• Generalaccount210@lemmy.zip
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    I used to think the ballroom wouldn’t be too bad, but now it’s bigger than the freaking White House and looks hideous, and the taxpayers are paying for half of it now. The ballroom is absurd and I don’t support this whatsoever

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      I dunno, we still can’t get the smell of syrup out after the last time y’all visited

      Wait what am I saying I fucking love syrup

  • Harissa_Beans@lemmy.world
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    There’s definitely other legislative issues to handle first, but the next democratic president needs to spend a chunk of their early days undoing all the cosmetic damage trump has done to our shit.

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    The next president will not be able to live in the building.

    1. Donny probably shit all over the place and it will have to be gutted and fumigated.

    2. It’s wired directly to our enemies.

    3. They hired budget contractors so they could skim as much as possible off the top at every level of construction.

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        Regarding #2, The White House is absolutely compromised. You don’t think Putin and Mossad have agents in the construction crews or staff? It’s known that Trump routinely bypasses security checks. He’s actually bragged about his “efficiency”. Kushner’s phone was compromised for months. Regarding#3, Trump has been stealing from his construction projects and businesses his entire adult life. How else do you bankrupt two casinos during the height of their popularity and before online gambling became legal? It’s been well-reported he frequently avoids paying his maintenance and construction crews. It’s because he’s stealing. Regarding #1, I was joking, but seriously— would you comfortably use the furniture or bathrooms knowing he just shits himself anytime he feels like it? That place is riddled with microscopic feces.

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        I think 1 is a not-implausible joke, and 2 represents a whole spectrum of real risks even if that’s not exactly how they’d do it.

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    The minute he’s out, they should rip out this monstrosity, and replace it with an exact replica of the original East Wing. And Trump should have to pay for ALL of it, the original destruction, all the construction, the new destruction, and the rebuild.

    He won’t need the money any more anyway, he’ll be in prison, along with anyone who would have inherited it. It’s our money now.

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      They should make a tiny model of the ballroom first. Out of like, Lincoln logs or something, and you can pay to knock it over yourself. Gets rebuilt every day by, idk, the irs?

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      The only thing that’s allowed it to move forward is that the Court has essentially said that only congress has standing to sue over it.

      Congress is changing in a few weeks, and they should sue over it.

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    The whole ballroom thing does not matter at all and the article is just random tweets and the tweets are shit like:

    The fact that a felonious madman who incited an attack on our Capitol could turn around a few years later and desecrate the White House like this, will forever be one of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known.

    “One of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known?” Are you fucking kidding me? It’s a fucking building.

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      I find it more shameful that the US has killed 38 million people in the last 50 years by enforcing economic sanctions that block access to food, medicine, and resources.

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    Let’s just repair the whitehouse and forget about that stupid ballroom. Send the repair bill to trump tower “Home of the Golden Escalator”.

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    ‘His interior and architectural preferences lean heavily into Gilded Age excess, marble, polished glass, and gold fixtures-an aesthetic critics and analysts describe as “dictator chic” or grand-scale intimidation.’ New York Times