Randahl FinkA society which cannot feed the poor, yet can afford a $ 250 million ballroom with gold decor, reveals that it is still stuck in a time period many developed nations have left decades ago.
Sordid Amok!@randahl Or centuries.
Mike Johnston@randahl not to mention willingly destroying a building that likely cost millions and was designed to last several lifetimes
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int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)@randahl Latent Versailles envy but with a caravan park aesthetic.
Ingrid_DemokratinAusOLExactly 😱😱😱
Aoi_X_Kaizaki@randahl It was renovated in the past. - Truman with the structural wood, someone had to add the Oval office, and fire around 1814. - Don't forget the War of 1812, the war we got our butts handed. Those renovations were important.
I guess adding a ballroom is important to trump, but why? People are asking the same question. 'why'?.
BrokarThis is him leaving a mark on the White House like a dog on a tree.
Also, thanks to him and Musk DOGE saved so much tax payer money that he thought that he could grant himself something nice, like a shiny new ballroom.
Haha, i can tell you with 100% certainty who's NOT going to pay for this: Trump.
everton137@randahl
Since I was very young, I never felt much admiration for the US. Their cultural influence always seemed overwhelming, maybe that’s one reason I became so drawn to classical music. Today, I can’t imagine living without it.
When I studied physics, I dreamed of earning a PhD in Europe. Why? I wanted to live somewhere where public transportation was the norm, not a privilege.
I was lucky to receive a scholarship that let me spend six months in a wealthy European city during my master’s program. I didn’t finish the degree, but that experience completely changed my life at 23.
I could never relate to friends who wanted to pursue their careers in the US. To me, it always felt like a wealthier version of Brazil. I visited them three times for work, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Sausalito, and the inequalities I’d grown up with were right there in front of me.
I’ve always found American patriotism somewhat suspicious. Maybe it’s a way to compensate for the country’s deep contradictions, to build a fantasy of greatness that so many, even abroad, even in Europe, end up believing in.
Pait@everton137 @randahl You saw it coming.
I didn’t. Maybe the concern about the 1930s was closer to me.
@pait você imagina que na minha adolescência por anos não bebi coca? Não consigo lembrar direito porque, nem de onde surgiu a ideia. Ninguém na minha família entendia. Acho que nem eu.
@everton137 Bebom em média 1 coca cola por ano, quando dirijo à noite e dá vontade. Não sei se ajuda a ficar acordado. Razoável estimar que bebi uma centena de cocas no último meio século. Talvez 2 centenas, contando as da pré adolescência.
@pait quando voltei a beber, ainda não prestava atenção no açúcar e desgastava da com adoçante.
Hoje, cola zero é o que mais bebo. Se bebo a noite, fico acordado, pois sou muito sensível à cafeína. A descafeinada sem açúcar também é boa.
@pait mas nada melhor que Guaraná (infelizmente não gosto da sem açúcar) e mate com gás. No verão, às vezes tosto mate verde compro em mercado árabe (sírios aprenderam com argentinos) e faço bem concentrado. Daí misturo água com gás.
@everton137 um paper do grupo do Lotufo da USP mostrando que adoçante causa demência ficou infame por causa dos erros metodológicos. Decerto é fraude, só temos certeza que adoçante engorda, mas pra quê arriscar? Fujo de tudo que é zero.
@pait provavelmente não chegarei na sua idade por causa do colapso climático. Então vou de Coca Zero de vez em quando.
P. S. Nesse exato momento, água com gás num restaurante coreano. É minha bebida favorita depois de mate, que bebo menos que gostaria.
@everton137 Não vamos exagerar.
@pait as pessoas que estão tomando decisões sobre o assunto compartilham da sua opinião. A maioria tem uma idade semelhante. Não é coincidência.
@everton137 @randahl I used to say 3 things set the US apart from Brazil: the Constitution, the national parks, and the liberal arts colleges. Otherwise it was just like Brazil, with a wider toilet paper gage.
At this pace it will soon be just the wider gage.
@everton137 @randahl Yes. And, what’s happening is beyond shocking.
trump’s America is a country that only existed in the imagination of the most rabid freedom-hating leftists. Not even the American far right had imagined it.
C.Suthorn 
@[email protected] The Epstein Ballroom will soon be praised for its great architecture!
Mastodon MigrationIt is going to end up costing a lot more than $250M
CurmudgeonI'm sure Mexico will pay for it, just like they did the border wall.
テンセイ ・ tensei 
@randahl this, good sir, is an understatement
It is not a society that cannot feed the poor, it is a society that CHOOSES to STARVE the poor
A third of all food produced in the United States gets disposed of before it ever enters the hands of a consumer- we trash enough food in our distribution chain that hunger should never be a problem for anyone
ArchaeoIain@randahl He is desperate to emulate Saddam Hussein. So is everyone else.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@randahl Ah, but remember the ballroom has been financed with bribes from companies that have received benefits from the administration.
Traumkämpfer@randahl he (or someone else) will probably only use gold paint and pocket the difference.
confettiarenasabotage
@randahl exactly this!
Felon 47 is milking his own people, his country, taking what is not his to take & stealing, for his personal profit.
$3B in sketchy crypto deals
$400M jet from Qatar
$24.5M from YouTube
$25M from Facebook
$10M from X / Twitter
$16M from CBS
$15M from ABC
Likely to be added soon:
$230M from DOJ
Rational view from a German news outlet on tge finance topic:
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/trump-persoenliche-finanzen-vermoegen-investments-102.html
xs4me2@randahl Daily celebrating membership in a privileged group is the strongest desire of all "conservatives", but rarely communicated openly, because so embarrassing.
randal_silversword@randahl I remember a story about Heads of a society who plated pommels in gold and tried to feed starving paupers with croissants... Just help me remind... how did it end?
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦@randahl Wait: is that the sound of approaching tumbrels?