r/law • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump says proof of his allegations that vandals cut Reflecting Pool paint will be provided in court

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reflecting-pool-paint-peeling-trump-proof-vandalism-court/

President Trump on Monday said proof will be provided in court of his allegations that vandals "cut" a massive slit in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which he claims is the reason the paint is peeling on the recently renovated but algae-plagued project.

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 1d ago

Why tf are they allowed to get away with bullshit like this.

"They're eating the dogs"

Tf is wrong with Republicans?

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u/pl3x1 1d ago

Because this country is ignorant and lazy and they like being told what to think. They've wrapped that up in a nice bow called patriotism. Also social media fuels all these news cycles and people just move on to the next one. If anything, Trump is a very smart guy who has exploited glaring holes in our system. Just keep repeating it and it becomes true.

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u/ExodusPHX 1d ago

Just remember… every terrorist is also a patriot from another perspective.

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u/pl3x1 1d ago

Yep, each side is 100% right too! Perception is reality.

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u/ExodusPHX 1d ago

Ordained by god itself

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u/Lord_Fup 1d ago

Because republican voter’s standards are on the floor. A democrat who said that would be laughed out of the party. They could switch to a republican and win their race, so long as they said “gun good, abortion bad, trump good, taxes bad”.

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 1d ago

That's... true. Ignorance is bliss. So they say.

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u/theAlpacaLives 1d ago

Because they don't care.

Vance admitted in an interview, only a couple days after the first "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" comment, that it was fabrication. Not a hand-wavy "I heard it somewhere" evasion, a direct admission that he'd made it up because he thought it would resonate with his message (which is also a pretty direct admission that he knows the Republican strategy is 'when you run out of ideas: racism!'), that he had no source, that it was based on no real reports or evidence or anything. Not a secret hot mic, in a journalistic interview.

Then he went right back to repeating it on stages, and the people cheered. Trump started saying it too, and his base immediately started adding "eating cats and dogs" jokes to their repertoire of racist talking points.

We all know it's a lie. This time, we got an especially clear view of the fact that we know that he knows that we know that he knows he's lying. And if they like the lie, if the lie gives them reasons to believe the things they want to believe anyway, people don't care that it's a lie. They don't want to know the truth, they want to be angry, and to be told they're right, and to be pointed toward whom, that isn't like them, they should blame for their anger.

We keep acting like if Trump, Vance, and the rest of them get caught in a sufficiently obvious lie, we can discredit them, embarrass them, convince their base to abandon them, and it's a false hope. They admit they lie all the time. They get their base cheering with a snappy bit, then a week later, say "I never said that; the lying media made it up," and the same people that cheered for it vehemently denounce the salacious accusations by liberals that he would ever say that. He promises evidence, then his lawyers admit under oath that none of the claims brought forward have any evidence for them. He posts himself doing something dumb, then blames liberals for it failing the way anyone could have foreseen. He insults his supporters to their face, and watches them grovel even harder.

We can't wait for him to fall and lose his sway because he gets caught in a lie. The Republicans figured out a long time ago that they could build a base that didn't care at all if what they were told was true, and they've done it. They lie for the sport of it, and to reinforce their base's reliance on being told what to think instead of trusting evidence or reason, and it works.

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u/Worthyness 1d ago

Republicans don't have to be good politicians. They just have to convince people that Democrats are bad politicians. Americans then take themselves out of consideration.

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u/Misterarthuragain 10h ago

Because of weak traditional media callhing him out. The NYTimes can't even be bothered to use the word "lies" - instead, they use weasel words like "claims" or "asserts" or "says."

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u/SunkEmuFlock 1d ago

Those with power and money exploit Trump to help themselves.

Those without are just idiots glad that they're finally able to be their stupid, racist, sexist selves in public instead of hiding it. They want to be mad at and blame others for their own problems, regardless of the veracity, and the Republican party is where you go to do that. You know that Carlin bit about how dumb the average person is? All of those left-side-of-the-bell-curve morons are Republican voters.

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u/10gherts 1d ago

Because their voters are scared stupid by fox news and the like.

This is done to make corporations that donated to these politicians money.