But again... He's 80. So..
They pile up everyone past 70, cuz there aren't many left by that age.
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I really need people to start to realize that we're at least a full decade further into the erosion and decline of the United States than most people seem to think we are. Trump is a symptom of an already sick and dying system. This isn't a fluke
I've been screaming for people to realize that the law doesn't matter if nobody is enforcing it
Europe should invade and force a regime change, liberate the US citizens.
Invading the US would be extremely difficult.
Once again, this isn't about regime. It's a systemic issue. The U.S. is a net negative for everyone, especially it's own people. The only solution is end the whole thing and try something new
And just like every kinda country/ government it should come from it's own people not from a foreign power.
It will not last if it comes from outside, the one who got taken down before, always goes back to the fake patriotism and put another dictator in same place back in the end, if not the same fucker (see Napoleon for example).
We should view wealth as a foreign power. The ultra wealthy are divested from the care and keeping of the country, and the regular people in it. They are openly hostile to the citizens, exploiting them and extracting rent and labor from them; and they seek to usurp and control the government.
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Funny though. Americans seem to think they can cart Blanche take control of, oh I don’t know: Cuba, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Venezuela, Panama, and Iran and overthrow their governments with whatever right they seem to think they have. Hypocrisy much?
Edit. I forgot the Gulf of Mexico.
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Our government should come from well informed people, not a few oligarchs who tell people how to vote via a controlled media.
I say we nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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I'd be alright with the European Commission appointing an interim government here. I say this as a USian
No, thanks. Though I will admit the idea of holding some Nuremberg Trials to see who gets hanged is tantalizing.
No thank you, why should fixing their mess be our problem? I think the world should impose a quarantine on the U.S. instead, let the U.S. sort itself out.
Put the Untied States on time out until it behaves
I do agree travel bans should be used more often. No travel visas for Israels anywhere would be a good start.
Not touching that crap with a ten meter pole, thanks
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Growing up in New Zealand we looked up to the USA as most nations did
It has been downhill since 9/11
Exactly, the year before actually when Bush stole the election from Gore. To me that marks the start of the decline of the US.
Really though Reagan kicked it all off but the actual collapse started in 2000.
Alternative pitch, your politics were under developed in that era - and a lot of people in the mainstream culture were (through things like TV, an uncritical education system, and a lack of information) able to be politically inactive, and fairly unaware.
Because really you should have been sus on America and all the colonial countries and their parent countries for a long long time now.
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I sadly think we have another 10 to 15 of this at least, as well.
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I know it's a meme but I really wish they would quote sources. Now I have to look it up. The burden is on the one making the claim.
EDIT: Ok, I looked it up and it seems like BS. It may be true and would be easy to believe but White House maintenance is not a line item that is broken out. The amount spent is divided into many different buckets appropriated by Congress (probably on purpose) and is difficult if not impossible to determine. The term maintenance would need to be uniformly defined. Does it include secret service infrastructure, for instance? There have been a number of instances that have exceed $2.5M. It also seems pretty clear that Trump's "maintenance" budget is the highest ever. But Bush and Obama both spent hundreds of millions of dollars to essentially reinforce the aging structure.
You're welcome.
If you're going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS. The source took took me about 3 minutes to find. From the Washington Post:
The Executive Residence, which employs housekeepers, curators, calligraphers and carpenters, has not previously managed major construction efforts, experts said. In recent years, Congress has appropriated $2.5 million annually to its maintenance account, known as "White House Repair and Restoration."
Since Trump took office, the administration has directed $875 million to that account, public budget records show.
THE BURDON OF PROOF IS ON THE ONE MAKING THE CLAIM! You should have included the link in the first place. And I DID do research, where do you think the entire edit came from? Are those points covered in the Washington Post piece? I don't know because it's behind a pay wall and I'm not paying to verify a friggin meme on the Internet. According to the research I did, there simply is no line item that refers to White House Maintenance. It has to be derived by culminating a number of other allocations to come up with that answer because yes, other construction projects have been done there. They just weren't funded the same way. So you wind up getting apples and oranges.
MORE CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE! Do you bitch about every Political Memes post that lacks footnotes? That must keep you very, very busy, professor. It's hilarious that you first complain about no sources and when one is provided you then expect to be given a WA Post subscription so you can verify (and undoubtedly complain about) every word.
Why are the people who never post anything the same people who want to police what everyone else posts?
I want sources because I use them in arguments against people who support the crap that's happening. So yeah, I'm going to bitch when someone posts something I'm interested in without one, but instead puts the burden on every single reader who also wants to prevent the spread of misinformation.
And no I don't expect someone to give me a subscription to WAPO to verify the article. That's just you throwing around yet more hyperbole. And I'm pretty sure you know the vast majority of lemmings are not going to try to get around a pay wall, just to verify a post that already supports their opinion.
Also, get bent!
What a truly enormous ego you have there, professor. Only a raging narcissist would end an error-ridden comment with "You're welcome". Even so, responding to you at all was a bit foolish on my part. You started out mildly entertaining but quickly progressed to boring.
Ultimately I don't give a shit about your insults, your capitalized demands, or anything else you have to say. I'll continue to post exactly as I please, and you can continue to whine bitterly every time you see a post on Lemmy that doesn't meet your standards.
If you’re going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS.
What? Not how that works. Thanks for ultimately providing a source though.
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There was another option on the ballot which meant this wouldnt have happened.
With that weird laugh though????
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It's a data center. The ballroom is just the cover.
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom
Why would it be a datacenter? We have lots of federally controlled datacenters. And data can be transferred at the speed of light, even if they want a direct line from the white house to a dedicated datacenter it'd probably be built in northern Virginia
It's not a datacenter underneath, it's a luxury bunker. Trump alludes to it all the time when he talks about "the ballroom". He always speaks of the ballroom as a matter of safety
From the article
And this has to be at the White House specifically because location determines oversight. When infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President, when it exists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it can be classified under executive privilege. The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker where Dick Cheney sheltered during September 11th. By demolishing the entire East Wing, you create space to expand that existing secure facility, integrate new infrastructure, go deeper underground. All protected by the classification that covers anything related to presidential security.
He's pocketing the whole thing. He's gluing fake gold onto WhiteHouse fixtures to make it seem like money is being spent but mostly he and his family are just pocketing the majority of it.
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This vinyl is really hard to find.
EDIT: I'm sorry. I seem to have accidentally and totally not on purpose posted this image of a rare vinyl in the wrong community.
Just don't let it happen again, over and over.
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And the White House has never been in more disrepair and parts of it literally look bombed.
When Fidesz campaigned for getting elected in 2010, they only asked for one or two terms.
Once they got elected, they asked until 2030.
Around 2020, their think tanks claimed we can only think about a "post Fidesz society" after 2050.
Meanwhile I've heard that some people within the party wanted to turn the words "liberalism" and essentially "democracy" into synonyms of "chaos".
The moment mothers scold their children for having a messy room by telling them there's democracy in their room rather than anarchy, we have finally won, and turned democracy into an unthinkable ideology.
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