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."
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WatDabney@sopuli.xyz · 189 pts · 1y
Seriously - how is it that the American people are being railroaded into autocracy by such a cringey, pathetic bunch of simps and losers?
ctkatz@lemmy.ml · 60 pts · 1y
honest answer: a 45 year project to delegitimize the media by routinely calling them "liberal", so much so that the major media reflexively frames every issue with a pro republican bias, goes soft on republicans in interviews, harder on democrats that was sped up with the introduction of fox news in 1998 and their "fair and balanced" tagline even though they were blatantly pro republican.
now you throw in all of these conservative propaganda online media distribution networks and actual true believers who bought into the "democrats are traitors and the enemy who deserve to be shot" rhetoric started by newton leroy gingrich and sprayed across the country by rush limbaugh having prominent positions in elected office and this is how you devolve into a despotic idiocracy run by a weak autocrat calling himself strong and protected by the truly evil people who are actually running things.
tldr the conservatives scared the media into being pro gop just so they wouldn't be labeled as liberal even though conservatives call them liberal anyway.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
All correct, but I think Faux started in 1996.
Also, Ronnie Raygun's admin paving the way for the likes of Rush and his many imitators on hate radio played a large role...
punkisundead@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 1y
As with every scam, the target are those that get most easily fooled.
crossover@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
The internet has become the dominant media. And it didn’t create a free and open information landscape where the best ideas rise to the surface. Instead it started an information war, and the right wing is winning. Mostly because they can blatantly flood it with bullshit.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And they are whiney bitches. It's like arguing with the kid that got the shit kicked out of them and there is nowhere to see them to kick the shit out of them.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
First Past The Post voting has limited the competition in our elections, making both mainstream political parties incredibly soft and filled with weak individuals. This is why the republicans were so easily bought by Russia, and why the democrats couldn't find a way to beat a circus full of clowns.
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can@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
It turns out it was just that easy :/
bestagon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Isn’t that what it takes?
ZeroCool@slrpnk.net · 152 pts · 1y
How does this lower egg prices?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 1y
At the risk of stating the obvious: It was never about egg prices.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 1y
Are you saying from the perspective of Trump voters or republican leaders? I think the goals between them are quite different.
Leaders always have different incentives and therefore goals from their followers and the American people really need to wake up to this fact.
AfricanGrey@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It was about throwing as much crazy shit at the public as possible. And then, while everyone's distracted, stealing or selling everything that isn't nailed down.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 1y
Other countries will eventually see how awesome the US is and donate their eggs for free.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y
I'd donate some eggs to Trump's face on Mt Rushmore (and most other places)
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
They should install some outhouses just above donvict's head.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
The qons are getting a new update, since they are reprogrammable meatbags.
They are now to believe that high prices are DoubleplusGood (TM) because they are paying to get rid of brown people, smash trans, and put anyone woke into reeducation camps.
shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 92 pts · 1y
Lakota Sioux: You know what, just bulldoze it
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 1y
Might think is an irony, but it’s intentional: that area is supposed to be sacred to the locals. This ongoing violation is just colonialism and genocide 2025.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y
The fact that they want to treat indigenous peoples as illegal immigrants means we're at the start of the trail of tears 2.0
Kaboom@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 1y
Meanwhile Crazy Horse exists
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 1y
And it's way more impressive than the white dudes faces on stolen land.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 64 pts · 1y
I 100% guarantee there would be a dynamite accident within 6 months. Fuck that smug prick.
alquicksilver@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
🤞 Please let him personally oversee all of it, please. 🤞
kablammy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
I don't have faith in any American doing anything cool at this point. Except Luigi if he's guilty (which clearly he's not.)
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip · 57 pts · 1y
Ate the onion.
coughs, chokes, spits up onion chunks
Wait, fucking what?
This is real?
...
Ok then. Sure, fucking why not, of course.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 1y
I mean, fucking whatever. Mt Rushmore sucks, I've been there. It insults the natural scenery by being a shitty half finished project on what was originally a beautiful mountain. Adding Trump to it would make it an even better metaphor for the US government, especially when he stops paying developers halfway through and we end up with a partially finished version of his face
rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 1y
Not just a beautiful mountain, but a sacred mountain that was intentionally defaced because it was sacred.
Carvex@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
You're definitely correct, but I think it was technically faced rather than defaced.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
Defaced by being faced
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
A riddle!!: I have been defaced, even though I have many. Who am I?
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y
Trump's ego would never allow it to stay half-finished. It's just our tax dollars that would actually pay for it.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y
They wanted Ronnie Raygun up there, too. The qons literally adore the worst fucking people in history.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee · 27 pts · 1y
These fucking losers.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 1y
Mount Rushmore already sucks ass but it could always suck more.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 4 pts · 1y
Mount Suckmore
samus12345@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y
puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1y
First time I genuinely thought it was The Onion, and I'm shocked it's not.
Zier@fedia.io · 18 pts · 1y
So basically they introduced a bill to create a public bathroom on the top of Mt Rushmore.
billiam0202@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Can we get someone like Ted Lieu to point out that a geological survey done shows the mountain would be in danger of collapse if any more carving is done to it, but instead we could put him on, say Stone Mountain in Georgia? You know, with the rest of the traitors?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Testing? We don't do that here.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Get people outraged about stupid shit while they burn important shit to the ground.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Understatement of the century, lol
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 1y
I guess now might be a good time to repost this lil meme I made:
lando55@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Hey! I made something similar during his first term:
Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
How many more ways can they find to fellate this man?
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
That's what I'm thinking reading this and other articles. It's like the Republican party is reaching to find increasingly desperate ways to get into Trump's graces, to the point that it feels like they're running out of ideas by this point and have started a race to the bottom debasing themselves for his amusement.
How does this man hold so much sway over them? He has the charisma of a wet rag, the character and patience if a toddler, and the long term vision of a house fly. Out of all the things I read about him and his cult, this is the one thing that baffles me the most.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social · 11 pts · 1y
If it wasn't for all the negatives, it would certainly be amusing to have a giant face for people to vandalize constantly (by even GOP folks who will have the spell broken) when Trump is gone from the this world. Nobody likes him, and nobody actually respects him, they all just see him as a means to an end (power/$).
I don't know why, but a graffiti competition on Trumps giant head would be pretty entertaining. Make it a poll and winner gets to have their art displayed for a year. Hell, make it a fundraiser and help some people hurt by this monster also.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
2117:
"why is that great big face on the mountain all broken, mommy?"
"Let's talk about the bad people in the world, pumpkin."
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And announces it on Xitter.
Enjoy the portraits of Trump in every room Americans. Let us know how it goes, we’re too busy preparing for your malice and abandonment to watch.
superkret@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y
Prediction: He'll introduce a new $1000 bill (which makes large cash payments a lot easier), with his face on it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
stoy@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y
Don't forget the pins with Trumps face you'll be required to wear to access utilities faster.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
Totally valid viewpoint. I was just saying to a fellow American the other day that it doesn't matter now, nobody remembers almost anyone in Germany under Hitler as anything but a Nazi. The few who are remembered did stand out things to protect others.
You guys really will have your hands full with the US abandoning NATO, and the rest of the world genuinely isn't responsible for our problems. I'm so sorry that you guys will suffer from Trump's presidency as well.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I’m sorry too in advance that Canada will follow right along behind and be your BFF Austria style because we have the same ills festering and about to burst via our propensity for negative voting and love of fossil fuels.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Interesting that they called the politician a "MAGA politician".
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y
My god. I joked about this only the other day. I hate when the absurd becomes this week's embarrassment.
Majorllama@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Great use of my tax dollars.... Which part of the department of government efficient do we report stupid publicity stunts to? Lol
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 5 pts · 1y
dont expect those departments to exist much longer
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Even Saddam had monuments. They were torn down.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
i hope she gets incumbency fucked, she deserves it for that one.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 8 pts · 1y
If they put his head up there, I hope people vandalize the fuck out of it by painting it like a clown.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 1y
You’re not supposed to put YOUR OWN face on Mount Rushmore you fucking idiot. God I hate this man.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
"Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone"
Why? - By Torpedo or Crohn's
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
eran_morad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
Dude will fit in perfectly with the other racist creeps on that gross turd.
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Was Lincoln racist ? /gen
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Probably, but he gets points for taking the right actions (regardless of whatever his motives may have been).
drascus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Please do it. This would be hilarious
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
Wow. They’re gonna do it. They have the numbers, right? I’ve been avoiding too much news since the election as a mental health precaution, but am I wrong in thinking they control both houses?
jonne@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y
They do, yes.
genfood@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
Hahaha please do that, I would visit it. 😂
frezik@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
I will go there and piss on it just on principle.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And how does this bring down the price of eggs?
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 1y
You know what would be funn... er, tragic? If, after they put his head up there, for a workplace accident to cause it to get catastrophically damaged. An accident made possible because OSHA wasn't allowed to do it's job, because the billionaires don't want to be held back.
Tragic.
rational_lib@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
"Let's get slurping"
wagesj45@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
pikmeir@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
randon31415@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
At the rate the Crazy Horse monument is moving, expect the first chizzle to occur in 2067.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Alternative Links:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mount-rushmore-bill-anna-paulina-luna-2022609
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VwRE2