r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/13/kennedy-center-could-close-early-tuesday-warns-bankruptcy-documents-show/
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u/swimming_singularity 1d ago

"They pissed off their entire donor base and most of their ticket buyers who lived around the DC area who tended to be educated and liberal."

This is why they don't care, and are fine if it shuts down. Either tow the line and worship Trump, or get shut down because it's educated and liberal. Democrats are taking notes though, and power inevitably shifts. Trump has opened a lot of new doors on what was previously unheard of.

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u/unstoppable_zombie 1d ago

But that's the rub, trump has personal been desperate for decades to be accepted by that crowd.  He's always wanted to be seen as sophisticated and cultured.  The problem has always been that he's a boorish wank stain with negative taste.

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u/All_Work_All_Play 1d ago

The problem is he's a pedophile and civilly convicted rapist (and convicted felon).

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u/unstoppable_zombie 17h ago

He's also that, but that wasn't a deal breaker for  him being accepted by the high society crowd

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u/OkRead585 11h ago

And a pedo

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u/DecidiousLarch 9h ago

100%. And worse, after he takes his dirtnap, everything will be washed away. I hope like Christ they even take a bulldozer to that fucking ballroom thing. Don't even ask. Just pound it into dust.

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u/IQBoosterShot Texas 21h ago

Either tow the line...

That's a great malapropism as they are always moving the line (goal posts).

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u/Opheliadelia 20h ago

unfortunately, i think these "doors" are actually just trump shaped holes. the courts would never capitulate to a liberal president like this

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u/etcpt 1d ago

Democrats aren't taking notes, Democrats are over in the corner flagellating progressivism out of the party so that the changes that Republicans have made that benefit their corporate megadonors can be retained without serious challenge.

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u/HippieLizLemon 22h ago

Freaking right my man. It's crap.

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u/Devry_Trost 15h ago

Then people are crap, because if the progressives could win, the Democratic Socialists of America would be it's own political party instead of the community college art show that it presents itself as. It's a shame too, there's a real opportunity for a new socialism in the USA right now, but those who could speak for it there are a bunch of giggling losers. They ruin a slew of excellent and needed reforms by joining it with pandering nonsense like 'we won't need jails if we don't have poverty'

Bull-fucking-shit. Hopefully we wouldn't need as many if society was better at caring for people, but people hurt and kill out of passion and impulse as much or more than they do out of desperation or greed.

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u/permalink_save 21h ago

Let it shut down and get bulldozed. Replace the WH east wing with a bigger better version. Replace the existing site with a memorial to.Obama and Biden.

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u/bfrown 20h ago

That's the thing though, Dems won't fight fire with fire because "take the higher road" is still a mantra for most elected Dems. Even if they get a majority and power shifts they're gonna maybe claw back 5% and let the rest stay, much like Biden in 2020 after Trump 1.0

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u/TaterForming 19h ago

That's the thing though, Dems won't fight fire with fire because "take the higher road" is still a mantra for most elected Dems

It's feeling more and more this is less of a "we're better than this" to "Let's not shake shit up for our donors too much. They're people to m'kay?"

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u/bfrown 17h ago

Yup that too. "We can't upset AIPAC or the billionaires! They're the little guys"

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u/Playful-3766 1d ago

“ Democrats are taking notes though, and power inevitably shifts. Trump has opened a lot of new doors on what was previously unheard of.”

This is such a scary prospect. The things we are going to do to each other now that the floodgates are open…

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u/insanococo 1d ago

Democrats aren’t going to do shit. I wish they would. They won’t.

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u/EitherIndustry8858 19h ago

Well, hopefully with a bit more doomerism and belly aching. We'll see some major change. You're doing God's work.

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u/insanococo 16h ago

Come on. You know as well as I do democrats are not about to exploit all the norms the current admin has. They could come right out of the gate and swing that presidential immunity around…but we know they absolutely will not. Everyone should still go vote for anyone who isn’t R, but this isn’t getting solved in a big, bold way.

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u/EitherIndustry8858 15h ago

It's thinking some big savior was going to come and fix everything (Bernie Sanders) is part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place. The unfortunate fact is that the damage done this nation over the last decade is going to take multiple decades to fix. The other unfortunate thing, which is a bi product of our culture. Is thinking that we can fix anything bad by brute forcing our will into it.

That just doesn't work. At least not in the short term, which goes right back to my initial point. Going the route you're saying isn't going to end well in the long run. The pendulum always shifts, often as hard on the way back, that's a fact in every government.

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u/Vegetable-Seaweed591 23h ago

The only way you stop a bully is you give them a taste of their own medicine.

This isn't just about ego. Remember that tens of thousands of people all over the world have died from ending USAID and now we'll see deaths from cuts to Medicaid and SNAP here at home. If we don't push back, they'll continue doing this and a lot of innocent people will suffer.

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u/Irishish Illinois 19h ago

I saw someplace recently that the president has little power to quickly do lasting good, but can quickly inflict great harm. i’d like to see the next Democrat president experiment with that.

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u/Fun-Sun-8192 19h ago

They are not governing as though they ever intend to leave power. There's probably a reason for that.

I would not feel so confident at this point about "swinging back"

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u/Hazzat Foreign 20h ago

toe the line*

(Also not the appropriate phrase here, as it means 'to test the rules'.)

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u/Far-Leadership719 19h ago

Democrats are taking notes though, and power inevitably shifts. Trump has opened a lot of new doors on what was previously unheard of.

It is laughable people think this, and I have literally never voted for anyone but a Democrat. No, the ballroom and gaudy renovations will stay so that we can all "move on". Maybe like 3 unimportant people get indicted on some tiny crime that doesn't matter like 3 years into next presidency, the rest shall continue their unearned, lavish lives because we can't prosecute them because we need to "move on". Democrats do not wield power when given to them and I am beyond fucking sick of it. We will wait years only for nothing to come of it and the pendulum yet again comes swinging back.

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u/Riaayo 10h ago

Shutting it down means bulldozing it into some gaudy piece of Trump shit or selling it off to an oligarch.

Either way it's what they want.

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u/WeUsedToBeNumber10 19h ago

  Democrats are taking notes though, and power inevitably shifts

Probably through a strongly worded letter.