“At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch… into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch,” Trump wrote on the social media platform.
Trump added that the arch near the National Mall will “house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.”
If we did more social programs and less snipers and drones, we’d be a much better country. And we’d have fewer enemies abroad as well.
Roman triumphal arch was used to commemorate victorious generals or significant public events such as the founding of new colonies, the construction of a road or bridge, the death of a member of the imperial family or the accession of a new emperor.
Oh wait so he wants an oversized purpose built triumphal arch that has those meanings and has function? It will need to be huge. I wonder if there was another famous fascist that had the same goal.
Schwerbelastungskörper… was one component of a plan to redesign the center of Berlin as an imposing, monumental capital reflecting the spirit of Nazi Germany as envisioned by Hitler.
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Drumpfuck is also delusional.
Can we put him in the bunker already
It’s not just the fact that a president makes these stupid proclamations …
It’s that the whole American government, or at least a good portion of it, just goes along with it and allows it all to happen and normalize it all. Their leader is there because there is an entire community of professionals, academics, supporters, wealthy leaders, officials, bureaucrats and politicians all want him to be there. Trump isn’t some god king that magically is able to do or say all this … he’s there because enough people who are in control want him there.
The orange menace is just the very tip of just how stupid America and American politics have become
Trump seems like he was installed to presidency, the same way FEDs throw coups and install presidents in other countries.
That’s why everyone goes along with it. This is on purpose and the things happening are supposed to happen.
I assume it’s to help FEDs build modern datacenters, ai, surveillance etc. Trump is the distraction and fall guy or patsy.
And FEDs will prep to give an equally fake democrat too. Once the objective is completed there will be a perfect democrat to take his place and make thing look “normal” again even though it’ll be the same fake theater of “democracy”.
People forget they are being constantly led and manipulated by news, politics, and entertainment. Specifically to make them easier to lead in whatever direction.
It’s so hard to forget once you understand this, and it’s also so obvious. You can’t unsee it. I wish I could articulate it perfectly.
That’s what they’ve been doing. For a long time.
Sure some center of power wants one candidate to win over the other due to expected policy changes, contract opportunities, and the money already spent on bribes. They’re in competition with the other centers of power. But at the end of the day, the important stuff, the military-industrial complex, geopolitical positioning, corporate backed trade deal, insider stock trading and market manipulation, etc., all stay the same regardless of who wins.
That part of the system is ironclad. At least until it implodes on itself because the entire structure is like public tax backed ponzi scheme.
That’s why the new crop of Trump backers and elected cronies are so brazen with their complete lack of discretion about what really goes on in the seats of power. They were all political outsiders and when they first arrived were doing the political version of raiding the rival frat houses, throwing toilet paper everywhere and wrecking shit. It’s a game to them. Who can out shock their friends and rivals.
But it kept going on because no one there, besides a few newer idealists, is actually working for the people.
Anyone who tries is quickly shut out. Like cop gangs, you have to agree to the corruption to stay in the game.
No one who goes to the House or the Senate is doing what they were elected to do. Except in the instance of easy PR legislative victories and policy that’s bolstered by backroom deals.
The only difference was the older generation was smart enough to keep their fucking mouths shut about it. To pad their blatant self-serving maneuvering with an veneer of class. Everyone was hush hush and they only time one party ratted out the other was around election time and even then it’s restrained to those who really fuck up and get caught. Nobody is going to rock the boat too much, otherwise the political class will inadvertently tip their hand to the public.
But everyone feels like the gig is about up so nobody is pretending anymore.
Nothing has changed except the boil has come to the surface and is about to pop.
Oops, I’m ranting again. Must be time for my nap
I’m up in Canada and when I look at these headlines every day … it just affirms my belief that America is a failed democracy. Everyone keeps calling it a democracy but it’s only a name or description at this point because it certainly doesn’t function like one any more.
I’m in no special place either … we are on our way downhill up here as well. We’re not at the same level as the US but we are on our way there. The whole first world system is slowly morphing into some sort of weird Corporatocracy.
Yeah. It’s everywhere. Global politics and world domination of human beings. We all fell for it.
It goes deep into human history.
I’m also in Canada, but I’m a bit more optimistic about our direction. When you zoom out and look at Canada’s usual electoral cycles, the last election should have been an absolutely guaranteed Conservative win. The fact that we allowed the Liberals to pivot rightward (but not nearly as far as the Conservatives), and not only retain control of government, but actually gain seats, presents a major deviation leftward from our usual pattern.
And FEDs will prep to give an equally fake democrat too.
Good God Almighty, is that Gavin Newsom’s music?
Will there be a hanger for flying cars and a walk-in wardrobe where Trump can change into crime fighting costumes for all sorts of different environments?
Next month it’ll be sharks with laser beams glued to their heads.
And they will guard the reflection pool from Aunt Tifa
With the current state of the economy I’m afraid he’ll have to settle for ill-tempered sea bass.
Hitler personally designed German flak towers which he seemed fascinated by, so I’m not surprised to see yet another poor imitation from Don.
But why tho.
Because he has noticed that courts seem to be giving the President deference for things needed for “national security”, so he thinks those are magic words that will make accountability go away.
It’s working far too often.
for “national security”, so he thinks those are magic words that will make accountability go away.
Is he wrong?
Even from the “national security” standpoint, doesn’t a predefined sniper’s nest kind of defeat the point?
Not if the point is lethal surveillance of those coming and going in DC.
The fear they instill is part of the package.
I was already assuming that everything around the white House is covered by snipers anyway.
Same reason he’s pretending to build military facilities under the ballroom: it’s just a pretense to be allowed to build what he wants.
Otherwise it’s just a dictator’s vanity project with zero justification for the wasted taxpayer’s money, and the courts can shut it down. But when there’s military-anything involved, it becomes a defense project.
Because they expect a civil war, or some sort of massive uprising. And I’m not naive, I don’t expect this to be some glorious, organized revolution of the shining proletariat. It will be chaotic, disjointed, and without goal (at least at first). Whether it’ll be armed or not, peaceful or not (at least to start with), doesn’t matter. They know DC will be a hot zone.
The same reason he’s building a nuclear proof bunker. The same reason he released, and has normalized, the national guard around DC. Whether he knows this, or his handlers, I don’t really think it matters. They know that something will break eventually. Yes, I know we all call out Americans’ apathy and make doomer jokes about them never rising up. But there IS another great depression coming (not recession, depression), gas will almost certainly go past $6 or $7 a gallon nationwide, food will become completely unaffordable, I suspect over 40% of people will be unemployed. And unlike the first Great Depression, we have mass surveillance, AI, a world MUCH MUCH more dependent on central supply chains, and so much more shit.
They know something is coming. Yes, USians suck and are so fucking apathetic, but that will crack eventually.
I look forward to that stupid waste of OUR TAX MONEY gets taken down
Is this the same arch with gaps filled with spray foam?
And gold leaf. Can’t forget the gold leaf. Did I mention it’ll be covered in gold leaf? Gold leaf.
Those golden eagles can have laser eyes to shoot down any incoming missiles (or bags of drugs catapulted over the border by MS-13, for that matter).
The incoming missiles to justify this can be provided by the fact that there’s now a prominent structure packed with ammunition standing at the centre of the US capital, a target too good to pass up.
I cant help but be reminded by civil war that came out in 2024. How the Whitehouse was so defended. Guess this would be the start of that buildup.
So he’s identifying useful targets, if someone wanted to stage an actual violent attack?
By virtue of having said that, you could almost be assured that the military would not use it for such purpose, except to serve as a visible threat against peaceful protestors.
In other words, nobody is funding it for him, so he’s come up with an excuse to use military funds to build it.
