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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 214 points 1 day 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 33 points 1 day ago

Well. They were dei hires

/S for the idiots everywhere

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 191 points 1 day 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 101 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

Edit: changed to a more gender inclusive term

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Probably not that hard with all the botox.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He once golfed 18 holes in one shot!

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 94 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

That’s people born into wealth for ya.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the tiniest of tiny pp energies

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day 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 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What, are these people twelve?

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

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 59 points 20 hours ago

This is childish and petty.

I am so fucking embarrassed to live in the USA.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 54 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

what a petty, little bitch

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 19 points 20 hours 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

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day 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 29 points 1 day 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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[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] H3mp79@lemmy.today 43 points 1 day 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 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day 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 15 points 1 day ago

Basic dictator.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours 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

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 38 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Epstein deadline is tomorrow, right?

Gotta throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

Misdirect, misdirect, misdirect

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 35 points 19 hours ago (1 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

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think we need to get more graphic not less.

"Newsome DOUBLE SUPLEXES president and VP in latest witty tweet. World leaders RIOT NAKED in response."

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[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 35 points 1 day ago

Must be an onion ...

Not the onion ...

What?

[–] bjorn@fedia.io 32 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours 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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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember that for Republicans: Every accusation is a confession.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 17 hours ago (9 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.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

the democrats would never run anyone who had the balls to do that. it would be too 'mean'.

but if such a candidate did get to run, they'd probably be incredibly popular.

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[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

What a lil bitch

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours 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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 20 hours ago (3 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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 16 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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..."

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

They're gonna have to fumigate the white house and remove all the child pornography first

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 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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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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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[–] anguo@piefed.ca 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On the one hand, this is absokutely juvenile. On the other hand, why are Americans so obsessed with displaying and counting past presidents?

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

This is Ethan Klein levels of petty

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Trump's plaque should contain the aepstein files

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