Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing
@hasek_dominik If Putler was to fall out a window, the world could proceed to the next chapter quickly. There would be no need for the expense and anguish of listening to his arrogant, chauvinist, delusional BS from the Hague.
@CanRevAgency@JamieGolombek Despite improvement claims in CRA press releases, they have never been SO SLOW in processing some adjustment requests and simple objections (which they frequently characterize as "complex.") Often over a year, hanging over people's heads.
Free, democratic countries had no contingency plan for dealing with ruSSia. There is still no realistic, effective plan. It is overdue and needed NOW, with or without the US.
โผ๏ธ KYIV IS UNDER MASSIVE ATTACK! Probably one of the worst it has ever experienced. Moscow is deliberately targeting civilians and high-rise residential buildings.
โผ๏ธ KYIV IS UNDER MASSIVE ATTACK! Probably one of the worst it has ever experienced. Moscow is deliberately targeting civilians and high-rise residential buildings.
Free, democratic countries had no contingency plan for dealing with ruSSia. There is still no realistic, effective plan. It is overdue and needed NOW, with or without the US.
These genocidal fuckers must finally be stopped. Europe MUST step in and fight WITH Ukraine to defeat these monsters. Not only do we have legal qnd moral obligations to do so, but it is in our security interest to. Today Kyiv, tomorrow Warsaw, Berlin, Paris. That's how this goes.
@JayinKyiv@anneapplebaum Ukraine - don't deal away the intellectual property that is your sovereignty ace. Besides, those slime buckets will screw you. That scum should be in jail.
They want Ukraine's permission to hold their parade - so they can safely walk onto the square for an hour once a year, and then go back to killing our people and waging war.
Nothing to add.