Did Congress approve the allocation of money for this project? No.
Yes rico ,kaboom🖕
I’m guessing hes copying the Arc de Triomphe simply because he hasn’t seen the Brandenburger Tor.
I wonder when he’s gonna approach Hugo Boss for new uniforms for the Secret Service.
Actual size*
I wonder if its two months actual time or two months Trump time, which actually means never (see also two weeks), given the white house abcess of a ballroom he could be serious but…
It must be difficult to be an American watching Trump destroy the country your ancestors have been building for hundreds of years. He has caused massive generational and irreversible damage at this point and its only getting worse.
Oh, and China just set a trade surplus record above 1 trillion thanks to Trump, first and only country to do that, how is all that winning going?
It’s all going exactly as everyone with 2+ braincells predicted.
What’s even harder is watching family and neighbors try to explain why it’s a good thing.
I wonder how they’ll spin it when he publicly burns the constitution
From my experience they just say “ that didn’t really happen, that was twisted into a lie, he wouldn’t ever do that “ - these people never, ever admit anything that is proven to be true. It’s always some contrarian, idiotic “ I know better than you “ take. It’s hopeless.
Time to cut those people out of your life. It’s hard, but you know it’s true.
Some of those morons need an exit ramp
Can’t, my grandmother is elderly and I’m the only one of her kids/grandkids who talks to her, not really her fault on that one my mother is insane my uncle was stupid and the other grandkids are more or less different family outside of blood due to custody or cutoff reasons. Also she is also effectively my mother and is the woman who raised me.
Figure I can work out any frustration by car bombing random trumpers if a civil war breaks out.
I basically already have (years ago). But when you’ve got family that hasn’t been cut off, the ones who have still manage to make appearances.
It’s insanely difficult. All of this shit has substantially changed who I am at my core. I opted not to leave the country a few years back because my parents wouldn’t have been able to get in anywhere else for being too old.
Now I’m pretty much waiting around for this whole thing to get rebooted.
Now I’m pretty much waiting around for this whole thing to get rebooted.
That’s part of the problem. Everyone is standing around waiting for someone else to fix it for them.
You gotta pull together with others and work as a group to fight back.
I know group cooperation towards a common goal runs counter to the "nation of rugged individuals " mythos that Americans have for themselves, but that’s what it will take.
What’s with all these ca accounts vying for open revolt.
I live 4 days drive from DC
How far are you from your state legislature? Or from your congressman’s office?
And, again, have you got together with other people to combine your voices?
I’m involved with DSA in my area.
I think we’re talking about different solutions.
Welp I guess that’s it then
It can’t be rebooted until the series finale ends… in civil war.
Yeah, we’re in a mid-season plot stretch to see if this administration can “weekend at Bernie’s” a vapid blathering demential patient for another year so that JD Vance can get 2.5 terms as president.
My ancestors were forced from their land by the American government in an event known as the Trail of Tears. So this is kinda a mixed bag for me really…
very difficult and complicated. Positioning my family to endure and outlast so that we can stay whole longer than the honor lasts among the thieves while others around me get consumed by the machine instills a very gilded sense of accomplishment peppered with guilt.
we’ve been a disgustingly individualistic country since the end of WWII best I can tell. Every adult born after 1948 that I’ve met has been selfish to the core.
the complicated part is I know they’ve been programmed to remain in a childlike mindset through radio, TV and internet… arguing with the retarded (clinical term, don’t flame me) is uncouthe to say the least.
Every adult born after 1948 that I’ve met has been selfish to the core.
… What…? Are you a bot?
Everything you don’t agree with is fake and/or AI, yes. See how dumb that sounds?
Honestly not as dumb as thinking everyone born in the last 78 years is selfish.
Generalize much?
Nope - I wish that were a generalization. There’s a reason sayings like “don’t mix family and business” are so ubiquitous. We deserve the late-stage capitalism we’ve earned and it’s getting exhausting pretending enough humans can be selfless enough to actually have nice things.
Case and point: You still wear your N95 mask in public because Covid is still a thing, right? RIGHT!? Didn’t think so. That’s one off-the-cuff example of how all-enompassing everyone’s individualism is when it comes to trying to have an actual humble, altruistic culture.
If I’m wrong, every fucking thing about the last 5 years would be different. Boycotted any oligarchs lately? Should I continue? The evidence is ample.
I do wear an N95 in public. I had COVID twice and still have long COVID symptoms. I’ve refused to be cavalier with my health since the pandemic.
I also research who companies are owned by and take every step to obtain what I need from oligarchs either second hand or through extralegal means.
Generalizations only hurt you, my anti-capitalist friend.
Edit- correct me if I’m wrong, but how you’re coming across gives really heavy “everyone in the last 78 years is selfish to the core except me” vibes.
Are you the one enlightened soul in the entire benighted race of man?
Lots of I statements in that first sentence.
No, I’m not enlightened - I’m selfish, too (I’m just honest about it).
I have an older sibling with special needs so I’m a reluctant expert on ‘casual cruelty’ and other self-centered hedonistic BS that’s surrounded me for 40+ years. I usually keep this part to myself because people need to cling to whatever life raft they can find right now, but the lack of general strike or other selfless acts to turn these rats against eachother is deafening in it’s silence.
Good luck out there.
I see Donvict is focused on the most important matters. Let’s see:
Revenge against people like Boebert and Colorado in general (and in the process fucking with people’s drinking water, because he’s no leader at all but a spiteful little baby), writing the text for a set of plaques that go with pictures that are going to be torn down the minute he leaves office, putting his name on buildings he did nothing to contribute anything toward, tearing down the East wing and blathering on about some bullshit ballroom no one gave a fuck about before, and now a stupid arch.
Meanwhile, he and his idiots have done nearly everything possible to fuck up an economy that was the “envy of the world”, and it only seems to be getting worse.
This guy is such a fucking idiot.
Just a reminder to any DC area contractors who may or may not be involved in upcoming unnamed construction projects: a couple bags of sugar or 2-liters of cola added to a truckload of concrete will drastically alter setting times and compromise the final strength of construction.
Just a fun little tidbit to tuck away in your brain for later.
A more important reminder to contractors: if Congress doen’t fund the slparticular project, you WILL NOT be paid for your work or materials. Trump signing the contract doesn’t make the federal government responsible for the cost and of course Donald won’t pay it from his own pocket.
Absolutely. Just look at how Trump treated every contractor who ever did work for him on his buildings in New York. As soon as the work is done, sue, counter-sue, and never pay.
Sure sure, but he’ll definitely pay me this time because my company is different. All those other guys were just incapable of doing the job right.
Also, name and shame any contractors you see doing that work.
Also, a reminder to any contractor:
Couple of bags (>= 2kg) or 2 liters of cola (200 g) to a truck load? Not only is there a magnitude difference, I also doubt that 2 kg will do that. Normal amounts are up to 0.1 %, say you need 0.5 % to make it significantly weaker. 10 cubic yards, 7.5 m³ of concrete, are about 18’000 kg. 0.5 % of that are 90 kg.
So it will even set faster and really take at least 0.5 % to reduce the strength in any significant way.
Perhaps not only 2 bags, but it doesn’t take much, and is very doable by motivated single individuals.
Dumping halve a ton of sugar in a truck is technically doable, but a bit harder than a bottle of cola.
Is the ballroom finished yet, or did he get bored?
There is a concept of a ballroom.
Is Congress going to use any of its powers to stop him? Probably no.
trump is to congress critters as celebrity is to the common folk: shut the fuck up and you may get a promotion
So we have a two month lead time to get ahead of this. Dems, what are you doing about it???
They will strongly advise the president that what he’s doing is illegal and immoral and send you panicked fund raising emails about it. Oh, and text messages. Can’t forget those.
That’s… About 4x longer away than 2 weeks, and it’s been a decade since he said he’d have healthcare solved in 2 weeks, so In 40 years that arch might begin
Nah, the arch will start when he says it because it benefits him.
It took them one second to put his name up on John F. Kennedy Center after they illegally voted to do it.
I hope it’s the size of his model like the henge from Spinal Tap.
🤣
No one knows who they were…or what they were doing.
…
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I don’t know how they were able to get these takes without laughing their asses off. I mean, rock has its share of excess and these song lyrics are so funny when they are mocking that, but FFS, when those guys start dancing around that model, it’s too much. And then when the model moves, holy. It gets me every time.
I hope some little people get to tower over Donvict’s “arch”.
His hands make it look so big
This will he renamed after the next admin. I hope its renamed after whatever liberal he hates most
