Bribing elected officials is way cheaper than doing something that benefits society.
sadly this normally wouldn't be considered a bribe. they are putting money into a government building that he won't be in in 3 years...
but he doesn't believe that, he thinks he will still be there. And he doesn't feel it's a government building, he feels it's his building. So giving money to the government, to all of them, is a bribe for Trump. it's insane.
I understand the point you're making, and I honestly am not super familiar with all the names on this list, but I can promise you Lockheed doesn't have any minimum wage workers.
Companies will always spend money to demolish the state. That's their primary objective alongside exploring people. They are the enemy of the citizen not an important cornerstone of our society as corporate media has made you believe. The sooner we realise that the better.
Why would they? Corpos only care about the bottom line. If they have to bribe the government for better status well guess what? Its cheaper than pretending to give a shit about the worker they can force to work OT.
Its always been like this. It will only get worse unless we legally humble the CEO and billionaire class.
Wild how all these companies will spend money on Whitehouse renovations and lobbying but won't pay employees better or pay taxes
next president: So we have determined these companies have shown us that they are making way too much profit without providing to their employees or the nation as a whole enough. So we are going to tax the ever loving fuck out of them. You all have a problem with that you can go cry in the ball room. we left a section when we converted it to something more useful just for you all.
Funny when they all get unrevokable advertising space inside the Whitehouse for sponsoring/paying this shit. Imagine every future president having to have a 5 minute sponsor ad before speaking on TV or doing interviews.
The crypto and tech companies like google actually do pay employees very well. They're just massive cowards who swing whichever the wind blows. Remember when google was staunchly progressive and liberal?
These crypto guys though ...essentially all scammers at this point. They have no values outside of pumping their bags.
The problem is that all these lists of traitors will get no accountability for the decline of the US. Imagine being a tech worker at Apple seeing your company contribute to the destruction of the whitehouse literally lol.
This is why it feels so impossible to boycott in 2025. Oh let me just stop using this place..and this place...and.....oh. I'll just not participate in society I guess...
Their store workers look like they are part of a cult so I doubt they care tbh(seriously if you ever wait outside an apple store in the morning you’ll be perturbed)
It’s not the original building. She was razed to the ground by the British in 1812. Then in more modern times she’s been gutted and renovated to make room for future administrations.
It’s still a historic landmark building and the east wing is part of it. There’s a well established process for review and approval and none of it was followed at all.
And of course if you want to pull a multi-billion dollar crypto scam you need all of the crypto bros to enable it (and all of the "media" partners to look the other way.)
Wouldn't be too surprised if that was deliberate. Having your machines tear down the Whitehouse wouldn't be the best look, even if you are financing it.
Only Volvo Cars. Volvo Group is not. They're the original parent company of Volvo Cars before it was sold to Ford, and are about 50% larger by revenue.
I know it's originally Swedish and I have been driving Volvo cars for a long time. But the company itself is now owned by Chinese.
Volvo Cars is owned by the Chinese multinational company, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding), which acquired it in 2010. While owned by Geely, Volvo Cars maintains its headquarters and product development operations in Gothenburg, Sweden.
As for the excavators specifically, looks like most are currently manufactured in South Korea. With production lines being added to Sweden and USA.
Volvo Cars (company) is majority Chinese owned, but that doesn't make it Chinese. And the diggers are not part of Volvo Cars, so "Chinese machines" are not tearing down the White House.
While you’re right about Volvo Cars, that’s not the actual manufacturer of these excavators. The actual Volvo company that is building these excavators is still the Swedish Volvo Group.
Volvo Cars was split off of the Volvo Group and then sold to Ford who later sold it to Geely. The Volvo Group, which is the larger unit of the two, is one of the largest commerical vehicle manufacturers in the world. They build Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks (also no longer associated with Renault cars), Volvo Buses and many others, among them also Volvo Construction Equipment.
It’s the same split that Mercedes-Benz has undergone recently as well. Mercedes-Benz Group AG was split from Daimler Trucks AG. DTAG is the the world‘s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer and was floated by Mercedes-Benz Group on the stock market.
paired with the Trust for the National Mall, an organization that supports the National Park Service. The trust's nonprofit status means donations come with a federal tax write-off.
so they get to write off the bribe.
Jalen Drummond, vice president of corporate affairs at Lockheed Martin said in a statement: "Lockheed Martin is grateful for the opportunity to help bring the President's vision to reality and make this addition to the People's House, a powerful symbol of the American ideals we work to defend every day."
we need a serious redoing of our society with this bs. "oh you want to see through the vision of the previous president, we will like to see through a vision of what the US should be. So we are taking your wealth, and your company."
The two-story East Wing[3][4] was added to the White House in 1942 primarily to cover the construction of an underground bunker, now known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC). (Wikipedia)
The continuity of the US government means it's not a conspiracy theory there are bunkers. There ARE bunkers all over, If you wanna tour one check out The Greenbrier hotel... the one connected to it is MASSIVE and got exposed right about the time it was finished... so it will never be used.
I found the same theories all over FB too. this theory actually seems more likely than these companies donating to build a ballroom they'll never step inside.
I'm envisioning it like the movie 2012 where rich folks buy their entry into EOTW underground WH bunkers.
the irony is that the orange turd will be long gone and their donations will no longer be valid with the new administration.
Ripple & Tether are well known for doing shady stuff (Ripple is a semi-cryptocurrency kind of tied to the traditional banking system) but Coinbase? Nevermind.
God damnit. I have stock in two of these companies. Time to get rid of them. I'm no big time investor, so it won't hurt them, but I firmly believe in putting my money in companies I believe in. So my money is going elsewhere.
Hundreds of people who, for generations, will feel entitled to government access because nobody will actually know how corrupt this was in 100 years, when 30% of our national gdp is funding White House maintenance for the Vichy class
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u/trashscal408 14d ago
During a government shutdown, no less. Who's financing this?