This whole saga is what happens when you let cronyism run a construction project and then need a fall guy when it goes sideways. A no-bid contract to a Mar-a-Lago neighbor, a $2 million guess that ballooned to $16 million, a liner that peeled apart in the sun like a cheap tarp — and instead of owning any of it, the man goes looking for somebody to indict.
Here’s the thing: David Hearn is a former Olympic athlete, not the Manson Family. Jeanine Pirro stood up in front of cameras and swore this was “tremendous evidence,” and three weeks later her own office is filing paperwork admitting the contractor rushed the job and the lining failed on its own. That’s not a prosecutor changing her mind. That’s a prosecutor watching the evidence walk in the opposite direction and deciding she’d rather blame the Department of the Interior than admit she got played.
And then Trump goes on social media and says it was pure vandalism. That’s a man telling you the facts don’t matter, only the feeling does. When the President of the United States needs weasel words to disagree with his own Justice Department’s court filing, you know exactly what’s happening — somebody screwed up an expensive project, and rather than eat the cost, they went looking for a body to hang it on.
The lesson here isn’t complicated. When you surround yourself with folks who are loyal to your money and not to you, don’t be surprised when the money runs out and so does the loyalty. Pirro threw herself under the bus rather than go to trial with a case built on sand. And somewhere down the line, the taxpayer’s going to get the bill for the pool, same as we always do.
I'm embarrassed that I know this, but the original Terminator was a T-800 and had to pretend to be a human. No idea if Trump got a kickback, but at this point, nothing would surprise me.
All this pool nonsense makes me long for the return of Angel Hernandez to umpire MLB games.
The Return of the Grievous Angel (a Gram Parsons reference if I've ever typed one) would be most welcome because with the ABS system in place, we could amuse ourselves with Angel's calls being overturned several dozen times a game, thus distracting us from the shameful shenanigans and blatant corruption that we unfortunately cannot change, no matter how much we would like to.
This whole saga is what happens when you let cronyism run a construction project and then need a fall guy when it goes sideways. A no-bid contract to a Mar-a-Lago neighbor, a $2 million guess that ballooned to $16 million, a liner that peeled apart in the sun like a cheap tarp — and instead of owning any of it, the man goes looking for somebody to indict.
Here’s the thing: David Hearn is a former Olympic athlete, not the Manson Family. Jeanine Pirro stood up in front of cameras and swore this was “tremendous evidence,” and three weeks later her own office is filing paperwork admitting the contractor rushed the job and the lining failed on its own. That’s not a prosecutor changing her mind. That’s a prosecutor watching the evidence walk in the opposite direction and deciding she’d rather blame the Department of the Interior than admit she got played.
And then Trump goes on social media and says it was pure vandalism. That’s a man telling you the facts don’t matter, only the feeling does. When the President of the United States needs weasel words to disagree with his own Justice Department’s court filing, you know exactly what’s happening — somebody screwed up an expensive project, and rather than eat the cost, they went looking for a body to hang it on.
The lesson here isn’t complicated. When you surround yourself with folks who are loyal to your money and not to you, don’t be surprised when the money runs out and so does the loyalty. Pirro threw herself under the bus rather than go to trial with a case built on sand. And somewhere down the line, the taxpayer’s going to get the bill for the pool, same as we always do.
Why do robots need teeth? Also, how much of a kickback do you think Trump got from his contractor buddy?
I'm embarrassed that I know this, but the original Terminator was a T-800 and had to pretend to be a human. No idea if Trump got a kickback, but at this point, nothing would surprise me.
Bingo.
All this pool nonsense makes me long for the return of Angel Hernandez to umpire MLB games.
The Return of the Grievous Angel (a Gram Parsons reference if I've ever typed one) would be most welcome because with the ABS system in place, we could amuse ourselves with Angel's calls being overturned several dozen times a game, thus distracting us from the shameful shenanigans and blatant corruption that we unfortunately cannot change, no matter how much we would like to.
On the upside (at least for me) those shameful shenanigans make great cartoon material.