from the think-positive…-or-else dept
The Trump Administration(s) aren’t merely content material to declare satire lifeless. Trump’s reappearance within the Oval Workplace calls for we dig up the corpse and desecrate it.
And whereas we’re desecrating that corpse, why not desecrate a number of nationwide landmarks? That’s the pitch from the Nationwide Park Service beneath Inside Secretary Doug Burgum. Spring-boarding off Trump’s revisionist history-enabling “Restoring Fact and Sanity to American Historical past” government order, Park Service staffers are being pressured to ask Individuals to inform them what historical past needs to be remembered and what needs to be forgotten.
Beneath the heading “Encouraging Public Participation,” [comptroller Jessica] Bowron’s memo states: “All NPS items are required to put up signage that may encourage public suggestions by way of QR code and different strategies which might be viable.”
An instance picture of an indication leaked to NPR for Wilson’s Creek Nationwide Battlefield in Missouri, the location of the second main battle of the Civil Struggle, forward of its potential set up, asks guests to determine “any indicators or different info which might be destructive about both previous or residing Individuals or that fail to emphasise the sweetness, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and different pure options.” (The signal additionally asks for suggestions regarding areas and companies that want restore or enchancment.)
The apparent aim right here is to bury issues that white Individuals did to non-white individuals and to reinstate different white individuals (largely Accomplice figures) to the positions of glory they by no means deserved. Folks can fake it means one thing else, however that’s all that is: yet one more effort to obscure the actions of racists and bigots so the federal government can comfortably fake these historic figures (and their actions) are worthy of public reward and celebration. The whiter and straighter they’re, the higher. That’s the way it’s gone in all places else Trump has shoved his nationalistic model of quasi-patriotism down the federal authorities’s throat and it’s no completely different right here.
In the event you someway nonetheless can’t be satisfied that is nothing greater than a little bit park signage cleanup that isn’t meant to fade the extra shameful elements of American historical past, right here’s one other enjoyable information level you would possibly think about earlier than sounding off within the remark part:
The US Military mentioned Tuesday it should restore the names of seven Military bases that beforehand honored Accomplice leaders.
“We’re additionally going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee,” President Donald Trump introduced on Tuesday at Fort Bragg, which was briefly often called Fort Liberty till the administration modified it again earlier this 12 months. “We gained lots of battles out of these forts. It’s no time to alter.”
Trump is saying the quiet half out loud right here. These bases are all being “renamed” however actually, they’re not. Trump is telling it like it’s: these bases will revert to their Accomplice army-honoring names. The navy, nevertheless, goes to fake that’s not what’s really taking place.
Based on the Military’s Tuesday announcement, Fort Barfoot, a Virginia base beforehand named after Accomplice Common George Pickett, might be named in honor of 1st Lt. Vernon W. Pickett, a soldier who acquired the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism throughout World Struggle II.
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A Virginia fort as soon as named for Accomplice Gen. Robert E. Lee will carry the namesake of Pvt. Fitz Lee, who acquired the Medal of Honor for his service through the Spanish-American Struggle.
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Georgia’s Fort Eisenhower will revert again to Fort Gordon, this time honoring Medal of Honor recipient Grasp Sgt. Gary I. Gordon, who through the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, defended wounded crew members at a helicopter crash web site.
The bottom […] was beforehand named after Accomplice Common John Gordon…
These are the acts of petulant kids. These should not the acts of grown males in positions of energy. They need to honor individuals who actively fought towards their very own countrymen simply so they may proceed to enslave their fellow human beings.
And that’s not all. The renamed forts additionally erase ladies and Black service members. There are extra examples within the article, however these are the names being eliminated to “honor” Pvt. Fitz Lee, who’s solely being honored as a result of his final title is identical as Common Robert E. Lee’s. This isn’t a brand new low for this administration, nevertheless it’s positively close to the underside.
[Fort Lee] was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams after Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col Charity Adams in 2023. Gregg helped desegregate the Military, together with at Fort Lee, whereas Adams, in 1944, “was chosen to command the primary unit of African-American ladies to serve abroad,” in keeping with the congressional naming fee. Her service was chronicled within the 2024 movie “The Six Triple Eight.”
Fuck these racist items of shit. I actually don’t know what’s holding the Trump Administration again from issuing an government that may “restore Christian religion” by the ceremonial placement of burning crosses in unbelievers’ yards.
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