I think someone needs to start a new business devoted sheerly to removing trumpy's name from things and places it should not be. That fool spreads his name around like a dog marking its territory, only trumpy's smells worse.
"Feels like" 95Β°F to 100Β°F in D.C. right now. Hope Donnie is "feeling the heat" in every sense of the phrase. (With luck, one of the expected thunderstorms will zap his tawdry circus show.)
When Trump was asked about his name going up, he said he was surprised, but "It was such a fine board." Why not, he fired almost every member of the original board and replaced them with his flunkies.
As for the UFC weigh-ins in front of the Lincoln memorial, I think Lincoln would laugh, he had a fine sense of humor.
When asked by a reporter how he felt about his name coming down, Trump said he was surprised (!) "but it was such a fine board." Why not, he fired the almost everyone on the original board and replaced them with his flunkies.
As for the UFC cage fights weigh-ins in front of the Lincoln Memorial, I think Lincoln would laugh, he had a great sense of humor. As for me, I hope it rains like hell.
"Once the scaffolding was up, the area was draped with tarps at around 2 a.m. local time, apparently so the fussy toddler in chief wouldnβt see people cheering"
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I read elsewhere that it was (depending on who you believe) to shield from dust or to protect the identity of the workers.
If I were doing stonework including restoration in a very public place I also would use a barrier of some sort to contain dust. Dust collection systems and a shop vac only take you so far. Tarps do better than plastic sheeting in the wind, and the mess you don't make doesn't require cleanup.
I saw a lot of people wigging out over the time it was taking, claiming that the workers were intentionally not taking it down, they were using the tarps to hide that they weren't doing it, etc.
Like, my dudes, have you never seen work being done before? It's always very slow and I've rarely ever seen scaffolding set up for building work that did not have tarps on the outside. Probably a safety thing or something, but not nefarious.
I think it's that people showed up thinking they'd get to watch a show and then got angry that it wasn't happening as fast as they thought it should and then that they wouldn't even get to see it happen.
I have seen things saying it was an OSHA requirement especially if equipment that can produce sparks is used. And the tarps did say flame retardant all over them. Maybe the crew that takes down scaffolds and tarps doesnβt work on weekends. Maybe leaving it up is a little nefarious but eventually we will see it.
My belief right now is that they put up the tarps as either required or just as standard procedure. Then they removed the letters, but now there are large holes where they were anchored to the wall and they are going to patch those before they remove the tarp.
Personally, I hope I'm right because I'd rather there be no indication that it was ever there than have marks on the wall showing something was removed.
Supposedly there is a way to repair holes in marble but I would guess that the people who would do that are not the same ones who actually took the letters off. And that repair would probably involve sanding, so leaving the tarp up for that even makes some sense, to contain marble dust flying around. Not that they wouldnβt do it to avoid people seeing the removal, but I did read a couple of places that the tarp is OSHA required if tools that could produce sparks are used. And they wonβt be able to avoid a fairly large crowd to watch and cheer when they finally DO take it down.
Nobody much remembers Publius Septimius Geta but he was pretty much erased. If Trump is to be remembered, the afterlife career of John Wilkes Booth provides a suitable model.
Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
I think someone needs to start a new business devoted sheerly to removing trumpy's name from things and places it should not be. That fool spreads his name around like a dog marking its territory, only trumpy's smells worse.
Trump is always trying to steal the legacy of people with actual accomplishments. He's pathetic.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
"Feels like" 95Β°F to 100Β°F in D.C. right now. Hope Donnie is "feeling the heat" in every sense of the phrase. (With luck, one of the expected thunderstorms will zap his tawdry circus show.)
When Trump was asked about his name going up, he said he was surprised, but "It was such a fine board." Why not, he fired almost every member of the original board and replaced them with his flunkies.
As for the UFC weigh-ins in front of the Lincoln memorial, I think Lincoln would laugh, he had a fine sense of humor.
As for me, I hope it rains like hell.
When asked by a reporter how he felt about his name coming down, Trump said he was surprised (!) "but it was such a fine board." Why not, he fired the almost everyone on the original board and replaced them with his flunkies.
As for the UFC cage fights weigh-ins in front of the Lincoln Memorial, I think Lincoln would laugh, he had a great sense of humor. As for me, I hope it rains like hell.
And if memory serves, accounts described him as an able wrestler during his younger years.
He was also quite an accomplished vampire hunter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln:_Vampire_Hunter
He would likely approve of the trend of axe throwing facilities, many including bars.
"Once the scaffolding was up, the area was draped with tarps at around 2 a.m. local time, apparently so the fussy toddler in chief wouldnβt see people cheering"
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I read elsewhere that it was (depending on who you believe) to shield from dust or to protect the identity of the workers.
As an engineer, there are safety precautions required on scaffolding, netting, minimum. However, would have been nice to witness it!
If I were doing stonework including restoration in a very public place I also would use a barrier of some sort to contain dust. Dust collection systems and a shop vac only take you so far. Tarps do better than plastic sheeting in the wind, and the mess you don't make doesn't require cleanup.
That's one...
I saw a lot of people wigging out over the time it was taking, claiming that the workers were intentionally not taking it down, they were using the tarps to hide that they weren't doing it, etc.
Like, my dudes, have you never seen work being done before? It's always very slow and I've rarely ever seen scaffolding set up for building work that did not have tarps on the outside. Probably a safety thing or something, but not nefarious.
I think there was another delay by a court.
The delay came first; the court basically said "Fine, whatever ... just DO IT!"
And, if slow, certainly not at the behest of the actual workers. Incredible class privilege all over the comments.
I think it's that people showed up thinking they'd get to watch a show and then got angry that it wasn't happening as fast as they thought it should and then that they wouldn't even get to see it happen.
I have seen things saying it was an OSHA requirement especially if equipment that can produce sparks is used. And the tarps did say flame retardant all over them. Maybe the crew that takes down scaffolds and tarps doesnβt work on weekends. Maybe leaving it up is a little nefarious but eventually we will see it.
My belief right now is that they put up the tarps as either required or just as standard procedure. Then they removed the letters, but now there are large holes where they were anchored to the wall and they are going to patch those before they remove the tarp.
Personally, I hope I'm right because I'd rather there be no indication that it was ever there than have marks on the wall showing something was removed.
Supposedly there is a way to repair holes in marble but I would guess that the people who would do that are not the same ones who actually took the letters off. And that repair would probably involve sanding, so leaving the tarp up for that even makes some sense, to contain marble dust flying around. Not that they wouldnβt do it to avoid people seeing the removal, but I did read a couple of places that the tarp is OSHA required if tools that could produce sparks are used. And they wonβt be able to avoid a fairly large crowd to watch and cheer when they finally DO take it down.
So I've been incommunicado today. Did he die?
Not quite yet, entirely.
God will take him on his 80th birthday, like ... a certain cult film lead character (no spoilers)
This is a first step in the Damnatio Memoriae process described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
Nobody much remembers Publius Septimius Geta but he was pretty much erased. If Trump is to be remembered, the afterlife career of John Wilkes Booth provides a suitable model.
Or the poem "Ozymandias."
Yeah, yeah, get to the lone and level sands already.
Cross out Moses and write in Trump.
Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.
Latest proposed title for the summary history of this maladminstration: Bleats, Poots, And Leaves
Somehow I doubt "his" birthday event will be well-attended.
"...even that discreetly-packaged vibrator the WNO ordered on a crazy impulse. Wonkette alum Liz Dye details the insanity...."
> sadly, I didn't see any mention of that impulse buy.
But letβs keep his name in the Epstein files.
And reveal its many appearances there.