Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

Wouldn't it be amazing that he would lose and have to put it back out of his own pocket? I mean won't happen in this reality as we're all in hell but still would be nice to think about.

If you're sending Jason anyways you might as well have him fix the Supreme Court.

Cue SCOTUS saying, "It's the President's house! Of course he can renovate it!"

Bravo

the couple can send their son, Jason

You're thinking the New Jersey Voorhees. They lived on Shades of Death Rd.

I love how cartoonishly evil, dumb and uncharismatic he is, and americans were like: "let's see what he has to offer a second time."

History lesson in the future has to be absolute wild. People will imagine some well spoken George Clooney like person and then they see a video of Krang talking about grabbing pussy.

And about half of the US basically see him as their god.

Isn't he the child of disgusting German immigrants?

I'd be up to join the class action suit. As a Canadian it's our right to be the ones to demolish the Whitehouse.

Are we sure the people doing the work aren't slave labor that just weren't yet human trafficked?

No. If courts decide that the demolition was illegal, he has to put it back exactly the way it was. It's not a free pass to "rebuild it the way he wants".

I'm the one who gets to pick how it's rebuilt

What if he's not, though? What if the courts ordered that the building must be rebuilt the way it was? I don't think that'll happen, but I wouldn't mind if it did.

Where's Arthur Dent when you need him?

Nah, peaceful protest will totally solve this.

/s

A guy spray paints his favorite words under a bridge so he gets 10 years. Orange guy demolishes the most iconic building in the nation.... down to the ground... Jail? Nope, presidential!

He should be arrested for vandalism.

... and about ten thousand other things. No-one seems to give enough of a shit.

You're right, but I think this falls into the "don't obey in advance" rule of resistance to autocracy.

I've long since lost the will to support this type of action, like yourself I suppose. Everything is fucked all the way down. You can't not-lose in a corrupt court system.

However, I think it's important that every authoritarian action is challenged, because if you don't challenge then you really are kind of obeying in advance.

I think the majority of the country should have a class action suit against him for all the stress he's caused over 10 years. His shitty 20-25% of hardcore fans can maybe have their taxes bumped up to cover it.

Given that the new model is just to pull numbers right out of our ass, apparently, from watching the pedo-in-chief, I think each of us is due about 250 million dollars.

I am still waiting for Americans to use their guns to rise up against tyranny instead of using them to shoot minorities

In an all out war, (which I doubt will happen) all these guns in the population don't matter against drones, aircrafts, tanks and trained snipers or other soldiers. If the military and all other agencies decides to support Trump, all these weapons will be useless. The pentagon surely has plans for a civil uprising in their own country.

I don't think the US has enough ordinary citizen that would actually risk their lives for democracy, to make a difference. Media and social media is controlled by the oligarchy, and even the progressives don't seem to want to cut themselves loose of twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp, google, bluesky, discord and so on. Where would they even organize?

And yet you’d think with the whole right to bear arms and use it against kings would have kicked in already tho.

They still just use the guns on children and minorities.

This has been the most anticlimactic flex I’ve ever seen.

We will not be forgetting this one should another gun toting citizen from the US boast their reasons of the constitution.

Prepare to have this thrown in all the faces for generations to come.

How much of that heavily armed population are Trump supporters though?

Bro just bulldozed history for a ball room… Insanity.

THRONE room!

The most American thing to say. When they are really cowards holding onto their guns cause they're scared.

He don't need no stinking permits, he's a REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER!

The WH answer to this is that there's precedent for them not needing permits for demo, but building the new construction requires permits. Although they could say anything, how many people really know?

Read that as "the most suave president", and you didn't make a whole lot of sense.

It's Trump. He already has a history of not paying.

Destroying National Landmarks for Fun and Profit

Well, my mother is a Trumper and even she said the WH demo is "ridiculous and disgusting", so, maybe it's a crack to pry open with louder complaints to help open more eyes like hers.

People can be upset about multiple things. Just because I am upset about the White House being destroyed doesn't mean I am not also upset about the lives of Americans being destroyed.

"We" are not but some people might react stronger to this. I don't like it either, but every little bit helps.

I get this take and am in the same boat. The thing though is that the people who disapprove with trump is about the same as the number that "strongly disapprove" of trump. We have no more loathing to give.

Righting the ship will require breaking through to the disconnected and mildly red.

And the WH destruction is a) not a traditionally partisan issue, b) strongly symbolic, and c) a powerful visual.

So is it the worst thing he's doing? Not by a mile. Will I be happy if it wakes people up? Vehemently.

Hey, they got Capone on tax fraud

Well, it is Trump's #1 objective right now. Not reopening the government or funding SNAP. Those are poor people problems.

On one hand, yes, many Americans' morals are backwards and ideally humans being killed, brutalized and disappeared by this administration and it's agents would get more attention than an old building.

But on the other hand, that's unfortunately not where we're at. But where we are at is many people who would otherwise support or at least feel apathetic to what this administration is doing are appalled by the destruction of a national icon and I'll welcome any step towards eroding the support this administration has from a significant group of Americans.

Yes, we are. There are plenty of lawyers and resources to fight this admin on all fronts. Any attempt to put him in check is not a loss on another.

You can be more personally concerned about the people being thrown in gulags and blown up on fishing boats - rightfully so - but it doesn't stand to reason that this fight is not worthy of pursuit. Lawyers who specialize in zoning laws, permit violations, and historical building renovation processes surely shouldn't have their efforts dismissed.

Non magats can do more than one thing at a time, you know.....

See you in two years.

Not to mention the fact there is really no reason for a ball room at the White House. They hold these events in more fitting venues.

This isn't a ball room though. This is a throne room for the great Hamberder King.

To be fair, it wasn't the Canadians. It was the British. Canada wasn't a Canada in 1814.

But yes, we'd be happy to come help disinfect that building with fire. I think when your civil war kicks off, torching that building early on and then rebuilding it after the sane people take over would make great imagery.

hey he’s taking away the Canadian tradition of destroying the White House

Shit is all backwards

If those staunch Canadians need anywhere to stay, they can hit me up. I'm 4hrs from DC but down to give them a ride or whatever

It's not his duty to be an orange skinned, raisin brain moron.

He's immune to prosecution and personal consequences from anything he does. They have not (yet) ceded the ability to tell him that government cannot legally do a thing and what it must do to correct it.

I mean they are never going to be released. And people keep on asking for them is just stupid. Like what in this political climate is going to make them release them?

Fuck those people the hardest. They would rather save their own skin than ise their position to take a stand and do the right thing.

Just one moe lawsuit, bro!