Posted on 07/19/2020 9:02:39 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” President Donald Trump said he opposed renaming military bases that were named for Confederate leaders.
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Thanks for posting that.
My ancestors are from upstate NY, both sides of the family.
I have lived all of my adult life in Virginia immersed in the history here.
It pains me to see that history destroyed.
It’s also painful to see ignorant posts by freepers that we shouldn’t have bases named after traitors.
The men who were being shot at by them did not even regard them as traitors.
Trump took Wallace apart.
Fantastic!
TRUMP: No, because they’ll get their pay raise. Hey, look, don’t tell me this. I got soldiers the biggest pay raises in the history of our military.
I love Trump too but I believe the biggest pay raise came under Reagan. I remember between 1980-82 we got an 18% raise.
Same thing with 2A matters. Our guys could be slamming a bill a day requiring citizens to own and know how to operate a firearm, require gun safety courses in all high schools, tax breaks for taking specific courses, etc., etc.
It doesn't matter if one of them passes or not. Put them out there and let the commie democrats spend time and money fighting them.
The Republicans only know how to react. They have absolutely no understanding of directing the fight.
The GOP is in their own way every bit as pathetic as are the socialist democrats.
The GOP is much more pathetic, and is controlled opposition. They are the problem more than the democrats.
In terms of percentages that may be true, but in terms of actual money in my paycheck, God Bless Gerald Ford. He signed a pay raise where the percentage of increase was tied to rank. Lowest ranks got the highest raise. Prior to Ford, I was paid in cash every two weeks, I think it was like $175. After Ford they started issuing checks, my pay nearly doubled.
A few years ago we visited the Appomattox Court House.
Talking with others inline, they said they lived in the area, I ask if they came here often?
Never had visited!... Their grandparents did not celebrate the 4th of July!... I can understand, their ancestors had lost almost everything.
Changing the name of Fort Sheridan does nothing for them.
Guessing that the vast majority rioters have no connection to much of anything much less of a notion of honor.
Lee had read the northern papers calling for his hanging, and quite possibly it might have happened?
He could have ordered the men to fall back, cut off he did not...
“ Gordon gave him a reply he knew Lee did not want to hear: “Tell General Lee I have fought my corps to a frazzle, and I fear I can do nothing unless I am heavily supported by Longstreet’s corps.” Upon hearing it Lee finally stated the inevitable: “Then there is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.”
Americans of great honor, all of them.
Also notice:
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Notice the lack of trash talk about the CSA.
BTTT.
Thought that was the funniest line of the interview, which became moderately contentious at times. Wallace could have caused a big dustup by interjecting the "r" word and using it against Trump but he instinctively knew that Trump has thrived when this tactic has been tried against him often in the past. We may not have heard the end of this from the nitwits on the left, though.
Trump has been explaining for weeks why he opposes the base name changes. It's not to honor the Confederate generals, but rather to preserve the history of the bases in preparing American servicemen for their combat activity in WWI and WWII.
Same holds true for Lincoln's second inaugural speech: very magnanimous toward the dying Confederacy.
And the same holds true in Grant's acceptance of Lee's surrender at Appomattox
Unlike a lot of RINOs looking for pats on the head from their Leftist friends at the country club and unlike Neocons who are just warlike Leftists, Trump actually gets it. Its our history. No, we are not going to throw it away just because some incredibly ignorant Maoists have a hissy fit about it. From the bottom of my heart, SCREW THEM.
I didn’t watch, how was it? It sounds like this SOB Wallace Jr. was trying help Biden.
Wallace, at least asks intelligent questions. I think Trump enjoyed talking to a non-lobotomized leftard for a change. Still a leftard, though.
It's probably still available on the Net. Just google "President Trump Chris Wallace interview" and you should get a link to the FoxNews video of it.
I'd agree with Trump that Wallace, though he denied it, tends to be pro-Democrat, so he had some disagreements with Trump over some things, like whether Biden endorsed defunding of police. Turns out that Wallace today acknowledged that Biden did that but it was not included in the Biden-Sanders agreement. But Wallace gave him a tough time about it. Trump and Wallace also disagreed about the death rate of COVID in the US as compared to other countries. At one point Kayleigh McEnany came to Trump's aid by producing a statistical sheet supporting the relative low death rate in the US.
I don’t really wanna watch it unless someone tells me Trump kicked ass rather the media narrative that it was very bad. ;d
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