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When A Con Man and His Party Control the White House
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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THE BURDON OF PROOF IS ON THE ONE MAKING THE CLAIM! You should have included the link in the first place. And I DID do research, where do you think the entire edit came from? Are those points covered in the Washington Post piece? I don't know because it's behind a pay wall and I'm not paying to verify a friggin meme on the Internet. According to the research I did, there simply is no line item that refers to White House Maintenance. It has to be derived by culminating a number of other allocations to come up with that answer because yes, other construction projects have been done there. They just weren't funded the same way. So you wind up getting apples and oranges.
MORE CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE! Do you bitch about every Political Memes post that lacks footnotes? That must keep you very, very busy, professor. It's hilarious that you first complain about no sources and when one is provided you then expect to be given a WA Post subscription so you can verify (and undoubtedly complain about) every word.
Why are the people who never post anything the same people who want to police what everyone else posts?
I want sources because I use them in arguments against people who support the crap that's happening. So yeah, I'm going to bitch when someone posts something I'm interested in without one, but instead puts the burden on every single reader who also wants to prevent the spread of misinformation.
And no I don't expect someone to give me a subscription to WAPO to verify the article. That's just you throwing around yet more hyperbole. And I'm pretty sure you know the vast majority of lemmings are not going to try to get around a pay wall, just to verify a post that already supports their opinion.
Also, get bent!
What a truly enormous ego you have there, professor. Only a raging narcissist would end an error-ridden comment with "You're welcome". Even so, responding to you at all was a bit foolish on my part. You started out mildly entertaining but quickly progressed to boring, pretty typical for someone making demands of random people on the Internet.
Ultimately I don't give a shit about your insults, your capitalized demands, or anything else you have to say. I'll continue to post exactly as I please, and you can continue to whine bitterly every time you see a post on Lemmy that doesn't meet your standards.
You know, the really silly thing is, we probably align closely in our political beliefs.
While I would like you to include legitimate sources in your posts, I certainly don't think bickering with you on Lemmy will actually change things, so...yeah, pretty much expected.