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I live on capitol hill and often walk down the mall for my daily exercise. I don’t really follow the new so I had no idea the “state” fare was going on. What I did see was heavily armed guards and fences in a normally open area with loads of tourists specifically not going to the fare.
I think the armed national guard scared them off. Anyways, here’s a photo of the B2 that flew over that day. Image
FYI
A “fare” is a price you pay to go somewhere, for example a bus fare
A “fair” is an event with vendors and attractions and such.
You might have to pay a fare to enter the fair.
Although classifying anything this administration is doing as some kind of price we have to pay does feel kind of appropriate.
What’s a pale girl called, when she’s at the fair?
I was down there for work two weeks back on an annual visit and thought I’d go see the sludge pool. The whole area for blocks around was chain link and military in squads if 3-5. Sirens from every 3rd vehicle through every intersection through the night. You’d think he’d already been shot and the city was locked down. Crazy times.
The Northrop-Grumman B-2 Doomerang.
The D.C. Botanical Gardens are absolutely stunning and worth a visit, even if you miss the short window for smelling the incredibly wretched stench of the aptly named Corpse Flower.
Highly recommend a trip.
I was there without any idea that there was a special botanical event. Just wanted to see some plants.
That corpse flower is HUGE! The different tools is it bloomed 48 hours before we got there and that the smell lasted 12 hours or less. We were lucky to catch it in its three days of bloom, especially since apparently that plane was blooming for the first time after 18 years.
We have that as well in Germany.
Called “Titanenwurz” in german which translates to ‘giant plant/root’
And it’s a “common” (not just a single garden) attraction in various botanical gardens here
They’re the ones driving past the mutilated White House on their day to day. The reminders of his awfulness likely hits harder for them because they get the full visual on his lack of respect for American things.
It really sucks to see the national guard everywhere, huge trump portraits hanging from buildings, and marching white supremacists.
huge trump portraits hanging from buildings
Erdoğan replaced what used to be pictures of Atatürk, the universally respected founder of Turkey with pictures of himself in even the most secular cities in turkey.
And this prick is stooping down to that level. Disgusting
huge trump portraits hanging from buildings
That’s so Stalin of him.
Looking forward to seeing those burn.
Where I’m at they are declaring war on minority owned businesses like parading around with guns and threatening to arrest people for shopping.
That’s how much of a failure he is.
Weird thing to say about someone who became president of the USA, twice. He’s a liar, cruel, sociopath, conman… the list goes on. But failure isn’t one of that.
The Peter Principle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
He will go down in history as the greatest embarrassment and corrupt president ever. Failing spectacularly is still failing.
Didn’t know Peter Principle applied to elected politicians.
Anyway, it says, ‘people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence"’.
Would you say Donald Trump was competent before becoming a president?
you can succeed in achieving your goals and still fail. that’s not success, that’s life.
getting elected only means you ar good at winning elections, not necessarily being good at the job that the election lands you
He’s doing pretty well by the standards of Heritage Foundation.
I guess it depends on the definition? If he set out to scam a bunch of money from his supporters, become King Of the Racists, and rape children with Epstein, then yeah; he succeeded.
But he’s nearing the end of his natural life and he clearly failed to find joy. He failed to be loyal to his country. He failed to show empathy, and experience the happiness that goes along with it. He failed to be human, and now he’s almost gone…
I’m just glad that people can only be described in binary terms. Wouldn’t it be awful if they could be described in two different ways at the same time?!?! I’m so glad the world is so simple.
I think I just heard George Takei say “oh my” off in the distance. Did anyone else hear that?
if your german based and want a variant of such a plant, dm me. i will send you seeds in autumn. they propagate quite fast, and i don’t want to throw them away.
i have not yet seen the phase where it blooms (and stinks) and i have them about four to five years…
Edible you say?
at least once…
haven’t tried yet. fearing the day it will eventually bloom…
Heh heh, phallus.
I like how that was paraphrased.
We love when this community is just US politics. Yes you elected a bad leader, we get it. Choose better next time.
plenty of other world leaders that are equally as embarrassing you could post yourself. but no, you be complicit in their corruption and just bemoan others actions.
Why would I be posting any world leaders on a science memes community?
I don’t know what bumping uglies means, and I’m scared to ask…
Sex.
le sexo.
switcheroo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That was beautiful. 🥹