RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work crews wielding a giant crane, harnesses and power tools wrested an imposing statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson from its concrete pedestal along Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday, just hours after the mayor ordered the removal of all Confederate statues from city land.
Mayor Levar Stoney
Oh, boy. That does it.
Trump is going to huff and puff and blow his house down.
Well, now, if we could do something about Stone Mountain… a giant carving sponsored by the evil United Daughters of the Confederacy (Aka Female KKK )…
Finally some fucking leadership being shown by someone. It’s about damn time they quit hemming and hawing about these and just remove them, legal process be damned. If we had cared about legal process they wouldn’t have been there in the first place.
“Flatbed trucks and other equipment were spotted at several other monuments as well. The city has roughly a dozen Confederate statues on municipal land…”
Hey, whatta ya know – Bill Barr was right.
History really is written by the winners!
Huff, puff, and then probably pass out before he gets to blow.
Are you suggesting he needs a … ventilator?
The American Civil War is pretty unique in that instead of executing the losers, statues and monuments were raised in their honor. French Aristocrats, English Cavaliers and White Russians wish they had received the same treatment…
It would keep his mouth shut and provide means for restraining his twitchy fingers.
OT/ Miscellany:
Caustic, but fair.
Pelosi: “The fact is very clear. The president is intellectually unprepared, personally unqualified, and ethically unfit to serve as president of the United States. And now he has undermined any credibility he may have had as commander-in-chief.”
1st Amendment Follies:
Ted Boutrous
@BoutrousTed
Presiding Justice Scheinkman (Appellate Division) has lifted the TRO against Simon & Schuster restraining it from publishing Mary Trump’s book. The TRO remains in effect as to Ms. Trump, but we will be filing a brief in the trial court tomorrow explaining why it must be vacated.
4:05 PM · Jul 1, 2020·Twitter for iPad
I can see him puttering around with his fat ass on one of those scooters, with his oxygen tank and the clear plastic tube stuck in his nose. In The Villages.
Naw. Herd immunity for Billy.
Good on Governor Northam, and Mayor Stoney. These statues to traitors should have never been erected in the first place. Hopefully they will load them all on a barge in Hampton Roads, tow them well out to sea and sink the damn thing !
Some publish quicker than others,
so true
It’s 2020, and we are going to take our country back …
… from the Confederacy!
Don’t sell Trump short. I think he’s well on his way to becoming the second President of the confederacy. He may not know, after all, he doesn’t strike me as an ardent student of history.
I don’t think Jefferson Davis was this enthusiastic about the whole slavery thing.
And some have an NDA.
Those Brits in the 1600’s (apparently my ancestors) sure knew how to treat the losers in a conflict. I like the idea of posthumous execution. Maybe we can arrange something like that for Trump after he croaks.
