• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    He can tear it all down as long as he goes home and stays home and we never need to hear from him again.

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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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      But what if he gets a look of disapproval? Surely that would stop the Nazi king.

      Schumer

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      The Whitehouse is an empty symbol. Politics is actually set on the Yatchs and in the meeting rooms of The Oligarchs.

      Here’s my pitch, Trump starts wearing a military outfit, like a General. When he visits Oligarchs he goes with his tallest strongest ICE thugs (The Oligarchs don’t like this, Trump doesn’t like all the travel to see them individually).

      Eventually they all build a grand hall where they have meetings and they have to wear robes.

      They’re ranked by how much money they have, and each vy for rule over separation geographical areas and economic/technological functions. We call them The Oligarchical Council, and get very angry when their companies lose money, or product updates are bad (because it represents a drop in quality of life).

      FOSS software becomes illegal, a violation of the accords of Capitalism.

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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.

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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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    Lovely can’t wait until he (fake) gold plates the Washington Monument and slaps a TRUMP sign on it, he can fill up the pool with gold and then sleep on it like smaug.

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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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    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.