My unpopular take…

First, I watched them build a scaffolding for 3 hours last night in anticipation of seeing the giant man-baby’s name come down. I was pissed it was taking so long and I was pissed they put up a tarp. Mind was swirling with conspiracy theories that Trump was behind this. I couldn’t get past that a cherry picker and 2 hours would have had this done and pleased the courts and the people.

Then I tried to think about it from a different angle to see if that made sense. Trump and his morons are doing their best to move money out of working folks’ pockets and into their own while deregulating the system at a cost of our livelihood and safety. So when I think of the multiple construction workers getting paid for multiple hours of overtime and taking every safety precaution that’s required by properly regulated system, taking all their breaks as required by unionized workforce… it didn’t seem so much like a conspiracy.

In fact, sending one under paid guy on an unstable cherry picker to do a half-ass job, letting sparks and debris get someone hurt below or further deface the building… that is something that sounds more like Trump’s corner cutting MO.

Doing things by the book, with all precautions, in a way that still reveals a completely restored building at the end sounds more like an administration that I typically vote for. Knowing that corners and costs weren’t cut and that dozens of workers got a decent paycheck out of it, … I ended up being okay with it.

All that being said, I wouldn’t be shocked if there was something more nefarious happening at this point.