160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.
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Unbelievably, there is still a statue of Jefferson Davis in the US Capitol. Because each State can pick any two historical figures for memorialization, and Jefferson Davis is apparently who Mississippi wants, right down to today.
And then America went and made the biggest mistake in their history, Reconciliation, which is directly responsible for the mess the country is in today. Never forgive traitors.
I don't mind you guys celebrating that, so long as the UK can celebrate Aug 24 as the day we burned down the White House. Well, for the next four years anyway. 👍
🇺🇸 We the People of the United States…to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence…general Welfare…Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…establish this Constitution for the United States of America.🇺🇸 https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
It's hard to celebrate when you know that the inaction to hold the civilian and military leadership of the Confederacy accountable for their actions would in up sowing the seeds of discord, hate and intolerance into the very fabric of American society.
I've lived most of my life in the south and never really spent much time thinking about the Lost Cause. Now, I know I should have said, "Why are you guys so nostalgic for those traitors. Explain to me how fighting to save slavery was a good thing."
Robert E. Lee Was A Great Guy Really
Slavery Wasn't That Bad, They Were Part of the Family
The Real Issue Was [Not Slavery]
-- conversations I had repeatedly growing up in the Deep South.
You’ll probably just get a bunch of BS about “states rights” coupled with a refusal to engage with the fact that the various declarations of independence/secession of the southern states bang on and on about the importance of slavery.
Since they don't care about black people one should focus on how the south got their fucking asses kicked by a bunch of city boys from the east coast and ask them why they support such losers.
This makes me think about the chaos in those battles during that time. I'd prefer to have them think on the bigger picture of how poor whites were sympathetic to slaves until the proto-fascist land owners convinced them to fight.
And now we have the GOP worshipping the other most treasonous president in US history! How times change! Anyway, fuck Jefferson Davis and the Confederates and all the white supremacists who support them.
Abe ought to have hanged the entire leadership: all civilian leaders of any kind and all officers of the confederate mob beginning with Lee down to every second louie.
And while they were on the way out of town those leaders of the 1861 rebellion by the human trafficking and slave labor cartels of the American South, burnt a large chunk of Richmond to the ground.
I hereby invent Jefferson's Surrender Day as a day where good Americans spend time laughing at chickenshit racists and contemplating how awful they are at life and governing. Also beer!
As a born and bred Texan who's lived in the state my entire life, lemme just say: lol, lmao, L bozo, get fuckin' rekt, traitor scum. Shouldn't have stopped burning at Savannah.
"You really are an idiot. You don't know history and you are apparently ignorant of the law vis-a-vis secession. Text fixed" And Rosenblum is still an idiot.
There is something illustrative of the current liberal/democratic climate in the fact an article about Union Victory Day in TNR takes three scrolls down to find out what day it is.
I disagree. Grant could have executed them on the spot and that would have made them instant rally points. Johnson and Hayes allowed Jim crow laws to flourish. The death of Lincoln and electoral college caused that. Killing the traitors would have helped the wrong side.
I'm speaking mostly of Davis and
the politician Secessionists, but Booth happened 5 days after Appomattox. Yeah, sure, Johnson allowed the entire structure of Southern Oligarchy and paramilitarism to remain untouched allowing "Reconstruction" to flame out quickly. Because he was one of em.
Such a complex and messy system you have. It’s amazing the civil rights era even happened. It’s not surprising it has to happen again. All because of that lopsided electoral college clause.
Yup. The alliance of appeasement that electoral college essentially demanded. Lincoln couldn’t win without Johnson but without Lincoln the 14th became just a piece of paper. Grant couldn’t force it either in his turn.
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Goes to show: racists always lose eventually (preferably of suicide and in a bunker, but close enough is good enough)
We should have executed all of them and their primary supporters, agents, and military leaders.
Slavery Wasn't That Bad, They Were Part of the Family
The Real Issue Was [Not Slavery]
-- conversations I had repeatedly growing up in the Deep South.
Trump, like Bush/Cheney before him, are trying to get rid of Jefferson's principles in US Govt.
We’re still fighting their racist ideas.
Vis-avis? Vis-a-vis
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https://newrepublic.com/article/121406/make-confederacys-defeat-national-holiday
Alabama still commemorates the birthdays of Robert E. Lee,
Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson Davis, and Confederate Memorial Day.
Gov. Ivey has granted a holiday for Juneteenth since 2021.
(I think Ivey did this to avoid a lot of state employees calling in sick!)
the politician Secessionists, but Booth happened 5 days after Appomattox. Yeah, sure, Johnson allowed the entire structure of Southern Oligarchy and paramilitarism to remain untouched allowing "Reconstruction" to flame out quickly. Because he was one of em.
Justice is not malice. “With malice toward none,” meant “with justice for none.” It directly facilitated this moment in the U. S.
Insurrection must always have consequences.
He thinks the Confederate made America great.