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It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
It also looks like something you’d find at a cheap, trashy resort where children poop in the pool.
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
It’s more nature than what’s there now
Stone isn’t nature? Looks like natural stone to me. It’s ugly AF but both are artifical and have little to do with nature.
Edit: it’s just a joke guys, don’t take it too seriously lol
If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.
Nothing is synthetic it’s all made of stuff we have here on earth!
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
I see your point and raise my promethium-146 sprinkled in my tiles.
That’s just organic star stuff.
I guess a concrete lot is better in your opinion.
It doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.
Yeah, for this space that is frequently used to host people or filled with chairs for a press conference, it is better and makes more sense.
Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better for this nonsense
The problem is, have you ever noticed how much hotter you are in a parking lot on a warm day than when you are in a park? Well, now those events are happening on a parking lot and not a park. Furniture can be designed to work on turf, or temporary fixtures could be put in place to mitigate the drawbacks of furniture on lawns, but the absorbed and reflected heat will be hard to get rid of. Hopefully this area is small enough to not have a big impact on the temperature there.
I honestly don’t think it looks bad, but I suspect it’s more for Trump to put his stamp on it than anything else, and to erase the efforts of others before him. And I suspect it will be more uncomfortable than it was before.
I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.
To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.
Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.
Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
It’s nature…just not “wild” nature.
That’s not the version from Clerks 2, though 😛
I came to the comments looking for this song. I did not expect to learn that the version by Counting Crows was a cover however. Neat!
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
Are these the Epstein files?! 😶
No but they are buried underneath.
Epstein Tiles
Of everything, this is low on the list of things to be annoyed about. While there were probably better ways, this is an area used for gatherings and DC being DC, it is pretty marshy and unusable as a lawn. There have been plans for a long time to do something like this.
More importantly, this will be easily undone later, unlike much of the other damage he has done or plans to do. Compared to those things, I can’t get too worked up over this.
Also the actual roses were in the bushes on the side.
I’m pretty sure they did actually get rid of a lot of the flowers anyway and got rid of things they shouldn’t have, but the layout of it isn’t so drastically changed and the lawn can easily be replaced.
Honestly it’s more symbolic of what this regime has done to America
Let the pigs have their mud.
There’s your problem. All that grass makes for a terrible child sacrifice during their pedo parties. The blood soaks right in and you never get a chance to collect it for the Sangria mix.
He’s like a rat gnawing on the wires of democracy and this is the visualization of his excrement. Fucking disgusting.
If only someone could explain why this is happening.
Yeah but the communists didn’t manage it. Far right authoritarians like Putin, Bin Laden, and the heritage foundation did
What ideology they claim to believe in is inconsequential.
Do you think of China as being actually communist?
I don’t.
Russians managed it. No matter what -ism was or is in fashion.
Ok but it was a multinational front by a shared ideology. Sure Russia just wanted us weakened regardless of professed ideology, but there’s a reason putin was more able than kruschev. Bin Laden played a huge role in this though. And the long standing American fascist movement wasn’t being egged on by the 1950s Soviets.
Nonetheless, Trump is Putler’s lapdog and thus Russia has done what Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would do.
And to pretend like those are two completely distinct political entities would be bad-faith at best.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
Allegedly Trump has been cultivated and recruited since 1977.
Back then it was the Soviet Union. Back then Putin was working for KGB as an intelligence officer and did so for 16 years, before resigning when Soviet Union fell, to have a political career.
I really don’t think the funny shoe man from the 60’s is to blame for this.
He didn’t say “I”, he said “we”. And the “we” in that sentence was Soviet Russia. Soviet Union is clearly no more, but modern day Russia has inherited a lot of policies and values from them.
At which point do you think they just gave up on thinking the US as their enemy?
Because there was a small conflict that went on for literally decades after Khrushchev’s death.
So idk why you’re trying to pretend like “funny shoe man” was waging a personal war against the US when he was the leader of a world power?
Because you posted him with no context. It wasn’t clear you meant Russia.
but modern day Russia has inherited a lot of policies and values from them.
I’d disagree with that. They inherited autocracy, but it’s not even a vaguely similar model of it. In a lot of ways current Russia is a backlash to the USSR, although they shoehorn communist stuff together with Tsarist stuff and everything else from even earlier to pretend they have some kind of ideology.
They still see the West as enemies or at least competition, though, that’s true.
Yeah modern Russia scrapped everything of value from the Soviets.
Well, they kept a few of the design bureaus, I guess.
When their whole economic model was obviously failing, I think the West thought they’d give up on Marx, when in reality they just decided to become the bad guys from Marx.
no context. It wasn’t clear you meant Russia.
Uh, it’s literally the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the time that he was in power.
“No context”
Fkin lol. You can’t be serious?
You’ll probably disagree with Putler being wanted by the ICC for warcrimes as well? Or at least make some excuse for how he’s not responsible or how the ICC or the UN are somehow the bad guys or smth?
Yeah, and I was wondering if this was a “commie democrats” thing. Russia isn’t my first association, or even my second. He was even from Ukraine.
You’ll probably disagree with Putler being wanted by the ICC for warcrimes as well? Or at least make some excuse for how he’s not responsible or how the ICC or the UN are somehow the bad guys or smth?
No, Putin is shit and I hope he ends up in the Hague where he belongs.
My rats were pretty intelligent and they didn’t shit where they ate or slept. And they weren’t in the Epstein files. So this comparison doesn’t fly at all.
Weren’t in the Epstein files as far as you know.
But yeah I had rats I’d vote for them over trump for anything.
I like the idea that ok that list amongst Clinton and Trump and Prince Andrew is “that guy’s rats”
When this asshole finally dies or goes to jail (please), we might as well burn the place down and start over. You ain’t ever getting the stench out the walls…
Give Canada a call - we did it once before for you guys… 😏
Come on down, the address hasn’t changed.
If you’re still offering…
Can I sign up for this mailing list?
Where’s the sign up sheet? I’ll stand on guard for thee.
I’m not familiar what’s the history there?
War of 1812. They burned the White House.
Don’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
Well today I learned!
Reference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there’s some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.
Outside the various shitty adjustments he’s making now, we cannot forget something perhaps bigger. Because of him, an enemy state flag (the flag of the Confederacy) was flown in the White House.
you mean this?
No. Though if I got a nickel for every time Trump is associated with the Confederate flag… it’d be a rich man.
I was specifically speaking to the Jan. 6 intersection attack. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/kevin-seefried-confederate-flag-capitol-jan-6-sentenced-rcna69784
That’s the capitol, though, no…?
You know what, you’re right. I must have vaguely remembered both and blended the two stories.
That’s the capitol building though
Or the ketchup.
wierd amount of people coming out of the woodwork to defend the concrete pavement by trump.
This and the ballroom are Trump trying to leave a permanent mark on the White House behind. If nothing else, he’ll die of natural causes within the next decade, and he knows his name will be cursed from then on. If you have to call it “The Donald J Trump Ballroom”, then he still has something.
No no it’s the Epstein distraction ballroom.
I will make sure to always call it the “Fuck Donald J Trump Ballroom” in his memory
Rename the ballroom to whatever, but name the restrooms the “Donald J. Trump Shit and Piss Closets”
But the sign on the door should read “Classified Document Storage”
Fuck that just tear it down. But in the most “fuck this were not going to reuse any of this” kinda way. The new president whips his dick out after and pisses on the rubble.
Rename it to the “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” Ballroom.
He hardly needs to try when he’ll be an irrevocable unmovable stain on the US ledgers of record and national reputation forever.
Good. America should never forget.
Why keep the ballroom? Take a bulldozer through it.
Complains windmills make Scotland ugly.
Proceeds to pave over the Rose Garden.
Nothing is more beautiful than polished white marble and gold. Lots and lots of goolllld!
People: Save the Earth!
Trump: Pave the Earth!
Between this and the ballroom it would be a minor blessing if Canada burnt the place down again.
Again?
Again.
We (as Brits) burned it in 1812.
“Pave paradise and put up a parking lot”
Of all the things he’s changed about the country, I bet something like this is what he cares about the most. I can just imagine the tantrum trump will throw when the next president* digs this up and returns it to grass, or better yet, an actual garden.
* if we get another president.
Oh they are all petty twits.
Regan pitched a fit and removed the solar panels Carter left on the roof when he left office. This is just more proof the regressive party has no taste.
If there ever will be a next US president I expect him to first tear down that new gold wing, then to dig up this shit.
Anything else can wait
that new gold wing
lol the insignia in the corner, very American
Visually it’s striking how similar it looks to how Nazi Germany also put eagle motif crests everywhere.
i like that the drain grates are American flags… kinda symbolic.
also, this pisses me off, but not as much as his “Goldifying the Oval Office”
It’s actually very fascist but USAian is basically same thing.
Honestly, I’m amazed he managed to restrain himself from making it mostly gold. Can’t imagine that this ballroom will have such restraint.
The cans of gold-colored spray are still around, I’m sure.
