Republican senators prioritize Trump's $400 million ballroom over pressing national issues, sparking controversy and concerns over conflicts of interest.
GOP Senators Unveil Plan to Pay for $400 Million White House Ballroom With Taxpayer Funds | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/white-house-ballroom-funding
41 Comments
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 96 pts · 130d
Cool.. $400m to a Fuhrer bunker but nah to healthcare, food, or other things that keep people alive.. not one bunker that keeps a fat stupid fucking pedophile "safe" from the people.
What a stupid fucking piece of shit. Someone don't miss this time.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 130d
Go eat some cake and be happy, peasant.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 130d
The cake is $17. Epay only.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 15 pts · 130d
I mean, theat whole ballroom thing is absurd, but so is everything america does for their little kings. The security guards, the tank they roll around in, airforce one... In other countries their leaders often go to work by train, bicycle or gasp drive themselves. While 400 million is a lot of money going down the drain, compared to the rest of the bullshit celebrity ass kissing budget you have to ensure your little princes safety, it's nothing. And it's not even good. People just walk in to the guy. When obama was president there was an incident where someone just walked in the white house and no one stopped them, because they are incompetent as fuck.
redsand@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 130d
It's a Stargate data center. Millions in Larry Ellison's hardware running Grok
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 68 pts · 130d
You didn't really think Trump's pet project was going to be privately funded, did you?
As always, it's Trump's vanity but it's your money and your White House...
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 130d
oh, the epstein donations go towards the epstein china. pretty simple, really.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
lol anyone who thinks that money’s ever leaving trumps personal accounts is a moran . . .
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 130d
I see what you did there 👀
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
Chyaina
blattrules@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 130d
Where’d all the money go that he raised already? It’s great that these assholes can cut everything else, saying “we don’t have the money,” but find infinite funds when their king wants something.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 130d
I mean it was always a grift.
Every 'donation' is just a bribe and has been from the start.
I'm sure I didn't need to state this at this point.
blattrules@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
Yeah, but where’s the money that he raised for the ballroom? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if he just pocketed it and that our political donation system is not regulated and like everything else, just relies on winks and handshakes, but his grift has to hit some legal wall at some point, right? …right?
tempest@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 130d
They would not have "donated" if they didn't have a clear way to siphon it out to whoever or wherever Trump and his cadre wanted it.
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
Oh this was my favorite part of the article...
blattrules@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
Haha I think I zoned out midway through the quote from him. So trump raised something like $300 million according to him previously and that’s only going to go to place settings.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 130d
This feels like the 100'th time orange guy has said something and immediately after everyone flocks around him and says yes this is what we need let's do some laws and praise him for coming up with it.
I get so tired, the brown nose circus is well oiled and all the clowns are mastering their roles.
grue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 130d
Conservatives crave being subjugated. It is fundamental to their ideology.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 129d
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 130d
So all those bribes were never going to pay for the anything other than Trump's down-payment on his beach front property in Gaza. Cool cool. The corruption is laughable at this point. Republicans and Neo-Liberals are pure evil.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 130d
Go. Fuck. Yourselves. Party of Pedophiles.
How about YOU pay for the Epstein Ballroom instead??? Along with the Hitleresque bunker beneath it--- not that Shitler is going to let you in there when the country finally turns on him.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
Hey now, careful. You're talking about the next major compromise Democrats will make to keep funding Epstein's War.
You think Lindsey Graham has ever paid for anything in his life? Defeats the whole point of being a US Senator.
gary215@thelemmy.club · 18 pts · 130d
I thought they already had the money from private donors and from Trump's personal bank account. Did they paid for it and now need another 400 million more?
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 130d
Because the donations ended up in Trump's pocket. It was always a grift. Everything he does is to enrich himself.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 130d
You lose track after a while. I think at one point Mexico was supposed to pay for it.
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 130d
If every elementary school had a 400 million dollar ballroom, they too would be safe!
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 130d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
i mean duh you left out the mines
fox2263@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 130d
I feel the dems should be like “sure, we will agree to this, if you can show us where the already collected 400m from private donors has gone that was supposed to pay for it. Every cent. We will wait”
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 130d
Hey South Carolina, member when you had the chance to boot this bag of shit to the moon?
Yeah. Anyway.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 130d
Republican voters are dumber than dirt.
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 129d
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
.... I dont want one cent of my money paying for a Trump vanity project
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 10 pts · 130d
You don't get to say what your money is spent on, and you don't get to negotiate how much you want to contribute. That's the power of taxation.
In theory, you can vote for someone who will choose to spend your hard-earned on something worthwhile. In practice, it's an illusion. And pretty soon, Trump will try to dispense with the illusion altogether.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 130d
Well, you could just not pay taxes, but thats risky too
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
It is VERY interesting how the drumbeat for "we just gotta build the ballroom now!" began RIGHT after this shooter at the WHCD.
Very interesting indeed.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 5 pts · 129d
Indeed.
I stated here that I did not believe this "shooting" was a false flag to justify cancelling or meddling with the midterms, because it was such a failure, and ultimately a nothingburger.
But the more I watch that dirtbag Lindsey Graham coming out with this idea of funding Trump's ballroom with we-the-people's money fully formed and reading to use within hours of the incident, the more I'm convinced that it was a show put up for exactly this purpose.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 130d
"Sparking concerns" my ass. The government has been captured.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 129d
Like Jesus would say, if a politician grabs both of your cheeks, just enjoy it!
So anyway, I hope to keep working my ass off to pay for bullshit wars and bullshit ball room upgrades. Hopefully they get lots of balls for the balls room.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 130d
What's the problem? Let them eat cake.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 123d
It will be paid for by donors they said. It won't cost taxpayers anything they said.
discocactus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 130d
😱