If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg
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If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg
@mattblaze those workers are going as slow as they can. Lots of moving around, or standing around with little getting done. And just how high above the letters do they need to build this thing? Total bullshit. My bet is this is all delay until SCOTUS weighs in and says the name stays.
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If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg
@mattblaze This scaffolding performance art is malicious compliance at its finest. The letters probably were installed with a simple manlift. Now, they need to scaffold the world twice over.
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@20002ist @mattblaze when I was a wrestler, the coach-code for "slow it down without getting called for stalling" was "use your head!"
These cats are using their heads.
@me @mattblaze I’m sure they’re doing this on their own initiative and not at the direction of KenCen management nope nope nothing to see here.
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@mattblaze assuming those are 6-foot scaffolding sections the floor right in front of the row of text they're supposed to remove is at 36 feet. That's well within reach for a scissor lift. Even if those letters are heavy, they could bring a cherry-picker in to stabilize and remove the letters as they're removed. They used a similar setup to install the unwanted text.
I can't help but believe the scaffold approach is a way of stalling.
@me @mattblaze I’ve seen some bullshit on construction projects, but this is one for the books.
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I have to say, even with a safety harness and a reasonable knowledge of physics, I would feel very nervous working up high on temporarily rigged scaffolding like this.
But I would gladly volunteer for this job.
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@mattblaze although to be fair part of me has been wondering if these cats have never heard of a scissor lift before...
@me @mattblaze Scissor lifts are, by design, very heavy. Perhaps it was decided to use something lighter to avoid damaging the floor material.
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@me @mattblaze Scissor lifts are, by design, very heavy. Perhaps it was decided to use something lighter to avoid damaging the floor material.
@pdiff1 @mattblaze IIRC they used a boom lift and cherry picker for the install.
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I have to say, even with a safety harness and a reasonable knowledge of physics, I would feel very nervous working up high on temporarily rigged scaffolding like this.
But I would gladly volunteer for this job.
Disapproval from the crowd as they appear to begin to install a tarp over scaffolding.
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If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg
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@pdiff1 @mattblaze IIRC they used a boom lift and cherry picker for the install.
@me @mattblaze Yes, I saw that. It was a unthought through rush job, like all things Trump. I’m just suggesting that they may now realize a different approach is more appropriate. They may also need scaffolding for more extensive repairs where the dipshit fucked up the marble walls. Just speculating. You may be right.
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I have to say, even with a safety harness and a reasonable knowledge of physics, I would feel very nervous working up high on temporarily rigged scaffolding like this.
But I would gladly volunteer for this job.
@mattblaze I was thinking with a plasma torch and one of those ramp things they use when they are de-roofing a house that catches the shingles they drop and directs them to a dump truck, would be an interesting choice here. Or put a chain around each letter and then auction off the right to hook your truck up to it and drive away. But that might damage the wall so probably not a good idea.
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Disapproval from the crowd as they appear to begin to install a tarp over scaffolding.
Personally, if they want to drag their feet by giving a bunch of extra overtime to some construction workers as as they perform the court-mandated name removal, I'm not terribly bothered. And If they went for the deluxe scaffolding package with a tarp, who am I to begrudge them. Just get the damn name off the building.
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@mattblaze This scaffolding performance art is malicious compliance at its finest. The letters probably were installed with a simple manlift. Now, they need to scaffold the world twice over.
Looks like it to me, but are there any actual specialists on this thread who could weigh in?
E.g. was the original installation a flagrant beach of work safety rules, and these folk are doing the right thing, or are they just taking the piss?
My money is on stalling
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@me @mattblaze Yes, I saw that. It was a unthought through rush job, like all things Trump. I’m just suggesting that they may now realize a different approach is more appropriate. They may also need scaffolding for more extensive repairs where the dipshit fucked up the marble walls. Just speculating. You may be right.
️@pdiff1 @mattblaze the degree to which they are ever-so-methodically draping the site suggests a lot of things that have little to nothing to do with proper site preparation and everything to do with comms people running the show.
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Disapproval from the crowd as they appear to begin to install a tarp over scaffolding.
@mattblaze I would feel very nervous because of the people, not just the physics
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If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg
@mattblaze
It might be purely symbolic for now, but symbolic events have a way of generating momentum.Either way, I'm here for Tarp Watch 2026
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Personally, if they want to drag their feet by giving a bunch of extra overtime to some construction workers as as they perform the court-mandated name removal, I'm not terribly bothered. And If they went for the deluxe scaffolding package with a tarp, who am I to begrudge them. Just get the damn name off the building.
There are bathrooms inside that building crying out for "Trump" signage.
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I have to say, even with a safety harness and a reasonable knowledge of physics, I would feel very nervous working up high on temporarily rigged scaffolding like this.
But I would gladly volunteer for this job.
@mattblaze wait...are you saying the scaffolding was rigged?
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If you missed being in Berlin for the Wall coming down, at least you can tell your grandchildren you were online for the livestream of Trump's name coming off the Kennedy Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg
@mattblaze A fitting replacement for the decade of slop
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Personally, if they want to drag their feet by giving a bunch of extra overtime to some construction workers as as they perform the court-mandated name removal, I'm not terribly bothered. And If they went for the deluxe scaffolding package with a tarp, who am I to begrudge them. Just get the damn name off the building.
@mattblaze I'm not constantly wired into what y'all are doing on the other side of the atlantic but what the fuck, Trump just added his name to this building and is now being told no?
