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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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[–] damnedfurry 5 points 3 hours ago

The bill is unlikely to receive the bipartisan support needed to pass Congress.

Understatement of the century, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Dude will fit in perfectly with the other racist creeps on that gross turd.

[–] CharlesDarwin 29 points 16 hours ago

They wanted Ronnie Raygun up there, too. The qons literally adore the worst fucking people in history.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 18 hours ago

Ate the onion.

coughs, chokes, spits up onion chunks

Wait, fucking what?

This is real?

...

Ok then. Sure, fucking why not, of course.

[–] [email protected] 170 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Seriously - how is it that the American people are being railroaded into autocracy by such a cringey, pathetic bunch of simps and losers?

[–] crossover 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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 7 points 16 hours ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago

As with every scam, the target are those that get most easily fooled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

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.

Videos on Electoral Reform

First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.

STAR voting

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

How does this lower egg prices?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 75 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

At the risk of stating the obvious: It was never about egg prices.

[–] RizzRustbolt 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Nah, they don't differ. The caring about anything with the economy was all a feint. They just want to hurt brown and trans people as much as possible up to and including genocide.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Other countries will eventually see how awesome the US is and donate their eggs for free.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'd donate some eggs to Trump's face on Mt Rushmore (and most other places)

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[–] CharlesDarwin 4 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Hahaha please do that, I would visit it. 😂

[–] [email protected] 90 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Lakota Sioux: You know what, just bulldoze it

[–] [email protected] 44 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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 30 points 22 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 19 hours ago

These fucking losers.

[–] makeshiftreaper 51 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Trump's ego would never allow it to stay half-finished. It's just our tax dollars that would actually pay for it.

[–] rockSlayer 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not just a beautiful mountain, but a sacred mountain that was intentionally defaced because it was sacred.

[–] Carvex 27 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You're definitely correct, but I think it was technically faced rather than defaced.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

A riddle!!: I have been defaced, even though I have many. Who am I?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I guess now might be a good time to repost this lil meme I made:

[–] lando55 12 points 15 hours ago

Hey! I made something similar during his first term:

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago

First time I genuinely thought it was The Onion, and I'm shocked it's not.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I 100% guarantee there would be a dynamite accident within 6 months. Fuck that smug prick.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Blowing it up will certainly be an epic symbol of the end of his despotic reign one day, like the footage of statues of dictators being pulled down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

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.)

[–] alquicksilver 11 points 22 hours ago

🤞 Please let him personally oversee all of it, please. 🤞

[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Mount Rushmore already sucks ass but it could always suck more.

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[–] WrenFeathers 6 points 16 hours ago

That’s great and all, but everyone knows that orange travertine is only found in Iran. And given the fact that mr. trump is currently romancing Israel, it’s not looking very likely Iran will be willing to give up its precious stone.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 10 points 18 hours ago

Interesting that they called the politician a "MAGA politician".

[–] theparadox 14 points 21 hours ago

Get people outraged about stupid shit while they burn important shit to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago

So basically they introduced a bill to create a public bathroom on the top of Mt Rushmore.

[–] billiam0202 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Makeitstop 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How many more ways can they find to fellate this man?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

My god. I joked about this only the other day. I hate when the absurd becomes this week's embarrassment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Even Saddam had monuments. They were torn down.

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