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Donald Trump's hand-picked board says the Kennedy Center goes broke unless his name goes back on the memorial.
He took over the institution 18 days into his term. A judge ruled in May that Congress alone can rename it. Crews pried his name off in June, and a tarp has hidden the sign ever since. Now a 57-page packet tells the board the main building could close as soon as Tuesday and the center will miss payroll within weeks. Trump will only raise the money if the front of the building carries what the packet calls appropriate recognition.
The vote comes two days before the judge hears whether the board’s last attempt to put his name up was legal. The board is not waiting for the ruling.
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TheFastpaws
Corner pocket!
GeorgeBounacos
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Artemis look at us when we try lasers and says, "I'm a cat. I'm not dumb."
At least I think that's what she says.
PowerThruster
#9 quit being a bitch and hold them in contempt, round them up and jail the cunts. Charge them specifically with state charges so they can't get away from it. They wanna flex some power, let the Kennedys and courts flex back without restraint or decor.
Iaimtomisbehave
#8 Many, many wonderful things have come from the Kennedy Center. (I'm thinking first thing of them honoring the Rev. Al Green and the "Take Me To The River" performance.) I'd sooner them take a wrecking ball to it than see his name on it again.
PowerThruster
They wanna build an open-air stadium in its place, so thats exactly what they intend to do. A judge needs to jail all the board members at the very least. They wanna do bitchboys bidding, they can enjoy it from a state prison.
madmax17
#7. Gop campaigning at it's best 🤣🤣
OmnibusLatinName
How long before the malfunction is tied to an antifa plot?
madmax17
2 seconds flat.
Samja192
He banned Canadian alcohol?
AntaNce
Yes, the rapist cretin has stupidly said so. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-booze-ban-canada-9.7340196
floofnmeeps
While this asshole lifting his leg on everything and anything he can get his grubby little hands on is an abomination, it would be easily reversed once he's gone and his stupid yapper goes silent. All of the other stuff is ruining our way of life on a global level and set us back hundreds of years on the world peace scale. Not to mention he's killing us all with vaccine misinformation, FDA regulation removal and any other environmental safeguards we've managed to put in place..... SERENITY NOW!
itwasababyox
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melandevile2000
Some wealthy Democrat should give the center the money and name it the Obama-Biden reconstituted Kennedy memorial center.
ShearingBlizzard
Things will continue to get worse until we destroy the epstien class.
BdrLen
6. I've been saying for months that the tarrif revenues will be used by the Trump regime as a slush fund to pay for things of dubious legality.
Korrd
Not to mention all the funds Congress designated for various things that he then cancelled—pediatric cancer research, anyone?—even though he doesn't have that authority. At the end of the fiscal year, that money should be left in the government purse, right? But will it be?
I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of money missing when this is all over.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
#9 Good, but monetary fines don't change the fact they have polluted the entire globe and population FOREVER.
And they continue to operate?! The whole industry needs to be burned down along with all the executives and board members since the 70's.
Add 3M to the top of the list too.
PrincessWasabi
There should have been jail time for leadership. But once again, theyre free to do it again elsewhere
FuzzyX
I remember that DuPont one and how badly they messed up making Teflon. Their worst crime was to simply pour shit tons of forever chemicals into the environment even having cattle foaming at the mouth after drinking it.
These days those forever chemicals cover the globe simply everywhere in every human and every animal. In your food, your water, the air you breath where you can't escape it only to minimise it.
Had this been China their CEO would have been executed.
FuzzyX
On #6 there is no way Congress would approve that $5000 payout for every citizen when that would add $1.4 trillion to the national debts.
So all they are going to do is to make happy $5000 rebate noises to deceive as many voters as they can before the mid term elections before nothing then appears.
Korrd
Eh, Republicans have been very accommodating thus far. They've really surprised me with what they've been willing to go along with. No shame, no integrity. They seem to have no values of any kind they won't sacrifice in service of that man.
Hell, he could just unilaterally dole out those checks and I'm not certain Congress would do anything about it except write a few letters and give floor speeches. Look at everything they've let him do already, many of which qualify as impeachable offenses.
NozzleBozzle
He is such a cunt
ImmatellallyallboutFightClub
The other half of yesterday's photo. Yuzu wanted to be included too.
Thank you for the headlines!
GeorgeBounacos
ohmygosh, yuzu, can you believe you were kept out of the photo and all you were doing was crouching down in the corner, you beauty
razalude
“The war ends after midterms.” I know it’s maybe crazy but my mind is saying “he’s going to nuke Iran after midterms if there is a blue wave.” Hell, even if there isn’t he might…
Korrd
There's no telling what he might do. No matter how stupid, everything's on the table since he's stacked every part of the government with loyalists. I'm not sure who would oppose him, even if it came to nukes. Everyone with a hint of sense knew not to attack Iran, but they did it anyway because he wanted it.
Imagine bringing down your own country because you're so loyal to one man. And imagine it being THAT man. *shudder* It's so icky.
razalude
I one million percent agree.
TheImgurWarsMadeMe
#1 I'm not sure why he thinks Ukraine bombing Russian oil production would affect the global shortage given that pretty much every Western nation and ally has agreed not to buy it anyway. Even if they hadn't countries could just buy a little more from Iran... OH WAIT.
Once a lying cunt, always a lying cunt.
barefootguru
Well that and he really is that fucking stupid.
Daliena06
Global issue. The people that *did* buy Russian oil don't just shrug their shoulders and say "Well guess we're not using oil anymore". They're buying it from elsewhere, from sources that are also used by the Western world, which then means more demand for the limited supply those sources have.
The REAL bullshit is that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil supply have nowhere near as large a global effect as the Iran shitshow.
RedWingedBlackbirds
Psst - he's Putin's pawn
alexpatt665
is Pennsylvania, Florida of the north? never heard anything good from it
SalmonTheWise
What about Ohio?
GeorgeBounacos
Once a really big swing state, but ousted its D senator and voted for Trump 3 elections in a row.
ThisPleasesTheSlug
PA is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in between
GeorgeBounacos
Yes, I was waiting for someone to invoke Jimmy Carville. No notes.
NurseNotSoJoy
#3 It’s very important that everyone 30+ understands that even if they were vaccinated as a child, they may NOT have immunity anymore. The MMR doesn’t provide lifelong immunity…. If you can, look into getting a titer drawn. At 32, mine said I had zero immunity, and I had to get vaccinated again.
GeorgeBounacos
Thank you for that post, Nurse!
NurseNotSoJoy
Just doing my duty, sir 🫡
RedWingedBlackbirds
Yes this ^ ! A simple lab test shows whether you are still immune = no vaccination needed, or not still immune = vaccination. Measles info:
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/signs-symptoms/index.html
NurseNotSoJoy
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PerthAussieMike
#8 IMHO better to close the Kennedy Centre rather than disgrace it with his name. Sad but the alternative taints the building. elTrumpo isn't fit to be mentioned in the same sentence as JFK let alone share a building named in honour of him.
Rhythmaster
It's a fucking memorial for an assassinated president, he can have his own such memorial if he gets assassinated. He just wants to piss everywhere and leave his stink on everything, just pathetic.
Spoenk
He isn't fit to be mentioned in the same sentence as a load of shit, but here we are.
RedWingedBlackbirds
Well... 'load of shit' should maybe be reconsidered
floofnmeeps
I agree 100% I'm sure Maria Shriver would agree on behalf of her family too
thinkybrainpains
Let them wreck it. Let history known how awful every fucking one of those board members and Trump are to be petty enough to destroy a beloved and assassinated President’s living memorial all because they didn’t get their way. After we rebuild it, include every name in the room where the history of the destruction and the rebuild are forever remembered. Be sure to highlight that JFKs own family member RFK, jr was a part of the destruction, too.
Imalwaysready
We can give them each a memorial urinal.
chewmaca2
It is really easy to prove it lost money because he illegally put his name on it.
MisterFluffi
From what I've heard it was having difficulties even without that because the board is Trump appointed, a lot of events are therefore associated with him and a lot of people who could perform there don't want an an association to them as well.
PowerThruster
They dont intend to close it though. Theyve already mentioned bulldozing it and building an open-air stadium for events. Letting him close it for any reason is allowing him to fully destroy and replace it.
Kerbal247
Yep, and the catch here is that the law doesn't protect any future project on the site, only the Kennedy Center is named as protected. So, if it no longer exists, they can do whatever they want without congress.
PowerThruster
Oh no! I had a strong urge to replay KSP earlier today and resisted. Looks like I'm about to fail with that username.
Kerbal247
Just stay away from KSP2. It's trash