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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 20 days ago

"It's a disgrace": Enraged Democrats vow to fight "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming

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"It's a disgrace": Enraged Democrats vow to fight "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 20 days ago
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  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    I’m more concerned about the Trump Supreme Court, the Trump dept. of Justice, and the Trump military, but this is pretty bad too. It’s nice to see the Democrats have found an issue worth fighting for.

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      “i still can’t pay my rent next month, but thank god the Kennedy Center is not called Trump-Kennedy Center.” - Democratic voter, probably

    • criscodisco@lemmy.world
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      This is nothing but a distraction/rage bait. The democrats are losing the plot, yet again.

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    The name is established in code by congress. The board doesn’t have the power to change the name.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/76i

    Hakeem Jeffries says renaming of Kennedy Center is illegal

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      And that will stop him how again? Illegal or outside the scope of his powers as president mean less than zero to Trump and his cronies.

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        They can pretend the name has changed. In a Gulf of Mexico kinda way.

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      Same for the department of defense.

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    Oh, I see. This is where they make their stand? This was too much for them? They’re all worthless bastards.

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      You know, I’d almost hope he wastes time on building that stupid arch he’s talking about, because I look forward to it getting demolished just like his shitastic casino.

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    Great, thanks.

    So how about we get enraged and vow to fight the blatant fascism going on in [gesturing about broadly].

    Too much to ask?

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    Or you know you could do your jobs as law keepers and throw the fucking felon in prison instead of this preformative bullshit

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    Bullshit. They don’t fight for actual millions of their constituents. Why would they fight for a building name?

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      Because the building name doesn’t affect their billionaire megadonors.

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      The other question you should ask yourself is why don’t Republicans fight for the millions of their constituents?

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    • boydster@sh.itjust.works
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      This is the kind of thinking we need to be sending to office, people

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    This is exactly the kind of symbolic trivia that establishment Democrats are going to fight for so that they can pretend to themselves and others that they hold beliefs and are accomplishing something all while having no principles and doing nothing substantive.

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    oh look, something they vow to stop.

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    With a strongly worded letter of disapproval. I could give a fuck about the name change. I’m more concerned about the Dems being OK with being swindled about the health care vote, the potential war with Venezuela, and the SCOTUS ruling on the 14th amandment.

    Compared to those, he could name it the Epstein center for all I care.

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    who gives a shit what he names things. we will un name them in 2029 if we can get our shit together and send the Republican Party to hell where it belongs.

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    Just leave it. Let him rename freeways after his kids. Let him go as extreme as we can tolerate. We are learning to run and we have to trump a nice bruise so we learn to never trump again ever.

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