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What makes you think it won't happen? They have the votes for it.
So a single sycophantic congresswoman from Florida introduces a bill with no budget, no analysis on its feasibility, and no widespread interest from the Republican base; a bill that hasn't even gone to committee, yet alone be eligible for a vote; and you think that equals "they have the votes for it"?
Jesus fucking Christ, take a few minutes to learn just the bare fucking basics of how the government works. There's a Schoolhouse Rock video that even explains it nicely in song form.
ANY congressperson can submit a bill for anything. It doesn't take much at all. Tomorrow a congressperson could submit a bill saying that nails are illegal and all meat products are to be replaced by stone figurines of Marie Antoinette. It doesn't mean anything! Congresspeople create this kind of crap literally all the time! It's not worth talking about until it has slightly more than a snowball's chance in hell of having support.
The rockface isn't actually sufficently stable to survive adding a 5th face.
They try to add Trumpo, they're very likely to end up with NO faces.
So yeah, I doubt they'd actually go through with it.
Oh my gosh, this would be amazing. I hope they fuck the entire thing up. It shouldn't be there in the first place.
Better yet, they will, and the whole abomination will crumble.
You're saying you think Trump will not only understand that and not insist on doing it anyway?
Imagine if his own face fell off the mountain and crushed him and jd at the opening ceremony.
Ahahahahahaha
In that case fuck yeah let's go
At that point might as well just do it Taliban style. A row of tanks shoot at it until the mountain is just a mountain again.
Build the shitty Trump carving, let people pay to shoot tanks at it, and use it to fundraise to build the Crazy Horse monument.
Like any of the GOP give a second though to logistics, cost, or ethics for their vanity projects? Like Trump isn't used to half assing construction jobs? Like he isn't above blowing Lincoln's face to bits to replace it with his own if he has to?
Thanks for the little bit of science that says this won't happen. It makes me feel better.
I'm just hopeful enough that 'If you do this, you stand a very very good chance of completely destroying a national monument.' is enough to get at least a few of the less-nutty Republicans to balk.
If nothing else, we love our monuments and symbols, and destroying one to put his face on it is proooobbbbaaaallllllly too far, still.
Oh it doesn't mean it won't happen, they're just as likely to fuck up the whole thing by trying it anyway.
We can obviously listen to the science of it and know it won't work, but they don't believe in science.
Yeah I'm surprised nobody said this before. That was exactly my first thought. When has something not being practical or helpful stopped Trump and his minions?
Reminds me of an old Isaac Asimov story.
There's a floating city called Atlantis. It's the headquarters of the tyranny. One insider figures out a way to sabotage the place and crash it, using the leader's own vanity against him.
"Shah Guido G."
https://archive.org/details/buyjupiterothers0000isaa_f2u3
Longest shaggy dog story ever.
Play around with the title for a few minutes. Start with the last three letters.
Oh I'm aware 😉 I have an old copy of his short story compilation, "Buy Jupiter" and he comes right out and says it in the author's notes.
You'll appreciate this story about a story.
Asimov once wrote a science fiction mystery about a murder committed during a game of pool.
He gave it to the editor with the title 'Billiard Ball.'
The editor liked it, but he told Isaac that a punnier title would have be "Dirty Pool."
They do not have the votes. There's still the filibuster in the senate and unless they are willing to blow that up (they likely aren't) this bill will be dead in the senate.
You don’t think they’ll “blow up” the filibuster, but not make it contingent on only when republicans are in power?
Rules haven’t mattered for decades. Why would they start now?