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White House officials play ignorant to bribery optics as even Republican members of Congress back away

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, and Statue of Liberty remained in ownership of the country, no one "moved it" to "personal library" for personal use, what Trump is planning to do with the jet. Are they really that stupid or think people are that stupid?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 21 points 7 months ago

Also, Congress commanded the president to accept the statue.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At this point in the game ..... it's the people who are stupid.

I'm up in Canada and we've been watching this train wreck for years. At first you blame the man ... but after a while you realize the problem is a lot deeper than that and you start to see just how stupid the overall country is.

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

He really is just a symptom, not the disease.

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly! The French gave us (The American people) the statue of Liberty. They didn't give it to one specific person, even if the then-current president was the one who accepted it.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 13 points 7 months ago

That was a gift to the country, not to the office of one man.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago

Fine, mount it on a pedestal and call it The Statue of literacy

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago