Goodbye Fort Bragg, Hello Fort Liberty

WCET ^ | Jan. 13, 2023 | By Kayla Morton

[Renfrew]

Fort Moore
Fort Eisenhower
Fort Novosel

That’s a lot of white men. Some people are going to be very upset by that.

[jacknhoo]

67 Republicans joined with Democrats to tear down the nation’s historical statues and rename our military installations.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021196

Kevin McCarthy who also voted Yes made the comment that these statues were ALL Democrats. So, Republicans let the Democrats erase their association with history that they have now hidden.

McCarthy:
“All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats... Maybe it’s time the Democrats change the name of their party.”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1409964690395049986?s=20&t=lbpRXOD-i78DMZjO0aISdA

Steve Scalise the House Minority Whip at the time also voted Yea

Amodei Republican Nevada YEA
Bacon Republican Nebraska YEA
Balderson Republican Ohio YEA
Bentz Republican Oregon YEA
Bilirakis Republican Florida YEA
Burgess Republican Texas YEA
Calvert Republican California YEA
Chabot Republican Ohio YEA
Cheney Republican Wyoming YEA
Crenshaw Republican Texas YEA
Davidson Republican Ohio YEA
Davis, Rodney Republican Illinois YEA
Diaz-Balart Republican Florida YEA
Emmer Republican Minnesota YEA
Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania YEA
Fortenberry Republican Nebraska YEA
Foxx Republican North Carolina YEA
Garbarino Republican New York YEA
Garcia (CA) Republican California YEA
Gibbs Republican Ohio YEA
Gimenez Republican Florida YEA
Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas YEA
Gonzalez (OH) Republican Ohio YEA
Guthrie Republican Kentucky YEA
Herrera Beutler Republican Washington YEA
Hill Republican Arkansas YEA
Hinson Republican Iowa YEA
Hollingsworth Republican Indiana YEA
Hudson Republican North Carolina YEA
Huizenga Republican Michigan YEA
Jacobs (NY) Republican New York YEA
Johnson (OH) Republican Ohio YEA
Joyce (OH) Republican Ohio YEA
Katko Republican New York YEA
Kelly (PA) Republican Pennsylvania YEA
Kim (CA) Republican California YEA
Kinzinger Republican Illinois YEA
Latta Republican Ohio YEA
Mace Republican South Carolina YEA
Malliotakis Republican New York YEA
McCarthy Republican California YEA
McCaul Republican Texas YEA
Meijer Republican Michigan YEA
Moolenaar Republican Michigan YEA
Moore (UT) Republican Utah YEA
Murphy (NC) Republican North Carolina YEA
Reed Republican New York YEA
Reschenthaler Republican Pennsylvania YEA
Rodgers (WA) Republican Washington YEA
Scalise Republican Louisiana YEA
Schweikert Republican Arizona YEA
Simpson Republican Idaho YEA
Smith (NJ) Republican New Jersey YEA
Smucker Republican Pennsylvania YEA
Spartz Republican Indiana YEA
Stauber Republican Minnesota YEA
Steil Republican Wisconsin YEA
Stewart Republican Utah YEA
Taylor Republican Texas YEA
Upton Republican Michigan YEA
Valadao Republican California YEA
Van Drew Republican New Jersey YEA
Wagner Republican Missouri YEA
Walberg Republican Michigan YEA
Webster (FL) Republican Florida YEA
Wenstrup Republican Ohio YEA
Young Republican Alaska YEA

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If we are going to change names, the place to start is every building and place named after a Democrat politician who was in office before 1970. The ones from the 1800s actively supported slavery. The ones from the late 1800s through the 1960s actively supported Jim Crow and used anti-black race hatred to get white votes. Republicans are stupid for not using these name changes as a weapon to point out that the Democrats are the ones who always have, still do, and always will use race hatred to get votes.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Everyone will still call it Ft Bragg. 😆

[PLMerite]

Ft. Bragg is the home of the Airborne, they should call it Fort Geronimo!

[drSteve78]

Why not Fort George Floyd?

Or older, Camp Rodney King? (AKA Camp Can’t We All Get Along)

Or even simply Camp Coexist?

[Vehmgericht]

This is all low hanging fruit. Are any of these Confederates worse than George Washington? Be patient it is coming.

[Towed_Jumper]

It will always be FT Bragg.

Ditto. I was also in the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. It will always be Bragg to me and the untold thousands of other soldiers who served there.

Next up for the Leftist will be to insure all mentions of "Fort Bragg" in popular culture are deleted out of the public consciousness. Just think of Schwarzenegger in "Predator"..."Jim Hopper." I know these men...Green Berets out of Fort Bragg Liberty."

[dangus]

It does seem spectacularly perverse to name a U.S. base after an anti-United States insurrectionist. I guess he’s sort of a national hero: his rank incompetence helped shorten the Civil War.

“Bragg was extremely unpopular with both the officers and ordinary men under his command, who criticized him for numerous perceived faults, including poor battlefield strategy, a quick temper, and overzealous discipline. Bragg has a generally poor reputation with historians,... The losses suffered by Bragg’s forces are cited as highly consequential to the ultimate defeat of the Confederacy.”

[RaginRak]

How about Fort Liberace

[TomGuy]

I don’t know.

‘Liberty’ sounds like a trigger word and it will probably upset a lot of leftists who will eventually demand it be changed to something less sinister.

[ExGeeEye]

I got my discharge. It will always be Fort Bragg, to me.

Same goes for all the other eViL cOnFeDeRaTe!! named installations.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Just keep calling it Fort Bragg until we can change the name back. We live in a disfunctional nation.

[ExGeeEye]

They all do.

The Kennedy Space Center has been on Cape Canaveral (again) since they flipped the name back in 1973.

Space Geek signing off for this thread.

[dangus]

>> This is all low hanging fruit. Are any of these Confederates worse than George Washington? Be patient it is coming. <<

Isn’t that like asking “Are any of these patriots better than Benedict Arnold?” The British put up statues of Horatio Nelson, not Pierre Villaneuva.

Besides, the answer is “yes.” Of course they are. Washington was known for being a tolerant master who eventually (although belatedly) set his slaves free and believed all slaves should eventually be set free. Oh, and of course, Washington won.

[Inspectorette]

Wondering about all of the places in West Virginia named for KKK Grand Kleagle Byrd.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...I totally forgot about the flipping back so long ago.

[The_Media_never_lie]

They changed Cape Caneveral to Cape Kennedy. Then, back to Cape Caneveral.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

By the time BRAC is done, my DD Form 214 will be invalid.

F’em.

5.56mm

[Midwesterner53]

I hope the Republican NC legislature will refuse to change the state signs.