Nothing irrational about it. The rose garden thing is infuriating. Even if sanity returns and we get to bust up that filthy patio it’s going to be forever before it can be anything beautiful again. But every last memory of Trump must be swept into a dumpster.
I would welcome a transformation into a DC Native Pollinator Garden tho.
sure. I mean: so much of this is never gonna be like it was, we've got to come to terms with it; this, too, can be symbolic, I suppose. still. the roses were nice. Too. one small thing I think we could restore, you know?
Build back BETTER was the Biden Harris mantra. Well the rose to native plants transformation is just that!
yeh i know but traditionally it's "bread and roses" dontcha know maybe a bunch of new gardens, mostly ecologically responsible
Ecologically responsible = native species. Anyway change is the only constant thing in the universe.
Hm?
they're gonna have to get rid of all the Starlink shit too, assuming they don't just all get hacked and invaded by fucking China or something before he's gone.
yeh I find myself wondering things like, can you just transplant adult rose bushes. I'm no gardener. It's so fucking gross. Asshole. He did the same thing to the lovely old historic Art Deco (Nouveau?) building he bulldozed for his stupid fucking Tower in Manhattan, you know. Dominance shitting.
Tbh, I think we'll be lucky not to have to completely rebuild the burnt-out husk of the White House in the aftermath of the coming regime change. Even if we avoid that, there will be so much tearing out walls for listening devices, etc...gonna be a lot of those.
As for the Rose Garden, I think ripping up the pavement and restoring it won't be nearly as expensive or time-consuming as replacing the ugly ballroom.
this is assuming it gets built at all, of course. Maybe they'll start it. Praying they won't come anywhere near completion even if they do.
but if they do, two options: 1) use it instead to lodge asylum seekers in comfort. perhaps some historical instruction, the real kind. a kitchen for locals. that kind of thing. 2) just blow the fucker up. Whoomp WOOMPF
I think you're right that we should be skeptical the ballroom will ever get built. Not only is there the issue of how long Trump lasts in power or even life, but also Trump normally uses building projects as money-making schemes. The longer it get dragged out, the more $$ slips into his pockets.
I don't doubt he actually wants this one--the grandiosity suits him right down to the ground--but they apparently need all kinds of building permits first which could take several years alone. I'm sure he WILL stamp and screech and demand they do it NOW anyway; maybe they will, and maybe they won't.
also the fucking thing is supposed to be bigger than the ENTIRE existing White House. that's not a ballroom, that's a frigging airplane hangar.
be kind of fantastic when this time the workers ICE tries to nab are LITERALLY RIGHT FUCKING THERE
Out of all things, it is one of the easiest things to eventually be “undone”
The rose garden? Yeh, and certainly it's, obviously I'd far rather that than the unbelievable damage he's done to medical research, government infrastructure, actual livelihoods, careers, lives. U.S. reputation. The economy. Hence "irrational..." and yet. It so perfectly encapsulates him. Yknow?
Just this petty spiteful act that objectively makes life a little bit shittier and uglier for everyone, but he gets to call it HIS, and probably revels precisely in the fact that he knows it'll cause other people dismay. Something he can destroy by pissing on it, and demands we call it good.
I know this is a wild leap but just now I thought of "womb envy," no shit. More symbolic, you know, he can't actually create anything that anyone else wants or loves or considers beautiful, which means they're rejecting HIM, in his mind. It enrages him. So he enshittifies, bc it makes him feel good
it also is another concrete (literally) symbol of his desecration of the legacy of the White House, of DC, and everything it stands for; everything anyone bigger and better before him built. his stupid fugly mug draped down the side of whichever department building like fucking Kim Jong Un
It's his territory now and he's pissing on it to mark it. If there's an election in 2028 and if a dem gets elected they need to tear down that ballroom (if it ever gets built) and re-sod the Rose Garden, if only for symbolic purposes.
Although if he does die in office it would be kind of hilarious seeing JD Vance going with the ballroom and defending it.
I don’t think that will be one of JD’s priorities. And that “ballroom” is not getting built anytime soon. Construction projects by fascists don’t get built faster than any other construction project. And I’m sure the construction workers could do a lot to obstruct the project. :)
Yes. But it will become a symbol of rebirth when it happens … looking forward to it one day (hopefully sooner than later of course)
The Michelle Obama Rose Garden
I want to see that fucking ode to his narcissism torn down and set on FIRE. I want HIM to see it, before it ends.
Probably won’t be him but can wish for Melania to watch instead … she is equally culpable for desecrating the rose garden
Is she? I keep forgetting she exists. I guess that would track with her ghastly aesthetic. Remember those sinister red Christmas trees
Her, I mostly wish, um...I wish he dies and it turns out she's COMPLETELY cut out of his will, like, every goddamned cent.
Nope. Cause their relationship was always contractual & always based on money. She secured that a long time ago.
Yes she actually was the one who tore out all the rose bushes in rump’s first term …
shit. somehow I'd missed that I could've sworn I saw actual roses with him standing in it this term? Or Biden? Welp. cow.
Every last memory of trumpczar needs to be seared into our national psyche as the single most traumatic self-inflicted injury we’ve ever done ourselves.
a new installation at the Smithsonian, represented only by Uncle Sam cramming its head up the ass of an glowering orange Jabba-like figure with a crappy gold crown
It’s not even close to the most traumatic thing we’ve ever done. I can think of dozens of worse things in terms of body counts, sheer racism, and actual real goddamn genocide. But it is the stupidest. By far the stupidest. And we should tear it all down and bury it in a pile of shit.
A million covid deaths & counting and the concentration camps open in our name January 6 our constitution shat upon on a daily basis doesn’t even begin to touch on it. This is a never forget learn the fucking lesson moment.
USAID, Dobbs (thanks Trump term 1), the gutting and utter debasement of pretty much the entire public sector. Ham fisted censorship moves on universities, corporations, media; treating every actual *entitlement* from Social Security to Shit Congress Fucking Voted On like he's the goddamn Mob...