Panel Approves President Trump’s White House Ballroom Project Amid Legal Fight

[Augustine_]

Every post of mine is honest.

Darn you did so well for a second there

 

[Hollie]

Another cowardly retreat for Augustine.

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The U.S. economic outlook remains constructive, supported by continued strength in business investment and generally resilient household demand. That said, recent developments have led us to modestly recalibrate our expectations. We have downgraded our 2026 real GDP growth forecast by 0.2 percentage points to 2.3%, reflecting firmer energy prices and emerging tariff pass‑through effects. While these headwinds are likely to weigh modestly on consumption, they are not expected to fundamentally alter the expansionary backdrop created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, particularly as robust AI‑related capital expenditures continue to provide an important offset and remain a central pillar of growth momentum in 2026.

 

[Augustine_]

We have downgraded our 2026 real GDP growth forecast by 0.2 percentage points to 2.3%

Wow a terrible 2.3%. At least that's better than your pedophiles 2025 numbers. And 6 months with negative job growth out of 12 so far must be such a proud accomplishment for you. I suspect it will be 7 of 13 once the March numbers come out.

 

[Hollie]

Wow a terrible 2.3%. At least that's better than your pedophiles 2025 numbers. And 6 months with negative job growth out of 12 so far must be such a proud accomplishment for you. I suspect it will be 7 of 13 once the March numbers come out.

2.3% is terrible only because your need to hate overrides your lost common sense.

The numbers are better than the “sky is falling” numbers you couldn’t provide.

 

[Winston]

Wow, finish your coma before those silly tirades and keep your STD to yourself.

This administration is a disgrace. Embarrassing really. I mean it really is a damn circus. No wonder professional civil servants are dropping like flies.

In the business world, well our current executive office is like the once great company that gets gobbled up by some private equity firm. That firm eats that once great company like a damn vulture on a carcass. And me, I am the one they call to come clean up the mess. Salvage what is left, clean up the bones.

The problem is, now, we are talking about a nation, not a company. And it is not hyperbolic, the very foundation of the country is under attack. And the worst part, there is no one there to come in and clean up the mess. No one in the wings. No Democrat, no Green Party member, nothing, nobody. Our very system walls anyone really qualified off.

Look, George Washington could probably make it. Tall, said to be good looking, ladies man they say. But Madison, no way in hell. Believe he was the shortest president, but by far, the tallest. British burning down DC, Madison's wife carting out national treasures. Madison, on horseback, in the woods gathering up a counter attack, a counter attack, horseback, can you imagine Trump doing that, LOL.

And then, well God himself showed up. We didn't chase the British out of DC. Madison led no counter attack. God sent them back to the sea. But even Franklin, he would be laughed off the hill. The very linchpin of our founding, couldn't make it on FOX News, no hope for this administration, even this Congress.

The type of modern growth is the great city. Here are to be found the greatest wealth and the deepest poverty. And it is here that popular government has most clearly broken down. In all the great American cities there is to-day as clearly defined a ruling class as.in the most aristocratic countries of the world. Its members carry wards in their pockets, make up the slates for nominating conventions, distribute offices as they bargain together, and-though they toil not, neither do they spin-wear the best of raiment and spend money lavishly. They are men of power, whose favor the ambitious must court and whose vengeance he must avoid.Who are these men? The wise, the good, the learned men who have earned the confidence of their fellow citizens by the purity of their lives, the splendor of their talents, their probity in public trusts, their deep study of the problems of government? No; they are gamblers,saloon keepers, pugilists, or worse, who have made a trade of controlling votes and of buying and selling offices and official acts. They stand to the government of these cities as the Pretorian Guards did to that of declining Rome. He who would wear the purple, fill the curule chair, or have the fasces carried before him,must go or send his messengers to their camps, give them donatives and make them promises. It is through these men that the rich corporations and powerful pecuniary nterests can pack the Senate and the bench with their creatures. It is these men who make School Directors,Supervisors, Assessors, members of the Legislature, Congressmen. Why, there are many election districts in the United States in which a George Washington, a Beniamin Franklin or a Thomas Jefferson could no more go to the lower house of a State Legislature than under the Ancient Regime a base-born peasant could become a Marshal of France. Their very character would be an insuperable disqualification.

https://cdn.mises.org/Progress%20and%20Poverty_3.pdf

 

[Hollie]

Trump building a ballroom for his fellow Epstein listers during a war and a failing economy is so fitting.

Let them eat cake!

Identify the “Epstein listers”.

Shirley you’re not just a pompous moron who posts nonsense you can’t support.

 

[Hollie]

This administration is a disgrace. Embarrassing really. I mean it really is a damn circus. No wonder professional civil servants are dropping like flies.

In the business world, well our current executive office is like the once great company that gets gobbled up by some private equity firm. That firm eats that once great company like a damn vulture on a carcass. And me, I am the one they call to come clean up the mess. Salvage what is left, clean up the bones.

The problem is, now, we are talking about a nation, not a company. And it is not hyperbolic, the very foundation of the country is under attack. And the worst part, there is no one there to come in and clean up the mess. No one in the wings. No Democrat, no Green Party member, nothing, nobody. Our very system walls anyone really qualified off.

Look, George Washington could probably make it. Tall, said to be good looking, ladies man they say. But Madison, no way in hell. Believe he was the shortest president, but by far, the tallest. British burning down DC, Madison's wife carting out national treasures. Madison, on horseback, in the woods gathering up a counter attack, a counter attack, horseback, can you imagine Trump doing that, LOL.

And then, well God himself showed up. We didn't chase the British out of DC. Madison led no counter attack. God sent them back to the sea. But even Franklin, he would be laughed off the hill. The very linchpin of our founding, couldn't make it on FOX News, no hope for this administration, even this Congress.

The type of modern growth is the great city. Here are to be found the greatest wealth and the deepest poverty. And it is here that popular government has most clearly broken down. In all the great American cities there is to-day as clearly defined a ruling class as.in the most aristocratic countries of the world. Its members carry wards in their pockets, make up the slates for nominating conventions, distribute offices as they bargain together, and-though they toil not, neither do they spin-wear the best of raiment and spend money lavishly. They are men of power, whose favor the ambitious must court and whose vengeance he must avoid.Who are these men? The wise, the good, the learned men who have earned the confidence of their fellow citizens by the purity of their lives, the splendor of their talents, their probity in public trusts, their deep study of the problems of government? No; they are gamblers,saloon keepers, pugilists, or worse, who have made a trade of controlling votes and of buying and selling offices and official acts. They stand to the government of these cities as the Pretorian Guards did to that of declining Rome. He who would wear the purple, fill the curule chair, or have the fasces carried before him,must go or send his messengers to their camps, give them donatives and make them promises. It is through these men that the rich corporations and powerful pecuniary nterests can pack the Senate and the bench with their creatures. It is these men who make School Directors,Supervisors, Assessors, members of the Legislature, Congressmen. Why, there are many election districts in the United States in which a George Washington, a Beniamin Franklin or a Thomas Jefferson could no more go to the lower house of a State Legislature than under the Ancient Regime a base-born peasant could become a Marshal of France. Their very character would be an insuperable disqualification.

https://cdn.mises.org/Progress%20and%20Poverty_3.pdf

A long, tedious cut and paste.

 

[luiza]

Hurts, huh.

They are strengthening the floor because of all the extra developments in the military complex underneath .

It is mind boggling that outsiders know more about what is going on in your fading Empire than you do .

 

[Winston]

A long, tedious cut and paste.

That cut and paste is from Henry George, Poverty and Progress. Top of the head, I believe 1879. Deep in, like page 500 plus. Read it again, if you did the first time. Doesn't matter the party, doesn't matter right or left, George nails it. 150 years ago he ripped away the weakness that is this Republic. And he put forth a solution that has been supported by everyone from Churchill to Einstein.

 

[Hollie]

They are strengthening the floor because of all the extra developments in the military complex underneath .

It is mind boggling that outsiders know more about what is going on in your fading Empire than you do .

The underground military complex is no secret.

It is mind boggling that you believe you are the keeper of some vast secret doggie bowl of “need to know” information.

 

[Hollie]

This administration is a disgrace. Embarrassing really. I mean it really is a damn circus. No wonder professional civil servants are dropping like flies.

In the business world, well our current executive office is like the once great company that gets gobbled up by some private equity firm. That firm eats that once great company like a damn vulture on a carcass. And me, I am the one they call to come clean up the mess. Salvage what is left, clean up the bones.

The problem is, now, we are talking about a nation, not a company. And it is not hyperbolic, the very foundation of the country is under attack. And the worst part, there is no one there to come in and clean up the mess. No one in the wings. No Democrat, no Green Party member, nothing, nobody. Our very system walls anyone really qualified off.

Look, George Washington could probably make it. Tall, said to be good looking, ladies man they say. But Madison, no way in hell. Believe he was the shortest president, but by far, the tallest. British burning down DC, Madison's wife carting out national treasures. Madison, on horseback, in the woods gathering up a counter attack, a counter attack, horseback, can you imagine Trump doing that, LOL.

And then, well God himself showed up. We didn't chase the British out of DC. Madison led no counter attack. God sent them back to the sea. But even Franklin, he would be laughed off the hill. The very linchpin of our founding, couldn't make it on FOX News, no hope for this administration, even this Congress.

The type of modern growth is the great city. Here are to be found the greatest wealth and the deepest poverty. And it is here that popular government has most clearly broken down. In all the great American cities there is to-day as clearly defined a ruling class as.in the most aristocratic countries of the world. Its members carry wards in their pockets, make up the slates for nominating conventions, distribute offices as they bargain together, and-though they toil not, neither do they spin-wear the best of raiment and spend money lavishly. They are men of power, whose favor the ambitious must court and whose vengeance he must avoid.Who are these men? The wise, the good, the learned men who have earned the confidence of their fellow citizens by the purity of their lives, the splendor of their talents, their probity in public trusts, their deep study of the problems of government? No; they are gamblers,saloon keepers, pugilists, or worse, who have made a trade of controlling votes and of buying and selling offices and official acts. They stand to the government of these cities as the Pretorian Guards did to that of declining Rome. He who would wear the purple, fill the curule chair, or have the fasces carried before him,must go or send his messengers to their camps, give them donatives and make them promises. It is through these men that the rich corporations and powerful pecuniary nterests can pack the Senate and the bench with their creatures. It is these men who make School Directors,Supervisors, Assessors, members of the Legislature, Congressmen. Why, there are many election districts in the United States in which a George Washington, a Beniamin Franklin or a Thomas Jefferson could no more go to the lower house of a State Legislature than under the Ancient Regime a base-born peasant could become a Marshal of France. Their very character would be an insuperable disqualification.

https://cdn.mises.org/Progress%20and%20Poverty_3.pdf

Did you ever bother to understand what the mises org is about you right wing loon?

The Mises Institute is
a non-profit, educational organization in Auburn, Alabama, founded in 1982 to promote the Austrian School of economics, individual liberty, and free-market capitalism. It advocates for a private property order, sound money, and an anti-interventionist foreign policy in the tradition of economists Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard.

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Key details about the Mises Institute include:

• Focus: The Institute is a major center for right-wing libertarian, anarcho-capitalist thought, and heterodox economic analysis, heavily opposing state intervention.

 

[Hollie]

That cut and paste is from Henry George, Poverty and Progress. Top of the head, I believe 1879. Deep in, like page 500 plus. Read it again, if you did the first time. Doesn't matter the party, doesn't matter right or left, George nails it. 150 years ago he ripped away the weakness that is this Republic. And he put forth a solution that has been supported by everyone from Churchill to Einstein.

Cut and pasted from a right wing blog. Your Trump idolizing, right wing ideology is the weakness of this republic. The prayer leader at your madrassah will report you to the Ayatollahs.

 

[BS Filter]

They are strengthening the floor because of all the extra developments in the military complex underneath .

It is mind boggling that outsiders know more about what is going on in your fading Empire than you do .

I'm not as concerned about meaningless crap as the Trump haters are.

 

[Winston]

Cut and pasted from a right wing blog. Your Trump idolizing, right wing ideology is the weakness of this republic. The prayer leader at your madrassah will report you to the Ayatollahs.

Doesn't change what George said. I have a first edition, pristine condition. Scored it at a Salvation Army store for fifty cents. Damn I was dancing in the aisles.

 

[Augustine_]

2.3% is terrible only because your need to hate overrides your lost common sense.

That's weird I remember the right completely losing their minds for 8 years under Obama whenever GDP growth was under 3%

 

[Hollie]

That's weird I remember the right completely losing their minds for 8 years under Obama whenever GDP growth was under 3%

I don’t remember that. What were the circumstances?

 

[Hollie]

Doesn't change what George said. I have a first edition, pristine condition. Scored it at a Salvation Army store for fifty cents. Damn I was dancing in the aisles.

Fifty cents worth of right wing financial advise from a blog is what you get when shopping at the Salvation Army

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

You angry FAGATs are funny.

You think and dream about fags a lot don't you?

 

[Augustine_]

I don’t remember that. What were the circumstances?

The circumstances were:

the right completely losing their minds for 8 years under Obama whenever GDP growth was under 3%

 

[Augustine_]

You think and dream about fags a lot don't you?

100% of the time when someone tries to change the topic to talk about gay people it's a conservative.