• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Destroying iconic architecture is his hobby. Trump Tower in NYC replaced the iconic Bonwit Teller building, which was one of the last standing examples of its distinctive architectural style.

    He announced his intention to tear it down, and historians went nuts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offered to take the famous bas relief sculptures from the facade, and he agreed.

    Then one morning, NYC woke up to Trump simply destroying the building, including the iconic friezes that he had promised to save.

    So destroying iconic architecture is just standard Trump behavior.

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        Honestly say this point be is everything the usa deserves. They deserve every pain every heartache and every atrocity they is happening.

        There is no reason this should have ever been allowed. So the checks and balances have been eroded for years by all parties involved and the people are actively letting it happen.

        It is absolutely terrible for many individual people who don’t deserve the horror they find themselves facing but the people en masse are to blame.

        Burn it to the ground and start over. Such a disgrace

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          The problem with the idea of burning it all to the ground and starting over is that’s exactly the Republican plan. Destroy so many institutions and cultural beliefs that there’s nothing left to stop them. Meanwhile Democrats are writing a strongly worded letter to the person swinging the sledgehammer.

          The better plan would be to fix what’s broken, I admit it may be too late though.

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            21 hours ago

            If the rest of America is going to let it happen then again that’s what they deserve

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              You are horrible for wishing this on us when the majority of us didn’t vote for this and never have voted for this. Your ignorance is embarrassing.

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            Well the USians have always been content to limp on a broken system, impotent to change it to a modern democracy. It’s not something that happened overnight or something we can blame ‘the Democrats’ for. It’s a failure of the people

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          I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that Trump got less than 50% of the popular vote, more than half the country wants nothing to do with him. The GOP has been playing the gerrymandering game to great effect to the degree that their candidates can lose the popular vote but still win the election.

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            You have to put the fucking stupid loser asshats who didn’t vote because <pearl clutching reason> into that basket of people who voted for him. We, the voters, have to do a better fucking job voting, specifically in the primaries. Something is really broken when 80% of voters don’t like the job congress is doing…then they reelect the same god damn awful representatives.

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        He has a tell when he is lying. It’s a bit tricky to spot, but when he opens his mouth you can tell he is lying

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          Not always true. He told the world he wanted to be a dictator. That he had help rigging the election. That he was going to deport all the immigrants, legal or otherwise.

          All true, and all happening. A lot of his followers thought those were lies though, because that was more convenient than admitting they had been had by a conman.

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            Agreed. I think a better summary would be to say if that he tells you what he is going to do, it’s usually true. Everything else before and after that is usually a lie.

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              I’d say, if what he says he’s going to do is going to benefit him personally in any way. He’s going to do it. If it doesn’t, it’s complete bullshit.