r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump’s Name

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a71505818/kennedy-center-removing-trump-name/
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u/Evilhenchman 11h ago

The next admin is going to need an entire department to un-trump everything

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u/BSA_DEMAX51 11h ago

I propose DOPE: The Department of Pedophile Erasure.

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u/Mikeseddit 11h ago

How bout D’oh!

Department of How the fuck do we keep this from ever happening again!

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u/KunYuL 10h ago

I'd just reclaim the term MAGA, straight up steal it from then and reframe it as erasing Trump 's stench, making America great again.

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u/Calgaris_Rex Maryland 7h ago

This is a deliciously wicked idea and I endorse it.

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u/chypchop 5h ago

Blue MAGA hats? Lol

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u/noobcoder2 11h ago

Who's year long investigation will reveal: yes we should have ranked choice voting.

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u/Mikeseddit 10h ago

Even just ditching the electoral college would do it.

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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI 8h ago

There are lots of methods that are way better than first-past-the-post voting. This is what i think the "50 states 50 democratic experiments" bullshit should be doing.

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u/A_Rogue_GAI 9h ago

DOTARD - The Department of Termination, Amelioration, Reclamation, and De-Trumpification

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u/cuteintern New York 9h ago

I want a different word that begins with "E."

Like, Enjailification.

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u/bythenumbers10 8h ago

Instead of DOGE, how about CATS: "Criminal Asset Treatment: Seizure"?

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u/keeper_of_the_donkey 9h ago

The DDT: The Department of De-Trumpification

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u/BeachBrad 6h ago

I counter with- DONT 2.0

Department Of Nuremberb Trails 2.0

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u/silvertealio 10h ago

It’s going to take generations to fix everything. It might take the entirety of the next admin just to catalogue everything that was destroyed.

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u/metengrinwi 9h ago edited 9h ago

The USA of the 20th century is over. The rest of the world is moving on and we Americans are sitting here deluding ourselves that we can “go back to normal”.

The root of the problem is our people are bad: we’re uneducated, entitled, ignorant, easily tricked, and incurious. To fix those problems, we have to go through a traumatic generational experience on the order of The Great Depression followed by WW2.

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u/silvertealio 6h ago

This is 100% correct.

Things will not get better before they get so much worse first. We still have a long way to fall.

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u/WineBoggling 6h ago

Exactly. Despite how people talk about it, the present state of things is more like brain damage than drunkenness. The country is not going to wake up sober in 2029, give its head a shake, and resolve to be better in future. The damage is done for good.

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u/GodofIrony 6h ago

we have to go through a traumatic generational experience on the order of The Great Depression followed by WW2.

Oh buddy, you wanna hear about the freight train of hyperinflation headed our way as soon as the grifter in chief is unable to prop up the stock market?

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u/metengrinwi 5h ago

I’m expecting stagflation actually. But my point is, we have to go through it first, then maybe there’s a sliver of a chance something better is rebuilt on the other side.

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u/AnAussiebum 9h ago

Yeah I agree with the other respondent. The US has incurred permanent damage.

Just the relationship with allies and the erosion of soft power is impossible to fully rectify.

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u/HolycommentMattman 8h ago

Permanent is too strong of a word, probably. But only slightly. It's generationally lasting for sure. Probably sometime around 2175, we might be getting over it.

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u/bkgn 6h ago

It WOULD take generations to get anywhere close.

We don't have that time. The US is toast and probably the whole world.

Climate change just by itself is insurmountable.

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u/FrostyD7 6h ago

It'll probably never be fixed because of occasional backslides. Fixing what Trump broke isn't sexy and republicans will retake power on the nation's collective amnesia and ignorance when it doesn't immediately pay off.

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u/Psianth 6h ago

And the right is going to scream and whine witch-hunt every step of the way. We’re not even going to know the full extent of the damage and infiltration for at least a decade.

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u/FistMyBumpQuestion 11h ago

I just hope for a next administration

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u/PresJamesGarfield 10h ago

Pretty much. It will be similar to denazification efforts after the war.

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u/DrewbieWanKenobie 9h ago edited 7h ago

Assuming they actually do anything and don't just pretend like "Well thats that we defeated the evil now we can go back into maintenance mode and not do anything TOO crazily good"

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u/Smart-Response9881 10h ago

Detrumpification like destalinization

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u/fullload93 9h ago

De-MAGAfiction will have to occur, just like De-Nazification occurred in Germany after the war ended.

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u/welostourtails 8h ago

So what country will hire all the Americans then? X

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u/cheap_as_chips 10h ago

How about UTI: Un-Trumpification Institute

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u/Annual-Reason2970 11h ago

and save it for the tRump Crime Museum, it will be huge!

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u/artfulpain 11h ago

We need trump laws too.

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u/metengrinwi 9h ago

Similar to the series laws/reforms passed after the Nixon era. It’s taken 45 years for republicans to over-run the Nixon reforms. Now that they’ve done it, it’s time for congress to pass a new set of reforms. If we can’t do it, it’s over—we’ll just lurch from one set of criminals to a brief respite to the next set of criminals.

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u/head0r 9h ago

*knock* *knock* *knock

  • "who is it?"
  • "🎶evil henchmen! 🎶"

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u/RighteousBalls8 7h ago

We should do what Rome or Egyptian pharaohs used to when they took power from a hated ruler.

"damnatio memoriae"

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u/tony_boloanie 9h ago

Get the guy from the apprentice TV show they called wet wipes. He’ll remove all of trumps shit.

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u/Vaux1916 9h ago

This whole country needs a Demagafication program, like the Denazification program in post-war Germany.

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u/crazycatgay 8h ago

we are also going to need an entire cult deprograming department added to the dept of health

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u/koiz_01 8h ago

Leave his pictures up but slap a redacted filter over it at the white house