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    From Wikipedia:

    Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features the 60-foot (18 m) heads of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), as recommended by Borglum. The four presidents were chosen to represent the nation's birth, growth, development, and preservation, respectively.

    So, I wonder what Don is going to represent ?

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    It is sometimes interesting to do some more reading about certain places or events.

    In response to the above, I happened upon the following link:

    https://truthout.org/articles/trump-...ount-rushmore/

    which led on to:

    The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred in 1876 and 1877 between the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the U.S. government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills. Gold had been discovered in the Black Hills, settlers began to encroach onto Native American lands, and the Sioux and Cheyenne refused to cede ownership to the U.S.

    Among the many battles and skirmishes of the war was the Battle of the Little Bighorn, often known as Custer's Last Stand, the most storied of the many encounters between the U.S. army and mounted Plains Indians. That Indian victory notwithstanding, the U.S. leveraged national resources to force the Indians to surrender, primarily by attacking and destroying their encampments and property. The Great Sioux War took place under the presidencies of Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes. The Agreement of 1877 (19 Stat. 254, enacted February 28, 1877) officially annexed Sioux land and permanently established Indian reservations.

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    The demise, obvs!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    "Just 3 miles" isn't true.
    I think it likely that it was true when they wrote it. There may be a bit more now but it's still an insignificant amount. Repairing old wall doesn't count as new wall. Well, for Trump it might, but not in reality.
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    How do we know Trump supporters are thick as 2 planks? Because he needs to explain stuff to them like in the video below


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    And trump also claimed that the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 ended the Second World War. Another one of those things that nobody knows.
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
    those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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    He also started the 1918 pandemic in 1917.
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    Crikey, when the orange one passes over, the knowledge the World will be losing!


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    Joe Bennetts column in the DomPost this morning: https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/op...ction-campaign - quote "That is verbatim. I've added nothing except punctuation. Hurt the Bible? Hurt God? This is the language level of a snot-eating 4-year-old. The current tenant of the Oval Office belongs in syntactical kindergarten."
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    "hurt god"? LOL - you cannot hurt what does not exist. Remember folks "what may be asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence".
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    Coupla things from overnight our time. Rush Limbaugh had a stand in doing his RWNJ show. During the show it was claimed that Trump is extremely physically fit. How Trump attains this enviable state was not mentioned. Was it while he is lying in bed eating hamberders? Or is it during the two hours every morning he spends on hair and make up before he comes down to work at 11.00AM.

    The Republicans are attacking Democrat VP pick Kamala Harris for not being black. Her father was Jamaican, mother was from India. Levin on his show claimed there is no history of slavery in her family. Perhaps he thinks all those Africans went to Jamaica for their holidays.

    Other RWNJs are pointing out that her ancestors were slave owners. Many black people in the US and Caribbean have ancestors who were slave owners. Not that their female ancestors had any say in the events that lead to that situation.

    Even after years of Trump the stupidity is still astounding.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    The Republicans are attacking Democrat VP pick Kamala Harris for not being black. Her father was Jamaican, mother was from India. Levin on his show claimed there is no history of slavery in her family. Perhaps he thinks all those Africans went to Jamaica for their holidays.

    Other RWNJs are pointing out that her ancestors were slave owners. Many black people in the US and Caribbean have ancestors who were slave owners. Not that their female ancestors had any say in the events that lead to that situation.
    So, when left-wing activists do it, it's perfectly reasonable.

    But when someone who is supposedly Conservative does it - that makes them a Right Wing Nut Job.

    There's 2 issues here: Firstly - it's never reasonable to do it. And secondly the 'critique' from the Conservative side isn't that they believe these ideas it's that they are pointing out the Hypocrisy that the Democrats are failing to judge themselves by the same standards that they judge everyone else.
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    The new Trump appointed Postmaster General has banned overtime, tripled the price of mailing voting forms. The staff have been told to 'trash' all postal ballots and the postal inspectors who were considered uncorruptable have reportedly been fired. It would seem Trump has successfully killed postal voting.

    The Democrats can see what's happening, finally. Interferring with the US Mail is federal crime, but Trump has that covered with Barr in charge of the justice system.

    Because of the pandemic there is a shortage of people to staff the polling places, so unless there is a massive campaign to get young people to staff the polling places there will be a shortage. Voting in the US has always been a shambles but this looks likely to cross the line between difficult and impossible.

    And the Senators have gone home for six weeks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    The new Trump appointed Postmaster General has banned overtime, tripled the price of mailing voting forms. The staff have been told to 'trash' all postal ballots and the postal inspectors who were considered uncorruptable have reportedly been fired. It would seem Trump has successfully killed postal voting.
    ...
    And trashing mail sorting machines: https://news.yahoo.com/usps-shutting...174032640.html


    Edit: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...voting-by-mail

    "There's nothing wrong with getting out and voting. . . . They voted during World War I and World War II," Trump told Bartiromo.
    ... because wars where extremely little enemy action occurred inside the states, is comparable to an actual pandemic that's already killed many thousands.

    (And soldiers overseas did essentially use postal ballots.)

    What a knob.
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    All his opponents really need to do is repeat Trump's own words. Although he is trying legal action against someone to stop them doing that.

    Next best might be the words of his people?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsLaAbzVb9E
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    Would be super interesting to know what Trump has on Lindsay Grahame, it must be really, REALLY bad shit!


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