Why is Mad Dog Dump fixated on restoring statutes of Confederate soldiers?

Number one, they supported slavery, number two, they were traitorous scumbags, and, last, but not least, they lost. Aren't there a few more IMPORTANT things to focus on right now? Of COURSE there are, but, he doesn't wanna draw attention to them does he?
[h=1]Trump responds to calls to tear down monuments with creation of 'National Garden' of statues[/h] By Tal Axelrod - 07/03/20 11:54 PM EDT 11,549

The White House unveiled an executive order Friday evening to create a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will feature statues of prominent Americans. The executive order, which President Trump announced during a Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore, comes as the nation grapples with calls to tear down Confederate statues across the country and address other racist iconography.
“These statues are silent teachers in solid form of stone and metal. They preserve the memory of our American story and stir in us a spirit of responsibility for the chapters yet unwritten. These works of art call forth gratitude for the accomplishments and sacrifices of our exceptional fellow citizens who, despite their flaws, placed their virtues, their talents, and their lives in the service of our Nation,” reads the executive order, which was disseminated by the White House.
The executive order establishes the Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes, which will be empowered to use funding from the Interior Department to establish the site. The task force has 60 days to submit a report to the White House detailing options for the creation of the National Garden, including potential locations.
The executive order says the garden will include statues of John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson and Harriet Tubman, among others.
The garden will also “separately maintain a collection of statues for temporary display at appropriate sites around the United States that are accessible to the general public.”
Under the order, the garden will be open prior to July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence.
The executive order also address current calls to topple Confederate statues, underscoring that other activists have called for the dismantling of monuments to figures who owned slaves but were not in the Confederacy, including former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
“To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance. In recent weeks, in the midst of protests across America, many monuments have been vandalized or destroyed. Some local governments have responded by taking their monuments down,” the order reads. “These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn.”
Trump also railed against people tearing down statues of Confederate leaders during an impassioned speech at Mount Rushmore, accusing them of wanting to “overthrow the American Revolution” and fundamentally change the country.
“There is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished. Not going to happen to us,” he told a packed crowd.
“Make no mistake, this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence and hunger and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery and progress," he continued. "To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol and memory of our national heritage.”

How come you are a worthless pile of shit ?

What's the matter, Righty whack jobs, nothing to say (other than the village lunatic, that is)? Hey, Jefferson wasn't a traitor, he was on the winning side, but, even his own DESCENDANTS say that HIS memorial should go:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/thomas-jefferson-descendant-calls-memorial-to-be-removed-154313153.html

[h=1]From Thomas Jefferson's own family, a call to take down his memorial[/h] Christopher WilsonSenior Writer
July 6, 2020, 8:43 AM PDT


https://www.yahoo.com/news/thomas-jefferson-descendant-calls-memorial-to-be-removed-154313153.html#


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The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson has called for the memorial to the third president to be removed from Washington, D.C.
Writing in the New York Times Monday morning, Lucian K. Truscott IV says his ancestor’s former estate at Monticello is enough of a tribute and that the Jefferson Memorial, located next to the Tidal Basin in the nation’s capital, should be replaced with a statue honoring the abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman.
“The memorial is a shrine to a man who during his lifetime owned more than 600 slaves and had at least six children with one of them, Sally Hemings,” Truscott writes. “It’s a shrine to a man who famously wrote that ‘all men are created equal’ in the Declaration of Independence that founded this nation — and yet never did much to make those words come true. Upon his death, he did not free the people he enslaved, other than those in the Hemings family, some of whom were his own children. He sold everyone else to pay off his debts.”
In the piece, Truscott argues that Monticello serves as an “almost perfect memorial” to the nation’s third president. In his opinion, Monticello notes Jefferson’s major contributions to the creation of the United States — including the Declaration of Independence — but also includes his history as a slave owner, or, as Truscott writes, “it reveals him with his moral failings in full, an imperfect man, a flawed founder.”
“I am the sixth-generation great-grandson of a slave owner,” Truscott continues. “My cousins from the Sally Hemings family are also the great-grandchildren of a slave owner. But the difference is that our great-grandfather owned their great-grandmother. My family owned their family. That is the American history you will not learn when you visit the Jefferson Memorial. But you will learn it when you visit Monticello: There’s now an exhibit of Sally Hemings’s bedroom in her cavelike living quarters in the south wing, a room my brother and I used to play in when we were boys.”
Truscott is a novelist and columnist for Salon whose grandfather was a general during World War II.

The replica of a slave room at the Life of Sally Hemings exhibit at Monticello. (Eze Amos/The Washington Post via Getty Images)In a July feature in Smithsonian Magazine, another Jefferson descendant, Shannon LaNier, was photographed in the same style as his sixth great-grandfather but opted not to wear a wig because he “didn’t want to become Jefferson.”
“He was a brilliant man who preached equality, but he didn’t practice it,” said LaNier, who is descended from Jefferson and Hemings. “He owned people. And now I’m here because of it.”
The discussion around the monument comes amid a national conversation in the wake of George Floyd’s death about who should be honored with statues, memorials and buildings named after them. A number of Confederate monuments, and statues honoring Christopher Columbus, have been removed by either local officials or protesters, but there is a trickier discussion around Founding Fathers who were also slave owners, including Jefferson and George Washington. A visit by President Trump to Mount Rushmore, which features sculptures depicting both Washington and Jefferson, drew attention to the South Dakota monument that’s located on Lakota land.
A statue of Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s 26th president, is set to be removed from outside New York City’s American Museum of Natural History — not as a commentary on Roosevelt but owing to how it depicts the two figures flanking him, a Native American man and a Black man. The museum said it still planned to honor Roosevelt, whom it called a “a pioneering conservationist.”
“The world does not need statues, relics of another age, that reflect neither the values of the person they intend to honor nor the values of equality and justice,” said Theodore Roosevelt IV, a great-grandson and museum trustee. “The composition of the Equestrian Statue does not reflect Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy. It is time to move the statue and move forward.”
In recent weeks, Trump has attempted to make protecting monuments a top issue, signing one executive order in an attempt to further criminalize defacing or toppling them and another one to create a national statue garden of “the greatest Americans to ever live.” Trump has defended monuments to the Confederacy and has balked at renaming U.S. military bases that honor Confederate officers.
Truscott has a replacement in mind for the Jefferson Memorial, suggesting a Union Army veteran and the woman whose portrait was selected to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill until the Trump administration decided otherwise.
“It’s time to honor one of our founding mothers, a woman who fought as an escaped slave to free those still enslaved, who fought as an armed scout for the Union Army against the Confederacy — a woman who helped to bring into being a more perfect union after slavery, a process that continues to this day. In Jefferson’s place, there should be another statue. It should be of Harriet Tubman,” Truscott said. “To see a 19-foot-tall bronze statue of a Black woman, who was a slave and also a patriot, in place of a white man who enslaved hundreds of men and women is not erasing history. It’s telling the real history of America.”

Look at this piece of shit talking about those in our history.

He is lower and and worse than any of these men of history and he wants to talk about them

fucking ignorance at its finest

[h=1]John Kasich: President Trump is 'in a meltdown'[/h]Former Governor John Kasich (R-OH) says Donald Trump "is in a meltdown" after the President complained about NASCAR's recent decision to ban the Confederate flag from all races and events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shswrp_hGpk

Nothing to say, GOP scum? I like seeing small cracks with the gutless politicians of the party: Little Lindsey Graham, of all people, defended NASCAR; Turtle Boy, McConnell, went out o fhis way to advocate the wearing of masks, and the governor of Mississippi said it was a great day when his state became the last of the states to remove the emblem of those racists, traitorous scumbags off of the state flag.

I think those their Democrats do not like the white people much! What's up with dat!azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^azzkick(&^

Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
addressed the topic of military bases and statues named after
Confederate traitors and said on Thursday that the US military
needs "to take a hard look at the symbology" of the Civil War.


"The American Civil War… was an act of treason
at the time against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes,
against the US Constitution — and those officers turned
their backs on their oath !"

" Now, some have a different view of that.
Some think it's heritage. Others think it's hate,” Milley said.


"We've also got to take a hard look at the symbology, the symbols,
things like the Confederate flags and statues and bases," Milley underlined.




This comes as adolf trump has made clear that he intends to block any plans
to rename the bases and has made exploiting racial and cultural divisions
a key tenet of his re-election strategy.



adolf trump said in a tweet last month:

"These Monumental and very Powerful Bases
have become part of a Great American Heritage...
Therefore, my Administration will not even consider
the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations."

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