Plan B Forum

He wanted it big.   He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble.   He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power.

Sound like anybody we know?   Well, you'd be right, in a way ... but as the saying goes, "there's nothing new under the sun".  To continue ...

“They should sense the strength and grandeur of the German Reich as they walk from the entrance to the reception hall,” Adolf Hitler told his chief architect, Albert Speer, outlining his plans for an extension to the old Reich chancellery, at Wilhelmstrasse 77 in Berlin.

The new annex, connected to the chancellery by a marble corridor hung with crystal chandeliers, was part of Hitler’s ambitious plans to align the Berlin cityscape with his vision for the future of the country.   Hitler wanted a Triumphbogen, a triumphal arch, twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.   He wanted an “Avenue of Splendor” for military parades.   “The Champs-Élysées is a hundred meters wide,” Hitler told Speer.   “We will make our avenue twenty meters wider.”

The rest of the article — although since it's from The Atlantic, it might be paywalled.

Just a reminder, MAGA — you-all profess to be 'True Americans' whose only desire was to... well, I'm not really sure just WHAT you actually wanted to do other than to 'own the libs', so you voted for the first flim-flam man who told you what you wanted to hear.   But to paraphrase the saying, if he walks like a fascist dictator, talks like a fascist dictator, thinks like a fascist dictator, and acts like a fascist dictator, well, then...

-"BB"-

Yes. Birds of a feather.

And there's also Trump's latest outburst which we can put down to Vatican-envy

The sound of one brain cell clapping

Ozymandias. There were two versions of this poem due to a friendly bet between Horace Smith and Percy Shelley. The Shelley version is probably the better known - sometimes I prefer the Horace one. Both describe Trump.