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The Death Star is set to open in June in Chicago
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:23 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:23 am
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Former President Barack Obama’s presidential library is hocking pricey merch shaped like the unsightly Chicago tower — as the project’s architects revealed the former commander-in-chief himself was behind the “Death Star” design that’s been widely mocked since construction began.
Ungainly lapel pins that “capture the silhouette” of the Obama Presidential Center are going for $30 in the online store.
“The pin represents the intersection of bold design and global leadership,” the website reads, noting the proceeds go to the Obama Foundation “to inspire, empower and connect people to change their world.”
quote:
Each pin is “handcrafted from unfired paper clay,” and is 1.6 inches tall by 1 inch wide — about as oversized as the center itself, which lords 225 feet over Chicago’s Jackson Park in a monolith of concrete and granite.
The $850 million center is slated to open in June after 10 years of development — and criticism of its domineering design — but its online store recently went live in the build-up to the grand opening.
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Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:30 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Borg cube.
You will be assimilated
You will be assimilated
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:30 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
“How can we make Clinton’s mobile home on stilts look like world class architecture?”
I can just picture Obama showing Bill and Hillary the plans and both of them snickering and saying “yeah, go with that.”
I can just picture Obama showing Bill and Hillary the plans and both of them snickering and saying “yeah, go with that.”
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:34 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
A library built for people that don't/can't read. Ain't that America.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:38 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
What actually is accomplished with a presidential library?
I get the commemorative aspect of it. And the building needs to be a representation of the man himself.
But is there any other function of a library of any president?
Can they protect secret documents?
Inform this uninformed poster.
I get the commemorative aspect of it. And the building needs to be a representation of the man himself.
But is there any other function of a library of any president?
Can they protect secret documents?
Inform this uninformed poster.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:41 am to dstone12
Money laundering?
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:42 am to AtticusOSullivan
okay, how
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:47 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Looks like shite.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:52 am to SouthEasternKaiju
quote:
The Death Star
So, how long before we see graffiti on it??
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:52 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:
YOU ARE AMERICA UNCONSTRAINED
BY HABIT AND CONVENTION,
UNENCUMBERED BY WHAT IS, READY
TO SEIZE WHAT OUGHT TO
BE. FOR EVERYWHERE IN THIS
COUNTRY THERE ARE FIRST STEPS
TO BE TAKEN. THERE IS NEW GROUND
TO COVER. THERE ARE MORE
BRIDGES TO BE CROSSED. AMERICA
IS NOT THE PROJECT OF ANY ONE
PERSON. THE SINGULAR MOST POWER-
FUL WORD IN OUR DEMOCRACY
IS THE WORD WE: WE THE PEOPLE,
WE SHALL OVERCOME, YES WE CAN.
THAT WORD IS OWNED BY NO ONE.
IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE. OH
WHAT A GLORIOUS TASK WE ARE
GIVEN TO CONTINUALLY TRY TO
IMPROVE THIS GREAT NATION OF OURS
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:54 am to the808bass
Yeah. That's some pretty horrible architecture. I've seen parking garages that are more aesthetic
Posted on 5/6/26 at 6:58 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Sort of reminiscent of the spiral minaret. Things that make you go “Hmmmmm…”
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:20 am to NC_Tigah
WE is also a word the weak use to attach themselves to the strong
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 7:22 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:22 am to NC_Tigah
quote:
OH
WHAT A GLORIOUS TASK WE ARE
GIVEN TO CONTINUALLY TRY TO
IMPROVE THIS GREAT NATION OF OURS
My first step in improvement is to remove the communists.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:23 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
"Designed by Obama Leader"
Hahahaha
Hahahaha
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:24 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
If you asked me to intentionally design an ugly building, I'd have never come up with something that bad.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 7:34 am to NC_Tigah
quote:
YOU ARE AMERICA UNCONSTRAINED
BY HABIT AND CONVENTION,
UNENCUMBERED BY WHAT IS, READY
TO SEIZE WHAT OUGHT TO
BE.
Kamala wrote this.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 8:05 am to dstone12
quote:
What actually is accomplished with a presidential library?
I get the commemorative aspect of it. And the building needs to be a representation of the man himself.
But is there any other function of a library of any president?
Can they protect secret documents?
Inform this uninformed poster.
I think Obama's may be different, but all of the previous presidential libraries are overseen by the National Archives (officially the National Archives and Records Administration). Each one typically has a museum that gives information about that particular president and has items associated with his time in office. The Carter library has/had a display of the formal china that was used when the Carters hosted state dinners. The Reagan library has one of the older Boeing 707s that served as Air Force One during his administration.
In addition, the libraries hold a large portion of the records created by the administration during the time that president was in office (this is where the National Archives oversight comes in to play). Classified documents are most likely held somewhere else, but executive orders, state dinner menus, unclassified documents from presidential briefings, copies of speeches, etc. are all held at the library. This allows researchers or authors to go to a single location and have access to everything that is publicly available about that president's time in office. It also makes searches easier than if everything was kept in the main NARA facility in DC.
I think I read somewhere that the Obama library will be different in that there won't be hard copy of anything on site, but that things will be available in digital format. By the time that Obama took office so much was done electronically (email, Word documents, Excel files, etc.) it was easier to digitize the things that weren't already in electronic format than to print out the things that are.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 8:16 am to PJinAtl
i wonder if this new building will have loud speakers at the top blaring out the call to prayers?
Posted on 5/6/26 at 8:18 am to NC_Tigah
quote:
YOU ARE AMERICA UNCONSTRAINED BY HABIT AND CONVENTION, UNENCUMBERED BY WHAT IS, READY TO SEIZE WHAT OUGHT TO BE. FOR EVERYWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY THERE ARE FIRST STEPS TO BE TAKEN. THERE IS NEW GROUND TO COVER. THERE ARE MORE BRIDGES TO BE CROSSED. AMERICA IS NOT THE PROJECT OF ANY ONE PERSON. THE SINGULAR MOST POWER- FUL WORD IN OUR DEMOCRACY IS THE WORD WE: WE THE PEOPLE, WE SHALL OVERCOME, YES WE CAN. THAT WORD IS OWNED BY NO ONE. IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE. OH WHAT A GLORIOUS TASK WE ARE GIVEN TO CONTINUALLY TRY TO IMPROVE THIS GREAT NATION OF OURS
No mention of stopping the oceans from rising?
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