Discussion: Trump Endorses 'Beautiful' Confederate Statues, Calls Their Removal 'So Sad'

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All of a sudden he cares about beautiful art? So, the NEA is safe?

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His love of the traitorous CSA certainly comports with the rest of his anti-Americanism. Why does Trump hate America and love its enemies?

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Alternate Headline: Trump Continues to Make His Administration Impotent

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So statutes memorializing traitors who took up arms and slaughtered more United States citizens than Hilter, Imperial Japan or Osama bin Ladin could ever dream of, are “beautiful” to Trump.

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Because America (as a whole) doesn’t love him. In that way, it’s truly as simple as that.

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Theresa May just denounced 45

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As a U.S. citizen never having missed a presidential election I unendorse all “ugly confederate statues” and call their removal as “so happy”.

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[quote=“lestatdelc, post:5, topic:60771, full:true”]
So statutes memorializing traitors who took up arms and slaughtered more United States citizens than Hilter, Imperial Japan or Osama bin Ladin could ever dream of, are “beautiful” to Trump.
[/quote]And Trump doesn’t just want to memorialize the men, he wants to memorialize the beliefs.

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Limp dickhead stays limp.

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Removing these structures that commemorate the Confederacy has nothing to do with “erasing history”.

You respect history by documenting it in permanent records.
You pay homage to the ideology of groups and persons by erecting statues and monuments to their memory.

We honor the likes of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln for their roles in creating and preserving the nation.
We should not be honoring those who committed sedition in their efforts to split it asunder.

And neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Klan members, etc. are not “good people”, no matter their motivation for congregating.

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Speaking of sad, man Kasich has no backbone! about 6:30 in the clip

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Trump is essentially suborning civil unrest - why? … because if he can get it rolling with brutal intensity in various parts of the country, he believes that he can have justification for deploying troops - declaring martial law - and can get away with governing by decree.

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How about repealing Confederate War statues and replacing them with Union Civil War statues? Or statues of those who’ve fought for a diversity of civil rights (i.e. Frederick Douglass, Elie Wiesenthal, etc.)

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Hope this means that State visit that Donnie Two Scoops has been waiting for (riding in the golden carriage with Liz and all that) will be cancelled. Would be appropriate.

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When men and women of flesh and blood turn against you, you turn toward men of concrete and bronze for comfort.

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He’s beating us over the head telling us he’s an out and out racist. Why won’t some people accept that?

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Hell, I’d even be happy to have more trees planted in their place.

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Trump - “You…can’t change history, but you can learn from it.”
OK Trump. Tell us what you learned from the Civil War.

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Have a feeling that is next. It has already been “postponed indefinitely.” Would love to be a fly on the wall when May goes to Balmoral for her weekend with the Queen. Think her maj might have a few choice Dubonnet and Gin influenced words about entertaining a Nazi. What with personal memory of the Blitz and all.

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