US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

look at this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGHdJIwiHg

right now it's a brass band playing popular patriotic hits from the late 1800s while the camera shows a zoomed in shot of mount rushmore lit up by lights and occasional birds flying by in the night

oh, maybe it just concluded. that would explain the c-span after the speech vibe

not watching this but I'm hearing it's like a Vic Berger edit in real time

be a shame if the fireworks became sentient and started destroying people

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-mount-rushmore.html

Under the granite gaze of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump announced plans to establish what he described as a “vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live,” an apparent repudiation of the growing pressure to remove statues tied to slavery or colonialism.

As he arrived, Air Force One performed a flyover of Mount Rushmore. His campaign promoted the stunt online, calling him “the coolest president ever.”

It’s called the hall of fame and it’s in upper Manhattan and no one goes there and it was never “finished”

will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live,

it will include both andrew jackson and donald trump, 100% guarantee

No, but Scalia!!

This is the proposed list of statues in the National Garden of American Heroes from Trump's executive order. pic.twitter.com/l918TFdgnq

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 4, 2020

(I mean, I guess it could also include Trump and Jackson. But they're not mandated in the EO.)

Under the granite gaze of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump announced plans to establish what he described as a “vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live,”

Finally, what this nation needs: inert symbols of nostalgia

John Wayne

— Kem Kromik (@KemKromik) July 4, 2020

captain kirk

xposts

i can't believe there's actually a list! in the EO!

loooooool it's like a 7th grade class project

where the hell is ayn rand

she's as american as they come

sorry. there's a list of greatest americans for the new statue garden in an executive order? ahhahahah

and scalia is on it

would rush limbaugh be in the garden if he died?

the answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind

billy graham

The only religious nutjob Steven Miller can remember the name of.

Hope Tubman enjoys being a statue instead of getting on the $20.

Tesla is another brilliant suggestion from the comments

QAnoners are reporting that Melania wearing an Alexander McQueen dress tonight is a signal that Time's Up for famous paedos.

Trump must have got inspiration from his last trip to Moscow

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR4raSbFJPGAcDxpRB3wFVD2rzK2rrErUHujQ&usqp=CAU

Haha, DJTJ's blow-up doll has tested positive for Covid-19.

was just about to say, please do not call women "blow-up dolls," it's really sexist and fucked up.

The desire to tone police what we call right wing nitwits who are actively trying to kill people is a weird thing to me always but ymmv

there's probs a way to do it without sounding like a sexist

I am absolutely sexist toward DJTJ’s new slam piece, yes.

stop it

I mean it's not so much "tone policing" as suggesting maybe don't use the language of misogynists when describing women, even those who seem entirely awful and are dating awful men, but whatevs

additionally, it's about sculpting what kind of space we want ilx to be. "slam piece" and "blow-up doll" are the language of juvenile misogynists. this isn't 4chan and as a group i believe we all want more women to feel comfortable posting and conversing here, not fewer.

otm

Hey remember that Kentucky primary?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/04/coronavirus-voting-kentucky-primary-348611

Coronavirus has upended elections around the country since the pandemic landed in America, and last month, Kentucky was feared to be the next disaster. National figures from Hillary Clinton to LeBron James warned of impending calamity in the state, focusing on a dramatic decrease in polling places, especially in Louisville.

But after the votes came in, Kentucky earned measured praise from voting rights advocates for how it largely sidestepped the missing ballots, long lines and other problems faced by many states amid coronavirus. The Democratic governor and Republican secretary of state reached bipartisan agreement on a massive expansion of absentee voting, leading to the highest primary turnout in Kentucky since the hard-fought 2008 presidential primary.

Hmm wonder why no women post here any more? Could it be the unironic use of honestly pretty fucking extreme misogynist language? No must be something else.

What about “Great Value Melania”

saw that today and chuckled

Misogynistic language doesn’t help, but if you think that’s the only reason women don’t post as much...

I value the women who post here greatly, and I would be highly pissed off if some smartass flexing their locker room slang turned ilx into another internet dude ranch

No of course. Necessary but not sufficient.

I guess it ain't kayfabe after all

I thought twitter’s hide replies feature was dumb. I have been proven wrong. pic.twitter.com/4JXvpQhJId

— keyvan (کیوان) (@shafieikeyvan) July 3, 2020

have you ever met, seen, observed, heard about, read about, or know anything about Kimberly Guilfoyle? that term is actually polite where she's concerned.

also: she was in Rapid city meeting with donors, zero mask, then apparently tested positive for Covid. Anyway I'm particularly irked by this because my mom lives in Rapid, which doesn't have very high numbers, but thanks Kimberly, for coming into town and being a super spreader, my mother starts chemo in a week and still has to live in the city you shed your fucking viral goo all over.

also, can't someone just take Trump to a Madame Tussaud's and tell him his garden is complete?

"blow-up doll is a compliment for THIS woman i dislike" is BS in the same way that "blow-up doll" is in the first place

imho

xxpost and then embalm him alive

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