Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
  • FundMECFS@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    15·
    11 days ago

    Reminder that the government is spending ridiculous money like this to accommodate the absurd whims of the elite while disabled homeless people are starving to death in droves.

  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 days ago

    I’m a regular kayaker. This makes zero sense. The Ohio is huuuuge. There’s nothing to be gained by raising a river so large in a kayak other than the flex of doing it.

    We’re not talking about some of the shallower rivers with rapids that you might bottom out on in sections during dry spells. This is a deep, wide river.

    • relativestranger@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      it wasn’t the ohio river, it was the lake in caesar creek state park, which feeds into the nearby little miami ~ 50 miles north of cincy and the ohio.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    This is the bourgeoisie in all its glory : seizing the common goods, grabbing nature by the pussy as if it were its god given right.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    That can’t have been cheap. Or good for the lake, otherwise surely it would always be like that?

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    11 days ago

    Trump is way out of his depth. I fear for him dying though because of Vance waiting in the wings.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Trump is a “once in a generation” level of grifter, much like Putin, Orban or Berlusconi in their respective countries. They somehow resonate with their population deeply, and they exploit this to grab and keep power.

      Vance is just a run-of-the-mill second line fascist backed by some rich dudes, plenty to go around in every country. They (luckily) lack the charisma to pull votes in the necessary orders of magnitude to win an election.

      I doubt most MAGA fans would follow Vance, the GOP would definitely start infighting after Trump’s death.

    • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      They’re going to hit him with a poison dart soon , russia style . They got everything they needed out of that bozo

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      My hope is that Vance doesn’t have the cult leader charisma to keep this maga shit together, and a power vacuum causes it to crumble.

      • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        They’ve been planning vance as president from the start .

        They’re going to get rid of trump and invoke his name and image to get the worshipers to go along with whatever Pete , jd and whatever other gang of assholes that are waiting in the wings want done.