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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Building an opulent ballroom while making sure millions will lose their homes, go without healthcare, and starve? This sounds like the last days of the French monarchy.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's actually just a distraction. The real corruption is the 5 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires and the 1 trillion in healthcare cuts for Medicaid to partially for it. If you're talking millions you're being distracted.

Even fucking billions don't count for much any more.

[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's seriously going full force on the Midas Touch.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

always has been, you can see pictures of his properties, tacky as fuck

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

The Midas grab

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crony capitalism is just capitalism

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Unpopular thing to point out in libertarian spaces.

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He is planning on never leaving. Or he wouldn't bother. He doesnt do things with foresight unless FOR himself.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is just to distract you from him being a pedo

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 month ago

The scary part about the ballroom is that he wouldn't be building it at the WH if he expected to be out of there in 3 years. He'd be building it at Mar-a-Lago or something.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh, another "look at me, I'm fucking y'all raw and nobody ~~can~~ will stop me"

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We should. It would be less painful to somehow coordinate everyone to DC than it would be to just live these next three and a half years. I dont want to know what we will be by then at this pace.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's why i crossed "can". I know he can be stopped.

Last time i checked, he's not Invincible ( read it silently, like in the animation opening )

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • will be paid for by Trump and unidentified donors

lol like that fat ass will ever pay for anything with his money.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Unidentified donors, also known as taxpayers.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would think this guy was being so over-the-top cartoonishly evil on purpose just to get us to grow a spine and rise up to overthrow the corrupt government if we were actually growing a spine and rising up to overthrow the government.

[–] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It won't happen, under Capitalism, they have a large part of the working class, PMC class, walking on a salary vs debt thin edge, too afraid to change anything because their world would fall apart. It is a devious plan and it works, prevents them from grabbing pitchforks, and often even attacking those that are trying to rise up against the oligarchs.

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[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

One of the new episodes of Gumball has the answer to this. I never thought I'd see a kids show so blatantly just say it... EAT. THE. RICH.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't seen any of the episodes in the years. But considering the creator of the show is French. If there ever was going to be one, it would be his lol.

[–] groolthedemon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I recommend the new series. It's a bit more adult. It's kind of more grown up just like the kids that watched the original are more grown up so far. I'm 5 episodes in and it's solid. Still retains that same frenetic spirit.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 month ago

Need all that room to play hide and rape the kids.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month ago

Pedo ballroom

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, no, no. He and his buddies are going to pay for it! They all just came into an unexpected windfall when a bunch of poors decided they didn't need their healthcare anymore!

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's not like they'd get Healthcare if this project wasn't greenlit. It's <$12 per person. He's wasted far more money on things equally as stupid.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago

Is it to celebrate the release of the Epstein files?

Noo, Trump. You forgot that your ~~palace~~ seat of government needs to be outside of the city so you can have even more control over the ~~royalty~~ totally democratically elected politicans by making them kiss your rancid rear while being out of their offices. You already have the make-up part & ridiculous hair-do down so well.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Domus Aurea

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm surprised it'll be in the white house and not in mar-a-lago

[–] CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

He doesn't plan on moving out

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You didn't read the article I guess. There is already one at Mar a Lago.

It also says he and donors will pay for it. Does anyone believe that I wonder.

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[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shocker. Russia 2.0 in America. Nice job voters.

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[–] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Will there be a plaque saying this ballroom brought to you by the death of sesame Street?

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah in case you haven’t realised he doesn’t give a fuck about you.

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

"We're better than you filthy poors"

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope it accidentally burns to the ground

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Serious question about his supporters: Are they cool with this? Like, hey a $200 mio. ballroom at the white house is exactly what I voted for.

[–] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Who knows. I know there is a rift that has started within MAGA, over the Epstein stuff. I predict there will be no MAGA as it stands by the end of this reign of Trump, siting incidents like these with the ballroom, Zionist, pedos and more to come. Trump isn't worried about anyone, especially this term, as it is with all the presidents as they concentrate on their legacy (ego,) not their constituents, and campaign promises. The working class that voted for him will equally get a wake up call by terms-end, a come to Jesus moment.

[–] amda@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I misread that as "bathroom" and kinda belived it for a second...

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What? Americans were supposed to be getting healthcare from the government? Since when?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Since day 1:

certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Can't survive, let alone pursue happiness, without healthcare and can't have liberty without either.

mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government

You are here.

Source: transcription of the US Declaration of Independence

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Let them eat cake

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re going to find some amazingly gaudy things when the people finally storm the palace in twenty years or so.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Better cutting something else

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