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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."

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

To serve as a historic mocking of DNC incompetence in losing a race they could have chosen to win, I'd be in favor of it being carved. I assume Trump is collecting gofundme donations for this.

What do you bet they try to put him on our currency as well. Maybe a 3 dollar bill, or a new half-cent coin.

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.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

What if they make the trump face very very small?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 52 points 1 week ago

In that case fuck yeah let's go

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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?

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

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."

https://archive.org/details/buyjupiterothers0000isaa_f2u3

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[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Better yet, they will, and the whole abomination will crumble.

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 106 points 1 week ago

Hooray, more bullshit bills purely for the purposes of signalling!

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago

Mount Rushmore was intentionally done to insult Lakota/Dakota people anyway. The “Six Grandfathers” were sacred, and Mount Rushmore was intentional defacement and sacrilege.

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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Haven’t the Lakota people suffered enough?

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Well clearly no.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

" How can we keep distracting from implementing Project 2025?? "

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

...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.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

I hate this fucking country.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

I just hate republicans, really.

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 36 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Plus it's in South Dakota. Security by obscurity.

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[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Adding another genocidal colonizer on a colonizer monument beside other genocidal colonizers.

Yawn.

[-] caboose2006@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

Surely this will bring down the price of eggs

[-] Resand@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a great idea.

A constant reminder for the US for centuries to come.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it is a fantastic idea because they will hire a shit contractor who is completely incapable and they will either do a laughably bad job or they will just take the money and run, whatever happens is gonna be hilarious...

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[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

I will only support putting Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore if you then proceed to push him off.

[-] gnate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I initially read it as "Donald Trump to be put under Mount Rushmore"

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Who is this "Republican Bill" fella?

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Might as well put Hitler there beside him.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Putin, nibbling his ear.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Couldn't we just carve a mustache on Trump?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

They're taking the piss at this point.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] quant@leminal.space 15 points 1 week ago

Is this not the onion? Am I hallucinating from smoking weed or some weird shit? What the fuck?

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

By the popular, via the people, of the person.

- The Gettin’ mine address.

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

with the message: “Let’s get carving.”

Surely she meant "Carve, baby, carve"?

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, we’ve got two slave owners up there, why not throw up a sexual predator too?

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'll be there with a chisel and spraypaint.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck this shit hole country. Can’t wait for the inevitable collapse.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Definitely what a sane party and not a cult of personality would do.

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