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Kim Winchell's avatar

How in the hell is that even legal? Isn’t it a historical building? And, the People’s House. 😡

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JustMags's avatar

It’s not. It’s lawfare.

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Kim Winchell's avatar

😔🙄😮‍💨

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Friedrike Merck's avatar

And the building is filled with asbestos (peak use in 1940's) and shouid have a giant haz mat structure enclosing the entire demo project.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

You mean the White People's House, which was built mostly by Black people?

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Friedrike Merck's avatar

The felon in our White House doesn't feel at home in a pure, graceful, historic masterpiece. He must destroy beauty, and history that he didn't star in. He must gold leaf and tart up the hallowed halls of the People's house in order to feel comfortable.

So be it.

We will watch the horror show, and when it is over, we will put back our home and our democracy one precious piece at a time.

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Jane Smythe🇨🇦's avatar

I believe he doesn’t want to end the shutdown ever because that “pesky” branch of government gets in the way of his decrees. I’m holding my breath too because ICE bought war arms. Once he starts shooting citizens protests will stop. Hitler was successful at all these strategies. And No Kings has added deadly fuel to his need to dominate and control. Aided and abetted by his henchmen. 😭🇨🇦

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Olivia of Troye's avatar

This thought has also crossed my mind….

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Friedrike Merck's avatar

Au contraire. Once he starts shooting citizens, the protests will quadruple.

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Jane Smythe🇨🇦's avatar

I hope you’re right but history says differently. I believe the focus now should be on the enablers. He’s not doing this alone.

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Harry Mac's avatar

Olivia, you are superb! Are you in an undisclosed location somewhere within easy driving distance of where you want to go in El Paso? You are not in El Paso I hope. Certainly not at a widely -known location. We need you. Don’t take unnecessary chances. Keep up the good work carefully.

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Gary Hanks's avatar

Thanks Olivia. I see the demolition of the East Wing of the People's House as a metaphor for what he's doing to our Democracy. Tear down and destroy the "structures" of our republic and replace them with crap that he thinks looks better than it functions. Case in point, Lindsey Halligan. Not legal, and can barely fill her position.

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Stephen C Nickerson's avatar

The demolition is DEVASTATING! As you emphasize, as the strongmen fall the people stand. We, the people, must continue to fight for our democracy!!!

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retrofocus80's avatar

We should demand the document granting the approval for this structural change be released publicly! If they don’t have approval everything must stop. I m not sure the process was completed. Release the document that this construction has been approved

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

This construction has NOT been approved. Such changes require the approval of a historical committee that he never consulted; or at least, there are no reports that he did.

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Sandra's avatar

So incredibly depressing. Is there nothing this administration won’t do? And do we, the part of society who IS paying attention have any recourse? I used to think that we’d somehow find a through. Now I’m not so sure.

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Sandra's avatar

Edit to add I do agree w everything Olivia says, but right now I’m having trouble seeing good triumph over evil. But I will hold on to that.

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Rick Braun's avatar

Trump's ballroom is his way of pissing on a fire hydrant, marking territory like the dog he is.

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Ellen Brown's avatar

I am now officially numb. Every day a new horror perpetrated on the American people by a deranged and narcissistic president. No earth shaking opposition from the Democrats, no sane Republican arising from the ashes to save us and no relief to be seen.

The most recognizable symbol of democracy in this country along with the Liberty Bell, now being transformed into a Vegas hotel. Shocking? Not at all.

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Punkette's avatar

Thank you, Olivia, for this important post. The mind boggles at the extent of the regime’s wanton demolition and destruction of our beloved country. Take good care of yourself and enjoy your time at home in El Paso with your family and friends. Eat comforting food! 🌶️

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Allen B from MD's avatar

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty"

--incorrectly attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but true nonetheless.

We have been subjected to a slow-motion coup since Donffrey Trumpstein's first term in office. What the MAGA acolytes used to assert against others without evidence, they now practice openly and wantonly. Don't just sit there as a spectator! GET INVOLVED! VOTE as if your life depended on it, because it does.

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Cherae Stone's avatar

Take great good care, Olivia.

Your insight is so very valuable!

I’m glad you are at “home.”

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Tina Clayton's avatar

Thank you for this. I was feeling hopeless but now I'm hopeful that this will not be the end of democracy and civil and human rights!

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Robyn Boyer's avatar

The first thing the new Democratic President must do is to tear down the ballroom and begin the reconstruction of the East Wing; this goes for the restoration of the Rose Garden to its original state. Of course it goes without saying that all the gaud in the Oval Office must go, first day. The second thing is ordering the Army transport and drop the Qatari bribe plane into the ocean near Mar-a-Lago. The third thing is to begin oversight hearings on every single member, up the line and down, of all Cabinet members and their departments and staff. The fourth thing is to heave a big sigh of relief that The People and the Constitution will have been restored and that what Trump has wrought will never, ever happen again. Restoration. Rebuild. Rekindle hope for our country's future.

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David Hope's avatar

“They may be demolishing democracy, but they’re not demolishing us.”

They are not demolishing democracy.

And they sure as Hades are not demolishing us.

Ask our frogs.

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