Posted on 06/11/2020 10:55:31 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Washington — The Senate Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the annual military spending bill that would require the Defense Department to change the names of military bases and assets named for Confederate leaders.
A source familiar with the proceedings confirmed to CBS News that the GOP-led panel on Wednesday approved the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) offered by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts via voice vote. According to a summary of the NDAA released by the committee Thursday, the measure requires the Defense Department to rename posts and assets — streets, aircraft, ships, and other equipment — either named for Confederate officers or that honor the confederacy within three years.
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Okay, fine. Let’s rename them. Hmmmm... Fort Trump, Fort Pence, Camp Limbaugh, Fort Flynn...?
Yeah, collaborating with the Republicans who control the vote.
“It’s the Senate. Republicans control the committee.”
Of course, but without a doubt all the Democrats voted in favor of it and without that support, the amendment would have failed.
I’m all for it. Then there will be no more blacks without fathers. No more drugs or violence or crime. SAT’s will soar as black kids hit the books. Go for it!
And by a voice vote.
The president's republican “friends” have voted secretly to box-in their leader.
The president really does stand alone in the swamp.
Republican Traitors
Inhofe, James M. (OK), Chairman
Wicker, Roger F. (MS)
Fischer, Deb (NE)
Cotton, Tom (AR)
Rounds, Mike (SD)
Ernst, Joni (IA)
Tillis, Thom (NC)
Sullivan, Dan (AK)
Perdue, David (GA)
Cramer, Kevin (ND)
McSally, Martha (AZ)
Scott, Rick (FL)
Blackburn, Marsha (TN)
Hawley, Josh (MO)
“Remove the name Robert Byrd from any public place first.”
Hey Rats, that’s an excellent compromise, get moving!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
Actually surprised to see some of the names on the list.
Can I ask a question?
How many Blacks even knew that these bases were named after Confederate Generals?
and:
Trump should get ahead of this and sign an EXECUTIVE order to refresh the names to MOH Recipients.
The Confederate States of America was defeated by the most powerful slave-owing nation on earth.
Look it up.
Take names off ALL of them and change to numbers...just like A Clockwork Orange
“Can’t Trump find a better party to belong to?”
I posted last week that he needs to found a new party. All the responses from Freepers were “No.”
So many Republican sheeple on this site. They’ll scarf down whatever dog food the GOP establishment puts in front of them.
Which one?
Camp Ivanka !
“Consequently, Camp Bragg came into existence on Sept. 4, 1918. Camp Bragg was named for a native North Carolinian Gen. Braxton Bragg for his actions during the Mexican-American war. Prior to its establishment as a military reservation, the area was a desolate region. Huge forests of Longleaf and Loblolly pines covered the sandy area. About 1729 Highland Scots began cultivating the land in the Longstreet Presbyterian Church area in what was to become part of Fort Bragg. “
So it was named for Braggs actions in the Mexican American war,
“Take names off ALL of them and change to numbers...just like A Clockwork Orange”
Yeah.
Maybe numbers are too privileged.
Symbols?
but without a doubt all the Democrats voted in favor of it
So did all the Republicans. If the Republicans had opposed it, it would have failed.
Stop carrying water for the Republican Party. GOP bigwigs don’t care about you, why are you so supportive of them? Behind the back of the Pary’s sheeple base, the GOP bigwigs laugh, and say “what a bunch of loser suckers”
If so, there goes Sahara the movie.
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