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.”

  • @BonesOfTheMoon
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    75 hours ago

    I’ll be there with a chisel and spraypaint.

  • @rayyy
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    136 hours ago

    Might as well put Hitler there beside him.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    106 hours ago

    Be a great place for some RPG practice

  • @Agent641
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    228 hours ago

    Who is this “Republican Bill” fella?

    • @whotookkarl
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      108 hours 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.

  • @Resand
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    279 hours ago

    Sounds like a great idea.

    A constant reminder for the US for centuries to come.

    • @DicJacobus
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      55 hours ago

      The actions America has taken the last 10 years should never be forgotten, like a Hans-Landa Swastika cut into ones forehead as a mark of shame.

    • @[email protected]
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      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…

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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        Nah, this is Trump we’re talking about… They’ll do a mediocre job, and then Trump will refuse to pay them. Because for some reason, these idiots always believe they’ll be the exception and never demand payment up front.

        • @[email protected]
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          …and thus the system functions like an Idiot Polymerase, only ever ratcheting forward from random shocks of chaos, insistent on replicating stupidity and blind hatred imperfectly into the future, each new act of violent collision an opportunity for beneficial mutations that can more effectively manipulate people’s trauma into heinous and cruel beliefs.

  • @mPony
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    4911 hours ago

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

    • @Warl0k3
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      1311 hours ago

      Well clearly no.

  • @[email protected]
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    3311 hours 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.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1910 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        319 hours ago

        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.

      • @BeMoreCareful
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        79 hours ago

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

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          Also Security by bigotry, which I am not sure works that well since you always end up just hiring the badguys and empowering them instead of protecting people from them.

          Edit* I know all people in SD aren’t bigots, forgive me if my tone is a bit harsh these days…

      • @[email protected]
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        229 hours ago

        A carving of Trumps face is hardly a national monument anymore than a statue of Lenin or Saddam Hussein was.

      • @DicJacobus
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        59 hours ago

        Putting the face of a living and sitting president is bad enough, the fact that its him. thats already gross vandalism

      • 🏴Akuji
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        59 hours ago

        Would it be worse than a klan member sculpting four ugly mugs on a sacred site?

      • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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        18 hours ago

        have you been to hole in the rock in phoenix? vandalizing it is the city’s pasttime

  • @andros_rex
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    9218 hours 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.

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    3917 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1716 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    17023 hours ago

    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
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      4823 hours ago

      What makes you think it won’t happen? They have the votes for it.

      • @I_Has_A_Hat
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        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 hours ago

          Oh my gosh, this would be amazing. I hope they fuck the entire thing up. It shouldn’t be there in the first place.

        • @Gamoc
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          39 hours ago

          You’re saying you think Trump will not only understand that and not insist on doing it anyway?

          • @[email protected]
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            16 hours ago

            Imagine if his own face fell off the mountain and crushed him and jd at the opening ceremony.

            Ahahahahahaha

          • @[email protected]
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            1419 hours 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.

            • @andros_rex
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              37 hours ago

              Build the shitty Trump carving, let people pay to shoot tanks at it, and use it to fundraise to build the Crazy Horse monument.

        • @kryptonianCodeMonkey
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          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?

        • @[email protected]
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          3222 hours ago

          Thanks for the little bit of science that says this won’t happen. It makes me feel better.

          • @[email protected]
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            3122 hours ago

            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
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            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              16 hours ago

              Yeah I’m surprised nobody said this before. That was exactly my first thought. When has something not being practical or helpful stopped Trump and his minions?

          • @Bricriu
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            219 hours ago

            Longest shaggy dog story ever.

              • @Bricriu
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                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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  13 hours ago

                  You’ll appreciate this story about a story.

                  Asimov once wrote a science fiction mystery about a murder committed during a game of pool.

                  He gave it to the editor with the title ‘Billiard Ball.’

                  The editor liked it, but he told Isaac that a punnier title would have be “Dirty Pool.”

      • @cogman
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        422 hours ago

        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.

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          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?

    • @[email protected]
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      321 hours ago

      It’s just Republicans trolling after Nancy pants said Joe should be on Mount Rushmore.

        • @[email protected]
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          511 hours ago

          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

          • Queen HawlSera
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            I understand more and more how Kamala lost by letting these freaks run her campaign

  • @[email protected]
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    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!