Two Weeks Into The New Job And A Vacation...
Just 2 weeks into the new job and it's time for a $3M Weekend Getaway to the Mar a Lago Luxury Resort in Palm Beach Florida. While the accommodations and meals are paid for by the president himself, the Trumpanzies believe the 75 year old billionaire is entitled to enjoy the "Fruits of His Labor"are having trouble grasping that the $3M Weekend Getaway is actually what the taxpayer costs are estimated at. Air Force One has about a $200,000/hr operational cost, in addition the motorcade vehicles are flown in on board an Air Force Transport Plane, additional vehicles and security for the airport and resort will be in place prior to his arrival, with Secret Service there in advance taking care of security details, then there is the Secret Service and Staff traveling with the president as well. The former Birther In Chief, now Commander in Chief is well aware of the costs of his 1st Presidential Vacation having scrutinized presidential vacations in the past...
Oh the irony or I wouldn't have even said anything...
President @BarackObama's vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars----Unbelievable!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2012
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Woops, thought this was about der Trumpenfuhrer
Either way, the very rich are different from you and me - they have far too much money.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
... the new sobriquet that I have encountered elsewhere --
... "der Pumpkinfuhrer" --
somehow seems so appropriate.
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
America has elected a King
Just when I think I have outrage fatigue, he does something else that pisses me off.
His over the top personal spending habits are going to cost the tax payer. Combined with all the tax cuts he enacts for rich people, we will have a huge deficit. That will be followed with another round of entitlement cuts for the poor and elderly... and they call him a populist
Not a King, a Fuhrer.
No, it hasn't. No King, at least none available to living memory, ever treated his nation's ordinary people with Drumpf-order disdain. Seems they (the surviving Kings) learned the lesson King Louis XVI paid for with his life: that a King's principal job is to stand up for his ordinary people, to protect the small and lowly against the mighty, wealthy, and powerful.
Fuck, if I had a choice between "President" Drumpfenfuhrer and actually electing King Arthur, I'd unhesitatingly vote for the latter!
edit: I'm surprised I beat Bollox Ref to this particular punch!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Fuhrer...no...Il Duce ...no...Ill Duck I like
Pitty him, he haz hard time finding good help! Re: Bannon NSC
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Good! He's providing yet more ammunition.
His base is gonna love this.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Do you suppose Trumpy will set a new record
for least time spent in the Oval Office? We may see even less of him than we did of the Shrub - which may not be an altogether bad thing, as when he's off on vacation he's only plotting mischief, not actually doing any.
Unless he leaves his underlings the keys to the country... (shudder)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
That won't work. He'll just tweet his orders from his poolside
chaise lounge.
Everybody back!
The President is wearing his Speedo swimsuit...
Trust me you don't want to go out there...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
ohhh, my eyes.....
Is there some way to unsee that vision?
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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Brain Bleach!
Is the only thing I know of that will work...
Good Tune! The eyes need it...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Oh my god ...you b***a*d, ick ick cick
So close to the ocean,
He should worry about rising sea levels that might swamp his retreat. But then he doesn't really believe in climate change.
To thine own self be true.
Trump might be better off...
Scratching the plan for the Mexico Wall, and building a "Seawall" around Florida instead...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Oldest Son
You know that rich people have different mental and emotional pressures than you and I and 99% of the population have.
It must be very difficult for him to sustain an effort to conceal his disgust with associating with non-rich people day in, day out.
He needs a deep message, quiet time with his class.
His base will learn of his needs and accept them in due course.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Some are thinking it might be...
A quiet weekend with those who can pay a $200,000 membership fee to Mar a Lago, and might have a quiet round of golf or, a meal, or cocktails and perhaps a quiet discussion of what
they may do for their countrytheir country might do for them...I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
@Oldest Son Of A Sailor It may take a bit of
It may take a bit of time until their quiet conversations turn toward what the country might do to them.
Until then, let them have their golf game in the sun.
The 99% are never at rest.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
He's a bad joke and the Mar-A-whatever reflects it.
It's an ugly plastic monstrosity just like him. YECK!! Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Give the man a break! The White House is under renovation
It's being brightened up with some gold leaf and new furnishings.
Also, keep in mind how difficult it is for a man of his stature to have to move into public housing that was previously occupied by a black family.
@CB The White House is likely
The White House is likely the shabbiest, shittiest home the man has ever lived in.
Bless his heart.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Presidential vacations are expensive
Fat chance that will happen.
fiscal conservatives are forgetting
Fiscal conservatives are forgetting that the President has no choice about all that expensive folderol attached to any movement (s)he may make. Those security arrangements, every one of them, are mandatory! Only Congress can reduce their cost, as it was Congress who imposed the requirements to begin with.
Were the laws in question simply changed in two ways -- permit the President, as Commander-In-Chief, to determine the appropriate level of security for any given movement; and specifically designate a "light travel" set of options for purely private travel -- and more than half of the complained-about expense would go away.
Our President is neither criminal nor prisoner (at least by law!), and (s)he should not be. (S)he enjoys the same rights of free movement the rest of us do, and should. Any expense faced because of the office is a just and rightful expense of that office, and the conservas should just STFU about its expense. Our President is the most powerful single human on the Planet, and that fact carries some expensive baggage with it -- will or nill the rest of us.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Vacation
Two weeks and it's already vacation time -- another bad move by the so called President.
Right after he was elected, someone who knew him well said
The presidency will be hard on him, "he is not used to working everyday."
Imagine the courage and fortitude it took for him to work for 2 weeks straight. If you can call scratching your signature on pieces of paper "work."
To thine own self be true.
Not a bad move.....
Not so!
I say the less "work" we get out of this "President", the better!!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I'd bet most of Drumpf's "fans" haven't taken vacation in years,
like so many Americans under the gun with unbridled capitalism's gun to their heads, yet their hero runs out of town after two weeks on the job. Most people from those parts of the country that gave him their allegiance won't take this so kindly. But they'll find excuses because it's still early.
Wonder how they'll justify this one though. Watch the RW media get into action and come to the rescue, I'm sure. To tell these folks they don't perceive what they know is true, that maybe this guys is just another sleazy, rich man playing them for pawns. You know, he's all tired out from all that signing of executive orders trying' to make 'Murica grate again. Yeah, that'll do it. It's hard work harassing all thum godless libruls trying' to ruin our way of life and disrepectin' are flag, police and soldiers, god bless 'em all. The Don, our hero, the great tv celebrity, telling' it like it is - they're all after him 'cause he's trying to bring back this country.
Celebrity worship, TV brainwashing and Worship The Rich mentality (a misguided manifestation of the purposely elusive and falsehood of the "American Dream") contribute to the inertia that keeps the duped masses from rising up against this rotten and corrupt system.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
That, and he pays for all that stuff
himself, Liberals are just lying about his expenses being paid by the taxpayer, just like they're lying about taxpayers paying for that Wall. Trump's going to pay for that himself and any other opinions on that are just fake news, as are his negative poll ratings right now - FAKE News and lying Liberals. Should any good conservative find that surprising?
snark
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Talk about entitlements, eh?
Apparently poor people have too many entitlements, and rich people don't have enough of them. Surely President Trump is entitled to live in the style to which he has become accustomed. While we the people are entitled to gaze in wonder and awe at the lavish rewards of America's free enterprise system. Oh lucky us.
native
Talk about entitlements, eh?
Apparently poor people have too many entitlements, and rich people don't have enough of them. Surely President Trump is entitled to live in the style to which he has become accustomed. While we the people are entitled to gaze in wonder and awe at the lavish rewards of America's free enterprise system. Oh lucky us.
native
As long as that seawall
is around just his mara whatthefuckever and keeps in: him, Bannon, Pence, Ryan and the rest of the cabal I'm okay w that.
Don't believe everything you think.
Judicial Watch
I won't go looking for all the press releases they wrote on Obama's travel, but I've seen a handful of them in the past year. I'll pull back my disdain if they keep a running tally on Trump vacay spending, too.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member