Donald Trump is facing legal action over the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, part of a $300 million plan to build a new ballroom on the executive grounds.

A Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees, filed an emergency motion in federal court on October 23 seeking to halt the project, alleging that it violates multiple federal preservation and planning laws.

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

The founding fathers would be turning in their graves. This time line is fked man. He's going to rig the next election if he doesn't get rid of elections all together. One thing he doesn't realise is dictatorships like RUS and China have unarmed controlled citizens.

The USA has the most heavily armed population on the planet.

He's fucking with fire and he is absolutely going to be burnt.

Bro just bulldozed history for a ball room.... Insanity.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Well the citizens of Afganistán and Vietnam proved this wrong. Never underestimate guerrilla warfare

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Sure, but we are talking about the US here.

    Or are you all busy building tunnels and bunkers over there? Organise in your neighborhood and build local groups?

    Pretty sure that if the media starts calling these guerrillas terrorists, anti-american, instigators of violence, Communists, Antifa, and so on, they will loose public support and without broad local support in the population, guerilla fighting will not work.

    Afganistán and Vietnam fought guerilla against a foreign invasion. US would have to fight 'guerilla' against their neighbors and other Americans, against people like them... I don't think this is comparable.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Not as many as there'd need to be.

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