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The long-awaited Obama Presidential Library is finally taking shape in Chicago, and judging by the latest photos, it looks less like a tribute to a former president and more like something you’d find in a Soviet labor camp. Honestly, it’s a total eyesore, cold, harsh, and completely lifeless. But given where Obama’s name is currently landing in the headlines, it might be the most unintentionally honest monument in modern history.
Because while this brutal-looking bunker of a building slowly rises in Chicago, Obama is at the center of a DOJ “Strike Force” investigation. This all came about after Tulsi Gabbard outed him as the ringleader of the Russia Hoax, a plot to take down President Trump and hijack the will of the American people.
So yes, the fact that Obama’s “legacy project” looks like a medieval prison tower is deeply and profoundly poetic. And it gets even better when you realize the entire project is being swallowed by the same disease has infected the left: DEI insanity.
Construction of former President Barack Obama’s long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost overruns, delays and a $40.75-million, racially charged lawsuit filed by a minority contractor. From the outset, the endeavor touted DEI as a key part of enshrining Obama’s legacy at the 19.3-acre site, where costs have ballooned from an initial $350 million to $830 million in 2021 based on its previous annual reports, with no publicly available figures available for updated projected costs.
The project set out “ambitious goals” for certain construction diversity quotas, with its contracts to be allocated to “diverse suppliers,” 35% of which were required to be minority-based enterprises (MBEs). “With these aggressive goals, the foundation is hoping to set a new precedent for diversity and inclusion in major construction projects in Chicago and beyond,” the Obama Foundation wrote in a 2017 press release. The importance of DEI was cited on several occasions in an explosive lawsuit filed last month by Robert McGee, the Black co-owner of II in One Construction.
The firm is a minority-owned business subcontractor that provided concrete and rebar services for the center. It is not clear what role DEI quotas played in the hiring of II In One as a subcontractor. II In One was one of three firms that made up a joint venture called Concrete Collective. The other firms included another minority firm called Trice Construction Company along with W.E. O’Neil. Together they formed a 51% minority-led joint-venture team.
McGee alleged that he and his firm were racially discriminated against by Thornton Tomasetti, a New York-based company that oversees structural engineering and design services. In the lawsuit, McGee claims that Thornton Tomasetti changed standards and imposed new rules around rebar spacing and tolerance requirements that differed from the American Concrete Institute standards.
The suit claims these changes resulted in his firm running up massive overruns in excess of $40 million, which put it on the verge of bankruptcy.
The Obama Library project was supposed to be this shining example of “equity” and “inclusion,” but now it’s going way over budget, experiencing huge delays, there’s internal chaos, and a $40 million racial discrimination lawsuit.
Honestly, you couldn’t write a better metaphor for the failure of DEI politics if you tried.
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When you prioritize skin color and little “identity boxes” over actual qualifications and standards, this is what you get: lawsuits, broken contracts, finger-pointing, and a project that’s quickly turning into a political and architectural joke.
DEI destroys everything it touches, this time, it just happens to be a concrete monument to the most divisive president in modern American history.
And speaking of that monument…
Take a look at this monstrosity:
https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1948722875101237354
The comments section is hilarious. Take a look at what folks are saying about Obama’s new “prison.”
“I guess Kenyans have no aesthetic…”
“It’s ugly on purpose.”
“It looks like a child’s drawing of a walkie-talkie”
“It reminds me of the Star Wars All Terrain Walkers sans the legs.”
“It’s the perfect representation of Obama pretending to be a man.”
“Looks like he hired Soviet era architects”
“I’m surprised it wasn’t designed to resemble a Mosque.”
“Looks like the only thing left to do is drape it with a burka.”
“Looks like a cyber truck designer built it.”
“Wow. fitting for someone who never built anything.”
Who looked at this design and thought, “Yes, this will inspire generations”?
It looks like Barry sat down with the architect and said, “Make this as ugly and Soviet-style as humanly possible.” And that’s exactly what they did.
But in a strange way, it’s fitting, right?
There’s something poetic about Barack Obama building himself a presidential library that looks like a prison.
Because while the concrete goes up, so do the walls around the Obama-era corruption scandal. The Strike Force is active. The evidence is piling up. And the man who once weaponized the intelligence community against his political opponents may soon find himself on the receiving end of real accountability.
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On the bright side, if Obama ever needs a place to serve time… he already built it.
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