#T.Rump and the Great Shitshow

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reBUTTal: "T.Rump and the Greatest Shit Show in the History of Ever on Earth or Anywhere Else Ever"

T.Rump said *anything*!:

"Mr. President, there was a problem. What did you to about it?"

Russia: Hey, T.Rump--can u do this 4 us pls

"Mr. President, this is, um, actu-ally a, uh-m...job...? Are you just gonna keep playing golf and eating McDonalds?"

and

White House staff: delivers info not in Microsoft Powerpoint in a minute or less

(Press)----------- ----------------(T.Rump)

[phantomarchive]

Instructions: Always repost with the rules, answer the 11 random questions left for you and leave 11 more for the people you tag!

TAGGED BY: @conorbyrne

TAGGING: @luck-crowned @soulcluster @ravusnightblossom @themechaneer @talzjan @notthedyingtype @healingwords and whoever wants to do it!

 QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

1. make a mini-playlist for the day & post links please?!

Sunset - The Midnight : Make our home where we stand / One suitcase and half a plan / Follow the wolves and sing along / Past the voices to the song // Sunsets, no regrets / First chance, last dance / Stuck in the middle / Even bad girls know good love / You taste so sweet it hurts a little

Soul Of A Man - Steven Stern : I’ve traveled different countries / I’ve traveled in furthest lands / I haven’t one to tell me / What is the soul of a man / I want someone to tell me / Answer if you can / I want someone to tell me / What is the soul of a man

You Spin Me Round (cover) - Auralnauts : You spin me right ‘round baby right ‘round / Like a record baby ‘round ‘round

2. what is the book you are currently reading or the last one you finished? how’d you like it?

Last book I read was Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. I was really intrigued and interested by it at first, but by the end it was really dragging with vagueness and a plot that felt like it was being padded by filler words to describe the abstract, and not in ways that felt like it meant anything. By the end, I was so frustrated with the book that I just wiki’d the other two books in the trilogy.

3. how are we feeling about 2021 so far?

It’s alright. Feels like less of a shitshow than 2020, but it still isn’t like, great. Especially with how the pandemic is going, it feels like it might be more of the same but with less T.rump (thank god).

4. name one piece of media that has gone through a recent critical re-evaluation that you really loved to see.

I can’t really think of anything offhand, but the resurgence of Rodger & Hammerstein’s Cinderella has been incredible. I watched that a ton of VHS when I was younger, and it took me ages to find it on blu-ray (which I gifted to someone else). So having it come to Disney+ and get new eyes on it has been great. What a fantastic movie.

5. please describe your character ( for multi, pick one ), badly!

Bikin-clad triple agent has twin clones against biological dad’s wishes. Questionable morals, great rack.

6. what is your favorite scent in the world? describe it!

I love scents that smell clean and not overly floral or sugary. Usually what you find in candles or febreze, something like fresh laundry, what bottlers think the ocean breeze smells like, coconut. I love the smell of sunscreen, so I have a few coconut lotions and body sprays that I love a lot.

7. how involved in politics are you?

Enough to know the general goings-on around the world, and to know what’s affecting the country and my immediate area, but not so much that my life feels like it’s taken up by it.

8. how deep into astrology are you? what’s your sign, babey?!

I love astrology, but I don’t put much stock into it. I use it a lot for character creation, and also to send to my friends and roommate to see if we actually relate to it. I’m a Sagittarius sun and Aries moon - check out all that fire, baybeeee! Also, I’m year of the tiger, so it’s a lot of energy bundled into one person.

9. i want 1 (one) unpopular opinion about food!

Stop shaming people for dumb shit like pineapple on pizza. I don’t like it, but I just don’t like pineapple at all. Instead, shame people who hate broccoli, that’s the real crime.

10. what is a current fad in the rpc community that you dislike?

Double-small type, lots of space between words, extra formatting that doesn’t do anything. The first parts just makes it difficult for a lot of people to even read what your saying, lots of extra spaces just looks like a way to make it look like you’re writing more when it’s actually just a couple of sentences, and extra formatting can be such a strain on the eyes. I have actively not followed blogs that otherwise look promising because the eye strain of trying to read their writing is more than I want to handle.

11. anyways, what’s the hot gossip? i love some drama. online or offline.

My sister works in the packaging department at her job. Not doing actual packaging, she designs the packaging for a few brands of foods, and she helps find suppliers to print and ship the packaging to the people that actually put the product in the packages (take a shot every time I use that word lol). Anyway, two companies were bidding to be the ones to print for my sister’s company, and they decided on company A rather than B. So my sister had to call company B to tell them they didn’t win the bid.

Partway through the conversation, the guy turns away from the phone, and it was obvious he thought he was muted, and he said, “I want to punch these people in the throats,” then turned back to the phone, realized he wasn’t on mute, and immediately hung up. When he called back, since he still had things to work out with my sister, he started by immediately apologizing.

And this is why you always triple check that you’re muted if you’re gonna talk shit.

MY QUESTIONS FOR YOU

1. What band have you been listening to a lot lately? If not a band, then what song?

2. Guilty pleasure! Whether it’s a show, movie, book, game, band, song, etc. just tell me one!

3. What fictional character do you identify with and why?

4. Favorite hot beverage!

5. If you could live in one fictional universe for one week, which one?

6. Say something nice about someone you follow! Positivity is always nice!

7. Favorite thing about RP? Least favorite thing?

8. A book you read that really stuck with you. Not necessarily your favorite book, but one that stuck with you for whatever reason.

9. If you were going to sit down with a movie at the time of answering this question, which genre would you pick? Do you have a specific movie in mind?

10. What’s something interesting, neat, fun, or noteworthy that’s happened to you recently?

11. If you’re familiar with Pokemon, tell me your favorite one. If you’re not, tell me which one you like aesthetically.

[dixonministry]

If I Ruled The World

The world would be quite a bit different if I were its supreme dictator. Oh yes, I am in favor of a dictatorship, as long as that dictator is me! And here's how it would go. 

A few disclaimers before we begin: 1) Keep your expectations low when you read this. You won’t like everything I list but you won’t hate it all either. This is due to me being neither a liberal or a conservative solely but rather bits and pieces of each. 2) I am making this rant for my own entertainment and the entertainment of the few people who enjoy it when I rant. I am not making this in hopes of starting a debate on what is right or wrong, stupid or smart. If I sound like an idiot to you, cool. Let me sound like an idiot in peace! With that said, keep your lame ass argumentative comments out of my inbox. Thanks. Ok on with the rant!

First of all, I'd have to setup a single worldwide government. The current rulers of all current nations would become representatives of their respective countries on my World Senate. Of course, being a dictator I don't really need a Senate, but it's nice to have. As long as they know that anything they decide can get shit-canned by me, then it's all good. Not Bush though. And definitely not T.rump. I would pass a law that no-one in the Bush/T.rump family is ever allowed to enter politics ever again. I'd make 0bama the President again so he could be the American Senator, cuz I liked him.  It goes without saying that I'd first pass all sorts of Youth Rights laws. Every age-based law would be abolished and replaced by laws that actually make sense. For example, the driving age would get axed and be replaced by a more rigorous driving test. In fact, we have way too many stupid drivers out there as it is, so the WHOLE driving test would have to be retaken by everyone. I would bring back beheading as the favorite execution style. Lethal Injections are for pussies. What the fuck is scary about getting a shot that puts you to sleep? Fuck no, if you did something bad enough that you deserve to die, you're gonna lose your head, bitch! Murderers get the death penalty, period. No life imprisonments for assholes who kill people. You kill someone, you die, that's all. (Note: DP would however only occur with a substantial amount of concrete evidence) Rapists get the death penalty. If she said no, then it's NO, motherfucker.  If you beat your kids, you get put in chains in the middle of Times Square and people can pay $1 for one punch or kick. The beatings stop when someone draws blood (cuz we don't wanna kill your ass). On the 3rd offense, an angry mob gets to beat your ass into a coma. If you come out of it, your kids can decide whether you should live or die. If you molest a kid, whatever part of your body touched them gets painted with acid. Then you go to the chopping block! If you steal from someone, you lose your rights and freedom for 1 year and become your victim's endentured servant. On the 3rd offense, you will work until you have paid for 10 times the value of the item stolen or for 5 years, whichever comes first. Marijuana is legal in Salt’s World. It will be tightly regulated and heavily taxed, because if you're gonna be a pothead, you're gonna fucking pay for it. Growing your own shit or selling it without a license will be considered stealing from the government and you get the punishment for theft (see above). Drunk drivers get no chances. First offense of drunk driving means you lose your license for life, in theory. I say "in theory" because it will work sort of like a life sentence in prison works. You can be brought up for "parole" and a committee will assess whether you deserve to get your license back. Such assessments will occur once every 10 years. If you beat your wife, I annul your marriage and place a restraining order against you. I don't care if she gives me that brainwashed crying bullshit "but he loves me, he didn't mean it, really he doesn't abuse me." You hit her, you lose her, and that's final. I will have my government scientists figure out an alternative to abortion that everyone can live with. Preferably, I'd like to see us be able to remove an embryo and continue to grow it in a lab. People who're trying to adopt always want babies and they always have to wait years for one. Not anymore. Furthermore, it seems that adoption is frowned upon due to it being so difficult to get approved and those who do get approved have a predisposition for choosing pretty, white INFANTS. Under my control, a new process will be drawn up to make it not only easier to adopt regardless of sexuality, marital status, etc but make it so that people don’t get to “select” which child they want. First come, first given, end of story. If you really want a child, you wouldn’t be that gdamn picky anyway. If you don’t want your child, that’s fine and well. We will literally take it out of your stomach (same concept as aborting) and grow it for you. Real abortions will only be allowed if a health risk to either mother or child comes up. This is how I would attempt to find middle ground, a compromise if you will. My government will fund cloning research. I want to be able to clone stem cells and body parts. If this can be done, maybe sick and dying patients won't have to wait year after year for suitable donors. In a world where everyone is part of the same government, there's not much need for massive armies. A global police force will be instituted as the next step above Federal officers. So, it would go, local cops, state cops, federal cops, global cops. Without an army to feed, clothe, etc. a shitload of money would be freed up to make people's lives better. There won't be anymore fucking hunger in my world. Every single farm worldwide will be required by law to give 5% of their yearly output to the government for distribution to the poor. They will, of course, receive a humongous tax break for doing this and any farm that voluntarily gives in excess of 15% will pay no taxes at all. Yes, I know this will make the cost of food rise globally. Too bad. You pay a dollar more for your T-bone and you can just cry about it, but at least some little Ethiopian can have some fucking potatoes that night. And in retrospect, under my administration, the percentage of poor people in the world should lower dramatically if not disappear altogether if you play your cards right. But until this global shitshow is corrected, that’s what would have to happen. Medicine will no longer be big business. All wealthy citizens under my rule will see a tax increase, which will pay for everyone's healthcare. No more private insurance companies, it's going government-issue, baby! And, by the way, under my rule the words "government issue" won't be a synonym for "piss poor." No one should be groaning about this because the minimum wage will also see an increase to an actual living wage proportional to the cost of living that will make workers and their families happy and also boost consumer sales, thus increasing the profits of businesses everywhere. The lack of insurance plans employers now have to provide for their employees will free up some of that extra cash. We're dismantling nuclear weapons and using their radioactive components as fuel. What the fuck do we need nukes for when all the world is united under one government? I will pass a law stating once and for all that all sentient life on this planet is entitled to equal treatment and protection under the law and that no law may be passed which contradicts this. Gay marriage: Legal. If you file a stupid lawsuit, we throw you in jail for 3 months. This includes suing the tobacco industry when you're the one who lit up 50 times a day for 30 years, moron. You also can't sue because you're fat. Watch what you eat and exercise if it bothers you so much! I will force Microsoft, Apple, and all those Google people to work together and create "The Uber OS." It'll run Windows programs and Mac programs (all versions) and Google programs (all flavors). All the drivers will work interchangeably. They will all be told that if the OS ever crashes, they each lose a family member! Mwahahahahaha. (kidding obvs). Every citizen will be allowed to carry a sidearm, as long as the sidearm is worn in plain view (like the old west). Every citizen carrying a gun had better remember the price they'll pay for murder. Unless it's self defense or defense of another's life, don't pull that gun! Significant resources will be diverted to build subway systems. City-wide, State-wide, Nation-wide, and World-wide systems will be built. Any system that is Interstate or beyond must be supersonic. The World-wide system must reach speeds of Mach 2 or greater (don't try standing up on the train, bitch!). The purpose of this subway network will not only be to facilitate free travel across the globe, but also to provide countless millions of new jobs that should adequately handle our planet's homelessness and unemployment problems. I should've mentioned taxes earlier, but here it is. The worldwide tax brackets will be as follows: everyone making 10k or less will owe 12% (you can omit the extra 2% with a financial hardship exemption form but it should be noted that no full-time adult worker should be making that much under my leadership so this should be doable without a person’s quality of life taking a hit), everyone making between 10,001-99,999 will owe 15%, everyone making $100k-$200k will owe 30%. Everyone over 200k will owe 50%. Surely you don't think the money for all these great improvements is just gonna fall from the sky? Recycling will become mandatory. We throw away far too much shit. Why chop down a rainforest when there's enough paper in a city dump to fill a library 10 times over?! We will also have to become far less dependent on fossil fuels. I'll work out a timetable for eventually outlawing fossil fuels in favor of electric, solar, and nuclear power. Go back to that city dump and imagine how many atoms are sitting their going to waste when we could be smashing them and reaping the benefits. Prison overcrowding? No problem! Legalizing weed and making drugs a medical issue instead of a criminal one should take care of this problem for the most part and as for the rest, well, Antarctica is just sitting there not doing a damn thing, it's time we put it to use. Remember the penal colony "Rura Penthe" from Star Trek VI? Yup, it'll be something like that. No guard towers, no fence, nothing. If you wanna escape, go ahead. You'll just freeze to death, idiot. Otherwise, you'll stay right there in prison and serve out your sentence. Imagine how many new jobs a prison that size will create? And the cost of feeding them will be negligible. They'll have giant heated greenhouses for growing everything they eat. They don't work to grow it, they don't eat. In other words, a prison sentence means you serve your time as a farmer in the middle of frozen fucking nowhere. Jon Stewart will be appointed as my press secretary. At least all my press releases will have the whole world laughing their asses off. Minimum Wage will be increased to $12.50/hr. I think Ronald McDonald can afford to buy used overhauls for a while so that his employees don't have to shop at the Salvation Army. Corruption in government would be gone. No one is allowed to spend more than $500 on their election campaigns. They can put up a fucking website and do grassroots shit. That way there's no big corporate donations and shit to deal with. Plus, politicians are gonna become like preachers: We give them a place to live and a minimal salary, that's it. No big bucks, no fancy cars, nothing. It's not gonna be about the money. All the money we cut from politicians can go to teachers, cops, firemen, etc. Y'know, the government employees who actually fucking DO something worthwhile and give back to society. Pro Athletes get capped at $90,000/yr. None of this being a rich bastard because you play a fucking game. Maybe then, only people who LOVE the sport and DON'T corrupt it will find their way in. Just like with the politicians, when it's not about the money only people who actually give a fuck will want the job. Ninety grand a year is still a damn good salary. It's not like they'll be poor. The RIAA and MPAA will be told once and for all to shut the fuck up about Peer-to-Peer. They should've jumped on the bandwagon when it got rolling, now they can just suck it up. By the way, musicians and actors are capped at $60,000/yr. They can still have the royalties on their music, movies, concerts, commercial deals, etc. Wouldn't be fair to take that away from them. However, the industry will still be encouraged to develop better copyright protection methods so that all the true geeks can still enjoy the immense thrill of breaking a copyright protection scheme only days after it's implemented. They've gotta have something to do on a dateless Saturday night. Wouldn't want to rob them of that. We'll be having a government-sponsored betting pool on how long it takes the industry to figure out that copyright protection is fucking useless (they spend years developing some new state-of-the-art system and once it's released, a 13yo breaks it in 2 days... get a clue). SPAM will be made illegal! The punishment for spamming is 5 years in the Antarctic Prison Colony! I think that just about covers the basics. Of course, I could probably go on all fucking night with this shit, but if I kept going I'd never get this rant posted. Just know that there's like a billion more cool things I'd do. I might just have to make a sequel to this rant. Until then....... Salt for president 2020.