Henry Rollins: Make America Filthy, Hungry, Broke and Stupid Again.
At the beginning of comrade Trump’s doomed administration, something he said at his puke-inducing hideout, Mar-a-Lago, right around the time he was pallin’ around with convicted killer Don King, told me everything about how this zero-talent grifter was going to govern. He called his repulsive property the “winter White House,” no doubt to put that into the country’s vocabulary, to be parroted by assholes like Sean Hannity going forward.
Right then I knew he was going to try to spend as much time there as he could and that he had absolutely no interest in doing the job of the president. I figured he would go there for Thanksgiving and stay until the beginning of the following year. His dipshit fans would defend the cash hemorrhage to secure the area by making patently false comparisons to the cost of President Obama’s vacation budget. How many more seven-figure vacations is this fraud going to take? Too bad that the comrade’s multimillion-dollar weekends in Florida, of which there have been five at the time of this writing, can’t be billed directly to his supporters.
Days ago, Trump rolled out a new name for his leisure cemetery as he announced a gathering he was having, concerning the Department of Veterans Affairs. “[W]e’re having a meeting tonight at what we call affectionately the Southern White House. Seems to be the most convenient location. Everybody always wants to go to the Southern White House.”
Is the South rising again? Let me get this straight, improving the VA requires all involved to fly almost 1,000 miles for a weekend meeting? This is making America great again?
Fuck this guy.
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trumper's 'summer white house' or winter white house' or whatever he calls it
And it's occupant
with his wife..
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Here is a 'winter palace --
And it's former occupant-
with his wife
Can you guess which?
And the summer palace as well..-in Tsarskoye Selo -
And this one-
We know what happened to certain occupants of both places. :>
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LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I visited the USSR before it fell - with my grandmother and her peace group. What struck me about both the Hermitage and Petrodvorets were the sheer size of the buildings! I can't remember the numbers offhand, but we learned how many hundreds of rooms - and staircases - each of them had. Who really needs that much space?? Even for an extended family - and servants. And the amount of gold, precious gems and art from the days of the czars was completely overwhelming. That really drove home the point about what sparked a revolution. And I think it's an appropriate comparison.
(now the Belmond Grand), across the street from the Leningrad Philharmonic.
I have returned a number times. Just love that city. I get goose bumps whenever I am on the way back.
I agree about the Winter Palace/Hermitage. Although I AM glad, I must say, that so much art has been preserved.
Also went to the 'summer palace,' St Catherine's Palace, in Tsarskoye Selo. There is a copy of the Versailles Palace Hall of Mirrors there.. 
It is all so...stunning and appalling at the same time.
Here is an interesting piece on the social/moral responsibility 'wealth.'
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/03/its-basically-just-immoral-to-be-rich
I went with my grandmother as part of a peace group. She retired to Black Mountain, NC, and they had a "sister city," Krasnaya Polyana, 2 1/2 hours straight up in the Caucasus Mountains - and this was the initial visit. They needed 17 to make the trip and people kept signing up, then dropping out, so my grandmother suggested me. When she first suggested it, I thought she was out of her mind. I was brought up to believe the Russians didn't like us. But my Dad was a great world traveler, had been there a couple of years before, and he encouraged me to go. And it really did turn out to be the trip of a lifetime. 
I was the youngest by quite a lot. The group was all senior citizens except for one lady - and me. But they were great companions, experienced travelers and very knowledgeable, and I just loved them all. There were retired college presidents, ordained ministers, and one gentleman who was pushing 90 - who became my BFF on the trip - was both. And I realize now that they were all liberals, as well.
The visit to Krasnaya Polyana was the high point of the trip, but we visited a lot of other places - Moscow, Sochi, Tbilisi - and Leningrad was our last stop. And I have to agree with you about Leningrad. That was absolutely my favorite place. It's such a beautiful city, loved that so much was right on the water. To get to Petrodvorets we took a pontoon boat which was a whole lot of fun!
We stayed at a new hotel on the outskirts of the city. I can't type it in Russian, but translated it means "The Pearl." I've looked it up and I know it's changed hands by now, and we had our final dinner at The Leningrad Hotel, much older, though I'm sure it's changed names by now. They seem to do that a lot.
That was also cool, since there was also a ballroom dancing competition and a wedding reception taking place in the same room! 
And we were fortunate to meet a lot of people, the mayor's peace group of Sochi, for example. We stayed in Sochi when we visited Krasnaya Polyana for the day since, at the time, there was no place to stay in our sister town. I'm sure it's completely changed now after the Olympics and I don't think that's necessarily for the better. 
The most important thing I came away with was how much the Russian people want peace. Everywhere we went there were WWII monuments and even in the smallest schools there were plaques dedicated to students who were lost and small museums where the children were encouraged to study. They suffered horribly during WWII and never wanted it to happen again. I remember one older lady in particular who had been nurse during the war. And she said "Please, when you go back, tell your President Reagan that we want peace." 
And I certainly agree with the article. My friend used to teach third grade and would have me come in to talk to the kids when they studied Russia. The point I emphasized to them was that the Russians I met are just like us. They want a decent place to live and a better life for their kids. And they also love dogs! But most of all, they want to live in peace. I haven't had the opportunity to go back, and now I'm not sure if I ever can since so much has changed.
I must say, the Romanovs had better taste.
Worst Congress ever, worst Senate ever, and probably the worst SCOTUS ever. Worst government of all time. 
