I know it’s a meme but I really wish they would quote sources. Now I have to look it up. The burden is on the one making the claim.
EDIT: Ok, I looked it up and it seems like BS. It may be true and would be easy to believe but White House maintenance is not a line item that is broken out. The amount spent is divided into many different buckets appropriated by Congress (probably on purpose) and is difficult if not impossible to determine. The term maintenance would need to be uniformly defined. Does it include secret service infrastructure, for instance? There have been a number of instances that have exceed $2.5M. It also seems pretty clear that Trump’s “maintenance” budget is the highest ever. But Bush and Obama both spent hundreds of millions of dollars to essentially reinforce the aging structure.
You’re welcome.
If you’re going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS. The source took took me about 3 minutes to find. From the Washington Post:
The Executive Residence, which employs housekeepers, curators, calligraphers and carpenters, has not previously managed major construction efforts, experts said. In recent years, Congress has appropriated $2.5 million annually to its maintenance account, known as “White House Repair and Restoration.”
Since Trump took office, the administration has directed $875 million to that account, public budget records show.
If you’re going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS.
What? Not how that works. Thanks for ultimately providing a source though.
THE BURDON OF PROOF IS ON THE ONE MAKING THE CLAIM! You should have included the link in the first place. And I DID do research, where do you think the entire edit came from? Are those points covered in the Washington Post piece? I don’t know because it’s behind a pay wall and I’m not paying to verify a friggin meme on the Internet. According to the research I did, there simply is no line item that refers to White House Maintenance. It has to be derived by culminating a number of other allocations to come up with that answer because yes, other construction projects have been done there. They just weren’t funded the same way. So you wind up getting apples and oranges.
MORE CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE! Do you bitch about every Political Memes post that lacks footnotes? That must keep you very, very busy, professor. It’s hilarious that you first complain about no sources and when one is provided you then expect to be given a WA Post subscription so you can verify (and undoubtedly complain about) every word.
Why are the people who never post anything the same people who want to police what everyone else posts?
I want sources because I use them in arguments against people who support the crap that’s happening. So yeah, I’m going to bitch when someone posts something I’m interested in without one, but instead puts the burden on every single reader who also wants to prevent the spread of misinformation.
And no I don’t expect someone to give me a subscription to WAPO to verify the article. That’s just you throwing around yet more hyperbole. And I’m pretty sure you know the vast majority of lemmings are not going to try to get around a pay wall, just to verify a post that already supports their opinion.
Also, get bent!
What a truly enormous ego you have there, professor. Only a raging narcissist would end an error-ridden comment with “You’re welcome”. Even so, responding to you at all was a bit foolish on my part. You started out mildly entertaining but quickly progressed to boring, pretty typical for someone making demands of random people on the Internet.
Ultimately I don’t give a shit about your insults, your capitalized demands, or anything else you have to say. I’ll continue to post exactly as I please, and you can continue to whine bitterly every time you see a post on Lemmy that doesn’t meet your standards.
You know, the really silly thing is, we probably align closely in our political beliefs.
While I would like you to include legitimate sources in your posts, I certainly don’t think bickering with you on Lemmy will actually change things, so…yeah, pretty much expected.
Thanks for looking it up
but I really wish they would quote sources
This vinyl is really hard to find.
EDIT: I’m sorry. I seem to have accidentally and totally not on purpose posted this image of a rare vinyl in the wrong community.
Just don’t let it happen again, over and over.
Violent revolution is the answer, but it won’t happen.
Neither will a general strike.
Neither will midterm elections.
I am not blaming anyone, we’re all living in survival mode in some way, shape, or form - by design - and things will happen as expected…by design.
A general strike is the only thing that would actually work though
Actually, no.
See, the ultra-wealthy are really rich. More so than they’ve ever been in history.
And a lot of economists, including Nobel laureates, are saying the only way to fix this situation is to redistribute all the wealth at the top.
Anything else may kick the can down the line for a couple of years.
And what is happening in the US is going to happen to all the industrialized nations. (It’s already happened to all the undeveloped nations.)
How bout this? Let’s do a general strike and test it out.
I welcome the attempt. A general strike takes a fuckton of organization, and we struggle to even get small workforces unionized. We will be working against efforts by strike busters and the massive far-right propaganda machine to disrupt our efforts and to divide us.
And then, we’d need someone to chart out the comprehensive demands, and then figure out a way to enforce them when the ownership class decides nah and retaliates with paramilitary force instead.
It’s going to be very difficult, and there are going to be a lot of setbacks.
For the moment, the way I see it, Americans are glad to be miserable and have ICE killing Americans for a little bit longer so long as they get to verify their masculinity, own the libs, put immigrants in torture prisons and deny to trans folk gender affirming healthcare.
But I would be delighted if the people of the US, who totally betrayed me (and themselves) in 2024, are now willing to fight back by the tens of millions.
Why does the majority not simply seize wealth from the minority and redistribute it? Why can’t society just collectively decide money from billionaires had no value? It’s so frustrating seeing the majority allow a minority of rich people ruin everything when money is a social construct, meaningless if we all collectively decide it is
That would take collectively seizing power from the governments and the banks.
It would take an immense amount of organization. Tens of millions of people coordinated across thousands of task forces.
Strike busters are effective at disrupting the organization of hundreds of workers on a few task forces. Strike busting is so effective, it’s regulated in the US. The owner class hires strike busters anyway and aren’t investigated.
It’s not impossible, but it would take a sociological miracle. More so given the coordinated efforts by the far-right propaganda machine to sow division among the population.
We’re going to have to suffer and die a whole lot before we bust out the guillotines. But maybe someone will get creative and innovate a new technique.
It’s a data center. The ballroom is just the cover.
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom
Why would it be a datacenter? We have lots of federally controlled datacenters. And data can be transferred at the speed of light, even if they want a direct line from the white house to a dedicated datacenter it’d probably be built in northern Virginia
It’s not a datacenter underneath, it’s a luxury bunker. Trump alludes to it all the time when he talks about “the ballroom”. He always speaks of the ballroom as a matter of safety
From the article
And this has to be at the White House specifically because location determines oversight. When infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President, when it exists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it can be classified under executive privilege. The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker where Dick Cheney sheltered during September 11th. By demolishing the entire East Wing, you create space to expand that existing secure facility, integrate new infrastructure, go deeper underground. All protected by the classification that covers anything related to presidential security.
He’s pocketing the whole thing. He’s gluing fake gold onto WhiteHouse fixtures to make it seem like money is being spent but mostly he and his family are just pocketing the majority of it.
Fools gold, so to speak.
When Fidesz campaigned for getting elected in 2010, they only asked for one or two terms.
Once they got elected, they asked until 2030.
Around 2020, their think tanks claimed we can only think about a “post Fidesz society” after 2050.
Meanwhile I’ve heard that some people within the party wanted to turn the words “liberalism” and essentially “democracy” into synonyms of “chaos”.
The moment mothers scold their children for having a messy room by telling them there’s democracy in their room rather than anarchy, we have finally won, and turned democracy into an unthinkable ideology.
All because some stupid, ignorant bigots wanted to “own the libs”
They’ve been conditioned to want to own the libs for a while now, and FOX News has gotten super good at it.
The fear and outrage and open bigotry are the hook that pulls people in. Then the red-pills (the conspiracy theories) invite the viewer to disregard all other news sources that run contrary. They’re being gaslighted the same way an abusive spouse isolates their partner so there is no where else to go. Soon the viewer is in an information silo, just them and FOX News, alone together.
And then every story confirms the MAGA ideology.
I don’t know if there’s a counter for it. Reagan got rid of Fairness doctrine in news media, and our education system long decided that critical thinking skills beget disobedience.
to escape from and distract from krasnovs dear friend, epstein, and to keep ms maxwell quiet.
He moves in, and immediately tears up half the place, and now he has to spend his entire term staring out at a big muddy hole. He’s such a redneck, the next thing will be wrestling matches in the front yard.
But again… He’s 80. So…
They pile up everyone past 70, cuz there aren’t many left by that age.
Cmon! Drink up!
Naw, he’s doing this for the next guy. /S
the reaper doesn’t negotiate.
It’s just upfront spending. He plans to stay president for another 346 years. It will come out in the wash.
Pretty shit for a dictator if that is what he is going for
I’m sure voting will change things! /S
If he’s raping America so bad and a criminal than why hasn’t any government agency done anything? Yet the same agencies can pin point a crack head from space and figuratively rape their life to death?
This is happening on purpose.
Did you send him this meme? Maybe he doesn’t know
