@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?

@randahl same goes for massive new sports stadiums.

@randahl Daily celebrating membership in a privileged group is the strongest desire of all "conservatives", but rarely communicated openly, because so embarrassing.

@randahl $300 million and will be a billion before it is done. And the trees felled for this project? A crime.

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This is a regression, in a year from now slavery will be introduced…

@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

@randahl he (or someone else) will probably only use gold paint and pocket the difference.

@randahl Ah, but remember the ballroom has been financed with bribes from companies that have received benefits from the administration.

@randahl He is desperate to emulate Saddam Hussein. So is everyone else.

@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

@randahl this is society of democracy

@randahl "A society which cannot feed the poor, ..."
Of course, the society can but doesn't want.

#TaxTheRich

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It is going to end up costing a lot more than $250M

@randahl@mastodon.social The Epstein Ballroom will soon be praised for its great architecture!

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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.

#USA #Brazil #Inequality #patriotism #Europe

@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'?.

@randahl Latent Versailles envy but with a caravan park aesthetic.

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What the hell even is a ballroom? What is this the 16th century!?

@randahl The reflection of a sick mind

@randahl not to mention willingly destroying a building that likely cost millions and was designed to last several lifetimes

@randahl Or centuries.