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White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom

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Re: White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom

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NPR Morning Edition today reported:

01:45 “The National Capital Planning Commission would typically have a role in approving a project like this. But the newly appointed chair of that commission. A top Trump appointee names Will Scharf (sp?) said in September the commission doesn’t have jurisdiction over demolition. […] And the commission is currently closed because of the government shutdown.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5581433/parts-of-the-wh...

Re: White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok so only 100 years of precedent. Because really what did the US accomplish in the last 100 years?

Damn near bankrupted itself with tariff's that spawned a global depression, then Steven Bradbury'd itself to the head of the world order on the coat tails of the World War(s) cluster fuck?

I think you are missing a few things. Saved the world from fascism for one.

Re: White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Damn near bankrupted itself with tariff's that spawned a global depression, then Steven Bradbury'd itself to the head of the world order on the coat tails of the World War(s) cluster fuck?

I think you are missing a few things. Saved the world from fascism for one.

Waited to the last minute to pick a side, after a few million Russians cut the Germans in half, you mean?

Maybe "saved facism, on ICE, for the world, in order to bring it back later".

Fun thing about history, so many varied perspectives from different PoV's.

Re: White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom

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The GOP being mum about the razing (with zero outside review) of a building built during the administration of Teddy Roosevelt…to build a ballroom that only one man wishes for…is probably one of the more apropos events regarding our current affairs.

Re: White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are missing a few things. Saved the world from fascism for one.

Waited to the last minute to pick a side, after a few million Russians cut the Germans in half, you mean? Maybe "saved facism, on ICE, for the world, in order to bring it back later". Fun thing about history, so many varied perspectives from different PoV's.

Here's hoping that doesn't happen, but the view from 3000 might look different.
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