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The great thing about the Biden regime and its attendant wonks is how laser-focused they are on the problems that Americans are really facing. The economy is in free fall, inflation is skyrocketing, gas prices are going to start rising again as soon as the midterms are over, China, North Korea, and Iran are emboldened, crime in the nation’s major cities is out of control and often not even being fought, and an “independent commission” is set to recommend to Congress that $62 million of your money and mine be spent on erasing the names of Confederates from military bases and Arlington National Cemetery.
Why not? One lesson of this record-breaking administration is that the money never runs out, especially when it comes to aiding causes that are dear to the Left’s heart. And since no one is going to be put in the position of appearing to defend the Confederacy, the money will almost certainly be spent.
The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday that the Naming Commission’s final report to Congress recommends that “the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery should be dismantled and removed from the cemetery” and that military bases named for Confederate generals should be renamed. The Confederate Memorial, says the Examiner, “was unveiled in 1914 and features a bronze woman representing the South.” This “base also features shields with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states, as well as depictions of enslaved men and women.” According to the Naming Commission, this memorial is “problematic from top to bottom,” and thus it has to go.
This recommendation is a follow-up to the Naming Commission’s May report, which called for “new names for nine Army bases that commemorate Confederate officers, including Fort Bragg in North Carolina; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee, and Fort Pickett in Virginia; Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana, and Fort Rucker in Alabama.”
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, the vice chairman of the Naming Commission, says that he can take care of this little problem for us for the bargain-basement price of $62.4 million, which he says will “changes to the Arlington Confederate Memorial, two Navy ships, nine Army bases, and more.” Such a deal! But as always, there are a few hidebound, backward-looking racist white supremacists around to throw a spanner in the works: “Military officials have long defended the names of assets that commemorate the Confederate South, arguing they do not signal support but rather preserve history. However, U.S. officials faced a renewed call to remove references to the Confederacy in the summer of 2020 as racial justice protests erupted nationwide.”
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Wellington says
This is not the rewriting of history. This is the obliteration of history. Our absurd era continues and it should be noted that no amount of pandering will be enough for the Woke.
somehistory says
when it’s all over, and no one can recall the name of any Southern Guys, then they can just begin to blame themselves for their failures…which are many.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington.
milo minderbinder says
Wellington says
Sep 15, 2022 at 10:05 am
This is not the rewriting of history. This is the obliteration of history. Our absurd era continues and it should be noted that no amount of pandering will be enough for the Woke.
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+1
Robert Spencer says,
“The great thing about the Biden regime and its attendant wonks is how laser-focused they are on the problems that Americans are really facing.”
– Actually, they are laser focused. They are laser focused on how successful their plans are working to bring about the demise of this once great country and, if necessary, make adjustments to insure the successful completion of their mission.
“One lesson of this record-breaking administration is that the money never runs out, especially when it comes to aiding causes that are dear to the Left’s heart.”
– Can anyone say, Dios mío, los Estados Unidos de América van a ser la próxima Venezuela?
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
– Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
milo minderbinder says
Off topic.
BREAKING: Buses of Illegal Migrants Dropped Off Outside Kamala Harris’ D.C. Home After She Insists The Border is “Secure” [VIDEO]
https://100percentfedup.com/breaking-buses-of-illegal-migrants-dropped-off-outside-kamala-harris-d-c-home-after-she-insists-the-border-is-secure-video/
somehistory says
I saw that on the Washinton Examiner. Posted on another thread. One has to laugh…or at least…smile. But no one in her home will be cackling.
tgusa says
The biden regime should reach out to the taliban for assistance. After all, the regime has armed the taliban with plenty of US ordinance, Surely the taliban would give their good friends a discount price. That way the regime can pocket any money that they save.
somehistory says
OT but interesting:
“Global Uprising!”
“Citizens across the globe are rapidly rising up against their government’s failed leadership and globalist policies wreaking havoc on the economy; all the while vast amounts of the establishment media remain silent.
Indonesia
Italy
Chile
Other countries like New Zealand and Germany [and The Netherlands and Great Britain and others] have also experienced protests against their governments as the uprising continues.’
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/global-uprising/
milo minderbinder says
somehistory,
Thank you for the post. An interesting article. One gets the feeling that we are shoveling snow in a blizzard or trying to stop an avalanche once it has started.
Paul Henri-Spaak (1899-1972), the former Prime Minister of Belgium, the first Chairman of the General Assembly of the United Nations (1945), and one of the key founders of the movement toward European unity said, circa 1948:
“We do not want another committee. We have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass in which we are sinking. Send us such a man and, be he God or the devil, we will receive him.” Such a man is on the horizon. (Paul Henri-Spaak 1899-1972)
Hmmmm, that sounds familiar.
“While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition*; that the scripture might be fulfilled.” John 17:12 (KJV) * Judas Iscariot, also the coming Antichrist
“That you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:2-4 (NASB95)
somehistory says
You are welcome, milo. Yes, the Bible warns and instructs us, informs and comforts us as we see the end drawing ever closer. Imagine how the Israelites felt in Egypt when the plagues were being brought down on pharoah and his evil crowd. they weren’t sure of the outcome, but those who heeded the instructions, got out Egypt with more than they had before…with their lives and their freedom, too.
pharoah believed himself to be a god, just as many do today. He was proven wrong, and theses others will be too.
gravenimage says
Panel Recommends Plunking Down $62 Million to Free Americans From Confederate Statues
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Best use of taxpayer money…sarc/off