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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Doesn't really clarify anything, but I think he says "tractors."

Maybe it was “sell to crackers..”

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…as in, “to grift”

 

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15 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

GWB:  "I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

When Barack Obama and Joe Biden are in the White House. 

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11 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

What does 47 order at Whataburger?

I believe the chicken taco is still on the menu

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17 hours ago, The Dog said:

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I am so glad Jason Kander is taking care of this mental health, but there is a real part of me that wonders “What if?”

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3 hours ago, yoladu said:

Look, either PPE is required or it's just show. this was just show.

i am not sure what the exact scope is and I assume the Fed Reserve building is old and probably has a lot of problems, but a construction cost of 2.7 billion dollars for a renovation project is pretty gonzo.

but good on Powell for calling out Trump on the 400 million dollar error.

The building’s foundations are sinking into a subterranean creek under the building and it’s basically all asbestos and lead.  There is no parking, so they had to put it underground, which is standard in dc since we have building height limits. Covid and inflation has made it super expensive. 
 

All the other gov buildings were built in the 60s-70s and are nearish to code, or got overhauled in the 80s-90s. The fed is over 100 years old and has never been overhauled/brought to standard.  If it were anything else, it would be a tear down.

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I hear ya on all that,… How the fuckkkkk can the project cost 50% more than jerryworld even adjusted for inflation 

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31 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Look, either PPE is required or it's just show. this was just show.

Not replying to you Bates.

They're not wearing PPE.  They're wearing a hard hat for show.  PPE is hardhat (now pretty much unversially required with chin straps), safey vest, safety glasses, gloves and hard toed boots.

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28 minutes ago, bluto said:

I hear ya on all that,… How the fuckkkkk can the project cost 50% more than jerryworld even adjusted for inflation 

I don’t disagree it’s spiraled out of control. They are basically building an entirely new building, inside the shell of two existing buildings. It probably should have been torn down and started from scratch. But then everyone would complain about design and historic character. 
 

FWIW, the overhaul of one of the House  congressional buildings is probably going to be close to a billion once all said and done. And it didn’t require a full foundation overhaul and addition of a multi story below ground garage:

Tl;dr: it’s over budget and doing historic renovations in  swamp in DC is expensive as fuck.

 

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50 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

They are basically building an entirely new building, inside the shell of two existing buildings. It probably should have been torn down and started from scratch. But then everyone would complain about design and historic character.

It's more than that.  The way our government works is that if they build from scratch funds are more limited.  If they are rehabbing a building they can keep going back to the well for more funds.

I was involved in the Homeland Security headquarters project way back when after 9/11 when they took the old St. Elizabeth's Hospital (mental institution) and rehabbed it.  Cost overruns everywhere but the government paid.

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2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I'd call our president a dumb dildo, but dildos are useful. he's just so goddamn dumb

Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough[/Abraham Lincoln]

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7 hours ago, yoladu said:

Look, either PPE is required or it's just show. this was just show.

i am not sure what the exact scope is and I assume the Fed Reserve building is old and probably has a lot of problems, but a construction cost of 2.7 billion dollars for a renovation project is pretty gonzo.

but good on Powell for calling out Trump on the 400 million dollar error.

https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/federal-reserve-renovation-cost-explained/

Commenced planning during the Trump administration, and Trump appointees insisted on using marble instead of the proposed glass.  And, of course, Trump is lying his ass off about it.

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2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

We're well into Marvel Phase 6. I have no idea who Liz Truss is anymore.

You need to know because if you are ever on Jeopardy and the final clue is "She was the Prime Minister when Queen Elizabeth II died", you can't write, "Who is a woman who has never been in my kitchen?" You also could not write, "Who is a woman that I have never had sexual relations with?", because the ghost of Alex Trebek would say, "I noticed you didn't say 'human woman', which would preclude the sheep that you Aggies are famous for copulating with."

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Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-clean-energy-war-global

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Trump will visit his Turnberry and Aberdeenshire golf courses during the Scottish trip, the latter venue being the stage of a lengthy battle by the president to halt 11 nearby offshore wind turbines. From 2011, Trump, then a reality TV star and property mogul, argued the “ugly” turbines visible from the Menie golf course were “monstrosities” that would help sink Scotland’s tourism industry.

 

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Can we just reiterate, as often as needed, this windmill bullshit and this weak dollar bullshit is merely deflection from the Epstein files?  Can we all just agree to keep saying that out loud?

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