Wow. This presidency in one picture.

[kpete]

(Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters)



Air Force One departs Las Vegas past the broken windows on the Mandalay Bay hotel. (Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters)

Link to tweet

[dhol82]

1. Wow. Reminds me of 9/11

I still see those planes flying into the buildings.
I know this is not the same but it just captures the disaster that is this presidency.

[anneboleyn]

6. I felt that same eerie feeling when I first saw the broken windows with the curtains flapping.

Chris Matthews said the same thought on his show today about the broken windows. It is really eerie isn't it? That photo of the plane is extraordinary.

[dhol82]

7. +1

Glad I’m not the only one.

[question everything]

26. +2 (nt)

[Sugar Smack]

36. You're definitely not.

That was my first thought, too.

[alfredo]

19. the window reminded me when I was sitting at a cab stand in Detroit.

I noticed a crowd gathering across the street behind a parked car. Up about 8 floors, a window was open, the light was on showing the orange walls, the white curtains were blowing out the open window. I didn't go over to see the dead woman, I didn't need that. The open window was enough to tell as tragic story.

[dalton99a]

2. Great photo.

[Crash2Parties]

3. What? Like Puerto Rico, the photo op was over. gone. forgotten...

[brush]

8. He spent like 4, maybe 5 hours in PR and has now washed his hands of it. Done.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. He got his photo op, forced people to say how wonderful he was, and threw paper towels at survivors

What do you expect from a president? Understanding, support and compassion? Silly rabbit.

[George II]

22. I don't even think it was that long. When is he going to attend a memorial service....

...like our President Obama did several times?

[bdamomma]

32. the negligence

of Puerto Rico will come back to bite his ass. Karma.

[democratisphere]

4. Photo ops complete.

Now back to create more chaos.

[kentuck]

5. That is a foreboding sign of the disaster that awaits.

I shiver to think what it might be?

[yodermon]

9. Why are there 2 broken windows?

sorry, haven't been following every nuance of the story

[panader0]

10. That's where the shooter was.

He shot them out to shoot at the crowd.

[cwydro]

11. The shooter had two gun platforms set up.

A large suite.

[yodermon]

12. Oh ok, sizable suite. Didn't realize he had 2 setups.

Thanks that answered my question

[cwydro]

13. I heard that from CNN, so take it as that.

I assume it's true, but I think more will come out as the days go by.

[Jim Lane]

27. I didn't realize it was that big a suite.

I wonder what Mandalay Bay will do with it now. It's hard to see the hotel just repairing the damage and returning to business as usual, with other guests staying in that suite, but permanently retiring a large luxury suite would be a financial hit.

[zipplewrath]

30. Sick and twisted

As sick and twisted as it is, they could probably turn it into a tourist destination. I suspect what they will do is to remodel it and turn it into two rooms or something. Probably wait a while though.

[Jim Lane]

34. I can't see that being profitable.

Let's assume that the hotel management is strictly from commercial and that "sick and twisted" wouldn't bother them at all. The problem is that making it a tourist destination would mean admitting hordes of non-guests to the hotel and letting them tramp up and down that corridor to see the suite. Word would get around and nobody else would want to stay on that floor, rendering the whole floor (or at least that wing of it) useless.

Your idea of remodeling makes sense. I also agree that, whatever they do, they'll wait a while.

[tblue37]

14. One was to shoot at the crowd. From the other he shot at tanks full of aviation

fuel, but fortunately his bullets didn't pierce the tanks. But as soon as they can, the Reps will pass a law allowing armor piercing bullets, so the next time the killer can get the massive explosion he wants.

[Javaman]

15. I have a better one...

[keithbvadu2]

17. Trump:::::::: "Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."

When Trump accepted the GOP nomination:

"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said. "Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/politics/republican-convention-highlights-day-four/index.html

[Caliman73]

24. Yeah, let me run that through the White GOP translator for you...

"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said. "Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."


Translation: "I am going to go hard after Black people, Latinos, and Muslims. I am going to gentrify their neighborhoods so you White people can feel comfortable again."

[bdamomma]

33. ................

liar,

[Grassy Knoll]

18. Freepers: I Don't Get It...?

...The Rest Of America: We Know!!!

[Hekate]

20. What a chilling photo

[GoCubsGo]

31. And, utterly nauseating.

Consider who is riding in Air Force One. And, who make their home in the White House. I want to vomit every time I think of it.

[ffr]

21. And this Pic of the day completes it

"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th, 2017, SAFETY WILL BE RESTORED" - Dotard



https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017460000

[NJCher]

23. it resonates because

the windows are broken, and that's how Trump leaves everything. Two broken marriages. His corporations have filed for bankruptcy four times--some people say six.


Cher

[L. Coyote]

25. The quicker fucker upper.

[WinkyDink]

28. Genius!

[WinkyDink]

29. Symbolic of the two worst Presidents ever.

[Gothmog]

35. Yep