Joseph Finneran
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Joseph Finneran
@dcprogress.bsky.social
Event & broadcast producer DC / NY based, Podium Arts & ClipSocial founder. Lifelong Cardinals fan. Proud, confounded American. Ireland lover. 💙🏳️‍🌈
The text is powerful, poetic and really strikes an important figurative note. But that’s not real life.

IRL it will be seen by most Americans as a hollow, self-indulgent waste of taxpayer resources. And a day later not a single problem anyone in the country is facing will have improved one bit.
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Make it a ceremonial space for immigrants to be sworn in as U.S. citizens. Call it the WH Democracy Center. Hold programs on civics, summits w/pro-democracy groups from around the world, keynote speeches by real Nobel prize winners…promote what he’s against. Greater value and a more meaningful FU.
December 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Grand gestures have purpose. Not suggesting we act like he wasn’t a hateful megalomaniac. But if you strip off all of the stain of him and a solid structure still stands, convert it into a useful space that stands for something he hates. Or else you’re just staging a very expensive cathartic moment.
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
No famous deceased lesbians you could use for this?
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It’s about feeding their nativist base stuff they can share, while reinforcing that they’re of them / for them. It also drives outrage among decent human beings, which again is celebrated as a virtuous end goal.

This mindless, hateful crap is win, win, win.
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Unless it’s structurally unsound it probably makes more sense to spend just enough to change the look, get rid of the excessive gaudiness and make a point of publicizing that the White House definitely needed more space, it just needs to be more classy & tasteful. (Because the place IS quite small.)
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Commander of the bar stool
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
WTF is he even talking about?!
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Cutting the travel budget by 25% is meaningless. This will have zero effect and is apparently more proof of what they’re incapable of doing than the reverse.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Baring one cracked molar. Knowingly meaningless.
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
That’s what one calls this? I guess meaningless gestures are their bread & butter.
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Sorry, it’s barely worth reporting.
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nah, this is meaningless.
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Sorry, this is meaningless.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Nope
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Weak tea. It won’t affect Hegseth personally and they don’t care who else doesn’t show up at a meeting about some thing they don’t take seriously anyway. This is the scoliosis version of “growing a spine.”
December 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
But with 97+% of the votes counted, his party may be about eke out the presidential election and they’ll quash all this.
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“…more than TWO years…”?! How often are there mass migrant death events in these waters?
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Sorry, your dog’s chilled white wine enema…

It’s a very specific sign.
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Please administer your dog’s daily wine enema here.
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM