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'Wicked' Composer Stephen Schwartz Cancels Kennedy Center Event After Trump Name Change
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"The Donald J Trump and The John F Kennedy" is among the most pathetic shit in history. It looks and sounds so hacked together and amateurish. I can't wait for them to honor Trump's passing by removing that shit. Fucking sleep, imbecile.
THE Donald J Trump and THE John F Kennedy Center for Artists Who Can't Perform Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
We cannot have another Biden or Ford type who comes in and is like "let's just let bygones be bygones and move forward productively."
We need someone who's going to be there holding a press conference, passing out champagne to folks as the workers rip those letters down and throw them in a dumpster. Not just this, but every other thing he's tarnished and destroyed. Fix it loudly, fix it proudly.
We can and we will. That's the only kind of politician Wall Street will bankroll for the job
"We put up a bill to fund a committee to begin discussing a name change, but the Republicans blocked it. There's nothing we can do"
Mamdani EOd the undoing of over a years worth of Eric Adam's EOs. there are people who are willing to do it and they can win.
I am excited by an administration that is the exception to the rule. We have a County Judge down in Houston who is a similar exception. After eight years in office during which she has been at war with the state nearly continuously, sued, harassed, slandered, and threatened with deportation, she's done little to change Harris County in no small part thanks to opposition from within her own party.
A great politician, an amazing bureaucrat, a wonderful person, but entirely without the institutional support enjoyed by Corrupt-o-crats like Henry Cueller and John Whitmire.
that's great, fighting the good fight. we need to be amplifying these type of people, showing folk that change is possible, showing the dnc that progress is actually important to us.
I couldn't possibly agree more.
I had this thought on "if I was president" and in theory the executive order would be legal and "generic enough" to not be seen as a targeted thing.
"Any Federally Name entity should have their name reverted back to how it was named at conception or its last Congressional approved name."
Gulf of Mexico comes back, Trump's name gets just eradicated from existence, DoD is back.
I am sure there are some things I obviously missed the history of name changes on, but still probably an overall positive to just removing that shitstain "legacy" from our history.
Ok? I mean throwing Miller and Hegseth in prison on day 1 might be seen as targeted anyway, so I wouldn't be too concerned about that.
Absolutely. The next Dem prez needs to be a warrior, who will come away from his inauguration saying "Round up all those MAGA motherfuckers and send them to Gitmo." We'll sort them out over the next few months. Immediately revoke ALL MAGA executive orders and legislation.
Confiscate the entire Trump estate, and start investigations of the estates of ALL of his Sociopathic Oligarch associates, starting with Musk, Theil, Ellison, etc. beginning with full freezes on their entire estates. Their passports are suspended, and their international travel assets frozen, no planes or yachts. They will remain on America, while their alleged crimes are fully investigated.
MAGA must be declared a domestic terror organization, and a serious national security threat, and crushed mercilessly and ruthlessly. They need to be removed from our government and society, prohibited from existing, and their followers prohibited from ever running for elected office under 14A/S3.
That’s a nice fantasy, but no Democrat will ever do this. It would cause too much disruption to business.
You are 100% correct about the past elected Dems, and most of the current ones.
But there is a new breed of Dem rising, like AOC, Frost, Crockett, Smallwell, etc. They are the sorts of courageous warrior Democrats that we need as leaders. We have to get rid of the virtuosically mediocre losers like Schmuck Schumer and Jeffries who have partnered with MAGA to hand America over to the worst predators in the world, so they can exploit us ruthlessly.
The 2026 Midterms is almost certainly going to be a turning point for Progressive and Socialist Democrats, and give them a solid coalition of power in Congress. If they use that opportunity to act boldly and decisively, then they can increase their representation in 2028, and get even more powerful.
The opportunity is ahead of us, if they don't squander it the way Biden did so irresponsibly. I'll never forgive him for that.
I upvote and say FUCKING YES. And I say this as a tippy iPhone user who has to press a butting for every capital.
Coming next:
The Donald J Trump and The Adolf Hitler Museum of Fine Arts.
I feel like that's an insult to Hitler, he may have had shit taste in art but he at least had a taste. I doubt Trump has the fundamental ability to appreciate anything.
At least Hitler tried to be an artist, so there's that. Donvict's Daddy got him into Wharton for business, and seemingly learned abso-fucking-nothing about how to even run a business, something millions of people manage to do better than Donvict.
Donvict's idea of "art" is gaudy shit covered in gold.
I suspect the only reason that he likes gold is because he knows there's an association with power and prestige but is too stupid to get that there's more subtle symbolism within that.
Would be extremely funny if the name doesn't get changed until twenty years after he's out of office, because some string of cowardly dipshits don't want to rock the boat while he's still alive.
Oh hell no, as soon as trump dies, all republicans with "suddenly realize" that trump was as horrible as he actually is. They'll blame every trump created problem, as well as every other GOP created problem on the, then, dead trump. The GOP will then take their victory lap for "coming out of the darkness and cleaning up Washington". Meanwhile any living GOP person that had a hand in crafting or enabling trump and all his sins will walk away scot free.
Nah. He's to embedded in the bullshit machine. As soon as he dies, he's going to be retconned as a Bush Neocon and enshrined alongside Calvin Coolidge and Ronnie Raygun.
All the problems will be laid at the feet of Barrack Hussein Obama, the fake cheater DEI President who stole both elections and destroyed the economy with Socialism.
They do this after every handover from a Dem administration. "We restored honor and integrity to the White House" was a Bush line, following his defeat of Al Gore in '00.
They'll walk right into the next administration. Steven Miller is with us for the rest of our lives. He'll be running a Think Tank worth $100M+ by the time he's 50.
Well, the word "defeat" is doing a lot of work, there. More like after the Republicans stole the 2000 election for W.
Gore did not get to be president in 2001, therefore he lost
Thats going to be hard, and unnecessary, sell as its not Obama's name now plastered on the Kennedy Center. Obama was already out of office for 8 years when half the White House was demolished. A chunk of MAGA is already upset with trump. Trying to turn that ship would be time consuming and expensive when its much easier to simply blame the dead trump for all the problems. The GOP wouldn't be able to claim they've "cleaned house" without pinning all the problems on the last one in charge, that being trump.
They won't need to. Their next guy will make Trump seem competent in comparison, just like Trump did with George W. Bush. He'll be looked back on with nostalgia.
That's okay, because every major media company is now run by a conglomerate of Silicon Valley fascists.
Democrats will win a majority in 2026 and immediately get the blame for the nosediving economy in 2027
And the MSM will help them construct all those lifeboats and even probably help them burn their Nazi uniforms.
I don't see this asshat living 20 years beyond his term. With those hands and the way he's shuffling around and talking about "acing" a cognitive exam, etc., I don't know if he's going to last his whole term.
Dick Cheney made it an extra 15 years after his heart stopped beating.
I'm not sure procedures like having a cardiac defibrillator implanted for an irregular heartbeat or an LVAD is quite the same thing.
What's next? The Trump-Lincoln Memorial? The Trump-Washington Monument, with "Trump" in giant letters, vertically down the entire length?