It's a vacation. He's taking a vacation to a resort. Taxpayers are paying for it. Trump whined about Obama taking too many vacations, and Trump is on pace to spend far more than Obama did. And yes, it is an excuse, whether you want to admit it, or not. He's taking tons of vacations, and the taxpayers are forced to pay for it. You are trying to rationalize it, because he's your guy. Someone cannot claim to be a fiscal conservative, and support bullshit like this. Remember when the GOP used to have standards? Sad!
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Presidents do not get weekends off that's part of the job description, no president in US history has ever taken this many vacations or "weekends off". The fact that you are defending this outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars means you would defend him against anything.
7th weekend off in what...12 weeks?
I've had precisely zero vacation days all year, outside of 1-2 federal holidays so far. And weekends. But guess what? I didn't spend a year campaigning for a job where I don't get weekends off.
If Trump can't handle the job without vacations almost every weekend, he needs to step down. Simple as that. He needs to toughen the fuck up and put his nose to the grindstone, not cowardly run away to his safe space resort all the time.
You are directly trying to excuse this behavior.
He puts his name on everything he owns in giant gold letters. Everything he builds is basically solid gold or painted gold. He's the king of nepotism and narcissism. His vacations have now officially cost the US taxpayers more than Obama's vacations throughout his entire presidency.
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For all the whining Trumpkins did about Obama being wasteful and not doing his job, I'm having a good laugh at all the excuses for Trump taking a vacation every single week.
"It's not okay when Obama does it but there are REASONS for Trump!"
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Comparing ISIS to Westboro is a bit like comparing AQ to Regular christians in terms of how fucking terrible they are, and considering a not insignificant chunk of rebels at this point are at least AQ affiliated, or being led around by them in offensives, still kind of lends towards there being a fuck ton more..... problem people
Being rich is not an ideology. Wealth is power and you cannot complain when scrutiny is brought to power. Mo money, mo problems...
For religion, it's not really those who are against religion to blame. Those who blame ISIS on all Muslims, what do they often point at? At those ISIS claiming to be representative of muslims? Is it calling all muslims to join them? That should sound familiar, because those who argue against gay marriage in the name of Christianity are doing the same. WBC also claims to be the true version of Christianity and those who will not join will burn in hell. The problem and what largely happens, is the intent of blaming religion. People will defend their faith, even when ones vision does not align with the one being scrutinized. The person who claims it's their Christian Right to stop marriage are just as bad as those who want to stop it for religious reasons. The world wold be far more habitable, if people had the balls to say 'I' instead of 'my religion'...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Regardless of what the purpose of the visits are, it's an absolutely egregious fucking waste of tax payer dollars for him to be gallivanting back and forth at a whim like this and the residents and business in the area don't appreciate it either. He's the President, whether he likes it or not so I'm sure there's someone there keeping him on task to do his job so I won't go there (how well he's doing it is another discussion and not one I care to take part in) but at this point he's spent upwards of $3 million dollars per trip (exact numbers aren't available, but estimates range from 1-3 million per trip) of tax payer dollars and this is after he called Obama a habitual vacationer when Trump at this point shows that he's spent almost twice as many days away from the White House than Obama did during this same time frame so now he's a hypocrite too.
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I don't hate the rich, I hate the entitled, haughty, smug arrogance that comes along with it on many occasions. I hate anyone with that kind of attitude, but in my experience it usually is accompanied by a larger than normal bank account.