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cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 10:35 PM Jul 2020

"Respect Our Heritage"

Trump wants to protect these Confederate statues and flag because they are part of "our" heritage.

Whose heritage, Trumpy? Your family came from Germany. Protecting *your* heritage, following your logic, would mean we should erect statues honoring Hitler, Himmler, Mengele--all those brave patriots--who represent the heritage of your culture.

And they lost to the USA, too.

I guess he just loves losers.

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"Respect Our Heritage" (Original Post) cyclonefence Jul 2020 OP
And... Newest Reality Jul 2020 #1
Trump's sketchy grasp of American history markwbradley Jul 2020 #2
Trump would have spelled it "Respect ARE heritage"/ COLGATE4 Jul 2020 #3
That's a dumbass reason donny Nevilledog Jul 2020 #4
Trump's heritage? The Trump family pretended they were of Swedish stock when it was inconvenient t keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #5
His Grampa Was A Pimp In The Yukon, Sir, And His Daddy a Klansman The Magistrate Jul 2020 #6
Nazi statues would be OK KT2000 Jul 2020 #7
"I feel all warm and fuzzy thinking about rich racist rapists who want to destroy the US" struggle4progress Jul 2020 #8

markwbradley

(20 posts)
2. Trump's sketchy grasp of American history
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:02 AM
Jul 2020

Evidently, either American history was not a required course in the curriculum at the Wharton School of Business, or whoever was being paid to pose as The Donald in his history classroom was an undiagnosed narcoleptic. Believing that Andrew Jackson “had a big heart” (this of a man who defied the Supreme Court by forcing the Cherokee people to vacate Georgia, where, incidently, gold had just been discovered), that Frederick Douglas is alive and well, that the regional divide that led to the Civil War could have been “worked out” (presumably without the abolition of slavery), Donald Drumpf’s grasp of history is considerably less secure than a bottle of water in his single hand.

keithbvadu2

(36,776 posts)
5. Trump's heritage? The Trump family pretended they were of Swedish stock when it was inconvenient t
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:19 AM
Jul 2020

Trump's heritage?

The Trump family pretended they were of Swedish stock when it was inconvenient to be German.

The Magistrate

(95,246 posts)
6. His Grampa Was A Pimp In The Yukon, Sir, And His Daddy a Klansman
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 02:27 AM
Jul 2020

So it could be said the cheap thug reflects his heritage just fine...

KT2000

(20,576 posts)
7. Nazi statues would be OK
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 02:38 AM
Jul 2020

with his reasoning. The Confederacy lost the war - they need to live with that because it is the truth.

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