President Donald Trump has taken an extraordinary step in his efforts to turn his birthday into a national celebration, with the National Park Service revealing that on June 14, his birthday, admission to national parks will be free for U.S. citizens.

In addition, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth have been removed from the schedule of free park admission days, despite both being federally recognized holidays.

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    I’ll celebrate the day by burning the American flag and posting online about how much I hate Trump, because I still have the freedom to do both of those things no matter what this sack of shit wants.

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    Everyone should stock up on crowbars so that the moment this fetid sack of shit is no longer in office they can go fall-of-the-Berlin-wall and forcefully remove his name from everything it has been stuck on.

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      Reminds me of, “A man in Moscow goes up to a newsstand and buys a newspaper… He then glances at the front page, then turns aside and tosses the whole newspaper straight into the trash. Next day, he turns up, and does the same thing. Buys it, glances at the front page, throws it in the trash. Next day, same thing. The newsstand worker is increasingly puzzled, but doesn’t say anything. But eventually, after a couple of weeks of this, he can’t take it. “I’m sorry, friend, but I must ask: why do you buy the paper every day and then just look at the front page and throw it out?” “Oh, I’m just checking for something.” “OK, but: what are you checking for?” “I’m checking for a particular obituary.” “But sir, you don’t even open the newspaper! The obituaries aren’t even on the front page!” “Oh, believe me, the one I’m waiting for will be.”

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    That doesn’t make it a holiday… Nothing is closing, no one gets time off work. You can’t just use words when they don’t fit.

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        I’m not a fan of that wiping out history stuff. Just make it synonymous with being a shitcunt.

        like, Hitler is known. if Hitler weren’t known, it’s not like we wouldn’t have fartsmears like Nick Fuentes around. they’d still be here.

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          I’m not sure. They don’t show streakers at sporting events and withhold the names of mass murderers to discourage them from seeking glory.

          Like the phrase “you can’t make an anti-war movie” everything that carves assholes’ names in stone encourages future assholes.

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        I’m trying to drink less but yeah I should go get a good bottle just to celebrate the deaths of bad people

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          My dad was, apparently, an alcoholic - and a pretty bad one - before I was born. I wasn’t around for it, but two of my three older siblings have told me various stories about it. He himself even told me of the night he met my mother, including the detail that that night, he was so drunk that he barely remembered how to get home after dropping her off at hers.

          I don’t know how long before I was born he stopped drinking, but I only ever saw him consume one alcoholic beverage in my lifetime. When he did, he said “I wouldn’t mind one more!” but, to his credit, immediately stopped. I’ve inherited some of his proclivities, though I think not as severe, and am actively working against them. (I’m aware of the stopdrinking communities, this isn’t a cry for help.)

          Point I’m trying to make is, if you’re trying to drink less or to quit … Be careful how you celebrate. He had some thirty years of sobriety to recover and was still tempted.

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        Most expensive is usually a bad decision. The most expensive ones been aged long is, and eventually a lot of the character goes away and it starts to taste more woody.

        I go with whatever the f*** tastes the best.

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        Between what factions? Because the factions who would try to use a power vacuum to gain power is doing so right now and not a lot of his followers would actually be willing to follow through on “avenging” him or whatever.

        He’s a focal point for assholes who use his example as an excuse to behave like monsters - there’s no real coherent ideology for his followers to latch into with him gone to get anything done at all. You’ll just see various random conspiracy theorists trying stupid shit and a couple of militias delusional enough to think they have broad support who then will be wiped out. They might inflict some damage, but it won’t look like civil war, more like the occasional domestic terrorist.

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          no coherent ideology

          Exactly, because it’s a cult of personality. Once he goes, so does the cult. Although I expect a power grab, and wonder if the d’s have been working on their own project 2025… given their previous behavior, I doubt it.

      • The circumstances seem important, don’t they? Like, it’s different if he nods off and shits himself one last time, surrounded by everyone in the Cabinet Room vs. if something external visibly happens to him. I guess either way the wolves will try to spin it to light that spark they want.

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      here we go again with Americans thinking they are the fucking bellybutton of the universe… there are worse people on the planet than Donald Trump, his death won’t be celebrated “globally

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    Good, it will be a great day to Protest on.

    Also, gorsh, I wonder what Juneteenth and MLK Jr. day have in common that Republicans and only Republicans dislike so much? /s

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      Also, gorsh, I wonder what Juneteenth and MLK Jr. day have in common that Republicans and only Republicans dislike so much?

      I find it simply hilarious that, even still, now that their mask has been completely removed, you still have conservatives and Republicans trying that age-old chestnut about how it is really the Democrats that are the racists, because Lincoln was a Republican, and because of the Dixiecrats. And trying to yadda yadda something about Robert Byrd, etc.

      All while they go apoplectic about “woke”, DEI, CRT and “political correctness”, etc…

      Of course, entirely ignoring everything that had happened in more recent times, like the Southern Strategy, and the Civil Rights movement, etc…there was some Republican idiot on the DP comment section that even kept rejecting the Southern Strategy as fake news for some contrived reason that only made sense in his head.

      It was always so goddamned pathetic, just like their attempt to tie socialism to Nazis merely because of the label, even if it’s easy to point out the fact that the Nazis targeted unions, Communists and socialists.

      But the fact that they are still trying this nonsense is beyond pathetic.

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        There are people on the fediverse still spouting the same tune, that the DNC are the true evil racists, though mostly Tankies trying to curry favor with the african americans and reignite the millitant spirit of the black panther party. The same people would fervently deny any racism in China.

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        I’m sure you’d find thousands of comments along those lines on r/conservative right now. I wonder how long until they actually try to “take back” the word fascist. Because you’re right. In many ways the mask is all the way off.

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      You know how it is with sausage making, the end result is not exactly what you originally wanted

      I for one look forward to celebrating his Deathday every year

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    Classic abuser move. Take away two free days and then give us back one and makes sure we know it’s from him cuz he put his name all over it.

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    This reminds me that many history-related Wikipedia articles like this one don’t have an English version yet. Might be a nice project in anticipation of Trump’s b-day.

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      I was just discussing the event the other day, and said when it happens I will buy a flag pole, an American flag, and raise it to full staff. It will be up as long as the half staff order is active, then I will take it down and sell it or trash it. There will be zero ambiguity in my actions.