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1:08p, 5/25/26



…the arch would be more than double the height of the Lincoln Memorial.

When asked by CBS News' Ed O'Keefe who the arch is for, Mr. Trump pointed to himself.

"Me," he said.


I know the spot well.
This disgusts me to no end.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/group-vietnam-vets-standing-trumps-100005782.html

I'm guessing this would be the second tallest behind the Washington Memorial.

The man just will never stop.
We probably have seen nothing yet.
And then everyone will be so sad.
But it will be too late.
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6:56a, 5/26/26
My gosh, I just cannot stand self promotion like this.

After doing a little digging…the size of the arch is part of a design intended to frame the Arlington House (Robert E Lee's home). For history buffs there's an interesting back story about Arlington House, Lee and the Cemetary and I suppose, for me, that back story and the framing of the house is enough to swallow the size of the monument, which on its face seems gaudily large.
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7:16a, 5/26/26
Ramses II.
Priest of the Patty Hearst Shrine
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7:21a, 5/26/26
I thought this would be a new story.
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In reply to oski003 • 7:33a, 5/26/26
oski003 said:
I thought this would be a new story.

I guess that makes it okay.
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In reply to cal83dls79 • 7:34a, 5/26/26
cal83dls79 said:
Ramses II.

That's a good point. Why didn't he consider a pyramid?
He could be buried in there.

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In reply to concordtom • 7:53a, 5/26/26
concordtom said:
oski003 said:
I thought this would be a new story.

I guess that makes it okay.


Your title is misleading. The arch has been discussed here quite a bit already.

https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/127293/replies/2675336

https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/124031/replies/2687887
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In reply to oski003 • 7:56a, 5/26/26
oski003 said:
concordtom said:
oski003 said:
I thought this would be a new story.

I guess that makes it okay.


Your title is misleading. The arch has been discussed here quite a bit already.


Oh.
Sorry.

I guess I don't live on BI like you.
(And that's a good thing)
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8:03a, 5/26/26
IMO opinion there is nothing wrong with this thread.
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 8:17a, 5/26/26
tequila4kapp said:
My gosh, I just cannot stand self promotion like this.

After doing a little digging…the size of the arch is part of a design intended to frame the Arlington House (Robert E Lee's home). For history buffs there's an interesting back story about Arlington House, Lee and the Cemetary and I suppose, for me, that back story and the framing of the house is enough to swallow the size of the monument, which on its face seems gaudily large.


To your point, a couple of Vietnam Vets are suing to stop the construction of this gaudy Arch that will clearly disrupt the symbolic connection between the Lincoln Memorial and the Robert E. Lee Memorial.

The Arch would be more than DOUBLE the height of the Lincoln Memorial.



For a group of Vietnam vets, opposing Trump's arch is about being "loyal to the country" - CBS News

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In reply to DiabloWags • 8:31a, 5/26/26
I do not know that they are making it but considering the design's intent of framing Arlington House I could see a reasonable argument being made that the arch enhances that connection.

(FWIW...from memory from our tour some years ago...Lee was offered command of the US Army but resigned his commission to fight for the Confederacy. Lincoln (?) confiscated Lee's house in retribution for Lee being a traitor to the Union; making it a cemetery for those killed in the war was the ultimate eternal FU to Lee's actions)
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1:31p, 5/26/26
Based on the Trump Administration's amateur hour foreign policy, future returning astronauts to earth are liable to find his monument like this one:

“Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside”
—Jim Morrison

“I love Cal deeply, by the way, what are the directions to The Portal from Sproul Plaza?”
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 4:28p, 5/27/26
tequila4kapp said:
I do not know that they are making it but considering the design's intent of framing Arlington House I could see a reasonable argument being made that the arch enhances that connection.

(FWIW...from memory from our tour some years ago...Lee was offered command of the US Army but resigned his commission to fight for the Confederacy. Lincoln (?) confiscated Lee's house in retribution for Lee being a traitor to the Union; making it a cemetery for those killed in the war was the ultimate eternal FU to Lee's actions)


Enhances???

WTH is wrong with….
It destroys it.
Listen, I used to live there. I had a view of it all. That thing would be an abomination!!!! A GD abomination!!!!






By the way, your new avantar should have been a bottle of your favorite tequila! I vote you change, there's still time!

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In reply to bearister • 4:33p, 5/27/26
bearister said:
Based on the Trump Administration's amateur hour foreign policy, future returning astronauts to earth are liable to find his monument like this one:



It could happen sooner than that, if I had my way (and it wouldn't involve nuclear Armageddon!)
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4:33p, 5/27/26
“Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
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I got some friends inside”
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“I love Cal deeply, by the way, what are the directions to The Portal from Sproul Plaza?”
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In reply to bearister • 4:37p, 5/27/26
bearister said:

Note to the easily propagandized, there was no such building in Germany during Hitler's reign
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In reply to bearister • 4:40p, 5/27/26
^ imgbb fail? [feel free to revise and extend]
Free GOLDY now/forever
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In reply to concordtom • 6:08a, 5/28/26
concordtom said:
tequila4kapp said:
I do not know that they are making it but considering the design's intent of framing Arlington House I could see a reasonable argument being made that the arch enhances that connection.

(FWIW...from memory from our tour some years ago...Lee was offered command of the US Army but resigned his commission to fight for the Confederacy. Lincoln (?) confiscated Lee's house in retribution for Lee being a traitor to the Union; making it a cemetery for those killed in the war was the ultimate eternal FU to Lee's actions)


Enhances???

WTH is wrong with….
It destroys it.
Listen, I used to live there. I had a view of it all. That thing would be an abomination!!!! A GD abomination!!!!






By the way, your new avantar should have been a bottle of your favorite tequila! I vote you change, there's still time!



Kapp getting carried off the field at the end of his last Big Game was a solid choice!
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In reply to Cal88 • 8:25a, 5/28/26
Cal88 said:
concordtom said:
tequila4kapp said:
I do not know that they are making it but considering the design's intent of framing Arlington House I could see a reasonable argument being made that the arch enhances that connection.

(FWIW...from memory from our tour some years ago...Lee was offered command of the US Army but resigned his commission to fight for the Confederacy. Lincoln (?) confiscated Lee's house in retribution for Lee being a traitor to the Union; making it a cemetery for those killed in the war was the ultimate eternal FU to Lee's actions)


Enhances???

WTH is wrong with….
It destroys it.
Listen, I used to live there. I had a view of it all. That thing would be an abomination!!!! A GD abomination!!!!






By the way, your new avantar should have been a bottle of your favorite tequila! I vote you change, there's still time!



Kapp getting carried off the field at the end of his last Big Game was a solid choice!


Except…. When we read his screen name I don't read Kapp, I read Tequila.
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8:26a, 5/28/26
You know who had a good avatar…. Drunk oski. It was some cartoon face of a drunkard.
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8:28a, 5/28/26
Then there was the one that looked like an electrified slinky man. Elongated limbs. I don't know how else to describe it. Who was that?
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In reply to concordtom • 8:31a, 5/28/26
This would have been my pick for that handle...



On the main topic:


Biff Tannen goes to Washington.

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In reply to Cal88 • 8:54a, 5/28/26
Cal88 said:

Kapp getting carried off the field at the end of his last Big Game was a solid choice!






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8:24a, 9/26/26
He won't stop until it is called Planet Trump.



Which is why Father Time is called upon.
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In reply to Aunburdened • 9:14a, 9/26/26
Aunburdened said:
bearister said:

Note to the easily propagandized, there was no such building in Germany during Hitler's reign


I can't see the image but Hitler had extensive designs for redoing all of Berlin that he never got around to
Censorship has always been a tool of the fascist
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In reply to tequila4kapp • 9:18a, 9/26/26
tequila4kapp said:
I do not know that they are making it but considering the design's intent of framing Arlington House I could see a reasonable argument being made that the arch enhances that connection.

(FWIW...from memory from our tour some years ago...Lee was offered command of the US Army but resigned his commission to fight for the Confederacy. Lincoln (?) confiscated Lee's house in retribution for Lee being a traitor to the Union; making it a cemetery for those killed in the war was the ultimate eternal FU to Lee's actions)


It does give one ideas. In a just world (which we are far from) settlement of an emoluments lawsuit would include confiscating the Trump building at Columbus Circle in Manhattan and redoing the whole thing as an education center and monument to democratic values.
Censorship has always been a tool of the fascist
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12:14p, 9/26/26
They should just have a time limit on monuments so everyone has a turn.
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In reply to dajo9 • 8:52a, 9/27/26
dajo9 said:
tequila4kapp said:
I do not know that they are making it but considering the design's intent of framing Arlington House I could see a reasonable argument being made that the arch enhances that connection.

(FWIW...from memory from our tour some years ago...Lee was offered command of the US Army but resigned his commission to fight for the Confederacy. Lincoln (?) confiscated Lee's house in retribution for Lee being a traitor to the Union; making it a cemetery for those killed in the war was the ultimate eternal FU to Lee's actions)


It does give one ideas. In a just world (which we are far from) settlement of an emoluments lawsuit would include confiscating the Trump building at Columbus Circle in Manhattan and redoing the whole thing as an education center and monument to democratic values.


I've definitely thought this. We need an education center on how media and social movements bring people to great places like with MLK, or Naziism on the other extreme.
MAGA movement is one America will look back upon as NOT its proudest moment, and there are lessons to be learned. What better place to do that at than a Trump confiscated property?!

I would be happy if there never ever anything named Trump. Erase all of it.
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