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Lmao it's literally a wish.com arc de triomphe.
Looks like the Zeppelintribüne thing the soldiers blew up in WW2 Germany.
And that road is a major commuter route into the city—traffic will be chaos while they’re building this. (Unless he throws up some cheap ass plaster thing).
What "triumph" is this arc going to celebrate? Overcoming democracy and rule of law in the USA?
Trump's electoral victories (probably). Because he's an asshole.
We can't fucking build this thing. Holy hell tell me somebody in Washington can at least block this vanity project for 3 years.
What a monumental waste of money. Can we rename it as a monument to children that suffered sexual abuse or do we have to tear it all the way down?
Arc de Dump
Hey, if you work construction and are on the crew for this, I'll personally give you 10 bags of sugar to add to the concrete. If that's not what's needed, lemme know what bolt sizes you'll need and I'll order them express from Temu.
Sugar is too obvious for such sabotage as the concrete will just not harden. What you need to do is add more water into the mix to make it weaker, and then slop off the surface water to force it to cure too quickly. Salt in the mix is an accelerant and will induce cracking/spalling.
If I had control over the total mix I would try to substitute a contaminated aggregate (e.g., pyrites).
I wonder if you could doubleshot concrete- cast a giant dildo inside with good concrete so that the arch crumbles away into it.
I mean you’d need to have both good and bad concrete on site and you’d need a mold of the dick so you could inject the good concrete into it but then pull it away after the bad stuff was in place around it and without forming and curing the dick first and then lowering it into place within the outer mold I don’t know how you’d do this
Well probably the stealthy way to do it is to prefab the interior shape, coat it with whatever finish and such then a ton of mold release.
Place it into the form overnight and then pour the bad stuff around it.
But this assumes the arch is a solid casting. I suppose you could build out the dildo in slices, and then stack the slices for each fresh layer.
I just think this would be a hilarious escalation of the art war
Edit: Hey, contractors. You know that trump doesn't pay his contractors, right? Just saying...
This is the info we need.
The phrase “One Nation Under God” would stretch across the top
They gonna etch in someone shitting on the US flag as well?
But in Trump's mind, he IS God, so he pictures "one nation under him"
The man who has destroyed more of American liberty wants to build a 60' statue to Lady Liberty. Somehow it feels fitting that his monuments would be full of as much shit as his pants at a press conference.
A monument to stupidity.
Perfectly captures the spirit of our time
So on one end of the bridge, you'd have the Lincoln Memorial. And at the other, you'd have gilded Temu Arc de Triomphe knockoff.
It wouldn't be possible to visit Arlington National Cemetery without thinking of our Dear Leader.
Maybe we deserve it.
How come there's no rendering of the image of Dear Leader himself on it? What sort of half arsed narcissist despotic tyrant have you got over there?
Adding it to the "maybe" column of my objects-to-piss-on-before-I-die list until I know whether it's really going to be built.
Right on the flight path to National. I suspect the FAA will have enough things to say about this that it will get held up until he’s dead or out of office, whichever comes first.
I’d hope you’re right, but would the FAA be concerned with something hint 310’ tall? Seems low for aircraft, but I don’t know where the FAA’s domain starts and stops.
It doesn't really matter, if any part of it gets built, we're going to tear it right the fuck down.
I'll believe that when I see it...
Personally I think it’s too close to the river; if it were another couple hundred feet inland it would probably be better. But I am not a pilot and don’t play one on tv. At the very least they'd have to put an aircraft warning light on top.
Oh that doesn't look like Hitlers Arch of Triumph at all.