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sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days ago

Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom

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Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom

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sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days ago
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    Isn’t this how he hired for the reflecting pool?

    • garbage_world@lemmy.world
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      Yes

      • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
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        And that went great without any issues at all

        • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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          It’s currently one of the nicest ponds in DC.

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      So let it be.

      Picture this. The whole pedophile group enjoying a tour of their newly built ballroom bunker, and suddenly it caves in. they building their own grave, shh, let it happen!

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    Let me guess: the contractor just happened to donate a few hundred thousand to the Trump campaign…

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    Listen guys it’s just a coincidence that the construction company’s name is Eric&Trump Jr Construction. It’s not that Eric and Jr, Trump promised.

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      I don’t think he would bother promising at this point.

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    Inb4 ballroom covered in algae

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      Cover in mould with the gold paint chipping off

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      Hopefully the algae will be thick enough to protect surfaces from the invisible slasher vandals this time.

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    Using your taxes.

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    Lmao imagine if a shoddily-built ballroom collapses on this administration, killing everyone. What a poetic resolution.

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    If he cant even paint a pool for $16M, how the fuck can he build a ballroom [and secure hide-e-hole] for only 3x <some real number> the amount?

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      16 * 3 != 500

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        I just checked your math and it’s 100% accurate

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        At least 10 people upvoted that comment

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    But he promised it would be $200m and only use private funding?

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    Bets on if he’ll claim this was sabotaged/vandalized when it doesn’t go to plan?

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    We all know what his illegal non-bid jobs produce by now…

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    Mhm more corruption.

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    Paywall

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    “Looking at the ballroom with your dirty peasant eyeballs is tantamount to vandalizing it, which surely will be the sole cause of its imminent decay, and not anything else. So you fuckers better not so much as sniff the air in a 50 mile proximity, or so help me God, I will deport your ass to Venezuela. A pedo President needs a new secret pedo space for new secret pedo meetings. Also, keep paying your taxes! The system is working! Vote Trump for a third term! Suck my dick!”

    - The President, essentially

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    The question is, will the next president require competitive bids for the contract to dismantle it?

    I’m only half joking. Any Democrat that doesn’t run with dismantling this as part of their platform doesn’t deserve any support.

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    Good! It will crumble on day one.

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      What better metaphor for the crumbling American empire than tearing down the white house and replacing it with cheap crap.

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