cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24891753
A bill to add a carving of President Donald Trumpto Mount Rushmore has been introduced by a MAGA politician.
Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna announced the bill Tuesday calling for Trump to be added to the South Dakota monument with the message: “Let’s get carving.”
I’m actually okay with this because it’s bizarro and devalues the assholes already on the mountain. Good let’s reveal the farce for what it is!
He would only sign it if they carved away all the other faces to have only his on the whole mountain. He doesn’t share.
Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!
Mount Rushmore was intentionally done to insult Lakota/Dakota people anyway. The “Six Grandfathers” were sacred, and Mount Rushmore was intentional defacement and sacrilege.
It has that look of tacky art that you can tell always was made for a hollow purpose
🙃
Surely this will bring down the price of eggs
I mean this won’t happen, but I kinda threw up in my mouth a little bit.
The one thing keeping me sane is the realization that that old crusty piece of shit will be dead soon, and I’ll never have to see their rapist face again.
It’s just Republicans trolling after Nancy pants said Joe should be on Mount Rushmore.
Nancy didn’t actually say that did she?
Her exact words were
such a consequential President of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of President
You have Teddy Roosevelt up there and he’s wonderful. I don’t say take him down. But you can add Biden
I understand more and more how Kamala lost by letting these freaks run her campaign
I fucking projectile vomited! This cult needs to be stopped.
What makes you think it won’t happen? They have the votes for it.
So a single sycophantic congresswoman from Florida introduces a bill with no budget, no analysis on its feasibility, and no widespread interest from the Republican base; a bill that hasn’t even gone to committee, yet alone be eligible for a vote; and you think that equals “they have the votes for it”?
Jesus fucking Christ, take a few minutes to learn just the bare fucking basics of how the government works. There’s a Schoolhouse Rock video that even explains it nicely in song form.
ANY congressperson can submit a bill for anything. It doesn’t take much at all. Tomorrow a congressperson could submit a bill saying that nails are illegal and all meat products are to be replaced by stone figurines of Marie Antoinette. It doesn’t mean anything! Congresspeople create this kind of crap literally all the time! It’s not worth talking about until it has slightly more than a snowball’s chance in hell of having support.
They do not have the votes. There’s still the filibuster in the senate and unless they are willing to blow that up (they likely aren’t) this bill will be dead in the senate.
You don’t think they’ll “blow up” the filibuster, but not make it contingent on only when republicans are in power?
Rules haven’t mattered for decades. Why would they start now?
The rockface isn’t actually sufficently stable to survive adding a 5th face.
They try to add Trumpo, they’re very likely to end up with NO faces.
So yeah, I doubt they’d actually go through with it.
Like any of the GOP give a second though to logistics, cost, or ethics for their vanity projects? Like Trump isn’t used to half assing construction jobs? Like he isn’t above blowing Lincoln’s face to bits to replace it with his own if he has to?
In that case fuck yeah let’s go
At that point might as well just do it Taliban style. A row of tanks shoot at it until the mountain is just a mountain again.
Build the shitty Trump carving, let people pay to shoot tanks at it, and use it to fundraise to build the Crazy Horse monument.
Reminds me of an old Isaac Asimov story.
There’s a floating city called Atlantis. It’s the headquarters of the tyranny. One insider figures out a way to sabotage the place and crash it, using the leader’s own vanity against him.
“Shah Guido G.”
Longest shaggy dog story ever.
Play around with the title for a few minutes. Start with the last three letters.
Oh I’m aware 😉 I have an old copy of his short story compilation, “Buy Jupiter” and he comes right out and says it in the author’s notes.
You’ll appreciate this story about a story.
Asimov once wrote a science fiction mystery about a murder committed during a game of pool.
He gave it to the editor with the title ‘Billiard Ball.’
The editor liked it, but he told Isaac that a punnier title would have be “Dirty Pool.”
What if they make the trump face very very small?
Thanks for the little bit of science that says this won’t happen. It makes me feel better.
Oh it doesn’t mean it won’t happen, they’re just as likely to fuck up the whole thing by trying it anyway.
We can obviously listen to the science of it and know it won’t work, but they don’t believe in science.Yeah I’m surprised nobody said this before. That was exactly my first thought. When has something not being practical or helpful stopped Trump and his minions?
I’m just hopeful enough that ‘If you do this, you stand a very very good chance of completely destroying a national monument.’ is enough to get at least a few of the less-nutty Republicans to balk.
If nothing else, we love our monuments and symbols, and destroying one to put his face on it is proooobbbbaaaallllllly too far, still.
Better yet, they will, and the whole abomination will crumble.
Oh my gosh, this would be amazing. I hope they fuck the entire thing up. It shouldn’t be there in the first place.
You’re saying you think Trump will not only understand that and not insist on doing it anyway?
Imagine if his own face fell off the mountain and crushed him and jd at the opening ceremony.
Ahahahahahaha
i expected some nut to propose this. surprised it took this long, actually.
It would be vandalized very quickly, which could be a nice outlet for a lot of people.
With time it would probably turn orange from all the piss too.
Can we just not vandalize our national moments though?
Putting the face of a living and sitting president is bad enough, the fact that its him. thats already gross vandalism
Native Americans: “am I a joke to you?”
Would it be worse than a klan member sculpting four ugly mugs on a sacred site?
have you been to hole in the rock in phoenix? vandalizing it is the city’s pasttime
A carving of Trumps face is hardly a national monument anymore than a statue of Lenin or Saddam Hussein was.
As much as I like the thought, I’ve been to Mt. Rushmore and I don’t think vandalizing it would be easily achieved. Maybe with a drone or paintball gun - the first time - after that I think they’d be prepared. There is national parks apparatus surrounding it IIRC.
Plus it’s in South Dakota. Security by obscurity.
Also Security by bigotry, which I am not sure works that well since you always end up just hiring the badguys and empowering them instead of protecting people from them.
Edit* I know all people in SD aren’t bigots, forgive me if my tone is a bit harsh these days…
You think they’re gonna not defund the National parks service? They’re basically the “don’t ruin nature” police, and the people in charge now don’t fucking care about nature.
Conversely, do you think they’re going to let people fire RPGs at it?
Be a great place for some RPG practice
…silly shit like this is a distraction - shit like the email that just went out to every federal employee encouraging them to resign is where the potential for damage is. Today.
Fuck this shit hole country. Can’t wait for the inevitable collapse.
Y’all sure get excited about “introduced” bills. Does no one know how our legislatures work?!
You got bodied…lmfao
call the police, but not for me
Well one, the GOP has control of both chambers, so nothing that gets introduced, no matter how dumb, is safe from passing through votes from both. Especially as none of them want to directly piss off Trump.
And two, even if this has zero chance of passing, it’s still a beyond absurd performative piece of legislation playing up the already inflated ego of a megalomaniac who is surrounded by sycophants and brown nosing opportunists constantly seeking to further puff up the already inflated orange head of an objectively weird, stupid, selfish, hateful criminal for the chance to earn some bit of his favor and maybe absorb some of his power and influence in the process. If that sort of openly unethical and cultish behavior from a sitting congressperson is not worth getting “excited” about, what is?
They’re taking the piss at this point.
Sounds like a great idea.
A constant reminder for the US for centuries to come.
The actions America has taken the last 10 years should never be forgotten, like a Hans-Landa Swastika cut into ones forehead as a mark of shame.
I think it is a fantastic idea because they will hire a shit contractor who is completely incapable and they will either do a laughably bad job or they will just take the money and run, whatever happens is gonna be hilarious…
Nah, this is Trump we’re talking about… They’ll do a mediocre job, and then Trump will refuse to pay them. Because for some reason, these idiots always believe they’ll be the exception and never demand payment up front.
…and thus the system functions like an Idiot Polymerase, only ever ratcheting forward from random shocks of chaos, insistent on replicating stupidity and blind hatred imperfectly into the future, each new act of violent collision an opportunity for beneficial mutations that can more effectively manipulate people’s trauma into heinous and cruel beliefs.
s/reminder/warning/
Enough sed.
By the popular, via the people, of the person.
- The Gettin’ mine address.
