Previously:
They paved paradise and put up some pavement…
Subtitle to the story of civilization
Is the Epstein list buried under there?
Just the list
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
When this asshole finally dies or goes to jail (please), we might as well burn the place down and start over. You ain’t ever getting the stench out the walls…
Or the ketchup.
Outside the various shitty adjustments he’s making now, we cannot forget something perhaps bigger. Because of him, an enemy state flag (the flag of the Confederacy) was flown in the White House.
you mean this?
No. Though if I got a nickel for every time Trump is associated with the Confederate flag… it’d be a rich man.
I was specifically speaking to the Jan. 6 intersection attack. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/kevin-seefried-confederate-flag-capitol-jan-6-sentenced-rcna69784
That’s the capitol building though
That’s the capitol, though, no…?
You know what, you’re right. I must have vaguely remembered both and blended the two stories.
Give Canada a call - we did it once before for you guys… 😏
Where’s the sign up sheet? I’ll stand on guard for thee.
Can I sign up for this mailing list?
Come on down, the address hasn’t changed.
I’m not familiar what’s the history there?
Reference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there’s some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.
War of 1812. They burned the White House.
Well today I learned!
Don’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
If you’re still offering…
I don’t see why pavement is worse than manicured grass
Because ants can live on grass but not pavement? Lawn is bad for biodiversity but concrete is much worse.
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Ants can and do live in paved spaces. There is a layer of sand under the slabs that is easy for them to excavate tunnels from, with the entrance between two slabs.
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It’s the white house. It gets sprayed for insects anyway.
They should spray a lot more, plenty of bugs there.
You need to get the 12 gauge spray for the kind of bug you’re thinking of.
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It’s ugly and trashy
Because it’s a garden?
That being said pre Wilson, it actually had garden beds where the lawn was.
Also ask yourself in the context of a garden, what is better vegetation than grass to walk on?
Complains windmills make Scotland ugly.
Proceeds to pave over the Rose Garden.
Nothing is more beautiful than polished white marble and gold. Lots and lots of goolllld!
People: Save the Earth!
Trump: Pave the Earth!
Someone should create a fuckgrass community so all the virtue signalling can be contained.
I think there are communities like that… but for replacing lawn with native plants not paving them over lmao
actually infuriating
Should make a small nature center there and lead by example. But nah…
Love to see a change.org petition to this effect
It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
It’s nature…just not “wild” nature.
I guess a concrete lot is better in your opinion.
Yeah, for this space that is frequently used to host people or filled with chairs for a press conference, it is better and makes more sense.
The problem is, have you ever noticed how much hotter you are in a parking lot on a warm day than when you are in a park? Well, now those events are happening on a parking lot and not a park. Furniture can be designed to work on turf, or temporary fixtures could be put in place to mitigate the drawbacks of furniture on lawns, but the absorbed and reflected heat will be hard to get rid of. Hopefully this area is small enough to not have a big impact on the temperature there.
I honestly don’t think it looks bad, but I suspect it’s more for Trump to put his stamp on it than anything else, and to erase the efforts of others before him. And I suspect it will be more uncomfortable than it was before.
I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.
To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.
Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.
Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.
It doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
It’s more nature than what’s there now
Stone isn’t nature? Looks like natural stone to me. It’s ugly AF but both are artifical and have little to do with nature.
Edit: it’s just a joke guys, don’t take it too seriously lol
Nothing is synthetic it’s all made of stuff we have here on earth!
I see your point and raise my promethium-146 sprinkled in my tiles.
That’s just organic star stuff.
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.
It also looks like something you’d find at a cheap, trashy resort where children poop in the pool.
I came to the comments looking for this song. I did not expect to learn that the version by Counting Crows was a cover however. Neat!
That’s not the version from Clerks 2, though 😛
That looks like a little mini Tiananmen Square. Dictators love a big slab of concrete.
That’s what you do when you have no mortal soul.
I would have returned it to nature with native plants. Krasnov created a smaller Red Square and now he wants a fucking Ballroom for $200 million! WTF!
Of everything, this is low on the list of things to be annoyed about. While there were probably better ways, this is an area used for gatherings and DC being DC, it is pretty marshy and unusable as a lawn. There have been plans for a long time to do something like this.
More importantly, this will be easily undone later, unlike much of the other damage he has done or plans to do. Compared to those things, I can’t get too worked up over this.
Let the pigs have their mud.
Honestly it’s more symbolic of what this regime has done to America
Also the actual roses were in the bushes on the side.
I’m pretty sure they did actually get rid of a lot of the flowers anyway and got rid of things they shouldn’t have, but the layout of it isn’t so drastically changed and the lawn can easily be replaced.
This and everything else he has done is expected when you have methed out gutter trash in the White House with no comprehension or respect for history. Would not be surprised if the leg lamp from A Christmas Story is near the entrance.
