Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged

• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People keep trying to attribute planning to what can be much more plausibly explained by idiocy. Trump is not “strategically” dozing the rose garden to distract from the real news, he’s just a tasteless brutish moron.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People keep trying to attribute maliciousness to stupidity as well. Mostly because it’s easier to dismiss stupidity than argue against it.

    He’s shortsighted, narcissistic, and petty. But he doesn’t do things just to prove how much of a big idiot he is. Dismissing everything he does as “idiocy” just gives him more leash to piss on everyone from.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t say those two things are mutually exclusive, Trump is dumber than shit and also a raging malicious bastard. The Nazis were both malicious as hell and stupid as fuck.

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      • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would argue that malice is born from stupidity.

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren’t idiots.
    It’s either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s the gish gallop of news: do as much bullshit as possible so nothing can be effectively blocked or countered.

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• digdilem@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Exactly. Yet another truly awful something is about to happen that’ll get buried under his new patio.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Which reminds me, you may want to have a close look at that BBB.

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