The WH ballroom will not be built

[BrightShinyGirl]

I'm not advocating the destruction of public property. It's why we can't have nice things.

Are you as appalled as we are that Donald Trump tore down the East Wing?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Are you as appalled as we are that Donald Trump tore down the East Wing?

Is there a reason you hate ballrooms?

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Is there a reason you hate ballrooms?

The White House doesn’t need a fancy ballroom. If Trump does manage to build it, I will enjoy seeing it torn down.

 

[Wilson23]

I'm not advocating the destruction of public property. It's why we can't have nice things.

Trump has never in his life had anything to do with nice things.

 

[Rightguide]

Because incompetents are in charge of the project. Read the link in the OP.

BS. Parts of the NYC skyline was built by Trump.

 

[RoryN]

BS. Parts of the NYC skyline was built by Trump.

"Were."

(Dummy.)

 

[Wilson23]

The office building that contained paper pushers working for First Ladies is gone.

The East Wing was there for a reason. It organized social functions, which is a pretty big deal in the WH.

 

[Wilson23]

The left is having a hard time accepting the demolition and replacement under way. Oh well.

It's under way. But it will take a lot more than that to finish it.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The White House doesn’t need a fancy ballroom. If Trump does manage to build it, I will enjoy seeing it torn down.

Does the White House need a bowling alley or a basketball court?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Trump has never in his life had anything to do with nice things.

What an odd thing to say.

 

[Wilson23]

What an odd thing to say.

His many buildings are not nice things, and neither is his gold-plated condo in Manhattan.

 

[Saint_Ann]

His many buildings are not nice things, and neither is his gold-plated condo in Manhattan.

Why do you hate rich people?

 

[icanhelp1]

BS. Parts of the NYC skyline was built by Trump.

If there are cost overruns maybe the planning commission can reutilize some of the recouped monies from the democrat Minnesota/Mogadishu massive fraud, waste and theft from the American people and use it for something that enriches our culture.

 

[Wilson23]

Why do you hate rich people?

Some rich people have an aristocratic elegance. But nouveau riche vulgarity is always ugly, and Trump embodies it even if he was born rich.

It's like this.

There never was, I suppose, in the history of the world a time when the sheer vulgar fatness of wealth, without any kind of aristocratic elegance to redeem it, was so obtrusive as in those years before 1914. It was the age when crazy millionaires in curly top-hats and lavender waistcoats gave champagne parties in rococo house-boats on the Thames, the age of diabolo and hobble skirts, the age of the ‘knut’ in his grey bowler and cut-away coat, the age of The Merry Widow, Saki's novels, Peter Pan and Where the Rainbow Ends, the age when people talked about chocs and cigs and ripping and topping and heavenly, when they went for divvy week-ends at Brighton and had scrumptious teas at the Troc. From the whole decade before 1914 there seems to breathe forth a smell of the more vulgar, un-grown-up kind of luxury, a smell of brilliantine and crème-de-menthe and soft-centred chocolates — an atmosphere, as it were, of eating everlasting strawberry ices on green lawns to the tune of the Eton Boating Song. The extraordinary thing was the way in which everyone took it for granted that his oozing, bulging wealth of the English upper and upper-middle classes would last for ever, and was part of the order of things. After 1918 it was never quite the same again. Snobbishness and expensive habits came back, certainly, but they were self-conscious and on the defensive. Before the war the worship of money was entirely unreflecting and untroubled by any pang of conscience. The goodness of money was as unmistakable as the goodness of health or beauty, and a glittering car, a title or a horde of servants was mixed up in people's minds with the idea of actual moral virtue.

 

[Wilson23]

BS. Parts of the NYC skyline was built by Trump.

But nothing that is not extremely regrettable. That does not portend well for this ballroom.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Some rich people have an aristocratic elegance. But nouveau riche vulgarity is always ugly, and Trump embodies it even if he was born rich.

It's like this.

So you only hate vulgar people. I've seen you say some pretty vulgar, stupid stuff. Do you hate yourself? That would explain a lot.

 

[Rightguide]

But nothing that is not extremely regrettable. That does not portend well for this ballroom.

^^^
What we see here, folks, is a glandular response. In the political arena, this happens when Wilson's endocrine system votes before his brain does. No facts processed, no arguments weighed, just a sudden hormonal dump straight into the bloodstream, and out to the blogosphere to wheeze away as a post. If we could observe it happening, we see his pupils dilate, voice pitch rise, and talking points leaking as stress sweat. It’s not an opinion so much as a biochemical event. By the time he's done, nothing has been debated, nothing learned, just a full adrenal discharge and a smug sense of moral relief. A new form of cortisol-powered oratory.

 

[Wilson23]

So you only hate vulgar people. I've seen you say some pretty vulgar, stupid stuff. Do you hate yourself? That would explain a lot.

Not vulgar, just obscene. Vulgarity is stupid, which I never am -- at least, not on the PB.

 

[Rightguide]

Are you as appalled as we are that Donald Trump tore down the East Wing?

Were you appalled when Nixon covered JFK's pool and created a space for the press, or when Ford dug up the South lawn for a swimming pool?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Not vulgar, just obscene. Vulgarity is stupid, which I never am -- at least, not on the PB.

I recall you posting something about fucking sheep.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Were you appalled when Nixon covered JFK's pool and created a space for the press, or when Ford dug up the South lawn for a swimming pool?

I wasn’t alive yet so

 

[Rightguide]

I wasn’t alive yet so

You're more than free to lament them now.

 

[mstrman]

This is what demolibs want

 

[Wilson23]

I recall you posting something about fucking sheep.

Only in sexual, not political, connections.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Only in sexual, not political, connections.

It was.