• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    American taxpayers will help fund the project, according to a publicly available spending plan for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) released by the White House.

    As per the spending plan, the NEH will dedicate $2m (£1.5m) in special funds and $13m in matching funds to the project.

    The American taxpayer will “help” fund the project? Where are the other funds coming from? Seems like the NEH, a federal agency funded by… the taxpayer?

    Or is this going to be Ballroom 2.0, another billionaire bribe monument to oligarchy?

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I just saw him sputtering something about how CNN had a 100% approval poll or something. No idea just WTAF he was even talking about. I think the few neurons he has are shorting out.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    You do realize that when a Triumph was declared, there was always a guy riding shotgun reminding the person that he was, in fact, only a mortal, yes?

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    Nothing says “working towards the need of the working stiffs” like grandiose pointless architecture.

    Fun fact: all dictators like architectural megaprojects. This is what Hitler had in mind for Berlin for instance. Or this monstrosity built by Ceaucescu. The Arc de Epstein and the Epstein ballroom should tell you something about Trump.

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    3 months ago

    Finally, a place to hang all the trump traitors in public. Or should we borrow a guillotine from France?

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    3 months ago

    You only get a Triumph if you conquered enough enemies and gathered enough wealth to appease the senators of Rome.

    This arch is a sham! Triumphal, my ass.

    Suck some more Bill Clinton dick, President Donald “the rapist pedophile” Trump.