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Golfnbrew

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Thu Oct 23, 2025, 10:52 AM Thursday

Its not a BALLROOM. [View all]

Long read, but certainly a valid consideration

Wife saw this on Facebook. One could easily say this is just conspiracy theory, but this sounds just as plausible as Project 2025, and we are seeing that now.


Glee Violette

People. Please. Let me say this loud and clear. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT A BALLROOM.

The East Wing was built in 1942 to disguise the simultaneous construction of an underground bunker and operations center, underneath it.

And just like then, the Ballroom being built now is a ruse. A decoy. A distraction. To cover up a new and improved bunker.

SO OF COURSE Trump did not go through the National Monuments historical preservation channels. The plans for his bunker would have been exposed to too many people. There would be no way to disguise the ballroom plans to hide it. There would be too many clues for experts to see.

Why the rush? THOSE clues are all around us, too. Fully exposed.

Trump has Congress, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court in his pocket right now, but IF elections happen next year, he WILL lose Congress.

Elections must not happen. During war-time emergencies, elections CAN BE SUSPENDED. So, there must be such an emergency.

A military coup to put down a "rebellion" would do nicely.

Hegseth has now barred both the Press and Congress from the Pentagon. And barred ALL Pentagon staff from communicating with either the Press or Congress as well.

He has also been purging the Military of any leader with even a HINT of "disloyalty". Accusations by far -right influencers like Laura Loomer have resulted in firings. He has run multiple lie-detector tests. He even has a new excuse - his recent threat to fire "fat generals". And now he is having ANY service member discharged for postings on social media mocking Charlie Kirk or other MAGA leaders.

And he and Trump have been seeing how far they can push officers to follow illegal orders by having our ships fire on and destroy boats in international waters and kill the people on board. Now, for the first time, he has had an AIRSTRIKE take out an 8th boat, killing its two occupants.

The idea that these are terrorists taking drugs to America is laughable. They do not have enough fuel. They are headed in the wrong direction, to Trinidad and Tobago for the cocaine trade. And they are not carrying fentanyl. That comes up through Central America and enters through Mexico. EVERY EXPERT KNOWS THIS.

All international laws are being ignored. These boats are not boarded. Nothing is taken in evidence. There is no identification made of the occupants. There are no arrests or charges. There is no due process for their lawful prosecution.

Most importantly, any crimes they COULD be charged for DO NOT CARRY THE DEATH PENALTY.

They are not being "executed". They are being murdered.

Trump and Hegseth are seeing JUST how loyal their new military commanding officers are, and how far they can push them to obey their illegal orders.

Will they kill random people if Trump says they are foreign criminals and terrorists?

Will they kill the SAME foreigners in OUR country, if Trump says they are criminals and terrorists?

Will they kill ANY foreign immigrants on his orders?

Will they kill US?

Trump said Hegseth should use our own cities as "training grounds" for the Military. He has attempted to send troops into several cities with Democratic mayors, and has even said out loud he wanted them to use full strength. That means live ammunition. On our own people.

And they are also arming Homeland Security and ICE. Federal purchasing logs show ICE spent $71,515,762 on "small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories," including military supplies, weapons, and ammunition, in the nine months between Jan. 20 and Oct. 18, according to the Daily Beast.

While ICE denies a viral report that the purchases included "guided missile warheads", the codes on what WAS purchased are unclear. For instance, "chemical weapons" could refer to tear gas and pepper balls. Or...

What IS clear is THIS. Trump keeps "floating" a declaration of the Insurrection Act almost every single day. He threatens the military invasion of American cities almost every single day.

He and his VP and his cabinet heads and the Republican leaders of the House and Senate have upped their rhetoric of ALL Democrats being the "enemy within" and "antifa terrorists" and "Hamas (as in, non-Christian foreign agents) and "radical violent lunatics" - intended to make MAGA folks in "red states" fear and hate the people in "blue states".

The whole idea of red states and blue states is nonsense - most statewide elections are pretty close - not only are our states pretty evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, so are our communities and even our own families.

But the rhetoric becomes ever more sensationalized

and unhinged, day by day. Trump has been

planning on taking and KEEPING the presidency

from the moment he lost the 2020 election. THAT

is why January 6th happened.

The riot was a last ditch effort to STOP the certification of the election that was going on in the Capitol, after the scheme to replace official state electors with slates of FAKE electors failed, and Vice President Pence refused to go along with Trump's order to overturn the election.

-Trump will use ANY means - ANY MEANS - to hold on to the office this time around. He has proven that. He has three goals that motivate him personal power, wealth, and revenge. Nothing he does is for the MAGA folks - they are just his pawns. And he is not here to make America "great" but to PLUNDER it and OWN it.

So, there must be NO midterm elections next year. For that he needs war-time conditions. And that wa will be RIGHT HERE. So he needs himself a proper bunker. Not the 60 year old WWII bunker he hid in last time. A lavish, opulent, HUGE bunker, in the style to which he has become accustomed.

Oh, and the Ballroom he is building over it will be a nice place to serve as a proper Great Hall and Throne Room, afterwards, in order to receive tributes from future supplicants, as well.

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Its not a BALLROOM. [View all] Golfnbrew Thursday OP
I'm not sure I see the sense in that. Aristus Thursday #1
Except when allowing for the monstrous amounts of hubris characteristic of the typical psychopath littlemissmartypants Thursday #8
Is it being covered, though? Shipwack Thursday #9
That monstrosity of an edifice has been compared to numerous examples of autocratic architecture EYESORE 9001 Thursday #2
Silliness n/t leftstreet Thursday #3
Defeatist nonsense created to demoralize the populace Fiendish Thingy Thursday #4
Hmmmmm.... yardwork Thursday #16
Do you think NC will cancel the midterms if ordered to by Trump? Fiendish Thingy Thursday #19
I don't know what they might do. yardwork Thursday #20
Including canceling elections? Fiendish Thingy Thursday #21
As usual, the usual people scoff at this idea BWdem4life Thursday #5
The self-coronation of Napoleon. Norrrm Thursday #6
k and r Champp Thursday #7
Reads like a creative writing exercise. It's not a historical record... littlemissmartypants Thursday #10
Interesting take. Hope22 Thursday #11
The Secret Beneath gfarber Thursday #12
There's no provision in the constitution to suspend elections under any circumstances. Gaugamela Thursday #13
If that's the case, then get them all into it, GoCubsGo Thursday #14
I want to bar this entire administration and the Fox half of Congress from their ill gotten positions of power. Initech Thursday #15
Maybe it's a megachurch. travelingthrulife Thursday #17
Can we move directly to the part where he HAB911 Thursday #18
Food for thought.... Bayard Thursday #22
Hm. MorbidButterflyTat Thursday #23
It's not a ballroom, it's a set, prop, and backdrop for Fox News broadcasts. Initech Friday #24
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