The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

And wait until :tangerine: :clown_face: adds the soccer trophy

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Kate Wagner did a public post on this on her Patreon (below is all a link bc no onebox):

The McMansionization of the White House, or:
Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise

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someone with a ruler. Just because it’s neatly done, that doesnt automatically mean the person who drew it is female.

That said, I have a hard time attributing any talent or patience to TFG.

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From the replies:

As a materials scientist, the juxtaposition of gold leaf on polyurethane is so incredibly poignant. gold - the material that is so expensive precisely because it does not corrode - being carelessly glued onto a plastic so aggressively prone to deterioration that it takes everything around it down with it … oof. A simulacrum indeed.

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It’s just so fucking tacky (which is completely on brand). A wide shot is even worse. Even more gold shit everywhere and just about every part of the walls covered with paintings.

It’s already there by the Resolute Desk:

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Trump has asked Bondi to, in view of “the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein,” release “any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” according to a message the president posted on his social network, Truth Social

Good to note that 1) this would be remarkable for the court to approve, 2) if approved, would only cover information that Trump’s DOJ chose to share with the Grand Jury, so is unlikely to have anything that would be dangerous to Trump.

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I feel sympathy for people who have to go to the US and deal with that shit, like I accidentally sent something about the destruction of Palestine in a friend group including someone who works for a US company. I can’t take that back and I have made his life more difficult.

Tourism though… I look forward to travelling to the US in joy and love when it isn’t fascist. And it won’t be. Those fuckers are only good at getting power. They are terrible at life. All of it.

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Some in my feed are saying it could be just a delay in PACER. We’ll see, I can see it going either way.

ETA:

Yup, that was it. It’s not pro se, but it’s a really tiny law firm, not something you’d expect from the president.

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Time to rename it the “Offal Office.” T**** won’t even notice.

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WTF? He pays these guys? (well, probably not)

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What does this room’s art signify?

“Wealth without substance or history!”

If you told me that set was in Russia or the lobby of a high end hotel in Singapore… It’s equally believable.

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To be fair, it’s perfectly possible that someone else did the drawing to Epstein (and even wrote and typed out the text) for Donnie and he just signed it, as a birthday gift. It wouldn’t be the first (or last) time he passed off someone else’s work as his own. Either way, it doesn’t change the fact that Trump was good friends with Epstein and they both thought that abusing women and girls was cool.

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Never mind the comically outlandish $10 billion dollars of damages he’s seeking.

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Something about a plaintiff representing himself having a fool for a client? Rings damn true here.

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Hell no.

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