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[Gutek]

and to preserve
that freedom we must maintain faith in our sacred values and
heritage.

Fuck you.

 

[KHarvey16]

So like, wouldn't this backfire on Trump if he loses reelection or gets kicked out of office?

Wouldn't Trump then be forced to celebrate devotion to someone not him?

It only applies to his inauguration in 2017.

 

[Username1198]

Yes, it's true! This man has no dick!

We should keep tweeting that his dick is small maybe he will get mad and tweet a dick pic at 3am in the morning and THAT will get him impeached or fired or whatever

 

[Netherscourge]

disturbing language aside, the idea itself is pretty normal

Bush: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../national-day-of-prayer-and-thanksgiving-2001

Obama: http://web.archive.org/web/20170117.../national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009

Clinton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_6525

Bush wasn't a racist.
Obama wasn't a racist.
Clinton wasn't a racist.

Trump wa

 

[More Fun To Compute]

We can't even get St George's Day to be a holiday, so good luck with that.

Yeah the love for Palestinian folk heroes in England can't be underestimated. Even more well loved than the German monarchs.

 

[Syncytia]

Sure, but a good portion of the posts in this thread are about him simply proclaiming a holiday about himself

Clinton: National Day of Fellowship and Hope
Bush: National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
Obama: National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
Trump: National Day of Patriotic Devotion

One of these is not like the others.

 

[Stereogatari]

I honestly didn't expect things to be THIS crazy so fast. It honestly feels like a joke come to life.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Holy shit that is some extreme nationalism bullshit. I can bet you that no one will celebrate it. If anything, Trump is literally making a day for the history books as to one of the worst days in human history.

 

[KingSnake]

disturbing language aside, the idea itself is pretty normal

Bush: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../national-day-of-prayer-and-thanksgiving-2001



Obama: http://web.archive.org/web/20170117.../national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009



Clinton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_6525

The difference in tone between those and this one is striking.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

Clinton: National Day of Fellowship and Hope
Bush: National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
Obama: National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
Trump: National Day of Patriotic Devotion

One of these is not like the others.

Lmao

 

[RinsFury]

"Day of Patriotic Devotion"? Holy fuck. That sounds straight out of North Korea or Nazi Germany. How long until wearing 'patriotic' armbands becomes law? This is a terrifying new era we are entering, I think this will be worse than anyone ever imagined.

 

[Surfinn]

disturbing language aside,

That's a pretty big "aside".

Good finds though.

 

[jelly]

I guess every empire of sorts falls eventually. US better get him and his team out of office pronto.

 

[TestOfTide]

It only applies to his inauguration in 2017.

So it's literally just him going "No no no. My Inauguration was better than Obama's because MINE was a national holiday. Nya nya nya."?

 

[Stinkles]

edit. what's the point?

 

[Orbis]

Clinton: National Day of Fellowship and Hope
Bush: National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
Obama: National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
Trump: National Day of Patriotic Devotion

One of these is not like the others.

Lol, thank you for this.

 

[Gnome Scat]

Hey, look, all I'm saying is that the only book the American President is confirmed to have read in his adult life is the book of Hitler's speeches he kept by his bed. Just sayin.'

https://mobile.twitter.com/Robert__...7?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Well they managed to make it not sound as blatant as that even though they seem to have the same meaning.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

This is totally Bannon. Sounds fucking evil.

This is Emporer Palpatine (aka Steve Bannon) being channeled through Trump's vacuous shell. Welcome to White Christian Empire America, the one right before it falls for good.

 

[Robot Pants]

Is this guy for real?

 

[Unknown One]

National talk shit about Trump Day.

 

[kittenbreath]

I would definitely be in support of Patriotic Devotion Day becaming an annual holiday.

It would be really convenient for organizing protests.

 

[adj_noun]

Clinton: National Day of Fellowship and Hope
Bush: National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
Obama: National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
Trump: National Day of Patriotic Devotion

One of these is not like the others.

 

[Borgnine]

Have you ever seen those smuggled North Korean vids where they make them cry while praising a photo of the glorious leader. Am I going to have to do that, cause I don't think I have the range to cry on command.

 

[LT Snoshado]

Haha yeah right! January 20th is my birthday and that's all I'll be celebrating on that day.

 

[kess]

"Strengthen our bonds." The keyword, of course, is bound, not us.

 

[Gnome Scat]

.

 

[Speevy]

I think he knows what America is. America is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar.

 

[Syncytia]

 

[adj_noun]

Have you ever seen those smuggled North Korean vids where they make them cry while praising a photo of the glorious leader. Am I going to have to do that, cause I don't think I have the range to cry on command.

Just wail. You don't need actual tears.

Your motivation: you just stepped on a lego.

 

[Biske]

edit. what's the point?

To be fair, this is stupid and meaningless. God knows how many "days" there are for bullshit nobody cares about.

I would hope most people here realize that and its all just silly fun at the expense of the absurdity about it all.



"Patriotic Devotion" is the exact kind of Donald Trump bullshit thing you would expect though.

"On that day we are going to have so much devotion for our country, going to have the best devotion, such devotion, you'll probably get sick of it, the country is going to call and say hey "be less devoted, love Russia or something eh?" Its gonna be great"

 

[BigDug13]

So like, wouldn't this backfire on Trump if he loses reelection or gets kicked out of office?

Wouldn't Trump then be forced to celebrate devotion to someone not him?

In the event that he loses, he will eliminate the holiday through executive action before the inauguration.

 

[Cosmonaut X]

disturbing language aside, the idea itself is pretty normal

Bush: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../national-day-of-prayer-and-thanksgiving-2001

"Prayer and Thanksgiving"? Hm, not sure of the religiosity but this isn't too terrible.

Obama: http://web.archive.org/web/20170117.../national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009

"Renewal and Reconciliation"? Fairly positive and inoffensive.

Clinton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_6525

"Fellowship and Hope"? Again, inoffensive and aiming for something very American (not that these ideas are uniquely American, but the public expression of them in things like this is).

"Patriotic Devotion", though? That's tinpot dictator-speak - the kind of language you'd expect from North Korea.

 

[NullPointer]

"Patriotic Devotion", though? That's tinpot dictator-speak - the kind of language you'd expect from North Korea.

Well, I did google this.

Upon hearing the news that General Kim Jong Il had passed away on December 17, 2011, all the people of Korea were engulfed by wails of grief, feeling as if the earth had collapsed. They were plunged into national mourning by his death, the leader who adorned his revolutionary career with patriotic devotion to the country and people.

Five years have passed since, but the General is always with the Korean people as the sun and peerless patriot.

The General, with the high ambition to add glory to Korea, led the Workers' Party of Korea, the army and people wisely for a long period and brought about the golden age of the national prosperity unprecedented in the history of Korea spanning 5 000 years.

He made it his lifelong mission to carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by President Kim Il Sung, and dynamically advanced the revolution and construction as intended by the President, becoming his closest comrade and most faithful comrade-in-arms.

(and so on, and so on....)

 

[Laguna X]

We should have a National Day of Impeaching the Orange Fuckface Day.

 

[Scotch]

disturbing language aside, the idea itself is pretty normal

Bush: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../national-day-of-prayer-and-thanksgiving-2001



Obama: http://web.archive.org/web/20170117.../national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009



Clinton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_6525


I can't find any before HW

and yes, I realize Trump's has an Orwellian name and a nationalist message. My only point was that it is apparently normal for Presidents to celebrate their own inauguration this way

Okay, so it's some silly tradition. This actually does make it a little bit less crazy.

As evil as "patriotic devotion" sounds, I think we need to be careful not to blow things like this out of proportion. Trump does enough terrible shit as it is, which deserve all the attention it can get.

 

[Joco]

Jesus Christ this is terrifying. Sounds straight out of Nazi Germany or current day North Korea.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

What the hell?

Prominent neo-Nazi getting punched in the face.

 

[Jackpot]

disturbing language aside, the idea itself is pretty normal

Bush: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../national-day-of-prayer-and-thanksgiving-2001



Obama: http://web.archive.org/web/20170117.../national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009



Clinton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_6525


I can't find any before HW

and yes, I realize Trump's has an Orwellian name and a nationalist message. My only point was that it is apparently normal for Presidents to celebrate their own inauguration this way

This makes me feel better.

Clinton: National Day of Fellowship and Hope
Bush: National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving
Obama: National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation
Trump: National Day of Patriotic Devotion

One of these is not like the others.

But there is a significant difference between a president having to name his inauguration something and Trump making it about him, and creating a new national holiday to celebrate himself out of nowhere. The latter is pure Kim Jung Un.

 

[Ekai]

We fascists now.

Republicans have been fascist for a while. They just finally got their way.

 

[Afrodium]

disturbing language aside, the idea itself is pretty normal

Bush: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc.../national-day-of-prayer-and-thanksgiving-2001



Obama: http://web.archive.org/web/20170117.../national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009



Clinton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_6525


I can't find any before HW

and yes, I realize Trump's has an Orwellian name and a nationalist message. My only point was that it is apparently normal for Presidents to celebrate their own inauguration this way

Ok, I guess this isn't a big deal. "National Day of Patriotic Devotion" sounds weird, but the main offense was that he declared his inauguration day a holiday. If all recent presidents have done the same then this is just some weird ceremonial shit that nobody pays attention to. That's probably why there's zero coverage of this.

 

[UberTag]

Ok, I guess this isn't a big deal. "national Day of Pateiotic Devotion" sounds weird, but the main offense was that he declared his inhabitation day a holiday. If all recent presidents have done the same then this is just some weird ceremonial shit that nobody pays attention to. That's probably why there's zero coverage of this.

Bingo.

 

[RinsFury]

Next Executive Order, the image of Emperor Cheeto the First must be displayed prominently in every home. Not even really joking, ugh.

 

[Speevy]

Ok, I guess this isn't a big deal. "national Day of Pateiotic Devotion" sounds weird, but the main offense was that he declared his inhabitation day a holiday. If all recent presidents have done the same then this is just some weird ceremonial shit that nobody pays attention to. That's probably why there's zero coverage of this.

10 bucks says Trump thinks it's a big fucking deal.

 

[Lucky Forward]

A new national pride stirs the American soul and inspires the American heart...

I can hear Sam Elliot reading that line as the intro to a Chevy pickup truck commercial.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Next Executive Order, the image of Emperor Cheeto the First must be displayed prominently in every home. Not even really joking, ugh.

He will have a golden statue of himself erected on the white house lawn first I imagine.

 

[Retromelon]

why do the duties of our governement to the people need renewing? shouldn' t they already be doing their jobs

 

[Monocle]

Fucking hell.

 

[Slime]

Looks like the language comes from this speech by one of America's other worst Presidents:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Americanism_(Harding)

 

[Snaku]

Spoiler

vomits

 

[Afrodium]

10 bucks says Trump thinks it's a big fucking deal.

Sure. He probably also thinks that being POTUS is a big fucking deal. There are going to be plenty of opportunities for Trump to flex his ego now that he is one of the most powerful people in the world. Some of this stuff will be him exercising the standard powers he has now that he's POTUS and some will be ridiculous overreaches of power. Freaking out about Trump being a fascist because he did some ceremonial BS that every president does only weakens our position.