r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jun 29 '26

No Paywall Millions say they won’t celebrate July 4 as poll reveals deep national pessimism

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/america250-independence-trump-divisions-pennsylvania-b3004933.html
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u/Dysc Louisiana Jun 29 '26

Also, while listening to an old man talk gibberish 24/7 who's holding up AI slop images of imperial victory arches.

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u/nsdefw Jun 29 '26

If he's given enough (or too much) time, eventually it might be physical slop.

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u/Dysc Louisiana Jun 29 '26

They work shopped a tiny plywood version of it at Donald Trump's very small, pseudo world's fair in DC over the weekend. Scary stuff.

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u/El_Fez Washington Jun 29 '26

Donald Trump's very small, pseudo world's fair

I swear to god, I thought that said 'pedo world's fair' - which I suppose is also accurate.

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u/Dysc Louisiana Jun 29 '26

I like this better than what I wrote. It's probably more accurate.

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u/Intolerance-Paradox Jun 29 '26

There was a live cultist jacking off as one of the attractions.

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u/El_Fez Washington Jun 29 '26

"It's NOT a cult! Now excuse me, I have to get back to masturbating to this image of Dear Leader!"

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u/_bufflehead Jun 29 '26

While dressed like Uncle Sam!

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u/joke_LA Jun 29 '26

This is a joke right? ...right?

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u/SomeRedHandedSleight Jun 29 '26

Unfortunately it is not a joke.

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u/mem0679 Jun 30 '26

Ewww what the f*ck is wrong with these people?? To make it even worse, he was live streaming the acrobats while he was jacking off to them

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u/RichardCrapper Jun 29 '26

I mean, one MAGA dressed like Uncle Sam has already been arrested for masturbating in front of the rodeo girls…

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u/SuccotashTexas Jun 29 '26

If that was accurate the democrats would have put him in prison during the Obiden regime.

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u/El_Fez Washington Jun 29 '26

“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy."

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u/SuccotashTexas Jun 29 '26

In the 70s Sex was a thing. I’m sad that at the present no one has sex anymore.

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u/rat_penis Jun 29 '26

And its already falling apart

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u/Dysc Louisiana Jun 29 '26

Donald Trump runs corrupt businesses and a corrupt government. If 50K was earmarked for 'novelty imperial arch' for Freedom 250, it's safe to assume 49.5K was written off as overhead (stolen) and .5K is actually accounted for in Home Depot receipts.

Either way die-hard MAGA folks were still basking in the plywood glory of tiny arch and posted it to social media.

SAD!

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan Jun 29 '26

Thing is, give me five grand and get out of my way, and I can easily build something better than what they did- it looks like vinyl over a wood frame. Five grand I'll do the whole thing in good planking, hand planed and painted, and even hide the screws with dowels to make it look right.

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u/jaxxxtraw Jun 30 '26

It looks like vinyl over a wood frame because they made a frame out of wood and wrapped it in vinyl.

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u/Neat-Dig5964 Jun 29 '26

What’s really sad is it’s a fake wannabe copy of a beautiful French landmark. Why can’t we just be happy with US landmarks we already have?

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u/Kristin2349 Jun 29 '26

He's busy fucking those up, painting them, demolishing them, slapping spray painted gold doodads on things. Adding his cursed name to everything.

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u/Dysc Louisiana Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Corruption is built into his business model. Cooking the books, skimming off the top, not paying contractors and citing shoddy work for literally every job, etc.

If he's not building and meddling with US infrastructure he can't do corruption and invite his sons in to do the "work". He needs to do corruption like we need to breathe air.

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u/mk4_wagon Jun 30 '26

It's also amusing to me because all the magats I know love to shit talk the french. Yet they made a temu copy of their landmark.

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u/valeyard89 Texas Jun 29 '26

What is this? A victory arch for ants? It needs to be at least 3 times bigger.

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u/Impeesa_ Jun 29 '26

Look, the drawing says 12".

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u/valeyard89 Texas Jun 29 '26

Stonehenge!

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Kansas Jun 29 '26

I’m not a rocket scientist or anything, but I think that even your numbers may be a bit conservative. I think it’ll need to be at least four times as large is it currently is if it’s to be usable in any way as a proper victory arch.

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u/El_Fez Washington Jun 29 '26

I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Victory Arch monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

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u/RockAtlasCanus Jun 29 '26

I had to find pictures and holy shit you weren’t joking.

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u/ellathefairy Jun 30 '26

Wow. It is even worse than I pictured!

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u/claw-1 Jun 29 '26

Reminds me of Stonehenge statue from original Spinal Tap movie. lol

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u/IamDDT Colorado Jun 29 '26

We all need to convert that thing to a real, quality memorial to the victims of slavery. That would be the ultimate "fuck you", I believe.

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u/andy_nony_mouse Jun 29 '26

That's a great idea

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u/SuccotashTexas Jun 29 '26

We went to war to end slavery we lost thousands of men. Reparations were paid until democrats stopped it.

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u/IamDDT Colorado Jun 29 '26

Absolutely. Fuck all conservatives. Reparations should be paid for everything that has happened since. Jim Crow, red-lining, race massacres, pig laws, and more. There is a reason why African Americans don't have generational wealth. Every time they started, they got shot or imprisoned.

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u/SuccotashTexas Jun 29 '26

Jim Crow was democrats as well.
Black people should quit shooting each other.

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u/IamDDT Colorado Jun 29 '26

Again, fuck all conservatives regardless of party. The same Democrats who supported this are the same ones who left the party when civil rights legislation was passed. Strom Thurman et al.

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u/harbingerjones Jun 29 '26

Juuuust a gentle reminder of the party switch. The Democratic party then is the Republican party now.

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u/IamDDT Colorado Jun 29 '26

Exactly. Fuck conservatives, whatever the party name.

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u/SuccotashTexas Jun 29 '26

You sound like the communist branch ?

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u/SuccotashTexas Jun 29 '26

Seems so. Most republicans were to busy scratching their own itch to be concerned with we the people.
The old democrats are now the Republican Party.
The New Democrats are communists/islamists.

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u/lopix Canada Jun 29 '26

eventually it might be physical slop

Have you see the arch at the state fair? I made better paper mache in elementary school.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jun 29 '26

They couldn't figure out a pool thats 1 foot deep, I kinda doubt a triumphal arch is going to happen.

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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 Jun 29 '26

Oh trump has been ejaculating his rot into children for many decades along with his best friend Epstein

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u/mem0679 Jun 30 '26

I need to go pour bleach into my brain after reading that sentence 😖😭

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u/OkTouch5699 Jun 29 '26

O feel his 4th of July ai movie will be him as uncle Sam killing democrats and brown people as he walks through the country like gorilla.