• Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
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    25 天前

    Someone needs to sue to draw out the construction and leave this gaping mess as a metaphor for the administration as long as possible

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Destroying iconic architecture is his hobby. Trump Tower in NYC replaced the iconic Bonwit Teller building, which was one of the last standing examples of its distinctive architectural style.

    He announced his intention to tear it down, and historians went nuts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offered to take the famous bas relief sculptures from the facade, and he agreed.

    Then one morning, NYC woke up to Trump simply destroying the building, including the iconic friezes that he had promised to save.

    So destroying iconic architecture is just standard Trump behavior.

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        25 天前

        Honestly say this point be is everything the usa deserves. They deserve every pain every heartache and every atrocity they is happening.

        There is no reason this should have ever been allowed. So the checks and balances have been eroded for years by all parties involved and the people are actively letting it happen.

        It is absolutely terrible for many individual people who don’t deserve the horror they find themselves facing but the people en masse are to blame.

        Burn it to the ground and start over. Such a disgrace

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          The problem with the idea of burning it all to the ground and starting over is that’s exactly the Republican plan. Destroy so many institutions and cultural beliefs that there’s nothing left to stop them. Meanwhile Democrats are writing a strongly worded letter to the person swinging the sledgehammer.

          The better plan would be to fix what’s broken, I admit it may be too late though.

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            25 天前

            If the rest of America is going to let it happen then again that’s what they deserve

            • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
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              You are horrible for wishing this on us when the majority of us didn’t vote for this and never have voted for this. Your ignorance is embarrassing.

          • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
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            25 天前

            Well the USians have always been content to limp on a broken system, impotent to change it to a modern democracy. It’s not something that happened overnight or something we can blame ‘the Democrats’ for. It’s a failure of the people

        • bobaworld@lemmy.world
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          I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Trump got less than 50% of the popular vote, more than half the country wants nothing to do with him. The GOP has been playing the gerrymandering game to great effect to the degree that their candidates can lose the popular vote but still win the election.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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        25 天前

        He has a tell when he is lying. It’s a bit tricky to spot, but when he opens his mouth you can tell he is lying

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          25 天前

          Not always true. He told the world he wanted to be a dictator. That he had help rigging the election. That he was going to deport all the immigrants, legal or otherwise.

          All true, and all happening. A lot of his followers thought those were lies though, because that was more convenient than admitting they had been had by a conman.

          • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
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            Agreed. I think a better summary would be to say if that he tells you what he is going to do, it’s usually true. Everything else before and after that is usually a lie.

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              24 天前

              I’d say, if what he says he’s going to do is going to benefit him personally in any way. He’s going to do it. If it doesn’t, it’s complete bullshit.

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    Just a friendly reminder trump said in July the ballroom wouldn’t touch the existing building and everything would remain intact. Add it to the pile.

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    This is HORRIBLE! I TOLD you Obama hated America SO MUCH he would Literally DESTROY the White House!

    Trump did this? GOOD! The White House NEEDED a Renovation!

    -Free Thinking Republicans!

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      25 天前

      Anderson Cooper once said to Mr. Lord in the first term 2017 during the Russian concerns:

      “If he took a dump on his desk, you would defend it.”

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    To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.

    So this is just finishing the job.

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      Trump is a fascist pedophile who will probably have to be killed to leave. The White House has been home to genociders and rapists many times before though. To occlude the historical brutality of the United States is self-destructive and makes you less curious about how and why a pedophile rapist is right at home in the White House.

      Tear it down with him in it.

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      Right, because it was fine when it was the home of slave owners, rapists, racists, genociders, imperialists, war criminals?

      Americans need to learn their own history better.

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        25 天前

        The pages of mankind’s history are written in blood by the victors. Provide us with one example of a sovereign nation that does not have a violent, oppressive history.

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        Given that he is now making his gestapo work without pay, I think Trump now essentially falls into every one of those categories.

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        Almost like this narrative is a way to salvage US imperialism in light of the undeniable immorality of its current leader.

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        That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans. Yes shitty people moved through its halls, but so did national and international heroes. Reducing it as you have done isn’t going to do shit but annoy people.

        Based on the .au instance I’d assume you’re from Australia, it’d be mighty silly to throw stones while living in a glass house.

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          Of course, because why would it represent reality to Americans when it can represent a mass delusion.

          Every US president is a war criminal to some degree, they are not heroes.

          And really? You think because my own country is shit that I can’t point out others issues? What a weak arse attempt at whataboutism.

          • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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            Sometimes it feels like every time an American laments the shitty state of our country someone has to come along to remind us that it has always been shitty to make us feel worse.

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              Because you’re not, you’re lamenting the shitty state of Trump. If he was gone or not here, you would not be here commenting on the shitty state of your country at all.

              And how about instead of feeling bad about your history, you learn from it, recognise it’s an issue that goes far beyond Trump and fight to ensure it never repeats itself?

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                You do understand that there are massive protests going on around the country right now? Telling a single person you don’t know that they should fight to fix their country does nothing, we already know the country is fucked.

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            Lol it’s not whataboutism, it’s pointing out the hypocrisy of your statement. I didn’t attempt to downplay the US’ checkered past or even say what in particular I was referencing, just making an observation that our countries have both done fucking awful things.

            Don’t bother responding, I won’t read your reply.

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          That’s not what it represents to any actual Americans.

          North or South? or the people in the middle that stole that for themselves?

          I think it represents their values quite well.

          Burn it to the ground.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      To be clear, the White House was destroyed the moment a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and literal insurrectionist made it his home.

      Unfortunately, crooks and rapists and insurrectionists are the norm for occupying the White House over its history. Like, if you want to apply this standard, the White House was destroyed back under the Jefferson administration.

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    I would not be surprised if he bulldozes the entire thing so no one be president there again, and then rule from his shithouse in Florida.

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      This is almost certainly part of the idea. “It’s too loud and noisy here, I’m doing president stuff from Mar A Lago now”, so now the USSS and everyone else has to ship out there and rent from HIS properties and his cabinet is either making daily flights there, moving there, or simply discontinuing daily briefings because there’s simply things you can’t say or talk about on a Teams call.

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    25 天前

    Goodbye White House hello Golden Trump House sponsored by Raid shadow legends

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      Well, actually, that was just footage from the movie Independence Day, but the real laser would be a lot like that. Yeah. Scary.

      -Dr. Evil

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    This is all about humiliation. How much humiliation will the US take before they get violent and allow him to declare martial law with the insurrection act?

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    What do you want to bet the contractors currently working on it aren’t going to get paid?

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      Well since the construction project hasn’t actually been approved thru the official channels yet I would say the chances of this are pretty high because it gives him a great excuse to not pay them.