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US President Donald Trump isn't building a ballroom

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  1. Englerdy
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    I went into this pretty skeptical and expecting dubious red string connections, however the author has absolutely done his homework. I think the title does the actual article a disservice though....

    I went into this pretty skeptical and expecting dubious red string connections, however the author has absolutely done his homework. I think the title does the actual article a disservice though. Trump IS building a ballroom (which will no doubt be his own brand of tacky extravagant). However, the construction of the ballroom is very likely a distraction (as is this administration's specialty) to draw attention away from the fact that under that ballroom they are probably also constructing a state of the art, hardened, military data center facility.

    On one hand, trump doing something superficial and ego boosting in general just doesn't raise eyebrows because he does it constantly. On the other hand, because he does it constantly it would be very easy for the admin to slip stuff passed notice because it's now easy to dismiss "trump just being trump."

    Short read and a pretty compelling idea. Hard to feel like any of this investment is worth while. Though it does worry me to see war mongers actively making preparations to be able to conduct even more aggressive conflicts.

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  2. balooga
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    Hey, this looks familiar! 😉 I debated whether I should make a full post about this, when I came across it last month. Ultimately decided not to because it appears so... nutty. But it's really...

    Hey, this looks familiar! 😉

    I debated whether I should make a full post about this, when I came across it last month. Ultimately decided not to because it appears so... nutty. But it's really compelling, and supported by a ton of actual evidence. At this point I'd say I'm won over. Not sure she's 100% right but there's certainly enough here to cast suspicion on the official narrative.

    TBH though I'm just burned out on conspiracy theories since, I guess, when QAnon went mainstream and turned everybody's parents into MAGA brainrot and the evil elites decided to start doing their most evil stuff right in the open because, it turns out, nobody really cares enough to stop them anyway. Actually diving into a grounded, receipts-carrying new theory feels almost quaint these days. It reminds me of when I got into Loose Change and the 9/11 truth stuff 20 years ago. I'm still embarrassed about that, so I guess I don't want to be too quick to sign up for another of its ilk.

    I'd feel a lot better if a credible news org picked up the story and did some proper journalistic investigation into this. I tried to tip off one of them, actually, but they never wrote me back.

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    skybrian
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    This reads like a conspiracy theory to me. It makes sense for the government to build very secure data centers. It doesn't make sense to build it under the White House rather than, say, under...

    This reads like a conspiracy theory to me.

    It makes sense for the government to build very secure data centers. It doesn't make sense to build it under the White House rather than, say, under Cheyenne mountain. The US is a much larger country than Israel and there are more places to put things.

    Particularly since Washington DC is built on a swamp. Going deep underground is very difficult.

    And I expect Trump wants his ballroom finished before his term is up?

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    1. DynamoSunshirt
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      Agreed, though I'm not sure we can assume that Donald has a lick of sense, which means he's capable of even the most harebrained schemes. Of course, "Donald is a fucking idiot" isn't the most...

      Agreed, though I'm not sure we can assume that Donald has a lick of sense, which means he's capable of even the most harebrained schemes.

      Of course, "Donald is a fucking idiot" isn't the most compelling justification for a conspiracy. You could also use the same logic to explain him starting a war in South America, or annexing a peaceful and quiet foreign country, or renaming longstanding bodies of water for completely random reasons.

      But there is one great reason that they can't put a datacenter in Cheyenne Mountain Complex: the Stargate already consumes a lot of energy and would put the data at risk of extraterrestrial exfiltration.

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  4. chocobean
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    Scary if true. The good thing though, is that he's old and unhealthy and has dementia, and that mega projects like this take a few years to build right? At the current recruitment rates they won't...

    Scary if true. The good thing though, is that he's old and unhealthy and has dementia, and that mega projects like this take a few years to build right? At the current recruitment rates they won't be able to have enough ice police to defend against a sustained protest, and the regular police, military and national guards are unlikely to live round against American citizens. Let's see if the mid terms are called off first before being too worried about this.

    Honestly if it wasn't this admin, having sovereign cloud that's crazy safe isn't by itself a bad idea. Nimbus is only evil because it's being used for genocide, not for existing

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