• Brummbaer@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    Reminds me of that Brecht quote.

    Some party hack decreed that the people
    had lost the government’s confidence
    and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
    If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
    If the government simply dissolved the people
    And elected another?

    Bertolt Brecht

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    It’s kind of difficult to tell what is really going on with the ballroom. It could very well be that the government has planned an upgrade for years and Trumps ball room is the perfect cover, so he may or may not be “playing along”.

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      9 hours ago

      If that were the case, they wouldn’t have just gone ahead and started bulldozing willy nilly. They could have at least said it was for security reinforcements on the White House “and we may as well build a ballroom at the same time.”

      I’m sure it was the opposite. Trump wanted a ballroom, and they figured while the White House is half blown up, they may as well build a bunker.

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      That is a possibility. Maybe it was something they had wanted to do, but it was a project mired in red tape and complexity? Like maybe they had planned to try to do it without demolishing the East Wing, trying to do it in place? Then Trump’s like “fuck it, we’ll do it live” and just orders the whole thing demolished to make it cheaper? IDK.

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        seeing these naive theories that scream “all I know came from TV”, explains why we are now in the stupidest timeline

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    20 hours ago

    There was already a bunker under the East Wing. If Trump chose to bulldoze it, that’s his own doing.

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      Look, there’s got to be a rational explanation for this. Have you considered the old East Wing bunker might have just been haunted as all fuck? Who knows what horrible atrocities past presidents committed down in that dungeon! Who knows how many hookers Nixon tortured to death down there. How many old captured Nazis did Eisenhower personally flay alive in that basement? How many girls did Clinton simply have disappeared down there? That placed was probably cursed long before Trump got there. The only way to get the bad juju out was to completely tear it down to bare soil. It’s no good as a defense bunker if you get torn apart by ghosts when you try to seek shelter there!

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah sounds like this is the perfect time for a missile attack. God damn he’s stupid

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    19 hours ago

    As if we needed any further confirmation that the bunker beneath it was the actually important part of the project.

    (Can we please ensure that the bunker is stocked with at least one Luger pistol? For tradition’s sake.)

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        The Nambu has a notoriously weak cartridge. With a skull like his he’d be liable to botch it badly and probably wake up with a full diaper and a headache.

        Not sure if that’d be better or worse than the alternative really.

        Also contrary to popular belief they’re generally really well made unless it’s an extremely late one. 8x22 is just really really weak.

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        13 hours ago

        The difference between a bunker and an oubliette is what the people on the outside decide to do with the entrance/exit.

        Just make sure there’s some amontillado inside.

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      10 hours ago

      Donald…I have a cask of very special wine I’d like you to try. It’s an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.

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        Aww, come on. Amontillado is fine, I love the classic approach. But it’s just not appropriate for Trump. If you want to write Trump to have a poetic end, he needs to go out like Manius Aquillius. Maybe in a modern version, Trump in a bone-headed move decides to personally go to Tehran to pound his fist on the table and make his silly demands. The Iranians ultimately end up executing him by pouring molten gold down his throat to punish him for his greed.

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        No, no, no. You have to tell him that your cask of Amontillado is far inferior to his cask of Amontillado and you want him to taste it so that he can tell you how great his cask is.