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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

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Protest is pretty narrow understanding of the job of Congress. Protest, rubber-stamp, and fundraiser is about all they've done.

Bill, baby, “Congress making mistakes” is more than not protesting. They are active in the treason this President is visiting on us. They have dissolved into uselessness.

I'm no fan of Bill Clinton. Lest we forget, he disgraced the Whitehouse too by his own destructive indiscretions and turned any protests against Trumps' infidelity by Democrats into blatent hypocrisy, which only aided in HRCs' defeat.

Pshaw, HRC lost because Dems hobbled Bernie and pushed through the poster child for establishment politics in a decidedly anti-establishment election cycle. That’s it. That’s the reason.

That's a GREAT line. And I agree, Congress should have stopped the destruction of the Rose Garden. Sadly it's just one of the things on the lengthy list of things Congress should have stopped Trump from doing.

I mean I'm not really criticizing you so much as I'm criticizing Bill Clinton. you didn't say it. I just think Bill Clinton's pretty out of touch. also he's all over the Epstein file so I don't really think we should be listening to him anymore but like you know... Democrats gonna Democrat i guess

With republicans in Congress no longer needing to win their elections, having already chosen their voters by extreme gerrymandering, they have no desire to do the will of the People and can just F-ing do nothing.

Actually, Trump turned the Lincoln Bathroom into one Liberace would reject. It's marble from top to bottom, so if anybody ever uses it, if they don't freeze to death in the tomb-like ambiance, they're sure to slip on the slick floor and break something.

Agree, but I'm hoping for cremation and scattering in some undisclosed location. There should be absolutely nothing left of him for any toothless MAGA to turn into a shrine.

Ok I design for a living and see this all white marble look but seriously that toilet is from Home Depot and the mirror is Home Goods. He does a horrible job implementing. It’s like a casino

Trump and Melania have always tried too hard to look elegant, despite having no taste and refusing to buy actual quality, so the result is always tawdry and cheap-looking. The Beverly Hillbillies had better sense of style than any Trump.

Congress had not only their head their thumb their hands their feet their whole body up their ass! So how could they do something about Liberace's Rose Garden/Ballroom. They are nothing but a BIG ASS?

Your next president is going to have a difficult job turning that place back to normal-if they are not permanently blinded by all the tacky gold first. 👑⚜️🔱

I know it sounds like a minor point but this is what has always baffled me the most with Trump's popularity in the US. I always saw him as the ultimate hilariously tacky embarrassing brash uncle no one in the family wants to see photographed with.

And you were a hundred percent right. If I have learned anything thru this nightmare it is the shear number of Americans that are DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. My God we are a nation of disabled adults!!!!! They sit by every day watching to corruption unfold right in front of them and love him.

I view it more like a nation founded and grown on wrong premises. Its an unequal, oligarchic society, and its education system reflects that. Its unequal social structure created an underclass of uneducated people with few chances of growing out of their situation.

And Democrats should commit to restoring what was, no matter how much that historical restoration costs. The bill for that should be paid by the private billionaires who funded the destruction to pad their profits. Those billionaires would know not to refuse. The "or else" need not be said.

Me: “I think Congress made a big mistake not impeaching Bill Clinton after he decided to take advantage of an intern in the Oval Office, thus ruining any chance Gore had to win in 2000.”

Yeah, the homophobia is always ranging in libs. As long as they say “happy pride” or share an AI generated pride meme it absolves them in June.

Clinton used Liberace specifically, as an allusion to the sort of style for which Liberace, not Gay people in general, are known. Then he implied Liberace had Better taste, by comparing the Rose Garden to the entrance to a bathroom. Liberace's Rose Garden would be much classier than Felontrump's.

Ok, I totally missed that, dammit. I was taking as a separate thing, just noting Liberace’s penchant for over-the-top, tacky-chic design and costuming, not the fact that he was a beautiful gay man. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Liberace was the king of sequins and rhinestones. Clinton was saying he had gaudy, tacky tastes, not that he was gay. Believe me, you ask anyone who was around when he was alive what the most significant thing about Liberace was, basically no one is going to say their sexual orientation.

I can see where you’re coming from. I’m just seeing the rest of the replies who are now adding “male physiques” with the Liberace comment.

Sure do. Are you gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or trans? I need to know before you try to diminish the homophobic jokes made by people in the post replies. If you’re a cis gendered heterosexual, you can’t say “no one’s being homophobic.”

Are you part of the LGBTQ community? Have you had people make homophobic jokes towards you or your friends? If not, sit the fuck down. Using gay people (even dead ones) as a punchline for someone else you don’t like is homophobic in nature.

Well I'm sure glad their little country club can all laugh about it while real Americans are dying and being priced out of food and shelter

I think Dems are in for a rude awakening if they believe a new administration will drop everything to make reversing Trump's "MAGAt-fication" of D.C. their top priority. PART OF THE REASON is that Trump spent HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of taxpayers $$$ to DO IT. It would cost that much to FIX all of it.

djt & his enablers - his partners in crime - have spent decades buying the supine, amoral Congress we have now, primarily by buying the GOP (& some Dems along the way) in cities, states, agencies & law enforcement.

The right wing started taking over economics departments post WWII when folks basically understood that the state creates the currency Neoliberal economics theorizes away money You’re not supposed to talk about You supposed to do maths instead of accounting

I can’t understand why the GOP, after spending decades and billions of dollars to control Congress, just forfeited its obligations and powers all the while knowing it was leading to its own demise. Because Daddy Trump was mean online?

Congress has made many mistakes! REMEMBER that the republican controlled Congress CAN stop ALL of this madness at anytime and refuses! REMEMBER to vote every republican OUT for not doing their job!!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

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Ya. That and a few more things they should have protested. But just over half of them are spineless pieces of garbage.

I don't see any mention of Liberace's sexual orientation, just his sense of style. It's all still on display in Vegas at the Liberace Museum which looks like it was decorated personally by DJT.

That was a time when a flamboyant gay was a big hit in Las Vegas and went on all the variety shows and his gayness made him exotic. Nobody was explicit about the gayness, kind of like Lindsey Graham.

And nobody knew he was gay in the 60s. The women threw themselves at him. They just thought he was flamboyant. Heck it wasn't until the late 1970s when people began to realize Elton John was gay, some not until the 80s.

People may have missed it, but he was out (as bisexual, which he later revised) in 1976. Actually I can state from experience it was already well known among 7th grader in 1978. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is one of my favorite songs, and in retrospect, I don't see how to hear it as other than gay.

rollingstone.comElton John Comes Out as Bisexual in Rolling Stone's 1976 Cover Story"There's nothing wrong with going to bed with somebody of your own sex. I think everybody's bisexual to a certain degree,' Elton John says.

Oh, they knew. I was just a kid and had no idea, but looking back on how my parents reacted to him, of course they knew. The less flamboyant ones like male lead actors were a big surprise.

The eternal struggle of the American aesthetic: choosing between "stuffy colonial museum" and "Las Vegas residency." We can’t even agree on a vibe for the lawn.

Yes. They did. Had they done that, we might not have lost a third of the WH, so much of the WH lawns, and all the money Trump's made out of robbing us, plus the loss of those cherry trees at the municipal golf course. Those rose bushes were gifts from every state's garden clubs. They mattered.

The thing that infirtstes me is that after the election there was talk of formally getting someone like Pete B or some such to do this / the daily official statement of what was going on. Then, crickets. Dem leadership is just drifting along wringing hands.

Of all the presidents who is concerned about the White House when Clinton (Monica) and Biden (Hunter) used the White House in disgraceful manners. Also you may want to look into why this demolition is really occurring.

Congress made a mistake when they forgot they were a co-equal branch of government who's job it is to prevent the president from over stepping his authority and instead chose to become his rubber stamp.

Well. You can't protest something, after the fact, that he destroyed it before anyone knew. You bulldoze something...you can't replant what was destroyed and have it look like it did. Same with the EAST WING...DonOld didn't tell anyone the bulldozers were coming, just woke up to GONE

With the RepubliCONS in charge what would you expect? Let's hope that changes when the DEMS take over. They need to take legal action every time he tries something. And they should hold press conferences as well.

I expected a lot more from Dem leadership. Procedural tactics to slow things down in Congress, holding your caucus together in the House on important votes, stronger messaging like Murphy and Ossof.

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Trump is not forever, Mr. President. In the near future, we rebuild; we take down every memory of the Confederacy in Washington DC; we take down every memory of the beast. And we investigate, charge those who rose up against our government. Investigate, charge, and imprison them all for life.

The donald is it is. Congress should pass something along the lines that any company that does work without Congressional authorization loses their license, gets fined and will be treated as any average citizen doing federal damage. Put the burden on them.

This kind of thing is infuriating. Many of us are (& were!) kicking and screaming and doing all we can… he has influence, money, isn’t vulnerable… what did he do? And more importantly, what is he doing now to change things?

Yeah, sorry to be "that guy," but I don't find this funny. If he'd said the Oval Office looks like Liberace's home (or maybe Graceland?) it might have landed better, but this sounds forced and painfully, cluelessly homophobic in a weird and unnecessary way. Sigh.

More importantly are the Epstein files. The blatant corruption. The deaths and suffering contributed to ICE. The election interference, removal of food and Healthcare to children and elderly. The abuse and wasted resources of the DOJ to punish his "enemies." There's MORE issues EVERY SINGLE DAY.