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Does anyone know what the MAGA crowd thinks of this? Do they even know that this is what is happening with all the money doge is "saving"? I mean obviously it's not just this, but in general all of these rich assholes just treating the government like their personal piggy bank?
They don't care. They like the DOGE stuff because they believe he is targeting left-wing people and projects in the government, they don't care about the money at all.
You can never pin them down on hypocrisy because they just don't care. There is no light behind their eyes.
"He's just working so hard! He should be allowed to unwind!" - magats.
To be fair most presidents have worked hard, for better or for worse, so they do deserve some R&R. Not putins bitch though
For fuck's sake he's doing the exact same fucking thingS he did the first goddamn time. We had a website to track it. Damn news needs to stop acting like this shit is new.
Edit: Good lord I forgot an S and apparently ruined someone's day...
For fuck’s sake he’s doing the exact same fucking thing he did the first goddamn time. We had a website to track it. Damn news needs to stop acting like this shit is new.
I think this is the first, or maybe second, article I've seen about Trump golfing since Jan 20. I don't think they're acting like it's new, they're just reporting on how much hit has already cost us.
I'm talking about all the crap he's doing, not just golf.
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you meant just the golf. If you think everything else is "the exact same fucking thing he did the first goddamn time," then you either have a really shitty memory, or you are not paying attention.
No, I'm pretty damn sure I'm accurately recalling previous events. Seems it's your memory that's shitty. Piss off with the attitude.
Yes, he's doing many of the things he did last time. Also, it's worth mentioning that there degrees, and everything on that list has been ramped up by at least 10x. Or are you not paying attention to the unelected billionaire that's gutting our federal workforce?
In addition to so much more, far worse, things. Do you really need me to enumerate them for you?
How about putting an alcoholic Fox News host in charge of the DoD. And having a podcast host with no military or intelligence experience as the Deputy Director of the FBI? Or a billionare wrestling corporation owner's wife with no educational experience tasked with literally dismantling and eliminating the Dept. of Education entirely? Or how about putting RFK Jr., an antivax moron who looks like the most unhealthy human on the planet, in charge of Health and Human Services (who btw is already fanning the flames of a measles outbreak by literally disseminating dangerous disinformation to parents that Vitamin A is a good replacement for the measles vaccine).
Should I go on?'
Last time he at least had some people in his cabinet that were interested in maintaining the status quo for the most part. That is completely gone now. There is no voice of reason.
Even if I was just talking about golf my initial statement was accurate based on this article and other articles that have been published. Not sure who shit in your Cheerios but it seems you came into the comments looking to start shit.
I'm done. You have a blessed day.
Take a step back and see that the other person was totally civil in trying to make their point. You guys more than likely agree, you just took their clarification of your statement as hostility when you shouldn't have.
Not sure how telling me I was wrong counts as clarification, but okay. I'm done with this.
Hey it's all good my dude. We all get what you're saying and I think you both ultimately agree that things are shit. The rest is just semantics!
You said it was exactly the same. That's just wrong. It's so much worse, and we need to be talking about this.
That's why I'm speaking to you the way that I am. I don't know if you live in the US, but this is extremely important for me, as I do. And when someone comes in and says, "this is the exact same thing he did last time, why is the media reporting on it," then I feel compelled to shut that down.
It's not the same, and the media needs to be reporting on it.
and says, "this is the exact same thing he did last time, why is the media reporting on it,"
They said "why is the media pretending this was new", not "Why are they reporting on this".
These are very different statements. You are suggesting they said the media shouldn't bother reporting on it. What they actually said was that it should be pointed out that there are many repeats, and shouldn't be treated as though its happening for the first time.
I think that is the root of the misunderstanding here.
Gross for anyone to abuse tax money like this, but the guy is literally a criminal responsible for the deaths of innocent people he was tasked to govern as well as a traitor to the United States in the truest sense of the definition. The juxtaposition of this golf shit for someone that should be hanging at the end of a rope is infuriating.
When is Zeus going to look down and strike this man with lightning.
Knowing what I do about Zues, he'd probably turn himself into a female pig and let trump impregant him. Give birth to the bastard and then just fast track the abomination to hades.
You won the internet for the day.
But Obama wore a brown suit and ate Dijon mustard.
Simpler times.
I ask the Divine, please bring a thunderbolt from a clear sky as he lifts his golf club. May it be, and the people will rejoice
The president, who derided Barack Obama for golfing while in office, even makes money off his Mar-a-Lago weekends
Donald J Hypocrite.
It's so awesome to have a president who doesn't just stop at being corrupt, but actually adds extra layers of corruption on top of the original ones.
He's like the Monty Python spam skit - "Corruption, corruption, corruption, corruption, corruption, corruption, fascism, and corruption."
It is an exact repeat of Trump's first term as far as golf goes.
Trump also complained about how many executive orders prior presidents wrote...
Americans to doge...
I know the answer to this but you’d think after almost getting merked twice (and once at his own golf course), he’d play on the secure courses at the Joint Base Andrews for a bit.
Obviously, that ruins the grift of charging the government for accommodations but he’s already or is planning to fire >100k people. Even if 0.01% of those people are unstable, that’s still a double digit number of lone wolves for the secret service to constantly worry about. (Not to mention all the intelligence agencies and terrorist groups currently pissed at him.)
Keep the golf trips, just get rid of Musk and Doge.
They all need to go.
Maga will never care and will always justify or rationalize it in the most idiotic ways.
For a lot of things, they've just stopped even bothering with the pretext. They don't even try to justify or rationalize anymore.
I don't know how you reason with that.
Then it's a GOOD THING we DEFUNDED Children's School Lunches! NOW we can afford Golf Trips!
That’s just the beginning of what he makes us pay for.
It's almost as if he's only in it for the grift...
I read the title as "golf tips", thinking he had sold millions of pamphlets that just said to pick up the ball when no one is looking and move it.
This is the least bad thing he has done though. Why are there so many news stories about it?
Probably because this time around they focused on government waste. Spending tens of millions of golfing trips, that's just going to continue throughout his presidency, seems pretty wasteful.
Because I want my tax money going to worthwhile shit.
People on here love to talk about what "they" will think or not think.
This has nothing to do with some other and their perception. This is about me and my tax dollars and how they're used.
Trump isn't only bad for our standing in the world, he's wasting our money.
Yes but he's wasting your money much much worse in most other ways.
And...?
that's bad
Doesn't mean its not still bad.