Finally, the Christian nationalists are building the Golden Calf from the cautionary Bible story "don't build the Golden Calf". (Of course, they aren't really Christian; this is just another example of the American Heresy on full display: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r )
But on a more serious note, this is an obscenity. Even as I imagine a not insignificant percentage of Canadians now would gladly reenact August 24, 1814 live and in person ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-trade-negotiations-tariffs-ontario-ad-9.6951469 for his most recent deadly insult; it wasn't even the Government of Canada who did the ad, it was the Government of Ontario, so this is like blaming the United States as a whole for something California did), it still remains the case that the US capital is dotted with iconic works of architecture, and one of them is being demolished, forever lost to us, even as I write this.
I want to see the names of the children they are directly responsible for murdering. Every donor wall is a masturbatory insult to decency itself. I hated every step past every long hall of names on every donor wall that should be honored by the names of the children, families, clients, and staff of any given organization. These spaces should be filled with their stories and creative collaborations so they might see themselves reflected there. That would be inspiring.
I sat at the table with some of those suicidal teen girls—nobody’s girls—in multifamily group therapy. Every parent was exhausted and determined to save their child’s life. Social comparison theory paired with body dysmorphia is fucking our kids up. My son suffered from exposure to violent and graphic streaming content as well. Made possible by access to a mobile device that in the hands of a serial sexual predator, created content to use as blackmail. Blackmail of a little boy. My little boy with autism. Not from Tylenol but from a genetic deletion.
These kids needed feeding programs, extended stays on behavioral health wards after life threatening cardiac issues, high risk behavior, self harming. They required continuity of care titrating down to intensive partial hospitalization treatment programs. Many were and are, for now, insured under the affordable care act.
We paid taxes into a system that stabilized our children during crisis by accessing programs now stripped of appropriated funds. And these fuckers want a blank check with no budget?
Our kids will have no safe landing when the worst occurs. They will be more likely to be criminalized without life saving intervention during crisis. More likely to be dehumanized and incarcerated.
To fund a goddamn ballroom. It’s heinous.
Our children will never get to see the Smithsonian museums as they have become. The SSA building with its FDR murals is being demolished as well. These places are for them. So that they’ll remember when it matters most. I have that memory to keep alive with my son tho he won’t inhabit it directly. We have a thousand ways to reconnect with our shared history. If they burn our books, we’ll tell our stories orally. If they cut out our tongues, we’ll paint it.
Behind closed doors, literal Nazis have been laughing at and objectifying our bodies freely without fear of reprisal. These are full grown adults actively encouraging early deaths of despair from suicide or state sponsored murder.
Not only do they not care about our children and families, they are actively targeting us on multiple levels. Saying daily we don’t belong. Emboldening the ignorant to become the violent radical by otherizing those deemed less than.
I hope in time these aberrations will be razed to dust.
Even Comcast, whose CEO, Brian Roberts, is regularly subject to vile insults from Trump (largely because Comcast-owned NBC and MS-NBC haven't fully capitulated yet), is contributing to the desecration.
Mike - thank you for putting what’s happening into perspective - this is FASCISM! - this is an OBSCENITY - this is all about money and power - the oligarch’s are funding the destruction of our historical American architecture to replace it within an obscenity for the oligarchs to gather and flaunt their greed - Don the Con and his cowardly herd believe that the rule of law no longer applies - that they can do whatever they want and lie about it and think we’re going to believe their lies
PEACEFUL RESISTANCE !will stop this if we can make it to the next election -
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES- REVEAL THE PEDOFILES!
Force the sycophants into revealing whether they are willing to publicly state that they are willing to protect pedophiles or release the Epstein files - see what is in there and who needs to go to prison (we the people) have to demonstrate our resistance to this fascist takeover
This is a brilliant piece showing how the loss of the East Wing of the White House exemplifies how Trump, his cronies, and the oligarchs, have treated democracy and the people. The democracy and the people that their institutions rely on, and should be supporting, not exploiting for short term benefit.
The removal of this welcoming entrance to the people's house, and the history of service within those walls, is a sin. Particularly when lies have been said about the impact from the edifice ballroom's construction, and that institutionalised permits and procedures have not been gained or followed.
In my mind, this is one of the most egregious terrorist acts on the USA. If this had been done by any other body than a media savvy authoritarian sitting president, America would be sending all it's military power to bring the evil undemocratic culprit to justice.
I'm from the UK, and if any sitting Prime Minister treated No 10 Downing Street like Trump is treating the White House, by destroying part of it's historical structure, and erecting a fake edifice that dwarfs the national seat of people's power, even the reserved British would be in uproar.
You say about reading the plaque with the etched names and organisations that donated to this monument to themselves. However us hallowed masses will never get the opportunity to walk through the entrance, unlike what had stood before. The White House has been unquestionably been stolen from the people, and I truly hope that one day it can be returned to them.
These reports and insights grow more important by the day. Reconstruction is so critical and urgent, we need to gear up to "go fast and rebuild things", using templates we construct now. The Trump Throne Room is coming down and the East Wing rebuilt ASAP. We don't have to accept even this grievous travesty. We are given greater motivation by the hour. Take notes, arrange your schedule.
The "Hallmarks" of Trump have been there all along. They are clear, consistent, and unwavering in their goal, but now we are seeing an escalation of this sociopathic behavior.
Trump's Hallmarks:
1. DOGE (Destroy Our Great Experiment).
2. Self-Aggrandizement in wealth and ego. Avarice is his name.
3. Emulate the Contemporary Tyrants of the 20th and 21st centuries: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Kim Jong-un but most of all, his greatest love, Vladimir Putin.
With Hallmark 1 & 3, one has to believe that Trump is a Russian asset. It does not necessarily mean that Trump is a "real" Manchurian candidate, but that for all practical purposes as an operative, he is. With the help of Musk, and with Trump's selection of Cabinet, he has dismantled what was the US. Through his rhetoric of hate, accusation and retribution, he has fragmented this country. With the blatant perversion of the Republicans in Congress, the balance of power has been wrecked beyond recognition. SCOTUS is a mockery and the term "justice" should be renamed justICE.
With Trump Hallmark 2, we are seeing the emoluments clause engulfed by Trump's unquenchable greed. The art of the deal has invaded the White House. Quid pro quo is the new kid on the block for the Greatest Con Man In Centuries. The US Dollar has ↓ in value by 10%. The GOP is going after the ACA. After it will be social security. I am sure Trump is planning a tunnel to be built between Mar-a-Lago and Fort Knox. What a mockery to America's not so rich and poor.
Hallmark 3 is totally expected when you elect as POTUS a being who sees himself as Nero, Midas, and the Most Powerful Man on the Planet.
What revolted me was how easy it was for Trump to destroy the East Wing, the Smithsonian, The Kennedy Center, and soon Trump will mandate changes to every aspect of what we once cherished in this country.
That Apple (Cook), Amazon (Bezos), META: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (Zuckerberg), Microsoft, Palantir, multiple Crypto companies have donated to make this happen is beyond upsetting. I just now deleted my Facebook account (and that was made very difficult and may frustrate many who have Facebook). I will do the same for WhatsApp and Instagram. Bezos is also involved with The Washington Post, and has significant stakes in others through his investment firm, Bezos Expeditions, including Uber and Airbnb. I already cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post. I will use Lift instead of Uber. I have tried to order books through other vendors like ABE Books, but my experience was totally unsatisfactory, and I won't use ABE ever again.
I repeat this quote:
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. The ability of insane acts of random violence to spread discord and enmity is very great. We can fight such madness only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. It is my belief that we are all facing dark and difficult times. Some of us have suffered directly at the hands of darkness. Many families have been torn asunder. The time has come when we should remember that we have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy."
If each of us were to make minor sacrifices, like deleting a WhatsApp account, we would be instruments of change.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
Here in the Bay Area, we had more than a prior inkling that the resident tech broligarchy would ultimately discourage him from deploying troops on the streets of SF and the Valley. Not good for their biz, optics and a threat to their human investment in brown tech talent. But Alameda? Just a quick walk across the estuary to Oaktown, San Leandro and Hayward where so many people of color make their homes … perfect for bounty-hunting, profiling, inciting violence, unhoused hassling, and other inhumanities.
Finally, the Christian nationalists are building the Golden Calf from the cautionary Bible story "don't build the Golden Calf". (Of course, they aren't really Christian; this is just another example of the American Heresy on full display: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r )
But on a more serious note, this is an obscenity. Even as I imagine a not insignificant percentage of Canadians now would gladly reenact August 24, 1814 live and in person ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-trade-negotiations-tariffs-ontario-ad-9.6951469 for his most recent deadly insult; it wasn't even the Government of Canada who did the ad, it was the Government of Ontario, so this is like blaming the United States as a whole for something California did), it still remains the case that the US capital is dotted with iconic works of architecture, and one of them is being demolished, forever lost to us, even as I write this.
I want to see the names of the children they are directly responsible for murdering. Every donor wall is a masturbatory insult to decency itself. I hated every step past every long hall of names on every donor wall that should be honored by the names of the children, families, clients, and staff of any given organization. These spaces should be filled with their stories and creative collaborations so they might see themselves reflected there. That would be inspiring.
I sat at the table with some of those suicidal teen girls—nobody’s girls—in multifamily group therapy. Every parent was exhausted and determined to save their child’s life. Social comparison theory paired with body dysmorphia is fucking our kids up. My son suffered from exposure to violent and graphic streaming content as well. Made possible by access to a mobile device that in the hands of a serial sexual predator, created content to use as blackmail. Blackmail of a little boy. My little boy with autism. Not from Tylenol but from a genetic deletion.
These kids needed feeding programs, extended stays on behavioral health wards after life threatening cardiac issues, high risk behavior, self harming. They required continuity of care titrating down to intensive partial hospitalization treatment programs. Many were and are, for now, insured under the affordable care act.
We paid taxes into a system that stabilized our children during crisis by accessing programs now stripped of appropriated funds. And these fuckers want a blank check with no budget?
Our kids will have no safe landing when the worst occurs. They will be more likely to be criminalized without life saving intervention during crisis. More likely to be dehumanized and incarcerated.
To fund a goddamn ballroom. It’s heinous.
Our children will never get to see the Smithsonian museums as they have become. The SSA building with its FDR murals is being demolished as well. These places are for them. So that they’ll remember when it matters most. I have that memory to keep alive with my son tho he won’t inhabit it directly. We have a thousand ways to reconnect with our shared history. If they burn our books, we’ll tell our stories orally. If they cut out our tongues, we’ll paint it.
Behind closed doors, literal Nazis have been laughing at and objectifying our bodies freely without fear of reprisal. These are full grown adults actively encouraging early deaths of despair from suicide or state sponsored murder.
Not only do they not care about our children and families, they are actively targeting us on multiple levels. Saying daily we don’t belong. Emboldening the ignorant to become the violent radical by otherizing those deemed less than.
I hope in time these aberrations will be razed to dust.
Even Comcast, whose CEO, Brian Roberts, is regularly subject to vile insults from Trump (largely because Comcast-owned NBC and MS-NBC haven't fully capitulated yet), is contributing to the desecration.
Mike - thank you for putting what’s happening into perspective - this is FASCISM! - this is an OBSCENITY - this is all about money and power - the oligarch’s are funding the destruction of our historical American architecture to replace it within an obscenity for the oligarchs to gather and flaunt their greed - Don the Con and his cowardly herd believe that the rule of law no longer applies - that they can do whatever they want and lie about it and think we’re going to believe their lies
PEACEFUL RESISTANCE !will stop this if we can make it to the next election -
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES- REVEAL THE PEDOFILES!
Force the sycophants into revealing whether they are willing to publicly state that they are willing to protect pedophiles or release the Epstein files - see what is in there and who needs to go to prison (we the people) have to demonstrate our resistance to this fascist takeover
This is a brilliant piece showing how the loss of the East Wing of the White House exemplifies how Trump, his cronies, and the oligarchs, have treated democracy and the people. The democracy and the people that their institutions rely on, and should be supporting, not exploiting for short term benefit.
The removal of this welcoming entrance to the people's house, and the history of service within those walls, is a sin. Particularly when lies have been said about the impact from the edifice ballroom's construction, and that institutionalised permits and procedures have not been gained or followed.
In my mind, this is one of the most egregious terrorist acts on the USA. If this had been done by any other body than a media savvy authoritarian sitting president, America would be sending all it's military power to bring the evil undemocratic culprit to justice.
I'm from the UK, and if any sitting Prime Minister treated No 10 Downing Street like Trump is treating the White House, by destroying part of it's historical structure, and erecting a fake edifice that dwarfs the national seat of people's power, even the reserved British would be in uproar.
You say about reading the plaque with the etched names and organisations that donated to this monument to themselves. However us hallowed masses will never get the opportunity to walk through the entrance, unlike what had stood before. The White House has been unquestionably been stolen from the people, and I truly hope that one day it can be returned to them.
We'll do more than hope.
These reports and insights grow more important by the day. Reconstruction is so critical and urgent, we need to gear up to "go fast and rebuild things", using templates we construct now. The Trump Throne Room is coming down and the East Wing rebuilt ASAP. We don't have to accept even this grievous travesty. We are given greater motivation by the hour. Take notes, arrange your schedule.
The "Hallmarks" of Trump have been there all along. They are clear, consistent, and unwavering in their goal, but now we are seeing an escalation of this sociopathic behavior.
Trump's Hallmarks:
1. DOGE (Destroy Our Great Experiment).
2. Self-Aggrandizement in wealth and ego. Avarice is his name.
3. Emulate the Contemporary Tyrants of the 20th and 21st centuries: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Kim Jong-un but most of all, his greatest love, Vladimir Putin.
With Hallmark 1 & 3, one has to believe that Trump is a Russian asset. It does not necessarily mean that Trump is a "real" Manchurian candidate, but that for all practical purposes as an operative, he is. With the help of Musk, and with Trump's selection of Cabinet, he has dismantled what was the US. Through his rhetoric of hate, accusation and retribution, he has fragmented this country. With the blatant perversion of the Republicans in Congress, the balance of power has been wrecked beyond recognition. SCOTUS is a mockery and the term "justice" should be renamed justICE.
With Trump Hallmark 2, we are seeing the emoluments clause engulfed by Trump's unquenchable greed. The art of the deal has invaded the White House. Quid pro quo is the new kid on the block for the Greatest Con Man In Centuries. The US Dollar has ↓ in value by 10%. The GOP is going after the ACA. After it will be social security. I am sure Trump is planning a tunnel to be built between Mar-a-Lago and Fort Knox. What a mockery to America's not so rich and poor.
Hallmark 3 is totally expected when you elect as POTUS a being who sees himself as Nero, Midas, and the Most Powerful Man on the Planet.
What revolted me was how easy it was for Trump to destroy the East Wing, the Smithsonian, The Kennedy Center, and soon Trump will mandate changes to every aspect of what we once cherished in this country.
That Apple (Cook), Amazon (Bezos), META: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (Zuckerberg), Microsoft, Palantir, multiple Crypto companies have donated to make this happen is beyond upsetting. I just now deleted my Facebook account (and that was made very difficult and may frustrate many who have Facebook). I will do the same for WhatsApp and Instagram. Bezos is also involved with The Washington Post, and has significant stakes in others through his investment firm, Bezos Expeditions, including Uber and Airbnb. I already cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post. I will use Lift instead of Uber. I have tried to order books through other vendors like ABE Books, but my experience was totally unsatisfactory, and I won't use ABE ever again.
I repeat this quote:
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. The ability of insane acts of random violence to spread discord and enmity is very great. We can fight such madness only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. It is my belief that we are all facing dark and difficult times. Some of us have suffered directly at the hands of darkness. Many families have been torn asunder. The time has come when we should remember that we have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy."
If each of us were to make minor sacrifices, like deleting a WhatsApp account, we would be instruments of change.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
Here in the Bay Area, we had more than a prior inkling that the resident tech broligarchy would ultimately discourage him from deploying troops on the streets of SF and the Valley. Not good for their biz, optics and a threat to their human investment in brown tech talent. But Alameda? Just a quick walk across the estuary to Oaktown, San Leandro and Hayward where so many people of color make their homes … perfect for bounty-hunting, profiling, inciting violence, unhoused hassling, and other inhumanities.