The hotel has a nice, wide sidewalk in front. Bring this bus back to DC, park it there, and put a life-sized Rosa Parks in the driver’s seat.
Better yet, park the bus and the life-sized Ms. Parks in the pedestrian area in front of the White House.
So Trump apparently doesn’t see blame on both sides of the Barcelona attack, and instead thinks that those involved should be shot with bullets dipped in pig’s blood.
I always liked the description Tom Clancy gave him in one of his novels (can’t recall which, they all tend to blur together). He had one of his characters call him a “racist genius”. Definitely one of the superior leaders of cavalry in history, but also one of the founders of the KKK, so no, not a nice person.
And to be fair, he never was in command at Nashville (either in 1862 or 65), but was associated with the Confederate armies there.
And I think there is a lesson here too; just because they are Nazis/White Supremists/KKK’ers does not necessary mean they are all stupid–there have been clever men who have awesomely terrible things all throughout history, so don’t underestimate them just because of the idiots in Virginia.
IMHO as always. YMMV.
How about that white privelege?
North: Give up
South: We surrender
North: You really caused a headache
South: Sorry. Our bad
North: No biggie. Carry on.
The Snopes dope on Pershing for anyone interested in more details on the history.
South: What about the neegras?
North: Who am I, Jim Crow? You figure it out.
Like Germany after WWI? Yeah, that worked out well.
Hanging the leaders worked out pretty well after WWII.
What German leaders were hung after WWI?
Lettow-Vorbeck, but he was that way before the war, too.
Yep, punk ass Trump has actually destroyed irreplaceable public art in his rush to build shitty monuments to his anus faced self.
Yup, fake news. Pershing never did that. Sad.
And the descendants of Lee (or at least one of them) and the descendants of Stonewall Jackson are saying “tear it down”. And the Cash/Carter family has issued a statement to not invoke Johnny’s name either.
No, like WW2 at the Nuremberg trials. And it did work. It sent a message that “just following orders” wouldn’t wash, anymore than the other excuse “I didn’t do it (but did give the orders)”. It also kept them from finding any way to get back into power - ever.
Plus, by hanging them, there was an added level of disgrace. They didn’t get the “honor” of a military firing squad, they got hanged like the criminals they were.
The following awkwardly phrased sentence in the linked story startled me briefly.:eek:
“Trump often talked about Pershing’s supposed tactics for executing Muslims during the 2016 presidential campaign.”:eek:
There’s something extra-repugnant about the whole pig’s blood/pigskin thing. It seems extraordinarily dehumanizing to even suggest some of those tactics.
Regardless … “and they let one guy go …” is practically urban legend canon. What kind of sap would believe a story like that in the first place, no matter the politics involved?
Trump supporters.
He could tell 'em the eclipse is fake news and they’d refuse to believe the sky got dark.
Or Kyser Zjoze’s fans. (Left one guy alive to tell the others…)
I’m waiting for him to take credit for the spectacle and/or proclaim “I shall make the sky go dark if you do not build this wall”