But he is right for the first time in his life, that's an achievement.
Not the one in my car. It slowed about 1 minute per 2 months.
I stopped changing it for daylight savings to see how far off it would get, driven rarely as it was, and the answer is that it seems to be internally maintained even when the car is off because even months I didn't drive contributed to the lag.
And then we'll tear it down as soon as he's out of office.
Why wait that long?
Agree, this will be the first thing he’s right about.
Should memorialize it with a statue.
A golden turd on a tin plate is as close as I'd be willing to put up in his memory.
He's not. He's doing it because he thinks nobody will literally build monuments to him. Not because they think he's an asshole, but because he thinks no one BUT HIM will be able to do it.
He's a narcissist through and through. Taking things into his own hands because it's the only way he'll maintain power and control.
Yup. He doesn't believe others will but is rather firm in his convictions that he is deserving.
I don't know, but my 2 yaers old does this too: "you NEVER let me have chocolate!"
So in my head I see Trump also saying "NOBODY will ever build me a monument" while pouting, crossing his arms and wiggling his shoulders back and forth for emphasis.
My partner is a clinical psychologist. She says this is one of those lines that gives away a patient's narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis. Because a narcissist never feels about themselves how they need others to feel about them.
I build one for him after my first cup of coffee and before I go to work, every day.
Thank you for your service 😄
I will need a flagpole extender to fly at double staff instead of half staff.
Not only nobody will build monuments for him, I genuinely hope the Dems have the balls to tear down every stupid little shit he did. And seizing Trump tower and turning it into rent controlled housing would be the cherry on top. Also, turn Mar-a-Lago into a public park and name it Biden Park
That’s genuinely way better.
Frankly, Biden should not be memorialized either. He and the idiot fucking brain trust that is the DNC/DCCC were the ones who gave away the Republic to these kleptocratic fascists. My fury at him and Harris and the rest of the party establishment that enabled the second orange regime to win a second stint is, shall we say, not small. They did like, what, 20-30% of things reasonably well, and then just didn’t fucking pay attention to anyone but their fucking consultants for everything else, and that entire class of MBA fuckwits is famously sycophantic and Duning-Kruger-esque.
Beautiful
I'd like to see him live just long enough to watch everything he did get undone.
Sadly, I don't I'll even live that long.,
Any of his properties should be seized, any of those named after him should be get rid of and renamed.
Including this building.
But but oh my fuck there will be parties
I say we built mommets of him every year after his death and burn them as a reminder to never let a shitty fuck like him ever rise again.
I'm 100% with you, problem is that in 4-8 years after Trump is gone, and with a Democrat as President, half the American population will have forgotten. Just like they did after Bush, and just like they did after 4 years of Trump's first term.
It's like half the American population is insane and never learn!?
When you artificially restrict your options in the voting booth (big shout out to First-past-the-post voting), solutions are few and far between.
Elections become who can be the 2nd worst, not the best. That's why the democrats wanted Trump to be free to run again. I am sure democrats couldnt stop thinking about how bad they could be and still force people to vote for them if they could run against Trump again.
It is true that FPTP is contrary to a well functioning democracy, but in USA it has become down to an insane option of intolerance and recklessness that since Trump was elected the first time has decidedly turned to fascism, against the less insane option.
But it is not only FPTP, it is also the whole concept of a President with extreme powers for a democracy.
A president like in USA will always boil down to 1 man, ultimately making it a binary option, and that man has way more power than any single person should have in a democracy.
There is absolutely no 2nd worst about Republicans. There is no way you can reasonably argue the Democrats are worse than the Republicans.
Republicans are the result of a feedback loop on insane rhetoric where psychopathy is interpreted as a symbol of freedom. And a government and media normalizing that psychopathic mindset.
In many cases that side of politics and media have completely lost contact with reality. That is textbook insane!
That's a waste of money, just throw yearly parties like new years
I just like fire. Everything is better with fire.
There should be a monument to Trump. USA needs a constant reminder of the danger of populists and Fascists. I suggest a huge public toilet.
So you're saying you hope people build monuments to the Cheeto when he's gone? Your post history suggests otherwise.
Tango was saying that it's sad that people probably will, in fact, build monuments to trump after he's gone. You said that makes you happy rather than sad. ddplf was asking if you meant what that sounded like, i.e., that you were happy some people would still be sincerely celebrating trump after his death.
A generation after the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy blanketed the country, and especially the South, with monuments to the traitors who fought and died for slavery.
Yes, I expect we'll find both the money and the will to build monuments to this abrasive corrupt man, this shrill soulless void of ego and need, this vile abuser of women and children, this screeching embodiment of our worst qualities.
If they do, I hope it's the same caliber as other confederate monuments.
Need to treat all Trump/MAGA memorabilia like Germans treat Nazi memorabilia- completely outlawed, with stiff penalties for possession.
You mean the Mussolini approach?
Yeah, a nice gas station mobile that can also be a pinata.
If President Newsom becomes a real thing, I will end my life.
You shouldn't let any politician have that kind of power over you.
You could put literally any of the worst people in history in charge, and I won't be killing myself. I may not survive, but it won't be me killing myself.
Please don't harm yourself
I don't want president Newsom. I want food and healthcare for all. I want taxes for billionaires. I want sustainable energy, not more fucking oil.
Newsom is a corporate shill. He will make things worse for the people of the United States just like he makes things worse for the people of California.
Maybe he didn't affect you personally in a way that you noticed, but he absolutely is making things worse for Californians.
we may have to vote for him anyway.
Speak for yourself.
He's the Next One Up
It's not a foregone conclusion. Fight a little harder for your life, please, you're taking us down with you.
Misspelled Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez.
Thanks, I misspelled Ocasio-Cortez.
the White House East Wing Restoration Project, headed to a presidential race near you!
Yep. Imagine how many corks will be popping if/when that happens. :)
Even better will be watching the people who at that point will probably be pretending they didn't vote for donnie and never really liked the guy trying not to say anything. :)
I'd imagine that will be the first thing to be torn down if the US ever gets their govt back. There's no way of knowing how many listening devices/spyware has been built into that thing.
"Ballroom and military base."
Like... What the fuck.
Part of me genuinely thinks it's some kind of phallic metaphor.
Narrator in 2028: they didnt.
Good, tear down the monuments already built for him when he dies
We should tear them down now and make him watch.
His entire family should. Up to and including Barron's kids if he ever has them.
Trump Memorial Septic Field has a nice ring to it.
They will have to bury him at sea or hide where he's buried for this very reason. The man is so reviled by so many that destruction and defilement would be daily.
His one yearly moment of self awareness.
When the meds kick in and he's mildly lucid
Confederate generals didn't build those. The Jim Crow South did a hundred years later to piss on the civil rights movement.
The people depicted on those statues didn't want monuments built to them in the first place. That's the difference between Trump and those guys.
They might have been racist upper class douchebags, but they didn't want to be remembered for their part in the most destructive and pointless war on American soil. They had a sense of shame, something Trump doesn't have.
Fucking die, and then we will see what happens next.
The world needs to take that disgusting name off of buildings, burn that horrible name from history.
Not build more pieces of shit monuments to put an even bigger piece of shit name on it. FUCK.
An amazing display of astuteness from a person I believed was singularly a dumbfuck narcissist.
Here's two scenarios: One, the fascists are completely defeated and lose all power. That's actually the situation where Trump will definitely get monuments. Just like the losers of the Civil War made a point to build a bunch of monuments celebrating what huge losers they were, similar losers will do the same for Trump.
A second scenario is that the fascists win. A dictator takes over and we lose all of our freedoms. If this happens, it won't be Trump, or at least it won't be Trump for long because he's so fucking old. He likely wouldn't be able to put one of his loser sons in charge, since they simply don't have whatever it is that Trump has. Even if they tried, I suspect some other Republican would easily seize power from him.
So that first real dictator Republican will want to glorify himself. He'll want to pretend like he seized power legally. As a result, it's quite likely that he'll blame everything on Trump. He'll point at Trump's insurrection in 2021 as proof that Trump was a bad guy. And everything that he says about Trump will be the sincere truth, because Trump really is one of the biggest villains in American history.
So anyways, my prediction is that if Trump "wins" and starts true fascism in America, just like he said, nobody will build monuments for him. Trump will be an easy scapegoat because all you have to do is say exactly what he actually did.
When he's out of office, Congress should pass a law that it's illegal to name anything after Trump, EXCEPT: Sewage Treatment Plants.
Then people who live near the plants can say things like "WOW, Trump is especially stinky today. Trump stinks much worse than usual."
That way you insult sewage plants which are important to keep out environment clean for everyone and actually clean things up instead of making a mess... both things do not really fit Trumps behavior.
we could build another flimsy fake gold statue of him and epstein holding hands to commemorate exactly who he was
It can be wonderful new public urinal!
The whole reason Clinton’s whole scandal was such a big deal is he got jealous. Hilary was begrudgingly fine but that was a stroke too many.
Yeah, no shit. We know that's why you are singularly obsessed with doing that right now vs. doing the actual job for the American people.
Also: we cannot wait to tear down anything associated with you.
I support the long standing tradition of damnatio memoriae. It's very fitting in this instance.
And were going to tear down anything he builds himself.
His death will be pretty monumental.
The MAGAs are going to be all pissed off when we celebrate! I can't wait to laugh in their sobbing faces.
Then they'll all start screaming at the Pope to make him a saint. I can't wait to see the pope's reaction to that.
We should find a sewer somewhere and name it after trump and put a statue of him there.
so he admits he's not as great as he makes himself out to be, and that he is such a large piece of shit, and isn't worthy of monuments being made for him or praising/celebrating him? wouldn't that be an indicator that he's not doing anything or has done anything that is monument worthy? if we wouldn't build them now, why would be build them in the future?
Oh you poor soul, it's not only that, they are likely going to tear down any monuments or rename them when you are gone as well.
I see no route where regardless of party who gets in in 2028 is going to keep any of the names either, like "Lake America" and "Gulf of America", it's such an insult to the rest of the world anyone running would decide against it and without any real opposition against tearing down the existing monuments made, I don't see any real blockers.
I do think that they are likely right that the ballroom or whatever it ends up actually being will stay, but everything else? I firmly expect won't be.
Putting it out there that I'll pay my way to DC and help tear down any of Trump's pet projects for no cost whatsoever.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias"
I might be stupid as f but what does this mean:
" Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear:"
"well those passions read", wat?
"the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" wat ?
The statue's features "tell" that the sculptor read those "passions" (the cold sneer, etc.) in the monarch's face, his general mood and way of treating the world. And in doing, those passions survive and appear in this statue.
I don't really understand "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed".
mocked=imitated. So the skill of the sculptors hand that was able to capture the emotions (passions) that came from Ozymandias' heart where those emotions truely lived. They were part of his core being, not an act or a face he had to put on to be able to rule.
It's saying the sculptor was exceptionally skilled and was able to capture the very essence of Ozymandias' being.
Ah, thank you, beautiful. So much of that passage amounts to "for real y'all, you could tell by looking, this dude was a jerk" lol
I'm more hoping to give him the Akhenaten treatment
the Lucius Crassius treatment is more apropos...
Why not both
If you need to build a monument to yourself, you don't deserve a monument. Building a monument to yourself is like giving yourself a plaque for a lifetime achievement award. It means a lot if you receive it from an organization representing your profession. It means nothing if you just have a plaque made and put it in your wall.
Does building an effigy to burn count?
He's absolutely wrong
Trump's fully primed to be at the center of a Messianic Cult once he's kicked it. People are going to be talking about the Second Coming of Trump for the next fifty years.
Let's be real we still have monuments to the biggest assholes in history who led a coup because they wanted to own other humans as property. If they get a statue, he'll get a few
He already has a statue. It's gold too. He's just crying for more attention
If someone makes an Trump Outhouse, people will build log cabins to appropriately memorialize him.
He'll get one, crudely built by a local, off of the side of the road in my county I'm sure. It will sit where the litter from passing trucks collects. It will become decrepit in the blazing sun and the cold winter wind. It will be constructed by a person Trump wouldn't have given a second's worth of attention to and whose life he would loathe. He would hate this monument dedicated to him. And for that, I am content.
I’ll piss on his grave.
Do it in the winter, he might get an ice sculpture. I’d be fine with this one.
Just send his corpse to iran
Dump in the ocean like that other famous terrorist.
So he agrees he's a terrible president.
The Jeff Epstein and Donald Trump national monument to pedophiles and fucking morons who lost wars.
that's not true. Germany has holocaust museums. Similar idea.
Instead, he and his goddamn wrecking crew of sycophants and foreign disruptors have managed to leave a massive scar of political polarization that would likely to be very difficult to remove from America, even decades to come.
I mean heck, we still have a scar of polarization from the Civil War for some pathetically stupid reason.
If anything I feel like our current wreckage just capitalized on those same divisions and made them deeper.
It really sucks, because this country can be really cool, when it wants to be...
That's capitalism. It requires to have a class of people that are bound by law but not protected who are easily exploitable. It was at first black people who were enslaved, Chinese migrants, and the Native population.
weird when these flashes of awareness shine through.
they're gonna have to hide his grave to keep people from forming a queue to piss on it
yeah, he's such a loser that not even Satan will.. maybe Netenyahoo will get some from Satan, Trump won't.
biggest loser of a president, biggest traitor. said that he will bring peace and that the world with Iraq was a mistake. 3 seconds after he got president he started a war with Iraq. can't make this shit up.
and his followers can't even put it together. Now war is peace for them.
btw, they should love the flock cameras the most. you gotta love state surveilence.
He started a war with Iran. It was the Republican president before him, Bush, who started a war with Iraq.
Trump was never against war in Iran or the Middle East and he’s not for it now.
Trump’s only interest and allegiance is to Trump and always has been. Donald J. Trump is what NPD would be if it came to life off the pages of a psychology textbook.
His grave
Thanks for leaving us the bill to tear all that shit down.
I will proudly build a monument for our dear and fearless leader. It shall rest at the head of his gravesite where only the most patriotic and virulent of Americans can stand and give him a shower of praise that he is oh so known for wanting.
Yes a golden shower shall forever rain down on him so he may forever rest in the Greatest way possible.
And whatever he does build will be torn down as soon as he's gone. Huge waste of time and money for everybody.
This is known as "a moment of clarity".
And if they do, some of us will take national tours for the express purpose of pissing on every one of them.
This is a rare moment of self-awareness from a creature that lives in an imaginary world.
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Upon his death, his body and possessions were transferred to a site in Anlong Veng where they were put into a pyre and burnt along Buddhist principles. Quite ironic when you consider the treatment given to the buddhists by the government of Democratic Kampuchea. There is a video of the aftermath of his funeral on YouTube. It is quite surreal to see one of the most notorious killers of the 20th century being burned with his toilet …
Trump has a gold toilet. Just sayin' ...
Melt it down and make him drink it.
Not only will we not build them, if he builds them for himself or vandalizes current monuments, we'll tear them down and recycle the material or sell it to provide free gender affirming care for trans people. Then we'll start public fundraisers for rebuilding the trump monuments so that the magat cult volunteers MORE money for--You guessed it!--the cycle to repeat until nobody would give a dime for a trump product as it should have been for all time.
I've replaced dump or shit with trump, and I've been calling my bathroom the oval office. As in "I've got a take a trump, I'll be in the oval office" The monuments to this piece of shit are made of porcelain and are already installed in all our homes.
I'd gladly donate to a trump memorial provided he puts it to use immediately. Big ol gaudy headstone, gold leaf, Jesus statue, the works.
Gilded marble toilet
Did you know there are still no monuments to me on Bajor! The disrespect.
There was literally a golden statue of him during CPAC a few years ago.
"Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone"
- Yoni Wolf's brother
He's gonna get exactly one: The Trump National Public Bathroom and Dog Washing Station
And a memory care ward named after him around the Villages.
Oh we will build monuments, but they will be in celebration of his death. Like a monument pile of maga trash then burned, or a monument pile of champagne bottles we will be popping.
In memorial, I will get all my brown Legos together for the biggest...
Damnatio memoriae would be more apt.
gee, i wonder why
Someone will. A paid toilet with monuments to you, you worthless piece of shit child-rapist. There will be one that's a monument of how ugly and fat you are-- people can just freely wizz on that one. There'll be a monument of how gross your asshole mouth is-- people can shit in that one. See! Lots of monuments and some smart entrepreneur making bank.
Oh, come on. We need something to piss and defecate on.
Well, actually... His grave will suffice. But like, imagine the lines everyone.
A nice faux-golden toilet on the national mall, complete with a Vichy France styled triumphal outhouse.
No shit, fuckwit lmao
I guess I could setup a toilet over his grave.
I usually make him at least one monument daily but it disappears when I twist the lever controlling water flow into the bowl.
I build my own monument to Trump every time I've had Taco Bell the night before.
That is absolutely not true. I'll personally be campaigning to see that he is entombed under Centralia, Pennsylvania... and then renaming the town to trumpsville. He always did like his name on things. It would only seem fitting to charge people to visit it... just like he would want.
Its the perfect monument. Poetic even. It only seems right to cast a demon into proverbial hell -in- earth... in a place where "corruption" destroyed society. Most yuuuuge monument ever. And honestly? Its win win. I figure eventually the fire will be put out from all the people coming to piss on his grave. The proceeds can benifit the homeless and starving... I call it "trickle" down economics. After all: aren't we due some winning?
Shit it'd probably be the closest he ever came to telling the truth.
Maybe we'll get a trump version of crazy-eyes nathan bedford forrest, but other than eyesores erected by bigots, he's not getting anything, no.
Putin will be the boyfriend who rewrites history, ie, She was a dirty whore. He’ll say that to the next Republican mail order bride he picks—who will be stupid enough to not see that the same thing will be said of them.
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Sounds like a big indicator that he probably shouldn’t have monuments
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