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    You know, I’m glad he’s doing it. It’s a great metaphor, not just for the damage he’s doing to the country, but also how it will have enduring, irreversible consequences. The East Wing won’t just go back to normal when he’s gone. We’ve permanently lost something, and even if we stop that stupid fucking ballroom from taking it’s place, we will have to build something new there.

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      Once trump is gone they should seriously demolish all of his changes and revert it to exactly how it was before.

      Just make it as he has never been there.

      Then, in a corner room somewhere, add a publicly accessible space as a museum showing what shit will happen is you let fascists loose

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        If it were up to me we’d demolish the ballroom and leave it there, just a rotting pile of rubble lying on the White House lawn. Let it sit there as a reminder of all the damage our nation caused, even to ourselves, and how it can never be undone.

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    I really don’t care much for America… But it’s an absolute travesty… I’m genuinely surprised that it seems Americans are happy to be treated like utter shit by their own government.

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      Its very unpopular, but the media wont frame it that way, so you wouldn’t know it unless you spoke to people in person and asked their opinions.

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      Not all Americans. Unfortunately, both law enforcement and military are mostly complicit due to blind obedience, and yet a widescale mutiny is no longer an impossibility.

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    I cannot imagine the outrage if Biden had done this. There’d be actual violence from magats. It would be the only thing on all news radio and tv 24/7

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    In July, the ballroom was going to cost 200 million.

    In September, he said 250 million.

    In October, the cost became 300 million.

    SNAP food benefits cost 100 billion for the entire fiscal year of 2024. However, due to the government shut down (because they cannot agree on health care btw; give you two guesses who want to take it away), SNAP benefits will not be paid out to hungry families for November.

    A small skyscraper can be built for 300 million. This is a ballroom.

    Americans, you’re not angry enough.

    Edited to add: Forgot to add! He has given the go ahead on this project without the proper permits being approved.

    He is also going to seek 250 million from DOJ for them investigating him. That’s taxpayer dollars, to be clear

    Edited to correct 100 million to 100 billion.

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    The East Wing, where first ladies created history, planned state dinners and promoted causes, is now history itself. The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including workspace for first ladies and their staffs, has been turned into rubble,

    Of course he demolished the part of the White House that was traditionally used by women.

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      Because his wife is useless and doesn’t do anything with the space I guess the next first lady can just fuck off.

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      Any other scenario where one-third of the White House is destroyed is called a terrorist attack.

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        Feel free to call it as such.

        It’s not that far from the definition considering how USAians view their national symbols - while not eliciting terror per se, reshaping such a thing is def a show of power to the plebs.

        A bit like how they carved them randos heads in a holy mountain.