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Wouldn't it be amazing that he would lose and have to put it back out of his own pocket? I mean won't happen in this reality as we're all in hell but still would be nice to think about.

If you're sending Jason anyways you might as well have him fix the Supreme Court.

Cue SCOTUS saying, "It's the President's house! Of course he can renovate it!"

Bravo

I love how cartoonishly evil, dumb and uncharismatic he is, and americans were like: "let's see what he has to offer a second time."

History lesson in the future has to be absolute wild. People will imagine some well spoken George Clooney like person and then they see a video of Krang talking about grabbing pussy.

And about half of the US basically see him as their god.

I'd be up to join the class action suit. As a Canadian it's our right to be the ones to demolish the Whitehouse.

No. If courts decide that the demolition was illegal, he has to put it back exactly the way it was. It's not a free pass to "rebuild it the way he wants".

I'm the one who gets to pick how it's rebuilt

What if he's not, though? What if the courts ordered that the building must be rebuilt the way it was? I don't think that'll happen, but I wouldn't mind if it did.

A guy spray paints his favorite words under a bridge so he gets 10 years. Orange guy demolishes the most iconic building in the nation.... down to the ground... Jail? Nope, presidential!

You're right, but I think this falls into the "don't obey in advance" rule of resistance to autocracy.

I've long since lost the will to support this type of action, like yourself I suppose. Everything is fucked all the way down. You can't not-lose in a corrupt court system.

However, I think it's important that every authoritarian action is challenged, because if you don't challenge then you really are kind of obeying in advance.

I am still waiting for Americans to use their guns to rise up against tyranny instead of using them to shoot minorities

In an all out war, (which I doubt will happen) all these guns in the population don't matter against drones, aircrafts, tanks and trained snipers or other soldiers. If the military and all other agencies decides to support Trump, all these weapons will be useless. The pentagon surely has plans for a civil uprising in their own country.

I don't think the US has enough ordinary citizen that would actually risk their lives for democracy, to make a difference. Media and social media is controlled by the oligarchy, and even the progressives don't seem to want to cut themselves loose of twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp, google, bluesky, discord and so on. Where would they even organize?

And yet you’d think with the whole right to bear arms and use it against kings would have kicked in already tho.

They still just use the guns on children and minorities.

This has been the most anticlimactic flex I’ve ever seen.

We will not be forgetting this one should another gun toting citizen from the US boast their reasons of the constitution.

Prepare to have this thrown in all the faces for generations to come.

He don't need no stinking permits, he's a REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER!

Well, my mother is a Trumper and even she said the WH demo is "ridiculous and disgusting", so, maybe it's a crack to pry open with louder complaints to help open more eyes like hers.

People can be upset about multiple things. Just because I am upset about the White House being destroyed doesn't mean I am not also upset about the lives of Americans being destroyed.

"We" are not but some people might react stronger to this. I don't like it either, but every little bit helps.

I get this take and am in the same boat. The thing though is that the people who disapprove with trump is about the same as the number that "strongly disapprove" of trump. We have no more loathing to give.

Righting the ship will require breaking through to the disconnected and mildly red.

And the WH destruction is a) not a traditionally partisan issue, b) strongly symbolic, and c) a powerful visual.

So is it the worst thing he's doing? Not by a mile. Will I be happy if it wakes people up? Vehemently.

Hey, they got Capone on tax fraud

Well, it is Trump's #1 objective right now. Not reopening the government or funding SNAP. Those are poor people problems.

On one hand, yes, many Americans' morals are backwards and ideally humans being killed, brutalized and disappeared by this administration and it's agents would get more attention than an old building.

But on the other hand, that's unfortunately not where we're at. But where we are at is many people who would otherwise support or at least feel apathetic to what this administration is doing are appalled by the destruction of a national icon and I'll welcome any step towards eroding the support this administration has from a significant group of Americans.

Yes, we are. There are plenty of lawyers and resources to fight this admin on all fronts. Any attempt to put him in check is not a loss on another.

You can be more personally concerned about the people being thrown in gulags and blown up on fishing boats - rightfully so - but it doesn't stand to reason that this fight is not worthy of pursuit. Lawyers who specialize in zoning laws, permit violations, and historical building renovation processes surely shouldn't have their efforts dismissed.

Not to mention the fact there is really no reason for a ball room at the White House. They hold these events in more fitting venues.

This isn't a ball room though. This is a throne room for the great Hamberder King.