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Wow. There's a part of me that feels sad, because any empty event is a weird empty liminal space. There's a much larger part of me that says who did you make this for and maybe that's why.
Pride parades have been hugely attended. Interesting what happens when everyone feels welcome and accepted.
Then also, I had never heard about this until after it started. Where was the marketing team for this? Heard more about the redneck brawl-ma-geddon bs than I heard about this.
There was a fair planned with bipatrisan support by Smithsonian. Trump pulled it and gave money to his friends and you got this.
He transferred the amounts which had been set aside for the other event to this one. Except clearly this event didn't cost the $126million which was earmarked for this. So he pocketed at least $100million of those taxpayer funds for himself.
Honestly, good. Wouldn't want the Smithsonian putting on an actually good event during this shitshow of an administration. What you see here is far more representative of the state the country is currently in.
Happy 250th, ya filthy animal!
yeah that tracks with exactly how it ended up