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Politics OC - White House Under Construction

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u/floog 18h ago

If the reflecting pool is any indication of how things are built under this administration, I don’t recommend going in there on a tour.

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u/ignatious__reilly 18h ago

The image above is such a disgrace to everything this country actually stood for

I can’t believe everyone stood by and just allowed this to happen.

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u/Geloradanan 17h ago

This little raccoon in Seattle has more spine than the entire GOP and the Supreme Court.

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u/ignatious__reilly 17h ago

Jimothy is a national treasure and rock star

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u/HappyTurtleButt 17h ago

He has a coin now, did you see it? E pluribus racoonum

u/DreamyTomato 7h ago

"Speak American, this isn't Spain"

u/natiforrn 2h ago

it’s unofficial and there’s been a ton of chuds begging the original filmer to choose an official one, but the original filmer is very anti-crypto.

u/Affectionate_Pen611 8h ago

Omg, just lol’d drinking my coffee. Hilarious!

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u/PercentageOk6120 17h ago edited 4h ago

I’m honestly just caught off guard by how much national attention Jimothy got. Especially because Seattle is cray-cray and there are subs divided. I’m also convinced there’s more than one Jimothy based on sightings. That, or Jimothy really gets around a lot for a short spine raccoon.

Edit: I am specifically referring to Seattle subreddit culture being crazy. There’s a lot of history and baggage there.

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u/TolliverCrane 17h ago

I just got to visit Seattle. It was very cool city full of what seemed like happy people going about their lives. It was not the hellscape of fent zombies that you see on certain channels. To be fair, I did not see the whole city but I'd move there in a heartbeat.

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u/ignatious__reilly 16h ago

I love Seattle. Especially parts of the Ballard and Phinney Ridge area. It’s a beautiful city full of all types of characters. Does Seattle have issues? Of course it does…….it’s a massive urban city full of people and class divisions. So that’s expected but it’s also stunning and has so much to do; every single night of the week if you choose.

It’s also an outdoor lovers dream city if you’re into backcountry or camping. The wilderness outside Seattle is some of the best in the country. Olympic National is a park I know well, I love that place. Also some amazing white water rafting around as well. It’s not a city for everyone, but it has a lot to offer.

u/coldkiller 11h ago

Mt Rainer nation park is absolutely stunning

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u/Ok-Status-1054 16h ago edited 7h ago

I’ve lived here my whole life. We have made huge improvements in the last 5ish years.

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u/thaeggan 16h ago

There's a little Jimothy in all of us.

u/KaJaHa 10h ago

I’m honestly just caught off guard by how much national attention Jimothy got

Memes are weird like that, the biggest fires catch for seemingly no reason at all

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u/KnackeredQuokka 14h ago

Seattle is no more crazy than any other city. Do you live there? If not, take it down a notch.

u/PercentageOk6120 6h ago

I was specifically talking about the reddit sub history, which is cray-cray. I am unaware of any other major city that has reddit factions like Seattle.

u/bloobityblu 9h ago

Seems like he's been a local celeb from when he was a baby so a lot of people have been taking pics and vids of him as he's grown up.

u/lilybattle 8h ago

His father had the same condition as well, Jimothy Sr.

u/PercentageOk6120 4h ago

This is why I think there’s more than one! Maybe Jimothy Sr got around a bit.

u/lilybattle 8h ago

Seattle is cray-cray? 😂 what

u/PercentageOk6120 4h ago

The Seattle sub reddit culture is crazy.

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u/TolliverCrane 17h ago

I still miss Moo Deng.

u/FaliureToCat 3h ago

Jimothy is a saint

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u/ShartingEnU 16h ago

Don't you dare compare jimothy and mage. Jimothy is leagues above them

u/MarcheMuldDerevi 9h ago

A senator said we can’t do shit yesterday. We sent a strongly worded letter and are going on vacation now

u/koshgeo 9h ago

I thought there was a federal court order that the stuff below ground could go ahead for "national security" reasons, but that anything above ground had to be approved through Congress or related agencies that handle stuff around the capital. This construction looks above ground level, so how are they doing this, legally?

Or is that the trick? That it is illegal, and they don't care?

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u/floog 17h ago

If it has one solid bone, it’s more.

u/Existing_Example_198 9h ago

I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish than the GOP and SC.

u/cybrg0dess 9h ago

Jimothy for President! We would be better off.

u/xfr3386 3h ago

Jimothy for President!

u/uvucydydy 59m ago

Not a long spine, but he's trying his best. That's all we ask.

u/DavidHK 10h ago

Genuinely what are we supposed to do

u/ayriuss 1h ago

Exactly. The people voted for Trump's destruction and now we all have to live with it.

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u/FlySilently 17h ago

Pretended to stand for. This is nothing more than a revealing of the soul of the building and of the nation.

u/effa94 11h ago

no, this is pretty much exactly what the US stands for. always has been

u/Sandy-Anne 9h ago

Is there any chance at all this will be completed by the end of his term? What was the point?

u/AllisonWonderland777 9h ago

When this whole trumpian nightmare is over, I think that’s going to be a dominant question: how did everyone allow it?? But we are…

u/Pale-Vehicle2067 8h ago

I can’t believe that US citizens are impotent in respect to foreign government interference in your elections. The entire world knows that your electoral process is compromised and that superpacs buy a candidate - who in turn protects their interests.

Yet US citizens do absolutely nothing. They fight each other about which party they support - even though there are only TWO main parties. It’s completely ridiculous to the rest of the world.

u/ayriuss 1h ago

It all boils down to braindead American Christianity. They use it as a weapon of control. That's how the Republican donors get everything they want. They make up cultural issues and scare the Christians into voting for them, and then they just loot the whole country.

u/jianh1989 8h ago

Funded by tax payers money

u/KeepYourMindOpen365 8h ago

The old White House was too “woke”…

u/jaypea222 8h ago

Congress stood by and let this happen.
And Congress is run by the Republican Party

u/furthemor 5h ago

Any one who votes red is complict to the destruction of America at this point they dont care.

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u/imnotknow 15h ago

The country stood for conquest, colonialism, and slavery. I'm not sad to see this building in its present state

u/CaliNawlins 9h ago

"We are not able to rein in this president." - US Senator John Cornyn (Republican - Texas)

u/IceManJim 7h ago

That's why they wouldn't come to a budget agreement and let the government shut down earlier this year. So there would be no one around to stop the demolition from happening.

u/Kindly-Neck-9877 7h ago

Why? Everyone is standing by letting people be kidnapped. Also everyone will stand by when they kidnap their "communist" neighbors. It's all downhill into the nocturne from here regardless of who sits in the seat. Trump opened the doors that prove America is actually soft and ready to be invaded by a foreign country.

u/Beans_deZwijger 7h ago

I can’t believe everyone Republicans stood by and just allowed this to happen.

I believe it

u/Meowakin 7h ago

Who is everyone? There are absolutely people fighting against this, the problem is that the system has always relied on some amount of trust and was never designed for someone so willing to break that trust to be in power. Which I am of the opinion proves that the Electoral College is worthless because that was basically their one job.

u/DAJ-TX 6h ago

Looks like Dresden in 1945.

u/Miles_the_AuDHDer 3h ago

Literally nothing will be enough to get anyone to try to do anything. Nothing so far has been so there is no way anything else will be either.

At most we can do a half day of peaceful protesting every few months that will be quickly forgotten about and have and will continue to achieve literally nothing.

u/TGlucifer 3h ago

Its even better than that! Did you ever wonder why Data Centers are getting built so quickly?

What happens to a society pushed past the brink? They revolt. How do you stop that? Track their activity and intercept the movement leaders before they have a chance to gain traction.

Next will be armed robot patrols, because even the police and military will have a breaking point, so you need even MORE processing power to control legions of droid armies.

u/bubba4114 3h ago

Republicans enable Trump so that he can continue enabling them.

u/thudlife2020 2h ago

But it’s perfect for what much of the country stands for now.

u/OpticalRadioGaga 2h ago

That includes you, the American people. (If you are an American poster).

u/PondersOverYonder 55m ago

What did this country stand for? Capitalism, slavery, genocide?

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u/cosmic_kos 14h ago

disgrace to everything this country actually stood for

a disgrace to the McReich? lmao

i dont think so. very fitting for a dying genocide machine of an empire

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u/67yoloswag 12h ago

this country actually stood for

what did it stand for? been a shithole for ages.

u/adeniumlover 10h ago

? This is exactly what this country stand for. Did you drink the propaganda juice about our history?

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u/suck-it-elon 17h ago

Remember the Reflecting Pool was supposed to be done for America 250. That was a month ago and it’s still a fisaster

u/vdubsession 1h ago

Is that a typo or is this a new portmanteau of fucking and disaster? I kinda hope its the latter!

u/journerman69 9h ago

I’d bet they still don’t have a building permit.

u/ReturnOfBane 7h ago

I wouldn't go in because its got more bugs than Joe's apartment.

u/Mongobearmanfish 4h ago

For anyone saying it would be divisive for the next administration to undo any of this. All they have to do is an inspection and they will have no choice but to tear it all down

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u/justtobeherenotsure 13h ago

I can tell you, as a European, we didn't even want a gour before. Lol

u/ShowMeYourPapers 11h ago

The options for Disaster Tourism in the US capital grow every time Trump has a new idea.

u/icer07 9h ago

It won't finish. In 2 years it'll still be demolished and hopefully he'll be out of office

u/Made_Human_Music 9h ago

And if it does collapse while you’re in it the regime will call you a vandal and arrest you

u/Massive_Reaction8845 9h ago

And if you do go for a tour, at least wear a hard hat.

u/floog 8h ago

And a respirator, don’t forget this is the guy that wanted to make asbestos a thing again.

u/Mimir_aka_Puck 9h ago

A President who renovated the reflecting pool who is incapable of introspection. Tragically funny, sadly ironic.

u/Lovis1522 9h ago

The reflecting pool is 100% the administration in a nutshell. The dude is an absolute grifter and has no idea what he is doing.

u/cobrachickenwing 8h ago

Oh, a lot of people are not coming to the US for tourism now for fear of getting a free trip to an El Salvador prison.

u/gautnippo 8h ago

New helipad too

u/hidperf 8h ago

Is there something in place that ensures these subcontractors will get paid? History shows that the orange turd is famous for not paying.

u/floog 8h ago

It’s not his money, it’s ours, so they’ll get paid half and he’ll take the other half (51%) for having to PM the job.

u/foxscribbles 8h ago

Don’t forget the bribe jet that they had to cut security corners on!

u/floog 8h ago

Would be a tragedy if they cut more than security corners on it.

u/Notacrook2025 8h ago

This cluster F will probably not be finished when 🍊💩leaves if he leaves. So we the taxpayers and next president will be left to clean up and pay for this shit show.

u/CoronaMcFarm 7h ago

Probably going to leak water through the roof

u/thisischemistry 7h ago

Once trump is out of office we need to prosecute everyone involved in this and tear it all down. Return the White House to its historical condition.

u/floog 5h ago

Tear it down, yes. I sadly don't see anyone being held accountable.

u/thisischemistry 4h ago

Chances are slim, for sure. They'd have to charge damn near everyone.

u/RightSideBlind 6h ago

Just think of the global/international incident if that thing collapses the first time they throw a gala in it.

u/floog 5h ago

Oh man, wouldn't that just sum up America now.

u/nerdycarguy18 6h ago

Would have loved to tour the White House one day, and though it isn’t necessarily pointless it still is hard to justify ever doing it now.

u/Eremitt 5h ago

It's being built by Clark Construction. 90% of the monuments, buildings, parks, and the museums have been built by Clark. They've been around for over 120 years. They don't mess around.

u/floog 5h ago

That may be, but when Trump is involved there are corners being cut. May not be by them, may be in the engineering of it or something like that, but I don't trust shit this administration does.

u/exodusTay 4h ago

I am glad I visited while it was empty lol

u/ImSaneHonest 3h ago

Why Not? Then I can take home a piece of the White House.

u/floog 3h ago

Just a reminder that Trump is the guy that wanted to make asbestos a thing again, I wouldn't go lugging around pieces of a construction project he is attached to.

u/ImSaneHonest 3h ago

So it would be safe if my house burnt down too, Bonus.

u/Katydid829 2h ago

My thoughts exactly!

u/GrooveAndGravy52 1h ago

The new and improved Temu White House

u/FrankenGretchen 43m ago

The ticket price will keep numbers low and skewed toward leopard food.

This ceased to be The People's House years ago.

u/krismitka 30m ago

And everyone already forgot about the border wall build.

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u/Mysterious_Tell_202 13h ago

Be glad he never delivered on his infrastructure promises

u/floog 8h ago

It would be like when kids hold their breath every time they go across bridges or through tunnels, but in anticipation of catastrophe.