They don’t have to pay taxes…YET.

Sounds like a coincidence.

/s

You know, the really silly thing is, we probably align closely in our political beliefs.

While I would like you to include legitimate sources in your posts, I certainly don’t think bickering with you on Lemmy will actually change things, so…yeah, pretty much expected.

I want sources because I use them in arguments against people who support the crap that’s happening. So yeah, I’m going to bitch when someone posts something I’m interested in without one, but instead puts the burden on every single reader who also wants to prevent the spread of misinformation.

And no I don’t expect someone to give me a subscription to WAPO to verify the article. That’s just you throwing around yet more hyperbole. And I’m pretty sure you know the vast majority of lemmings are not going to try to get around a pay wall, just to verify a post that already supports their opinion.

Also, get bent!

Your user name checks out.

Actually, no I’m not. I guess you struggle with reading comprehension.

Probably be seeing you in your own video soon.

THE BURDON OF PROOF IS ON THE ONE MAKING THE CLAIM! You should have included the link in the first place. And I DID do research, where do you think the entire edit came from? Are those points covered in the Washington Post piece? I don’t know because it’s behind a pay wall and I’m not paying to verify a friggin meme on the Internet. According to the research I did, there simply is no line item that refers to White House Maintenance. It has to be derived by culminating a number of other allocations to come up with that answer because yes, other construction projects have been done there. They just weren’t funded the same way. So you wind up getting apples and oranges.

I know it’s a meme but I really wish they would quote sources. Now I have to look it up. The burden is on the one making the claim.

EDIT: Ok, I looked it up and it seems like BS. It may be true and would be easy to believe but White House maintenance is not a line item that is broken out. The amount spent is divided into many different buckets appropriated by Congress (probably on purpose) and is difficult if not impossible to determine. The term maintenance would need to be uniformly defined. Does it include secret service infrastructure, for instance? There have been a number of instances that have exceed $2.5M. It also seems pretty clear that Trump’s “maintenance” budget is the highest ever. But Bush and Obama both spent hundreds of millions of dollars to essentially reinforce the aging structure.

You’re welcome.

I never said she was a sweet woman. I said mental illness MAY have been the cause of her abusive nature. And you don’t know it isn’t any more than I do, you stupid assclown.

Yeah, I stopped watching videos of Karen’s because, while I’m sure some are merely overprivileged, a lot of them come across as genuinely mentally ill.

She could have been sick. She WAS 75.