My great-great grandfather, of the 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, was captured by troops under the command of A.P. Hill at the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road just after the Second Battle of Petersburg. He died of scurvy a few months later in Andersonville Prison Camp. So fuck A.P. Hill and everyone that fought with him. It would be better to name the fort after my great-great grandfather or anyone else who fought on behalf of the United States in that battle rather than someone who fought against it.
Frankly, I think it’s a insult and a slap in the face to women, blacks, and the whole civil rights movement, for anyone in this current foetid administration to pretend they are oh-so-woke by putting Harriet Tubman on a bill.
Far better to let it wait until we have a president and an administration that are actually favorable to all those things. Hopefully, just 8 months from now and we can get the ball rolling on that.
Huh? They’re not releasing a new twenty-dollar bill now. It’s been delayed until sometime during the second Biden administration.
Considering Biden’s age, it could be the first Stacey Abrams or Kamala Harris administration.
Either way, it ain’t going to be while Donald Trump is in office.
Or the second Obama administration… led by the second Obama.
Hey, I can dream…
How about renaming them for former slaves, Civil Rights figures, lynching victims, and similar?
Fort Crispus Attucks
Fort Rosa Parks
Fort Malcolm X
Fort George Floyd
…and so forth.
Individual 1: The concept of a chokehold sounds so innocent, so perfect.
And we already have a theme song!
Fort Göring has only got one bomb!
Fort Hitler’s [are] so very small
Fort Himmler’s so very similar
And Fort Goebbels has no bombs at all!
From this we can assume that Fort Goebbels is the new home of Space Force!
Fort Hoffman (steal this fort)
Fort Burroughs (in the Interzone)
Fort Kesey (the very best koolaid)
Fort Hill (you dreamed you saw last night)
Fort Zinn (the People’s fort)
Fort Geronimo (ride the Cadillac)
Fort Plame (no one outed here)
start honoring people actually seeking a better America
Master of saying that out loud mentions Syria,
“We’ve secured the oil, and, therefore, a small number of U.S. troops will remain in the area where they have the oil. And we’re going to be protecting it, and we’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future.”
I’m really curious about the circumstances where a Confederate general was calling on Union troops to surrender one week before the surrender at Appomattox.
Also, according to Wiki, A.P. Hill was interred in an upright position, per the instructions of his will.
The Colma City Council takes note.
Yay for Fort Hoffman!
Nice!
Oh! ABBIE Hoffman. I thought you were talking about the guy who invented LSD. Who was probably more important to American history than Abbie.
Especially LOVE the idea of naming a fort after Joe Hill, the most famous Wobblie ever.
Seattle protesters established a few police-free blocks, now known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ. The CFSG is of course acting all hostile toward them. Meanwhile in the Sahara, the citizens of that large country between Sudan and Niger, aware of the porosity of this creature’s brain, are preparing for the worst.
Fort Woody Guthrie works for me, too. As well as Fort Seeger.
Pretty sure you meant Yippie.
ETA: and I was stationed at Ft. Lee for a year. I never gave it much thought, but I just assumed it was named for Bruce Lee.
I’ll be honest; I have a hard time believing this. These are the people who have to clean up Trump’s messes. There’s no way they’re going to want to be caught by surprise. If Trump puts something on Twitter at two am, they’re going to want to be reading it at 2:01 so they can start working on the “what the president meant was…” version and have it ready for the morning press releases.