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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 7 days ago

Trump and Epstein Statue in D.C. Vanishes Despite Legal Permit

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Trump and Epstein Statue in D.C. Vanishes Despite Legal Permit

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 7 days ago
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Trump’s Goons Topple 12-Foot Statue of Him and Epstein
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The 12-foot bronze had got a permit from the federal government—but then vanished.
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    I thought MAGA liked statues of traitors.

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      Weren’t most of them in the statues Democrats ?

      Such a confusing time. Republicans demonizing living Democrats while idolizing the dead ones that living Republicans try use the same dead Democrats to try and prove that the living Republicans aren’t racists.

      So confusing.

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        The Democrats of the Civil War era do not hold the same values as the Democrats of today, same as the Republicans of each era. It is pointless for anyone to act like the name of a party a given politician belonged to 160 years ago means anything in 2025 terms.

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          True. Though current Republicans are all “The Party of Lincoln”.

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            Budweiser is “The King of Beers”. RFK Jr. is a Kennedy.

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        In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidates Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party so consistently that the voting pattern was named the Solid South. The strategy also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right. By winning all of the South, a presidential candidate could obtain the presidency with minimal support elsewhere.

        Try harder.

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        The parties basically flip flopped starting with FDR and the new deal era.

        As someone else commented this was also exacerbated later on with the “Southern strategy”

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          Also before the Southern strategy the parties could vary massively on a regional level, for example in one county you may have had pro slavery Democrats while in the next one over you could’ve had ones who were anti-slavery and really into agricultural research.

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        Maybe confusing if you think party labels are the important thing rather than ideology and how you treat fellow human beings.

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        I mean about as confusing as the Tory / Conservative cross over in the uk.

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        I don’t care what the downvites say. I like the cut of your jib.

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    They removed it? But that’s our heritage!

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      Their friendship lasted longer than the Confederacy.

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      How are we going to learn about history without statues?

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    “Disappears.”

    The area it was in probably has 50 cameras around it. There’s footage of it being removed somewhere.

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      Read the article. Park personnel toppled it, broke it, then removed it in parts. No mystery here. They got orders to demolish and did so with fascist fashion finesse.

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        It was updated with that, and the title changed.

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    Why are they trying to erase history?

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    He wouldn’t shut the fuck up about Obama’s Birth Certificate until Obama released it. Now we won’t shut the fuck up about the Epstein files until he releases them. What goes around comes around Donnie.

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    Will they replace it with the Epstein files?

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    Hey, maybe every American should put Trumpstein lawn jockeys in their yard! 😂

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    Barbara Streisand says: I had no idea this existed until now

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    There is no statue! If there had been any statue it was a Libs statue.

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    The rule of law in the USA doesn’t mean much any more.

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    Look for a loud, dumb, small-penised white man. Unfortunately, Trump has an alibi.

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      Look for a loud, dumb, small-penised white man

      Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? Shit, man, I technically qualify! 😩

      (And no; I didn’t take it.)

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    Sue for damages

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    I am ANTIFA

    Come and get me you bastards.

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    deleted by creator

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    Oh so now it’s ok to take down statues…

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      It’s muh heritage!

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