Seems much more likely to me that it’s expensive because it’s a grift. The funds raised have no relation to the cost of the work, and represent lobbying efforts by a wide range of big business interests. Plus Trump probably thinks that being expensive makes it better.
I’m not saying that they’re not building a data center there, but her evidence seems to be that it’s far more expensive than the most expensive federal buildings and that the administration is lying and saying that the ball room is larger than it actually is.
Two things that describe exactly what we’ve seen Trump do in the past. Trump may overspend on decoration because he has to make everything gold, or because he’s pocketing the extra money. Trump’s felony convictions were related to his lying about the square footage of his properties, in signed contracts, that they were bigger than they actually were.
The architectural style is known as Leprechaun Diarrhea.
It’s conspiracy theory regarding the ball room. I love that so may here love the rigors of proper science, but do try to have some fun with this. It’s a TikTok posted to Substack.
Substack does a couple things. Journalism, yes. Essays from people like Robert Reich and Heather Cox Richardson, among others. But there is also an incredible amount of conspiracy theory over there as well.
I’m not impressed with the video. There’s nothing substantive or sourced, no expertise, other than a Facebook post she didn’t even link.
…I mean, it’s plausible, and I’m all for ballroom conspiracies.
But I guess this is just a (now) old person shaking their fist to say this isn’t real journalism, and it’s sad millions of people treat it as such.
Ofc it’s not real journalism. It’s ballroom conspiracy theory.
For anyone who didn’t want to or can’t watch the video, she posits the administration is using private donor money to build a massive data center under the Whitehouse, with the surface level ball room being a cover story for this. She argued this data center might be used to centralize and collate huge amounts of data outside of Congressional oversight, so the executive branch can use it for monitoring or profiteering or some other purpose.
I’m also amused that the Epstein ballroom might hide an Epstein datacenter but it seems overly complicated. If someone wanted a secret datacenter without congressional oversight, pick any military base anywhere. It’ll be cheaper, you can hide it in military appropriations and military network traffic. He’ll, just make it an annex to an existing military datacenter and no one will think twice
Yeah, I had the same thoughts as you about this conspiracy theory being overly complicated and unnecessary. Like you say, just hide it off-site in a top security location and bury the costs in a massive and ultra-vague top secret R&D budget.
And her source is a Facebook post about an architect pointing out discrepancies in the plans and budget. But it isn’t linked.
Please I hope its true. He lives there and data centers are loud, and fuck up your health. He deserves the pain.
It’s a throne room. Nothing more. Selected subjects may crawl to the stairs and lick the kings feet.
Did Larry Ellison get controlling stake in US Tiktok? I thought he was trying, but did I miss that happening?
Trump plans to upload himself 😱
I read stories about people doing this, and it doesn’t work out.
