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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

three years ago today, I was in the White House. glad I got to see it before Donny fucked it all to shit

http://smirkingchimp.com/images/wh-me.jpg

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Thank God that Trump has not touched any part of the original White House. The wall that was knocked down was part of the East Wing, the addition built by Teddy Roosevelt around 1900. The East Wing houses the offices of the First Lady, just as the West Wing houses the offices of the President. I knew that there would be demolition involved when Trump announced that the First Lady's offices would be moved during the construction process.

BTW, we're gonna blow up the damn ballroom

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skangirl's avatar

Imagine when we blow it up! It will be a giant gold-colored glitter bomb. We need drones and satellites to catch all the action. (I'll add that to my short list of "reasons to live." So far, it's: Outlive him; and now the vision of a glitter bomb.)

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A.J. Madison's avatar

No need for pyrotechnics. Though as a symbolic gesture, the next Dem administration should blow something of Dump's up. It will be a long campaign, but I am now very sure we will overcome Twumpy and the MAGAs. Even MAGA has shrunk down to the psychotic hard core extremists. And once we've replaced this shit government, and like Nixon, We Will Erase Him. Restore the Rose Garden, tear down his shitly ballroom, restore a democratic (small d) government. Will it take decades to restore all that he destroyed in just his first year. But we won't stop until it's all gone. And the first elected Repub who sighs about "the good MAGA days" will be unemployed so fast, his head will spin.

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john augustine's avatar

I doubt dems will have the stamina to blow it up but we will see

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skangirl's avatar

But we know the best people. Some of them know how to blow up shit!

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Right. All we have to do is find someone missing a few fingers.

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Barbara Baldwin's avatar

It will be like when the judges hit that golden buzzer for a singer they like and gold glitter rains down. 😆

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arne link's avatar

I fear that the original building will also be attacked Who will stop him?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Not a soul can, nor will make any attempt to stop his insanity Arne!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

All it would take would be 4 RepubliCON Senators and 3 Congress critters to defect and put some brake action on all this BullShit.

7 people could turn this whole shit show around.

So frustrating.

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

There aren’t 7 republicans who care more about the country than they do about their own chances of keeping their Cush job with all the benefits that go with it. There isn’t a real patriot in the Republican Party.

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Diane J's avatar

It's likely the Epstein files are being held by Chunky Cheeto to blackmail more than 7 Republicans into not stopping him.

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Tully's avatar

I've got a feeling there's even a couple of SC Justices in those files.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

They're terrified of being "retributioned"

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You’re right of course Ole, but that quiver, searching for a spine to crawl up in this GOP won’t be finding one soon!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The transnational criminal syndicate has taken over America, our billionaire overlords own us! We’re denizens of a place where there are no laws, nor penalties for their crimes and corruption… colour me disgusted!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The private companies who donated $5 million each on average will own the Ballroom: "Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir and NextEra Energy have donated, and so have firms in the tech, manufacturing, banking and health industries, sources told CBS News." This has nothing to do with improving federal property for the benefit of the public. It's a monument to a coup.

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Joan Diehl's avatar

Sharon, you are exactly correct. “It’s a monument to a coup”. And the weasels have plans to move in permanently. DJT, his family and their felonious allies now own the United States of America. And the dumbass, racist MAGA christian nationalists presented it to him on a gold plated, tarnished platter.

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Tully's avatar

They don't own it yet. I'm not willing to concede to that.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Nor am I!😡😡

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Great way to put it.

I look forward to its demolition once sanity returns.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Which one will get naming rights? 🤔

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Dad.

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

This is a good list of corporations to begin our economic shutdown. Apple and Amazon are likely add ons.

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Diane J's avatar

I'm disgusted at their attempts to take over but I'm not about to let the bastards own me- WE THE PEOPLE should and can control this country as long as we're willing to fight forr

for it. We've been doing it intermittently since the Revolutionary War, have we become a nation of cowards now?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Hardly a nation of poltroons Diane, a nation of serfs…where the billionaire class is about to find out how much anger and disgust has been percolating since the treasonous Reagan was elected!

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Zija Pulp's avatar

When do we strike and for how long? Start with one day and then add a few more, or start with a week?

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Diane J's avatar

Obviously you never saw or parti ipated in a union strike. You just quit working, keep protesting alone or with others until either an agreement or compromise is reached.

It lasts as long as newded.

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Randy Nerbas's avatar

Not cowards. Comfortable. Very comfortable in your situations and until folks get very uncomfortable, they'll kinda wait it out. The question is gonna be a matter of timing. Will they get very uncomfortable before it's too late?

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Davos Man is destroying the earth.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

In my state, private homeowners whose homes are designated as historical must follow strict guidelines if repairing or renovating. Privately owned. And this huge asshole does this to the White House? Fuck.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

It’s ‘in your face’ all the time with this revenge machine. May he fall far and fast. Which I still pray will happen with such rapidity that it leaves both sides gasping

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Right there with you, pal

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Mingo's avatar

I was sickened by the destruction to the "peoples house". A wise man once said "everything Trump touches dies". Look on the bright side, he's destroyed the wing for the First Lady. Now she should be relegated to the Rose Garden Club, aka Parking Lot Club as an attendant. She can relive her former days doing "favors" for rich clients.

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Tully's avatar

She hasn't been living there this go-around anyway. She'll just have to share Kegbreath's make-up room when she's required to show up for a party.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

No Trump didn't consult the board that was supposed to approve these things.

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shee-rah's avatar

Dicktators never have to get permission. They just do whatever the f**k they want.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Don't put it past him He doesn't intend to leave except feet first, and then have Dooner takeover. Vance is a placeholder until he suspends the Cobstitution.

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P123Sunny's avatar

“… as soon as #Trump fails, the Ballroom will have to be demolished and the #Whitehouse will have to be gutted because of all the foreign bugs, and other devices embedded in that fake gold.”

- @garycur.bsky.social

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george  campbell's avatar

Just like the US Embassy was in Moscow decades ago . More hidden spy devices than you could count .

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Chet Brandt's avatar

I will add the “gifted” Jet from Qatar is probably riddled with spyware as well!

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Linda Weide's avatar

It is early days. Best not to even print things you don't want Donnie to do, because if he hears about it, he will go ahead and do it, if it suits his fancy.

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Tully's avatar

Just like I bet the demolition crew was called to be there the day after the largest demonstration against him as his revenge for all of us hurting his feelings again. Everything with this sick man is transactional retribution.

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Jeanne Leduc's avatar

Well it's not like that was being used it's wife is never there, except for events...

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Chet Brandt's avatar

I don’t think LDFF knows where the Slovenian “wife” is half the time.

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DJS's avatar

The way he's been hitting on "very beautiful women" lately, openly and publicly, seems like he considers himself to be untethered to his third wife. Probably too old for him anyway.

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John DesMarteau's avatar

Regardless of whatever the SCOTUS6 say, and if there’s any justice some of them need to go to jail, so they can whine from there, Trump will have to bear the cost to restore the WH and Rose Garden to what it was before he and what’s her name screwed it up.

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

He’s Never paid for ANYTHING in his life-maybe the3rd wife.🤢

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Runfastandwin's avatar

I hope so.

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Constance Karakelian's avatar

Hope so🤞🤞🤞

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Norma's avatar

Wha fucking First Lady lol. She’s mia

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Yes! Let's do the Hockey-Pockey and turn it around!

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john augustine's avatar

oh he has more than 3 years to get to it

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

Maybe use it for swearing in immigrants and parties for regular folk.

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Jill Palethorpe's avatar

PASS THE SEMTEX

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

But it's going to be a wonderful day when We the People blow the ballroom up!

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I'd buy a brick to chuck at that

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Charles Austin's avatar

I prefer a Lewes bomb.😂😂

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Just before blowing the ballroom up, We The People will rename it the Donald Trump Narcoleptic Fart Concentration Center and Monument to Stupidity

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Theresa Breach's avatar

Jeff , you scrub up nicely !

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

except for the part where I was halfway to Washington before I realized that I'd left the garment bag with my nice suit and tie in it at home. fortunately, the clothes I was traveling in were acceptable, if a tad casual

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P123Sunny's avatar

*part of yr charm*

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

Looking fine!

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Barbara Baldwin's avatar

Like the time I had to travel for work and packed all my suit jackets but somehow left all the matching skirts at home. That was an interesting sartorial week. 😆

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Well Jeff, Since, the Dog Killer has gone and purchased Ethnic Cleansing gear for DHS, I think we should all be worried.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/ice-didn-t-buy-crowd-control-they-bought-gear-for-ethnic-cleansing

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Patricia Biswanger's avatar

I read that she's also buying herself two brand-new Gulfstream private jets. How nice for her.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Not just any Gulfstream, but the flagship G700

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Well, they’re not “brand-new,” but used instead. I’m surprised she agreed to someone else’s leftovers.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Both jets bought for $172 million dollars— a lot of cash for used aircraft.

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Charles Austin's avatar

My kingdom(🤣🤣)for a couple of Stingers.😂😂

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

My kingdom for House/Senate minority leaders with balls bigger than Tic Tacs 🔍👀

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Bungalow Baby's avatar

Oh man, that article you linked is beyond highly disturbing. WHO fights back against this, that’s what I want to know. I’m doing all I can but I can’t physically fight back. I’m soon 73 and a woman. Can you answer me who is going to fight back physically?

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Wendymae's avatar

Maybe ICE needs those weapons for the coming military coup against the mad king? At this point that's the only thing that will likely stop him, so he needs his own army.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Dubious Wendymae, considering everything we know of P2025!

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Charles Austin's avatar

That's what ICE is.

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Marie Martin's avatar

@Wendy the Druid… Not sure if you realize that your link takes reader out of the original source, and drives reader into a loop to your substack with no way out except backing waaay out to substack home page to reselect one’s original source.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Because the source isn’t Substack. The source is hosted on enterprise licensed Beehiiv.

I won’t host content on Substack anymore because as a trans woman , the nazis , magas , and far rights on Substack flood my DMs, comments, etc.

my long form on Substack meant I spent more time banning and removing shit comments than I did actually writing.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Substack is def a love/hate relationship

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

The bile is coursing through every part of me after reading your post. Terrifying to think that this information is being hidden. It belongs above the fold and on every channel. Thank you for sharing. My anxiety and anger is overwhelming.

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Holy Shit Wendy. *700%*!

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Was it a coincidence that Congress is MIA when the demolition began? I THINK NOT. Let's sue President Diarrhea into the next fucking century! I'm beyond rage at the moment, I can barely type. It's the People's House, not his. He's only renting it while he and "his family" are there. That's IT. We must vote in every local, state, and federal election to get these MF repugnicans out of power. My new health plan is to outlive these evil fucks.

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Richard Dorset's avatar

Nor was it a coincidence that the demolition began on the Monday after the No Kings weekend. Yet another middle finger to America

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

There are no coincidences Stranger, you’re correct!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Coincidences take careful planning.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You’re so on your game Kristy!

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Joseph Luongo's avatar

That was depressing as hell. If it’s any consolation, I believe the demo company who took down Bonwit Teller is still waiting to be paid

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Well That’s a Surprise…

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Here’s the perfect name for that disgusting eyesore: The Jeffrey Edward Epstein Memorial Ballroom. Let’s spread it around.

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Steve Kelly's avatar

I was there many years ago on a special tour. Even got into the Oval Office. But I went to the National Geographic Building right afterwards and like it more. I wouldn't go anywhere near the White House today, because that motherfucker has ruined it.

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Marla's avatar

The stench alone...

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Disgusting. That's our house! Or it used to be.

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Charles Austin's avatar

It STILL is!

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Linda Weide's avatar

The New Versailles is ready for a revolution under "Donnie the XVI".

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Bikracer's avatar

I’ve never been and have always wanted to go. Too late now. 😭

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Margaret's avatar

Nice photo. Thanks and love.

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Chicky Mama's avatar

The next president won’t need to get a brick for me, I’ll gladly bring an entire pallet!

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Luck out.

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Norma's avatar

Great photo Jeff!

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Lovely photo Jeff. Can’t Believe donny Convict Pedo,has done that to The White House. What an uncouth asshole!

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P123Sunny's avatar

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

- @faineg.bsky.social

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kdsherpa's avatar

A reporter on MSNBC said that the timing isn't coincidental.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

This much is clear.

He is swinging his little mushroom peen around, trying to assert his authoritiii! But here's the thing: it's *intended* to make us sick and make us feel helpless. It's not working, though. He knows it. Congress knows it. His entire cabinet knows it. He engages in petty vandalism while his flying monkeys make the talk show circuit screeching about how we're all Antifa Terrorists Who Hate America. That's all they got. They're panicking. People do stupid things when they panic.

A peaceful mass demonstration shows two things: 1) the people are disciplined enough to avoid the violence 2) the massive scale of the people who are thoroughly disgusted and want to see the regime removed now. It's like a little old lady in a dark alley calmly opening up her trench coat to reveal a sawed-off shotgun. In their tiny reptilian minds, their threat assessment capability can put 1 and 2 together and extrapolate out what a bridge-too-far provocation could result in.

On Saturday, we achieved two-thirds of the magical "3.5%" needed to oust an authoritarian regime (I work with numbers, so I'm a little skeptical about how hard-and-fast this 'rule' is). The pain is ramping up, they are squealing like stuck pigs and thrashing around trying to generate more and more provocations and distractions to throw us off. Little noted fact: the regime is losing assistant chiefs of staff and other key flunkies at an acceleration rate. People who know stuff we don't.

I'm waiting for THE THING. That THING may never come, it usually doesn't since history tends to be banal at the time. It could be some third-rate 7th-grade dropout ordering the seizure of civilian weapons, or a panicked and untrained ICE goon opening fire at 20 rounds per second on a crowd of protesters. It is *very* hard to maintain discipline enough to push just far enough but not over a line, and impossible if your operatives understand neither restraint nor subtlety.

It's like bankruptcy, slowly... slowly..,. and then all at once. (Apologies to Hemingway).

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Ole Anderson's avatar

This was my exact prediction in an earlier post- No telling what incident will kick off the events leading to trumps downfall ( Epstein Files ? )

But it will happen at such rapidity that it will leave both sides gasping.

Sooner the Better.

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

George, I think that was Fitzgerald. But, yeah - they have to make a huge mess before the 26 election. If there is one.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

🎯🎯🎯

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Doc Blase''s avatar

There will be one or FAFO.

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Cyndi's avatar

His handlers failed to screen his TV shows and he's having a Big Baby meltdown, apparently.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Trump tells people to look over there 👉 while he and the founders of Project 2025 dismantle our government

- @nissaoldefest.bsky.social

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kdsherpa's avatar

Interesting if something THIS catastrophic is a mere distraction. No, make that "horrifying".

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P123Sunny's avatar

It’s the ‘legal minds’ behind the scenes looking for loopholes that I worry about

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Coincidences take careful planning.

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P123Sunny's avatar

huh

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Charles Austin's avatar

Indeed.

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Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

REVENGE-DRIVEN RAGE-BABY has to RAGE, after all.

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Fatarae's avatar

So true.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

It's a kick in the gut. I have no words...for a change.

I hate it here.

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Heather Patrick's avatar

It brought me to tears when I saw the demolition….there is nothing sacred left in this country when that POS gets ahold of it. 😢

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P123Sunny's avatar

Tbh the Rose Garden was worse for me… just ‘numb’ now, I guess :/

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Yeah that was an abomination! That tramp getting it dug up-Awful

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Our club membership is growing Susan!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

How big is your Susan?

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Charles Austin's avatar

I'm sad and furious all at once. 😢😡😡

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Joyce's avatar

I cannot describe the blazing fury I feel over the destruction of the White House. Of course, I hate Donnie Demento with every fiber of my being, but my fury is also directed at Holy Brother Mike Johnson, Whatever His Name Is Thune, every other Republican in Congress pulling down a paycheck for absolutely nothing, and every media outlet that is not covering this 24 hours a day.

I curse them all; I honestly hope to hear soon that all of them are suffering terribly from something--I don't care what, as long as it's extremely painful and terminal.

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J Glaspie's avatar

Ditto

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Sue Martin's avatar

Full-body cases of Shingles...every fucking one of them!! And I'm the Pharmacy Nazi shouting "No meds for you!!!"

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Please add Sen. John Cornyn to your curses. His ads bragging about his 90 percent pro-Trump voting record are driving me nuts!

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Charles Austin's avatar

Being impaled on a pike works for me.

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Catherine's avatar

Grindr mike johnson

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shee-rah's avatar

There’s probably asbestos somewhere in the rubble. Breathe deeply, Donny.

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rlritt's avatar

He could have been stopped by Congress if they were in session. But Mikey Johnson is never going to open congress for business. He knew by forcing a vote to remove Healthcare, the Democrats would not vote. Therefore Congress shutdown. That was the plan all along. Johnson will go down in history the weasle who helped destroy the US democracy. Congress will never open. Epstein files will never see the light of day. Trump will do wants and there is no Congress to stop him. Thanks Mikey. I hope you get the Trump promised you, but dont hold your breath.

I hate him with heat of a 1,000 fiery suns!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I think you’re right. Project 2025 calls for the abolition of Congress. They’re not going to reopen the federal government. Who’s going to make them do so? The Epstein files will never be released because the global billionaire oligarchs are all involved in one way or another. There will be fraud and manipulation in any elections that may be allowed to take place. Like Mongo says in Blazing Saddles, we are only pawns in game of life.

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Zida Borcich's avatar

Somebody is going to grow a conscience and leak the damn files and then, buddy, look out. 👀

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HMorgan's avatar

🙏 please please please!

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shee-rah's avatar

The Epstein victims are supposedly compiling their own list of perpetrators.

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Jan Moon's avatar

And may the fleas of a thousand camels nest in his lying, smirking mouth.

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Sooz Hall's avatar

I was thinking groin, but I’ll take mouth.

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Cyndi's avatar

I think you may be giving Unholy Mike credit for more brains than he deserves.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, right?

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rlritt's avatar

I agree. He didnt come up with this idea himself. He is just following orders.

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Leu2500's avatar

France sending an ex president to prison is getting off light. They chopped off the head of a king. Btw, I think I read that they have a used guillotine in storage. Wonder if they’d like to sell it.

And Karma needs to send a hurricane straight thru Mar A Lago.

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Katy Lea's avatar

Hell, I bet they'd give it to us if they knew what we were going to use it for.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I live two miles away from Mar a Lardo.

Don’t be wishing any Hurricanes our way!

A fall down the steps of AF One works just as well and I won’t be collateral damage.

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Have you been streaming my No. 1 favorite dream? Fat butt over blonde ratsnest, over and over and over. What a perfect end!

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

I prefer giant sinkhole underneath it. My apologies to the memory of Marjorie Merriwether Post

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PTW's avatar

My #NoKings sign says MAKE GUILLOTINES GREAT AGAIN.

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Charles Austin's avatar

🤣🤣😂😂

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Ann Anderson's avatar

In December 1980, I performed in the East Room for the last party of the Carter Administration (long story.) I wish I could post the photo on Substack, but you'll have to take my word for it. The room was beautiful and a big enough ballroom for any functioning government. Now the room is history because little Donny took a backhoe to all of us. Anyone who believes anything that fucking felon says... The laws are irrelevant. Congress is irrelevant. SCOTUS is in the tank. Would someone please pass Donny another quarter pounder with extra cheese and a side of everything else? Cholesterol, you're our only hope.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

You can post a photo. Restack your own post with a note, add a photo, and there you are.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Thanks!

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Dan Beach's avatar

He does it "because he can." Next: Ghislaine's pardon and the deep-sizing of the entire Epstein report (which has by now had so many redactions one could hold it up to watch a solar eclipse.) Until someone/something has the balls to say "Enough," "Basta," in my language, the bulldozers, real and figurative, will continue to roll over everything. And we will lose our essence.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

besides, who’s going to stop him?

No one, that’s who. No one is going to stop him from anything. Seems pretty obvious by now.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Nothing is sacred. The entire Republican party is solidly behind him. It makes me sick.

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P123Sunny's avatar

How abt the msm stick a microphone in every one of their faces and get a statement ON THE RECORD…?😡

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

According to Eric Swalwell,(D) there are 100 Repubs ready to defect from Trump when the Epstein files are released. Jaime Raskin concurred. https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/epstein-bomb-about-to-explode-100-republicans-ready-to-flee-trump-swalwell-claims/amp_articleshow/124423304.cms

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Kim Steeves's avatar

But do they have the balls to do it publicly?

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Well I think if they want to save any dignity for themselves, yes. I mean they not have even that left in their repertoire…

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I call BullShit

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Charles Austin's avatar

We need to turn up the heat.

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Cassandrashuman's avatar

As he gets progressively more outrageous, holy maga mike (aka tiny johnson) has effectively disbanded Congress for him and his scotuses have demolished the Courts. There’s apparently no red line for them as this gets progressively worse — not war crimes, not demolishing a historical landmark, not sending thugs to murder people in Dem cities. Not many options left to we the people.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

It’s like he sent the backhoes to the White House as a way to tell the whole country: “Do you get it now?”

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Gina's avatar

he's so ghastly in every respect - how he's worshipped and feared and supported is something I just CANNOT understand

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

You've captured it. My heart is cracked.

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Cassandrashuman's avatar

Mine, too 💔

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P123Sunny's avatar

The first casualty was the Rose Garden - and he got re elected, so there’s that… 😓

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Joyce's avatar

I wish I could remember who described the former Rose Garden as now looking like the outdoor food court at Chipolte.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂 Well, thats accurate!!

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Charles Austin's avatar

🤣🤣😂😂

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shee-rah's avatar

But catered by McDonald’s.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

Where have all the flowers gone - long time passing. PP+M.

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Roberto's avatar

Trump doesn't own the White House. We, the people, own the White House. He is merely a temporary resident. And how did that extra $50 million slip in? When he first started jabbering about a ballroom, he said the price was $200 million. Now it's $250 million. He should be impeached, convicted, and imprisoned for his many crimes against the American people, including this abominable desecration of a historic landmark.

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kdsherpa's avatar

It'll go up to a billion, without a doubt.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Of which he'll pocket $750M

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Roberto, let’s see the price quotes (should be 3) itemized. One million dollars is still a lot of money and start the cuts now.

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Moira O'Neill's avatar

Identify the contractors doing the illegal work and make this their last job. Stop the job and leave the gaping destruction as is for all time to remind us of the madness we’ve allowed to happen. The National Trumpocaust Museum of Shame

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Sarah Anderson's avatar

At least two have been identified on Threads: ACECO LLC & Clark Construction.

Isn’t this “destruction of federal property”? Can’t these companies be held liable at some point (assuming we get to the point where this could happen)?

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Gina's avatar

they'll get stiffed - who would work for trump?

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

They won’t get stiffed. He’s paying them with OUR money.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Gina, there will be no stiffing and which mafioso is ‘doing the job?’ .

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Charles Austin's avatar

No trace of this rutting pig can remain.

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kdsherpa's avatar

On another substack, someone wrote that they believe this is the preparation for a Orange-Pedophilic-Sadist-Tower replacing The People's House. I was horrified. Then I realized it's a real, ghastly possibility. As MzNicky wrote, "who's going to stop him?"

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Dina's avatar

This is what I've been wondering—how long before he brings in the demolition crews to take down the rest of the White House to replace it with one of his godawful towers.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

At this point, only death.

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

His Big Ugly Beautification Plan includes demolishing the Social Security Building, which also contains historic murals, to make way for his Arc de Trump. What's missing? Oh yes, a Coliseum for his bread and circuses followers.

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arne link's avatar

There might be an accidental mishap with the bulldozers. It would not surprise me at all.

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Dina's avatar

Eh, if anyone gets hurt they're just bury THEM under the ballroom, too.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Ya think?

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Jane's avatar

🤬🤬🤬

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Cyndi's avatar

I think he wants one on the land Florida wants to donate for his "presidential library".

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kdsherpa's avatar

Excuse me while I puke.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Well up until now, the wrecking ball Trump was using on our country was metaphorical (which certainly was horrific). But now it’s quite literal. How in the fuck can this asshole make the unilateral decision to destroy America’s house? Our HOA board has more rules than Congress and SCITUS put together.

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Susie's avatar

Right?!?!?

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Norma's avatar

No doubt! I need permission to install a fence!

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Lois Henry's avatar

Will people please take a hard look at the demolished East Wing and finally get it through your heads that this is NOT TEMPORARY. Everyone living in La-La land who believes the next vote will make anything go back the way it was, do you get the picture now? The Trump damage is permanent.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Yep. He’s never leaving. He’s trying to recreate DC in his own image.

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Lois Henry's avatar

Everything of value hollowed out to make room for tacky ego stuffing.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The Project 2025 plutocrats from the perversely-named Heritage Foundation also want to monumentalize their obscene wealth and power. This is their legacy.

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Charles Austin's avatar

He's leaving, one way or the other.😡😡

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Kim Steeves's avatar

I completely concur with your assessment. I hope that I am wrong, but do think the next vote will not happen or the outcome will not be honoured.

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Lois Henry's avatar

I don’t know but I suspect it will make January 6 look tame. He has his own armed militia now and most of the sane people who were in charge of voting have been fired or left in fury and disgust.

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Kim Steeves's avatar

Also Dominion voting machines have been sold to a Republican. So trust level of the machines now?

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Charles Austin's avatar

Vote on a hand marked paper ballot. I request one every time I vote. Never vote on a machine.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

If the Supreme Court allows him to send troops to American cities, we can kiss the midterms goodbye.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

It looks like it's been bombed, which was probably King Shitheads original plan.

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Koko in AZ's avatar

When the regime is dead, the next POTUS must fix the Oval Office, demolish the vanity ballroom and rebuild the proper East Wing and demolish the proposed "Arc de Trump" whenever it is inevitably built.

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