Ballroom has NOTHING to do with security

That anyone, MAGA or not, believes 1) the Trump hogwash that the so called Ballroom has anything to do with security; 2) the Trump hogwash that somehow whatever security needs to be restored to the East Wing area after, in usual Trump fashion, he destoryed the former status quo, which was fine; are somehow inseparable from the above ground project; 3) that Trump will not venture out into other "insecure" venues once the East Wing bunker is in place anyway; and/or 4) that there is any rationale for why this issue couldn't be simply brought up in Congress and voted up or down.... just boggles the mind. 

Fortunately, I think common sense will prevail here. Dems and sensible Republicans can say, "Congress will, of course, vote to ensure the security the president. A 90,000 square foot ballroom is an entirely separate matter, and if they want that built, let them put it before Congress as a proposal and we, the peoples' representatives, will decide what to do. That's the way the Constitutional system is supposed to work."

 

  

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"The answer" to life, the universe & everything isn't 42 (Sorry, Douglas Adams), but the fine structure constant, α (alpha), equal to the proportional strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles:

α = ⁠e²4πε₀ħc ⁠≅ 1/137.0