Henk van Hooff

De tragiek van domme lullen is dat ze zelf niet weten hoe stuitend dom ze zijn en zich dus ook niet laten weerhouden van het breed etaleren van hun domme lulligheid.

Welke VVD'er er ook aan tafel zit, of het nou Halve Zoolstra is of iemand anders, het gaat nooit over het verhogen van de belastingen voor de superrijken, maar altijd over het afbreken van toeslagen en uitkeringen voor chronisch zieken #pauwendewit

Rod Stewart to King Charles III about Donald Trump: “May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.” courtesy of @RE_DailyMail

Comey says the firing of his daughter is stupid, immoral, and illegal. Comey: My daughter was a superstar prosecutor in the southern district of New York and was fired only because she has my last name. That's stupid, that's immoral. That's illegal, in my view

Wil Telegraaf-brievenschrijver Peter de Quaack uit Vlissingen zich bekendmaken? Het zou natuurlijk erg vervelend zijn als zich nu een tweede niet bestaande figuur onder de notoire lezersbrievenschrijvers bevindt. Want dat zou een zeker patroon aanduiden. Dat is toch niet zo?

AMERICA YOU NEED TO WAKE UP 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Aerial footage released by Israeli army shows the genocide it is committing in my city Beit Hanoun. Not a single house undestroyed, not even a single tree has not bulldozed. The Israeli army is displaying the genocide it is committing to the world as if it were a football match.

🚨WHOA! James Comey just NAILED Trump and his DOJ over their baseless attacks against him: “Donald Trump has a bottomless desire to gain revenge against those who've criticized him, and I'm not gonna stop criticizing him because I think that's required if you care about America.” Then he torched Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi: “Look at the bottom of every barrel, there are still apples.” DAMN!! I stand with him!

Publiceert De Telegraaf zelfverzonnen 'ingezonden' brieven, om mensen op te hitsen? 🤔

Eindelijk, dat het maar eens gezegd wordt. @SanderSchimmelp

WARREN BUFFETT: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes." "Just pass a law that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

Do you agree with Matt McConaughey?

Annie Lennox announced that she will not ever performing in Israel and says “that does not make me an anti-Semite”

Trump’s sons just signed a weapons deal with the Air Force during a war Congress never authorized. Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania documentary, then won a $581 million no-bid Pentagon contract. The corruption is not hidden anymore. It is the business model. November cannot come fast enough.

Вдумайтесь. Посол Америки в Украине ушла в отставку и открыто обвинила Трампа в заключении союза с Путиным. Респект Бриджет Бринк. Смелая и честная женщина

Donald Trump casually admits he merged two massive federal departments without signing a single legal document. He handed total control of American energy to his billionaire cronies with zero oversight. The White House operates like a corrupt mafia bypassing all laws.

Nog maar een keer de VVD-bewindspersonen op asiel: Fred Teeven (2012–2015) Klaas Dijkhoff (2015–2017) Mark Harbers (2017–2019) Ankie Broekers-Knol (2019–2022) Eric van der Burg (2022–2024) VVD heeft er een complete zooi van gemaakt!

“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.” - Jean Cocteau

TRUMP: “Iran has accepted everything; we will extract the uranium and transport it to America without any payment.” Iranian official: “He’s lying as usual.” “A liar is running the United States.”

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.