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Palate Cleanser

by WaterGirl|  May 15, 202311:36 pm| 33 Comments

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Perhaps we could use something to distract from the disgusting, despicable, degenerate man whose original claim to fame was royally fucking up the response to the trade center attack on Sept 11, yet he somehow managed to become a hero in that story.

So here’s my offering of silliness.

Someone sent me this last week, and I left the tab open in my browser for when we needed an open thread.  If you were that person, out yourself in the comments, please.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the American Presidents insisted on being portrayed as disney princesses in their official portraits?

This might scratch that itch. Here is an ai thread you didn't ask for: presidents as disney princesses.

1. George Washington pic.twitter.com/HOd1AMxwzL

— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) May 10, 2023

I had no idea what some of these former presidents looked like, but some of these gowns are quite perfect for their subjects.

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  1. 1.

    NaijaGal

    May 15, 2023 at 11:38 pm

    I just learned today that puppy yoga exists!  Cuteness overload. Where have I been?

  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    May 15, 2023 at 11:39 pm

    @NaijaGal: Downward dog?

  3. 3.

    Eric S.

    May 15, 2023 at 11:44 pm

    I visited the National Portrait Gallery for the first time this past February. These are awesome.

  4. 4.

    JCJ

    May 15, 2023 at 11:47 pm

    I dunno.  The thought of TFG in a frilly dress showing a lot of cleavage doesn’t seem like much of a palate cleanser

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    May 15, 2023 at 11:51 pm

    I’ve always enjoyed this….

    https://www.nationalparktrips.com/national-park-stories/subpar-parks/

  6. 6.

    Ken

    May 15, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    @JCJ: I don’t know about Trump, but there are pictures of Giuliani in drag

    EDIT: Having scrolled through the presidents thread (which mercifully ends with Hoover), a lot of the pictures are “centaurs” — the President’s torso, in masculine garb, blended into a dress below the waist.  A few are pretty good, though.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 12:01 am

    @Ken

    blended into a dress below the waist</blockquote

    That’s why it’s called a ball gown, silly.
    :)

  8. 8.

    Eolirin

    May 16, 2023 at 12:11 am

    @Ken: It ends with Biden

  9. 9.

    Ken

    May 16, 2023 at 12:15 am

    @Eolirin: Maybe I should have scrolled further. Then again, some things can’t be unseen.

  10. 10.

    Poe Larity

    May 16, 2023 at 12:16 am

    I’m not voting Baud until I see Baud’s Ball Gown

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 12:17 am

    Trivia:

    John Quincy Adams was the first president to be inaugurated while wearing long pants.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 12:20 am

    @Poe Larity

    Would you believe a go-go dress?

  13. 13.

    Yutsano

    May 16, 2023 at 12:21 am

    Old doggo is old.​​

    EDIT: FYWP.

  14. 14.

    Rocks

    May 16, 2023 at 12:23 am

    To set the record straight, there was a World Trade Center attack in 1993, when followers of a fundamentalist cleric set off a 1,500 pound truck bomb in one of the underground parking garages below the north tower, WTC 1.  Six people were killed (one of them a pregnant woman) and dozens injured.  This made New York City officials acutely aware that they needed a command center which could coordinate the response if anything like this happened again anywhere in New York City.

    So where did New York’s mayor, (excuse me, America’s mayer) Rudy Giuliani, choose as the location for the New York City Office of Emergency Management?  Over the protests of subordinates, he choose to house it in…wait for it…7 World Trade Center, only a few hundred feet from WTC 1.  And why did he pick this location?  Because it was conveniently located a couple blocks from New York City Hall, giving him a readily available place for his assignations, (i.e., porking his various paramours).  And what sustained serious damage and lost power when the first plane hit the North Tower on September 11, immediately rendering the Office of Emergency Management unusable for its intended purpose, and ultimately collapsed about 5 pm that afternoon?  Why, 7 World Trade Center.  This horndog’s lack of concern for the eight million citizens he presided over contributed greatly to the carnage that day.

    Oh, and last of all…fuck Rudy Guliani.  Never forget the many people who died as a result of his lust and selfishness.  May he rot in prison for a very long time, followed by eternally rotting in hell.

  15. 15.

    Chetan Murthy

    May 16, 2023 at 12:47 am

    @Rocks: wrong thread, I think.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    May 16, 2023 at 12:57 am

    I thought Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge looked quite fetching.

    I’d like to share the dumbest thing I ever did as an X-Files fan: I once tried to read Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, one of his works whose titles were used as X-Files episode titles. Big mistake: I was nowhere near equipped to read Heidegger’s magnum opus. I gave up about half a page in.

  17. 17.

    eversor

    May 16, 2023 at 1:09 am

    Let’s do presidents in kilts.  Should be fun.  Who says men can’t wear skirts!

  18. 18.

    Redshift

    May 16, 2023 at 1:11 am

    @JCJ:

    I dunno. The thought of TFG in a frilly dress showing a lot of cleavage doesn’t seem like much of a palate cleanser

    Less horrifying than nearly any other picture of him, though.

  19. 19.

    cain

    May 16, 2023 at 1:28 am

    You all should check out https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion for some wild stuff.

  20. 20.

    eversor

    May 16, 2023 at 1:33 am

    @Redshift:

    A lot of the right wing propaganda about Trump from the younger generation portrays him as the “God Emperor Of Mankind”.  It’s all comedic.

    For those who don’t play Warhammer 40k or know about it the Emps is a literal immortal born in ancient Turkey after the suicide of thousands of shamans and psykers that can fight “gods”.  Though he himself is a full on athiest and points out there are no gods just really powerful fucked energy beings.   He’s extremely inshape, very not bald, about 12 feet tall, and wears golden armour.  He’s fucking fabulous!  He also extreminated religion and murdered the last Christian priest in cold blood.  He’s also the best scientist (bringing back lost technology) and medical doctor humanity has ever seen to the point of genetically creating demi-gods and legions of angels for them and enabling warp travel.  In war he leads from the front.  He’s at the tip of the charge going after enemy commanders and in the thick of the fighting.  So, he’s everything Trump is not.  Of course conservatives, young ones, photoshop Trumps head into images of the Emps.  Which is the first missing the point.

    Part of this is that 40k has had a White Christian Nationalist problem for a long time.   That stems from the Imperium Of Mankind being an actual fascist theocratic empire in the current time zone.   Catch is this is always played as mockery as the Emperor never wanted this and the demigods and angels (astartes) all constantly point out this was what was intended.  The entire game is a giant mocking on fascism and militarism  but is really fun.

    Trump as Rambo pictures are equally funny and crazy for other reasons.  It’s hard to mock something that’s so absurd on it’s face when you actually played the game or watched the damn movie.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    May 16, 2023 at 2:08 am

    @eversor:

    Uh-oh. I think you’ve just killed the thread.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 3:04 am

    @Amir Khalid

    Haven’t inquired as to the finger in a while. Any improvement?

  23. 23.

    206inKY

    May 16, 2023 at 3:05 am

    I would not have guessed Chester Arthur to be the star of this show. Abe is looking good too. Millard Fillmore, not so much.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    May 16, 2023 at 3:10 am

    @NotMax:

    ??

  25. 25.

    opiejeanne

    May 16, 2023 at 3:11 am

    @Ken: It goes on all the way to Biden, but you have to click on “comments” after the one you mentioned.

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    May 16, 2023 at 4:00 am

    @NotMax:

    Damn you!

    I laughed hard enough that I started coughing.

  27. 27.

    Ol_Froth

    May 16, 2023 at 6:55 am

    There’s a portrait of Washington’s sister in Fredericksburg, VA.  She looks just like George.

  28. 28.

    PaulWartenberg

    May 16, 2023 at 7:40 am

    James Buchanan in a ball gown is still a huge NOPE.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 8:08 am

    @Chetan Murthy: I mentioned Sept 11, and certainly implied that his decision to house management in the World Trade Center, so I think Rocks was picking up on that.

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 8:09 am

    @Ken: I thought it ended with #31. ??

    edit: why would someone have to click on “comments” in order to see something that seems like it should be in the thread itself?

  31. 31.

    Miss Bianca

    May 16, 2023 at 9:31 am

    Someone…spent a lot of time on those.

  32. 32.

    Citizen Alan

    May 16, 2023 at 9:32 am

    My first thought: I’ve been watching the reruns of project run away on roku, and I was shocked by how much james monroe looks like austin scarlet In both general appearance and design aesthetic.

    My second thought: bill clinton, probably our most sexual president, our looks surprisingly hot in drag.

  33. 33.

    Citizen Alan

    May 16, 2023 at 9:35 am

    @Miss Bianca:

    That or they spent too much time mucking around with an AI art program. As noted, a lot of them look like someone told computer to show president X in a ball gown, and the result was president X wearing the. Top of a tuxedo and a hoop skirt in a different color on the bottom.

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