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[–] 124 points 6 hours ago (15 children)

I want every putative 2028 candidate to pledge that on January 20, 2029 he or she will sign an executive order to tear down this monstrosity

And get rid of dept of war and secretary of war titles, and revert back to lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico, and just erase any evidence that he ever existed, honestly.

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  • [–] 54 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

    What’s crazy is he was able to secure all the corporate donations for this thing, yet the poor Kennedy Center needs to be demolished because he cannot secure donations to keep it alive.

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  • [–] 65 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    For people who don't know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running.... IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump's direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.

    The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.

    Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.

    It's hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can't stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He'll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else's happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is.

    It must be done by performance art that includes horrendous odors and the kind of flashing lights that cause seizures.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    As far as I know, the Kennedy Center's donation problems didn't really start until after a judge told him they couldn't put Donald Trump's name on the building.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 hours ago

    Not quite, the Kennedy Center's problems started when he first put his name on it and replaced the board with sycophants.

    The large amount of existing donors stopped providing funds, and the team responsible for getting donors was replaced by idiots trying to use Trump's disastrous name.

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  • [–] 48 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Any corporation that donated to this administration should be nationalized or shuttered

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago

    Let's be real, they should all be broken the fuck up. Nationalizing corporations is not a still our country knows how to do well... They always pay off the owners and inevitably it ends up back in private hands. We should nationalize the rail network and Amazon, then run them at cost with fair access to power our economy. And starlink... infrastructure in general is really advantageous for so many reasons

    But the rest just need to be broken up. It's by far the best option

    Any company that has the money lying around to make a meaningful white house bribe is too damn big. China had a really good idea with their regulatory policy... You just can't let companies grow to the point their power is on the same scale as the government. They become cancerous

    Shutting them down widely would be disastrous for workers and sometimes our general quality of life, nationalizing them would be messy, expensive, and they'd end up sold off for pennies as soon as kleptocrats get back any amount of power... But if we get in the habit of trust busting, we'll instead be able to course correct whenever someone good is in power

    Bonus points if we make the split businesses worker owned and controlled, but I don't have that much hopium on hand at the moment

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  • [–] 36 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    slaps roof you can fit so many kids in this bad boy

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  • [–] 27 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    If the reflecting pool is any example of Trump, it’ll probably fall apart in 5 years or less.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

    It's a monument to Trump. A horrendous scar on America. And that's sort of why I hope it sticks around, to serve as a lesson to America. This is what happens when you squander your democracy.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    I mean, if this was a Greek tragedy, I bet people could think of some ironic circumstances for balls to be held in that building...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Or they could do a French-themed party. Trump could re-enact the Bal des Ardents with his inner circle, cronies, and all their closest friends, and entertainment provided by dancers dressed as trees, lit only by torchlight for ambience. It would be the hottest event ever held in the White House. An unforgettable extravaganza.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    My idea for the Ballsroom: "Twoface". Put up a curtain dividing the building in half, and each is in a different style: Trumpian, and pre-Trump. People who tour the building criss-cross the curtain, seeing the shitacular sensibilities of Trump, pitted against good taste.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

    This is my fist time seeing photos of the ballroom location… and I’m absolutely blown away how unbelievably tacky it looks. They could’ve put it anywhere, and they ruined the symmetry of the White House plot and couldn’t even be bothered to build in the same style?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

    Obama said it looked like the cheesecake factory. Or that trumps style was that of the cheesecake factory.

    Either way.

    Cheesecake factory.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    Said that it looks like Sadam built a cheesecake factory.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Fuck tearing it down. Turn it into a homeless shelter.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 hours ago

    The funniest poison pill the Dems could include in every bill would be to mandate that the Army Corps of Engineers go in and demolish it through any means necessary, then include it in every bill while focusing on actually good policies that are either popular or otherwise mundane but generally considered good. Doubt that'll happen, best we'll probably get is it getting leveled and the bunker gutted and rebuilt after Trump's gone but still.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 hours ago

    I noted in another article, that the new ballroom construction includes a state-of-the-art hospital. Meanwhile, Medicaid is getting cut back. Cuts for thee....

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  • [–] 10 points 6 hours ago

    What a fuckin demented rapist shit-for-brains loserdome.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 hours ago

    It's so gross

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago

    That heli pad looks like ass

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago

    How bout we turn it into a public grocery store instead?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago

    Cannot wait to see Kid Rock open it. 🤮

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  • [–] 73 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    For those who want to avoid not-twitter

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago

    Valid target for bunker busters.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Certainly bugged by the Russians and Chinese. If the USA, votes in a Democratic president or a sane one, there should be another vote asking the public WTF to do with the shit built by the MAGA fucknuts. Send a wrecking ball through his shit or keep it.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    I TOTALLY trust the contractors hired for this monstrosity to have the most secure blueprints/design, and the tightest controls on one of the most secure building the US has. Wait, who hired them? Oh fuck..

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    I think the tech broligarchs have convinced Dump that he can live forever if he makes sure they keep getting moar funding and data centers so AI can find the secret immortality sauce or make AI robots and upload their minds to them, or whatever the hell it is they believe they're going to do. So now he's got this giant bunker and full hospital and god knows what else in there where he's planning to live for the foreseeable future.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I predict this whole thing will end with a constitutional amendment requiring homeowners associations in every neighborhood.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

    his style is so brutalist, doesnt look good at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    He's sending a message. Telling us he intends to have his family rule us for a long time.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    That is fucking ugly I can't even...

    Shit needs to be torn down immediately and that dumb MFer needs to pay for the entire overhaul of the WH. Actually the place needs to be bulldozed because you aren't ever getting the stench out.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    The place is being built with absolute attention to detail. I'm sure it will last at least as long as his modifications to the reflecting pool.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 child)

    Dear Democrats: I’m not voting for any presidential candidate that doesnt have a “dismantling this and his other shit” policy in their platform. This and Gaza are litmus tests for me and I’m not being petty.

    It’s not that the stupid building is important. It isn’t. But I think that it’s an easy, fast, and direct rebuke of a president and administration that needs to be comprehensively torn out of what we consider acceptable. If a candidate can’t prioritize this kind of easy symbolism, I can’t trust them on anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    It would be awesome if the article actually included the picture in the headline

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