Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps: At some point yesterday, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for "Trump Tower" revealed a pin for "Dump Tower" instead. It was rather tricky to find for some, and required zooming in on the building itself at just the right angle (which is perhaps how the culprit got away with the stunt in the first place). At a separate angle, someone else (or perhaps the same person) transliterated the skyscraper's name in Russian Cyrillic, perhaps meant to be a jab at Trump's alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin and company... While the team [at Google Maps] managed to put out this first fire, another quickly arose to take its place (as is often the case on the internet), and later in the day on Saturday, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle was renamed Dump International Hotel and Tower. Meanwhile, another anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week Donald Trump emailed his supporters selling a $149 collectible "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornament finished with 14k gold, to raise money for both his campaign and the Republican party. But Yahoo News reports that it's now getting some suspicious negative (and politically-charged) reviews on its page on Amazon. ("One Star. "It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp.") And another reviewer even wrote a satirical story about how their family decided on the ornament for the tree. "During our family meeting we overwhelmingly chose the other ornament but somehow we still ended up with this one. We're not sure what happened."

Comments

Re: Crybabies

[Dog-Cow]

So Republicans are playing to the rules and Democrats are stupid idealists who think that putting enough of themselves in one place (California) will somehow get them the Presidency.

Sounds about right.

Re:Crybabies

[silentcoder]

When one party is running a blatant ethno-nationalist fascist - when the countries with most experience of fascist dictators are warning you "hey - this guy looks and sounds EXACTLY like those evil fucks who took over our countries in the 1920s looked"... yeah, then it really has become a simple question of good and evil.

Or at the very least - of minor nuisances versus unspeakable horror.

Sometimes - the reason there is no nuance in the debate - is because there is nothing nuanced about the situation. You elected orange hitler. Stop trying to pretend you did anything less, and seriously - stop telling us that we don't know who he is or what kind of leader he will be. Stop expecting us to just forget the campaign, to pretend nothing he said and did up to this point was said or done.Stop asking us to assume he won't be as evil as he said he will be.

If he suddenly decides not to be evil - then we'll admit that in 4 years after he's been in power and not evil. We're not giving him the benefit of hte doubt because there is no reason to doubt. In a year there might be - but that is the one in a trillion hope right now, make no mistake I AM hoping for that, but I'd be an idiot to bet on it.