Location
Mount Rushmore
Donna unleashes Mount Rushmore as rhetorical dynamite in Bismarck's tense conference room—colossal granite faces of Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln exploding from South Dakota's Black Hills, their stern profiles slicing the horizon and yanking millions of tourists across state lines. Dollars flood southward under these eternal gazes, crushing North Dakota's rebranding dreams with the sheer magnetic pull of carved presidential majesty, where wind-whipped crowds crane necks amid pine-scented vastness, amplifying economic chasms through awe-struck visitation.
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We Killed Yamamoto
Donna Diplomatically Rebuffs North Dakota's Rebrand Plea
Weaponized by Donna's pithy 'Also Mount Rushmore' as the knockout punch explaining South Dakota's tourism dominance—granite icons of presidents drawing billions despite climatic parity, their horizon-slicing majesty invoked to deflate North Dakota's name-change rationale.
Atmosphere
Awe-inspiring monumental pull (referenced)
Functional Role
Tourism attraction benchmark
Symbolic Significance
Irresistible historical magnetism trumping branding tweaks
Colossal carved presidential faces
Wind-whipped Black Hills horizon
Pine-scented tourist throngs
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