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First sitting president to ever waste his time going to the fucking super bowl.
He's going to Daytona or whatever too. The guy is a complete goldbrick.
I mean, Presidents have been going to sporting events practically since they were invented. The Seventh Inning Stretch came out of Calvin Coolidge showing up incredibly late to a baseball game. It's crazy for someone who needs the security detail of a President to get into and out of a location as insecure as stadium box seats. But that's more a logistical hurdle than a cultural one.
Its the genocide I object to. Its the concentration camps on the border and the bombs dropped across the Middle East. Its the gutting of health care and mass transit and financial regulations I find disconcerting. Going to the Super Bowl is the least bad thing Trump's done since taking office.
It's the hypocrisy that's being pointed out here. We are being flooded with hypocrisy and dishonesty. Your priorities are of course in order, but we shouldn't become numb to the hypocrisy that was the hallmark of tyrannical monarchs.
It’s also the costs, those little trips cost tens of millions extra to pull off, while they’re presumably carrying about waste and fraud.
I think the worst part is the raping.
I miss Norm
The point is that this guy is the asshole at your job talking shit all day about how nobody else is working when they're never fucking working. That's what the story is pointing at.
I can -- and do -- hate the guy for other reasons, but he's a fucking goldbricker pretending that nobody else is doing their job.