cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24891753
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.”
" How can we keep distracting from implementing Project 2025?? "
Haven’t the Lakota people suffered enough?
Well clearly no.
Sounds like a great idea.
A constant reminder for the US for centuries to come.
s/reminder/warning/
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.
Can we just not vandalize our national moments though?
A carving of Trumps face is hardly a national monument anymore than a statue of Lenin or Saddam Hussein was.
Would it be worse than a klan member sculpting four ugly mugs on a sacred site?
Native Americans: “am I a joke to you?”
Putting the face of a living and sitting president is bad enough, the fact that its him. thats already gross vandalism
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.
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.
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.
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.
Better yet, they will, and the whole abomination will crumble.
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.
Oh it doesn’t mean it won’t happen, they’re just as likely to fuck up the whole thing by trying it anyway.
We can obviously listen to the science of it and know it won’t work, but they don’t believe in science.
Reminds me of an old Isaac Asimov story.
There’s a floating city called Atlantis. It’s the headquarters of the tyranny. One insider figures out a way to sabotage the place and crash it, using the leader’s own vanity against him.
“Shah Guido G.”
Longest shaggy dog story ever.
Play around with the title for a few minutes. Start with the last three letters.
Oh I’m aware 😉 I have an old copy of his short story compilation, “Buy Jupiter” and he comes right out and says it in the author’s notes.
They do not have the votes. There’s still the filibuster in the senate and unless they are willing to blow that up (they likely aren’t) this bill will be dead in the senate.
You don’t think they’ll “blow up” the filibuster, but not make it contingent on only when republicans are in power?
Rules haven’t mattered for decades. Why would they start now?
I fucking projectile vomited! This cult needs to be stopped.
It’s just Republicans trolling after Nancy pants said Joe should be on Mount Rushmore.
Nancy didn’t actually say that did she?
Her exact words were
such a consequential President of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of President
You have Teddy Roosevelt up there and he’s wonderful. I don’t say take him down. But you can add Biden
i expected some nut to propose this. surprised it took this long, actually.
…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.
Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!
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.
Adding another genocidal colonizer on a colonizer monument beside other genocidal colonizers.
Yawn.
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 hate this fucking country.
I just hate republicans, really.
Yeah there’s some great shit here, for now.
Is this not the onion? Am I hallucinating from smoking weed or some weird shit? What the fuck?
I will only support putting Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore if you then proceed to push him off.
I initially read it as “Donald Trump to be put under Mount Rushmore”
Okay, but the important question becomes: what does that bastard land in/on? I vote for a pool of sharks because of Shark Tank.
