Senate Approves Proposal To Strip Confederate Names From Army Bases By Veto-Proof Majority

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a defense bill on Thursday that included Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) provision requiring the military to rename U.S. bases named after Confederate generals.


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Is there anything internal polling can’t do?

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Here’s to hoping Trump issues his veto, and it is overridden. Nothing more shameful than having an ass-kisser like McConnell as your speaker and still getting your veto overridden

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Five-Word-Spouting, Pants-Crapping, Camel-Identifier: “I will Veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren (of all people!) Amendment, which will lead to the renaming (plus other bad things!) of Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, and many other Military Bases from which we won Two World Wars, is in the Bill!”

Trump’s honeymoon lasted longer than the Confederacy.

(Melaria: ”And the South’s never gonna rise again, either.”)

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Donnie: Look away, look away…

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Not a good day for you, Fat Nixon.

Your henchmen are no longer afraid of you…

White House conceded to Senate GOP demands in key areas of recovery package, senators say

Republican senators say the White House conceded to Senate Republican demands during the negotiations — namely on money for contact tracing and testing, making funds available for schools that stay closed and dropping President Trump’s demand for a payroll tax cut.

On school funding: After Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos warned that aid to schools would be withheld without them fully reopening, the Senate GOP pushed back and charted a different course.

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Well, that just dills my pickle.

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One day, the senate will vote to remove the name Trump from buildings, resorts, public fixtures, stationery, public and private records and newborn children whose parents would curse them with the name. And so much more.

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I’m surprised McConnell let it on the floor

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Trump in his ultimate wisdom should follow the action of the Washington DC foot ball team owner - who proved he and his bff’s were not smart enough to come up with a real team name, so they settled on “washington football team”. Such clever folks - NOT!

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I’d bet that the pre-nup requires her to service him a certain number of times per month. I mean, you don’t seriously think he’d let her stonewall his jackson?

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“I will Veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren (of all people!) Amendment,

If only Trump was as fired up in defending BLM, US soldiers against Russian Bounty or fighting against Covid19 as he is about protecting the inanimate statues that represent treason against our country…
AmeriKKKa would NOT be a shithole country now!

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Seriously. Normally the GOP isn’t terribly responsive to what the people, you know, want.

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Well, so much for Southern Strategy 2.0.

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I’d take that bet. She’s barely willing to show up as a beard. She’s generally unwilling to smile or let him touch her. I think the deal is he can claim to be married.

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Who else voted no ? (I know Cotton n Hawley did)

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It’s the defense bill. Packed with all sorts of goodies for their home states. They’re not going to let it get derailed in an election year over a few names.

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A milestone, to be sure… And as a dominance exercise for Trump.

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Are there enough votes in the house to override? So many trumpidiots there :frowning:

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Distancing seems to be the flavor of the day.

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