Ballroom and Arc de Trompe

Building a 90K ft^2 warehouse with tacky Victorian window frames plastered on to replace the demolished East Wing of the People's House, and next the Arc de Trompe (he actually referred to it as "the Arc") would be grist for a South Park parody. But it's real. We are living in Idiocracy, but with a Goebbelsian overlay. 

(Note that they apparently intend to tear down the West Wing and replace it with a giant monstrosity as well).

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Silence is complicity. Americans who believe in democracy MUST RESIST. 

"If the freedom of speech is taken away-- then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."

                       --George Washington, 1783