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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 242 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Democrats if they ever get the white house again: "Well, we better keep the plaques. We don't want to upset them."

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Well. They were dei hires

/S for the idiots everywhere

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 209 points 1 week ago (6 children)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”

Lmao

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That she can say that with a straight face is truly impressive.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But she only has smug ~~bitch~~ fascist face

Edit: changed to a more gender inclusive term

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Probably not that hard with all the botox.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What can't trump do?!

It's so fucking infuriating they all treat him like he's capable of doing anything.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He once golfed 18 holes in one shot!

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"He took great care, and used his best crayons. Mr. Putin even put one on his refrigerator. "

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 108 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We have people with the mentality of spoiled school children leading the country.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

That’s people born into wealth for ya.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is the tiniest of tiny pp energies

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 71 points 1 week ago

This is childish and petty.

I am so fucking embarrassed to live in the USA.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What, are these people twelve?

I know plenty of 12 year olds with more class than this.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I read shit like this I think of Trump tearing down the East Wing. He didn't do this personally. Multiple people had to agree and execute.

For example; I managed a reprographics shop. We would have flat refused to make signage such as these plaques. Not because management was woke, we simply wouldn't handle toxic messaging. Somewhere in DC is a shop that said, "Fuck it, the money matters more than morals." Same for the demolition company.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was a park service employee when this administration began and the back breaking speed everyone bent over and let Trump have his way was disgusting.

I'm talking entire HR departments working fucking COMP TIME (not even OT) just to make sure their colleagues are fired as quickly as possible. Like damn policy allows you to take up to 3 sick days no questions, call out and let people have a few more days of pay.

Everyone with a conscience in leadership instead of trying to resist just resigned day one. The rest fell in line.

I was disgusted and disappointed

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[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

The eating of trumps ass by his maga moron is out of control. They named renamed the Kennedy center. Who memoralizes themselves while living? Dictators. Only Dictators do this shit. My family is lost to his nonsense. There isnt a single free thinking person in my family anymore. Dad mom, brother all lost to his bs. Wake up America, im begging you, before he takes all your rights away

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what a petty, little bitch

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the pettyness is obvious even to maga - I love it haha

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago

the issue with maga recognizing it is they relish it. that's what they're here for. they think this is what it means to hold the elite accountable: sending mean tweets, being a petty bitch, lashing out omnidirectionally.

where trump is losing people, and i'm starting to really see it in my community, is his claims that america has never been more affordable than it is today. you can lie about why you're going to war and the dangers posed by people racists don't talk to, but you can't lie about the price of bread. you can't hide that. everyone can tell if the cost of living is getting better or worse. they can tell because we're all living it

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m so fucking tired of being governed by god damned jr. high schoolers.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago (8 children)

How, and I'm serious here, how can this thing get voted in? And how did it happen twice?

You'd have to be fucking moronic to the point of being a dribbling idiot to even think that this orange thing was not just a huge piece of unusable scum!!

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I get a lot of hate on Lemmy every time I post this, but I genuinely think American voters don’t like women.

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Epstein deadline is tomorrow, right?

Gotta throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

Misdirect, misdirect, misdirect

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only on paper. In reality, the authors of the bill wrote that Trump and Bondi get to decide what to release and can withhold as much of the documents as they want under the guise of "national security." It was just more kayfabe.

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[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I will piss on his grave when given the 1st opportunity.

[–] H3mp79@lemmy.today 46 points 1 week ago

It will be heavily guarded or hidden. It will literally be defaced in the first hour. I will dance on the day of his death. The entire world will celebrate his Demise.

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude’s a frail and frightened little failure of a man. Everthing he does is a result of pure cowardice.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

Basic dictator.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What kind of fucking fanfiction is this whole thing. Satire truly is dead.

Also

California Governor Gavin Newsom, no stranger to mocking Trump online, slammed the stunt.

Stop "slamming" and similar terms because they fucking mean nothing

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[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 39 points 1 week ago

Must be an onion ...

Not the onion ...

What?

[–] bjorn@fedia.io 35 points 1 week ago

This has to be one of the most petty and insignificant acts of trumps this year...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 33 points 1 week ago (10 children)

When the orange turd dies or otherwise is out of office, we should just remove his plaque entirely and pretend like he never even existed.

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[–] leya@mander.xyz 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Only a few centimeters and we could've been spared all of this 🥲

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This has the potential to be very very funny.

I think it should be taken as a precedent, and every successive administration should start writing bitchy little propaganda plaques. Instead of a photo of Trump, we could have like an old moldy orange. Or we could have photos of sad war orphans for other presidents, some scathing political commentary, it could be great. Not at all disrespectful to hang on the wall, this seems fine. Let’s goooo!

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Petty, childish, juvenile, mean, pathetic.

The equivalent of drawing a mustache on someone whom you dislike on their yearbook photo and expecting everyone to laugh at your work, too.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 31 points 1 week ago

Actual fucking toddler

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember that for Republicans: Every accusation is a confession.

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[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

What a lil bitch

[–] Skrufimonki@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 1 week ago

This is what professionalism is these days. The good thing is that they are open about their views and it's easier to identity what type of person they are.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

And we have all of this because Obama made fun of Trump at some big presser, makes you think, right?

Before that, Trump was a Democrat, mocking Republicans, playing golf with Bill, and endorsing Hillary for senate.

Just imagine who the bankers have selected as our future candidates! Remember when the Bush presidency was the worst ever?

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh that's good that means that when Trump is dead they can move one of them and then they have a spare.

There's a lot of talk about whether or not there should be some age limit on a president and they're probably should be, but I think that also needs to be a maturity test. Trump has a level of pettiness normally reserved for teenage girls in badly written YA novels. Imagine being the person that had to make those plaques and then put them up, you'd feel like a prat.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Projecting his own insecurities on plaques under photos of past presidents.

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

These will one day be hung in a museum as a warning, lest we forget. Unfortunately, humanity is just an endless cycle of repeating the same mistakes, so nothing will be learned.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

We used to punish kids that did petty shit like that.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I hope the next Democratic President strolls through the White House with a staff trailing behind taking notes, as they point to various things and say: "Take that down, destroy that, replace that, all THIS shit has to go, tear that down, arrest him, him, her, and him, burn that..."

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Social media and media aggregation has promoted trolls into places where they're stuck sucking their own dicks to shock people, while also being incompetent leaders and managers.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago

Anyone trying that hard absolutely knows that they are the problem, and are desperately, desperately trying to deflect.

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