Decorating style reminiscent of the late Rococovfefe period

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nycfan said:


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🎁. https://wapo.st/4n2XEQd

“… The layout shown does not clearly resemble the current configuration, which includes three courses and 36 total holes. It appears to include fewer than 18 holes.

Features that are part of the current site, including the recently renovated mini golf course and the nearby East Potomac Tennis Center, also are not visible in the materials.

… The future of Washington’s public courses has been in flux since the administration ousted National Links Trust, the nonprofit that had operated Langston, East Potomac and Rock Creek Park since 2020 under a 50-year lease. The group had launched a plan to invest millions in upgrades while maintaining affordable access, but federal officials said it failed to meet key requirements, which the nonprofit has disputed.…”
 
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Honestly, I would have a much easier time supporting major national projects if they came after we had meaningfully addressed the problems already affecting millions of Americans every day.

Before we spend enormous amounts of money building monuments, vanity projects, or anything tied to political legacy, we should be focused on fixing the basics.

We should start with our broken healthcare system, where too many people delay care, ration medication, or go into debt because they cannot afford treatment.

We should address the food system and food insecurity, where families in one of the wealthiest countries in the world still struggle to afford healthy meals.

We should be serious about the wage gap, the wealth gap, and the growing reality that working full time still does not guarantee financial stability.

Housing has become unaffordable for far too many people, and homelessness continues to rise in communities across the country.

Then there is our failing infrastructure: roads, bridges, water systems, public schools, and mass transit. These are not luxuries. They are the foundation of a functioning country.

I am not against building things. I am against misplaced priorities. Build a country where people can afford to live, get medical care, eat healthy food, find housing, earn fair wages, and move safely through their communities. Then we can talk about a monument and a ballroom.
 
nycfan said:


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JFC. I'll admit that of all the things that I thought Trump would royally screw up in a second term - the economy, rolling back social and cultural advances, rolling back minority rights, alienating our allies and getting us into dumb and unnecessary conflicts - the one that I didn't see coming is that he would try to completely remake our nation's capital in his image and destroy or severely alter treasured and historic national buildings and monuments and replace them with gaudy, low-class, grandiose, and gold-plated monuments to himself. There is quite literally nothing that he can't destroy, debase, and make infinitely worse.
 
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Mr. Trump appears to have left himself room to make five last-minute nominations; there are only 245 people on a list the administration distributed. The White House did not reply to questions about whom he would choose to fill extra slots.

In an interview with The New York Times in January, Mr. Trump described his plans for the Garden of Heroes as “beautiful.”

“That’s going to be most likely right on the Potomac River,” he said, adding: “It’s going to be a beautiful complex. You’re going to have the hall of — you know, it’s — we’ll call it a hall. We call it a lot of things, but the memorials or statues are going to — it’s going to be beautiful.”“
 
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