Full Report: From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday.
Today, House Natural Resources Committee released a new 55-page report following months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country’s 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny.
Hey look, he’s doing that thing you all already knew he was doing!
This sternly worded letter will certainly do him in this time.
Gosh, why are all these do nothing Democrats getting defeated by DSA candidates in primaries?
A 30 year incumbent in Colorado was just defeated by a 29 year old socialist and the race wasn’t even close.
This is literally an article about Democrats doing something.
This is an expose into how Trump made the 250th celebration about himself.
Truly the pressing issue of the times. /s
It is documenting a crime Trump committed. There will come a time where Trump and his cronies are not in power and having this proof will be useful in prosecution.
I really hope that’s true. But fascists don’t give up power when their military is obedient and loyal to them. I don’t wish the path to that justice to be paved with the blood of thousands. But, history is not filled with ruling class wilfully giving up their power in situations like we find ourselves.
Unfortunately, we either get a “go high” liberal presidency that just leads us farther into a white supremacist Tucker Carlson 2032. Or, we actually elect a socialist in 2028 and the current fascist refuse to accept the results.
The later is still the better option. Because if we get another “reach across the aisle” liberal that tries to renormalize the Republican party and doesn’t bring real justice. Well, we’ll go to a place in this country we’ll never come back from.
The right is going to call whoever the Democrat candidate may be a socialist regardless. I am fully convinced that the administration is going to use the supposedly “fraudulent” midterms as an excuse to block the 2028 elections entirely. I think it is likely that Trump will be pushed out after the midterms to set up for 10 years of Vance. With luck Rubio and others will try to steal the top spot from Vance and the whole thing will tear itself apart.
I share your worry that the next Dem administration will fail to prosecute enough of Trump’s cronies. They have enough money and influence to drag such a fight out for decades. We need to go full nuclear from day one and take the whole administration down for conspiracy to commit treason.
Yep. And trials for all war criminals (Democrat and Republican) for support of the genocide in Gaza, attack on Iran, and genocide in Lebanon.
Yes, but it’s good that they’re documenting it and releasing it to the public.
Because the public is going to do what?
Oh fuck off with that. It’s called transparency. If they didn’t release the report then you’d be all like “wHy ArEn’T tHeY rElEaSiNg It?!?!1?1!1!?”
I wouldn’t. I never demanded the release of the epstein files, I skipped ahead to demanding something be done about whatever is in the epstein files. Still waiting on that. What is the goddamn plan for holding them accountable? Just letting us know isn’t doing anything. What good is transparency without action?
As soon as someone who’s not a member of Epstein & Associates is in charge of the various departments and branches of the government, then maybe someone can do something about it.
For now they’re limited in what they can do, but creating a report and making it public is one thing that is within their power. Faulting them for doing that is kinda strange.
What I’m faulting is the entire system that allowed criminals to be in power without any accountability and I’m faulting people who think transparency somehow fixes the issue. Transparency is worthless until something is actually done about it. It’s like announcing to the world that Ted Bundy is an active serial killer but nothing being done to prosecute him
Yes, we know, the system is flawed. If “transparency” is as worthless as you claim, then so is “faulting the entire system,” which is what you say you’re doing. Not sure how you can apply your logic consistently and come to different conclusions for those two things.
Transparency alone doesn’t fix the issue, no. And no one is claiming it does. But the issue will be much harder to fix without transparency. No transparency makes accountability nearly impossible. And right now, while anyone with an interest in fixing the issue is powerless to do so, transparency is a bare minimum that they can at least try to meet. And that’s what they’re doing.
So no, I don’t think transparency is worthless. It’s necessary. Not sufficient, but necessary no less.
If Ted Bundy controlled all the police in the nation either directly or through influence and loyalty, then congress tracking his crimes and making the reports available to the public would be better than doing nothing about it.
Isn’t the point of alerting the public so something can be done about it? I’m demanding g something actually be done! That’s what started this conversation, me asking what the public will DO about it! They’re alerting the public so they can do what? So the public can demand action? That’s what I’m doing!