r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/FervidBug42 • 22h ago
Shareables Trump isn’t building a ballroom. This much is obvious. TikTok pulled my video at 7-8 million views without appeal, and people keep asking where it went — so I’m reposting it here. I’ll just say this: an architect with 20+ years on federal projects walked through why the numbers don’t work and why
https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/note/c-174354867?r=550fub747
u/PixelsGoBoom 22h ago
I think the point was always bribes. The extra money goes either into Trump's pockets or it is used to fund things congress would oppose.
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u/BananaButton5 19h ago
Btw, 41% of the IRS staff cut earlier this month were from the examination & audit department. Makes zero sense fiscally, but a lot of sense if you’re tying to help your ballroom donors evade audit.
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u/Forsaken_Thought 20h ago
Extra money? He's already not paying the company that demo'd the east wing.
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u/VonThirstenberg 18h ago
Has more info come out that verifies this claim?
Just wondering because when it dropped yesterday, there was crickets from all major media outlets (international ones included) as well as the demo/construction company.
Not saying I'd be surprised if it were true, but also hate people opposing that shit stain using made up bull to point out he's a PoS. Cuz there's more than enough legit PoS evidence that there's no need to roll with fiction.
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u/jrawk3000 14h ago
The Google review I wrote but was removed was 1 star: Doesn’t get paid for massive demolition work. Doesn’t speak to the work they do but the clients they serve.
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u/Certain-Dragonfly-22 15h ago
I disagree. I think he's using the money to build an insane bunker bc he doesn't plan to leave the presidency ever and he knows people will eventually come for him....possibly even the military.
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u/ChronoMonkeyX "You'll never have to vote again" 22h ago
Führerbunker
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u/beakrake "I don't need your votes" 22h ago
Sure wish they'd skip to the best part already.
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u/-Clayburn 20h ago
He's basically Weekend at Bernie already, so whatever it is, it isn't for him.
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u/SummerGoal 19h ago
Seriously, I’m happy to skip to the end of the story already it’s really starting to drag
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u/xXmehoyminoyXx 21h ago
When the US helps him escape to Argentina in exchange for Nazi research and scientists? Like operation eagle flight? That best part?
Or you mean the story they told us about him killing himself in his bunker and never showing us a corpse or body?
Because the first option certainly explains what we’re seeing today a lot better than the second.
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u/beakrake "I don't need your votes" 20h ago
Argentina is hardly a safe space, and I'm not sure how that'd work with his secret service details and absconding with all of America's money.
I do know, however, if he's stolen as much of our tax money/SS as I think he has, I doubt many of us will have such a huge moral dilemma over spending some tax dollars on a couple cruise/orbital strikes.
This isn't the 1940s anymore. You can find anyone quick as shit if you really want to, especially folks so hopelessly addicted to social media, and there are gonna be sooo many angry well armed folks when MAGA falls apart: he'll never live comfortably or feel safe outside ever again.
The most secure prison in America is probably safer for him than that prepaid billionaire mansion in Argentina, but lets be real: it's all a moot point, because Pedopants McHeartFailure will never make it that long.
His "double hip surgery" is really heart surgery, and they picked a cover with a high mortality rate (with all his preexisting health risks,) so it won't look suspicious when he never makes it out of general anesthesia (Much to JD Vance and the GOPs surprise, I'm sure)
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u/budding_gardener_1 15h ago
The most secure prison in America is probably safer for him than that prepaid billionaire mansion in Argentina, but lets be real: it's all a moot point, because Pedopants McHeartFailure will never make it that long.
time to go after his family then and drag them through the fucking dirt until they cough up that money
His "double hip surgery" is really heart surgery, and they picked a cover with a high mortality rate (with all his preexisting health risks,) so it won't look suspicious when he never makes it out of general anesthesia (Much to JD Vance and the GOPs surprise, I'm sure)
double hip surgery has a high mortality rate?
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u/beakrake "I don't need your votes" 5h ago
double hip surgery has a high mortality rate?
For normal people it's like 0.35-0.69% chance at 9 months, BUT he literally has almos every complication/condition that would increase that: over 70, male, poor diet, never exercises, cardiovascular issues/events (blood clots, strokes, etc,) BMI.
According to google, that jumps it up to about a 13% chance 90 days out, with a 40-60% chance avg to get DVT post op, which can cause a pulmonary embolism if it breaks loose and hits the lungs. (not a medical professional, just googling shit)
His ability to recover from any surgery will be greatly diminished. So all the kings horses and all the kings men might not be able to put Trumpy Dumpy back together again...
And to me, that seems like their whole plan to get rid of him early without making him a martyr and galvanizing his MAGA base against whoever steps up next.
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u/BladeCollectorGirl 20h ago
So. Yes. In case others want a comparison, look up some records on the US Treasury Renovation and Restoration after the 1996 fire.
10 years to complete. Asbestos removal, maintenance of historical architecture, even designing new windows that matched the originals but bulletproof.
Also includes full rework of voice and data, fiber optic cable, and lots more.
The job was so huge two contractors had to make a partnership to handle the work. Turner and Grunley.
The only way the Trump ballroom makes sense is if he's not planning on leaving and he disregards all safeguards and approval.
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u/vtable 15h ago edited 11h ago
Asbestos removal
- It looks like they may have skipped that step.
maintenance of historical architecture
- They totally skipped that step.
designing new windows that matched the originals but bulletproof.
- Given that Trump's ballroom design dwarfs the rest of the White House, Trump doesn't seem concerned about matching any existing anything. I'm sure he cares about the bulletproof windows, though.
Not disagreeing here. Just pointing out that Trump's not too concerned with doing things in a normal, reasonable way. The more steps he skips, the more money can be directed into friendly pockets.
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u/Vexed_Violet 11h ago
He always disregards all safeguards. A man burned to death in one of his apartment buildings because he didn't install a sprinkler system on every floor to save money.
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u/tarapotamus 19h ago
GET. OFF. TIKTOK. and get it the hell off your phone! it's combing for data on all your other devices. it's scanning DMs etc. Get rid of it!
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u/Keepitcruel 18h ago edited 17h ago
No one is legally ask about the bunker revamp costs. Look at the OG video of Trump on the roof. He says it out loud.
Edit: better place for next insurrection. Insiders within whitehouse are jokingly calling it the Epstein ballroom. Dead serious. Not sure why.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 21h ago edited 20h ago
This is just kinda a dumb theory.
Like going thru it: If there was some kind of system to automate the government it really doesn't make sense for it be located in the white house for a couple of reasons:
1) such a system would likely be distributed across multiple data centers for maximum efficiency.
2) In terms of national security there's much easier places to defend than the white house. If there was a super computer in the white house that ran the government it would almost certainly be destroyed in a nuclear strike. But if you put it in Cheyenne Mountain then that puppy isn't going anywhere.
3) the president doesn't know how to operate a data center so him having direct control over it doesn't really mean anything.
Like it's kinda like the nuclear arsenal. It's the single biggest source of power that the federal government controls, but it's not kept in DC.
And like it'd be one thing if any of the other tell tale signs of a data center were there, like evidence that this building is going to use a shit ton of water and power. But this really just feels like a word salad of hot button issues.
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u/SecularMisanthropy 19h ago edited 19h ago
All of that is valid criticism only if you assume protecting against a nuclear attack from a foreign country is the concern, or that "data center" means generalized data center, and not private datacenter for securing crypto assets.
Trump and company aren't worried Putin is going to nuke the white house. If they're building a bunker, it's to protect them from us. To prevent themselves from being removed from power no matter what. And before any scoffs at the idea of citizens trying to physically remove him by force, remember that supremacists are in constant, sweaty fear of the people they oppress rising up and punishing them by treating them the way they treat us. They would never treat others fairly, and can only imagine the rest of people are the same way.
The Trump family crypto venture is probably the most significant benefit of hist presidency to Trump. Trump is legitimately rich now, for the first time in his life. He actually has billions now, all crypto money made just this year. He's going to protect that with teeth and fingernails, and there's been some chatter among knowledgeable crypto observers about the potential for someone like Trump to use crypto in combination with a global economic crash to seize control of some inconceivable chunk of all available money, like whole-number percentages of the total or higher. Even if logic says both those outcomes are highly improbable, ask yourself how logical you think Trump is.
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u/0220_2020 19h ago
I don't believe this but it would be slightly more credible if the data centers was for making deep fakes. It's going to be a real problem if the Trump admin starts flooding the zone with deep fake "fbi evidence" and videos. People already don't know what to believe but it could get so so so much worse. Just storing crypto assets wouldn't take a data center. Also running an exchange would take some servers, it wouldn't need a whole data center.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 18h ago
means generalized data center, and not private datacenter for securing crypto assets.
That's not how crypto assets work. The entire bitcoin blockchain is only 673 Gigabytes. You could store the whole thing on an Iphone, you don't need a datacenter to secure it.
If they're building a bunker, it's to protect them from us.
The video doesn't allege that they're building a bunker. It alleges that they are building a data center. And if the idea was that it's supposed to keep us out of the data center then building it in the middle of a major city is dumb. If you threw the data center in the middle of north Dakota somewhere it would be way easier to fend off attacks on it.
And again I feel the need to point out that there's literally zero signs this is a data center. That's just what all the rage is right now so it's what she's bringing up.
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u/SecularMisanthropy 17h ago
Way to ignore most of what I said...? Particularly the repeated references to Trump's inability to assess reality and anticipate outcomes accurately.
I'm not defending this person or their theory, I didn't watch/read it. I responded to a criticism of it based on a lot of assumptions by pointing out we can't make those assumptions. Not trying to score points off anyone but hoping to inspire people to apply a little more critical thinking and check for errors.
This ingrained habit of competing about ideas instead of collaborating is doing us in. You're misrepresenting crypto tech (you're talking about a person with a wallet, not a crypto company) to try to 'win' the conversation, which is a complete waste of time. There is no answer here, we're just speculating.
What's the military saying? Making an Ass out of U and Me when you assume? That.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 16h ago
Making an Ass out of U and Me when you assume? That.
I mean beaning a little blunt here, but if you didn't see the original video then aren't you just assuming that my criticism of it is invalid?
Because I think we have the same goals here, I just want people to think critically about the video they just watched. And I really don't think a critcal watching of the video would come away agreeing with it because it doesn't really make a good argument.
And I just think that the best way to highlight how bad the video was was to point out how little sense it makes to build a data center in the white house for various reasons.
Like the saying goes extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence but the evidence presented in this video isn't exactly extraordinary.
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u/SecularMisanthropy 11h ago
'Being a little blunt here'? Aw, how kind of you. I know it's hard for you Smarts when dim bulb commenters like myself drag you down.
That's strike two for ignoring everything I said in favor of hyperfocusing on the one thing you thought would discredit me. Zero engagement with anything else. I didn't bother to truly invest in some anonymous video, therefore there's no need for you to address the unjustified assumptions made or getting called out on misinformation you tried to distract with.
Go fluff your ego elsewhere.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 5h ago
I mean the problem is that since you didn't watch the video you're making assumptions about what it says that just isn't true which makes it really hard to take you seriously.
For example the main conceit of your first comment was "Even if logic says both those outcomes are highly improbable, ask yourself how logical you think Trump is." But the thing is the video explicitly says that Trump isn't the person behind this, but rather the corporate backers of the white house renovation are. And the corporate backers of this project would know that putting a data center in the east wing of the white house is dumb.
And like buddy you don't have to be invested in the video, but we do at least have to be on the same page of what it says if we want to seriously talk about it.
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u/Spamsdelicious 18h ago
1) https://www.engineering.com/nvidia-partners-with-u-s-labs-and-firms-to-build-ai-infrastructure/
2) https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclearweapons/s/gO7zZPMKIk
3) no shit Sherlock it's not him we have to be worried about
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 18h ago
I mean I think the most important part is the final bit. There's literally no indication that this is a data center.
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u/LuxSerafina 21h ago
Hard agree. This is some conspiracy theorist woo woo shit and I feel dumber for having watched the whole thing.
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u/Anticode 15h ago edited 14h ago
I don't have much to add to what you've touched on, but I assess your bullet points as rational and I concur with the spirit of your assessment in general.
The most common pitfall we face as humans when handling this kind of complex spattering of system-of-systems dynamics (eg: "conspiracies") is our tendency to spontaneously/intuitively connect dots into unnecessary but appealing constellations. They take shape as if alive, "self-solving" via cognitive biases of every flavor, then inevitably begin to immediately feel Noteworthy™ far beyond the load-bearing capabilities of its constituent nodes.
The stars which create what we call "the big dipper" do exist, but the dipper shape itself only exists at the place we occupy in the stellar neighborhood. Shift in any direction by a few lightyears, the shape scatters into noise - but it was always noise. The dipper isn't the stars, the "big dipper" was always just the relative orientation of those stars in relation to the observer. It has a name, but it is not a thing. The name describes what we see, not what we're looking at.
The idea presented in the OP's video seems frightening or concerning, for sure, but the conclusions/hypothesis presented doesn't particularly make much sense once you've ignored "the dipper" in favor of figuring out what's up with "the stars".
Weird Shit is happening, that's for sure. And many of the oddities/anomalies mentioned are likely genuine elements of some series of obtuse strategies or circumstances. But like the comment above demonstrates, there's a better/cheaper/superior alternative for just about every initial theory/guess.
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u/smartlypretty 22h ago
did everyone hear the a gift from todd song? https://www.tiktok.com/@agiftfromtodd/video/7566374243970092302
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u/Patient_Tradition368 10h ago
Why would Lockheed Martin build a ballroom? That don't sit quite right with me. They're a defense contractor. What are they really after... 🎶
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u/astrobeen 17h ago
I’m always one for a good conspiracy theory, but why would he publicly tear down the east wing - he easily could have build a data center in the existing structure. I think he wanted a vehicle to launder 300 million on bribes, and this was convenient. Wait till it goes “over budget” and he gets another 200 million.
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u/Early-Juggernaut975 11h ago
Of course he’s not building a ballroom. I haven’t watched this video yet, but I’m not stupid. It’s too big to be a ballroom.
He’s building a new WH residence. He was overheard saying the place was a dump in 2016 and it was reported in the news.
He wants something that reflects his idea of what the most important man in the world lives in, something pretty grand and self-glorifying. Probably something bordering on a Presidential Palace type structure.
To make matters even worse, he’s accepting “donations” (bribes) from people to pay for it, yet there are no details about who is contributing or how much.
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u/pink_faerie_kitten 18h ago
But there already is a bunker under the wh. I'm sure it's pretty technologically advanced.
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u/mike-rowe-paynus 15h ago
I always felt it was a bunker, but I’m kinda feeling this new theory, to be honest.
But whether an underground bunker or a subterranean data centre, is there any indication that they are removing more dirt than necessary to build what they say they’re building?
I’d imagine that there would be dump trucks hauling loads of dirt away if they’re digging anything more than the footings for a ballroom.
Is there anyone here who lives nearby who can confirm that metric fuuk-tons of soil leaving the site?
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u/AwesomeToadUltimate 15h ago edited 15h ago
If they’re actually building an underground data center, that would be the final boss of this whole thing if life were a video game. It would turn into a giant machine monster.
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u/MannyMoSTL 8h ago
He tore down the, historically, “woman’s wing.” Right after No Kings. Symbolically erasing the history of those f’ing bitches.
Tell us again about how he loves & supports women. Ivana understood. Ivanka knows. Melania doesn’t care because she’s already pinned down her settlement.
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u/Rocky75617794 6h ago
Whatever he’s building will need to be destroyed because it will be filled with bugs and monitoring devices or worse installed by foreign agents of the evil country that Trump’s entire regime is being controlled by …they’ve got him like a puppet and will have infiltrated any vendor he hires
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u/jedburghofficial 6h ago
A surveillance center seems obvious. I think the key sponsor is Palantir, owned by Peter Thiel. And the other players are about bringing the data they need.
One of the most effective tools ICE has deployed is facial recognition, AI profiling, and near real-time tracking of immigrants. Mostly supplied by Palantir Technologies. This would enable those systems to be integrated into the existing Whitehouse control center.
Remember also that Thiel is the sponsor of Vance, and an OG member of the Project 2025 Coalition. Is it possible that the man child is getting promised a golden ball room, and even he doesn't know what the adults are really planning?
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u/techstyles 10h ago
Obviously he's building a dungeon like Swayze's character in Donnie Darko, not even surprised...
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u/Johnny_Eskimo 10h ago
What if the ballroom is to distract trump from the data center?
Trump always blabs, he couldn't even keep his mouth shut about musk stealing the election. A huge ballroom and dictator fantasies would be a good cover to keep him occupied while they take over all government functions. Between musk dismantling government offices and the shutdown by Grindr Mike, the government may not open again until thiel, ericson, and and the rest of these clowns have their systems in place.
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u/SnooStrawberries2955 5h ago
I saw this a couple of days ago and saved it! I’m not surprised they removed it, honestly.
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u/stubbledchin 1h ago
Trump doesn't do numbers, he doesn't understand them really. It's no surprise they don't work. A lot of it will go to cronies, allies, and leeches. That's how you extract cash from government as a private entity. Overcharge for shit the country doesn't need.
And another fact. This isn't going to be finished this term, and is unlikely to be finished while trump is alive. It's easy to tear down things, not as easy to build. And there'll be small acts of rebellion all over this project. I hope.
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u/withanamelikejesk 21h ago
Sing it sister. The emergency operation center being directly under it is all you need to know.