Posted on 07/05/2020 10:58:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
Video at link.
President Donald Trump's 4th of July speech at Mt. Rushmore Friday night focused on the United States' history and legacy in the world. He also addressed the issue with cancel culture advocates trying to completely shatter American history by pulling down monuments and statues. But, according to Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), the president's speech should have focused on the 130,000 Americans who died as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus and the bogus story about Russia putting a bounty on American troops' heads.
"Where does it end? Should statues, for example, of George Washington, come down?" CNN's Dana Bash asked.
"Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a national dialogue on it at some point, but right now, we're in the middle of a global pandemic and one of our allies, one of our countries that are opposed to us – Russia – has put a bounty on American troops' heads. What really struck me about the speech the president gave at Mt. Rushmore is that he spent more time worried about honoring dead Confederates than he did talking about the lives of our 130,000 Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19 or by warning Russia off the bounty they're putting on Americans' heads," Duckworth explained. "I mean, his priorities are all wrong here. He should be talking about what we're going to do to overcome this pandemic. What are we going to do to push Russia back? And, instead, he had no time for that. He spent all his time talking about dead traitors."
Bash pushed back, reminding Duckworth that many would not consider George Washington to be a "traitor." The senator didn't say whether or not statues of Washington should be torn down but instead insisted a "national dialogue" should take place.
What the senator fails to grasp is this: a "national conversation" can't take place. The left-wing cancel culture mob has already gunned for any and all monuments, not just those of Confederate soldiers and leaders. A perfect example are the statues of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln. Both men despised slavery and everything it stood for. They fought to free slaves in the south and bring together our union. No one seems to care about that bit of history. The left sees a statue of a white man from the 1800s so it's automatically assumed that they were racist members of the Confederacy.
We can't have a "conversation" about statues that have been desecrated and destroyed. Conversations are supposed to happen before those kinds of actions are taken, not after.
Duckworth can say Trump memorialized "dead traitors" and Confederates but he was talking about all statues and monuments that have been destroyed at the hands of the left-wing mob. Christopher Columbus wasn't a Confederate. Neither was King Louis IX. To say this is solely about Confederate statues and monuments is ignorant.
President Trump's speech focused on reminding Americans that our history is rich. Yes, it has blemishes, some that caused great heartache. We've learned from it, we've grown from it and we must remember it so we aren't doomed to repeat it.
Sheesh.
Let’s review.
President Donald J. Trump was born in NYC. Last time I checked that was north of the Mason Dixon line. He went to a military school and an Ivy league school.
All Union. No Confederacy.
Plus, I watched the speech.
WaPo, AP, ABC, NBC, NYT, CNN, Rueters, etc. have a DNC agenda, and there’s no doubt about it.
5.56mm
This perpetual loser has gone full retard...never go full retard. What a worthless putz and an embarrassment to humanity.
He focused on the four men depicted on Mt. Rushmore. None were part of the Confederacy.
So true. We don’t have the time to demonstrate, can’t
afford to have a criminal record for rioting/looting etc.
Too many 20-40 year olds are living off their parents. After high school my sisters and I were expected to be in college or work.
Quite a list of “Confederates” there!
Sen. Tammy Duckworth
QUACK!
Left-wing bitches they be crazy.
One of President Trump’s best speeches ever.
TDS is getting to her senses.
“...confused and stunned, like a duck hit on the head.”
Abraham Lincoln
“...proves her head is on backwards....”
...and shoved up her own ass as well.
The work has begun! Mount Rushmore faces to be changed to commemorate those fallen national heroes George Floyd (aka George Kirby, George Taylor, and Floyd Taylor), Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Rodney King. (O.J. lost out because he is still alive)
May they all rest in peace (or burn in hell) as the case may be.
Wtf is her problem? Trump did not send her to get her legs blown off in Iraq. So why is she sending cannon fodder there?
Whenever a liberal skunk says let’s have a national dialogue what they mean is “we’ll tell you how it’s going to be and the rest of you can just stfu.”
Fixed it.
Tammy’s title: Denator Suckworth, idiot at large.
As a resident of Hellinois and has this embarassment as a US Senator I will simply say in closing that Senator Duckworth knows a thing or two about "screwing the pooch" and she did that with her comments this time. Last time it was with a helicopter.
Senator Tammy Duckworth is a twit. People are afraid to call her what she is because of her disability. However, she is really stupid.
I hope you sent that list to all the idiots who didn’t watch it but insist on criticizing the President’s Mt Rushmore speech.
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