Posted on 05/18/2019 6:26:33 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that things named after President Thomas Jefferson should be renamed because that’s the “right thing to do.” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who became the rising star of the 2020 Democratic primary, echoed the far-left calls to rename buildings or events that carry the names of prominent U.S. figures on the grounds that they were owners of slaves.
The mayor was asked during "The Hugh Hewitt Show" on radio whether the name of the annual Indiana Democratic dinner, named the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, should be renamed as both presidents were holders of slaves. “Yeah, we're doing that in Indiana. I think it's the right thing to do,” Buttigieg said, according to the Washington Free Beacon. He then offered a tepid defense of the Founding Father while agreeing that events shouldn’t be named after him.
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Pete Buttigieg would have to stand on his husband’s shoulders to kiss Thomas Jefferson’s ass. Which, come to think of it, he would gladly do.
Buttigieg made the remarks when Hewitt asked him which form of Islamic extremism he thought posed the greatest overall threat.
“Do you find Iranians’ variant of Shia extremism to be more dangerous to the world than the Sunni variant that we see in the Taliban and perhaps in Hamas and some of the more radical elements of Wahhabism?” Hewitt asked.
“Well, you know, not unlike Christianity when it is motivating someone to do something extreme,” Buttigieg responded. “It can have a thousand different flavors
These people are evil and treasonous. And should be dealt with as such. They hate freedom and hate America.
I think the die is cast: Biden will get the nomination, and will select Felonia Von Pantsuit as his running mate. If they win, Biden will suddenly have to resign due to illness, and guess what!
If Jefferson and Jackson aren’t considered worthy enough to lend their names to the Democrats’ most important annual dinner because they owned slaves, the logical replacements for them would be the presidents who did the most to free the slaves — Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, who did the most to fight and win the Civil War.
Although Lincoln and Grant were Republicans, an annual Democratic Lincoln-Grant Dinner would be still be appropriate, since it would honor the two presidents most responsible for creating the Democrats’ all-important Black vote, without which they could never win the presidency or most statewide elections.
A little pissant thinks he is even worthy to pronounce Jefferson’s name.
Dumb idea. It would be stupid and offensive for Republicans to give up Lincoln and Grant to the Democrats, who fought them at every step of the way.
That vote you're complaining about wouldn't be as large as it without Jefferson, Jackson and other pro-slavery Democrats, so the Democrats should probably keep them.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984
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“It would seem like the first priority of ‘President Buttigieg’ is to create a Bureau of Erasures.“
See post 29.
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A lecture about morality, from a man who lets another man do him in the poophole.
He also will avoid that Democrats were willing to maim and kill in order to keep their slaves.
On this date, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina, accompanied by Representative Laurence Keitt of South Carolina, severely beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the Senate Chamber. Brooks’s violent act was in response to a speech in which Sumner attacked the institution of slavery and pro-slavery Senators such as Andrew Butler of South Carolina (Brooks’s relative).
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that things named after President Thomas Jefferson should be renamed because that’s the “right thing to do.” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who became the rising star of the 2020 Democratic primary, echoed the far-left calls to rename buildings or events that carry the names of prominent U.S. figures on the grounds that they were owners of slaves.
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Will this include blowing up Mt Rushmore as both Jefferson and Washington owned slaves?
A hundred years from now Thomas Jefferson will still be heard from. This little sexual deviant will not.
Just as we Southerners have been telling y’all for years.
Jefferson they hate most of all because he stood for limited government and the principle that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.
Washington will be next. Then Madison, Patrick Henry and George Mason.
We told you the PC Revisionists would not stop at Confederate historical figures. They were always planning to move on to the Founding Fathers.....especially because most of them were Southerners who they have a blinding hatred for.
For every renaming or erasing one of Robert Byrd ‘s monuments needs renaming. And then super predator Clinton’s name is next.
What do the descendents of Sally Hemings and her baby daddy have to say about this?
Bootygag just wants to get rid of the Jefferson $2 bill and replace it with his own picture on the new $3 bill.
Butt who? I’ve erased his name.
The interviewer dropped the ball. Should have asked Mayor Butt-edge his thoughts on the Lenin statue in Portland.
Should there be more?
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