Republican senators vote to strip Confederate names from Army bases, defying Trump!
General Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op:
‘I Should Not Have Been There’President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square, current and former military leaders say, has sparked a moment of reckoning in the military.
"Last week, Defense Secretary Mark Esper called a news conference to announce that he, too, opposed invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty troops across the country to quell protests, a line that a number of American military officials say they will not cross.
The president*, aides say, has been furious with both Mr. Esper and General Milley since then."
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If this happened in George yesterday, it will happen again in other states.
The only way the Republicans can win is by cheating
Atlanta, home to the largest Black communities in Georgia, closed 80 polling places since March —
Now, 16,000 active registered voters from five precincts had to vote at ONE polling place for Tuesday’s primaries
With already long lines due to these poll closures, voting machines in multiple precincts were’t even working, causing even longer waits
After waiting in line for upwards of two hours, many voters have given up and left
Does this sound like a free and fair election to you?
If we don’t act now, the undemocratic debacle playing out in Georgia will happen in every state come November 3rd.
Republicans have no response to tackle racism
"[Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina] would have to tell fellow Republicans that they will never have credibility on race so long as they scurry away and refuse to condemn President Trump’s insane suggestion that 75-year-old protester Martin Gugino, whose skull was cracked when pushed to the ground by a police officer in Buffalo was part of some sort of setup with antifa activists. Scott would need to tell Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that objecting to anti-lynching legislation in 2020 is as grotesque an example of racial callousness as one could imagine. Scott would also be compelled to tell his colleagues that in refusing to take up the Heroes Act, which would fund testing and state and local governments, they are once against disproportionately harming African Americans — just as their ludicrous effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a pandemic would do. He would be obliged to tell Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) that proposing the military be unleashed on civilians and give “no quarter” is akin to recommending the killing of protesters, who are predominately African American.
Scott would also have to tell Republicans to cease support for voter suppression techniques — including opposition to mail-in voting, voter ID laws (in the absence of significant fraud), denial of sufficient polling facilities in African American neighborhoods, gerrymandering (to limit the voting power of nonwhites) and voter roll purges.
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"Scott cannot fashion a remotely adequate Republican response to Floyd’s killing because Trump and his Republican Party are a central part of and, indeed, aggravate the problem — along with their cadre of right-wing white nationalists and run-of-the-mill apologists. The American response to racism requires the political obliteration of the Republican Party as we know it. That starts with voting them out of office, up and down the ballot, in November."
Republicans talking like morons:
Ohio GOP lawmaker asks if ‘colored population’ is hard hit by covid-19 because they don’t ‘wash their hands as well
12 comments:
Looks like people are finally turning against the lying bastard and dictator wannabe in the Bunker!!! YES!!!!
I love the sight of chickens finally coming home to roost!
Dotard donnie is looking more and more like a floundering mackeral out of water.
And Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff admitting he made a mistake politicizing te military is huge. I am almost beginning to believe their is yet hope for America's survival as a constitutional republic.
We need to rename washington because ole george owned a plantation and had slaves. Same goes for yale university because of who it was named after. Atlanta was the heart of the confederacy so why should it retain it's name. Lets just eliminate our history and start over.
Cotton was in favor of using troops to protect our national monuments. In retrospect we should have let them be defaced and maybe torn down because after all they are our history.
Trump pulled a stupid act by holding a bible in front of a church and I thought I would never see a more disgusting photo op. He was equaled by the pelosi and chuckles kneeling with their kente cloth. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that it was a “mistake” for him to participate in the photo-op President Donald Trump staged outside a church near the White House amid anti-racism protests.
“I should not have been there,” Milley said in remarks to a National Defense University commencement ceremony. “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
Hard to WALK BACK this part General Milley.
After federal police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of peaceful protesters on June 1, Milley walked with President Donald Trump and other high-ranking U.S. officials across Lafayette Square to St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Well Skud, once again you demonstrate an incredible ability to obfuscate.
1. Washington freed his slaves, the only founding father to do so.
2. The issue of renaming bases has more to do with them being named after traitors, than slavery.
3. As Atty General Barr pointed out, history is written by the winners. So tell me why Pres Trump would want to honor the memory of a bunch of loser generals? Admiral Yamamoto was a great military leader too, should we honor him with a memorial in Hawai'i?
4. The Pelosi photo - op was terrible, but at least they were not making an idol out of a sacred text, the Word of God for many.
Shaw... let's not celebrate the issue of base names yet. This act was the result of one Senator saying he/she favored the change. And then the committee decided to approve it on a voice vote, making sure no Republican would be on the record favoring the changes, but allowing them all to lay claim to having done so.
And it is only a committee vote, which McConnell will never let come up for a vote.
Dave Thanks for answering skudrunner, I was going to point out the same thing.
Also about Yamamoto! I don't know any country that erects statues of people who committed treason against them. But there are still people who refuse to acknowledge that the when the South seceded from the US and declared war on it, that was treason.
Who puts up monuments to treasonous men?
Yes, Washington freed some slaves (I believe some were his wives so he had no claim to free them), and some ran away from him and became freemen in the North.
I'm pretty sure skudrnner knows that this country was founded on the idea that "All men are created equal," but in those days what it really meant was "All White Men Who Owned Property" were created equal. It took a long time for the US to get rid of our Original Sin of slavery, even when other countries had done so.
I know lots of people don't like to talk about it, slavery, but we can trace inequality, racism, and the unrest we're experiencing now to that root.
As a white American I know this: I will NEVER know what it means to suffer as a person of color in this country. That is my privilege, and my tragedy.
Only those who've lived it up close and personal will ever, ever understand.
Candace Owens, the young Black conservative got a lot of terrible slack for saying George Floyd was not someone she admired and she didn’t feel sorry for him, which I thought went a bit far, and so did many others. As far as admiring him? I was 100% behind her…I don’t admire men with illegit kids, prison records, who do drugs and probably pass counterfeit money.
I admire men like Trump who lie their asses off every time they open their mouths. I admire rich men like Trump who cheat people out of money with fake Universities and then have to pay $25 for their cheating. I like men who cheat on their wives and who rape little girls! I like men who have to pay off porno stars! I admire men like Trump who questioned the only black president's birth and called Obama the biggest cheater in the history of the presidency. I admire men like Trump who call women dogs, pigs, and worse. I like men like Trump who make fun of handicapped journalists, who make fun of military men who were POWs or Purple Heart recipients. I admire men like Trump who cower in bunkers and then leave them to gas their own citizens while standing in front of a church they never attend and holding a book they never read.
Those are the people I admire! NOT GEORGE FLOYD! My morals are too fine to ever like someone like Floyd!
Rev, Washington owned slaves before he freed them. Bragg did not own slaves he was just a confederate general. Washington DC and state is subjecting their black citizens to living in a city named after a slave owner. Maybe paul revere statue should be removed because after all he was part of a treasonous movement. Yale university should definitely be changed because yale was a slave trader. Why not wipe all of our history and start over that way we will have nothing to learn from.
Well skud, ALL the racist, bigoted, slave owning and KKK hangings have been there for how many years to learn from? Not to mention the traitor confederate general's names, statues, and flag has all been around for hiw long? Have we ye earned?
So skud, your weak invalid argument about learning from confederate generals names, confederate staturs and monuments, other confederate artifacts, and the confederate flag is, simply BS.
Round up All the traitorous crap and stick it in The Civil War Losers Museum. That way all the modern day racists can declare their fealty to the traitorous south whenever they make a pilgrimage the the Monument To Those Who Believed In Human Bondage.
There skud, how's that work for ya?
Skud, Bragg committed treason against the United States. Not wanting a fort named after him has nothing to do with his owning or not owning slaves. Your example of Paul Revere is stupid, and you know it. The founding fathers knew that their rebellion against King George II was treasons. One of them, I think it was Franklin, said about their plot for independence from England something like this: “Gentlemen we must all hang together or we will surely hang separately.”
The South has gotten away with b.s. about honoring traitorous generals who lost the war. Finally America has woken up from that injustice and shame.
And Yale was a slave trader yet I don't see a movement to change the name of an Eastern institution.
I support the movement to change law enforcement with the first step getting rid of police unions and having civilian review boards on any accusation of police abuse for anyone. Most Unions do little to support people who do right but will go to great lengths to protect those who do wrong.
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