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[–] 203 points 10 months ago (10 children)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”

Lmao

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  • [–] 112 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That she can say that with a straight face is truly impressive.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What can't trump do?!

    It's so fucking infuriating they all treat him like he's capable of doing anything.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Remember his remarks on Gettysburg? Truly, a student of history.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    "Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor—did you ever notice it? He's no longer in favor. 'Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.' They were fighting uphill, he said, 'Wow, that was a big mistake,' he lost his great general. 'Never fight uphill, me boys,' but it was too late."

    -Donald J. Trump

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  • [–] 69 points 10 months ago

    This is childish and petty.

    I am so fucking embarrassed to live in the USA.

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  • [–] 68 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What, are these people twelve?

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  • [–] 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    When I read shit like this I think of Trump tearing down the East Wing. He didn't do this personally. Multiple people had to agree and execute.

    For example; I managed a reprographics shop. We would have flat refused to make signage such as these plaques. Not because management was woke, we simply wouldn't handle toxic messaging. Somewhere in DC is a shop that said, "Fuck it, the money matters more than morals." Same for the demolition company.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago

    I was a park service employee when this administration began and the back breaking speed everyone bent over and let Trump have his way was disgusting.

    I'm talking entire HR departments working fucking COMP TIME (not even OT) just to make sure their colleagues are fired as quickly as possible. Like damn policy allows you to take up to 3 sick days no questions, call out and let people have a few more days of pay.

    Everyone with a conscience in leadership instead of trying to resist just resigned day one. The rest fell in line.

    I was disgusted and disappointed

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  • [–] 61 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    what a petty, little bitch

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And the pettyness is obvious even to maga - I love it haha

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago

    the issue with maga recognizing it is they relish it. that's what they're here for. they think this is what it means to hold the elite accountable: sending mean tweets, being a petty bitch, lashing out omnidirectionally.

    where trump is losing people, and i'm starting to really see it in my community, is his claims that america has never been more affordable than it is today. you can lie about why you're going to war and the dangers posed by people racists don't talk to, but you can't lie about the price of bread. you can't hide that. everyone can tell if the cost of living is getting better or worse. they can tell because we're all living it

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  • [–] 60 points 10 months ago

    The eating of trumps ass by his maga moron is out of control. They named renamed the Kennedy center. Who memoralizes themselves while living? Dictators. Only Dictators do this shit. My family is lost to his nonsense. There isnt a single free thinking person in my family anymore. Dad mom, brother all lost to his bs. Wake up America, im begging you, before he takes all your rights away

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  • [–] 60 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I’m so fucking tired of being governed by god damned jr. high schoolers.

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  • [–] 107 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    We have people with the mentality of spoiled school children leading the country.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You’re letting people with the mentality of spoiled school children scare you into inaction

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    If you've ever spent time with an adolescent, you will understand how scary the idea of school children, with unlimited power, money, and knowledge of the world, is truly horrifying. I'm not scared of school children, but if one had a bazooka pointed at you, I bet you'd be finding cover like the rest of us.

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  • [–] 49 points 10 months ago (20 children)

    How, and I'm serious here, how can this thing get voted in? And how did it happen twice?

    You'd have to be fucking moronic to the point of being a dribbling idiot to even think that this orange thing was not just a huge piece of unusable scum!!

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    I get a lot of hate on Lemmy every time I post this, but I genuinely think American voters don’t like women.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    I’m American and I would vote for someone like AOC!

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Happily, enthusiastically. I don't think she'll be the one to take it in 2028, though, and I'd rather not see her burn her political viability this early in her career.

    I'd love to see her unseat Schmuck Schumer, and help Bernie cement the Progressive foundation in the Senate, the way she did in the House. She inspired many others to run for Congress, and now she can help them get a strong foothold on the Senate, too. That's as important a job to the future of America as being president for a few years.

    After she's spent a decade or so in the Senate, perhaps as Senate Majority leader or some other leadership role, she should have the support of the voters to be President, and I think she'll make a truly great one. Just give her time.

    The problem, is that few others approach her in terms of credibility, and we can't have another weak Democratic placeholder, just filling in long enough for voters to be convinced by a relentless flood of propaganda that they are really better off living in economic and social instability for their entire lives, so that the wealthy can be even more comfortable than they already are. That's been the role of literally EVERY Democratic president since Carter. Not one of them did anything substantial to protect American citizens from a takeover by the nastiest organized criminals the world has to offer.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    There seems to be a weird aversion to anything that can be seen as politics in America. So I think most of the general public there are not aware of the political ongoings so if and when they vote they see a male and female running they just vote in the male irregardless of who they are.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Part of the problem is a lack of information. It's out there if you go digging for it but only if you go digging for it.

    You need to introduce some media laws that restrict people from using the word "News" is any case but actual journalism. Also anyone who uses the phrase "alternative facts" should be executed, there are no such things as alternative facts, they're called "lies".

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    One thing is that America hasn't given a new presidency to the same party that held the office since the 1980s, at there's already a tendency to waffle back and forth.

    Trump got through the GOP primaries by virtue of energizing the racist hateful folks that people like McCain famously tried to talk down.

    With the general election, people were miffed about Bernie, polling told them they could safely sit it out and Trump would still lose, and frankly people didn't think Trump would be that terrible, even if they didn't like him.

    His first term made us a laughing stock and inflicted injustice at the border, but was mostly milquetoast otherwise until the pandemic, which tanked any chance at the election

    Then various things contributed to a terrible economy with Biden, so people voted for "different", and hey, Trump was not great but, pandemic aside, domestic situation wasn't so bad..

    So now here we are, an administration totally off the leash...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    He manipulated the first election, and he literally stole the second one.

    Shut up. Yes he did, and you ALL know it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    No, he didn't steal the second one. You fucking idiots make us look just as stupid as they are.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Trump has cheated at everything he's ever done in life. He is astonishingly ignorant because he bullied other kids into doing every homework assignment he ever had. We know he called on Putin to manipulate the 2016 election. He tried to take back the 2020 election by force.

    By 2024, he was facing almost certain conviction for his Insurrection AND stealing hundreds of classified documents, and was facing a life sentence in prison.

    So you are telling me that after a lifetime of cheating in everything he does, even when he doesn't have to, just because he figures it will give some sort of an advantage, the ONE election that he DIDN'T cheat in, is the one election that would keep him out of prison for the rest of his life. You actually believe that?

    And I'M a "fucking idiot?"

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Epstein deadline is tomorrow, right?

    Gotta throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

    Misdirect, misdirect, misdirect

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Only on paper. In reality, the authors of the bill wrote that Trump and Bondi get to decide what to release and can withhold as much of the documents as they want under the guise of "national security." It was just more kayfabe.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The trove has been leaking like a sieve over the last few months. I'm not sure what else people are expecting to see at this point.

    There's this bizarre insistence that one more big scandal will be the final straw. And we've been playing this game since Hillary released "Grab'em by the pussy".

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  • [+] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Dude’s a frail and frightened little failure of a man. Everthing he does is a result of pure cowardice.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago

    This has to be one of the most petty and insignificant acts of trumps this year...

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    When the orange turd dies or otherwise is out of office, we should just remove his plaque entirely and pretend like he never even existed.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Damnatio Memoriae as the Romans called, the removal of a person not just from life but also memory. Though I say we keep his actions and consequences recorded, just remove his personhood and likeness. Every picture and video of him should just be mess of static and fucked but understandable audio. Things not related to his presidency should be destroyed in their entirety.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    That sounds pretty difficult to do in the modern world.

    In contrast, I like the idea that before he croaks he could know that his name will be cursed and his grave pissed upon for generations.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Donald Trump is already Vilified by most of the country anyway, so why not?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The argument I could see is that a person's personhood is relevant to their actions, but Trump doesnt really fall into that category in my opinion. Hes more a void of a person existing on base impulse and desire further amplified by his narcissism. Seriously is there anything Trump actually like? And not in a way that could be explained by scratching his base impulses at any given time?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I've always been disturbed by the descriptions of his inability to enjoy humor and music. Those are like core to humanity, in my estimation.

    I've known at least one legitimate dangerous psychopath, knew him quite well. He had a rich (if dark) sense of humor and legitimately interesting, opinionated taste in music. And he was the kind of person it was unsafe to be near if he was merely bored (to say nothing of angry/frustrated or worse), and you were sufficiently weaker and isolated (I never was, to be clear). He also was barely literate and mischaracterized by lots of people as profoundly unintelligent.

    I've known other interesting individuals damaged in different unrecoverable ways, and everyone I've known (that remains able to interact even somewhat smoothly with others at least) has those core human pieces intact.

    Trump is truly a bizarre human being, and not in one single way I can call positive. I wonder if there are others in history who were notably "deaf" to the emotional meanings of music and humor (minds structurally incapable of empathy, I'm guessing) yet still adept at social interactions and even possessing a strange almost bewitching quality among the general populace.

    Even cult leaders, known for that latter quality and also lack of empathy, they tend to understand music and humor and even use them for effect in their abuses. Trump alllllmost gets there with humor, but not quite, to him it seems like just a way of attacking people that is somehow more publicly tolerated, he doesn't ever seem to find it funny himself - just another weapon/tool to use. Weird fuckin brain on this guy (very weirdly damaged/malformed, I suspect).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Honestly I don't think Trump ever moved past being 3 or 4 on an internal level, his actions make sense if you consider that he never developed internalized functions for morality, intellectualism, or even an internal code. He may very well still be at the point where the only reason he knows not to touch a hot stove is because he got physically hurt by it because he can't internally run the calculations that fire hot. Or at least that's what makes sense to me, he's basically a lot like a small child only reacting to the world.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    This has the potential to be very very funny.

    I think it should be taken as a precedent, and every successive administration should start writing bitchy little propaganda plaques. Instead of a photo of Trump, we could have like an old moldy orange. Or we could have photos of sad war orphans for other presidents, some scathing political commentary, it could be great. Not at all disrespectful to hang on the wall, this seems fine. Let’s goooo!

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    No when he's done burn his fucking memory and don't ever mention him again.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Only a few centimeters and we could've been spared all of this 🥲

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That's 0.0001 football fields.

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  • [–] 92 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This is the tiniest of tiny pp energies

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  • [–] [S] 236 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Democrats if they ever get the white house again: "Well, we better keep the plaques. We don't want to upset them."

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Oh don't worry, a big chunk of the likely Democrat voter population will make sure they lose.

    Fixing the plaques is easy and they'd do that. It's funny that people criticize Trump for using the presidency for revenge but then demand that Democrats do the same thing.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago

    Actual fucking toddler

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago

    Petty, childish, juvenile, mean, pathetic.

    The equivalent of drawing a mustache on someone whom you dislike on their yearbook photo and expecting everyone to laugh at your work, too.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Remember that for Republicans: Every accusation is a confession.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    This is what professionalism is these days. The good thing is that they are open about their views and it's easier to identity what type of person they are.

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