A New Ballroom Was Absolutely Needed at the White House, Admits... The Washington Post

When the White House attempts to hold events, like state dinners, they are forced to erect outdoor tents -- which can be shot through by snipers, of course -- and visiting dignitaries need to use the undignified means of waste elimination known as Port-a-Potties.

In other words: Yes, the White House needs a larger space for entertaining guests.

This is obvious. But it shocking that the Washington Post is even capable of acknowledging the obvious, writes David Strom.

Months ago, Jeff Bezos made clear that he wanted to clean out the most insane Opinion Page columnists and restore some sanity to the Washington Post's Opinion/Editorial Page. Advertisement

And there was quite the exodus as the Augean Stables were cleaned out. David Shipley, the editorial page editor, resigned. Ruth Marcus, out. Karen Attiah, out. Philip Bump, out. Jonathan Capehart, out. We all laughed and toasted Jen Rubin's departure, of course.

But even with the massive turnover in personnel, how many of us expected the Post to do more than make a nod to sanity as it continued on much the same course?

Yet, here we are. Hell has, indeed, frozen over.

Check the link for actual quotes from the Post. Not only does the Post admit the need for a larger space for entertaining guests, but it also admits that the amount of red tape that usually blocks necessary renovations in all government projects is insane -- simple projects take 21 years to complete, if they're ever completed -- and that Trump's roughshod bulldozing over Established Normzzz is actually necessary here.

This is a one-two punch of an editorial, not because it will move the needle in any significant way or because the Post is suddenly going to become a Trump outlet. The ballroom issue is, in itself, minor. It is a manufactured controversy.

What the editorial does is calmly point out that 1) Trump is right in what he is doing, and 2) that he is having to "subvert norms" because the norms are insane and destructive.

Something needed to be done. The existing "norms" (not rules, because the White House is mostly exempt) and red tape make doing anything nearly impossible, so Trump cut the Gordian Knot. He saw a need and filled it.

At the Free Beacon, Andrew Stiles rounded up some of the most insane leftwing responses in this "manufactured controversy."

You know who else built buildings in his capital city, don't you?

Here's a particularly insane example: Tara Setmayer, a former Lincoln Project senior adviser, wrote that watching Trump renovate the White House made her feel "almost the same as when I saw the Pentagon damage on 9/11." Though most probably wouldn't compare it to 9/11 in a public forum, Setmayer was expressing a sentiment widely shared by her fellow Trump-obsessed liberal activists. In their humble (and definitely not crazy) opinion, this was one of the worst attacks on the American homeland in our country's history.

Note: I wrongly said this asshole was part of the Bulwark grifter network. In fact, she's a former Lincoln Project grifter. I forgot which segment of the grifter human centipede she belongs to.

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The Post also published a scathing column by its art and architecture critic, who cited a Columbia professor who argued Trump's architectural model of the ballroom was haunted by a "darker history in fascist and totalitarian politics."

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Stephen Colbert, the former comedian, said watching the East Wing being demolished was like having electrodes attached to his nipples. "That is so deeply upsetting," he said, fighting back tears. Colbert's former colleague Jon Stewart UNLOADED on Trump for ignoring the preservationists. The left-wing website Talking Points Memo suggested Trump's preference for "classical architecture" was a "dog whistle for white nationalists." The reaction from journalists, observed journalist Ryan Cooper at the American Prospect, has been "surprisingly visceral" because "this is what dictatorship feels like."

More at the link.

And in case you didn't see Trump's trollish Timeline of Major Events...

The timeline notes that there was no Oval Office in the White House until 1909, when "President William Howard Taft remodeled and expanded the West Wing, which included construction of the first Oval Office." That's a more consequential change than a ballroom in the East Wing, the sacred and unchangeable part of the White House that Trump is now daring to make the site of his ballroom. The East Wing itself, by the way, did not exist until 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt "constructed the East Wing for additional staff and wartime security, including a bomb shelter."

That's all very interesting, and in itself destroys the Democrat hysteria over Trump's ballroom, but the timeline gets really interesting in its entries covering more recent White House history. One of them involves Bill Clinton's use of William Howard Taft's Oval Office: "Bill Clinton Scandal: President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, leading to White House perjury investigations. The Oval Office trysts fueled impeachment for obstruction."

Then there's "Muslim Brotherhood Visit: Obama hosts members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that promotes Islamist extremism and has ties to Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization by nearly a dozen nations." That one comes complete with a photo of Barack Obama trying on a full outfit of traditional Arab garb.

Look at this absolute hot mess:

Lefties have a new lie/psyop they're pushing. They post pictures which are not of the East Wing, and say something like "I can't believe my memories have been bulldozed by the Trumpenfuhrer."

Tom Collichio, the jackass who used to judge Top Chef, posted a picture he claimed was from the East Wing but which, per Mollie Hemingway (who would know), was definitely not the East Wing.

This psyop has given rise to a meme: People are posting their own photos "From the East Wing."

posted by Ace at 02:10 PM

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