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For a country that prides itself on getting rid of kings, it sure as hell treats its first president as a demigod.
It’s one of our society’s many nonsensical incongruities
Does this asshole ever focus on doing the job for the benefit of all Americans?
This bullshit about the decor of the WH, or the reflecting pool's color, or a stupid ballroom, or the arch, or putting his goddamned name on the Kennedy Center and fucking around with all this culture war stuff is all about his stupid ego and I don't want to see any of it.
Has he even spent a minute on trying to make anything affordable?
Has he even spent a minute on trying to make anything affordable
well, yea. he has, and he is....
the scraps of america, after the collapse, will be ridiculously 'affordable' to those that still have the means to buy it all up for pennies on the dollar.
No way that man builds a statue to anyone but himself. I guarantee the design will change.
What he really want is a colossus statue of himself.
Pretty much the default for a collosal fat fuck asshole himself.
Your SNAP and Medicaid dollars hard at work.
And distraction.
Washington, Washington - 6 ft 8, weighs a fucking ton...
Lmao this is exactly the first thing that came to mind when I read that
Opponents beware!Opponents beware!
He'll save children! But not the British children!
Washington, Washington, fifty feet tall, made of radiation.
In case you were thinking he's being vindictive about the subject of the sculpture or its artist, it's just a garden-variety abstract sculpture, and José de Rivera is just some artist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
José de Rivera’s Infinity seems almost impossible - the thin stainless steel ribbon rotates on top of its granite pedestal with total stability. Standing at 13½ feet tall, the delicate balancing act is one that repeats every 6 minutes as the ribbon completes its revolution. The ribbon’s design as a mobius strip (a surface with one continuous side formed by joining its ends after twisting one side 180°) creates an infinite loop, allowing it to rotate without interruption. Completed in 1967 and facing the National Mall, the intriguing sculpture has since attracted the attention of visitors to the National Museum of American History. The sculpture, the first abstract work commissioned by the federal government in DC, represents time and technology, with the stainless steel ribbon symbolizing the continuous movement of both. The sculpture was fitting, for at the time of its unveiling, the National Museum of American History was named the National Museum of History and Technology.
He is easily America’s Greatest Hero
No, that was another guy
Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself.
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
It should've been somebody else.
Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
is this Trump's theme song, too?
Ralph Hinkley?
Only in the first season.
iirc they edited-in a changed last name only for a couple episodes of season one
He became Mr. H to his students for a while, and was later referred to as Ralph Hanley.
What y’all wanna bet he will try and swap the face to his own last minute.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
- Wayne Gretzky
- Michael Scott
- Donald Trump
You give up 75% of the possessions where you miss a shot
They can easily delay this for a couple of years while they plan, commission an artist, reject the artist's proposal maquette, commission a new artist, etc.
This is the same dude that just tore down a wing of the white house. He doesn't plan he's going to order it happening with our money right now.
And he can just do it without the parliamenarian, without a supermajority, without asking every member of the DEA first.
In theory, we have all these checks in place to stop this sort of thing. In practice, they only function to stop things that might help Americans.
In theory I don't think we really do though. When you get to a position as high as the president I think the assumption is that we wouldn't elect such an irresponsible insane moron.
I mean yes, there are checks and balances, but consider for a minute enforcement. The judicial branch barely has anything to compel somebody to behave.
Unfortunately we're in a position where the president will literally just say "make me." We're dealing with an unprecedented world where the leader of the country literally needs repercussions for his actions or he'll do whatever he pleases.
The checks didn't stop the arms sales for genocide under biden either.
If you think we are anywhere near the antics of any other president you are insane.
Did I say that?
It had a pretty serious whatabout feeling to it.
I'm lamenting that our government, regardless of who is in charge, can only seem to accomplish evil actions and is stringing us all along with false promises of improvement that there's always some stupid flimsy excuse for not doing.
If you want to defend biden in that context because trump is worse, that's up to you. I think all that happens when you pretend half of the abusive system isn't rotten is complacency when the "good" half is in office.
We cannot defeat fascism if our leaders aren't interested in doing so.
You just managed to stumble on the opposite of what I was saying. Congratulations, I suppose?
I forgot democrats are always perfect, especially when they do the same shit I hate republicans for. Sorry. Please block me so you never have to see my blasphemy again.
Still missing the point. But now I get this cool sort of pity party out of you, so that's fun, I guess.
So what is your point? Because it sure looks to me like it's "republicans bad, democrats good even when they act like republicans."
I made my point pretty clear originally. We have a president in office with an absolute reckless abandon for the law to the point where he's bombing indiscriminately kidnapping world leaders, raping women and children, and threatening to take over our allies.
Whataboutisms in this sort of circumstance are absolutely absurd. JD Vance just got on television and boasted that every day they have multiple Watergate scandals going on.
Even if he went straight to the big guns and brought out fucking Nixon or Reagan, I'd still tell you that it has nothing to do with the conversation to hand.
And by the way, just so I'm completely clear, fuck Joe Biden and fuck the Democratic Party. They're part of the reason why we're here.
I'm not whatabouting for trump just because I also hate biden.
Both broke all the laws they wanted to break with impunity. It's just that biden only wanted to break the Leahy law. This didn't start with trump and another genocide wing democrat won't stop it, because they would have to stop supporting genocide.
Now call me a trump supporter some more.
Both broke all the laws they wanted to break with impunity.
Holy shit, I'm impressed with sir. Without any real prompting, you just came and immediately, whatabouted me. XD
What you're doing is essentially watching an arsonist light up a building full of people and then walking down the street with a stern expression because somebody's jaywalking. We are talking orders of magnitude difference like end of a civilization sort of difference.
Now call me a trump supporter some more.
I'm not going to say I did or didn't because I don't care enough about this conversation to scroll back. It seems to me a lot more to you than it does to me. But I don't think I use those two words in the same sentence.
But I don't know, man. Go ahead and keep feeling bad for yourself or whatever.
What you’re doing is essentially watching an arsonist light up a building full of people and then walking down the street with a stern expression because somebody’s jaywalking.
Yes, I suppose genocide is only as bad as jaywalking to you.
It seems to me a lot more to you than it does to me.
I've spent from 2024 to present being called a trump supporter by biden's genocide worshiping simps for not loving the genocide you all live for. Keep feeling happy about the genocide. At least trump didn't stop what biden started, I guess.
He knows a guy who happens to be his friend who can make it for the low cost of 750billion