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damnatio memoriae (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2020 OP
Kick dalton99a May 2020 #1
Agree. R&K MerryBlooms May 2020 #2
i agree, but when (if) trump is gone rampartc May 2020 #3
+1 n/t Laelth May 2020 #4
He will retain exactly one thing DFW May 2020 #5
The condition he will be leaving the nation will be cause... Kid Berwyn May 2020 #6
I Quite Agree, Ma'am The Magistrate May 2020 #7
The name "Trump" PatSeg May 2020 #8
I wouldn't even name body bags or morgues after him. Talitha May 2020 #9

rampartc

(5,412 posts)
3. i agree, but when (if) trump is gone
Sun May 10, 2020, 08:53 AM
May 2020

he will be treated to an orgy of bills naming all post offices (if any remain), charter schools (the only kind), bridges, highways airports etc for him. it will be worse than reagan.

trump has given these yahoos the exact government they have always craved. as in the aesop fable .........

The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled. No milk and water government for them, they declared. So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was. In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government.

To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.

“How now!” cried Jupiter “Are you not yet content? You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes.”

Moral

Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.

DFW

(54,408 posts)
5. He will retain exactly one thing
Sun May 10, 2020, 09:07 AM
May 2020

A term used for certain cards in a Bridge game--something that was already there before he was.

Kid Berwyn

(14,909 posts)
6. The condition he will be leaving the nation will be cause...
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:50 AM
May 2020

...for no one to ever want to mention his name ever again.

Making it official policy, however, would be just.

Thank you for a(nother) great post, Sophie!

PatSeg

(47,501 posts)
8. The name "Trump"
Sun May 10, 2020, 12:46 PM
May 2020

will become a new curse word. It will never be associated with anything positive.

I can't even begin to imagine anyone contributing to a Trump presidential library. You'd have to be a mother-trumping idiot.

Talitha

(6,593 posts)
9. I wouldn't even name body bags or morgues after him.
Sun May 10, 2020, 01:37 PM
May 2020

Our loved ones might wind up being placed in one.

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