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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.

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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  3. 3.

    Eric S.

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

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    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

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    Ken

    @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

    @Ken

    blended into a dress below the waist</blockquote

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

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    Trivia:

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

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    Rocks

    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.

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    Amir Khalid

    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.

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    eversor

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

  18. 18.

    Redshift

    @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.

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    eversor

    @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.

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    206inKY

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

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    opiejeanne

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

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    Ol_Froth

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

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    WaterGirl

    @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?

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    Citizen Alan

    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.

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    Citizen Alan

    @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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