Autumn:  The Party of Lincoln.  The Lincoln Memorial is being showered with red and blue confetti, a reference to the colors of the two major American political parties.

Honest Abe is holding a lineman's handset and HOPE is tattooed across his knuckles.  He's wearing a 2600 "Blue Box" t-shirt and his eyes are bugging out.

In front of him, the "Quiet - Respect Please" sign has a #resist bumper sticker plastered over it, perhaps a message stating that the time for quiet and respect was now over.

Engraved in the wall behind Lincoln is an undated, unattributed Vladimir Putin quote that reads somewhat similarly to something Donald Trump might have said: "If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake."

Graffiti on the base of the statue is TALAQ3 or talaq talaq talaq, part of a story circulating in the mass media at the time which claimed that saying that phrase was all it took to be divorced in the Muslim faith.

Abraham Lincoln seemed the obvious choice for a divorce from the current political scene, and perhaps even the values of the Republican Party.

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