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Cities Protecting Statues By Disguising Them As Karl Marx
Babylon Bee ^ | 06/24/2020

Posted on 06/24/2020 2:54:12 PM PDT by DFG

Looking to protect their statues and other municipal monuments, cities and towns across the country have begun disguising their statues as Karl Marx.

City councils all over are ordering Karl Marx wigs and putting them on Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and other statues. The move has proven extremely effective at deterring Antifa and other extremist groups, who are only looking for statues of old hateful white guys to destroy and not statues of communists.

"As soon as enraged rioters see the statue isn't of a dangerous, murderous madman whose ideas killed hundreds of millions but is just of Karl Marx, they move on," said one city council member in Illinois as he put a Karl Marx wig and beard on a statue of Abraham Lincoln. "Well, first, they bow respectfully to their hero and then move on."

Plaques on the statues with controversial quotes from the Founding Fathers are also being covered up with Marx quotes like "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution!" and "Workers of the world, unite!"

Some towns are reporting that Che Guevara chin stubble and a beret also work wonders at saving the monuments.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; che; marx; protesters; statues

1 posted on 06/24/2020 2:54:12 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Those dummies wouldn’t know Karl Marx from a confederate general. In their little minds, if he’s white and has a beard he must be a confederate. Isn’t that why the morons pulled down the Ulysses Grant statue?


2 posted on 06/24/2020 2:59:48 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: DFG
looking for statues of old hateful white guys patriots to destroy and not statues of old white communists

There, fixed it ...

3 posted on 06/24/2020 3:03:29 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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To: DFG

Or Lenin. That works in Seattle.


4 posted on 06/24/2020 3:05:33 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: DFG

Babylon Bee has been NAILING it.
I am just about ready to contribute.
It’s ALMOST as good as Pookie’s Toons! (But not.)


5 posted on 06/24/2020 3:27:32 PM PDT by golux
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To: DFG

Groucho would also work.


6 posted on 06/24/2020 3:30:06 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: DFG

Ah, the Bee. Almost got me again.


7 posted on 06/24/2020 4:17:10 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: golux

Yesterday they had one with the headline “With Statues Gone, Pigeons Forced To Poop on Rioters”


8 posted on 06/24/2020 4:29:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DFG

9 posted on 06/24/2020 4:31:14 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
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To: Boomer

10 posted on 06/24/2020 5:16:23 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
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