Full Report: From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday.
Today, House Natural Resources Committee released a new 55-page report following months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country’s 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny.
Oh fuck off with that. It’s called transparency. If they didn’t release the report then you’d be all like “wHy ArEn’T tHeY rElEaSiNg It?!?!1?1!1!?”
I wouldn’t. I never demanded the release of the epstein files, I skipped ahead to demanding something be done about whatever is in the epstein files. Still waiting on that. What is the goddamn plan for holding them accountable? Just letting us know isn’t doing anything. What good is transparency without action?
As soon as someone who’s not a member of Epstein & Associates is in charge of the various departments and branches of the government, then maybe someone can do something about it.
For now they’re limited in what they can do, but creating a report and making it public is one thing that is within their power. Faulting them for doing that is kinda strange.
What I’m faulting is the entire system that allowed criminals to be in power without any accountability and I’m faulting people who think transparency somehow fixes the issue. Transparency is worthless until something is actually done about it. It’s like announcing to the world that Ted Bundy is an active serial killer but nothing being done to prosecute him
Yes, we know, the system is flawed. If “transparency” is as worthless as you claim, then so is “faulting the entire system,” which is what you say you’re doing. Not sure how you can apply your logic consistently and come to different conclusions for those two things.
Transparency alone doesn’t fix the issue, no. And no one is claiming it does. But the issue will be much harder to fix without transparency. No transparency makes accountability nearly impossible. And right now, while anyone with an interest in fixing the issue is powerless to do so, transparency is a bare minimum that they can at least try to meet. And that’s what they’re doing.
So no, I don’t think transparency is worthless. It’s necessary. Not sufficient, but necessary no less.
If Ted Bundy controlled all the police in the nation either directly or through influence and loyalty, then congress tracking his crimes and making the reports available to the public would be better than doing nothing about it.
Isn’t the point of alerting the public so something can be done about it? I’m demanding g something actually be done! That’s what started this conversation, me asking what the public will DO about it! They’re alerting the public so they can do what? So the public can demand action? That’s what I’m doing!