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Kennedy Center to close this July
Trump just posted that he will be closing the Kennedy Center along with a lot of BS about construction. It will be closed for an "approximate" two-year period of time.
As Ron Filipkowski put it I guess we're supposed to believe that this has nothing to do with virtually all the artists canceling on him. And as Ron reminds us, everything trump touches dies.
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It probably involves a lot of gold paint. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle
The Volkshalle (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌhalə], "People's Hall" ), also called Große Halle ([ˌɡʁoːsə ˈhalə], "Great Hall" ) or Ruhmeshalle ([ˈʁuːməsˌhalə], "Hall of Glory" ), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany. The project was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by his architect Albert Speer. No part of the building was ever constructed.
The word Volk had a particular resonance in Nazi thinking. The term völkisch movement, which can be translated to English as "the people's movement" or "the folkish movement", derives from Volk but also implies a particularly racial undertone. Before the First World War, völkisch thought had developed an attitude to the arts as the German Volk; that is, from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community (Volksgemeinschaft), racially unpolluted and with its roots in the German soil of the Heimat (homeland).
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The Volkshalle (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌhalə], "People's Hall" ), also called Große Halle ([ˌɡʁoːsə ˈhalə], "Great Hall" ) or Ruhmeshalle ([ˈʁuːməsˌhalə], "Hall of Glory" ), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany. The project was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by his architect Albert Speer. No part of the building was ever constructed.
The word Volk had a particular resonance in Nazi thinking. The term völkisch movement, which can be translated to English as "the people's movement" or "the folkish movement", derives from Volk but also implies a particularly racial undertone. Before the First World War, völkisch thought had developed an attitude to the arts as the German Volk; that is, from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community (Volksgemeinschaft), racially unpolluted and with its roots in the German soil of the Heimat (homeland).
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I figured there was a story behind that photo. Thanks for filling me in. 
There is a reason we don't make chairs out of marble.
I'd rather see the Kennedy Center demolished, than to have it ruined by Chump.
We can always rebuild it later after he's gone. He's such a complete asshole.
