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Trump slams GOP-led panel backing removal of Confederate names from military bases
NY Post ^ | June 11, 2020 | 6:30pm | Ebony Bowden

Posted on 06/11/2020 5:17:45 PM PDT by conservative98

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To: the OlLine Rebel

Idiot coward Republican.

Just like Moslems and BLM....they will not like you for it!

Why bother?


Once again the GOP Senate leaves POTUS bare behind to the beltway winds.


41 posted on 06/11/2020 6:23:40 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Oscar in Batangas

The traitorous demonRats would make Hitler, Mao and Stalin proud for the treasonous acts they are committing today with their book burning and history rewriting. Destroy the south’s heritage is to remove the reminder of their rebellion. Next will be the founding fathers standing up to England and you know they will also attack Christians more violently. These people have a very dark and harden heart.


42 posted on 06/11/2020 6:24:48 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: proust

Our top military officer apologizes for standing next to the president of the United States in America. This is where we are now.


Spot on. Clearly, there is no opposition party to the rampaging progressive corportists. As Grenell said on Tucker: it’s all of DC vs. America.


43 posted on 06/11/2020 6:25:29 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: conservative98

Where can we find another Conservative party?


44 posted on 06/11/2020 6:30:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oscar in Batangas
America is GREAT both because of and in spite of her history.

Why rip up ~half the story???

I'm afraid that concept does not register with the low-intellect types (which seem to be surging in numbers).

45 posted on 06/11/2020 6:31:58 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: conservative98
Trouble is, it is a trap.

Is Trump really going to veto the entire military funding bill to "DEFEND" "racist, traitorous, terrorist" Confederates?

How is that going to play with the electorate -- particularly the Blacks Trump has so assiduously courted for 3.5 years -- once the media, politicians, celebs, musicians and the Biden and NeverTrump campaigns slam him over the head with it?

46 posted on 06/11/2020 6:39:09 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Zhang Fei

Returning a bill unsigned is a veto. Signing a veto statement is not required.


47 posted on 06/11/2020 6:46:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

[Returning a bill unsigned is a veto. Signing a veto statement is not required.]


https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/pocket_veto.htm
pocket veto - The Constitution grants the president 10 days to review a measure passed by the Congress. If the president has not signed the bill after 10 days, it becomes law without his signature. However, if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period, the bill does not become law.


48 posted on 06/11/2020 6:52:45 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: conservative98

Every few years lately the leftists have to dig up the corpse of the Confederacy and bravely swat away at it for a while. It might be because they’re emboldened and thinking they can get away with anything. Probably more like an indication that they’re scared and fresh out of ideas on matters of substance.

I actually didn’t know that these posts were named after Confederate officers. Apparently most of them were started during the WW1 and WW2 buildups. The powers that be in the states where they were located were consulted about the names. The Civil War and aftermath were still vivid, sore memories for the South back in those days, and the gov’t mainly wanted people fired up and on-board with the war efforts. It’s an odd result, but I get it.

I’m not sure why Trump chose to dig in his heels so fiercely on this, but I’m not too concerned about it. He could have said he thought it was a waste of time, but he’d leave it up to the Army, Congress, and the states where the posts are located. The Confederacy was defeated 155 years ago. There were a few Southerners around who were still choked up about the Civil War when I was young, but they have to be a rare breed by now, don’t they? You don’t have to join in on every pie fight you’re invited to.


49 posted on 06/11/2020 6:53:22 PM PDT by Iowa Slim
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To: conservative98

Don’t think it ends with renaming military bases named for Confederate officers. There is already much talk of removing statues of Washington and Jefferson and other founding fathers who owned slaves.

And, of course, several statues of Columbus have already been toppled.


50 posted on 06/11/2020 6:53:43 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: HighSierra5

These days, you could probably lose your job by writing your congressman if yours is not the correct position. I don’t trust any of those pandering scumbags.


51 posted on 06/11/2020 6:54:09 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: conservative98

Bush League Republicans.

We MUST elect better Republicans.


52 posted on 06/11/2020 7:16:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Better Republicans have to want to run for office. More and more that’s the hard part.


53 posted on 06/11/2020 7:16:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bommer

I agree with you . Defending dead confederates is a lost cause. Add to the legislation, language that new names can only be Medal of Honor winners. This will thwart the RATs desire to name bases after abortionists, transgenders, etc.


54 posted on 06/11/2020 7:18:43 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: 11th_VA

First they came for the Dead Confederates....


55 posted on 06/11/2020 7:19:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservativepoet
Looks like it’s time for the Donald Trump party

That time was July 2017, and it's long gone.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries"

56 posted on 06/11/2020 7:19:35 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: Iowa Slim

It’s about erasing our history.
I am grateful President Trump is standing firm.

Not ONE of our elected or appointed stood for the Constitution on Usurpation Day.
They swore in an ineligible usurper they KNEW was not a natural born citizen.
The riots today are a direct result of the usurpation and eight years of a foreigner enemy agent in the White House.

The founders knew what they were doing.


57 posted on 06/11/2020 7:26:20 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jim Noble

I do believe in the impossible. Donald Trump’s presidency is the impossible.


58 posted on 06/11/2020 7:56:27 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: dfwgator
First they came for the Dead Confederates....

Yes - we are in a war, and there will be casualties. Right now, my own kids are ‘mesmerized’ by BLM. Over time, they will learn how they were duped. So we need to play defense right now, understanding the times we live in.

I will trade confederate statues and base names for time to put down this rebellion.

59 posted on 06/11/2020 8:09:43 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: 11th_VA
I will trade confederate statues and base names for time to put down this rebellion.

But it will never be enough, it will just encourage more until they demand we change our flag and rename Washington DC.

60 posted on 06/11/2020 8:11:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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