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.”
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
You’re saying you think Trump will not only understand that and not insist on doing it anyway?
Imagine if his own face fell off the mountain and crushed him and jd at the opening ceremony.
Ahahahahahaha
Thanks for the little bit of science that says this won’t happen. It makes me feel better.
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.
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.
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?
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 understand more and more how Kamala lost by letting these freaks run her campaign
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.
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.
…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.
I hate this fucking country.
I just hate republicans, really.
Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!
" How can we keep distracting from implementing Project 2025?? "
Mount Rushmore was intentionally done to insult Lakota/Dakota people anyway. The “Six Grandfathers” were sacred, and Mount Rushmore was intentional defacement and sacrilege.
It has that look of tacky art that you can tell always was made for a hollow purpose
Surely this will bring down the price of eggs
I will only support putting Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore if you then proceed to push him off.
