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    Honestly I think this is great. Some tacky bloodsport arena is a refreshingly honest reflection of the true national character of this country.

    Much more fitting than the weird civil religion stuff going on in the rest of the national mall. This country does not deserve dignity until it stops being a global force for evil.

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      Was mad, but yeah, honestly true. It’s like when he renamed the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. A far more accurate reflection.

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    It’s probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
    “If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus.”

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    This comment right here is what his cult will suck the shit from his asshole for. He loves to troll libs so goddamn much and his unwavering fan base will let him literally rape children for it

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    I work in events. That is a very temporary structure. The frame is aluminum trussing, and although it would hold up fairly well, all of the fabric will start bleaching within 3-4 weeks, the metal chains holding everything up will start rusting pretty quickly being exposed to the elements. The lights themselves aren’t IP rated and are relying on the fabric for protection so those will fail pretty quickly. Finally the stage itself has a wood underlayment that will rot within a single season if left outside.

    Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.

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      Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.

      That’s just another line item for the American taxpayer. Hardly Trump’s problem.

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      Funny story about temporary rental equipment.

      My old company, big (as in billions $$) defence control actor. They refused to buy permanent sites, instead they would lease or rent buildings or structures. Sea cans counted as structures. They rented 3 sea cans for 15 years. Spent almost 100k each over that period. Never once did they accept the financial argument that one years lease would almost buy a sea can outright.

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            Knowing Trump, this is run by some friend, family, or donor. Him paying with tax money is pocketing it. That’s how you make public wealth private.

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      It’s like the parked car on cinder blocks in someone’s yard.Eventually the grass will grow tall enough that you won’t see it

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      I’m curious—can you tell the lighting isn’t rated from these images, or just because of the number / cost?

      Also curious about the chains—does that means they can’t be reused for long if they’ve been outdoors? I assume there’s plenty of regulation around that kind of thing.

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        I saw some other pictures of it being assembled and the lights were wrapped until the fabric was on. It’s also relatively rare for moving heads to be IP rated because they move, and in order to maintain IP rating on something that moves it requires significantly more maintenance and with that, higher cost. The lights that are on the outside are IP rated for instance, as they didn’t have the fabric to protect them. But from prior experience that means those lights cost about 3 times as much to rent.

        The chains are protected by a coating of oil, the oil is in a reservoir inside the motor so if the chains aren’t getting ran on a regular basis they aren’t getting a fresh coat of oil. As soon as any sort of weathering happens, the chains become exposed and will start rusting. You can get stainless steel chains that won’t rust, but the price on those is so astronomical, that it’s special order only, and only used for permanent installs. The only way this has stainless steel chains is if it was designed as a permanent install from the beginning.

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      I bet the last point is one of the major reasons why Trump would want it to stay. Guy seems to have a weird fetish for not paying what he owes.

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        Probably a power trip, one of the few he gets away with. “Smart men don’t pay taxes or bills!”

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      yes, but do you really think the orange pedo rapist would know about … (check notes) … anything?

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        When he claims to know about everything it’s just a cover for his lack of knowledge about anything

        He’s suxh a cringeworthy moron

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    Relevant quote from Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World”:

    [The 1939 New York World’s Fair’s president] Grover Whalen - a former corporate executive, New York City police chief in a time of unprecedented police brutality, and public relations innovator […] had convinced Stalin and Mussolini to build lavish national pavilions. (He later complained about how often he had been obliged to give the fascist salute.) The level of the exhibits, as one designer described it, was pitched to the mentality of a twelve-year-old.

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    I can see the logic. Build a colosseum and stage gladiatorial contests, distract the masses and get made emperor for life. But what a pathetic attempt at a colosseum this is.

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    Name me one person in the world less tasteful than trump. Go on, I’ll wait.

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    Trump is showing why Flordia needs to be cut off. Next month, we are adding plastic flamingos and a 2005 Dodge Ram with 3 rims, on blocks.

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      Just what I was thinking. There’s no way orange hitler knew that it was originally a temporary structure that became permanent.

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        I swear there was a popular meme template years ago of him typing on his phone, and another panel of a search browser saying “what does a president do?”. Can’t find it now. But I imagine that template with a wiki page or the tower

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      “I wanted a tower, so I built one. France has a tower, and it’s so bad, they call it The Awful Tower. My tower won’t be awful, it’ll be the best. It’ll be so great that people will fight over it. And on it. Anyway, I gotta go take a shit.”