Yes, totally. Surely knows and cares very little about construction, as process or labor.

Even in critical articles, coverage of Trump's building projects constantly justifies his weird obsessions as the result of his real estate career. But maybe the obsessions are actually because he is a narcissist who lacks executive function and doesn't take his job seriously?

Very "I see your $70m Love Plane and raise you 'I'm inviting my dad to sexually harass my staff'"

It's almost impressive what a collection of creatively terrible people this administration has amassed. They flock to each other.

J.D. Vance is like the Final Boss version of "That Kid in Section"

What future historians will see in the archives, then shut their notebook and give up.

In this family we

“The president deleted the post of himself as the messiah on the social media site he created and profits from”

Things are going well

They ask why interest in Catholicism has grown so significantly. Well, I don’t think it’s because of JD Vance and his fellow lovers of Latin.

Wow, when you add on this Pope stuff…J.D. Vance had just a historically bad weekend.

Hits a lot of the major historical debates and questions of the period and in a very approachable way.

Sugrue and Gilmore’s post-1890 “These United States” is a super approachable synthetic history with a lot on social movements, race, gender, urban history, political history, and more.

How much you wanna bet that everyone else rolls their eyes when the Jared Kushner-Steve Witkoff dynamic duo enters a room?

This is good!

I’m no City Beautiful Neoclassicist but I really love the view of the Military Women’s Memorial as you come down the bridge and will be sorry if we lose that.

I do not want to have to look at this every time I drive to the airport!

I'll help. Less her raised arm, the body of the Statue of Liberty is only one foot taller than the opening in this two-bit Arc de Triomphe. Take her crown off and she could stand underneath.

Did anyone bother to ask why Lady Liberty is flying away? Is it because she also can't stand it here?

It will look terrible, Neil. The good news is that people will be laughing at DT long after he is gone.

It certainly is! Important to remember how few of the people involved in any of these projects have any architectural experience other than the various committees they have created. It's all a get-rich-quick scheme in the guise of a classical revival.

One of the important architectural dynamics of this is that it will be surrounded by skillful Neoclassicism. So if it is even built, and I’m skeptical, the poor quality of the design and the clumsy detailing will be so very evident.

What coward, you scared to make the winged lady even bigger??

Listen, this is a man that knows how to identify low quality human beings so I trust his steel judgment

America 250 Good Vibes lol

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This all reminds me so much of spring 2020, when it started to dawn on the general population that Trump was exactly as crazy as people had been warning about. Never has anyone gotten so many second chances, and for what?

Economic inequality is second to few things but world war and mass genocide are definitely two of them.

Seems like that’s pretty much all the analysis one needs. Instincts vs. advice and analysis. Sounds about right!

On one hand, I still haven't started pickling the veggies for dinner tonight. On the other hand, impending nuclear war.

Truly!