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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

He also stole a shitload of art from the ambassador's office in France in his first term. You'll also recall that he wants (dunno if he got) the Declaration of Independence moved into the office as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

It already basically IS the next Versailles. Versailles was built as a huge, ostentatious show of wealth and power over the aristocracy, so Louis XIV could show that he held all the power. By making all these fancy nobles drag their asses out to the middle of nowhere (at the time - the city effectively grew up to support the palace) and stay there for weeks or months at a time, often without proper accommodations (quite literally you would set up camp in the gardens or wherever you thought you could get away with it - if you stayed in the palace proper, you were quite high in status), you flexed serious power over them, especially when they felt they NEEDED to attend all these balls and galas and symposiums and concerts that were constantly happening there so you could stay in the King's favor.

Any of this sounding familiar?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

He has pointed out that he can take control of anyone's account. So it definitely could be him doing something he thinks is "funny".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

They don't need to invent law and Roberts et al know it. See, the thing about being on the Supreme Court is that aside from Congress impeaching you, there is no other recourse. Your entire decision could be written as "lol no" and unless Congress decides to impeach you, there's nothing anyone can do about the decision.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards mentioned that he believes one of the worst things we did after WWII was not killing everyone in the SS and the Nazi government as a warning. I'm starting to see the wisdom in that statement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I just wanna point out that Trump's favorite President is the same guy who said "yeah I know the Supreme Court said I can't seize Native American lands because they're a sovereign nation and we signed treaties with them, but we're gonna do it anyway because SCOTUS can't back their decision with force and I can".

So yeah, you're likely right, considering he's already ignoring court orders and trying to find loopholes faster than John Gotti's defense lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They've already floated getting rid of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, mostly because a lot of those pesky indigenous people are on reservations where we could potentially frack for oil (and they're also bringing in a bunch of cash in some states because of casino laws applying in the state but not on rez land).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Because Trump is a narcissist. The one thing an N like him does not do is forget a slight, ever. They're petty, and their egos are incredibly paper-thin. She made fun of him on TV, publicly, and that's enough for him to hate her for the rest of his life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He already tried to run for President before in 96. I truly believe even his run in 2016 was meant to be a loss - he was gonna get primaried out by someone more competent, or failing that, lose the general, and then he'd build a media network (since he registered a bunch of groundwork and trademarks for that) so he could be Glenn Beck 2.0 and scream about how The Liberals Made Me Lose. You can see it in his acceptance speech and how shitty everything was getting done in his first year - nobody expected him to win, he didn't even expect to win, so he did zero work beforehand that would've been required if he won.

Then he got a taste of the power and prestige and cult following he had, and decided the one thing he couldn't live without was a mass of people cheering his name no matter what he did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

No no, you forget the depths of this man's racism.

He nearly went mad with grief when he found out his father's... Grandfather, I think, was Welsh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Because Lucas was one of the last auteurs, and believed her moderating influence was absolutely ruining his vision.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yup, in most parts of Europe, if you had a horse, you were pretty well off. Horses require a lot of specialized care and gear, most of which was expensive.

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