Judging you as an architect.. fine but this is a political oriented thread not so much an "architecture" thread. So judging is contextual. I haven't made criticism of your architectural work. Now have I? Judging you as an architect, I'm sure you are a fine, experienced, and knowledgeable in architecture from what I can see. There is nothing to criticize on that. How does architecture play into your decisions who you vote for as President?

What is it about Donald Trump's policy that you saw as a reason to vote for him? (Question for Trump voters)

And there is your problem. This is an Architectural site.

Sure, but people have always been discussing non-architecture stuff on this site even before I was on Archinect. You know that.

You need to take that complaint issue with all the other threads about politics and such that isn't architecture discussion. 

I still think there are dead bodies in your back yard.

Like I said, dead bugs, dead lizards, but not human bodies unless there happened to be some ancient indigenous burial site deep down below the soil surface. I am not that rex guy. If I was going to leave a dead body somewhere buries, it wouldn't be where I live. That is AAA grade stupid.

Where I live was well within the ancient lands of the indigenous populations that were here before white man showed up. For more than one reason, we don't just go digging deep around here... you know... hillside... potential slide areas, etc.

While I doubt there is remains of ancient indigenous people buried hundreds of years ago given how much development in the area but I can't rule it out completely.

You really want to find out, I'll provide you the shovel. You want to dig, your problem. Want to pay for slide mitigation and geotechnical reports.... go right ahead.

If you want to pay for the archeologist if there is any ancient remains, go for it.

Nah the feds will do all of that but thanks

Do bear in mind that if you make false reports, you could face serious legal issues for that. Just keep that in mind.

you don't say! How big is your yard?

34 feet wide by 25 to 30 ft. I haven't exactly measured it from back stairs and landing decks to property lines. There is already a couple structures already occupying part of that backyard. So parts of that yard area is going to be about 10-15 feet deep considering footprint of those structures. Just guessing without looking and measuring. Me telling you the size of the yard isn't that big deal. I'm not really hiding information on that. 34 ft width east to west relates to property lines.

For starters, your claim would likely be baseless and they would see that right away. What basis would you have in assuming I would have dead bodies in my backyard?

let's go back to the beginning of this thread. You are such an asshole. I'd love to see you hang.

Yes I am an asshole. I said so. However, being an asshole in and of itself is not a crime.

You can kiss my skinny hairy white Emmy-losing ass. I fuck with people because I don't give a fuck and I'm an ASSHOLE. Repeat after me... A...S..S...H..O...L..E...

Here I am:

... just for you.

yup that's going to serve you well. You are fucking with the wrong person.

Enjoy my feathery ass:

Remember, I don't give a fuck but will give a shit (lots of it).

Remember me!

Richard, you are a nasty nasty old woman man, wow. I mean you are about to succeed in me never coming back to this post because the vulgarity is just beyond what a normal human being would say. You either have experience with this vulgarity in real life or that's what your desires are, and that's sick.

I'm not the one who single-handedly ruin the word motherfucker. Someone else more 'colorful' than I did that already. Additionally, you must have not watch Deadpool. However, I don't actually believe you are not going to come back to the post. You are a troll. I also know how to troll trolls and drive them away even if temporarily. I've already been through flame wars which would be 100x more vulgar than this.

Assholes don't care about what others think or their opinions. If they did, they wouldn't be assholes... think about it.

In other words, if I care about your precious fragile candy ass feelings, I would be lying about myself being an Asshole. I know it is annoying or bothering you when I use such vulgar, so its imperative that I don't make a liar of myself by giving a fuck. Fulfilling on my honesty at being an asshole. Now,

PAID FOR BY GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Now... Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING FOR SENSITIVE PANSIES

Just for a most certainly disturbing Grinch Christmas song:

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING FOR NUTLESS WEENIES & ULTRAHYPER-SENSITIVE PANSIES

Okay, we been fucking with each other enough today. I think we can cool that off a bit. Okay? 

Keep in mind that accusing me of having buried human bodies in my backyard is offensive, by the way. I'm not that Rex guy. I told you that. This fucking around is just that. Chill a little. 

If you want this forum to discuss architecture more and not politics, maybe also address that to the rest of the forum and not just me. I'm not the only person that discusses politics on this forum. Remember that Political Central thread? There is the occasional political comments on Thread Central that doesn't relate to architecture because the posts aren't made to connect it to architecture. There are these other people here as well.

Nope I don't cool anything off.

Whatever. If you are serious about your complaint regarding political discussions on this forum, then take that complaint to the forum overall about that issue.

Trump pledged that in 2016. What we got was a cesspool. I rather have a swamp than a cesspool. Seriously, what really are these talking abouts really about? How exactly is Donald Trump's plan actually do any good for American people? Please, enough with the slogans. What is the actual policy and plan? If I go by the so-called "2025 Project". Lets take a look at that... later this week. It's some 900+ pages so it will take some digging through piece by piece... page by page.

Apparently the plan is good enough for 75 million people.

Just looking at "Promise #1" in the foreward, it looks like Project 2025 is instituting a very specific denomination of Christians who are forcefully imposing their religion on people. That's against the FIRST AMENDMENT. The government is not to institute a "state religion" like those of the era of King George of the revolutionary war and preceding centuries where the official religion is whatever religion was that of the King. We are not a Christian country. We are a multi-religion country. This has been the case even back in 1700s. We had Wiccans and others as well as the various religions of the indigenous population. Forcing people to worship your religion and religious beliefs and forcing it as law is not how you bring people into reconciliation with God. It makes people despise God because they believe such a God is one and the same as Satan playing "Good Cop / Bad Cop". They would find God as evil and want nothing to do with that God. They would worship another God who is compassionate and caring. If you are a true Christians, you know evangelism is about sharing YOUR story of why God matters to you and how God shapes you. You show God's love by compassion with one another not force majeure treatment. Think about tone and tactic. It makes people HATE God and see the Trinity as evil as Satan that that they are the Unholy Four in one. They see that God as an evil manipulator instead of truly loving with grace and compassion. I find that tone, right there in the 2025 as going about it in the most hideous way. Want to show family values, LIVE it. What to build the family culture LIVE it. Live with compassion and love. FOLLOW JESUS... THE WAY. Follow his model of compassion and love. You are God's representatives because it is through you, his followers, that people see. Not to do good works to earn grace. Do good works in thanksgiving for God's grace and show it. "When two or three or more gather in my name, I am among them."

If you are a Christian, consider reading this as you read the passage:

BibleStudyTools.org-2ndCorinthians_5-20

And also read: John 13:34-35 which Jesus says: "I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I loved you, you are also to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." I find the tone of this 2025 Project and its 900+ page "Mandate for Leadership" very unloving. Very antithetical to your role as Christians. It is not loving to force people to believe in Christ in a manner that would make a person feel that if they don't, they will be shot and killed. It is more like trying to whiplash people into compliance. That's very Roman not Christ-like. Sorry, I call this 2025 Project very anti-Christian. Very Anti-Christ. I'm sorry. I know I am not a perfect "Christian" but I recognize and understand what Christ wants us to do...and this is counterproductive. It does more to drive people away. This is why we see less people going to Christianity. Who wants to be part of a cruel people of God because as God's ambassadors/representatives, you are how people see God from outside the Church. If you are cruel, they see God as cruel. This already with its tone, is so cruel and uncompassionate and that is the tone I get from the beginning.

For fuck sake, quit justifying your Anti-Christ voting. You are unloving and uncaring assholes.

Bring 200 MILLION jobs with a starting salary of $100,000 a year. Where is the proposal for actually bringing jobs for every working age adult that pays no less than $100,000 today and adjusted annually for COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment) starting at that level so every adult can raise a family in a home, TOGETHER. None of this $7.50 an hour bullshit. People can't even rent an apartment and pay for food on that. You want things so only one parent needs to work 40 hours a week or both parents work 20 hours a week... make sure there is sufficient pay. $50,000 a year was what you needed in 1998 to raise a family in the comfortable level that they can be that "nuclear" family like the 1950s and like that Brady Bunch show. If you want that, everyone needs to be able to have a household income of $100,000 a year. Otherwise, it sucks. The problem is you aren't helping people in need.

Most of that 75 million are dependent on government assistance. They are the ones that will be among the hardest hurt by Project 2025. They are the ones that isn't going to make it without the government assistance. They would be among the ones not getting any of the benefits. It is only going to benefit those that make $1 million in revenue or more a year. Only like around 0.1% of Americans makes over $1 Million a year. Households... might be around 0.2%. Only 23 Million households might make that money. It is not net worth but annual income that matters. Net worth can be tied into real estate but income is the metric needed to be able to afford the recurring expenses of a household. At top 5%, we need to be in the $100,000+ range. Most Americans operate on household income around $50K to $75K.

It proposes to take away the safety net that allows people in poverty to still live. It is like trying to take away their means of living to force people to starve to death. It sounds like a cruel means to reduce the population in the U.S. This is how it looks. It is as if they want to drive half the United States citizens away. Trying to force people to emigrate to other countries and flee the U.S. That is what it looks like to me.

"The promise of socialism—Communism, Marxism, progressivism, Fascism, whatever name it chooses—is simple: Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people." --- Whoever wrote this is an idiot. First, fascism has NOTHING to do with socialism, communism, marxism. Fascism was the opposite of Communism or Socialism. People, learn what the words mean and history. The words have specific meaning because of history. NAZI is fascism. NAZI regime was NOT at all in any way, shape, or form... socialism at all other than incidental in very limited form. Germany was not a socialist country and socialism wasn't even a part of Germany until the end of WW II and the Soviet took part of Germany (East Germany) until the fall of the Soviet Union. Socialism and fascism are two completely different concepts. People... get your facts straight.

The problem is, Project 2025 won't even be implemented fully. Donald Trump will short-circuit that plan and actually change the government into an actual fascist dictatorship, in the likes of Hitler. The smoke screen is its attempting to make you believe that it will be you being empowered when only one person will be truly empowered and everyone becomes slaves. What Trump's actual plan is outright dictatorship the likes of Kim Jong Un and Putin and Hitler. Bottom line: this policy guide while may have some possibly or arguable merits and its so called "shrinking" the government actually becomes a ONE branch government under the rule of ONE person. The other branches would cease to exist through terrible means.

In short, you have the wrong candidate who is NOT a conservative. He's also not a socialist. He's a fascist/dictator... autocratic type. Wrong guy who it going to turn your Project 2025 as a smoke screen while he consolidates ALL of the government authority to himself alone. 75 million made a dire mistake. He's playing off this "conservative" message as a distraction to what's really the plan. In boxing, that would be a rope a dope. You are the dope that been roped into believing the b.s.

Yes, then you need to get to work on that flux capacitor and power source for that 1.21 Gigawatts!

A friend of mine recently said that they delete their Facebook history to avoid that kind of thing. I imagine once they have it, FB holds onto it, regardless of your preferences. What do you think?

Deleting your history won't matter.  Once the info is out there it's there to stay.  The data may not be accurate (why I am getting info on Michigan, I went on that trip two years ago?!)

The important thing to remember is that NOTHING you say online is ever deleted and your real name is easy to find for most users.

I'm betting that for most users here with at least 500 posts it wouldn't be difficult to determine a real name with at least a 70% accuracy. Once someone has that they can determine your address, work history, ect.

It would be a good idea to have conversations with people online as if it was in person.  If you wouldn't say it to their face don't say it online.  You never know who you're talking to and if they can figure out who you really are.  

Good points. I'm not very secretive about who I am here, and I understand that if someone wanted to get dirt on me, it wouldn't be difficult. But it also wouldn't be very dirty ;-)

I'm the same way WG. My 'dirty laundry' would be at most leaving a shirt on the floor type of thing.

When someone uses their firm name (with maybe slight alteration), indicate their locality, and their experience like how long they been running their firm and such. Put these and any other piece of information, it isn't hard to figure out who a person is or at least a few options. It's not stalking. It is being attentive to details and simple rule of deduction.. like a Sherlock Holmes detective story. Generally, I don't take the jackassery here on a forum and hold that against anyone in "real life" unless the fucking around is taken too seriously outside of the forum or something like that. In SMAArch's defense, if I was in NYC area, I would consider working working for. He might not be my only choice of firms in the area but the type of work and quality of work are the kind I would consider. If I was in your area, the firm you are at is a firm I would consider working for. My distance and locality makes that more impractical and is no judgement on the firm you are at. 

Political party affiliation alone is not something that in and of itself would cause me to not work with. I don't see Donald Trump as either a real Republican or Democrat. He's an outlier that in my opinion is disgraceful to any party. I wanted the Republicans to have a better person as a candidate that at least aligns with their views. In either case, Republicans and Democrats had values and would not support dictatorship of an individual person ruling over the nation. Donald Trump couldn't even just say, "I am not pursuing becoming a dictator but want to be a strong leader". He wouldn't even deny his pursuit to be a dictator. He wants to be. Dictators were looked down upon by both parties. At least when both parties can get along and work together and still have difference of opinions and debate about it. 

There was some collegiality but it really started to go downhill largely since the days of Newt Gingrich and it just became more and more disgusting, on the Republican party side. Even Ronald Reagan wasn't all that cruel and knew he had a role of leading and serving a nation not just leading and serving one political party. That's responsibility. Donald is no way like Reagan. These are two very different people.

yes my comment was over the top and I regret posting it.

Yes, my name is Republican, I live in the greatest country in the world U.S.A and I work for the greatest citizens of the world, Americans.

^wanker

Oh come now bennyc. 

You're just scared that your comments here will have repercussions in your life. 

Prove us wrong.   Post up that personal info you agreed to. Show you're not a coward.  Show us that you have integrity and that you are an architect.  

Every time I see a post from you I'm going to remind you of this.  

Repercussions for what? Do you see what you, and your left communist friends are posting on here? do you see what your boy Richard is posting? 

And I will remind you of the greatness of this country.

Naw, you don't have the determination. Especially those upcoming fraud charges you're dealing with. 

You are right, but at least I feel good about living in the greatest country in the world. America 2024

Your country won't even be better than mediocre until you have publicly funder abortion clinics available to all citizens. Until then, you're just sad little boys with guns.

I support you abortion Non Sequitur

I dunno Benny. You don't even own a firearm. You aren't a real American.

You going to share that info Benny? 

No I don't own a gun, but I don't need one as long as there is men like you and your lefty friends on here. All I need to do is post a picture of Trump and you will jump of a cliff.

Hasn't happened yet. Post up those details Benny.

Ok, let me work on my best photo and get back to you. until then, keep on hoping like Obama.

Post up those details Benny.

too funny ...

Not as funny as grown ass men trying to be funny with weird humor and posting cars they cant afford. Only one laughing is Trump to the white house. America 2025

How many teslas do you have in your stable Benny?

Why is it ever criticism is a self own? Just post photos of your dungeon, gimp.

Post up those details Benny.

I dont own a Tesla, I own a Citroen

Post up that personal info benny.

Pledging allegiance to the flag is pledging allegiance to a country not a singular individual even if the asshole is elected President by 75 million individuals and a number of voters not voting at all leaving the situation where he won the election but had they voted this time, the outcome be different. The number of voters that voted in 2020 is still well under the total number of registered voters that are legal voters. No national election ever had a 100% turnout at least 100 years. The additional voters that voted in 2020 could have voted this time but didn't. Why? 

I'm not sure but some of them, they might have been intimidated by gun toting MAGA militants brandishing their guns and making intimidating gestures. The people that do this have generally been Trump's followers because they are the ones parading their guns and dressing up like militant terrorists when there is no justifiable reason for them to be doing so and without official authorization to provide any sort of security which should come only from official actions of an official militia operation... they are called state National Guards. They operate under official code of conduct not these nut jobs like Proud Boys and Oathkeepers and their type of rogue militant self-proclaimed militias. Without good cause, these nut jobs are there really to just intimidate. I can see how that can make people uncomfortable even going to the polls to vote.

These nut jobs will be your daddy the next 4 years. Enjoy

Those nut jobs, I'll be reporting to police for unlawful criminal intimidation and like laws with video evidence. That is if they come around me. If they are not operating under military code of conduct subject to court martial or actual law enforcement authorized to perform law enforcement in the jurisdiction in accordance with the rules of conduct, they are criminals if they engage such activities without proper authorization. Your 2nd Amendment right also requires you to be well regulated and governed under regulations. Read the whole 2nd Amendment not just cherrypicked words from it. 

You may have a right to own a gun but you don't have a right to brandish it and intimidate voters during elections or intimidate people with it by threatening bodily harm with it. Unless you are going to a firing range to shoot at a paper target to sight your gun, or hunting wildlife per hunting permit or otherwise authorized by law to hunt, or operating under the rules of a concealed weapons permit according to the laws, to the letter, you need to keep them in your house or other wise secured or in your vehicle in a secured manner in accordance with the law. Toting it around, brandishing it with threatening gestures and such is terrorism and amounts to some unlawful act with potential criminal charges. Threatening people with a gun and trying to frighten them is typically charged under menacing charges or a similar law. That's my point. Those nut jobs need to follow the laws.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The part in italics is inexplicably linked to the part in bold. The right to keep and bear arms by a people of a well regulated militia shall not be infringed.

The people whose right to keep and bear arms that shall not be infringed, that is being referred to, is the well regulated militia. Whose regulating the rogue militia? Is there even any regulation? If you go back in time to the early days, people weren't allowed to carry guns inside city limits unless it was properly holstered or in a carrying bag, like for rifles. Visitors into a town would be required to store their guns at the armory at the local police or sheriff station and pick it up as they head out of the town. They weren't allowed to brandish it in general public. Yes, exceptions for gun stores where guns would be on display.

I do support RESPONSIBLE gun ownership.

Post up those details Benny

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/stabbing-spree-ramon-rivera/5998283/

here is the details to your failed liberal policies

Post up those details Benny

Post up that personal info benny.

Ben Dover Architect, United States of America

You would bend over for trump but I don't think he has the cardio to follow-through with the action.

He sure has the cardio to be your daddy in 2025

Oh bennyc - you've never fought for anything. You've never worked for anything. You've always taken the easy way out and you think Trump will provide for you. It's just like how you've been lying about being an architect in NYC and TX.

Post up that personal info.  Don't be a hypocrite and a liar.  

Um, no. not my daddy. Trump has no actual effect over here since we're not in trumpfuckistan. It's a real country here with actual options in our political parties. You should try it sometime, just leave your guns at the border. We don't need that garbage.

Oh you don't accept American guns? I forgot, you only accept Nazi gold, you worthless croissant. America 2025

Oh come now bennyc. Look at you taking the easy way out. If you're going to troll at least be original. Don't copy others. Silly little boy.

Um, strange that nazi todays brand trump flags in addition to their more common branding. Face it, you're on the bottom of the dogshit pile.

Nazi's and racists. The two of the three groups that I'll fight on site, no questions asked. Also two groups that support Trump without question. Very odd.

I will fight any anti American rhetoric on here, and sometimes delusional lefty communists just for fun. Anti American and delusionists, two groups that are anti Trump, not odd just a fact.

For you to be against anyone posting disparaging reparks against Trump and America is itself anti American. 

 You're a hypocrite. 

Also, you're not 'fighting' anyone.  You're posting anonymously online. 

You're a coward.

You're so insincere and untruthful that  you're not convincing anyone to agree with you.  You know this. 

You're a liar. 

Benny, you've done a very poor job at fighting anything. Face it, the US is not a good place.

But I have done a great job at voting the next president.

I guess a low bar is still a goal.

bennyc thinks that because he's on the side that won he's important. That's really sad.

This post is not about me, I am not important. This post is about the delusion that is you and your croissant friends mind, Trump 2025

But you're not an architect.

But I have moleskine notebook, and I pretend to kn ow politics and hate on the U.S., doesn't that make me one?

No more than being a racists, bigoted, hypocrite makes you an American. No go to bed little boy.

You should look at yourself in the mirror and see who you really are, look at the comments up on this thread from you, and realize you are the reason 75 Million folks voted against you and your hypocrite mentality. Now go draw something and be a good U.S. Citizen and enjoy prosperity the next 4 years, ungrateful prick.

Oh bless your heart. 

You think you're be tough and fighting for something. 

You're not. 

You want to silence the 74 million people who didn't vote for Trump. That's anti American. 

 You're a hypocrite.

Unless you want to post that personal info you promised I think you should go to bed little boy.  

You think you are intelligent; you are not, you are a product of the system you hate, that's the true definition of hypocrite. And you and your friends on here keep talking about little boys and other sexual insinuations about Trumps ability to last, probably manifesting something that's true in your life. Trump 2025.

Post up that personal information or go to bed.

Be proud of your own country or shut your hypocrite mind off.

Oh the irony. 

You think it's anti American to say anything bad about the country. You're anti 1A. You're anti American. 

You're a hypocrite. 

BTW - I am proud of my country. I am also ashamed of some of what what it does and think it can be improved quite a bit.

Now go to bed little boy, it's past your bedtime.  

Wow you said you are proud of your country, was that so hard? good boy. Trump 2025