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Is this fuckning North Korea ?
Feb 9, 2025 4:42 AM
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Is this fuckning North Korea ?
Bunnies007
And he will, no doubt, rename it the Trump Center.
joeyecho101
OtherEllie
I'm just going to leave this relevant link here for anyone unaware of how fascists use control of art to control "rightness of thought"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Nazi_Germany
TheLiteraryMachine
Brian Tyler Cohen is also on BlueSky. You don't have to get his tweets from Twitter.
CrackWhoresAndCheese
Sounds like the Village People are getting a Kennedy Center Award.
LittleChickadee
My 1st thought!
bittenicht39
Give it two or three months, and he will rename it Trump Center.
ApatheticQ
Exactly what I was thinking. What an ass hat.
NepLeet
White trash gotta trash.
Scar1203
I chose a terrible time to quit drinking.
yellwfever
lx469
what is that from? Despite I dont think I am right, is it "Parker Lewis cant lose"?
FabulouslyTiti
Nope, it is Ace Ventura: Pet Detective! :D
jetact12
IT IS NOW UNLESS WE PHYSICALLY STOP IT.
wannasee
Hitler was a terrible artist and Trump will be a terrible chair, in kind.
Mirrormancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQI_ujEYGM
We should terminate the presidency for vote tampering.
CanIGetSomeExtraSalt
I can't tell if we're being trolled by headlines or if this chaos is really happening
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
It's a serous problem.
Pentjotal
They are throwing shit everywhere, just hoping they'll steal as much money they can and nobody will see it
keddren
This is directly out of Steve Bannon's playbook of flooding the zone.
BelleDuBlerg
Bryan Tyler cohen is real news. We are at midnight on the doomsday clock and I give us 18 months max before total collapse
StarscreamAndHutch
America is running on inertia now. My outlook is not as good as yours.
KrondorMocker
You switch to a different email program then... /s
ThatHurts
Word. That joke excelled. PowerPoint.
brainkandle1
Take OneNote(s) so you can remember this later
xmaneds
several high-quality reputable news centers reporting the same thing on this topic
Bunnies007
All the worst dictators of the past sought to control the culture of their countries - Stalin, Hitler, Mao. Pol Pot and now Trump.
DatDarthCaedus
Article for anyone who wants to read more about it: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-hes-naming-himself-chairman-of-the-kennedy-center-will-dictate-programming
"He also indicated that he would be dictating programming at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, specifically declaring that he would end events featuring performers in drag."
FaerieWalnut
That's oddly progressive. I don't think many drag performers are going to want to be at those events though.
4254
Wow. Shakespeare's original perfomances would all be banned.
lamontcranston
Kennedy Center will soon be doing Liberace Impersonator performances
Imadethisaccounttopost
He's going to turn it into the largest, gold plated toilet....
BaddyOneShoe
Now I bet eggs will cost less.
Saxytimes
My ensemble is scheduled to play at the Kennedy Center for memorial day. I personally will have to decline and advocate that the group do the same. Maybe we can change venue
RooGryphon
play this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uffHb6JgoiQ
killergrooves85
Play Greenday’s “American Idiot”. And maybe some selections from Rise Against, Propaghandi, Bad Religion, NOFX, etc. You’d need a singer to sing the lyrics to drive the point home. Perhaps from a megaphone.
Txernobog
Maybe Sophia Urista is available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGV1xYJFAEI
DutchBoeremeisie
Don't decline (I'm assuming you're getting paid). A protest song or something similar might have more of an effect.
SadToSay
Please don't. He's trying to erase the rich varied programming of the institution. If you were scheduled to perform there before his interference starts you should continue on.
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
You should all show up and take the stage, but don't play. Don't make it easy for them.
Saxytimes
I love everyone's ideas for protest songs! Unfortunately it's with a large ensemble which is playing at a concert celebrating America. I don't have control over the group's programming choices, but if I did I would do Requiem by Mozart. A funeral song for the country
PotFox
Go up on stage and proclaim "When we heard Trump was elected, there was only one song we could think of that could fit his leadership" and MAGA will cheer when they hear the name "we are going to play for you the Entrance of Gladiators"
PotFox
*"Entry of the Gladiators" rather.
Dinwiddie
Play Randy Newman's classic, Mr President (Have Pity On The Working Man). It's become more relevant than ever... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgXuHEDJUk
CorGoBrrrr
I would say the anti-trump anthem, Let the Bad Times Roll by the Offspring. Except... winguts don't understand satire. The Cocksucker in Chief may see it as praise. https://youtu.be/J6vpedfGPwY
Stefnos
write a song about how Elon Musk is better then Trump and just play that ^^.... help create the split that will destroy the republican party
muffmunchies
They don't split as much as they transition to worshipping whoever gains the most power. They don't like either of them because of who they are but rather MAGA/fanatics follow them because of the power they flaunt and wield.
Stefnos
im thinking more about how Elon and Trump both have the kind of follower that might take offence to the other should they insult thire big money-daddy ^^.... could get some more failed assassination out of it
CoughingPoultry
If John F Kennedy was alive today, this news story would blow his mind. 🤯
2025 inductees:
- music : Kid Rock.
- acting : Kevin Sorbo.
- dancing : Hulk Hogan.
Trouter
Is this real? Or is it fantasy?
beerbarrel
I/ We keep seeing stuff like this and it's getting harder and harder to define what is real and what is not. I keep thinking this kind of crap is a joke and I'm getting tired of finding out that, no, the orange turd strikes again...
foxpotate
Pretty sure its not a real fucking power that's for goddamn sure.
Sebastopol140
This tasteless and cringy unitelligent and uneducated piece of orange crap swine... dictating "art and culture".
khopesh87
So, is it just gonna be endless Kid Rock shows there for the next four years?
cgt9803
And Klannie Underhood
sullyandcheddar
More like Civil War. America won't be around in 4 years.
famicus
Snoop will apply for residency
PimpinKen
4 years if we are lucky
retailmemedrone
No Kanye West will be there as well.
Kavatah
What do you mean "next four years"? This is forever... There won't be another election... At least until you guys start doing what you are famous for (school shootings) but to those that are taking over your country...
xmaneds
no, also Ivanka and Barron will get some guest spots
AlinIlie
Haha, you’re funny thinking its only going to be 4 years
gimlismellyfoot2410
Monarchy family I’m afraid
FoxPesdassi
Don't put it past him to include underage blonde prostitutes.
RevolutionOnHerLips
Don't worry, soon Republicans will lower the age of consent to 8, where they've always wanted it
notsurewhattocallthis
They'll just eliminate the need for consent altogether.. like they already treat it as such
Jewdakris
They are gonna show the producers because he's too dumb to realize, but I'm 100% assuming it'll be Kevin Sorbo and Kirk Cameron religion bullshit. This was another piece in the grift all along. If they stuck with him and fed the country his vitriol he would reward them with the one thing they couldn't get anymore, relevance.
FellaWithUmbrella
Or Dana White will bring UFC there
UnluckyLunkhead
Concerts where YMCA is played on loop, exhibitions of gold plated toilets & lions, endless possibilities.
FukcTedCruz
Best they can do is some old school Nazi parade
LariCheltsy
So endless Ted Nugent shows, got it.
jtxyz
That would actually be kind of hilarious.
Just kid rock staggering out there night after night, forced to perform. 3,4 shows a day. No one in attendance. Just begging for death.
Trump occasionally in the audience fellating a corn dog and clapping with his grubby hands, looking like a seal in an oil slick.
Kid rock getting ever more hoarse. The lights dimming.
After a few years, I bet ticket sales would start to spike as people hope to see the inevitable.
PacMan4Life
All the paintings must contain dogs playing poker
stsword
Trump isn't classy enough to like dogs.
theshinobi23
All the paintings are gonna be done in crayon and signed by Eric.
Hashbrown123
I'm not exactly against that idea.
notsurewhattocallthis
Except Trump hates animals [Except for his sons, which he tolerates]
BrokenAnimal
No, it's much much worse than North Korea. Yes, ya'll voted in a fascist dictator. Yes, he's now in charge of the world's biggest military and the world's largest economy. And yes, it's going to be everyone's problem.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
Kazpur81S
When do the parades start where we have to show up and cry at his large portrait being dragged about?
splatterfestival
These two posts were next to each other today....
thatiscomedygoldrightthere
All other art is degenerate, is what I'm hearing.
zerohour13360
So… where is all this degeneracy? Asking so I know what to avoid of course (:
DrZombie1983
Man, a real quick jump into Nazism.
TheFishFace
Tag your politics
LordHotPie
How about they tag it #reality, so that you can block it. #poorbaby
TheFishFace
I want to read about reality filtered through a reputable news outlet, rather than the social media hivemind when I'm trying to find funny GIFs
LordHotPie
Aww that sounds terrible.. thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏
TheFishFace
You sound selfish
LordHotPie
Yeah I'm the selfish one. I hope you find your funny gifs without having to scroll past things you don't like.
BobaFettApproves
Fuck that guy.
IamAlbertPotato
I know he's shit at the job he already has but can he really handle another one?
SleepyHollowAppleTree
No.
TrueLegateDamar
Not like he's doing actual work but declaring stuff and have others do it for him. He doesn't even read national security reports.
nobodyspecial995
Legal question. WTF? How can he even do that?
Everyonesfavorite
Bullys gonna bully until someone stops them. Or something, like a massive coronary attack.
Superchief86
Cause people let him get away with it...
Goldensands
america is a fascist dictatorship. I swear you're still gonna be surprised and act exactly like this when lgbtq ppl are executed in the streets.
unluckyandbored
He can do whatever the fuck he wants. He's king.
KafkasKarma
Welcome to dictatorship
clonedeeznuts
Dick Tater
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
USA is a fascist dictatorship.
eathotdog
Oppression is freedom!!
mknut389
The board of the Kennedy Center serves at the will of the president based on how I understand the law that created the organization. The chair is voted on by the board. He can't just install himself, but he can fire enough members of the board and install enough beholden to him that they would vote for him.
rubypilgrim
well, technically he can't just install himself, but Alito says a president can do whatever the hell he wants, so here we are.
Whitebeardthepirate
it's cute you still think they give a fuck about laws and rules.
Xenarion
99% of his decrees aren't legal, but it will take time for courts to take them down. That's the point.
hotaru251
SCOTUS effectively stated the POTUS can do anything and only congress can punish him...and you know that wont happen so he effectively can do anything he wants.
Penth13f
Write and ask the supreme court. 😆
IlluminaBlade
Everyone's spines turned into pudding.
accountttt
Ffs americans. Sometimes you guys actually have to fight, like you claim to be so proud of. Stop asking whos going to do something and DO SOMETHING. your country actually has laws for murdering tyrants but yall are tok scared.
xj4low
Too many cops back him and they have gear similar to the military. Only difference is they get to use it on Americans. Our police has been out of control for decades.
ablamboo2
There's no more of that "Legal" shit in America.
jrntn
Legal answer: Who's gonna stop him? He has full control over the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. Every check and balance answers directly to him.
icepush
Since nobody has replied to you with the actual correct answer yet, section 76h of subchapter V of the 3rd chapter of USC 20 gives the President the authority to choose the members of the Kennedy Center board of trustees.
Everyonesfavorite
https://www.kennedy-center.org/kennedy-center-statement/
ToasterDent
And to add to that: no he can't make himself the new Chair, but he can fire the board and fill it with people who will vote him as Chair. We'll see if he actually does that.
OliverOtter
How dare you give truthful and useful information, sir. How dare you.
icepush
Perhaps more truthful than useful.
Kavatah
Because that country has the dumbest population ever.
epistlero
democracy, even stupid people vote
beetlenoodlepoodlebottlespaddledmuddledduddledfuddledfoxinsocks
http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/
EmanNiemThcin
Because Common Law legal systems suck compared to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Not everything about the presidency is a law, there are a lot of customs and norms, things a president doesn't have to do but is expected to do. This is based on tradition, decorum, propriety, and other things Trump doesn't understand or care for.
And then there's the actual laws, which Trump can also ignore, because SCOTUS says he's immune, and even if he wasn't, the GOP is willing to burn down the entire country (and the rest of the world with it) to give him whatever he wants.
rmichelsen480
Don't you get it yet? He can do anything he wants because he he has conquered the US and everyone lets him get away with it.
MechanicalRomance
The supreme Court rules that since he's the president he's above the law.
CeruleanFox
Checks and balances more mythical than we supposed.
B3N15
The issue is that the branch that really is supposed to check him is loyal to him and refuses to do it.
thisisnotthedroidyourelookingfor
I've thought about this a lot. Somehow, I don't think the Writers could envision someone so vehemently dictorial rising to power under anybody's watch.
semioticmadness
They thought that legislators and jurists would greedily protect what’s theirs and use whatever means doing it.
They didn’t imagine us being rich enough for obscene wealth to override all that.
JustUsLeagueUnlimited
Let me answer this and all future legal questions you may have with a question: Who is going to stop him?
Washington DC is a federal enclave that serves the federal government. The executive, legislative, and judicial in that enclave are all on the same page. Who is going to stop him?
AfghanistanBananaHammock
We are. Fascists are stopped by massive public resistance.
rubypilgrim
idk if DC serves the federal government. It was created because there was disagreement about how to site the federal government - any state that got it would have more power than the others, which was a non-starter. So they set aside a mosquito-infested swampland for the location, which is why DC isn't a state. Technically the federal government serves everyone else.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
No one?
At this point I'm rooting for whatever drugs he's sharing with Elon to take care of them both.
TypicallyVigo
I'm just waiting for the old fatass's heart to give out when he's getting out of chair or taking a stair soon.
SpartaWolf117
because at this point nobody is telling him no
kJerAFK
Fitting...
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Yeah, a dictatorship. That’s how it works…
FukcTedCruz
Yep and even once a judge tells him No, which even a Trump appointed soon will. What happens then? The Courts have no enforcement mechanism beyond the executive branch which Trump now controls...
integral338
Do US courts not have bailiffs?!
CaldariBob
Anything he deems to be an official act is now extra-legal.
houghten
Which he appears to think means "even more legal" rather than "outside of the law"
rareunicornmeat
really hope that high road Biden took is nice and smooth. Trump should have been thrown in jail on January 7th and held there until his trial.
Attritshun
gesel
Godam democracy we live in. All these idiots voting the wrong way, obviously. What we need is a benevolent dictator to impose my preferences on the idiot masses... for their own good!
TheMightyMollusk
No, what we needed was someone who would apply the same punishment to him as to anyone else who incited a violent riot in the nation's capital.
ElbowDeepInPackages
You're parodying a Republican who voted Trump?
TsunamiWombat
A lot of the things he's doing are in fact, illegal. But it takes time for challenges to mount in the courts. It's frankly a miracle those suits against Doge got injunctions within 2 weeks, people had to have been HUSTLING.
xj4low
Our kegal system doesn't move quick enough to stop him. Just look at all his cases up to the election. Just delayed and ran out the clock.
Mehlbox
If he takes full control over the executive ("Unitary Executive"), there's no one left to execute any court rulings against him...
KaptainObveeus
he owns scotus, no law can stop him
TsunamiWombat
Just because he appointed several of them does not mean they will always side with him. They have shown their willingness to not do so before despite other dubious judgements, and he has no leverage - SCOTUS judges are appointed for life and AFAIK there is no mechanism for removing them.
NotTodaySucker
This is my hope. He has nothing holding over their head once they are appointed. So IF they decide to disregard what he wants there is not a lot holding them back... note the big IF.
Leaps
Police arrest people for doing illegal things every day. If I walked up to a federal building and started pulling data off their servers, I would not be told “see you in court at some point in the future”.
Sonicschilidogs
But you forget that he is the head of the federal executive, so if his goons are doing shit, he can just order the Law Enforcement to stand down and let them do their thing.
Leaps
People take an oath to the constitution, not the president. They have the responsibility to not follow illegal orders.
Sonicschilidogs
The constitution is a document, literally words on paper. It is to be interpreted, guess who does that. It has no power beyond what people give it, and if the POTUS takes its power, and SCOTUS and Congress allow it, there is no more power
Sonicschilidogs
Also, what do oaths mean to dishonorable men?
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
He. He is legally not allowed to do almost everything he has done so far. But, as long as law.Enforcement does not step in to stop it, he will get away with it.
AeonQuasars
Any official act is also within immunity range. The only one that can stop him is a 2/3 unified Congress. Like that will ever happen
Goldensands
That's cute. He'd ignore that 2. The only thing that will stop him is physical force. A bullet, say. Not a fake one only hitting his ear either.
battery1979
How is this within the boundaries of presidential responsibilities?
AeonQuasars
Ask the corrupt SCOTUS about that. Everything is an official act, if he deems it to be an official act.
Illumian85
Basically this, it's all super illegal yes, but since he is president nothing "he" does is illegal.
Every single person enforcing or actually carrying out the illegal orders is still subject to the illegal nature of their actions. (Not that it matters because the president can just pardon them further cementing power over them)
Welcome to the Peoples Republic of America
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Interesting. For country founded on the premise there should be no kings, it seems like it perfectly allows for a king to rule.
Sounds like them's laws need fixin'
Goldensands
The whole bloody thing needs a total rework. Their culture is so deeply asinine.
Comet260
American culture is rotten to the core.