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CapnSteve

(408 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:10 AM Yesterday

Ozymandias - Thinking of this in terms of how to describe Trump

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822


I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

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Ozymandias - Thinking of this in terms of how to describe Trump (Original Post) CapnSteve Yesterday OP
it is a perfect image barbtries Yesterday #1
Should any remnants of homage to the orange hellbeast be preserved EYESORE 9001 Yesterday #2
;-{) KING OF KINGS Goonch Yesterday #3
I think the cankles are too small. niyad Yesterday #4
Not true ---- the damage he caused. will remain to remind us for the next few centuries. 3Hotdogs 23 hrs ago #8
Ben Kingsley RetiredParatrooper Yesterday #5
Perfect epitaph... Karadeniz 23 hrs ago #6
Yup, been thinking about that poem for many months now. GoCubsGo 23 hrs ago #7
The problem is you have to be half way bright to listen to Ozymandias' warning. Biophilic 22 hrs ago #9
. dalton99a 22 hrs ago #10

EYESORE 9001

(29,807 posts)
2. Should any remnants of homage to the orange hellbeast be preserved
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 07:21 AM
Yesterday

as a monument demonstrating the folly of hubris? Might be hard to find after his downfall, seeing millions clamoring for destruction of his despised name and foul visage.

3Hotdogs

(15,431 posts)
8. Not true ---- the damage he caused. will remain to remind us for the next few centuries.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:02 AM
23 hrs ago

GoCubsGo

(34,945 posts)
7. Yup, been thinking about that poem for many months now.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 08:42 AM
23 hrs ago

Especially those last five lines: My name is Donnymandias, king of kings...

Biophilic

(6,589 posts)
9. The problem is you have to be half way bright to listen to Ozymandias' warning.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 09:47 AM
22 hrs ago

No way would trump or his people understand this. Which makes him and his minions the perfect examples.

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