Who is this "Republican Bill" fella?
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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Florida's best and brightest they sent to DC to represent themselves, Anna Paulina Luna, the same certified genius who tried to expunge the Trump impeachments for extorting a foreign leader to influence US elections by withholding Congress approved resources, and inciting a failed insurrection and disenfranchising American citizens from their votes in federal elections.
Sounds like a great idea.
A constant reminder for the US for centuries to come.
s/reminder/warning/
" How can we keep distracting from implementing Project 2025?? "
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.
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.
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.
Plus it's in South Dakota. Security by obscurity.
Haven’t the Lakota people suffered enough?
Well clearly no.
They're taking the piss at this point.
Mount Rushmore was intentionally done to insult Lakota/Dakota people anyway. The “Six Grandfathers” were sacred, and Mount Rushmore was intentional defacement and sacrilege.
...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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
You're saying you think Trump will not only understand that and not insist on doing it anyway?
Better yet, they will, and the whole abomination will crumble.
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.
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?
Thanks for the little bit of science that says this won't happen. It makes me feel better.
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.
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Adding another genocidal colonizer on a colonizer monument beside other genocidal colonizers.
Yawn.
Is this not the onion? Am I hallucinating from smoking weed or some weird shit? What the fuck?
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Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!
I hate this fucking country.
I just hate republicans, really.
Might wanna throw in the non voters too. They heavily contributed to this mess.
Yeah there's some great shit here, for now.
I will only support putting Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore if you then proceed to push him off.
Okay, but the important question becomes: what does that bastard land in/on? I vote for a pool of sharks because of Shark Tank.
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