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kentuck

(116,015 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:39 AM Yesterday

Incompetence will always catch up to you.

For example, when you hire one of your flunkies to paint the Reflection Pool around the Lincoln Monument and it turns into a debacle for the whole world to see. Obviously not a professional job.

And when your ego demands that you put your name on the JFK Memorial and Arts Center and it turns out to be a very bad decision and your name has to be removed.

Not only is it embarrassing but it is expensive. It costs the taxpayers money to fix the incompetence.

As when you put tariffs on fruits and vegetables and never consider how it might affect the average person when they go to the grocery store. It is incompetence.

As when you start a war in the Middle East, not realizing that your bombs will lead to attacks upon your allies in the area, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, that is necessary for the oil supply to operate freely, and the price of gasoline goes up and you have created a crisis in the oil reserves getting dangerously low. Another example of incompetence.

As when you decide to tear down half of the White House, the entire East Wing, without consultation with Congress or anyone, except your demolition crew, it is dangerous incompetence. Then after you tell the taxpayers that it will cost them nothing, they learn the price tag is in the hundreds of millions, or perhaps a billion dollars, to replace the historic building with a gaudy ballroom nobody wants.

The American people cannot afford much more of this incompetence.

Because it is arrogant incompetence. Only you can fix it. You are the only expert the world needs.

What next?

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Midnight Writer

(25,979 posts)
1. Ideally, incompetence should catch up with a person BEFORE he becomes a billionaire President of the United States.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:51 AM
Yesterday

We need to review the whole "checks and balances" thing.

kentuck

(116,015 posts)
3. Because incompetent people tend to be weak-minded...
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 12:00 PM
Yesterday

..and are easy marks for every liar ever born.

dave99

(499 posts)
5. Yup, IRS had to be made a rock. Hire 30,000 auditors
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 12:14 PM
Yesterday

remove EVERY loophole corporate and personal

make every lying corporate and person pay the services they use without a thought.

get the word UNITED back in action

underpants

(197,768 posts)
4. Lest we forget Trump's colossally STUPID water release in California in Feb. 2025
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 12:13 PM
Yesterday

The fires in California. The reservoir is north of Los Angeles on a map so it must be downhill right???
This was unbelievably stupid.


2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump’s order to open dams

The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California.

Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, “the water is flowing in California,” and adding the water was “heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.”

There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.

But Los Angeles’ water sources are completely separated from the water system that Lake Kaweah and Lake Success supply. That water system flows into the agriculture-heavy Central Valley — where large farms grow nuts, citrus and grasses for animal feed, among other crops. The water-stressed region is heavily reliant on groundwater and winter precipitation stored in state reservoirs to irrigate crops.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs

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