You’d think they’d need congressional approval and like a long time of back and forth of people agreeing on stuff.
Nah. Trump treats it like his own house.
At this point we should move the presidential mansion outside DC and make DC a state.
Of course he would but the company and workers doing the work should also not escape blame.
How long before our friends in Europe suit up, like we did nearly 100 years ago, land on our shores and help us eradicate the world of Nazis once and for all?
We never should have let that symbol or acting like one be nothing short of a lengthy prison term or worse after we declared Victory.
You spent the last 30 or so years alienating your European “friends”
Don’t exaggerate it hasn’t been that long. Imagine if we had felt this indifference in the 1940’s. No, our friends in Europe know that this is their problem, too, both abroad and at home.
30 years ago it was the mid-1990s- you were very much starting to to burn bridges with international allies by that point, and we told you so.
“Their problem too”? No- it’s your problem that you’ve foisted on the rest of us by not fucking listening for decades.
just demolish the whole thing at this point.
As a Canadian, I’m very disappointed. That was our job.
Honestly, having a foreign enemy worthy of respect torching the white house would be comforting. America is letting awful incarnate just do what it feels like. It is an humiliating self-own.
Changes course? I bet this asshole planned on doing this the whole time. Wasn’t this stupid ballroom not even supposed to actually touch the WH originally?
he conveniently announced during charlie kirks aftermath
The govemment is shut down, people can’t afford groceries, benefits are on hold, the military is not getting paid… and this asshole is building a $250 million baIIroom.
A golden ballroom.
And it is “modernizing” things, too! Like every other asshole on this planet, Taco has learned that saying meaningless words like “modern” stops at least a certain set of people from asking more questions or having any more independent thoughts about the thing under discussion. I mean, because, gee, you don’t want to question something that is MODERN, now, do you?
Don’t think about it too hard [1], because: “modern”.
</Jedi mind trick>
I see this tactic employed on the job nearly every day - I work in tech, so the word “modern” is usually sprinkled in abundance all over completely bullshit and harebrained schemes, plots, claims and projects. Because so many vapid thinkers abound all throughout tech, and we have a steady influx of people that barely have any experience who now rely on Youtube influencers for their gurus, this tactic works a depressingly high amount of the time. Increasingly over time, tech operates more like the fashion industry (but instead of following whatever someone likes in NYC, London, Paris or Milan it’s about following whatever FAANG, or someone that supposedly works/worked at FAANG has said) than it does anything resembling real engineering… But I digress. :)
[1] I mean, definitely don’t think about how the term “ballroom” really invokes, for most people, maybe flappers in the 1920s, and that’s probably the most recent of references? 1700s Europe comes to mind…
I work in tech, so the word “modern” is usually sprinkled in abundance all over completely bullshit and harebrained schemes
I see many similar words used without evidence or justification.
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Agile
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Sustainable
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Efficient
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Future proof
You left out “AI” you silly goose
LOL, 100%.
I’ve seen things like “lightweight”, “robust”, “scalable” just kind of loosely applied to everything as well. These kinds of things are the purr words. Then the snarl words are applied to things you are trying to denigrate - for example, make sure you label something you don’t like “legacy” even if it’s still actively maintained and used by most everyone and is actually battle-tested.
Even better if you can say that some Youtube influencer with X amount of followers likes it…I swear, this industry has always been a bit susceptible to the new and the shiny, but because so many people are worried about being considered a “dinosaur” even if they are still in their early 20s, the amount of critical thought given to some highly impactful engineering (and also business) decisions seems to amount to little more than “so and so likes it”.
Don’t get me wrong, there was a bit of this even in the 90s where a certain type of engineer would always be looking to what Gates thought or whatever. But those kinds of engineers were often kind of mocked and thought as rather unserious. I’m not so sure the engineers that just look to what FAANG is doing/saying are mocked enough these days.
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That’s so well put. I’m thinking of finishing my electrical engineering degree just so I can get out of the increasingly strange web app industry
It’s up to $300M last I saw.
Is Metrolinx building this ballroom?
Nah I’m sure this will get finished
He can we know the cost when there are no plans?
Concept of a plan?
A convicted felon is literally destroying the White House. And half this country approves.
Yeah, but didja see how he owned the libz? I might not have clean air, clean water, health care, food, shelter, or a job with dignity, but I get to fly some Chinese junk with Taco’s name on it!
I don’t approve of it, but I don’t really care if he tears it down. Actually, I think the whole White House should be torn down, preferably with Trump and all his friends inside it.
What I oppose is him using tax dollars for this ballroom that none of his subjects will ever be allowed to use or get utility from. Plus the literally everything else he’s ever done 😆
Right? The way people are complaining about this happening just sounds weird to me.
I would like the peasantry to just tear through that ballroom and take all the valuables. After all, it is our money.
Presidents don’t have “subjects”.
And we don’t have a president.
You should go up to him on his gold throne, knock his gold crown off his badly weaved head, and tell him that.
Until someone does that I don’t think king Donvict Drumpf will agree with you.
We should get a committee together to go knock on his door and remind him of this.
Yeah they kinda all do. Amerikkka never was a democracy.
To be fair, in the pursuit of accuracy, they have said it’s all private funding taking care of it with some coming from strongarm lawsuits. I think that’s easy to verify with receipts, no details released yet. The honourable thing to have done would be to fund government paychecks with that money, and that would probably be a good move politically, but obviously not happening.
Yes, the $250 million is all private funding. Completely above board.
Also, totally coincidentally and not at all related, Trump wants the DOJ to pay him $230 million of tax payers money. Totally unrelated. Don’t know why I brought it up.
Well, their SNAP and Medicaid haven’t been cut yet.
They know they’ll be an emergency. They will want command and control at that point.
Mr. Trump had pledged that the East Wing would not be touched by the construction
And he lied. Again.
Add it to the endless list…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
“This article may be too long” lmao
New Yorkers know he has done shit like this before
Jfc here I thought Trump had grown into being a dick. Turns out he was always a dick.
He’s been a full-blown asshole for decades. Probably his whole life.
Also, his taste in everything is just so…chintzy. I mean it’s literally the gaudiest shit.
I remember people adoring him in the 80s, and even in Peak 80s money-grabbing yuppie hype with everyone thinking the surface glitz of Miami Vice and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (and Less Than Zero, and Secret of My Success, and and and) was what you were supposed to aspire to…anything associated with Trump that I saw looked like total dogshit.
His obsession with gold makes me think of the 80s, where gold gilded things was a mark of wealth. It makes me wonder if Trump’s head is still in that world where everything needs to be gold so that he can look good.
Because Trump is all about how it looks on the outside. Hell it wouldn’t surprise me if he couldn’t tell the difference between gold and brass.
Even by the metric of Peak 80s gaudiness, Taco stood out as someone exceptionally tacky.
But at the time, I remember some of my peers and many adults worshiping the guy because of Worthington’s Law. People tripping over themselves to get down to his “Taj Mahal” and getting pictures of themselves at the entrance, etc…
I just thought the guy looked like a Daddy’s boy with an exceptionally loud mouth, seeking lots of attention and self-promotion and truly awful taste.
Good photo.
This is such good imagery for the state of… everything.
Carl Jung would cream his jeans if he saw this in context with, well everything else.
The symbolism of this is astonishingly perfect.
Honestly I was thinking the same thing.
The only thing that would make this a chef’s kiss is that they accidentally bulldoze the oval while they are doing a press conference in it.
It’s about Hitler having a better bunker/operations center this time:
The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a secure emergency underground shelter for the president.
Does that mean the bunker is…not available?
It means they may have better access to improve rhe bunker.
Politically, Bunker upgrades have a much greater significance than a Ballroom.
It also means they could expect to need it after the renovations are complete. Could be part of why things seem so rushed.
Perhaps it just dawned on them that if they trigger a civil war they won’t have total support of anyone particular group let alone in DC. It probably would only take a rouge fighter pilot or two to nock out air force one assuming that command has collapsed. Not that I think they’ll stop trying to start shit.
a rouge rogue, even.
Rouge One, the story of capturing the plans to the Drag Star.
Ah. That makes a bit more sense.
