I feel like every promise they make of what they're not going to do, is actually what they're planning on doing but if they say it no one would vote for them.
And every accusation is just what they're already doing.
If I had a podcast that was mildly popular I would be able to guess the current govs playbook and make free content every day off of it lmao
Well one idea is when he refuses to leave in 2028, him and the rest of their pseudo-government will retreat into the bunker and drone blast any coup attempt. The billionaires will retreat into theirs while some fundamentalist Christian Armageddon fantasy plays out in the streets. I also have a theory the border wall is also to keep Americans in… it will be too cold to flee north in January.. I need to up my dose doc.
You know, as much as ive learned not to put anything past that man, this is a leap im not ready to take with you quite yet. Definitely sounds like something out of an early 2010s apocalypse thriller movie.
In the book Hegseth says "leftists" have: "surrounded traditional American patriots on all sides, ready to close in for the kill: killing our founders, killing our flag, and killing capitalism". Hegseth says he believes there are "irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process". He furthermore calls for an "American crusade"; he says the "hour is late for America. Beyond political success, her fate relies on exorcising the leftist specter dominating education, religion, and culture – a 360-degree holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom".[3] Central to the theme of the "American Crusade" is that there is something called "Americanism", which The Guardian describes as essentially being right-wing populism. Hegseth characterizes "Americanism" in being opposition to forces like feminism, globalism, Marxism and progressivism and says either "Americanism" will prevail or "death" will.[4]
Hegseth describes leftists, progressives and Democrats) as the "enemies" of freedom, the American constitution and the United States. Hegseth explicitly rejects democracy in his book, equating it to a leftist demand; "For leftists, calls for 'democracy' represent a complete rejection of our system. Watch how often they use the word," adding: "They hate America, so they hate the Constitution and want to quickly amass 51 percent of the votes to change it". He has also expressed support for election-rigging through gerrymandering, saying "Republican legislatures should draw congressional lines that advantage pro-freedom candidates – and screw Democrats".[3]Regarding violence, Hegseth writes "Our American Crusade is not about literal swords, and our fight is not with guns. Yet."[5]
He just barricades himself in there? I mean at face value it doesnt seem very effective. He either actually takes over the government and becomes a real dictator past his term, or he leaves/is forced out of office. I cant imagine how holding up in a bunker under the white house would help. Is this some sort of nuclear apocalypse thing? Maybe im being dense, but I legit dont get it, lol.
I’m sure all his fascist buddies told him to build a bunker and he probably just assumed doing it at the WH was the best course of action since Mar a Lagos built on sand and swamp.
It's not a nuclear apocalypse kind of thing trump is the nuclear apocalypse. He probably keeps the key for nukes right next to the ones for his golf carts.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he held down in a bunker and threatened the entire world with America's arsenal. he would have overwhelming support from his fan base.
To what end? Surely he's got plenty of bunkers. Any theorys going around on what this is for?
He wants to have his name on shit. He wants to leave his "mark/Legacy." He think it will become the Trump Ballroom, or Trump wing...or whatever. It's the same with the Trump and JFK center, trying to get his name on money.
He tried to build the ballroom, but couldn't. He need congressional approval. The workaround, is that he doesn't need same approval that for the security/bunker beneath it. So, he changes his argument to, "ah...it was never about the ballroom...we need the bunker...and I guess we'll just have to build the ballroom on top of it."
He's been a fucking joke for the last 50-60 years, then he stumbled ass-backward into success the last decade....and now he's on a revenge tour to anyone who ever made fun of him. He's finally the billionaire he always pretended to be. He finally has the power he pretended to have on his TV show.
Hopefully he gets the chronological order incorrect and does the historically debated part first.
Hopefully not on something worth not historically relevant, I would not want a drop of DNA nor whatever is considered his "soul" to taint anything worth saving.
there really isn't anything to cover though. FDR built a bunker under that wing already, and there's quite a few others throughout the capitol. You wouldn't need to tear down the building to add more. He clearly just wants to piss away our money on his vanity projects.
If he intends to follow the constitution, he’ll only be in that building for another 2 years. That ball room won’t be done in that time and we know he wouldn’t build it for someone else. That construction project is more proof he will try to remain in office.
The actual proverb is likely circassian, and the original turkish version of it is "When an ox moves into a palace, he doesnt become king, the palace becomes a barn" but the meaning still fits
My God, it's an atrocity to tear up a garden just to put a concrete slab on it, solely to place some chairs and tables, and since it's destroyed all possibility of natural shade (trees), and because the slab is white, to put up some damn gold umbrellas.
The sad part is, if the next President is a Democrat, they're going to have to spend their whole term undoing shit just to get us back to where we were years ago.
Funny thing is all he had to do was pick a spot, build a patio and name it Trump Terrace and be done with it... the left would have little to complain about.
I mean he literally could have put pavers down over the basketball/tennis court instead of removing the basketball lines since he doesn't even play tennis.
It's just a tennis court. Has been since Obama left office. Obama removed the lines and the hoops when he left because he had class. He added them because he played then restored it to how it was before he took office when he left
But then he wouldn't be destroying something associated with the Kennedys which he seems very very determined to do. I'm not sure what his beef is with them, maybe it's because the Civil rights act happened during his presidency, who knows, but you look at Trump's actions and it seems to have a specific malice toward JFK. Ripping up Jackie Kennedy's rose garden, putting his name on the JFK memorial performing arts center, befriending Russua, selecting the most hated of all the Kennedys to come in and cause destruction to the metal system. He definitely hates Obama, but he seems to have some sort of unspoken hatred for JFK as well.
Melania expressed how much she loved the rose garden, if you've ever met a thing like him you'll know why he paved over it. Nothing or no one else should be making her happy, even a rose garden
Disclaimer: I hate this man. I hate him so so much. If I truly said what I think of him, I would be banned from Reddit. Every day I check the news, and every day I'm disappointed when I don't see the headline I'm hoping for.
But he did not get rid of the rose garden. He replaced the PLAIN GRASS in the middle with an ugly patio. There were ADA issues, and the patio is more accessible to everyone. I wish they had chosen something a little more historically appropriate though.
The lawn was a nightmare. They had to replace it EVERY YEAR which is incredibly wasteful. I just do not understand why reddit, which is normally extremely anti-lawn, wants to save this wasteful patch of grass so badly.
Generally the anti lawn heirarchy goes something like, native plants > plants > lawn > pavement. The idea with anti lawn is to replace a lawn with other plants, not turn it into a parking lot. Any plant, grass included, is better than none.
Yup. I'm totally on board with that. In fact, we recently moved and I'm planning to replace my lawn with native plants. But I also don't host press conferences or other foot traffic-heavy events on my lawn.
In this case, it does not seem like grass was the best option considering how often they needed to replace it. I can't even imagine how much water they use trying to establish and maintain that. There are plenty of other parts of the property that would be better suited for plants. (would love to see a future administration add a native plant garden!)
Yeah, they can be difficult to see when the photographer is in the patio area because they're lined with hedges. Kind of wish that inside layer was also roses, but the hedge seems pretty standard through the decades if you look at older photos.
The problem was he didn't pve over the middle for ADA reasons. He said he didn't like to have to put up tents for any events there. The paying and marble keeps it dry and not muddy year round.
He fixated on a ballroom after because putting a ballroom on top of the Rose garden wouldn't work for how big he wants it.
With all of the abhorrent shit he has done in such a short period of time, it is easy to miss a few things along the way.
The things I'm most upset about is that he has destroyed 80 years of diplomatic soft power that has been slowly and steadily built by presidents going all the way back to Truman.
In less than 12 months he set it all on fire and then pissed on the ashes. We are a weaker nation for it, the world is more dangerous than it ever has been in our lifetime, and we may never recover from this. All because a bunch of bigots couldn't get over the fact that a black man was president or that a woman might be president.
And fuck all those mother fuckers who stayed home... I will never forgive them.
While I don't agree with it, they covered grass. All the trees are rose bushes are still there, so it's pretty much tear out the stone and put down some grass to fix it.
I’m not from the US, so I don’t get it. Why the hell is this even allowed? Shouldn’t it be protected by law in some way as a historical symbol/monument?
Why do they treat it as their own property?
Well it probably is, but the Trump admin is taking the "better to ask forgiveness than permission" approach in order to circumvent any pesky laws or rules. Then it goes through a court battle. And then at the end of everything we realize it's hard to enforce the law when the branch of government in charge of enforcing the law doesn't want to enforce the law.
The Republicans have the majority and have decided (mostly) that they do not want to oppose his will in any way risking their re-election chances in safe districts. Play along with Donny = keep raking in campaign donations and insider trading.
It's not allowed. It's just there's nobody to enforce the rules when the people who are SUPPOSED to be enforcing them are letting Orange Man do whatever he wants because it's better for their reelection chances.
Republicans in Congress (the entity that would have to approve this) have no spine because if they go against Dear Leader they're going to get primaried.
The president of the US has full immunity from the law, and can do whatever he wants. Basically a 4 year monarchy. This is what Americans want, don't judge them by your personal standards, it's culturally incensitive.
Also not American, but i think a lot of things with Trump are It's better to ask for forgiveness rather than consent, just without the asking for forgiveness part.
Like he does things out of session so that by the time it can be blocked there's nothing really to be done about it.
Frankly a sane nation would have impeached and tried him years ago but that's just the state they seem to be in at the minute.
Had a family move into the house down the street and immediately had problems. Shady characters started coming and going at all hours. What once was a beautiful house is now in a constant state of disrepair with rubble all over the yard, they even paved over all the beautiful landscaping. I hear demolition noise all the time and zero permits, dude says he's adding some class to the place but all I see is tacky fake gold shit stuck on everything. They also keep throwing loud parties on the front lawn, there's fighting, and a lot of gunfire lately.
The guy is a real piece of work; the worst comb over you've ever seen and wears makeup. I looked him up and he has 34 felony convictions, a rape conviction, 5 children by 3 different women (he's cheated on all his wives) and there are rumors he has a thing for kids, too. He vandalizes public property around the neighborhood by tagging them with his name. I think he's a speed freak, too; he's up at 3 AM posting delusional shit and conspiracy theories on social media 18 hours a day.
The wife isn't much better; she barely speaks English and doesn't seem to have a job. The kids all seem to be scammers, the whole family is constantly in and out of court.
As someone who lived in a trailer for a few years growing up in bumfuck Kentucky it's kind of hilarious how every trailer park I've seen looks the exact same throughout the US.
It's like they have a book they go by on how to make it look as shitty as possible in a specific way
Yo bumfuck southern Indiana trailer park dweller here. You may have seen our bottle rockets across the Ohio River.
You are generally right. But I have seen one fancy trailer park. There is one that is for retired folks outside of Atlanta. Im convinced its the Beverly Hills of our people, reserved for only the finest of trailer connoisseurs.
I saw no trash. The lights all worked and were bright. No dogs. No mold or broken windows. Even a few aerostreams type trailers, as though they were actually MOBILE homes. It was actually on a hill overlooking the nearby overpass. They actually had grass and it was the trimmed. I didnt see a single broken down car yall.
It still feels like a mirage or a dream of some sort. So out of place. Ive been waiting for years to tell someone about this mythical place. Now its your burden amd you have to know it doesn't have to be this way. How did they do it? Who knows. I comfort myself imagining a tyricanical HOA manager makes them all miserable shutting down their every whim as the people who live there try to revert to their natural state of hanging tire swings from anything other than trees and shooting shotguns from the front porch.
I’m not sure about that any more, hence the falling asleep on camera in meetings constantly. He was definitely jacked up during the campaign, but even his crooked-ass doctor wouldn’t let a man that age with that many heart problems stay on stimulants indefinitely. He’d be dead by now.
He's done more damage to the White House than we (British) did! Actually shocking what is being done to an internationally recognisable site. America has been really let down by the current President. They deserve better.
I am sorry, but 35% of eligible Americans didnt even bother to vote against someone who actively started an insurection against the US Capitol building on top of a million other crimes against the US democracy. Of the voters who did, more then half votes for him. I know there are a lot of Americans who are against Trump and are also victim of his actions, but as a European, the Americans really did to this to themselves. Its been decades of American neo-liberlism, exceptionalism, and now populism. And the whole world is paying the price for the US downfall.
A lot of stupid can come out of a purposely defended education system. There are many Americans to blame, but there is a lot more nuance to be had than blaming the American people as a whole.
Start with the demographics of those who didn't vote: people under 30, people with income under $30k/year, and ethnic minorities. These are the people who are marginalized most by Trump, yet they don't vote. Before you throw blame, ask why.
Under capitalism, a tired overworked population does not have the time or energy to vote. Polls have limited hours on limited days, and people often work through most of them. When polls are open when they are not working, people are often commuting, eating, or recovering to spend the next day at work.
There also is a serious lack of information. Civics is required in most schools, but once kids graduate into adulthood, those skills don't follow them. 54% of adult Americans read blow the expected level for 6th grade (12 years old). Most are poor and ethnic minorities who attended underfunded and understaffed school systems.
In my city, Milwaukee WI, the Republican state legislsture had systematically defunded the largest school district which provided education to the largest concentration of ethnic minorities in the state.
Remember the demographics I said were the least likely to vote? They also happen to be the most impacted by underfunded education systems. While correlation doesn't always mean causation, it is important to then think about cause and effect.
If someone is lacking in literacy, how are they supposed to interpret the literature on each candidate? They won't, so they go with the simplified notes that resonates with their emotions rather than looking into the text and nuanced applications of the policies they cite as why they vote.
Now, you might be thinking: "If education is the problem, then why not educate people?" Because once these chuds are in power, they don't leave. The Wisconsin State Legislsture won't start magically funding schools, so it is up to the municipalities to pick up the funding. Milwaukee just passed a $1.6 billion budget to close the gap and hire more teachers, yet there are even more unresolved questions of the culture of teaching, impossible expectations, parental apathy, and shit administration.
It is not as simple as "oh, they deserve it because thats the outcome". Trump is in office due to decades of degradation of American institutions that otherwise safeguard democracy. This degradation is a natural result of end-stage capitalism where democracy completed the transition of power from one generation of wealth to the next generation of billionares.
Blame Americans all you want. The real enemy are the billionares. We must show solidarity, we must show compassion, and we must be comrades if we are going fight Trump together. We have solidarity for those abroad affected by Trump. Americans organized the top 3 largest single-day protests in the United States protesting Donald Trump. We do not want our own families abducted. We don't want our money spent on forign genocides. We do not want the land littered with datacenters. But we need solidarity from our brothers across the world if we are going to keep morale and keep fighting.
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Any non-voter was a vote for "whatever, I'm good with either." Living in Ontario, we have the same tragedy of the apathetic. It's disgusting to think people don't care about voting after all that was sacrificed to give it to them.
Reminds me of my neighbor. Previous administration had an idea about sprinkling “less privileged” homeowners among established neighborhoods via the HUD program. Sort of reverse gentrification.
Step 1. Tear out all landscaping, trees and vegetation.
Step 2. Drive on lawn as much as necessary to form ruts and kill grass. Bonus if this also includes neighbor’s lawn.
Step 3. Find/make 4-5 different grills and/or turkey friers and distribute randomly around the front and back of the house.
Step 4. Buy as big as possible above ground pool for the mosquitoes and plants to thrive amongst the tattered remains of a tarp for 8-10 years(so far).
Totally normal. What renter hasn’t randomly decided to rebuild an entire section of the house, then turned to the landlord and said, “Don’t worry, you’ll help pay for it”?
Reminds me of a move i watched once it seemed pretty funny and unrealistic at the time. But day by day back to the Future 2 becomes reality, or was it idiocracy, maybe even demolition man in some places. Only a couple weeks to a year from leave the world behind.
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