The wording of this word salad makes it sound like some weird Zinke fantasy sexual menage a something. Who’s back to back? Who’s in front? I can’t follow it.
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‘Troll the Libs’ has supplanted “Remember the Maine” in repugnican cultural lore.
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“…when the Dems take over…”
*IF…they take over.
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What was that line from Glengarry Glen Ross?
“Always be trolling”?
Something like that?
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Nothing but the best people in this administration.
Or so I was told.
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Why was Zinke at an event honoring black civil war soldiers? I mean didn’t he get Trump’s White Supremacist memo?
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Could these clowns be any more clueless?
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I am guessing it was a recruitment center for USCTs. Not sure why there would/should be any mention of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Not surprised. A big part of (present-day) Republican Civil War “history” is that large numbers of black soldiers voluntarily fought for the Confederacy.
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These fuckers just can’t help themselves (or be helped). Zinke, want to praise a traitor? Have at. But don’t think you can claim to be a patriot of any stripe.
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There is no comparison of King to Lee here. None. He is saying Lincoln is an advancement over Lee, and King is an advancement over Lincoln.
Even beyond that, it simply doesn’t make sense. If King was marching with Lincoln and Lee, in front of both of them, then his back is going to be to them.
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Nope–and it doesn’t even make sense. If instead of Lee, Zinke had said “Washington” or “Jefferson”–slave holding Presidents, it might make an iota of sense, but Lee? Come on.
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How can you possibly come to that conclusion? There’s no recognizable logic to his statement; it shrieks of sheer lunacy.
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As I recall, either Lee’s mother or his mother-in-law wanted her slaves freed when she died, but Lee decided to keep them in chains because it would have hurt him economically to lose so much “property”.
The only positive effect he had after the war was to admit the Confederacy did lose and tell southerners to accept the United States and move on.
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We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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Zinke’s bowdlerized and inaccurate version of history is clearly influenced by the Lost Cause mythology ginned up after the Civil War which included portraying Robert E. Lee as a benevolent slave owner who really just fought for states’ rights.
The realty for Lee’s slaves was very different than the myth as it was for African Americans that Lee’s troops captured during the Civil War, both freed blacks and Union soldiers; e.g., deprivation and the occasional flogging or hanging.
NB: Lee didn’t stoop to the atrocities of military leaders like Nathan Bedford Forrest but neither did he stop them.
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Why yes. Yes he did. He desecrated the event by his presence and by his comments where he put a white supremacist, traitor and mortal enemy of the brave people he was supposedly there to honor on par with a man who gave his life to the cause of equality for all people.
It wasn’t just misguided word gibberish. It was calculated and reprehensible.
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Lincoln moved ahead of Lee, and King moved ahead of Lincoln. That is why they have their backs to them.
He actually had a positive effect during the war - for the North: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/19/the-truth-about-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee-he-wasnt-very-good-at-his-job/?utm_term=.03f9299b5176
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