Their site currently claims to be under construction. Or have they been demolished?!
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It's interesting how quickly & fervorously people will defend private capital from the smallest of infractions.
In this case it's just bad reviews, a form of peaceful public protest, the company will still earn a lot of profit.
Worst case is other customers might not want a gov contractor.
But yeah, "companies must do anything for max profit" is a systemic religion.
I don't know why anyone treats that as a defense of companies. Sounds more like a problem statement than acceptable reasoning.
Even shareholders are hurt by the mindless drive to maximize profit because they still have to live in a world where everyone is trying to make the most for the least.
I wonder if Trump will just stiff them like he did when he was in real estate.
I just can't imagine him being ok with paying contractors for work.
It's not his money.
Oh, Trump will pay them, with donations from his rich pals and most likely public money. Wherever the money comes from, it won't be from his pocket.
You don't really believe he'll put a cent of his own money into that boondoggle do you?
If he's gotten away with stiffing contractors he's gotta stiff demolition people. What are they gonna do? Rebuild it? Forclose the rubble?
Lol, their site's "down."
Google gave 20 million to the project.
I'd imagine those reviews won't stay up very long then....
*youtube did because of an unrelated lawsuit they settled.
Not sure if it was settled by paying the money spwcifically for the building? Thats weird, I would assume goes to trump and he'll use it for the building. Idk weird.
I mean... I hate what Trump is doing as much as the next guy, but review-bombing the demo company for doing proper demo? That's just stupid. It's the equivalent of a child throwing itself down on the floor of the supermarket, yelling, and stomping feet - it achieves nothing, but makes life harder for everybody.
If they're a good demo company and someone needs demolition done, they won't find them, because they took a job... Stupid.
And in this sense it's good that Google is killing the obvious review-bombs.
Are they doing a proper demo? You are supposed to need plans submitted before beginning renovations like this and those plans have not been submitted. These seem like the guys you call when you need someone who doesn't care about following rules.
If they took on a historical and cultural demolition without having the correct authority (which they didn’t because we know none of that demolition has been approved by relevant agencies.
I didn't know they didn't have the necessary paperwork. Still...
Donny’s say so is NOT enough, although I can see that it’d be hard to decline the POTUS)
That's the problem right there. Normally, POTUS wouldn't make that request without appropriate paperwork being done. Normally, they could say "no" when paperwork was missing. But right now, the US is so much beyond "normal", that I don't blame them for taking on the job. Who knows what went down there? It's all insanity all the way to the top, so might as well they've been strong-armed into doing this, threatened with ICE raids and what not.
I agree with the rest of what you wrote in principle, but look at it this way: if a soldier disobeys an illegal order, the soldier is being put on trial and that's that. If the demo company's owner refuses a job, and the insane POTUS goes after them, it's not just the owner whose livelihood is on the line - their family now loses their source of income. The families of those employed there lose their source of income, etc., etc.
If this was any civilised country, where people get social security and healthcare, I would agree with you 100%. But since it's the US, these people losing their jobs might mean even full on bankruptcy and homelessness.
I agree that they shouldn't have done the demo if the paperwork was not in place, but I fully understand why they did it.
And I still think that - unless we see something like that directly from the CEO of that company - calling them "fascist" or "supporters of fascists" is some fundamentalist insanity on par with the Taliban.
When I hire contractors, if they are good at the job is the first thing I check. Then, if they are fascist sympathizers is the second thing i check. I want to know and google is stopping my from knowing.
It doesn’t make life harder for everyone. It makes life harder for the people who took a job for a fascist. Perhaps they should not have done that.
Yeah, it'll look just great when it's done though. Really fit in with the aesthetic.

They call a peaceful protest nation wide the "Hate America" rally after paving over the rose garden with checks notes concrete, and are now literally destroying the white house.
Got it.
I love the sentiment, but Trump's sycophants will simply contact Google and all those negative reviews will disappear.
Edit: They're already doing it
The company’s rating dropped at one point to 1.8 stars, until Google revised it to 4.1.
Google is complicit
If trump would give a shit, which he doesnt
Removing review bombs is automated. This happens every single time a business gets negative attention. And every single time people still do it anyways.
you could make a meme out of it that just keeps echoing through the internet like the whole Four Seasons thing.
Canadians: We'll do it for free like back in the old days.
Looks like Google already removed all of them.
Run by a republican donor, I bet. And whoever builds the new structure will also be one.
company name change incoming
Wikipedia has an entire list of corporate donors for the new ballroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wing#2025_demolition
I don't see the list. Just that this company is the contractor for the new Epstein Ballroom.
Soo..crypto scams and scammers, Amazon, Comcast, and palantir. just some of the worst folks around.
Canada would have done it free of charge, just like Canada did in 1812.
Canada didn't do anything in 1812. It was the British army. Canada didn't even exist until 1867.
Sounds like a fun alternative to the movie Red Dawn, where Canadians overtake America.
All the negative reviews have already been removed by google. They currently have only 4 reviews.
Of course it did. Google is a fascist collaborator. Just like all the other Big Tech companies.
That's the very definition of Fascism: it comes from the world "fasces", which is Latin for "bundles", describing industry and the state working together in cahoots.
I have this strong mental image of MAGAts hearing about this and hiring these guys to knock down the houses they live in to own the libs. I mean they already voted in a rapist conman who was guaranteed to sink the economy to do the same, I'm wondering if there is any limit to the masochism they will indulge in to hurt other people.
They should never be allowed to work in the industry again.
When the regime falls, it is my hope that they and companies like them are put in front of a judge to explain why they agreed to help the fascists destroy the nation and its treasures.
Lol that was a good laugh! Thinking capitalists will punish their own. Peter Thiel raking in government contracts after admitting openly he is hostile to the state and wants to destroy America shows you how fucked we are.
They won't. I don't think any corporation was ever punished for helping the Nazis. Whether they are fuel and energy providers or information technology providers or bankers. The Swiss absolutely hid a shitload of money for the Nazis and no Swiss banker ever got in trouble (the legendary privacy policies of the Swiss banking system were forged during WW2). Without IBM's punchcard readers and technology the holocaust would not have been nearly as effective. That technology allowed them to catalog and document where their would-be victims were and how many and allowed them to moved to the camps or shot on sight.
Ah yeah you got him, Americans, really showed him. Oooo bad reviews I’m sure he’ll be shivering in his sheets.
Honestly this is all such a distraction. Whitehouse has been extended and rebuilt before. Should he have gotten permission? Yes. But is anyone surprised he didnt?
Release the epstein files.
You think the Epstein files are the important thing being distracted from? You honestly believe anything would change if they were released?
They are the real distraction at this point.
No.
Always point out that every republican representative is actively and aggressively supporting people who put their 50 year old penises in 14 year old girls and/or boys.
That's what they mean by "family values".
Doesn't mean they shouldn't be released.
Edit: not sure if that's your point but it seems to be the implication of your statement.
Assignment understood. Done.
Lib discourse is so wild.
Let's be clear: taking action like boycotts or whatever against companies collaborating with fascists is 100% appropriate and valid. But there's so many companies that are complicit in much worse ways than bulldozing the White House. Why should I even give a shit about the White House? How about instead we pressure corporations that are involved in manufacturing weapons and bombs for the regime? Or companies that provide it with data, surveillance, and technical support? You know, the companies that give the admistration material power over people?
By all means, knock yourself out doing this, I'm just confused why everyone is so invested in the White House. But if I had to guess, I'd say it's because it's a way of reaffirming loyalty to the state while criticizing it, making the criticism safely toothless. Me, I'd just say that all he did was save us the trouble of knocking it down ourselves.
Libs dont have a coherent moral or political worldview. They are preoccupied with aesthetics and decorum. It is why the libs will not be involved in material change for the better. They simply lack the imagination or will.
EDIT: I worry that people are taking that I am on the side of the Trump admin. I am to the left of the democrats and that is the basis for my disappointment and criticism.
Why protesting against the company? Protest against the president who ordered such a thing
What???
Of course you protest against people collaborating with fascists. Next you say people shouldnt protest against ICE because they are just following the presidents orders...
At what level do you collaborate with fascists? ICE carries out unlawful orders with extreme brutality and should be protested against. A construction company is just a construction company. At this point let's list all the companies working for any federal agency, including cleaning services and gardening because they collaborate with fascists. Come on.
Yes. Unironically boycott anyone that directly does Trumps bidding. Cleaning the building is something that people were already doing before the Trump regime. Wrecking the white house is NOT something that was done before and is a change directly ordered by Trump.
"I'm not at fault, all I did was build Auschwitz!" Yes this is taken to absurdity, but the point is still there. You can't do bad things and then expect not to be held to account for those decisions, just because it was a job you were getting paid for.
It is a construction company, working on a building. This is not even remotely comparable.
Its just a construction company, working for a guy that wants to build shower rooms with gas canisters and ovens that fit bodies...
Both are just workers that are getting paid for a job that was ordered.
Even worse than ICE, private capital has direct gain (profit) from this.
Getting paid to fix a building and getting paid to murder someone are not even remotely comparable things. Unless "can get stuff with other stuff" is the level we go to, at which point any argument is useless to begin with. This is like someone talking about trees = bad because someone else said the order to murder someone. (Both are using language to convey information, there is no deeper connection)
That is way the response OP posted isn't even remotely comparable to the response if this demolition crew would be executing ICE detainees.
At every point in your life you choose who & what to support.
I think bitching about where you get your money is a very valid point overall.
This is the same Google that renamed "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America" in all their maps just to suck up to Trump. Trump couldn't get away with half the sh*t he does if he didn't have these companies constantly blowing him.
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