Lex Anteinternet: The Vandals.: American democracy has several great weaknesses, the primary one being that Americans believe that we have a "two party system". W...
The direct vandalism today was done by a Washington area demolition company that's been business for over 80 years.
Not too surprisingly, nobody had really taken much note in them until today, but apparently today they received it to their surprise, in spades.
What to make of that?
Well, people are really angry.
They probably shouldn't have taken the job, but then, things shouldn't be taken out on them either.
Genuinely surprised is Donald Trump and his administration, which is trying to downplay the entire event.
The Trump illegitimate regime is losing popularity, and this likely won't help. Trump has always had abysmal approval ratings and its getting worse. Still, there's a year to go until the midterm elections and the GOP is hard at work trying to gerrymander their way into surviving them. If they don't, much of this will come go a screeching halt in January, 2027.
That's a long ways off.
When it comes, Trump needs to be held to account. Some of this appears to be illegal. Trump today has claimed he's entitled to $230,000,000 from the DOJ for being investigated. Here he's acting without legal authority, maybe, to the tune of $250,000,000. He should be sued for damages.
And this monstrosity will come down. The question is how rapidly. It would be best if it came down following January 2027, but it's more likely that it will be at the beginning of the next President's term. Chance are this giant garden shed won't even be all up by then.
Chances are also good that Trump will have died of old age, or be so demented by that time as to have no idea what's going on. People hoping for Trump to suffer retribution for his actions are going to be disappointed. He's already advancing into senility and will be quite far gone by the second half of his term, if he doesn't expire prior to that time.
The people who will have to suffer damage to their reputations will be people like Thune, Barrasso, and Johnson. That process is well under way.
Having been attached to this will be a stink that will not wash off for some, however. The architect in particular, who has done fine work in the past, will not look good. Donors like Google and Lockheed are going to have a lot of explaining to do as well. The utter corruption of the Corporate Capitalist system has been fully exposed, but that will be very hard to address.
