Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
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The govemment is shut down, people can't afford groceries, benefits are on hold, the military is not getting paid.. and this asshole is building a $250 million baIIroom.
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A golden ballroom.
And it is "modernizing" things, too! Like every other asshole on this planet, Taco has learned that saying meaningless words like "modern" stops at least a certain set of people from asking more questions or having any more independent thoughts about the thing under discussion. I mean, because, gee, you don't want to question something that is MODERN, now, do you?
Don't think about it too hard [1], because: "modern".
</Jedi mind trick>
I see this tactic employed on the job nearly every day - I work in tech, so the word "modern" is usually sprinkled in abundance all over completely bullshit and harebrained schemes, plots, claims and projects. Because so many vapid thinkers abound all throughout tech, and we have a steady influx of people that barely have any experience who now rely on Youtube influencers for their gurus, this tactic works a depressingly high amount of the time. Increasingly over time, tech operates more like the fashion industry (but instead of following whatever someone likes in NYC, London, Paris or Milan it's about following whatever FAANG, or someone that supposedly works/worked at FAANG has said) than it does anything resembling real engineering... But I digress. :)
[1] I mean, definitely don't think about how the term "ballroom" really invokes, for most people, maybe flappers in the 1920s, and that's probably the most recent of references? 1700s Europe comes to mind...
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I work in tech, so the word "modern" is usually sprinkled in abundance all over completely bullshit and harebrained schemes
I see many similar words used without evidence or justification.
- Agile
- Sustainable
- Efficient
- Future proof
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That’s so well put. I’m thinking of finishing my electrical engineering degree just so I can get out of the increasingly strange web app industry
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Mr. Trump had pledged that the East Wing would not be touched by the construction
And he lied. Again.
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Add it to the endless list...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
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“This article may be too long” lmao
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New Yorkers know he has done shit like this before
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Jfc here I thought Trump had grown into being a dick. Turns out he was always a dick.
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He's been a full-blown asshole for decades. Probably his whole life.
Also, his taste in everything is just so...chintzy. I mean it's literally the gaudiest shit.
I remember people adoring him in the 80s, and even in Peak 80s money-grabbing yuppie hype with everyone thinking the surface glitz of Miami Vice and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (and Less Than Zero, and Secret of My Success, and and and) was what you were supposed to aspire to....anything associated with Trump that I saw looked like total dogshit.
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Good photo.
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This is such good imagery for the state of... everything.
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Carl Jung would cream his jeans if he saw this in context with, well everything else.
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The symbolism of this is astonishingly perfect.
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Honestly I was thinking the same thing.
The only thing that would make this a chef's kiss is that they accidentally bulldoze the oval while they are doing a press conference in it.
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IMO, nowhere near the top 100 shittiest things he's done (like, this act of vandalism is a way smaller crime than the murders we've been doing to people on boats in the Caribbean), but it is shitty (I know most of our presidents have sucked and the white house was built by slave labor, but tearing it down isn't going to undo any of that, it's just going to make history harder to understand for people in the future)
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Not disagreeing with the sentiment in general, but the East Wing that's being "renovated" was built in 1902 so no chattel slavery there.
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they probably watched this music video and took the white house in the background literally
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My house was built in 1902 overlooking our state capitol which was also under construction. Prison labor was used to dig the foundations, there was already a prison on that site. Guess what color everyone in that prison was.
Also in the 1910s my great grandmother had a black girl her own age who dressed her, cooked for her, etc but didn't go to school. My great grandmother said they were "like sisters." I'm like, damn grandma, you had yourself a functional slave.
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Changes course? I bet this asshole planned on doing this the whole time. Wasn't this stupid ballroom not even supposed to actually touch the WH originally?
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he conveniently announced during charlie kirks aftermath
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It's about Hitler having a better bunker/operations center this time:
The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a secure emergency underground shelter for the president.
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Ah. That makes a bit more sense.
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Should just keep going and tear the whole thing down. Don't think we need it anymore.
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I would not trust it, after his handlers passage, the place will be more bugged than an ant hill.
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I am surprised the Orange Turd did not just level the White House in total.
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He still has 3.25 years and then probably his next illegitimate term.
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Tear it halfway down, pause construction due to government shutdown, declare Mar-a-Lago "Presidential Estate", collect rental fees from the government...
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There's still time.
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Give it a minute.
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He will eventually, it will replicate one of Putins palaces, or sadams palaces. with gold plated everything, which he is obsessed with.
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I mean that would actually be cool
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Of course he would but the company and workers doing the work should also not escape blame.
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just demolish the whole thing at this point.
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Shit, I bit the apple! As in, my first thought was, "haha, funny headline, The Onion!"
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Nukes. Europe will never liberate us. We have nukes. And drone strikes. Raiding the shore of the USA would be an act of war, and the response to a nation-ending threat like that fr a nation with nukes is Mutually Assured Destruction.
I'll also note that the whole world right now is trending towards Fascism; So support for a War with the USA is unlikely. Wars always suck; and there's a good portion of every European nation who would want the USA to win, who could leverage the impact of war to breed discontent.
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Well, the people in charge of maintaining the nukes are all furloughed indefinitely so pretty soon the nuclear threat of the USA will be similar to that of Russia.
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As soon as the republicans finish consolidating their power in the US they will turn outward, maybe Canada,maybe mexico but Europe is not out of reach, flexing the military muscle, using the Russian playbook of propaganda and dissent they could easily create puppet governments... already the right wing parties are influencing the EU to drop regulations on chemical and other industries
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You’d think they’d need congressional approval and like a long time of back and forth of people agreeing on stuff.
Nah. Trump treats it like his own house.
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At this point we should move the presidential mansion outside DC and make DC a state.
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We don’t even need to go there, they demolish it themselves.
A convicted felon is literally destroying the White House. And half this country approves.
I don't approve of it, but I don't really care if he tears it down. Actually, I think the whole White House should be torn down, preferably with Trump and all his friends inside it.
What I oppose is him using tax dollars for this ballroom that none of his subjects will ever be allowed to use or get utility from. Plus the literally everything else he's ever done 😆
To be fair, in the pursuit of accuracy, they have said it's all private funding taking care of it with some coming from strongarm lawsuits. I think that's easy to verify with receipts, no details released yet. The honourable thing to have done would be to fund government paychecks with that money, and that would probably be a good move politically, but obviously not happening.
I would like the peasantry to just tear through that ballroom and take all the valuables. After all, it is our money.
Presidents don't have "subjects".
Right? The way people are complaining about this happening just sounds weird to me.
Yeah, but didja see how he owned the libz? I might not have clean air, clean water, health care, food, shelter, or a job with dignity, but I get to fly some Chinese junk with Taco's name on it!
Well, their SNAP and Medicaid haven’t been cut yet.
They know they'll be an emergency. They will want command and control at that point.