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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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you can call it sally if you like...just don't build a new one!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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I think he may have an idea. Both Trump & that collection of highways are loopy & unstable.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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There is a strong local effort against it! Anyone of a similar mind please send texts to the people Eve suggests, I did!
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Maybe someone will erect fast food restaurants at closely spaced intervals in his honour.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Too ironic for words.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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An amazingly brazen, cynical, malicious act....words fail me. Whenever I cross the border from Colorado to Utah on my way to Indian Creek I remark to my wife..."travel alert, entering enemy territory!"
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Not a joke. :(
I thought it was at first too.
Susan
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Might be real but still a joke..
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Sold his soul to the devil.
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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Trump is way too brilliant for most people to understand.
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WBraun
climber
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Drive on the road.
Who gives a sh!t what the road is named.
It's a road .... and people drive on it.
You people are insane worrying about a road name.
When I become POTUS I will name a road "St00pid Americans" .....:-)
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Trump is way too brilliant for most people to understand
So true. Yesterday he proposed a rating system for violent movies. Way ahead of his time.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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The Putinator has been driving the Trump Highway for 3 years now causing a yuge log-jam...
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Don't worry - it's just a road sign - one that will be riddled with bullet holes within a few days. Fat white guy leaves yet another mark on the local landscape - whatever - Trump and company aren't the first.
Meh - lots of 3rd world indian reservations to see on that route, ranches, some mining and drilling - and yeah, what's left of the American West. Not much National Park though.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Hah! Until it's a six-lane divided highway, this a FAILING road. SAD!
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Set your watch back a few decades upon entering Utah
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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So true. Yesterday he proposed a rating system for violent movies. Way ahead of his time. So says Divad above. Another idiot.
so we should rely on the present movie rating system? How ridiculous. I took my kids to a Sponge Bob movie that was much more scary than funny.
In the 14 years since The Motion Picture Association of America created the NC-17 rating, only a handful of releases have been branded with it. But three more have popped up in the last three months. Has NC-17 finally come of age?
British producer Jeremy Thomas, for one, isn’t breaking out the bubbly. Responsible for two of the three — Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, and Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton — he thinks the rating is bad news. ”NC-17 gives the film a smutty image,” he says, adding that the MPAA objected to a sex scene in which McGregor and Swinton are clothed. (Rather than editing the content like many filmmakers do, Thomas and Sony Pictures Classics appealed. They lost.)
Okay, so the no-children-allowed rating hasn’t had the greatest track record. Created in 1990 to replace the porn-tainted X, NC-17 came to be seen as box office poison, thanks to bombs like the campily erotic Showgirls. (The fact that some theaters refuse NC-17’s and Blockbuster doesn’t carry them hardly helps.) But even a warm, fuzzy G couldn’t have saved Paul Verhoeven’s pole dance. ”The first NC-17’s did not perform well, but not because of the rating,” says National Association of Theatre Owners president John Fithian. ”They just weren’t appealing to audiences.” The same might be said of the panned Dreamers, which has eked out $2.4 million since February. One insider even argues that the rating helped Bertolucci’s film by generating the sort of titillation no marketing budget can buy.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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^^^
The troll resurfaces to support his fuhrer.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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I think he may have an idea. Both Trump & that collection of highways are loopy & unstable.
Perfect..
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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I'm with Duck on this one. Who really cares? Here in S Colorado I25 is the John F. Kennedy Highway until it abruptly becomes the Ronald Reagan Highway.
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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The signage should make nice souvenirs for the kids during their migrations throughout the west.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Being called an idiot by a Trump supporter feels like being called a genius by Einstein.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Here in S Colorado I25 is the John F. Kennedy Highway until it abruptly becomes the Ronald Reagan Highway.
That's hilarious!
Is there anywhere where you can take a picture of both signs together?
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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I would be very careful driving the Trump highway. In Trumpworld there are at least 2 major crashes a week
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Who cares...I do. This is a clear attempt to broaden the cultural wars by cynically naming the road after the person who did all he could to remove as much protection for public lands in that area and open them up to development.
Trump will fade away as an aberration and the fewer reminders we have of him the better.
I suspect the eventual Trump library will be filled with classic comics.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Good point.. Why reward the meglamaniac for ransacking a national treasure...? This is just more of the " pay to play " corruption involved in modern politics...
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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The road shown in the original post goes through some stupendous country and includes some of the best motorcycling tarmac in Utah. I really love specific portions of that road. As for the name, any sign designating it the Trump highway will likely be monkeywrenched within mere days.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2018 - 09:21am PT
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It gets voted on at 10:10 am today, do or die because today is the last day the legislature is in session
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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I've been passing this sign since at least 2004 and survived, so sure, why not?
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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From the SL tribune:
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Thanks Brian...I needed that.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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The idea of “monkey wrenching” arose in Utah and may yet arise again in Utah. I’ll do my part if need be.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Bunch of rock lickers...! "#RockLickers" deserves to become a meme. Anyone climbing in Indian Creek this Spring should taste the base of the first pitch.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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The Trump library will probably consist of a Fox network schedule
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Rock Licker is an insider synonym for Geologist. Does the Trump-wing hate geologists now too?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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If the Trump library consisted of all the books he hasn’t read it would easily be the largest in the world.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Don't forget that a trait that helps make a successful spy is the ability to spread disinformation.
(Christopher Steele)
;>)
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Monkey wrenching didn't start in Utah. It didn't even start with sabots thrown in the machinery.
Trumps name on a Utah highway is the opposite of putting lipstick on a pig.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Noel's bill passed out of committee on a vote of 9-2.
Stayed tuned...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Seems to me Ed Abbey made the term fashionable.
Agreed, it's been a tried and true activity since the dawn of civilization.
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Barbarian
climber
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Drive on the road, and make sure to put as many holes in the signs as possible.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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No fuks to give, the silly tin signs won't last, the whole point of the move is to get people riled up and pay attention to people who don't otherwise earn it and it seems to be working.
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Lennox
climber
in the land of the blind
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Trumps name on a Utah highway is the opposite of putting lipstick on a pig.
Yeah, I was thinking that it was like putting lipstick on the wrong end of a pig, but you’re right it’s more like putting a strap-on dildo on the Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot.
There’ll always be some folks, like Yosemite 5.9, who would like that sort of thing I guess.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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I'd be happy to drive a Trump Memorial Highway to his funeral.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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The real story is Muellar having caught several of Trumps key campaign members for lying to the FBI...This isn't fake news like the steady stream of disinformation broadcasting daily from the White House..
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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This pisses me off to no end. It's frankly Utah GOP members being spiteful because they can. Things are normally not named after sitting presidents.
If this passes I will be having jackass stickers printed up to put on the signs and will give them away for free to anyone travelling through.
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Lennox
climber
in the land of the blind
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I wouldn't even want the road to hell named after Trump, maybe name it after Robert McNamara, at least he had good intentions.
Find some random dirt road that dead-ends at a sh!thole and name that after the malignant narcissist in chief.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I don’t know...I think there are places where his image and name are very appropriate.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Yes I would drive it but only in a highly erratic manner while eating KFC and yelling at everything in my sight PLUS listening to Sean Hannity on the radio.
A big knife might come in handy in the White House
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Coming out of Colorado in a Vanagon with New York plates......
Never Happen
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Ever
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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It's official- Republicans are pandering fukheads and if you voted for Trump your a complete idiot beyond question. I've tried to moderate my opinions on such matters but that no longer serves any purpose.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aye, aye Contractor!
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Good point Warbler, I can certainly cut slack for those that regret their vote. It's the diehard supporter that is a compleeeeete idiot- thanks for catching that!
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Downhill all the way
Yes
Maybe a highway designed by MC Escher
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Death to spammers on the Highway to Hell! Fast road to nowhere.
Once dubbed the Richard M. Nixon Freeway, the Marina Freeway is a fast road to nowhere. Literally. It is only 1.5 miles long, and few people, other than those living in the area, have actually driven on it.
I traversed it once on foot. Never thought of Spiro Agnew the whole time.
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Lennox
climber
in the land of the blind
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Good point jogill.
Even if you treat it as a work of fiction, it’s as entertaining as Le Carre spy novels. Perhaps even more dramatic toward the side of a Tom Clancy meets Danielle Steele.
But I sort of liked the good old days where fact and fiction were not interchangeable. Maybe it always was, and it’s just thrust in our face more now.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2018 - 10:39am PT
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The Utah legislature closed the 2018 session without passing HB0481, Donald J. Trump Utah National Parks Highway Designation.
No need to bring guns to Sushifest now, there will be no Trump road signs to shoot at.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah!
Mathis: Praise be to God!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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This just in!
Utah legislator Mike Noel who proposed Trump highway retires after 16 years.
Noel has served as the chairman of the House Rules Committee for the last several years and is known for his staunch criticism of federal land policies and bureaucrats.
Noel also recently introduced a bill in the Legislature to rename several scenic roads in southern Utah as Donald J. Trump Highway. The legislator pulled the bill after he and his family received several death threats, according to Utah Policy.
Noel says he is retiring for personal, not political reasons, however.
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46277309&nid=148&title=controversial-utah-legislator-mike-noel-retires-after-16-years
Darn! No Trump Highway signs to shoot at & no Rep. Noel to bitch about. I guess there's no reason to go to Utah after all;)
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2018 - 11:53am PT
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Good riddance on Noel retiring. I bet they can dredge up someone just as bad as him from around Kanab, the former home of lavoy finickum, aka tarpman
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Read Monkey Wrench Gang for some good portraits of Utah folks
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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t-Rump’s road should end at a strip club
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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And start at his daddy's place.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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And if he gets a flat Daddy sends out a mechanic
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Lituya
Mountain climber
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Mar 10, 2018 - 06:10pm PT
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Whenever I cross the border from Colorado to Utah on my way to Indian Creek I remark to my wife..."travel alert, entering enemy territory!"
How terrible it must be for you--surrounded by "enemies." Sad.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Mar 10, 2018 - 06:24pm PT
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^^Which is much better than this.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Mar 10, 2018 - 06:38pm PT
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Lituya? Do you enjoy picking fights & using Trumpisms, re your comment on Donini's valid comment?
How terrible it must be for you--surrounded by "enemies." Sad.
I lived in SLC for a year in the mid-1980's & happily fled back to Idaho & then traveled Utah multiple-times yearly as an outdoor gear sales-rep, until retiring in 2015.
Utah has a lot of cops, who don't worry much about speeders, but worry about out of state license plates & folks that look different.
I never got a ticket in 30 years of traveling there, but I had to dance for the Logan Ut. cops one night, when they pulled me over on my 3 block drive from an eatery to my hotel.
With two cop cars flashing lights behind me, as I turned into my hotel, I stopped in front of the office & pleasantly complied with "barked" commands & assertions that I had committed an illegal lane change & smelled of wine.
I was quite happy to have the hotel manager & a number of guests watch me go through the DWI procedures, since I knew witnesses are good in incidents like this.
Since I had driven 500 miles through snowstorms that day & had just enjoyed a nice dinner & two glasses of wine, I failed the “field-sobriety” test. The cops then had me blow the alcohol-level balloon & when it didn’t show I was drunk, they had me blow it again. I kept my mouth shut about being tired, since they were totally focused on hauling me in for DWI.
At the end, the lead officer, after I had proved I had a room in the hotel, shook a finger at me and said “if we see you again tonight, we will arrest you!”
I haven’t spent a night in Logan, UT since. I’m sure the local cops like that.
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Don Paul
Gym climber
Denver CO
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Mar 10, 2018 - 07:09pm PT
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That is a really nice ride in the original post, covers a lot of scenic ground. Ideal on a motorcycle and still plenty of room to sleep in the dirt. Seems ridiculous to name it after Donald Trump, since his idea of the outdoors is the beachfront of the Mar a Lago resort.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2018 - 07:41pm PT
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Seems ridiculous to name it after Donald Trump, since his idea of the outdoors is the beachfront of the Mar a Lago resort.
trump is saving the wilderness for ATVs, serious, that is how the lunatics in Utah think, can't make this stuff up.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2018 - 05:58pm PT
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So the conservative Utah Mormon files for divorce, blows his life savings on porn and files for bankruptcy. God willed it. Actually bankruptcy has biblical roots. In the bible everyone gets a fresh start every seven years, until 2005 you could do a bankruptcy every 7 years (it is 8 years now cuz credit card companies are more powerful than god)
http://www.christian-attorney.net/bible_bankruptcy.html
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD's release" (Deuteronomy 15:1-2).
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EricLobster
Gym climber
Vancouver, BC
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Mar 11, 2018 - 06:59pm PT
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Why hate on this idea just because apparently Trump is behind it?
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Mar 15, 2018 - 02:50pm PT
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As usual, we only need to look to the Roman Empire to find the solution to the current situation.
They called it "damnatio memoriae", and it was the obliteration of all references, statues and memorials to a particularly despised person.
The process has already started. "TRUMP" is being removed from buildings worldwide.
Spray paint, chainsaws and pipe cutters will become part of the Utah camping trip kit if the highway is renamed. NBD.
Seriously, though, Trump is an absolute genius. He is a double-agent, working from the inside to destroy the Republican Party. As he would probably say about himself, "I work in mysterious ways".
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Mar 15, 2018 - 02:58pm PT
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You guys come unglued about some weird shit
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cornel
climber
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
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Mar 16, 2018 - 05:28am PT
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The Insane Clown President or Putin’s Poodle whichever gets closer everyday to being impeached. Money laundering and obstruction of justice, those are the 2 crimes that will be his undoing.. just a few more months and this Traitor will get what he deserves..
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AE
climber
Boulder, CO
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Mar 16, 2018 - 11:47am PT
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All Hail and Bow Down in Obeisance to the Almighty Orange Deity - He shall have meaningless contrivances named after him, in Accordance with how much Hidden Riches shall have been Passed through the Golden Arches of Salt Lake City and the pockets of the Governor.
Fillmore for a time, was the territorial capital of Utah, named by an act of the Utah Territorial Legislature signed by Brigham Young in 1851, honoring President Millard Fillmore.
Trump shall inevitably fall into disfavor, beating Millard in contention for worst president in our history - should the nation survive his term, with or without impeachment.
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