• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, but it’s not excessive.

      That’s 21.7 weeks. If he went golfing on the weekend, then he still golfed less than 2 times per week.

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        13 days ago

        Est. cost to taxpayers for golf since returning to office: $51,800,000

        Perhaps you would not mind paying his golf bill then.

        Edit to add: this is roughly $340,789 per day of golfing. Or over 21 years worth of pretax income for someone making minimum wages… for 1 day of golf. Meaning at minimum wages it would take you 3,200+ years to pay for what trump has golfed so far this term. Provided you only put the entirety of your paycheck to that bill.

      • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
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        13 days ago

        He actually said at his most recent press conference that he’s upset because he hasn’t been golfing for the last three weeks.

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        13 days ago

        There is a calendar on the site showing which days he was confirmed to have been golfing. There are many on the weekends, but not all, which means “work week” time was spent golfing.

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          13 days ago

          Eight days so far during ‘work week’ time. If he was going on his own dime, this wouldn’t be worth talking about.

          It just makes a better talking point to say ‘he’s golfed 37 days out of 152’ despite it not being about how he’s using his weekends (assuming we hold government to the same 5 on 2 off standard as most of us have) when it’s really about how much it’s costing.

          A better headline would be ‘President spends income tax of 20,000 Americans on personal entertainment’.

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            13 days ago

            Agreed, but the person I’m responding to made a point about weeks vs. weekends.

            • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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              13 days ago

              Yes I suppose, just like anything, a nuance here would be whether or not we expect a person of such political authority to be able to have weekends at all.

              On one hand, they’re still a person working a job and no one should be working 365 days a year On the other, the societal cost, in terms of income tax covering travel and security costs, of having a President that travels every weekend is a bit much.

              If the President was only golfing on the weekends, and wasn’t charging the government to golf at his own clubs, then this whole thing of him taking leisure every weekend would be a harder thing to argue against without getting into that whole administration work life balance discussion.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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    14 days ago

    Look at that 275lb (320?) bag of piss wrapped up in a cheap looking 10k suit shitting his pants. Nubby little fingers. Weird nubby mushroom member (this is from a a legal deposition)

    Clearly demented and so insecure he can’t even ask for help.

    Dude is in over his head.

    The stress is gonna kill him. He knows it that’s why he’s not working.

    He is not looking healthy

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      14 days ago

      If he’s angry, he doesn’t look that bad. If he’s just listening, he doesn’t look great, almost deflated looking.

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        14 days ago

        If he’s just pretending* to listen

        Ftfy. Everyone knows he never listens.

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      13 days ago

      I hope you’re right, but I think like Putin he lives on pure motivated hatred and spite.

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    Incentivize it, you living malediction. Expand healthcare to allow more hours, increase overtime pay, make it easier to start a business, personally turn a few billionaires into pulp within a massive stadium housing solely seats, cameras, screens, a long spool of rope, and a single woodchipper. Frankly, these aren’t big asks.

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    14 days ago

    Given how worker production increasing over time and pay for said production have not stood in line with each other I think I’d rather not.

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    14 days ago

    Frankly, I’d really rather that the Irish Star not encourage him to be spending more time making policy.

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall! ❌👑@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    meh, I did the quiet quit thing a long time ago. not working harder without a nice raise. I’m urging Americans to work less. go on! take that day off! you can do it!

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      13 days ago

      I keep seeing Ed’s site posted everywhere and we need to promote the HELL out of him!!! It seems he is the only person actually making sense today. I send his articles to everyone I know and urge them to read it.

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      13 days ago

      With the amount he plays golf, you’d think he’d be better at it, but apparently he’s a chronic cheat at that as well.

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    13 days ago

    This monster feeds on media attention. Let’s all stop relating every stupid things he says and focus on basically anything else, it will always be more positive.

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    13 days ago

    The other 78% he reneges on nuclear agreements in place since a decade and threatens war on the behalf of a country that starts with I, probably the Ivory Coast, or maybe Iceland, to blow up another country that starts with I, maybe Italy.

    Maybe he sees all these Is and thinks “Yeah, I’m awesome.”