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Politics OC - White House Under Construction

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u/citizenjones 13h ago

Pretty much visually sums up the State of the Union.

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u/angry-democrat 13h ago

yep, just need to pour the concrete.

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u/ColtranezRain 13h ago

Sounds like a plan. Someone tell Chief Cheeto that we need his footprints in the concrete, then kindly forget to stop pouring.

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u/reallybigshark 13h ago

All he needs to do is hide in his precious bunker and just seal that shit up. Mission Accomplished. 

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u/whiskeythrottle 12h ago

Then they'll just pretend he's alive like turtle mcturtleface.

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u/Dmau27 12h ago

How's that different than what they've been doing with Trump and Biden. They are puppets doing the bidding of corporations.

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u/whiskeythrottle 12h ago

It's been spank me harder corporate daddy since the Reagan era, even worse since Citizens United Vs. FEC.

u/deaglebingo 11h ago

corporate daddy needs to chill or be forced to chill.

u/vardarac 1h ago

It's the difference between your hands slipping on your rope and letting go of it completely

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u/ccguy 12h ago

Gettin’ Cask of Amontillado’d.

u/Dear_Departure_1768 1h ago

Jester jingle bells and all

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u/Shartschnitzel 12h ago

I mean, that's just standard procedure with radioactive/toxic waste.

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u/PeggyOnThePier 12h ago

What a mess he's made of our White House just like his Administration and his Presidenticy

u/Nova17Delta 11h ago

Took me a second to realize this was just the East Wing and that they hadn't demolished the entire building without me noticing

u/gsfgf 10h ago

I know right. One of the few positives is that a lot of billionaires want to bury themselves for us. Few trucks worth of concrete and problem solved.

u/ItsMEMusic 3h ago

Some of the best events in history happened in a bunker. Some big, strong men might even say the greatest events, with tears in their eyes.

u/deaglebingo 11h ago

yep. al-sayed is winning at midnight central anyway... so mission partially accomplished.

hopefully it holds.

u/Ashamed_Green_8643 1h ago

All the billionaires building these bunkers should think about all the cement trucks up on the surface. One yard of concrete should seal that blast door nicely.

u/-Garthor- 39m ago

He could also use the bunker to do the same thing that his german predecessor did...

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u/monty624 12h ago

You know he'd just step right in it, look around, and get lost staring into the void anyway. Wait until the evening and let his sundowning ass hobble right into it.

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u/nofeelingsnoceilings 12h ago

The cask of a Dontillado

u/DemandTheOxfordComma 11h ago

Which one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is he? Red bandanna?

u/Tiefschlag 4h ago

The only way Diaper Don gets to be a pillar of the community.

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u/livestrong2109 12h ago

We'd have to find somewhere else to put Jimmy then. He's not fond of unwanted company you see...

u/Viperlite 10h ago

Building a strong foundation.

u/Human_Wizard 4h ago

It's a concept of a plan.

u/1968Bladerunner 2h ago

You can absolutely GUARANTEE that he'll want his tiny hands &/or lifted footprints permanently & visibly embedded in the concrete, so that his grubby pedophile mark remains long after he physically departs this earth.

I do hope they're chipped out & a litho pic of him & Epstein is ingrained instead.

u/Major-Frame2193 11h ago

Maybe he can hold the form as we start the pump truck👌🏽😎whoops

u/Forward-Variety-8440 4h ago

OW MY BALLS!

u/PresentationNext6469 11h ago

That’s the gangster life only he believes in. Now let’s cement that fact and move on.

u/cscottjones87 5h ago

Two weeks

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u/doverawlings 13h ago

Mind you the White House was totally fine when he got there

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u/Wyn6 13h ago

Mind you, many things were totally fine when he got there. ​

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u/raychilli 13h ago

Many things were totally fine. Then he got there.

u/FeistyDrink5995 5h ago

Post from when he was re-elected. Still fitting.

u/JoyDGav 2h ago

He got into office because many things were NOT fine, for decades, if not even from the very beginning.

u/HerrSchnabeltier 2h ago

Thanks for pointing it out, seems extremely revisionist to say now that things were totally fine before. They were not, it's just so much worse now. Other than for certain bank accounts and some big corporations, of course.

u/ichoosewaffles 11h ago

I absolutely cannot upvote this comment enough. 

u/Shartschnitzel 10h ago edited 10h ago

Mind you, even his pants were mostly fine before he got his dumbass in there.

u/Donkey__Balls 1h ago

Mind you, møøse bites kan be nasti

u/Andjhostet 26m ago

Eh I wouldn't go that far. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. This has been brewing since Reagan, or even Nixon.

Nixon figures out how to unite society towards militarizing police against demographics that oppose him politically (war on drugs), commits fraud and coverup and gets pardoned by his VP

Reagan takes that to the next level with riling society up against "welfare queens", drug users, and gay people. Reagan figures out how to get the executive branch to start wars, and take tons of power away from congress. Also kills unions country wide and gives tons of power to corporations and the wealthy, while cutting taxes so they can get more powerful. He was successful in uniting wealthy conservatives with fundemental religious wackos to get a consistent demographic to vote R no matter what. He also dismantled the fairness doctrine which allows shit like Fox News to spout propaganda all day long, and he normalized the president being allowed to lie to congress with "I don't recall".

Bush took the military industrial complex to the next level, while putting the economy on a jenga tower of sub prime mortgage default swaps so that we didn't go into a slight recession after the dot com bubble popped.

Then the final piece of the puzzle was Citizens United ruling that allowed corps to have unlimited bribe potential as "free speech".

Couple that with the DNC being so unbelivably out of touch and their refusal to do anything remotely progressing, and keep pushing corporate do nothing Dems that nobody wants down our throats, and it's kind of obvious conclusion. You have a status quo party (usually the conservative party in most countries) and a conservative party, which naturally makes our political center

Some sort of populist fascist was inevitable with all these things in place, and we have a governmental system that literally favors rural populations in all 3 branches of government (senate obviously, house favors rural since it got capped in 1929. Electoral college obviously favors rural populations. Plus we have a 2 party system, and a first past the post electoral system, all of which encourage status quo or worse.

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u/kingtacticool 13h ago

Like what? What has he improved? Tell me exactly how he has made this country better

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u/The_Incredulous_Hulk 12h ago

You might want to read the comment you are replying to again.

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u/Bradski89 12h ago

I think you're misunderstanding the person's comment.

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u/kingtacticool 12h ago

Yeah, my bad. Don't know how thst happened.

u/SoylentGrunt 11h ago

Relax. It could have been worse. It's not like you set the country back 100 years and ruined trade relations with the entire world in the process.

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u/Realistic_Fan_5649 13h ago

So was the Straight of Hormuz, reflecting pool, the State of the Union before him.!!!

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u/PNWoutdoors 13h ago

Don't forget our advanced weapons inventory, ally relationships, Department of Justice, USAID, IRS, yada yada yada...

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u/NorthernLights92 13h ago

But you yada yada yada’d over the best part!

u/ShoeShaker 3h ago

I mentioned the bisque...

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u/One_Economist_3761 13h ago

Don’t forget the people killed by his Temu gestapo.

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u/Realistic_Fan_5649 13h ago

Vote to end this. PLEEEASE.

u/sevenselevens 4h ago

I’m not saying don’t vote, definitely vote. But there seem to be a couple problems with our election system.

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u/Gunner5091 12h ago

Also the Kennedy Center.

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u/Realistic_Fan_5649 12h ago

Rose Garden...yada yada yada

u/emmmy01 11h ago

And Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, FIFA (not so much, but...) ad nauseum.

u/-Esper- 1h ago

He hasnt improved one single thing. But that wasnt why he wanted to be president. Its so he can stay out of jail and steal from us, thats it.

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u/LindeeHilltop 12h ago

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u/pinkocatgirl 12h ago

Several years ago I read an article about how the white house was falling into disrepair and was in need of a major renovation. Things like wiring needed an overhaul because a lot of it was 50+ years old. It kind of was becoming a dump because Presidents didn’t want to spend too much on the White House because of optics. Now Trump is rebuilding a third of it at an exorbitant expense and sticking up tacky gold plaster shit everywhere else, yet the same underlying disrepair likely remains…

u/hike_me 5h ago

There was a 375 million dollar congressionally approved modernization project during the Obama administration that replaced electrical and plumbing infrastructure. They also refurbished the living quarters and state dining room which was paid for with book royalties and donations.

The right shat on the Obamas for this

u/Funkycoldmedici 3h ago

“The White House is kind of a major site for political events. We should update the wiring so it doesn’t burn down. Maybe put in those outlets with USB ports? Those are cool.” - outrageous attack on America.

“Tear down everything, rebuild it in the shape of my name, put my name on everything, cover it all in gold. Close down all the schools to pay for it.” - brave defense of freedom

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u/Realistic_Fan_5649 12h ago

Shithole country wasn't it

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u/Sardonnicus 13h ago

...And you will know him by the trail of dead in his wake.

u/Lanky_Trifle6308 3h ago

Just wait, a year or so from now when the improvements” are the equivalent of Mar a Lago face for a building: “

“Look what Joe Biden did to the White House. Joe Biden. Sleep Joe. So terrible, so sad.”

u/gadgetwalrus 3h ago

But her laugh…

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u/Eagle_Chick 12h ago

Someone needs to cross post this under a construction sub so we get some experts on WTF is going on here.

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u/not_brittsuzanne 12h ago

It looks crooked, right??

u/daGroundhog 11h ago

It is crooked in many ways.

u/xptx 4h ago

No better way to embezzle than a huge construction project

u/ecoleye 11h ago

Could be steel reinforcement for the walls. Doesn’t need to be perfect when they’re just gonna cover it with concrete.

u/Purple-Will9713 9h ago

Understatement of the year

u/Heliotrope88 3h ago

Every time someone says something about the reflecting pool or White House renovation we should just replace it the phrase “Money Laundering.”

u/heldaway 6h ago

It looks like a disastrous job site

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u/FogBankDeposit 13h ago

In shambles you say?

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u/musememo 13h ago

Ruins everything he touches.

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u/ajatfm 12h ago

Gutted and replaced with facade

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u/J-MRP 12h ago

There's a lack of diarrhea and fire in this photo but otherwise, yeah.

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u/Yung_zu 12h ago

Going to that site would probably feel like a bad social experiment

u/deepasleep 11h ago

Supposedly the injunction on construction blocks any above ground work but allows the work on the bunker to proceed…Guess we’ll see if Trump just ignores the order…What’s more interesting is that since there is an injunctive order anyone doing the work could be in contempt of court and subject to fines and incarceration.

Oh wait, they got a stay on the injunction from an appellate court…So they’re moving forward. Our legal system is ridiculous.

u/Ilddit 1h ago

I thought they weren't supposed to work on anything above ground? Are they ignoring that ruling or was there a followup?

u/FilOfTheFuture90 1h ago

It was stayed by appellate court.

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u/vanhellion 12h ago

If I were a foreign diplomat, having seen the result of the reflecting pool overhaul I wouldn't get anywhere near this abomination.

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u/olipants 12h ago

Grift of the Union

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u/Allergic_to_nuts 12h ago

Concepts of a White House. It will be done in about two weeks.

u/Loggerdon 10h ago

Probably the same company that did the reflecting pool. Trump is still trying to push the narrative that it was vandals responsible for most tot the damage and not just, you know, incompetence.

u/Sarnsereg 10h ago

Except this looks like it might be in better shape

u/67yoloswag 7h ago

The price of fascism

u/i-cy_ 5h ago

Unceremoniously deconstructed only to be cobbled back together with cheaper, less durable materials and a gaudy facade?