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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At the end, when we finally are putting him in prison for the rest of his life, the sentence should include having Obama's smiling face tattooed on his forehead.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

You're delusional if you think Americans are ever rising up to put him in prison.

[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump belongs in exactly one place.

[–] grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Toilet? Puddle of mud? Wood chipper? Don't leave me hanging...

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

A rope which gets lowered into a vat of acid one mm per day?

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

You are much too kind.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Better choose a place nobody wants to use for a few decades, since the ground he goes in will be barren for quite some time.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Put up a sign at the gate. Maybe something like...

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd imagine maybe the soil around it might be very fertile, rather than barren. You know, with all the people repeatedly taking a shit on it.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

All the piss will offset it and ruin the PH though.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago

Sidenote: a few years back somebody postulated that humans can't take a shit without pissing due to muscles something something...

I got up and went to the toilet. Proved them wrong. Didn't show them the proof though.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Sex offender registry

[–] X@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Aka RFK Jr's hot tub.

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Trump's face is a fucking problem no matter how, what, why, when or where.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone that fugly needs to stop forcing us to look at them

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

I was wondering the other day if a reporter looked like him if he woukd still call him ugly like he does all the time.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think his tombstone should be a public urinal, though

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

It will be the world's biggest and most popular urinal.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

Would be the US version of Mecca and the pilgrimage just to piss in it!

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rather than putting his name on a tombstone, I'd say no tombstone at all. Maybe just a plaque that says, "Here lies a man who ran for president in 2020 and was defeated by Joe Biden."

Then aggressively remove his name from everything he ever put it on, even his children. His name should be on nothing except every list of famous pedophiles. Because that's the exact opposite of what he wants.

Damnation memories. Hell yeah.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Can we force Obama photos on registered Republicans after?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not even in the UK, where the monarch is on coins, banknotes, and postage stamps, the monarchs face appears on the passport. Even though the passports are officially issued in his name.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

At that point, they're on everything else, I don't see why a passport would be a boundary.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I'm wondering if "HM" on everything was like an old kings graffiti tag that got out of hand and made its way into official shit.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The only way we should see trump's face is in the history books. C'mon time, do your thing.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They get what they deserve ... let him plaster his dumb face over everything to just keep reminding every American just how dumb they all are.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ah yes, all. We ALL voted for trump and have no issue with him. ALL of us.

[–] Davin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, I feel you, but also I feel like not enough people will vote when we get a chance because they didn't last time. And if people won't do something like walk into a building and mark a piece of paper, I have doubts they'll do more than that. So yeah, plaster that fuckers face on everything. Have everyone look at his stupid ugly face until they do something about it.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

not enough people will vote when we get a chance because they didn't last time

Law of Large Numbers

LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS

LAW OF LARGE FUCKING NUMBERS

Sorry, but I want to scream whenever people try to say if just more people voted the election would have been different. You know what would change if more people voted? Practically nothing. The percentages would have been pretty much the same.

~65% of eligible voters voted last election. That is MORE than enough of a sample size for the Law of Large Numbers to come into effect, and you can try to talk about demographics, or suppression, or the psyche of people who don't vote, but I promise you the Law of Large Numbers does not give a shit and the percentages would not change.

We have to face the fact that yes, over 50% of the US really did support Trump. You can not assume that non voters would fall anywhere else.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the topic of enough people to vote, we don't get a day off to vote. It isn't a national holiday. People are already living paycheck to paycheck. We have some people paying for food in installments, for fuck's sake. Assuming people can get to the polls, there are lines that don't seem to end, and a finite time where they're allowed to vote, sometimes not enough for those in line to actually cast a ballot. All this is assuming things are working WELL. There were so many issues with the last election, from bomb threats shutting down polling locations, locations just not getting offered in the first place, intimidating individuals standing nearby, I think I remember hearing at least one location running out of ballots, the list is long. I'm fortunate that my state does mail in voting, and even that is under attack by shortening the time we have to turn in our ballot. I agree, more people need to vote, but we also need to be sure they are actually able to vote. I'm not talking about ineligible individuals trying to cast ballots, but rather people who couldn't or weren't able to because of the bullshit tactics that, for some reason, go largely unpunished.

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

The voter suppression fight in the US is real and it's getting to be a bigger and bigger problem thanks to the enabling Rs helping their autocrat to destroy democracy slice by slice. That will be a fight as long as the Donvict has any power. Not that I will give up fighting it.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wasn't commenting on who voted for who (or who did or didn't vote) .... I was just commenting on the general stupidity of the American public who all allow, put up with, ignore or just generally accept as normal this circus show as their government.

[–] halferect@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Don't worry it's coming to a country like yours

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You really showed me. I really showed how stupid I am by implying that not every American voted for this fascist.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First time is an anomaly, second time is a pattern. He IS the US, he is the animus of the US. He is you.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This is absolutely brilliant. I'm printing and framing this thread because my mind has been BLOWN.

[–] karashta@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I need to renew my passport...

I really don't want his ugly face on it.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Do it now. He's a reason to have an up to date passport.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Unless you physically go to the state department office in DC, you're fine. All online renewals and all other branches use the old design.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it illegal to modify a passport?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Yes. Any damage also makes it invalid.

[–] blackbeans@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Put the passport in a removable sleeve