Posted on 08/17/2017 11:10:20 AM PDT by Trump20162020
More than ever, old monuments to famous white American men are being threatened in the name of progress. Naturally, this has become a rallying cry on the far right, with plenty of encouragement from the most powerful man in the world. At the same unhinged press conference in which Donald Trump again blamed both sides for the deadly violence in Charlottesville last weekend, he also painted a picture of a slippery slope where those fighting for the removal of Confederate statues today might be destroying tributes to more mainstream slave-owning icons like George Washington tomorrow. He lamented this prospect once more on Thursday, opining on Twitter that "the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!" Far-right sites like the Daily Caller have been running with the theme, publishing alarmist takes with headlines like, "It's Time to Blow Up Mount Rushmore."
Which made me wonder: If Rushmore ever did get "blown up," what should those dudes be replaced with? Fact is, I'm not sure there is any American president worthy of being etched into the side of a 60-foot mountain with explosives and jackhammers. I mean, every single one has at least been partially complicit in horrific atrocities.
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Wilbert L. Cooper deserves whatever happens to him.
Take down Teddy Roosevelt, America’s first Progressive?
YES!
Mount Rushmore is a national monument. Shouldn’t the Feds be making a few arrests here? The cowardly Communists sure are getting a lot braver.
Spoken like a True Democrat who wants to get rid of their memories and the US Constitution.
okay this is pretty funny...
ANTIFA + BLM + COLLEGE SNOWFLAKES + DNC = American ISIS!
The enemy has made themselves known.
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British merchant, philanthropist and slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.[1]
Go ahead, leftards... bring your jackhammers... armed patriots will be there to “greet you.” Oh, and.. they won’t be there to help, either.
No.
Really?
Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Why blow it up ourselves? Contract it out to ISIS. They love to blow up statues and monuments.
Please stop giving the New Taliban any ideas!
This too will be seriously discussed and attempted within our lifetimes.
Sure, and put up sculptures of obama, sharpton, and mohammed atta in their places.
“The cowardly Communists sure are getting a lot braver.”
Why wouldn’t they? There don’t seem to be any consequences.
I would not be surpised to see a massive dynamite blast in the near future upon Mt. Rushmore. Son’t worry about me giving the far left some bad ideas. It likely is already being planned.
Everyone here owns multiple weapons. We won’t allow that to happen. Plus, that would ruin the view from my back deck.
Never, not in my back yard.
But first let’s blow up Chicago. Detroit, San Fran and most of NYC...?
You left out Maxine Waters, sexist.
Good grief....don't ANY of these idiots know ANY factual history at all? ( rhetorical query )
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