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applegrove

(133,835 posts)
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 06:44 PM Jun 18

The reflection pool is a metaphor: Failure to engage experts,

The reflection pool is a metaphor.
Failure to engage experts
No examination of root causes
No bid contractors hastily chosen
No accountability

Magagop key achievements: Waste, Fraud, Abuse of our resources & reputation

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. (@zangerliberia.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T20:46:10.698Z
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Vogon_Glory

(10,430 posts)
2. To me the reflecting pool is a metaphor for this administration.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 06:48 PM
Jun 18

Accurate or not, I think of stagnant, unhealthy swamp water as being green.

The swamp wasn’t drained, but grew instead.

wnylib

(26,837 posts)
4. It's a metaphor for the nation drowning under the Trump regime.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 07:04 PM
Jun 18

Trump's hand holding the nation under slimy water.

Solly Mack

(97,448 posts)
6. Corrupt
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 07:18 PM
Jun 18
Corrupt:

1. a: to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions, b: to degrade with unsound principles or moral values

2: rot, spoil

3: to become tainted or rotten

4: to become morally debased

5: morally degenerate and perverted

6: putrid, tainted

pat_k

(14,528 posts)
7. We've achieved obscene levels of corruption with the felon and his corrupt minions.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 07:36 PM
Jun 18

The obscene corruption goes from the top to the bottom of this regime.

Levels of corruption that Warren G. Harding and the "Ohio gang" couldn't have even begun to imagine in their wildest greedy dreams.

pat_k

(14,528 posts)
11. And every member of Congress failing to demand impeachment and removal is complicit.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 07:56 PM
Jun 18

Each and every one of them has a moral duty to act in the face of crimes committed in plain sight.

And ALL of them should be pointing this out and calling on their colleagues to put their duty to the nation ahead of any bullshit rationalization for staying silent

Including the favorite of too many Democrats for too many years "can't win, don't fight."

What is happening is the moral equivalent of police turning a blind eye to serial killers committing their murders in front of the police station and captured by surveillance cameras.

Solly Mack

(97,448 posts)
12. You'll get no argument from me.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 07:59 PM
Jun 18

There isn't anything "normal" about this regime - and it is a regime and all that implies.

They must be stopped.

allegorical oracle

(6,699 posts)
13. Yep. He reminds me of a movie set -- where the "town" street is actually
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 08:28 PM
Jun 18

a series of store fronts -- no interiors -- being held upright by braces in the back. He is just a front for a whole human. He knows it, too, at some level, which is why he's constantly bragging about his brilliance and power.

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