All tinpot dictators prefer this kind of “style”.
That Gadaffi Drip
More like gadawful drip
Touche
No no no. Don’t touche that guy! Toucheing on Epsteins island is what got trump INTO this mess!
Honestly he’s not even doing THAT particularly well. This looks like it could be achieved in about half an hour with a trip to a craft store and a truly batshit amount of gold spray paint.
That’s probably how they did it.
This picture makes me fucking ashamed to be an american. What a backward-ass shithole country we’ve become.
You’re only ashamed now?
Started with Dubya but now it’s in full effect.
They’re only ashamed when their team doesn’t win. Every bad thing they did was totally valid because again, it was their team.
It’s called “American values” where the only thing that matters is winning and crimes against humanity don’t matter.
This is what makes you ashamed to be American? You need to work on your priorities.
There’s a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the “architecture of fascism” the “art of awe” etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Example: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/propaganda-and-the-jesuit-baroque/hardcover
how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
Even to this day, we have Wehraboos. If I am a historian and with plenty of time to research and make takedown videos on Nazism, which unfortunately i don’t have at the moment, I want to make videos on dispelling the myth of Nazi superiority and how they are given way too much credit.
Plenty of people do not realise that the Nazis are not different to third world dictatorships. Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn’t want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany’s excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany’s coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland and, to his own surprise, the Allies declared war. Hitler was trying to plunder the wealth of Poland to stave off another economic collapse, like how the previous annexations of Sudetenland and Austria gave them financial cash injection to go a little further.
Fact of the matter is that Hitler and the Nazis were lucky to have inherited strong institutions, namely the Prussian military culture, to have lasted longer than expected. All things considered, the Nazis were merely poor gamblers whose bluffs were eventually called out and ran out of cards. The Nazis were just winging it (I mean, he did not expect the Allies to declare war on him, and he admitted that the planned invasion of France through the Ardennes forest turns his stomach), which is not too different to other tyrants and dictators like Nero, Idi Amin and Muammar Ghadaffi who make decisions on emotions.
People of various inclinations should just stop giving too much credit to the Nazis. I suspect that the current right, with their mountains of cash support from oligarchs, possess the machinery to perpetuate the propaganda to re-normalise fascism. Nonetheless, the Nazis are inherently weak and incompetent. People say that the Thousand Year Reich may well have happened if they won, but objectively they will run out of money in ten years even if they conquered the entire world, because they are that corrupt and incompetent.
Similar to Trump having a fight with Federal Reserve director, Jerome Powell, Hitler didn’t want to listen to his economic minister, Hjalmar Schacht, that Germany’s excessive government spending is going to bankrupt the country. It was in late 1930s that Germany’s coffers was running out, and it was not a coincidence that Hitler invaded Poland
This is why I’m convinced he will truly invade Canada and possibly Greenland. His economy is already fucked, and Canada has too many resources to leave alone.
Yeah. I know that the “Eagle Displayed” heraldry has been on the American coat of arms since before it became associated with the Nazis, but it’s still a little sinister how they seem to be leaning into it as a motif a lot more this year.
It’s the ultimate in bulletproof dogwhistles, because literally nobody can judge you for waving an American eagle around, and yet somehow it seems disproportionately popular amongst Neo Nazis…
through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.
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Tacky as hell. This administration has all the class and style of a Spirit Halloween store.
How ya gonna do Spirit Halloween dirty like that
Americans have no taste
Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east
Hey, relax guy
Well you’re half right.
Wouldn’t even be surprised if someone from MBS’s team is involved
MBS
Mohammed Ben Sulayem? President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) who is trying to be a corrupt dictator of Formula 1 racing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ben_Sulayem
(obligatory /s)
Maybe their new friend, Al Qaida Jolani the headchopper’s influence?
Well they invariably are the US best friends.
Bad thing happens in the West
Liberals: “What are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!”
Tankies just can’t stop simping for dictators with pathetic disingenous strawmen.
Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = “simping for dictators”
I’m increasingly convinced that liberals don’t even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you’re on.
When you read the description “dictator from the middle east” and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.
What exactly do you think their point was?
Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.
The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it “designed by a dictator from the middle east” is about as bad of an insult as “designed by a king from europe”. It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don’t believe in Western exceptionalism.
The reason looking at Trump’s ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they “look like a middle eastern dictator designed it” is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.
But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump’s gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism
Saying Trump’s design sense is “Like a middle eastern dictator” is very different from saying it’s “like a European king”. The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people’s the Global South.
Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I’m begging you people!
Tacky…
If you are intelligent you wouldn’t need to talk about it because, people would know it from your thoughts and actions.
If you are a good leader you wouldn’t need to talk about it because there would be more people following you than protesting you.
If you are good at making deals you wouldn’t need to talk about it because you’d have a stack of deals to prove it.
If you are good at business you wouldn’t need to talk about it because you would have a lot more successful companies than bankrupt companies in your history.
Etc etc etc.
This smacks of “look how well things are going !! If things were going badly would we be able to afford all this gold?”
Beware the man who is eager to tell you how good they are at something.
I know people that like Trump in the UK and the thing I’ve realised is people don’t check anything, if orange man says something they believe it.
When I’ve been shitting on Trump my friend said yeah but he’s a good business man though and I’m like no he isn’t, he started life on easy mode and has messed that up several times. Hell man can’t even profit from a casino.
Sadly though it doesn’t matter if people are willing to believe a 5 second sound bite and it takes 5 minutes and some knowledge to debunk that claim then it’s futile as they’ll just put out more sound bites.
I find it ironic that in a world with a wealth of information at our finger tips people just don’t care enough to check. I’m not a smart man, but I was gifted with the power of curiosity and a willingness to look up stuff and find the truth. People are just ignorant on the whole and only care about surface level stuff.
He got the apprentice because all the real businessmen were busy. No joke.
If you ever get another Dem president, which is doubtful, it’s going to take a minute to hose out the whore flair from the White House.
We need a working class president not some corrupt neoliberal democrat with no teeth
You will never get a working class president if change doesn’t happen locally first. Young people don’t vote in local elections and young people don’t put themselves on the ballot of local elections. It’s why actual change at the top will never happen. You can’t expect the average Joe, who isn’t very politically engaged, to vote for a socialist president if they have never experienced what a socialist politician can do for them. That experience needs to happen at the local level. The US needs more Mamdani’s across the entire country and not just in New York.
The reason why Dump is president and co-opted the GOP is because the Tea Party started winning local elections first and pushing out Republican incumbent. They created the momentum so a moron like Drumpf could win a presidential primary.
And they didn’t just do it in political elections even non political elections like school board elections etc. were captured by the Tea Party.
The left needs to copy the Tea Party playbook.
I agree with all your points but I would like to point out that the tea party was billionaire backed not grass roots
buddy you need more than 2 fucking parties to begin with
There are over 100 registered parties in the US. For all the good they do.
Electing a working class president won’t fix this. The system needs to be abolished.
We need to learn to build our own, parallel system of people’s bottom-up power.
The corporate dems fight those harder than any republican.
Good luck with that.
It’ll take 4 years to get the stink out of the WH.
I was sure this was photoshopped and there was no way that was real…
It’s real. This is just unbelievable.
NYT did a whole article about it, here have a free one. 86 47! Epstein files!
Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.
At least this money wasn’t wasted like the money spent on US aid and healthcare
If the chairs are the same, someone spun the saturation dial way up
Me too, I cannot believe it. How garish
Ah yes, the look of every dictator’s palace. Loads of gold. Only thing is, most dictators have a form of taste, Trump clearly does not.
Name one dictator that has taste…
Kim Jung Un.
I mean …have you seen his latest haircut?
🤤
Plus his rockets are pointy.
Unlike Bezos, whose rockets just look like the big penis he never had…
When you have a micro penis, you need to compensate. That’s why Trump needs so much gold. Why so many Americans need huge trucks. Why billionaires need a space company. It’s all to compensate something they can never have.
Tastes like chicken.
To be fair, they said “a form of” taste. Which I think is a significant distinction.
Cuz like, the Nazis definitely had a very strong aesthetic. Not exactly “tasteful”. But I can see calling it “a form of taste”.
Good point.
Have you seen the costumes of the SS? The German tanks? The epic bunker, mountain mansion and cars of Hitler? Have you seen the palaces of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Putin, Sadam Hussain, Gaddafi, Kim Yong Un? They were/are fucking evil but they did/do have style.
It looks like Trump wants the same but ordered everything from Aliexpress.
It’a all a bit tacky, the nazi’s with their roman obsession. Everything is too big, too much. They need to prove something, that feels tacky and cheap. It’s all just a layer of veneer.
Well that confirms it. People with style are awful people. Which is what I will use to defend myself when I roll into a job interview looking like I slept in a dumpster.
…which I did.
Well, people without style can also be awful people. Trump is living proof of that.
As is Stephen Miller. And Steve Bannon. Probably other Stevens as Well
Class vs cheep ass
“Daddy always said, you can’t by class, but you can watch people try”
Facts.
Typo and you meant cheap?
Oops!
This really is the American liberal in a nut shell: “at least our monstrous war criminal had class!”
Did… You not see the same picture we did?
Of course I did, I just don’t care. The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s garish, and Biden wasn’t not a monster just because he was not garish
They why say anything? Don’t support child rapists.
I said something because I’m sick of liberals acting like being crass is worse than being child raping war criminal
Lol
It’s to hide all the piss stains.
You can’t buy taste.
The man has absolutely no taste. His only thought is “must appear rich”.
He’s the walking example of “a poor mans idea of rich”
