• Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Quickly Mr. President, help me bring the guests to your fancy ballroom a cask of amontillado we keep in the secret bunker.

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      It’s scheduled to be completed months before the election, but the part he cares about is underground.

      The thing is, even if there’s absolutely zero way to get inside, it doesn’t mean shit if no one outside the bunker listens to him.

      It would be the perfect ending to this if he really goes down into a bunker with his closest circle who have the supplies to live decades…

      And after waiting a while we just seal the doors.

      It would 100% be worse than prison for everyone sealed in there. Just leave them to die together in a hole.

      But the ironic part is there was already a bunker there, and it’s likely now compromised.

      So if the new one doesn’t get finished, there won’t be any bunker under his direct control.

      He wanted to build his own, so that no one else knew how to open it. Like, if he went to one of the still secret bunkers like under Biltmore, people that are outside know how to get him out.

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    I absolutely would have known nothing about the military complex but for Trump opening his big mouth about it repeatedly.

    Knowledgeable people are aware that any construction at the White House also involves fortifications and bunkers.

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      America is fascism, just ask the indigenous people deprived of their land and life, the piles of dead buffalo slaughtered as part of accomplishing the American genocide, and the dead slaves. This isn’t America acting like Nazis, Nazis acted like Americans - Hitler was directly inspired by how we treated migrants at the southern border.

      But yeah, while we’re on the topic anyway…

      The Vorbunker (upper bunker or forward bunker) was an underground concrete structure originally intended to be a temporary air-raid shelter for Adolf Hitler and his guards and servants. It was located behind the large reception hall that was added onto the old Reich Chancellery, in Berlin, Germany, in 1936.

      (Note that quote says “located behind”, which makes it sound above-ground, but it was an underground bunker).

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    We figured this out months ago, but the media didn’t report it at all. It was never about the ballroom, always the bunker underneath.

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    Dumb dumb: the ballroom is under budget!

    Citizens: the 200 million ballroom that is now 400 million? That ballroom is under budget? Under the doubled budget expected?

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    4 days ago

    After big tech hurled money at him we should have all automatically assumed there’s an underground datacenter in the works there.

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    I’m pretty sure he was bragging about the bunker months ago, while on the shitter on Air Farce One with the door open

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    At least we can hope the nukes won’t fly until the bunker is done so we have at least 3-4 years to change something.

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    Under the East Wing was where the Situation Room was already, so maybe they are just upgrading it at the same time as building a ballroom. They didn’t follow a normal procurement process at all. He’s been talking about a ballroom since 2010. It was always ballroom first.