Pure Bunk(er)

Today was Memorial Day.

Wouldn't it make better sense to honor our war dead by finally realizing that war is never a solution for anything? Let's honor our fallen kinsman with continued peace, not forever wars.

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Ballroom Part 1

Remember when Cankles McGolfypants tore down the East Wing of the White House, like, suddenly. As though he woke up one morning and said "Eww. Ick! Tear it down."

Seriously, our Phat Pharoah could have said "The White House needs to undergo modernization of its antiquated security systems which necessitates the destruction of the East Wing. But we shall reconstruct it in its entirety once the major construction is finalized."

But, no! It was "Tee-hee! I done blowed it up REAL good! Eat it, Americans! Ah'm gettin' a golden ballroom! Yee-HAWWW-covefe!"

That sequence of events was very strange because plans for the new fuhrerbunker had obviously been designed, was paid for, and was ready to go. The East Wing had obviously been doomed for some time and the moment of its destruction was part of a schedule of events, not just Cankles waving his tiny regal hand and removing from view that which doth offend his eye.

Why was there no advance public warning that this was going to happen? When did Congress allocate the money for this? How much are we paying for it?

This project keeps being referred to as "the Ballroom" but that's just Cankles' add-on vanity project, the cherry on the cake, something to keep the public eye off the bunker-ball. This isn't about the ballroom. Fuck the fucking ballroom! It's the stuff under it that is the meat of the matter.

Ballroom Part 2

Having pondered this a bit more, here's how I think it went down...

The original plan was to proceed with construction beneath the existing structure of the East Wing, as covertly as possible. (Such new construction beneath the White House has occurred in the past.) Which is why, I suspect, that no warning of the building's demolition was issued.

This type of effort would have been technically feasible, and no doubt would have taken longer to accomplish, but Cankles said "No. The East Wing is in the way. Let's just demolish it before those woke 'historians' know what happened. Those guys have been a pain in my butt for years! Who needs that old stuff anyway?" Thus, ker-boom!

Ballroom Part 3

Plans for the new bunker had to have existed long before the destruction of the East Wing. But did these plans include a ballroom sitting on top?

If you, as an architect/engineer knew that a large structure, whose size and weight had not yet been determined (And Trump famously doubled the size of the ballroom) was going to be sitting atop whatever was planned belowground, should that not be in the plans? Should not a sturdy foundation be already drawn up for .... whatever?

None of this makes any sense. Unless there will be no ballroom and Trump is just trying to get his hands on money allocated for a phantom project.

If anyone else can find solid information about this I'd be happy to read it because, so far, Google is providing fuck-all.

- Lefty