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(Almost) Everything Wrong with the Ruling Class in One Picture
- Masks for the workers, but not for the Party elite. (Of course.)
- The man who once said, “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money” overseeing the construction of his fourth palatial home. (Chicago, Washington DC, Martha’s Vineyard, and this one in Hawaii).
- This is the second beachfront mansion for a man who wanted energy prices to “necessarily skyrocket” because Climate Change was going to make the oceans rise.
- Local residents and “environmental experts” are concerned that construction of the beachfront palace will accelerate beach erosion, but those kinds of environmental concerns don’t apply to the Party elite.
- The property was paid for by a party apparatchik and Chicago oligarch with deep (ahem) ties to the Illinois political machine.
- Building the Party elite’s new dacha required the destruction of the previous structure, which was the mansion from the original Magnum PI series. The Party elite have a strong inclination to destroy historical artifacts.
I’m as much against Obama et al as anyone, I think, but maybe construction workers at a construction site wear masks because of dust?
Those are surgical and cloth masks. Construction workers wear real ones when they need them.
Not lame masks like those. Which is why you’ve always been able to get commercial N95 masks at hardware stores.
But if they’re just at the entrance, or something, not actually cutting drywall…
Anyway, doesn’t Barry look rather pissed at being found out/exposed/whatever?
I would like to be there when O-Bummer meets his Maker.
We spend a lot of time on O’ahu and as children of a certain era, have a great fondness for Magnum PI. We’ve noticed that the sign for the Magnum property slipped off the radar several years ago – to my chagrin. The idea – nay, fact – that Barry has appropriated it and is now treating the locals with disdain is, well . . . I just have no words, other than ‘so dismaying’ and ‘so in keeping with his ________ [fill in the blank]’
It would have been far more “hip” for him to live in the Magnum, P.I. house.
Yes! Exactly!
Like with his “library”, he loves rolling over the peons.
I spent 30+ years in the construction industry, and the only time I saw workers wearing masks was when they were working the insulation, painting or grinding something.
Edit: Added insulation.
Not in this photo. Masks are a big thing in Hawaii.
Too much White Guy vibe.
Car, sunglasses… the whole thing.
Yeah, Rick, T.C., Higgins, Zeus and Apollo … if my mother were alive, she could recite ever more.
Yeah, I’ve always believed that B.O. and the Missus wake up laughing each morning and say to each other , “Can you believe those dumb crackers who voted for us?”
He probably ate Zeus and Apollo.
For Democrats/commies, every issue is a tool for gaining power. Climate change, racism, covid,…
Barack after Michelle told him: I’m tired of these delays, you go talk to the foreman. This was supposed to be completed six weeks ago. You were President of the United States and you can’t get a simple construction project done on time?
Poor guy. He’s become what he hated. Where’s Shakespeare?
He also became what I hate. (Decades ago, but…)
I see that Barak thinks it’s a big thing as well.
You can also tekk from this photo that he thought he was safe from cameras. There’s a whole other thread about hatred, but this takes the cake.
How much you want to bet when he gets turned away at the Pearly Gates, Obama calls Saint Peter a racist?
Someone once said, “Politics is a club and you’re not a member.” It’s not quite right. Politics is like professional wrestling. You have actors pretending to hate each other while engaging in carefully choreographed battles with predetermined outcomes. And when it’s all said and done, both sides walk away with the spectators’ money.
Yeah, clap!
His maker is in a different castle.
I get confused by something. How does an ex-president (on an ex-president’s salary) make millions and millions to build or buy four MacMansions? Are book sales doing that well? He doesn’t do anything to earn a salary that would pull in that kind of cash. It’s the same with the BLM founders who keep buying MacMansions. You have ex-presidents who serve, then go home to maybe a ranch. They build a nice library to record their historical time in office and that’s it.
I don’t begrudge the wealthy who have the means and if that’s what they want. But O never signed a paycheck or created jobs in the private sector (like Trump) or had a career or held office beforehand (like Reagan who did both). So I don’t get how all this lavish living is being paid for. Maybe it will have solar panels……….
LOL, no. Ten-figure book advances are simply a form of legalized bribery. Penguin-Random House gave the Obama’s $65M for their memoirs. PRH is owned by a German multinational corporation. Bertelsmann Group; which has enormous investments in media and big tech. The payoff to the Obama’s is really protection money that ensures they have influence over lawmakers (in both parties) to protect their corporate interests.
It’s why Hunter sells paintings. He’s been chased out of the other legal dodges.
What a turd this man is. With that kinda corrupt money, with a beachfront mansion going up in a state to which I can’t afford to retire (after a career saving lives), with all those “white folk” slaving to build said house, you would think he could manage a smile and a friendly wave to the paparazzi.
This is a guy who played life on easy mode, was handed the presidency and gifted with vast wealth without work, and is still full of grievance and resentment.