No more Rose Garden???

[rareboy]

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[cityboy-stl]

There's going to be a lot of conspiracy theories floating around. They may even be planning to build a pizza parlor where they hide the abducted children before they harvest their adrenal glands.

On a serious note, I will observe that there's been a surprising number of despots who have been hauled out of bunkers in the past century... alive, or dead.

Well...there are a number of things that were considered hyperbole or conspiracy theories floating a year or two ago that he is actually doing and are reality right now. We shall see..........

 

[Dargelos]

Once construction gets underway, the site will be swarming with labourers and then ICE will turn up and arrest them all.

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

Once construction gets underway, the site will be swarming with labourers and then ICE will turn up and arrest them all.

Oddly enough, the comapny doing the demolition has not apparently been targeted by ICE.

Meanwhile, because he has crowned himself King and the SC says he is:


, because

 

[rareboy]

And...this is an architectural historian's fucking nightmare.

How to reduce the original White House building to a feeble, irrelevant footnote.

 

[rareboy]

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And to put this in pespective, when Trump says that no taxpayer money is being spent on this vanity project, what is really happening is that instead of paying taxes that will go to saving lives, improving health and education and preserving the middle class, the oligarchs are giving a fraction of what they should be paying in taxes to build themselves a
palace to be entertained in. So yeah, in reality, it is taxpayers who are paying for this monstrosity.

 

[rareboy]

Inside the ballroom of the winter palace in St. Petersburg where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed
in a country where Russians were starving.

 

[KaraBulut]

Several groups in Washington DC are raising the red flag about airborne asbestos that may have been released by the East Wing teardown:

https://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/newsroom/blogs/white-house-demolition-risk/

Demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House began this week as Donald Trump’s new privately-funded ballroom project has begun. While photos of the demolition caused shock and dismay from the public, it also raised immediate concerns about the impact on public health and safety. The East Wing is more than 100 years old, with portions constructed initially in 1902 and later additions added in 1942, at the height of our nation’s use of toxic asbestos in construction.

EPA and OSHA standards set a national benchmark for responsible, transparent construction, demolitions, and repairs, and they are important standards that the White House should uphold and model. Public documentation of compliance demonstrates how high-profile, privately funded projects uphold the worker-protection and environmental-safety laws that are expected of every job site in America. So far, there has been no public announcement of such compliance.

 

[rareboy]

As though Trump would care.

He doesn't beleive in either EPA or OSHA...like many developers.

I am sure that the HEPA filters on the White House AC system will filter it all out so that he doesn't have to worry.

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

Obviously it will go to appeal immediately and end up in the SC.

 

[KaraBulut]

Obviously it will go to appeal immediately and end up in the SC.

Something tells me Trump will be residing in a plot at one of his golf properties by the time SCOTUS gets that case.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Something tells me Trump will be residing in a plot at one of his golf properties by the time SCOTUS gets that case.

Can we get it to SCOTUS next week?

 

[rareboy]

By the way. I can't find anything on line about the project being stopped by a judge.

Only that a court will rule soon.

And given that a whole chunk of this project will be a new bunker for the Prez and staff....I am not hopeful it actually will be stopped or even downsized.

Federal court may rule soon on White House ballroom construction

Judge Richard Leon of Washington’s district court expects to decide this month whether to issue a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration.

abc3340.com

 

[KaraBulut]

By the way. I can't find anything on line about the project being stopped by a judge.

That meme is premature.

Here's the hearing discussion. It didn't go well for the Trump Administration but yes, it does sound like the final opinion is pending.

I Have the Transcript of the Hearing Last Week About Trump's Efforts to Demolish the East Wing of the White House, and It's *FAB*ulous!

This is a 48-page transcript (it's the one that I paid over $300 to get - Notes from the Front members, it's in your inbox now) and it is chock-full of goodness! If you liked administration lawyer Mr. Hamilton for entertainment value, you are going to loooove Mr. Roth! First, OMFG! They are...

annepmitchell.substack.com

The judge's demeanor reminds me of graduate school dissertation defense session. Ouch!

"Where do you see it?"

THE COURT: Well, where do you see in 105 the authority to the president to take down the East Wing and put up a new East Wing? Where do you see that in the specific language of 105 which is very specific about what the funds are being used for?

MR. ROTH: Yes, Your Honor.

THE COURT: Where do you see it?

MR. ROTH: So we think it's found in "alteration and improvement." We think "alteration and improvement" are capacious enough terms to include improving, you know -- replacing --

"Be serious!"

THE COURT: And your best effort to demonstrate to this Court that the Congress intended this to be used for a purpose of this size and proportion on an icon that's a national institution is what? Is what?

MR. ROTH: Well, Your Honor, I think that I would point to the OLC opinion. Obviously, a pool is different.

THE COURT: The '77 --

MR. ROTH: Yeah.

THE COURT: The Gerald Ford swimming pool? You
compare that to ripping down the East Wing and building a new East Wing? Come on.

MR. ROTH: I'm not comparing --

THE COURT: Be serious

"You did the best you could".

MR. ROTH: Your Honor, did I address all the questions that Your Honor had at the outset?

THE COURT: You did the best you could.

 

[rareboy]

I am sure that by the time the courts rule on it, it will be undergoing renovation.

But nothing would fell Trump as hard as having to delay his project.

Although the GQP would probably stop all other business to get thim the retroactive approvals needed.

What gets lost here all the time that makes the project inevitable is that it also replaces the bunkers to house the President, family and staff in the event of an attack.

[Dead Link: Removed]

 

[KaraBulut]

As we predicted, they are planning a bunker under the "ballroom". A "military complex" under the White House. Hmmm....

Trump was running his mouth and showing pictures of "corinthian columns" that he wants for the ballroom.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5807115-donald-trump-military-complex-white-house-ballroom/

President Trump said late Sunday that the U.S. military is “building a massive complex” under his controversial new White House ballroom.

“Now, the military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

“But the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction, and we’re doing very well,” the president said.

“We have all bulletproof glass, we have drone-proof roofs, ceilings,” the president added while shuffling through renderings of the project.

 

[rareboy]

We knew this and of course the entire intelligence community around the world knows this.

It is why this project won't be stopped.

This was always only cover for the bunker complex.

 

[KaraBulut]

...This was always only cover for the bunker complex.

Or to look at it another way, fish in a barrel.