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Typical MAGA dolt using words he doesn’t know their meaning.

Sen. Chuck Grassley released 197 subpoenas revealing the Biden Justice Department spied on hundreds of Republicans, including nearly 20 percent of Senate Republicans

Here is an interesting take on trump’s ballroom by Rachel Hurley.

I just read a post on FB that got my spidey senses tingling.
An architect named Andrew Kerr just laid out why Trump’s White House ballroom project is basically bullshit. And his math checks out.
Here’s the deal. Trump’s now saying this 90,000 square foot ballroom will cost $300 million. Do the math on that – it’s $3,333 per square foot. For context, $1,000 per square foot is already astronomical for construction. We’re talking about a price tag that makes zero sense unless you’re building on the moon.
Kerr points out that if this thing actually follows classical proportions like the renderings suggest, you’re looking at a footprint about 380 feet by 235 feet. That’s longer than a football field and 1.5 times as wide. For a ballroom that’s supposed to hold 999 people – which by the way, started at 650 people when this was first announced in July and magically grew to accommodate almost 1,000.
Let’s talk about what you actually need for 999 people according to Kerr. At a comfortable 20 square feet per person for a banquet – which is pretty generous – you need 20,000 square feet. Throw in another 10,000 for support functions and 10,000 for pre-function space, and you’re at 40,000 square feet. That’s less than half of the supposed 90,000 square feet. So what’s the other 50,000 square feet for?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
The renderings are also suspect. Kerr notes that the interior and exterior views don’t match. The White House is 70 feet tall to the roof. The interior renderings show a room about 100 by 200 feet with a 20-foot ceiling. But the exterior renderings show a footprint 4.5 times larger than that. The math doesn’t work.
Plus – there are no actual architectural drawings. Just some pretty renderings that could have been whipped up by junior staff in a week or two. That’s it. No construction documents, no engineered plans, no detailed specifications. For a $300 million project that’s supposedly breaking ground and already has demolition crews tearing down the East Wing.
For context, typical commercial construction in 2025 runs $240 to $870 per square foot depending on location and building type. Even high-rise offices in expensive cities like DC max out around $870 to $1,000 per square foot. Trump’s ballroom is coming in at more than three times that amount.
Let’s also talk about what this space is actually for. The current East Room holds 200 people for state dinners. So we’re supposedly building something 1.6 times the size of the entire White House residence to accommodate 5 times the capacity of the East Room.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
The architect behind this project? James McCrery – whose firm specializes in Catholic churches. His biggest project to date was the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Knoxville, Tennessee. His other federal government work includes designing a pedestal for a Ronald Reagan statue and a gift shop at the Supreme Court. That’s it. Now he’s supposedly designing a $300 million addition to the most famous building in America that’s bigger than the White House itself.
The firm’s website is basically empty – just a contact form for new commissions and a slideshow. No detailed project portfolio, no team information, nothing that would inspire confidence in a firm handling a project of this magnitude. Even their Instagram is bare – “Committed to Tradition and Excellence” in the bio, but zero posts.
Here’s what makes this whole thing smell like bullshit: The project was announced in July with a $200 million price tag. By September, Trump was saying $250 million. Now in October, we’re at $300 million – a 50% cost increase before construction even really starts. That’s not how legitimate projects work. That’s how grifts work.
The timeline is also absurd. They announced this in July, started demolition in September, and claim they’ll have it done before Trump’s term ends in January 2029. That’s less than four years to design, permit, and construct a 90,000 square foot addition to a National Historic Landmark. For context, the Truman renovation of the White House – which kept only the exterior walls standing – took nearly four years from 1948 to 1952. And that was with full congressional funding and proper oversight.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Now, let me ask you this – if the timeline is correct – why the hell would the most selfish man on earth spend 3.5 years building a ballroom that won’t be ready to use until the month he moves out of the White House?
Yeah – this is all bullshit.

Trump’s DOJ found evidence Dems are skewing crime stats ahead of the midterm elections Trump’s
Source: New York Post

This is what the President’s goon squads are doing all over this country.

BREAKING: OMG! Trump’s ICE goons threaten to SHOOT an ambulance driver after he tried to pick up a protestor they brutalized!
A few days ago, an EMS team attempted to pick up a protester whose collarbone had been broken, probably by ICE agents themselves, from the ICE facility on South Macadam Avenue in Portland, Oregon.
But the ICE goons wouldn’t let the ambulance leave, with 50-60 of them putting themselves in the path of the ambulance. They demanded an agent be allowed to ride in the ambulance to the hospital with the patient, which is illegal.
Frustrated, the ambulance driver put the vehicle into park, causing it to lurch forward. This is what happened next:
“I then placed the ambulance into park, took my foot off the brake, undid my seat belt and opened the driver’s side door. I looked up and suddenly the entire group of officers…were crowded around the open car door, some of them leaning forward towards me, inches from my face.”
An agent, the driver recalled, “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner and began viciously yelling in my face, stating, ‘DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU, I WILL ARREST YOU RIGHT NOW.’”
“I was still in such shock,” the driver later wrote, “that they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting, and that we were essentially trapped.”
Eventually, the thuggish morons decided they would follow the ambulance in their own vehicles to continue harassing the protester once they got to the hospital.
It’s shocking to think they’d be willing to shoot an AMBULANCE DRIVER but this is where we are; ICE is acting with total impunity and seems to believe they are above the law. Congress must take action immediately to rein these barbarians in.

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and this second time in 2024 given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I no longer do. I actually think he won, for that precise reason. Because he had at least one fucked-up part to mirror the fucked-up parts of millions.
If you are a racist, you found your guy. If you are a misogynist, you found your guy. If all you care about is money, you found your guy. If you have an emotionally armored heart, you found your guy. If you make fun of disabled people, you found your guy. If you hate intelligent people, you found your guy. If you are a rapist, you found your guy. If you like golden showers with Russian sex-workers, you found your guy. If you have not done a stitch of work on your emotional issues, you found your guy. If you are a serial cheater, you found your guy. If you are a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy. If you don’t pay people for their honest work, you found your guy. If you are a hustler and a conman, you found your guy. If you mock people’s physical appearances, you found your guy. If you long for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy. If you are dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy. If you are unconscionable in all your economic dealings, you found your guy. If you lie day and night, you found your guy. If you have never eaten green vegetables, you found your guy. If you are a white supremacist, you found your guy. If you have a hole in your ego so big that not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy. If you are a sociopath, and care not one iota about other humans, you found your guy. If you…
If he only had two of these issues, he never would have won. It was the fact that he had hundreds of them, that made him the winner. Because millions of humans are toxic. So they could relate to him, in one form or another.
It’s never been about trump. It’s always been about the people who finally have their twisted feelings about others validated. trump has given “those people” permission to disparage and hate their fellow human beings.
trump is only symptomatic of a much larger issue of a collective toxicity. If there is a single sentence that characterizes trump it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans?
Who knew that tens of millions men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power?
Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise.
Now we aren’t. –Michael Joachim–

This hits it right on the head. Trump supporters find something in him they like or they find a characteristic they admire and vote for someone who models their hatred or dislikes or desires. They don’t care about the other stuff because that doesn’t matter when this guy owns their behavior and beliefs.

I am sick that our society has to solve problems with guns. Charlie Kirk should not be dead but his brand of firebrand rhetoric had to be part of the reason a man decided to kill him. His murderer was on Kirk’s side of the political spectrum but he was much farther right than Kirk. He wasn’t a liberal; he wasn’t an LGBTQ person, he wasn’t mentally ill. He thought that Kirk’s message wasn’t white enough for him. Google groyper and you will find a description of his killer. It is chilling.