
As well it’s cathartic given the mountain of bad news and proverbial shit they shove into all channels.