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[–] 95 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I hope the next President makes two changes to the WH:

  1. Restore the previous incarnation of the East Wing, but with a plaque listing all the people and companies that supposedly paid for it, labeled "In remembrance of these individuals that bribed the President."

  2. Leave the paved-over Rose Garden, and rename it to the Donald J. Trump Memorial Concrete Slab.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

    I'm with you on 1.
    But can't on 2.
    Everything he did to the White House needs to be reversed.
    Then also to the rest of the country.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Plus eradicate his name from everything. Remove "Trump" from any building his family owns. Redact his names from donations and fundraisers, anonymize them. Basically remove him from history. Undo anything he did and make sure people cannot even know something was undone.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    leave his name on the public toilet that his grave will become at least

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The US could pay off the national debt by charging admission to use that toilet!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    we could probably lift the slab and put it someplace. like his library, maybe. Or one of his golf courses.

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  • [–] 85 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    Great, let's tear down a well-preserved historic building in pristine condition for no absolute reason at all!

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Might as well go back to the 1812 method of renovating at this point.
    Probably less insulting to the concept of the USA than whatever the fuck this is.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly, the white house is a living structure. Its been constantly renovated as long as its stood in order to meet the changing needs of running a country. Its what happens with most old structures, additions get made, more damaged or outdated sections get replaced, and ultimately the structure changes over time.

    It also makes for some brilliant imagery of what Trump is doing to the country and he knows it. He's both literally and figuratively tearing down and replacing the seat of power, in ways that will be technically difficult, expensive and time consuming to restore or replace. And like any structure that gets a poorly conceived modification, his changes to the country won't be torn down and reverted to their earlier state, they'll most likely be dressed up, the most egregious flaws will be reworked, and some of Trumps changes will remain for a long time without update. Ideally all of Trumps changes will be torn down and a completely new structure will replace them, but that's ambitious, expensive and disruptive, plus if the wrong architect does so the entire structure can be far worse than it started.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    The east wing was built in like 1902. It's historic but it's not super duper old and was rebuilt in the 40s to hide a bunker under it.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Still is historic and well-preserved.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Aside from 80 years of constant renovation sure.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Honestly my biggest issue with this is that it seems to be a pretty clear sign (in addition to the other blatantly obvious signs like various public comments, selling Trump 2028 gear on his website, etc) that he has no intention of ever leaving the White House, term limits be damned. He's just not the type of person to do major work like that if he's expecting to move out and no longer be able to enjoy it himself in a few years.

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  • [–] 145 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    Man... Seriously! Fuck this guy. I hope when the Epstein files finally get released he fucking burns

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  • [–] 116 points 1 year ago (32 children)

    He led an insurrection on live TV, got away with it, and got reelected. Nothing is going to happen until the propaganda machine is torn down; or, more likely, the whole system just caves in on itself under the weight of its own greed and mismanagement.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (30 children)

    I’d say the evangelical base won’t appreciate sex with teens but… given their track record they’ll probably say well actually sex with teens is just a-ok with us now

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (25 children)

    Christians are decrying Jesus Christ as "too woke" now. All bets are off

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (23 children)

    At that point you can't even call yourself a Christian

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (22 children)

    And yet they will continue to do so

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago* (21 children)

    God will judge them

    Matthew 7:21-23

    [21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (18 children)

    God does not exist, and will not be judging anyone

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  • [+] -5 points 11 months ago (18 children)
  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    I’m not a big fan of your book about imaginary friends that tell you what to do

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  • [–] -5 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    If only truth was so easy to dismiss so we can follow our own selfish desires...

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    truth

    If your definition of truth includes religious texts in any capacity other than, perhaps, a very dated take on philosophy, then that’s a point we are simply not going to agree on.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    What do you mean by "dated take" - does right or wrong change with time?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What would you say: is buying slaves from the nations that surround me still right, did god instruct people to do wrong or did right and wrong change?

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    God never instructed people to buy slaves. Concessions were once made to an adulterous nation because of their hardened hearts.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    If you want to say that god made concessions to man go ahead. He still instructed them in how to hold chattel slaves and implied that they could do so ruthlessly, only restricting them from doing so to eachother.

    Leviticus 25:44-46

    44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yes. Yes it does. The bounds of what society considers acceptable or reprehensible changes with time, location, and culture.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck you and fuck this take. Theists don't have a monopoly on the capacity to be charitable and a positive influence.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    But we do on rational charitability. You know what's right and what's wrong. You can believe in good and evil without believing in the same God who put it there. Just how someone can also believe the summer is especially warm without believing in man-made climate change.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    If there was a just god, it would hate people like you, that's for sure.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    And why's that? Because you hate me and you are always right?

    If there was a god who was perfectly just and nothing else, wouldn't he hate all of us?

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  • No, because you’re a sanctimonious asshole who thinks they’re automatically better than other people because of a belief that you have. A belief, I should add, that would be wildly different had you been born in, say, Cairo of Hangzhou or Bangkok, or any number of other cities with religious traditions outside of Christianity.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'd have said the Evangelical base wouldn't appreciate him having sex with porn stars either, but here we are

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Or the groping, adultery, several divorces and remarriage, platforming kenneth copeland or flip flopping between being pro and anti abortion. Or him preaching works-based salvation recently.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    They're already influencing the idea with Megan Kelly. It's amazing to me how they've moved the goalposts so far that the general populace are now becoming apologists for so many things they once vehemently condemned. I'm not talking politicians who are projecting. I'm talking regular folks that are allowing outside influence to convince them that abuse is ok. I was raised by bigots. I was taught inequality and mistrust as a child. Thankfully it was never outright hatred, but it could have easily gone there. But pedophilia, that was the vilest of vile, the atrocity that could not stand. Now those same family members would be of the group to most likely defend this, were they alive today.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    They're already priming this pump with Megyn Kelly questioning "well if the kids had started puberty, was it really pedophilia". There's a shocking amount that are also being led either to "well what if the child consents" and the more common "children shouldn't have any rights at all so it's effectively a property crime".

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  • [–] 68 points 11 months ago

    He also doesn’t have to murder Venezuelan fishers, shoot/kidnap/torture Americans and our guests, rob the poor and deprive them of medical care and food to pay his wealthy loyalists, or rape children.

    He does it because he wants to.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    So, quick question: what exactly does he need a ballroom for? It's not like he's any good at dancing, even though he is somewhat famous for his double-handed cock milker move. Exhibit A

    What's more, he doesn't have any balls, either. Certainly not the kind that would require a dedicated room. Exhibit B

    I really don't get these brain farts of his. But hey, I'm not the one with syphilis-induced dementia here.

    God, I can't wait until you guys finally muster the courage to oust this wannabe dictator and his clique.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    His entire life has been based around his perception of what people above him think of him. That's why he plastered the oval office with garish gold leaf everywhere. He thinks it will impress people like putin and erdoğan and kim . Even more so,he's showing that he has the power to spend the people's money lavishly on stuff the country doesn't want nor need, because that's what dictators do.

    That's what this is for

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    You missed another thing he loves doing. He smashed an historical building in the early '70s in NYC during the starting of his "real estate" career. He smashed an historical building while other people were offering to pay to have the historical artifacts properly recovered. His excuse at the time? "It would have been too expensive." Meanwhile he knew it would have been free to him, it just would have taken 6-8 months later for him to break ground.

    He's continued desecrating any historical site he can get his hands on, to this day.

    He gets off on destroying historical monuments.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    He smashed an historical building

    This immediately made me read your comment in a strong French accent

    (At least in my dialect, word-initial h's are pronounced as a consonant. That means it would be "a historical" instead of "an")

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Not even that long. According to "John Baron", it was 2 weeks.

    Trump surprised New York’s art community on June 5, 1980 when a demolition crew jackhammered the sculptures off of the building. In addition, the intricate grillwork was removed. The destruction drew a public outcry. The Met received no advance notice.

    Trump initially avoided any comment about the Bonwit Teller artwork. But John Baron, a spokesperson with the Trump Organization, contacted the New York Daily News to discuss the situation. Baron informed the Daily News that “the merit of the stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.” Baron stated that the removal process could have set back Trump Tower’s construction timeline by two weeks. Baron also told the New York Times that he had no idea what happened to the ornate grillwork.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Because it is not so much a ball room as it is a throne room. He wants a giant hall where he can preside at a throne in the end, where people who wants to see him has to walk through the entire thing feeling humbled, just like his dictator pals does it.

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago

    This applies to everything he has ever done

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    heres the secret reason in my theory: the east wing is where Trump gave a bj to Bill Clinton. ok who has the guest logs on when they were both present?

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    [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    ah, the 'just because i feel like it' defense. truly inspiring architecture, really. imagine the white house tour: 'and over here, we have the ballroom, built purely on a whim. truly a testament to... something.'

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