Trump announces he is restoring names of Confederate leaders to military bases
Trump announces he is restoring names of Confederate leaders to military bases
I mean restoring the names of traitors is pretty on point for a fucking traitor.
and not even a traitor who is able bodied to fight, just some agitator hiding in his villain mar-a-lairgo
Traitors love traitors, nothing new to see here.
probably can't. no ferret would willingly be subjected to that.
It's the hair. I've seen more than a couple vinyl stickers of Punisher skulls with the hairpiece...
Maybe name a base after him.
The Confederacy and its people were an enemy foreign state. It wasn't like a little club the South had for a few years. They split from the USA. They were defectors, traitors, enemies of the USA.
Not surprised Donny would do this, though. He dismissed the insurrection on Jan 6th, which was a group of defectors, traitors, and enemies of the USA. He's a 34-time felon, which means he has a history of being against the US, its citizens, and their interests.
It's like he's compelled to be on the moral wrong side of absolutely everything. Reminder: the Confederacy wanted to secede so they could continue owning and abusing black people for profit. What a garbage person Trump is...
This is not how you use an ellipses.
First of all, it's an "ellipsis", "ellipses" is plural. If you're going to contribute nothing to a conversation, at the very least don't be wrong about your only point.
Secondly, my writing is valid, according to the University of Oxford Style Guide, so you're already wrong twice:
Use an ellipsis to indicate a trailing off in speech or thought. We could do this…or maybe that...
Lastly, it's an internet discussion, not a doctoral writing dissertation. And it's not even close to the worst punctuation on this site, so you can fuck alllll the way off...
Why do we want to keep them named after people who literally fought against the US?
Racist dogwhistling
What's next, is he going to name a skyscraper after Bin Laden?
Bin Laden? No. Putin? More than one.
You guys know if you’d just let the Confederacy split off it’d just have been some backwater colonial state with oil money and little else right?
Slaves
Why do this? Because he believes the liberals are going to freak out about this and forget about rioting.
Because a majority of his people don’t care about the racism or approve of it.
It’s a populist move in the USA.
And to embolden his fan base. It's a win-win for him.
He definitely doesn't want the rioting to end, he is actively trying to make it bigger. What he wants to people forgetting is that Musk repeated that Trump is in the Epstein flight logs.
Loser restoring losers, seems about right.
We need a Fort Sherman.
He’s so proud of those losers.
Yeah, what happened to not liking troops that lose?
I'm no US-American but wasn't there a Union General who burned down a while confederate state?
Sherman burned quite a bit but didn’t burn far enough.
Seems like a good time to hold up his legacy
hell yeah participation trophies
It’s about pissing off the libs.
Gosh, now I wonder why he would want to do that?
I mean, the cons are always so quick to complain when someone points out their long history of racism and things like the Southern Strategy.
Who is this for, then, if not for the racists in his own party?
What will this accomplish? They renamed the Sears Tower and nobody got on board. Sears went bankrupt and they still own the name of that skyscraper. This just seems like today's flavor of wet fart.
In this house, we spit on the name W*llis! It’s Sears Tower until it falls!
The Traitor and chief.
Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee,” Trump stated.
If you evaluate him on military accomplishments, Lee was a very successful military leader. He also did a fair bit of fighting for the US prior to the American Civil War. He also politically helped contribute to having the war end without lasting bitterness and infighting. Further, he didn't think that secession was a good idea; he ultimately decided that his first loyalty was to his state after it decided to secede. The Union offered to let him lead the entire Union military before he took a less-influential position with his state's forces; the man was held in quite high regard.
Polk, however, was a political appointee, militarily a disaster, and none of the above applies to him. I've no idea why anyone would want to have a fort named after him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Polk
Military historian Steven E. Woodworth described the shell that killed Polk as "one of the worst shots fired for the Union cause during the entire course of the war", as Polk's incompetence made him far more valuable alive than dead: "Polk's incompetence and willful disobedience had consistently hamstrung Confederate operations west of the Appalachians, while his special relationship with the president made the bishop-general untouchable."[35][36]
Polk was from Louisiana, as is the fort, but surely there are more-competent Confederate military leaders from Louisiana, like Beauregard.
Another idiot said the same shit about Lee. You should read about Good Ol' Lee.
We were immediately taken before Gen. Lee (http://fair-use.org/national-anti-slavery-standard/1866/04/14/robert-e-lee-his-brutality-to-his-slaves), who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.
https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-lee-slaveholder/
Absolutely no factiod about Lee could possibly outweigh the indignity of sending black people—who have volunteered to serve their country—to a place named after a person who fought for the right to keep them as property.
Humanity first.
You lost me at "without bitterness and infighting" It's been more than 100 years and some people are still fighting that war.
What a shitty hot take. Dude fought to continue the practice of owning humans.
Left hand: Protesters waving Mexican flags in the US are unpatriotic or traitors.
Right hand: The names of the soldiers of the traitorous racist confederacy should be forever remembered and boosted above real Amercan soldiers and real American figures of good repute, plastered across our military bases, schools, and town squares. We should all romanticize these men who killed American soldiers in the defense of the institution of slavery.